Columbus |
Code of Ordinances |
Title 33. ZONING CODE |
Chapter 3357. HIGHWAY ORIENTED COMMERCIAL DEVELOPMENT |
§ 3357.13. Development standards: Lot area, waste storage, and residential buffer.
(a)
Minimum lot area, width and depth.
(1)
For fuel sales establishments and filling stations without service bays: minimum lot area of 15,000 square feet, minimum lot width at the right-of-way line of 150 feet, and a minimum lot depth of 100 feet.
(2)
For a service station with service bay: minimum lot area of 20,000 square feet, minimum lot width at the right-of-way line of 150 feet, and a minimum depth of 120 feet.
(b)
Pump island and building location. No portion of any building, canopy, structure, or vehicles service area, pump or pump island, shall be located within, project into, or overhang any required minimum front yard or street side yard, as specified in C.C. 3357.04.
(c)
Storage of commercial waste. Commercial waste shall be stored within a bulk waste container situated within a permanent screen wall located in such a manner as to be screened from the view of those outside the property and in such a manner as to be accessible to bulk waste container pick-up vehicle. This facility shall be maintained in a sanitary and healthful manner as not to be harmful or offensive to those on or outside the property.
(d)
Residential buffer. In any area where a fuel sales use (including filling stations and service stations) is contiguous to or abuts property located in a Residential or Apartment Residential District, or abuts property used for residential purposes, there shall be provided along that portion of the perimeter of the fuel sales property which abuts such residentially zoned or used property, a buffer strip consisting of either a ten-foot wide landscaping area with a four-foot high masonry or wood wall and planting material of sufficient height to provide an effective screen, or a 20-foot wide landscaped earth mound with a minimum height of four feet.
(Ord. No. 1537-2009, § 11, 5-3-2010)