Section 5.12 Outdoor Storage
A. Definitions:
1. "Outdoor Storage": The location of any goods, wares, merchandise, commodities, junk, debris, or any other item outside of a completely enclosed building for a continuous period longer than twenty-four (24) hours.
B. Outdoor Storage: With the exception of retail sales displays in an approved commercial area, outdoor storage shall be screened from public view by a six (6) foot-high solid masonry fence or a fence or screening of a height and material as allowed or required by the Planning and Zoning Commission. The presence of hazardous materials not to be used on-site is prohibited.
C. Existing Outdoor Storage: All outdoor storage existing at the time of the passage of this ordinance shall, within thirty (30) days of its passage, be made to comply fully with these requirements or be removed.
D. Prohibited Dumping: The use of land for the dumping or disposal of scrap metal, junk, garbage, rubbish, refuse, ashes, slag, or industrial wastes or by-products, shall be prohibited in every district except as otherwise provided in Chapter 13.
E. Vending Machines: Up to three (3) vending machines placed outdoors on one property is permitted. Permission to maintain in excess of three (3) vending machines outdoors on one property shall be by special use permit.