DEFINITION

Outdoor establishments primarily engaged in assembling, breaking up, sorting, and the temporary storage and distribution of recyclable or reusable scrap and waste materials, including auto wreckers engaged in dismantling automobiles for scrap, and the incidental wholesale or retail sales of parts from those vehicles. An area or building where waste or scrap materials are bought, sold, exchanged, stored, baled, packed, disassembled, or handled for reclamation, disposal or other like purposes, including but not limited to scrap iron and other metals, paper, rags, rubber tires, and bottles. A junk or salvage yard or building includes an auto wrecking yard or building.

STANDARDS

1. Junk/salvage yards must be located at least 500 feet from any abutting residential use.
2. A fence and / or landscape buffer is required along the entire perimeter of any outdoor storage and/or operations of the junk/salvage yard. Outdoor storage or operations of any kind is prohibited outside the fenced or walled area.
3. Outside storage of motor vehicles, equipment, parts, junk, or other materials must not be visible from roadways or adjacent residential uses.
4. Burning of junk or vehicles in any junk or salvage yard is prohibited.