§ 34-53. Required screening.  


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  • No person shall store or offer for sale, commercially and/or for profit, any recyclable items, paper, iron and steel junk, rags or wreckage of motor-driven vehicles or automobiles or trucks, including parts and accessories thereof, and no person shall wreck or dismantle such items for commercial and/or for profit purposes on any open lot or parcel of ground that is not properly enclosed on all boundary lines, except where prohibited by law or regulation, which enclosure shall be by a substantial fence not less than seven feet or more than ten feet high and properly screening the enclosed area from public view. In such instances where a law or regulation prohibits the complete enclosure on all boundary lines, there shall be substantial compliance by making as much enclosure as possible of the lot or parcel of ground, except as prohibited by any law or regulation. Any decision as to whether or not the enclosure substantially complies shall be made by the director of the public works department and/or his designee. The fence shall be uniform in color and in height with all material, including posts and fencing, being of uniform height, color and construction. Such fence shall be wind resistant and able to withstand 100 mile per hour winds, constructed of a solid rigid material and completely nontransparent and of uniform color. The uniform color shall be any shade of beige, brown, black, dark green or gray. The color shall be approved by the director of the public works department or his designee prior to installation of the enclosures. Such areas or parcels of land, or premises, shall be enclosed with solid, nontransparent wall or fence. The fence or wall shall not contain any poster or advertising of any kind excepting one sign of the owner, lessee, operator or licensee of the premises on each street frontage not exceeding 100 square feet in size. The seven-foot minimum height requirement for fences shall not apply to those storage facilities which are in compliance with section 98-131 or any successor provisions in the City-Parish Consolidated Government Code.

(Ord. No. O-363-97, § 1(14¼-15), 11-18-97; Ord. No. O-107-98, § 5, 4-21-98)