The Evansville City Planner reviewed the first draft of revisions considered for Ordinance 2005-35 which would revise Sec. 130- of Evansville Municipal Code regarding Bufferyards.
"A bufferyard is a linear strip of land, along with a visual buffer or barrier such as plantings, berms and fencing, which is located between two different zoning districts that have potentially incompatible characteristics. Bufferyards are intended to eliminate or reduce those potential impacts/nuisances which may include dust, litter, noise, glare of lights, signs, and oncompatible land uses, buildings or parking areas".
This concept of bufferyards was discussed frequently recently regarding the Francios Oil Citgo as it adjoins residential lots on East Main.
The ordinance sets up "opacity levels" between various zones and then the developer can choose how to meet the requirements using a wide variety of things from berms to trees etc.
If you are interested in this, it will be again discussed at the planning commission meeting in September.
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I think this needs to be done very carefully and with alot of thought especially since the town seems to think it is o.k. to put commercial
ReplyDeletethings in residential areas. The residential residents need to be protected.