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1 to all buildings that may be erected, converted or structurally altered in shopping 2 center districts: 3 A.Setback Requirements: 4 1. Setbacks; Variances: Front, side, and rear yards shall be a minimum of one 5 hundred feet (100') for the shopping center building. Setbacks for side yards and 6 rear yards for the shopping center building adjacent to BI-B, B-2, B-3, B-4, B-6, 7 I-lor 1-2 zones shall be sixty feet (60'). Buildings and structures located on 8 outlots within the shopping center site shall meet the setbacks of the B-3 General 9 Business Zoning District. The owner or developer may, at owner or developer's 10 own option, submit a setback plan wherein design conditions or other 11 considerations indicate a variance to these requirements which would not conflict 12 with the general purpose and intent of this code. Consideration of such variances 13 shall be as stipulated in subsection 1013.02A of this title, and the city council may 14 impose such conditions thereto as may be appropriate. 15 2. Buffer Zone: Where a shopping center district abuts a residence district, any 16 new development shall include in the required setback a buffer zone not less than 17 a minimum of forty feet (40') in width abutting the residential district. This 18 protective strip shall contain no structures, shall not be used for parking, off-street 19 loading or storage, and shall be landscaped. The landscape treatment shall include 20 the seeding of grass or sodding ofthe whole of the buffer strip, the planting of 21 shrubbery and trees and maintaining of same, a compact screen wall, fence, 22 landscaping, or combination thereof, which limit shall be not less than seventy 23 five percent (75%) opaque year-round. 24 The planting or fence design must be approved by the city and shall be in 25 harmony with a residential neighborhood and provide sufficient screening of the 26 shopping center operations. 27 The landscape screening or fence shall be no less than six feet (6') at the time of 28 installation. Where a berm, wall, fence or combination thereof is required for 29 screening purposes for a commercial use adjacent to a residential use, such berm, 30 wall, fence or combination thereof shall be set back from the residential district 31 boundary at least three (3) times its height, and landscaped to screen fifty percent 32 (50%) of the surface of the berm, wall or fence at maturity ofthe plant materials 33 year-round. 34 3. Special Requirements When Rear Yard Includes Loading Area: Where a rear 35 yard of a shopping center district includes the loading and servicing area of a 36 shopping center building and where such a rear yard is adjacent to or across the 37 street from a residential district, the building setback shall be one hundred twenty 38 feet (120'), and the buffer strip shall be sixty feet (60'). 3