Woodbine City Zoning Code
§ 26-35.1
Buffers.
[Added 6-16-2022 by Ord. No. 606-2022]
Buffer zones are required in all commercial, manufacturing, and industrial districts along the district boundaries between themselves and residential districts, and as otherwise required in this Chapter. Buffer zones shall comply with the following standards:
a.
The buffer zone shall be measured from the district boundary line or from the near street line where a street serves as the district boundary line, or from the line dividing two lots as appropriate.
b.
The buffer zone may be conterminous with required front, side or rear yards, and in case of conflict, the larger yard requirements shall apply.
c.
No structure, manufacturing or processing activity, of storage or materials, parking or loading shall be permitted in the buffer zone.
d.
All buffer zones shall include a dense screen planting of trees, shrubs, or other materials, or both, as approved by the Planning Board, the full length of the lot line to serve as a barrier to visibility, air borne particles, glare and noise. Such screen planting shall be located within the exterior 10 feet of the buffer zone, and shall be in accordance with the following requirements:
1.
Plant materials used in the screen planting shall be at least four feet in height when planted, be of such species as will produce a complete visual screen of at least six feet in height when mature, and be of nursery stock, free of insects and disease.
2.
The screen planting shall be maintained permanently and any plant material which does not live shall be replaced within one year or one growing season.
3.
The screen planting shall be so placed that at maturity it will be no closer than three feet to any street or property line.
4.
In accordance with the provisions of subsection 26-23.6a (Storage and Waste Disposal), a clear sight triangle shall be maintained at all street intersections and at all points where private accessways intersect public streets.
5.
The screen planting shall be broken only at points of vehicular or pedestrian access.
e.
No screen planting shall be required along streets which form district boundary lines, provided that:
f.
Prior to the issuance of any building permit, complete plans showing the arrangement of all buffer zones and the placement, species and size of all plant materials and the placement, size, material, and type of all fences to be placed in such buffer zone shall be reviewed by the Construction Official to ascertain that the plans are in conformance with the terms of this Chapter.