The primary purpose of this district is to establish
and protect a limited business district that will serve the surrounding
residential districts. Traffic and parking congestion shall be held
to a minimum to protect and preserve property values in the surrounding
residential districts, and, insofar as possible, all neighborhood
business development shall take place in a limited business district.
Water and sewer shall be provided.
[Amended 9-12-1988; 6-13-2005 by Ord. No. 2005-01]
Within any Light Commercial District, as indicated
on the Zoning Map, no lot, building or structure shall be used and
no building shall be erected which is intended or designed to be used
in whole or in part for any industrial or manufacturing purpose or
for any other than the following specified purposes:
A.Â
All purposes permitted in the aforementioned residential districts, provided that multifamily dwellings and apartments must be authorized by a conditional use permit under § 425-57 of this chapter.
[Amended 3-10-2008 by Ord. No. 2008-01]
B.Â
Banks and office buildings.
C.Â
Greenhouses and nurseries operated on a commercial
scale, including sale rooms and offices.
D.Â
Parking of automobiles, excluding house trailers,
freight trucks, and trailers.
E.Â
Self-service laundries.
[Amended 10-15-2013 by Ord. No. 2013-03]
F.Â
Retail businesses, which includes retail stores and service establishments
such as bakeries, food shops, drugstores, branch laundries, and dry-cleaning
shops (but not dyeing plants), beauty parlors, barbershops, tailor
and shoe repair shops, florists, jewelry and watch repair shops, gift
and optician shops, hardware stores, building material stores and
sales yards in connection therewith, newspaper offices, photographic
studios, printing plants, electrical appliance stores, music stores,
restaurants, hotels, motels, theaters, or other commercial establishments
of like nature, provided that no such retail business shall exceed
10,000 square feet of floor space, and provided further that no manufacturing,
wholesaling or jobbing shall be carried on and that in the permitted
stores and shops no merchandise shall be carried other than that intended
to be sold at retail on the premises.
[Amended 10-15-2013 by Ord. No. 2013-03[1]]
[1]
Editor's Note: This ordinance also provided for the repeal
of former Subsections G and H, regarding retail stores not exceeding
4,000 square feet and retail businesses.
See § 425-53.
No building or structure shall be erected to
a height in excess of 50 feet above grade without recommendation of
the Planning Commission and approval of the Town Council after the
required public hearing(s).
Refer to Article X.
