This district is created to permit the development
of commercial shopping centers in scale with surrounding market areas
in accordance with the standards set forth herein. These centers shall
serve areas not already conveniently and adequately provided with
commercial service facilities of the kind proposed. It is intended
to permit the establishment of such districts only where planned centers
with carefully organized buildings, service areas, parking areas and
landscaped open space will clearly serve demonstrated public needs,
reduce marginal traffic friction below that which would result from
strip commercial development along highways and protect property values
in surrounding neighborhoods. It is further intended that commercial
shopping centers shall provide a broad range of facilities and services
appropriate to the general need of the area served.
No building or premises shall be erected, structurally
altered, enlarged or maintained nor shall any land be used, except
for the following purposes:
A. Retail sales and services.
B. Offices and office buildings, theaters, banks and
financial institutions, real estate, insurance, medical and dental
offices.
C. Eating and drinking establishments.
E. Gas-and-go-type automobile filling stations.
F. Automotive service centers, not to include sales of
automotive fuels, major repair work such as engine overhauls, paint
and body work or the outside storage of vehicles.
G. Personal services such as beauty, barber, dry-cleaning
establishments and drugstores.
H. Grocery stores and variety stores.
I. Similar uses which are customarily located in commercial
shopping centers, subject to the approval of the Planning and Zoning
Commission.