Automobile Service Stations

Section 128.   Automobile Service Stations.

(1) Short title.   This Ordinance shall be known as the Automobile Service Station Ordinance of the City of Hillsboro.

 

(2) Definition.   Automobile service station.   A retail place of business engaged primarily in the sale of motor fuels, but also supplying goods and services required in the operation and maintenance of automotive vehicles.   These may include petroleum products, tires, batteries, automotive accessories and replacement items, washing and lubrication services, the performance of minor automotive maintenance and repair, and the supplying of other incidental customer services and products, but excluding major automotive repairs, painting, and body and fender work.

 

(3) Location.   No service station shall be located closer than 200 feet from any school or public playground and 400 feet from any church, hospital, nursing home, convalescent home, or home for the aged.

 

(4) Minimum lot size.

a. The minimum area for a service station site shall be 15,000 square feet.

b. The minimum street frontage for a service station site on a corner lot shall be 180 feet.

c. The minimum street frontage for a service station site on an interior lot shall be 120 feet.

(5) Signs.   (Deleted by Ord. No. 5676/10-06. See Municipal Code Chapter 11.32.)

(6) Exterior lighting.

a. Freestanding lighting fixtures shall not exceed a height of 25 feet; and not more than one fixture shall be permitted for each driveway approach.

b. Other exterior lighting as may be necessary shall be permitted, provided no nuisance or traffic hazard is created.

c. All lighting shall be of such illumination, direction, color, and intensity as not to create a nuisance on adjacent property or to create a traffic hazard.

d. Lighting fixtures on station sites abutting property in a residential district shall be shielded so as to reflect light away from residential zoned areas.

(7) Screening.

a. A sight-obscuring fence or wall not less than six feet nor more than eight feet shall be provided between the service station site and abutting property in a residential zone.   Said wall or fence shall be reduced to a three and one-half foot maximum in any required front yard setback.

b. A screened trash enclosure shall be provided on each station site.

(8) Landscaping.   Landscaping shall be installed and maintained occupying 5% of the station site net area.

(9) Other required conditions.

a. Sales and storage and display of merchandise shall be conducted within a building except for gasoline, oil, windshield wiper blades, and other accessories of like size.

b. No storage of inoperative automobiles or parts thereof shall be permitted, except in enclosed structures, for any period exceeding 72 hours.

c. Off-street parking requirements shall conform in all respects with Section 84.

d. Abandoned station premises shall be maintained in a safe and businesslike manner and shall not be allowed to deteriorate and become a nuisance or safety hazard.   After the effective date of this Ordinance, whenever a service station ceases operation as such for a continuous period of more than two years, the building shall be removed by the owner or other person in control of the property; provided that, for the purpose hereof, the occupancy of premises for less than 90 days shall not be deemed to interrupt the two year vacancy unless such occupancy is accompanied by actual operation of a service station with normal and adequate inventories of gasoline and oil.   The nature of a service station structure is such that with long continued vacancy and the accompanying deterioration and obsolescence, the building serves no useful economic or social purpose and injures the value and impairs the development of adjacent properties, all to the public detriment.

e. The provisions of this Ordinance shall be held to be the minimum requirements for fulfilling its objectives, and where the conditions imposed by provisions of this Ordinance are less restrictive than conditions imposed by other sections of Zoning Ordinance No. 1945, the more restrictive conditions shall govern.

f. At the time of issuing or renewing a business license to operate a service station, the City Recorder shall issue to the applicant a copy of this ordinance, and it shall thereafter be the duty of the operator of the station to display the said ordinance continuously in a conspicuous place within the service station at all times.

(Section 128 Added by Ord. No. 2526/8-72.)