Packet: Tiffin City Council Work Session (09/15/2026)

CHAPTER 166 ESTABLISHMENT OF ZONING DISTRICTS AND THE OFFICIAL ZONING MAP residential or school abutting or located across the street from the industrial use. b. In an industrial zone where parking is located within 60 feet of a residential or other industrial zone boundary, screening must be provided in a location and manner sufficient to obscure all off- street parking and loading, storage, or other such areas of activity from view within the lot lines of the residential zone or school. c. In all instances where street right-of-way, which acts to separate the lots where the uses are located, is 100 feet or wider, screening must be required. (2) Materials: a. Outdoor storage must be conducted entirely within an enclosed fence, wall, or other solid screen. Such solid screen shall be constructed in such a manner that no outdoor storage shall be visible from an adjacent property, street, or highway. Materials must not be piled against the fence or higher than the height of the fence. b. A planting screen of pyramidal arbor vitae, the plantings being at least three feet high when planted and spaced four feet on center, may be used. Other evergreen varieties may be used if approved by and spaced according to the City. The planting bed must have a minimum dimension of five feet, be separated from streets, drives, and parking areas by a curb or barrier in such a manner that sand and saltwater runoff will not damage the screening. c. Where a planting screen cannot be expected to thrive because of intense shade, soil, or other conditions, a solid fence of durable construction, earthen berm covered with grass or low shrubs, or other acceptable materials that provide maximum visual obscurity to a height of six feet at maturity may be used if approved by the City. (3) Time of Installation. If a lot proposed for an industrial use is located adjacent to or opposite an existing residential use or subdivision in a residential zone or a school, screening, as required herein, must be installed prior to occupancy or commencement of a use. The City may grant a delay to the seasonal calendar dates of June 1 or November 1, whichever comes first. Similarly, if a lot or space intended for the placement of a manufactured housing is located adjacent to or across the street from an existing residential development, the owner of the manufactured housing use must provide screening as described herein. (4) Maintenance. The owner must keep all screening properly maintained, free of trash and litter and all plant materials pruned in such a manner as to provide effective visual obscurity from the ground to a height of at least six feet. CODE OF ORDINANCES, TIFFIN, IOWA - 1721 -