§ 56-189. Area regulations.

(a)

Yards and setbacks. No building or structure shall be erected or maintained within 25 feet of any residential district boundary line or within 25 feet of the right-of-way of any major highway or main street.

(b)

Buffer strip. A buffer strip not less than 25 feet wide shall be provided along any residential boundary line abutting or adjoining any boundary line of the regional shopping district. Parking shall be permitted in this buffer strip provided there shall be no less than a ten-foot area in width within the buffer strip and running parallel with its exterior limit, which ten-foot strip shall contain a green strip sodded and planted with permanent shrub and tree screen having a height of no less than five feet, which shrub and tree screen shall be no closer than five feet from the outside boundary of the ten-foot strip and shall further have a permanent chain link-type fence continuous in character (i.e., without opening) six feet in height running along the interior line of the ten-foot strip. There shall further be a landscaped green buffer strip of no less than five feet in width along the boundary line of the regional shopping center abutting the right-of-way of any major highway or main street.

(Code 1978, § 5-8-4; Code 1997, § 98-168)