There is hereby established a buffer zone of 200 feet surrounding each publicly owned wastewater treatment facility or sewage treatment facility in the county and a buffer zone of 50 feet surrounding any pump station for a publicly owned wastewater treatment facility or sewage treatment facility. No residential dwelling, commercial facility, or industrial facility designed, intended or used for human occupancy, shall be constructed within 200 feet of a publicly owned wastewater treatment facility or sewage treatment facility, or within 50 feet of a pump station for a publicly owned wastewater treatment facility or sewage treatment facility.

(Code 1997, § 66-911)

Cross reference— Utilities, ch. 62.

Whenever there shall be plans in existence, approved by either the state department of highways or by the board of supervisors, for the widening of any street or highway, the commission may recommend additional front yard setbacks for any new construction or for any structures altered or remodeled adjacent to the future planned right-of-way, in order to preserve and protect the right-of-way for such proposed street or highway widening.

(Code 1997, § 66-912)

Signage erected for home occupations on or after July 27, 1998, is limited to one unlighted display of not more than four square feet which must be physically attached to an exterior wall of the structure housing the home occupation. Temporary banners and any form of interior window display for the purpose of advertising or promoting the home occupation shall be prohibited. Only one type of home occupation is permitted per dwelling unit, and the floor space area of the home occupation shall not exceed 25 percent of the total interior floor space of the dwelling unit. No home occupations shall be conducted from a manufactured home located in a permanent manufactured home park except for the business office of the operator of the park.

(Code 1997, § 66-1)

(a)

There shall be provided at the time of erection of any main building or at the time any main building is enlarged, minimum off-street parking space with adequate provision for entrance and exit by standard size automobiles, as provided in this section. The proposed off-street parking shall be submitted to the administrator for study. The requirements of this section are intended to be flexible; accordingly, the administrator, in his discretion, may authorize and approve reasonable deviations therefrom on a case-by-case basis as the facts and circumstances warrant. The administrator may refer these plans to the planning commission for recommendation. Modifications of the plans may be required.

(1)

In all residential districts there shall be provided either in a private garage or on the lot space for the parking of one automobile for each dwelling unit in a new building, or each dwelling unit added in the case of the enlargement of an existing building.

(2)

Tourists homes and motels shall provide on the lot parking space for one automobile for each accommodation.

(3)

For church, high school, college and university auditoriums, and for theaters, general auditoriums, stadiums and other similar places of assembly, at least one parking space for every five fixed seats provided in the building.

(4)

For hospitals, at least one parking space for each two beds' capacity, including infants' cribs and children's beds.

(5)

For medical and dental clinics, at least ten parking spaces. Three additional parking spaces shall be furnished for each doctor or dentist having offices in such clinic in excess of three doctors or dentists.

(6)

For tourist courts, apartments and apartment motels, at least one parking space for each individual sleeping or living unit. For hotels and apartment motels, at least one parking space for each two sleeping rooms and one parking space for each three sleeping rooms over 20.

(7)

For mortuaries and liquor stores, at least 30 parking spaces.

(8)

For retail stores selling direct to the public, one parking space for each 200 square feet of business floor space in the building.

(9)

Any other commercial building not listed above hereafter erected, converted or structurally altered shall provide one parking space for each 200 square feet of business floor space in the building.

(b)

Parking space as required in subsection (a) of this section shall be on the same lot with the main building; except that in the case of buildings other than dwellings, spaces may be located as far away as 600 feet. Every parcel of land hereafter used as a public parking area shall be surfaced with gravel, stone, asphalt or concrete. It shall have the appropriate guards where needed as determined by the administrator. Any light shall shine away from the adjoining premises in a residential district.

(Code 1997, § 66-913)

The location of public parking lots shall require, prior to issuance of a zoning permit, detailed site plans indicating compliance with the substantive provisions of this chapter and section 30-141 et seq. concerning erosion and sediment control. Specifically, the detailed site plans must include the following:

(1)

Name of owner, surveyor or engineer, date of drawing, number of spaces and their dimensions, north point and scale.

(2)

Location of the proposed parking lot by an inset map showing adjoining roads, their names and numbers.

(3)

The boundary survey or existing survey of record.

(4)

The complete drainage layout, including all pipe sizes, types, drainage easements (ten feet minimum) and means of transporting the drainage to the nearest natural drainage flow.

(5)

A profile or contour map showing the proposed grades for the parking lot construction.

(Code 1997, § 66-914)

On a lot occupied by a multiple-unit dwelling, the private garage may be designed and used for the storage of 1½ times as many automobiles as there are dwelling units.

(Code 1997, § 66-915)