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OFFICIAL RECORDS
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CAROL MEIER,
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MOHAVE COUNTY ORDINANCE NO. 2011-13
AN ORDINANCE AMENDING THE MOHAVE COUNTY ZONING ORDINANCE TO
AMEND SECTION 27.H.4.J, GENERAL PROVISIONS, OF THE MOHAVE COUNTY
ZONING ORDINANCE REGARDING VIEW OBSCURING OF STORED INTERMODAL
TRANSPORTATION CONTAINERS IN COMMERCIAL AND INDUSTRIAL ZONES.
WHEREAS, at the regular meeting of the Mohave County Board of Supervisors held on
September 12, 2011, a public hearing was conducted to determine whether approval should be granted
to amend various sections of the Mohave County Zoning Ordinance, as requested by the Mohave
County Development Services Department, and
WHEREAS, the language to be added has been bolded and underlined and the language to be
removed has been struck, and
WHEREAS, Section 27.H.4.j provides that in commercial and industrial zones:
j. All view-obscuring devices including earthen berms will be a minimum of six
(6) feet, unless otherwise required by the Board of Supervisors. Fencing will
extend two (2) feet above the highest item to be stored with the exception of
mobile homes, manufactured homes and construction equipment.
WHEREAS, at the time this provision was written, intermodal transportation containers, also
known as cargo containers, Conex boxes, etc., were not commonly used for purposes other than the
transportation of goods. In recent years, these containers have become more readily available and are
being used for other purposes. Businesses are being developed that rehabilitate the used containers for
resale, or rent them as storage units, and
WHEREAS, the current provisions of Section 27.H.4 would require the containers to be view
obscured by a fence or wall extending at least two feet above the height of the container. Standard
shipping containers are either eight feet (8') or nine feet and six inches (9' 6") in height. Thus the view
obscuring device would have to be at least ten feet (10') to eleven feet six inches (11' 6") in height to
satisfy the requirement. A fence or wall of that height would have to be engineered to withstand the
wind load, and in many cases would be more obtrusive than the containers it is intended to obscure. The
Ordinance currently exempts construction equipment, mobile homes and manufactured homes from the
increased height requirement, and
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WHEREAS, the amendment proposed by the Department would expand the existing exemption
from the increased height requirement to include intermodal transportation containers, and
WHEREAS, at the public hearing before the Mohave County Planning and Zoning Commission
on August 10, 2011, the Commission recommended APPROVAL for this Ordinance, and
WHEREAS, the notice of hearing was published in the Kingman Daily Miner, a newspaper of
general circulation in Kingman, Mohave County, Arizona, on August 28, 2011, and was posted on
August 26, 2011, as required by Arizona Revised Statutes and the Mohave County Zoning Regulations.
NOW THEREFORE BE IT RESOLVED, that the Board of Supervisors, at their regular
meeting on Monday, September 12, 2011, APPROVED this Ordinance as recommended by the Mohave
County Planning and Zoning Commission and outlined herein.
Amend the Mohave County Zoning Ordinance as follows:
1. Amend Section 27.H.4.j
j. All view- obscuring devices including earthen berms will be a minimum of six (6)
feet, unless otherwise required by the Board of Supervisors. Fencing will extend
two (2) feet above the highest item to be stored with the exception of mobile
homes, manufactured homes and construction equipment, and with the exception
of intermodal freight containers (also called cargo containers, Conex boxes
and other various names) in those commercial and industrial zones that
allow open lot storage. Intermodal freight containers shall not be stacked on
top of other such containers except in M (General Manufacturing), M-X
(Heavy Manufacturing), or A-D (Airport Development)zones.
PASSED, APPROVED AND ADOPTED THIS 12th DAY OF SEPTEMBER, 2011
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