Zoning Ordinance

traffic and health hazards, and may adversely affect property values by their general appearance. The following standards shall be used as a guide in evaluating whether proposed land uses, such as those outlined above, will have properly minimized their objectionable characteristics:

A. The minimum acreage necessary for establishment of an automobile wrecking, junk, and/or salvage yard shall be five (5) acres.

B. All motor vehicles stored or kept in such yards shall be so kept that they will not catch and hold water in which mosquitoes may breed and so that they will not constitute a place or places in which rats, mice, or other vermin may be harbored, reared, or propagated.

C. Because of the tendency for salvage yards to promote the breeding of vermin, no such operation shall be permitted closer than three hundred (300) feet from any established residential zone.

D. All outdoor storage of salvage and wrecking operations shall be conducted entirely within an enclosed opaque fence, screen, or wall, excepting driveway areas, twelve (12) feet in height. Storage between the road or street and such fence, screen or wall is expressly prohibited. Any fence, screen, or wall for screening purposes shall be properly painted or otherwise maintained in good condition.

E. All such yards shall be so maintained as to be in a sanitary condition and so as not to be a menace to the public health or safety.

F. Off-Street Parking:

As regulated in Chapter 4, Section 4.03 of this ordinance.

G. Ingress and Egress:

The number of vehicular access driveways permitted on any single street frontage shall be limited to:

1. One (1) driveway where the parcel to be used has a maximum road or street frontage of one hundred (100) feet or less.

2. Two (2) driveways where the road or street frontage exceeds one hundred (100) feet. Driveways used for ingress and egress shall be limited to thirty (30) feet in width maximum, exclusive of curb returns.

H. Except for pre-existing nonconforming yards, no automobile wrecking, junk or salvage storage yard shall be permitted within three hundred (300) feet of any public road in the City of Athens.

I. Request for Automobile Wrecking, Junk or Salvage Yard Permit:

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