Trash storage areas

• (a) In conformance with the requirements of section 19-56, trash storage areas, including provision for dumpsters where applicable, shall be required for the following uses or categories of uses as set forth in section 19-98:

  • (1) Multifamily dwelling.

  • (2) Tourist home or lodginghouse.

  • (3) Motel, motor inn or hotel.

  • (4) Nonprofit club; civic, social or fraternal.

  • (5) Hospital, sanitarium, clinic, nursing home.

  • (6) Retail business.

  • (7) Wholesale business.

  • (8) Service business.

  • (9) Office uses.

  • (10) Commercial recreation.

  • (11) Transportation.

  • (12) Industrial.

  • (13) Manufactured home courts.

  • (14) Gasoline filling stations.

This requirement may be waived by the city zoning officer where the applicant for a permit demonstrates that no outdoor trash disposal area will exist on the premises.

• (b) Trash storage area, including dumpsters, shall meet the following requirements:

  • (1) Shall not be located within the required front yard;

  • (2) May be located in the required side or rear yards but not less than five feet from the property line and enclosed by a stockade fence or similar screening structure at least six feet in height. The trash storage area shall be obscured from the view of the adjacent property and from the street;

  • (3) Shall be maintained by the property owner in compliance with sections 4-161 and 4-330;

  • (4) Shall not interfere with off-street parking and loading areas or requirements including safe vehicular and pedestrian movement;

  • (5) Shall not cause a public nuisance.

  • (6) Trash storage areas shall not be located between the public-right-of-way, or public rights-of-way in the case of a corner lot or parcels with more than one public street frontage, and the principal use which it serves.

(Rev. Ords. 1987, § 19-261; Ch. 198, § VI, 2-19-02; Ch. 642, § VIII, 3-15-16; Ch. 944, § I(Att.), 9-2-25)