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Woodland Park City Zoning Code

§ 22-24.12

Public Garages and Motor Vehicle Service Stations.

a. 
No public garage or repair shop shall have an opening in the roof or walls closer than fifteen (15) feet to any side property line.
b. 
No public garage or private garage accommodating more than five (5) cars or motor vehicle service or filling station shall be erected on any premises converted for such uses if any part of the land or premises in question is situated within a radius of five hundred (500) feet of the property line of:
1. 
A public school or a duly organized school other than a public school, conducted for children;
2. 
A hospital maintained as a charitable institution, or a private hospital maintaining at least fifteen (15) beds for patients;
3. 
A church of any denomination;
4. 
A public park or playground or public building;
5. 
A public library;
6. 
A theater containing at least one hundred (100) seats;
7. 
A place of public assemblage or gathering place with a seating of fifty (50) persons or more;
8. 
Any other gasoline, service or filling station existing in the municipality.
c. 
Automobile service stations shall require a minimum lot area of 15,000 square feet with at least 200 feet of street frontage.
d. 
Buffer Requirements. A buffer of 25' from all lot lines adjacent to other uses shall be provided, including such screening determined appropriate by the approving authority in conjunction with a solid fence at a minimum height 4' shall be provided.
e. 
All motor vehicle service or filling stations shall be so arranged and all gasoline pumps shall be so placed as to permit all service on the premises and outside the public way, and no gasoline pumps shall be placed closer to any property line than twenty-five (25) feet.
f. 
The overnight parking of motor vehicles of any type within a service station center is hereby prohibited with the following exceptions:
1. 
A motor vehicle of a customer left for repair or servicing. No more than six (6) such motor vehicles shall be parked outside of the building at any one time and in no event shall any motor vehicles be parked outside the building for more than thirty (30) days.
2. 
Motor vehicles towed into the service station center shall be permitted to be held thereon for a maximum of seventy-two (72) hours, with the exception of those towed in for repairs or servicing which shall be covered by paragraph 1. forenoted.
g. 
Every service station center shall maintain a log in a bound book recording the date and time in and out of every motor vehicle left with it for repair or which has been towed in.
h. 
It shall be unlawful to keep, park and/or maintain motor vehicles of any type upon service station center premises for disassembly or storage for parts.
i. 
Upon the premises of a service station center, it shall be permitted to keep, park and/or maintain one (1) motor vehicle at any given time for sale to the public.