A. Definition. Screening is a type of buffer that is designed to block or obscure a particular element or use from view.

B. Purpose. The purpose of screening is to minimize if not eliminate entirely the visual impact of potentially unsightly open storage areas and refuse disposal facilities.

C. Where Required. Screening specified by this section shall be required of all open storage areas not devoted to retail sales visible from any public street, including open storage areas for shipping containers, building materials, appliances, trash containers of four or more cubic yards, salvage materials and similar unenclosed uses.

D. Type Screening Required. Screening shall be accomplished by an opaque divide not less than six feet in high or the height of the object to be screened, whichever is greater. Screening may be accomplished by the use of sight obscuring plant materials (generally evergreens), earth berms, walls, fences, proper siting of disruptive elements, building placement or other design techniques approved by the director of planning and facilities.

(Ord. 99-O-25 § 4.2, 1999)