§ 47-18.29. Self-storage facility.

A.

Self-storage facilities shall be subject to the following requirements:

1.

Limited to storage only.

2.

Outdoor storage of boats, vacant trailers, and recreation vehicles is permitted as an accessory use provided, however, that outdoor storage areas shall be completely screened from abutting property and all public right-of-ways by a wall or opaque fence, in accordance with the requirements for fences, walls and hedges in Section 47-19.5. Such outdoor storage areas shall be located on an asphaltic concrete surface meeting the requirements of the surface of a parking lot as required in Section 47-20, Parking and Loading Requirements.

3.

Sales, service and repair uses and activities of any kind are prohibited, including but not limited to: auctions, commercial, wholesale, or retail sales, or garage sales; servicing and repair of motor vehicles, boats, trailers, lawn mowers, appliances, or similar equipment; operation of power tools, spray-painting equipment, table saws, lathes, compressors, welding equipment, or other similar equipment; and the operation of a distribution business.

4.

When individual areas are accessed from outside of the storage structure, where a common drive separates two (2) or more self-storage buildings, said drive shall be a minimum width of thirty (30) feet along the access area.

5.

When a lot on which a storage facility is located abuts a street, there shall be a minimum twenty-foot yard between the property line abutting the street or streets and the storage structure, which yard shall be landscaped in accordance with the requirements for Landscaping as provided in Section 47-21, Landscape and Tree Preservation Requirements.

6.

Individual storage units within a self storage facility shall have a maximum of four hundred (400) square feet of gross floor area.

B.

Self-storage facilities located within the RAC-CC shall only be permitted as follows:

1.

As a secondary use to a permitted RAC-CC use;

2.

Shall not exceed thirty percent (30%) of the gross floor area of the principal use;

3.

Shall not front on an image or pedestrian priority street;

4.

Shall require conditional use approval, see Section 47-24.3.

(Ord. No. C-97-19, § 1(47-18.28), 6-18-97)