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Sumter County Council adopts screening standards for salvage-style businesses, grants rezoning first reading and advances Development Board change
Summary
At its April 8 meeting, Sumter County Council adopted Ordinance 25-1024 to expand screening options for used motor vehicle parts merchants, granted first reading to a rezoning for a used-car lot at 3584 Peach Orchard Rd., and advanced an amendment changing appointing authority for one Development Board seat to second reading.
Sumter County Council on April 8 adopted a zoning amendment and approved a series of procedural measures affecting land use and governance.
Planning Director Helen Roodman presented OA-25-01, which County Council approved on third reading as Ordinance 25-1024. The amendment allows earthen berms or combinations of berm and fence/wall to be used to meet the existing 7-foot screening requirement for used motor vehicle parts merchant wholesalers in the Light Industrial–Warehouse (LI-W) district. The ordinance retains other screening options (solid opaque wall or fence) and adds explicit design guidance for fence color and berm vegetative stabilization.
The ordinance also establishes operational and environmental controls for these…
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