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This General Commercial (C-2) District seeks to accommodate
the needs for distribution of goods and services to the consumer in
a retail and/or professional office setting in accordance with the
Regional Strategic Plan. This district generally coincides with public
utility service areas and is within the designated growth area. The
uses provided in this district are meant to serve local residents
as well as those motorists passing through the area.
Permitted-by-right uses shall be as follows:
A. Banks and other financial institutions. Drive-through facilities shall be permitted subject to §
135-255.
B. Retail sales of goods and services, including motor vehicle parts
without installation, and excluding the following:
(1)
Stores in excess of 10,000 square feet of gross floor area;
(3)
Vehicular fuel pumps; and
(4)
Vendor displays and sales uses such as flea markets.
C. Business and professional offices, excluding office parks.
F. Medical and dental clinics.
I. Personal service shops, including tailor, barber- or beauty shop,
dressmaking, shoe repair or similar shop, excluding shopping centers.
J. Publicly or privately owned recreation facilities.
K. Commercial recreation facilities, including amusement arcades, mini-golf courses, go-kart courses, batting ranges, driving ranges, indoor firing ranges, bowling alleys and similar facilities subject to §
135-222.
L. Public utility service buildings.
M. Veterinary facilities and animal adoption centers without kennel
facilities.
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N. Restaurants and taverns, including drive-through restaurants meeting §
135-255.
O. Hotels, motels, convention centers, and community centers.
Q. Dry-cleaning and laundry establishments.
T. Studios or galleries for teaching, dancing, art, music or similar
cultural pursuits.
U. Accessory uses customarily incidental to the above permitted uses.
V. Child or adult day-care center.
W. Transient merchants, in accordance with §
135-263.
X. Forestry and related uses; provided that the applicant provides copies
of the permits and approvals from the DEP, and/or any other applicable
state or federal permit authorizing such use to occur.
The following uses are permitted when special exceptions are
granted by written approval of the Zoning Hearing Board. In granting
any special exception, the Board may attach certain conditions to
its approval which it feels are necessary requirements in order to
preserve and protect the character of the district in which the proposed
use would locate. The burden shall be upon the applicant to prove
that the approval of the application will not be detrimental to the
health, safety and general welfare of the community.
A. Manufactured home parks in accordance with §
135-246.
B. The following uses provided they are clearly accessory and incidental to any of the permitted uses under §§
135-132 and
135-133:
(1)
Any process of manufacture, assembly or treatment, which is
performed within a completely enclosed building and which normally
does not constitute a nuisance by reason of odor, noise, dust or smoke,
even if incidental to a permitted by right or by special exception
use conducted on the premises.
(2)
Lumber- and coal yards, building material storage yards, contractors'
equipment and storage yards and commercial warehouses, provided such
uses are within a completely enclosed building.
(3)
The storage of volatile products which are used as part of the
business operation provided such products are kept within a completely
enclosed building.
C. Adult-oriented businesses in accordance with §
135-211.
E. Dwellings in the same structure as a commercial establishment; provided,
however, that the residential use of the structure shall be clearly
secondary to the commercial use of the structure and located on a
floor above the commercial establishment.
F. Vehicular sales or rental establishments in accordance with §
135-267.
G. Vehicular fueling stations, including those fueling stations that are provided as an accessory use to a retail establishment or convenience store, in accordance with §
135-268.
H. Vehicular service or repair establishment in accordance with §
135-266.
I. Vehicular washing facilities in accordance with §
135-269.
J. Vendor displays and sales, including flea markets and similar uses in accordance with §
135-270.
L. Retail stores and shopping centers in excess of 10,000 square feet in accordance with §
135-256. If the retail use consists of home improvement and building materials sales, such use shall also comply with §
135-233.
M. Veterinary facilities and animal adoption centers with associated kennels in accordance with §
135-239.
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N. Miniwarehouse in accordance with §
135-245.
O. Commercial communications antenna meeting §
135-221, other than antenna permitted by right by such section.
P. Accessory structures and uses customarily incidental to the above
special exception uses.