[Amended 3-6-1989]
This zone is designed for commercial uses normally
requiring a larger area and generating a greater intensity of traffic
and usage serving the needs of the immediate community and the larger
regions in accordance with the requirements hereinafter set forth:
A.
Banks, business, professional, executive and governmental
offices.
B.
Music, dancing, art and photographic studios.
C.
Funeral homes and mortuaries.
D.
Hotels and motels.
E.
Retail stores and service establishments.
F.
Restaurants, eating and drinking places.
G.
Indoor theaters, bowling alleys, health and recreation
facilities.
H.
Commercial printing plants and publishing houses.
I.
Service stations and public garages.
J.
Lumber and building material yards.
K.
Professional offices.
[Amended 8-5-1985; 5-5-1986; 9-2-1986; 12-28-1988; 10-5-1992]
The following uses are also permitted:
A.
Designed shopping complex. A building or a group of
abutting buildings designed to be utilized by more than one permitted
use where such building or group of abutting buildings is constructed
at one time. The area and yard requirements shall be applied to the
one building or group of abutting buildings as one structure.
C.
Townhouses, garden apartments and multifamily residences as permitted in and in accordance with the requirements of Article IX, PR Planned Residential Zone Regulations.
D.
One residential dwelling unit shall be permitted in
the same building housing a primary intended use in the Highway Commercial
Zone.
E.
Senior citizen housing provided that each unit has
a minimum of 500 square feet and at least one bedroom.
F.
Number of principal uses. There may be more than one
principal use on a site provided that there is additional parking,
paving, lighting, curbing and buffering to provide for the additional
traffic that will be caused by the additional use.
The following uses shall be permitted as conditional uses subject to the conditions and procedures set forth in Article XXV: public utility uses.
Accessory uses permitted in the HC Highway Commercial
Zone shall be as follows: garages for the storage of vehicles used
in the conduct of the principal use.
[Amended 8-5-1985]
The following requirements shall be met in the
HC Highway Commercial Zone:
A.
Minimum lot area. There shall be a minimum lot area
of at least 15,000 square feet.
B.
Minimum lot width. There shall be a minimum lot width
of 100 feet at the street line.
C.
Front yard. There shall be a front yard of not less
than 40 feet.
D.
Side yard. There shall be two side yards, totaling
40 feet, provided that no side yard is less than 15 feet.
E.
Rear yard. There shall be a rear yard of not less
than 40 feet.
F.
Height. The height of the principal structure shall
not exceed 35 feet or 2 1/2 stories in height, whichever is lesser.
G.
Minimum floor area. Every principal structure or separate
permitted use shall have a minimum heated floor area of 800 square
feet.
H.
Minimum residential floor area. Motel and hotel units
shall have a minimum gross floor area of 400 square feet.
I.
Service stations and public garages dispensing gasoline
may have gasoline pumps and/or service islands closer to the street
line than the building setback line but in no event closer than 25
feet to the street line.
J.
Land coverage. Building coverage shall not exceed
30%. The total impervious cover of any site shall not exceed 60% of
the total site area unless adequate subsurface recharge is provided.
