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BOYNTON.11 Chapter 11 JUNK AND JUNKYARDS* *Cross references - Abandoned, wrecked or as date of the enactment of the zoning junked vehicles, § 10 - 50 et seq.; secondhand or junk dealers dealing with minors, § 15 - 7; zoning generally, App. A. Sec. 11 - 1. Definitions. As used in this chapter: Automobile graveyard means an establishment or place of business which is maintained or operated for the use of storing, keeping, buying or selling wrecked, scrapped, ruined, or dismantled motor vehicles or motor vehicle parts. Junk means old or scrap copper, brass, rope, rags, batteries, paper, lumber, trash, rubber, debris, oddments, wastements, litter, leavings, ruins, castoffs, rummage, waste or junked, dismantled or wrecked automobiles, or parts thereof, iron, steel and other old scra p ferrous or nonferrous material. Junkyard means an establishment or place of business which is maintained or operated for the use of storing, keeping, buying or selling junk, or for the maintenance or operation of an automobile graveyard and shall be co nstrued to include garbage dumps and sanitary fills. (Code 1958, § 14B - 1) Sec. 11 - 2. Requirements for existing junkyards or automobile graveyards. Since it is the intent of this chapter to minimize the extension of nonconforming uses and to look to their possible eventual elimination, any junkyard or automobile graveyard existing and operating as a nonconforming use in any district on September 15, 1965, shall be allowed to continue its operation subject to the following provisions, and all other app licable provisions of the city code and city charter: (a) Area. The actual area used for the operation of such junkyard or automobile graveyard u s e , s h a l l n o t b e i n c r e a s e d a t a n y t i m e o r u n d e r a n y t b u i l d i n g s s h a l l b e e r e c t e d a n d n o p r e s e n t l y e x i s t i n o i n c r e a s e t h e i r b u l k o r s q u a r e f o o t a g e a r e a . ( c ) S e t o t h e r j u n k o r s c r a p o f w h a t s o e v e r c h a r a c t e r s h a l l a t o t h e r p u r p o s e w i t h i n s e v e n t y - f i v e ( 7 5 ) f e e t o f a n y b o f e e t o f t h e f r o n t s t r e e t l i n e , w i t h i n t h i r t y ( 3 0 ) f e e t o f a n y o t h e r p r o p e r t y l i n e o f t h e l o t b e i n g s o u s e u t o s , j u n k o r s c r a p a r e p r e s e n t l y s o l o c a t e d t h e o w n e s h a l l b e r e q u i r e d t o c o n f o r m t o t h e p r o v i s i o n s o f t h i e d b y t h e j u n k y a r d o r a u t o m o b i l e g r a v e y a r d s h a l l b e e r y f e n c e o r w a l l a t l e a s t e i g h t ( 8 ) f e e t i n h e i g h t , o Sec. 11 - 3. 5 Specifications for, approval of 8 screening. , (a) The fence or wall required by section 11 - 2 shall be of similar composition, construction and § color throughout and shall be constructed without openings except for one entrance and one exit, such 1 entrance and exit to be equipped with unpierced 4 gates. Such gates shall be closed and securely locked B at all time - s, except during business hours. Plans for such 3 ) 1 Boynton Beach Code 2 fence or wall shall be submitted to the city council who shall determine whether or not the proposed fence will meet the requirements of this chapter. No building permit shall be issued for the construction of such fence or wall until the approval of the city council has been secured. Such fence shall be maintained in good order and shall not be allowed to deteriorate. (b) If a vegetative screen is to be substituted for such f ence or wall, plans for such screening shall be submitted to the city council for approval. Such vegetative screen shall consist of a greenbelt strip not less than twenty (20) feet wide where it adjoins another lot line, nor less than ten (10) feet wide wh ere it adjoins a street line. The greenbelt shall be composed of at least one row of deciduous or evergreen trees and one or two (2) rows of shrubs. The city council shall approve or disapprove such request for vegetative screening. The vegetative screenin g shall be cared for and maintained in a husbandman - like manner by the operator of the junkyard or automobile graveyard. (Code 1958, § 14B - 2)