Generally this district covers that portion of the community intended for the conduct of general business to which the public requires direct and frequent access.
[Amended 5-16-1995]
A. 
In a General Commercial District (GC), 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 for other than the following specific purposes:
(1) 
All uses permitted (as permitted uses) and in the same manner permitted in the aforesaid Light Commercial District except for single-family dwellings. [NOTE: A residence for a watchman or caretaker for a business on the premises may be permitted.]
(2) 
Retail business. Retail stores and service establishments, such as bakeries, food shops, drugstores, branch laundries, dry-cleaning shops (but not dyeing plants), beauty parlors, barbershops, tailor and shoe repair shops, florists, jewelry, gift and optician shops, hardware stores, building material stores and sales yards in connection therewith, newspaper offices, printing plants, electrical appliance stores, music stores, restaurants, theaters or other commercial establishments of a like nature.
(3) 
Bed-and-breakfast establishments, not exceeding eight units.
(4) 
Public parking garages (ownership may be private).
(5) 
Public utilities. Utility substations, pump houses, distribution lines, poles and other facilities for the provision and maintenance of public utilities, meters, pipes, fire and rescue facilities, including railroads and their facilities, and water and sewerage works.
(6) 
Public library.
B. 
Uses with special use permits.
(1) 
Public and semipublic uses, such as schools, churches, playgrounds and parks.
(2) 
Freestanding signs and billboards.
(3) 
Hospitals, nursing homes and assisted-living facilities.
(4) 
Lodges and fraternal, social, recreational and civic organizations.
(5) 
Funeral homes, funeral chapels and undertaking establishments.
(6) 
Greenhouses and nurseries operated on a commercial scale, including sales rooms and offices.
(7) 
Any facility selling or dispensing gasoline or gasoline products or petroleum products, including filling stations and convenience stores.
(8) 
Any facility for servicing automobiles.
(9) 
Storage warehouses and yards, automobile sales, service and rental and wholesale and jobbing establishments.
(10) 
Public billiard parlors, poolrooms, bowling alleys, miniature golf, dance halls and similar forms of public amusement.
(11) 
Trailer courts.
(12) 
Hotels and motels.
(13) 
Light manufacturing and processing, all without limit as to production, provided that no operations are carried on which create conditions of smoke, fumes, noise, odor, dust or water pollution detrimental to the health, safety or general welfare of the community.
(14) 
Gun dealers.
[Added 11-21-2000]
(15) 
Apartments.
[Added 11-21-2007]
(16) 
Adult businesses.
[Added 1-15-2008]
(17) 
Dance, art, or music schools.
[Added 11-18-2008]
(18) 
Dance, art, or music studios.
[Added 11-18-2008]
(19) 
Museums.
[Added 11-18-2008]
(20) 
Art galleries.
[Added 11-18-2008]
(21) 
Community centers.
[Added 11-18-2008]
A. 
Side yard. Where the district abuts a residential district, the minimum side yard shall be 20 feet.
B. 
Setback. The minimum setback on Main Street shall be 15 feet and a minimum of 20 feet elsewhere.
For off-street parking provisions, see § 165-11 herein.
No building or structure shall be erected to a height in excess of 60 feet above grade without recommendation of the Commission and approval of the Town Council after the required public hearing(s).
[Amended at time of adoption of Code (see Ch. 1, General Provisions, Art. II)]
All signs and outdoor advertising shall conform to Chapter 134, Signs, of the Town Code.
[Amended at time of adoption of Code (see Ch. 1, General Provisions, Art. II)]
Automobile graveyards, junkyards and sand and gravel yards are prohibited. (NOTE: Automobile graveyards and junkyards in existence at the time of the adoption of this chapter may continue as nonconforming uses, provided that they shall have a period of not exceeding two years after said adoption in which to completely screen on any side viewed from a public road the operation or use by a solid six-foot-high masonry wall or other type of solid fencing or hedge approved by the Administrator.)