Screening is a type of buffer that is designed
to block or obscure a particular element or use from view.
The purpose of screening is to minimize or eliminate
entirely the visual impact of potentially unsightly open storage areas
and refuse disposal facilities.
Screening specified by this article shall be
required of all open storage areas visible from any public street,
including, but not limited to, open storage areas for shipping containers,
building materials, seasonal sales of yard and garden supplies, outdoor
furnishings, and appliances, trash containers of four or more cubic
yards, salvage materials, and similar unenclosed uses as determined
by the Building Official.
Screening shall be accomplished by an opaque
divide not less than six feet high or the height of the object to
be screened, whichever is greater. Screening may be accomplished by
the use of sight-obscuring plant materials, 75% of which shall be
coniferous (evergreen) plants, earth berms, walls, fences, proper
siting of disruptive elements, building placement or other design
techniques as approved by the Building Official.
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