§ 9148.9. Truck Terminal and Truck Yard Facilities. — Carson Zoning Code

A. Development Policy. The objectives of these regulations pertaining to truck terminal and truck yard facilities are as follows:
1. To be used in connection with conditional use permit and site plan approval.
2. To provide for the safe and orderly use of land for parking, servicing, repairing or storage of trucks in active use in a manner that minimizes adverse environmental impacts of such a use upon the surrounding area.
3. To ensure that truck terminal and truck yard uses include development standards designed to mitigate existing and potential noise, dust, fumes, traffic and other adverse environmental impacts affecting neighboring residential and commercial areas. Examples of these development standards may include, but are not limited to, walls, fences, buffer zones, landscaping and other mitigating measures.
4. To ensure that the truck terminal and truck yard operations are conducted in a safe manner based upon such factors as the adequate paving, striping of truck parking stalls, lighting,

storage within the yard and cargo within the trucks.

To ensure adequate screening of truck terminal and truck yard facilities from the public right-of-way.
To ensure that the site is sufficient in size to accommodate truck terminal and truck yard uses in accordance with this Section.

B. Site Development.
1. Setbacks.
  - a. All setbacks abutting a public right-of-way shall be a minimum of twenty-five (25) feet in depth.
  - b. No encroachments are permitted in any setback except that any existing legal, nonconforming encroachment may be permitted to remain, subject to the provisions of CMC § 9172.23 .
2. Landscaping and Irrigation.
  - a. Landscaping and irrigation plans shall be prepared and signed by a licensed landscape architect and approved by the Development Services Group Planning Division prior to occupancy.
  - b. All landscaped areas shall be well maintained at all times and permanently irrigated with an electronic timer preset for early morning hours.
  - c. All required yards adjacent to, or visible from, a public right-of-way shall be landscaped utilizing any combination of the following:
    - (1) Drought resistant plants common to this region, including lawn grasses, flowers, ground covers, vines, shrubs in five (5) to fifteen (15) gallon sizes, and minimum twenty-four (24) inch box specimen trees, of sufficient bulk to provide screening;
    - (2) Decorative materials such as rock, bark, gravel, boulders, wood, brick, block, tile, stucco, ornamental iron; or
    - (3) Artistic features, such as berms, earth mounds, planter beds, fencing, monuments, artwork, sculptures, and fountains.
3. Fencing.
  - a. Fencing materials shall consist of decorative masonry walls, such as splitface, stucco block or slumpstone, and shall be approved by the Development Services Group Planning Division.
  - b. Decorative wrought iron gates with opaque screening shall be installed at all access points visible from the public right-of-way.
c. Fence height shall comply with CMC § 9146.3 .
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- d. Chainlink fencing and barbed or concertina wire shall be prohibited where visible from public right-of-way. 
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1. Configuration of Truck Parking and Storage.
  - a. Trucks and permitted storage shall not be stored within five (5) feet of any required screening wall.
  - b. Truck parking and permitted storage shall be arranged in parallel rows and shall be stripped per CMC § 9162.66 .
  - c. A site plan in connection with a Conditional Use Permit application shall be submitted to the Development Services Group Planning Division.
2. General Requirements.
  - a. Vehicular parking, loading, and maneuvering areas shall be constructed and maintained in accordance with the provisions of CMC § 9162.05 .
  - b. Areas utilized for the parking of truck and permitted storage shall be surfaced with materials approved by the Development Services Group Planning Division which adequately prevent dust from becoming airborne and prevent the tracking of mud onto public rights-of-way. The site shall be graded to drain in accordance with the City's Standard Urban Storm Water Mitigation Plan (SUSMP) Ordinance and in a manner approved by the City Engineer.
  - c. The site shall, to the extent reasonably feasible, be located so as to provide for direct vehicular ingress from and egress to a designated route, as specified in CMC § 3261 (Oversize Vehicles), and to minimize or preclude ingress from and egress to restricted streets, as defined in CMC § 3260 (Truck Routes).
  - d. Nothing contained herein shall be deemed to authorize or permit the storage of hazardous materials, substances or wastes which are capable of posing an unreasonable risk to health, safety or property, including, but not limited to, any radioactive material, poison, flammable gas, nonflammable gas, flammable liquid, oxidizer, flammable solid, corrosive material (liquid or solid), irritating materials, combustible liquids, explosives, blasting agents, etiologic agents, organic peroxides, hazardous wastes, and regulated materials of classes A, B, C, D and E, the definitions of which may from time to time be designated by the United States Department of Transportation under Title 49 (commencing with Section 1801) of the United States Code and Title 49 (commencing with Section 107) of the Code of Federal Regulations, and adopted by the Commissioner of the California Highway Patrol pursuant to Section 2402.7 of the California Vehicle Code.
  - e. All habitable structures shall be placed on a permanent foundation, and a building permit shall be obtained.
(Ord. 04-1308 § 5)