NCJS, LLC v. City of Charlotte, Corp.

ELMORE, Judge.

*72 This is a zoning case about screening dumpsters. Petitioners NCJS, LLC and James H. Plyer (collectively "NCJS") own industrially zoned property in Charlotte. On the property sits a warehouse constructed in *73 1970 that is divided into six leasable units. Currently abutting the warehouse are two leaseholder-owned dumpsters unscreened from public view. A 1984 amendment to the Charlotte Zoning Ordinance (CZO) required that dumpsters be screened on three sides by a fence. Section 12.303 of the CZO, which imposes the dumpster-screening requirement, provides that "the provision of this…