Sec. 98-875

Other

• Ground-level equipment screening

  Utility equipment installed at ground level, including transformers, pedestals, switch gear and other similar types of equipment which is visible from a public right-of-way shall be screened from view by appropriate evergreen shrubs planted in accordance with a landscape plan approved by the zoning administrator.

• Landscaping and screening required

  Landscaping and screening appropriate to the use shall be provided in all cases and especially when trees have been removed to accommodate the facility.

• Main lines parallel to property lines

  Main/primary utility lines shall be parallel to and contiguous with property lines where practical.

• Maintenance requirements

  All public and private utilities and facilities shall be operated and maintained in a neat and orderly manner, free from junk, inoperable equipment, trash, or debris. Buildings shall be maintained in a sound condition, in good repair and appearance. Weeds shall be cut as frequently as necessary, to maintain a neat and orderly appearance.

• No hazardous conditions at property line

  All utility uses shall be conducted so as not to produce hazardous, objectionable, or offensive conditions at or beyond property line boundaries by reason of odor, dust, lint, smoke, cinders, fumes, noise, vibration, heat, glare, solid and liquid wastes, fire, or explosion.

• Shall not hinder development

  Utility locations shall not be permitted in such a manner as would preclude or seriously hinder development of commercial and industrial properties except where it is demonstrated to the satisfaction of the zoning administrator that no alternative routing, location, or installation is practical or reasonably possible.

• Public necessity required

  The proposed location of the specific utility use shall be necessary for the efficient provision of service to customers. Documentation of the public necessity shall be submitted with applications and plans for such uses.

• Pump station buffer width20 ft

  Sewage pump and lift stations and communication switching and relay facilities larger than 150 square feet in building area shall, at a minimum, be surrounded by a landscaped buffer no less than 20 feet in width.

• Underground utilities required

  All on-site utility facilities including but not limited to wires, cables, pipes, conduits and appurtenant equipment, carrying or used in connection with the furnishing of electric, telephone, telegraph, cable television or similar service to a development subject to the provisions of this chapter shall be placed underground except, however, the following shall be permitted above ground: a. Electric transmission lines and facilities in excess of 65 kilovolts; b. Equipment such as electric distribution transformers, switch gear, meter pedestals, telephone pedestals, CATV pedestals and power supplies, outdoor lighting poles or standards, radio antennae, traffic control devices, manholes, air release valve vaults and associated equipment, which is, under accepted utility practices, normally installed above ground; c. Meters, service connections and similar equipment normally attached to the outside wall of the customer's premises; d. Temporary aboveground facilities required in conjunction with an authorized construction project. e. Certain communication antennae as permitted as accessory structures or elsewhere in this chapter as a stand-alone use.

• Utilities in easements or rights-of-way

  All utilities shall be placed within easements or public street rights-of-way. Utilities may not be placed within private road rights-of-way except as they lead to the structure whose access is a private driveway.