Legal Documents of Gatlinburg

In addition to the prohibitions and restrictions set out herein, anyone desiring to locate any of the amusement rides described herein, shall meet the following requirements:

1. Adequate parking. One (1) parking space for each four (4) customers, computed on a maximum service capacity of area of the recreational use, will be provided upon the same property where the amusement is located.
   1. Each parking space shall have at least one hundred ninety (190) square feet in area and shall have paved vehicular access to a public street or alley.
   2. Turning space shall be provided so that no vehicle will be required to back into a public street.
2. Aesthetic considerations. As a minimum, include the following requirements:
   1. Any off-street parking facility of ten (10) cars or more shall also provide the equivalent of one (1) parking space per each twenty (20) cars and each fraction thereof, to be planted with at least one (1) tree with a minimum diameter measured at the location of its greatest width of one and one-half inches (1 1/2"), and grass and/or ground cover. The exact location within the parking facility is optional with each design, but the planted area herein referred to shall be in addition to perimeter buffer strips and to other landscaping on the property outside the parking facility.
   2. The purpose of this requirement is to aid in providing visual definition, oxygenation, wind modulation, drainage absorption and relief from other problems that may result from total coverage paving.
   3. Plant material of such growth characteristics as will provide an obscuring screen of not less than seven feet (7') in height. The amount of planting required to accomplish adequate screening is variable with the individual site; the enforcing officer should arbitrate to determine types and amount when no specific standards are required, and the board of zoning appeals or planning commission shall make such determination when approval of development plans is required by either of these bodies. In any case, the following description of screening shall be established as the minimum acceptable buffer. The depth of the zone is dependent upon the buffer strip required.
      1. Minimum specifications. Such a buffer strip shall provide within two (2) years of planting, a planted, growing barrier affording visual privacy and sight relief between properties or dissimilar uses and/or character of buildings. Visual privacy shall include screening from automobile headlights, elevated yard lights, electric signs, building lighting, mechanical equipment clusters, garbage or trash containers, and vehicular traffic. The minimum acceptable screen would consist of one (1) row or two (2) rows (centers staggered) of:
         1. Trees as described below;
         2. Additional shrubbery;

         3. Ground cover;

            Rows should be six feet (6') apart with six foot (6') edges both sides when two (2) rows are required and when one (1) row is required six foot (6') edges on both sides must be provided. Plants recommended for each type of screening are:

            1. Trees. White pine or Hemlock: four feet (4') 0.C. if one (1) row six feet (6') 0.C. if two (2) rows. Redbud or Tulip Poplar: Every fourth three, stagger lines.
            2. Shrubbery. Forsythia or Bridal Wreath Spirea: four feet (4') OC. one (1) row. Hedge: Privet at one foot (1') O.C.; Barberry at one inch (1") O.C.
            3. Ground cover. Honeysuckle or Vinca Minor.
         4. Existing undisturbed vegetative buffers may be substituted for the above when in the opinion of the planning commission, it is adequate to achieve the required buffering.
      2. Maintenance. Initial buffer planting shall be guaranteed one (1) full year. Trimming annually required thereafter. (1976 Code, § 5-106, as replaced by Ord. #2471, Nov. 2013)