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 Columbus
 Code of Ordinances
 Title 33. ZONING CODE
 Chapter 3392. JUNK, IMPOUND AND SALVAGE YARDS

  § 3392.10. Performance requirements.  

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  • No person shall operate a junk yard, impound lot, or salvage yard within the corporate limits of the city of Columbus, unless such business is conducted entirely inside of a building or in an open area enclosed by a nontransparent fence not less than six feet in height, and no part of which commences more than one foot above established grade, built of sound material, uniform in height and constructed so that it is structurally safe and capable of resisting all live loads imposed upon it. The following standards shall also apply:

    (a)

    No portion of a junk yard, impound lot, or salvage yard shall be located within an area designated as a special flood hazard area.

    (b)

    Material shall not be piled higher than ten feet except that metals that are to be processed or reprocessed on site may be piled to a height necessary for the effective functioning of the processing or reprocessing equipment.

    (c)

    Combustible material which can be ignited by an ordinary match shall be placed or stored at least ten feet from a required fence.

    (d)

    No junk or salvage material shall be placed, stored or offered for sale outside of any required fence.

    (e)

    Passageways of not less than eight feet in width shall be maintained between piles of stored junk or salvage material. A fire lane 15 feet in width shall be maintained from the main entrance throughout the junk yard, so that no point of the junk yard shall be more than 200 feet from a fire lane.

    (f)

    Every junk yard and salvage yard shall be free from vermin, rats and fire hazards.

    (g)

    All buildings or land within the junk yard or salvage yard shall be maintained in a good state of repair. Required fences shall be maintained in a good state of repair.

    All driveways, access corridors, customer and employee parking shall be an improved surface. Areas used exclusively for the storage of junked or salvaged vehicles may be improved or unimproved, subject to the approval of a surface by the Director and the Department of Public Service. Distance separation as required in this section is measured from the closest point on a parcel line containing the junk yard, impound lot, or salvage yard and the closest point on a parcel line containing the district or use it is to be separated from.

(Ord. 1979-78: Ord. 0762-2005 § 26.)