ARTICLE X: "C-1" GENERAL
BUSINESS DISTRICT
10.10 Purpose: It is the purpose of the C-1
District to permit and to encourage the establishment of commercial shopping
areas which offer a wide variety of consumer goods and services.
10.20 Principal Permitted Uses: Including,
but not limited to, the following types of activities:
A. Retail and Services: Retail
business or service establishment supplying commodities or performing
services including, but not limited to, grocery stores, pharmacies, delicatessen
stores, barber shops, beauty parlors, clothes cleaning and laundry establishments,
specialty shops such as jewelry stores, shoe stores, hardware stores,
florist shops, dry goods shops, and other similar stores and shops for
the conduct of a retail business or personal services.
B. Gasoline
Service Stations: Gasoline service stations including repair garages.
C. Eating
and Drinking Places: Soda fountains, ice cream parlors, tea rooms,
restaurants, and cafes.
D. Offices: Business
and professional offices, real estate, insurance and similar businesses.
E. Business
Services: Post offices, financial institutions, real estate, insurance
and similar businesses.
F. Processing
and Printing: Bakery, catering establishment, laundry or dyeing and
cleaning works, publishing, job printing and blue printing, employing not more
than five (5) persons on the premises.
G. Removed
H. Minor
Fabricating and Repair: Appliance and television repair shop, plumbing
shop, painting and decorating shop, tinsmithing shop, motor vehicle service
stations including auto repairing, and tire repair shop.
I. Dwelling
Units: Being a part of retail and services structures and occupied
by the proprietor of said retail and/or service business.
J. Recreation Services: Recreation
services including theaters, bowling alleys, pool and billiard rooms,
dancing academies and roller and ice skating rinks.
K. Hotels,
motels, private clubs and lodges: wholesale establishments, taverns,
and night clubs, commercial parking garages, public utility building and transformer
stations without storage garages.
10.30 Conditional Uses: Uses authorized upon
issuance of a Conditional Use Permit include, but not limited to, the
following:
A. Drive-Through
Businesses: Drive-through or drive-in financial institutions, businesses
or restuarants, provided that the premises shall be enclosed by a solid wall
or fence at least six (6) feet high where it adjoins in the rear or on the
sides of any Residence District, public park, school or church.
B. Self-Service
Establishments: Self-service laundries, dry cleaners, car washes
and similar uses.
C. Outdoor
Commercial Recreation: Any type of commercial recreation, including
baseball fields, swimming pools, skating rinks, and similar open air facilities,
provided such establishments shall be located not less than one hundred (100)
feet from any residential district.
D. Animal
Hospitals, Veterinary Clinics: Kennels for display, boarding, or
treatment of pets and other domestic animals; provided that any structure
or area used for such purposes, including pens, and exercise yards, shall be
located at least one hundred (100) feet from any residential district and that
such pens or exercise runs shall be enclosed on four sides by a sight obscuring,
unpierced fence or wall at least six (6) feet in height.
E. Motor
Vehicle Services, Farm Implements: Motor vehicles, trucks, trailers,
farm implements, for sale or display, trailer lots, repair garages, body and
fender shops, paint shops, provided that there shall be a minimum distance
of fifty (50) feet between the use and any residential district and that the
premises shall be enclosed by a solid wall or fence at least six (6) feet in
height where it adjoins in the rear or on the sides of any residential district.
10.40 Requirements: The following requirements
shall be observed:
A. Business in Enclosed
Buildings: All business, services or processing shall be conducted
wholly within a completely enclosed building; except for the sale of
automotive fuel, lubricants and fluids at service stations, and such
outdoor display or storage of vehicles, materials and equipment as heretofore
specifically authorized or as may be authorized by the Board of Adjustment.
B. Maximum
Building Height: No principal structure shall exceed three (3) stories
or thirty-five (35) feet in height.
C. Yard
Setbacks: Front, rear and side yard setbacks shall be:
Front
Yard Rear
Yard Side
Yard
None None None
except when adjoining a residential
district in which case there shall
be a side yard of not less than ten (10)
feet. If an unrequired yard is provided,
it shall not be less than five (5)
feet.
D. Buffer
Required: Where a C-1 District is located adjacent to a Residential
District and not separated therefrom by a street or alley, a buffer
strip of trees and shrubs of not less than eight (8) feet in width,
shall be provided and maintained along the property line. The
planning commission may vary these requirements where conditions are
such that a buffer strip will not serve a useful purpose.
E. Storage: All
outside storage materials must be in rear of lot and screened by a privacy
fence of not less than six (6) feet in height
F. Off-Street
Parking: As stated in Article XVI.
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