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Updated January 2025 – Gem Lake Consolidated Land Use Ordinance No. 131 98 Screening shall also be provided where a business or industry is across the street from a developed residential zone, but not on that side of a business or industry considered to be the front (as determined by the Building Inspector). 3. In all districts, all exterior storage shall be screened. The exceptions are: 1. Retail merchandise being displayed in front of the structure; 2. Materials and equipment being used for construction on the premises; 3. Merchandise located on service station pump islands. 4. The screening in this section shall consist of a solid fence or wall not less than five (5') feet high, but shall not extend within fifteen (15') feet of any street, right -of-way or driveway. The screening shall be placed along property lines or in case of screening along a street, fifteen (15') feet from the street right -of-way with landscaping between the screening and the pavement. A louvered fence shall be considered “solid” if it blocks direct vision. Planting of a type approved by the Council may also be used as a screening. 1. Screening shall also be subject to additional provisions of other sections of this Ordinance. 6. Landscaping. 1. In all Districts, all exposed ground areas surrounding or within a principal or accessory use including but not limited to street boulevards not devoted to drives, sidewalks, patios and the like shall be landscaped. 2. Landscaped yards shall be provided along all streets, both public and private. Landscaped yards shall not be used for parking of vehicles or equipment or for storage or display of household items, materials, supplies or merchandise advertised for sale. Landscaped yards shall be at least twenty (20') feet in depth along all streets measured from the right-of-way. Except for driveways, the yard shall extend along the entire frontage of the lot and, in the case of a corner lot, along both streets. 3. All property owners and their (sub-) contractors shall employ and maintain sediment and erosion control in accordance with Section 22 of this ordinance until landscaping is complete. 4. All landscaping shall be completed within one (1) growing season after completion of any development, grading and filling, construction, or other activity which shall result in exposed ground on the property. 7. Maintenance. 1. In all Districts, all structures, landscaping and fences shall be maintained so as not be unsightly or present harmful health and safety or nuisance conditions to the adjoining areas. 8. Lighting and Glare. 1. In all Districts, any lighting shall be arranged as to deflect light from all adjoining property, and from the public streets and highways. Direct or sky-reflected glare, whether from lighting or from high temperature processes such as welding, shall not be directed into any adjoining p roperty. 2. Glare or Heat. Any use requiring an operation producing an intense heat or light transmission shall be performed with the necessary shielding to prevent such heat or light from being detectable at the lot line of the site on which the use is located. 3. Outdoor Lighting. All outdoor lighting shall be so designed and installed so that light will not be directed onto adjoining property or public streets and highways. Lighting units shall be properly shielded to give no upward component of light to create a sky-glow. 1. Outdoor lighting fixtures shall be mounted at the lowest possible level above ground, but in no case shall any pole or structure for mounting such fixtures exceed the maximum principal structure height restrictions.