17.30.060 Standards for salvage yards special permit.
All salvage yards, including any area where waste, junk, discarded or wrecked and salvaged materials are bought, sold, stored, exchanged, baled or packed, disassembled or handled, including dismantling or “wrecking” of automobiles or machinery or other vehicles shall be located in the “GI” general industrial district under a special permit.
The application for a special permit shall be accompanied with a proposed development plan together with other documents prescribing the general intent or covenant to meet the minimum requirements described herein:
(1) Location. The yards shall be at least 500 feet distant in all directions from any residential dwelling.
(2) Screening. The out-of-doors yards shall be screened by a solid wall or uniformly painted solid fence not less than eight feet in height, or in lieu thereof, a landscape buffer strip 50 feet wide with deciduous and evergreen trees and large shrubs to provide a landscape screen at least 10 feet high may be planted.
(3) Off-Street Parking. Off-street parking or service area in connection with the yards may be located outside the screened-in area. [Code 1975 § 6-5.0607.]