The purpose of this District is to provide for
commercial uses that depend on access to an arterial highway, that
may generate truck traffic and that may not be compatible with commercial
areas devoted primarily to retail shopping in planned shopping centers.
In the C-2 Highway Commercial District, only
the following uses are authorized:
A.
Permitted uses.
(1)
Principal uses.
(a)
Antiques, interior decorating.
(b)
Apparel and accessories store.
(c)
Appliance, home furnishings store.
(d)
Art, book, stationery store.
(e)
Art, music or photography studios.
(g)
Bakery, including processing.
(h)
Bar or tavern.
(i)
Bed-and-breakfast.
(j)
Business or professional offices.
(k)
Business services.
(l)
Candy or ice cream store, including processing.
(m)
Card and gift shop.
(n)
Catering service, including rental hall.
(o)
Church.
(p)
Coin-operated laundry.
(q)
Commercial recreation.
(r)
Commercial school.
(s)
Contracting business.
(t)
Convenience store.
(u)
Day-care center.
(v)
Drugstore.
(w)
Dry cleaning pickup store.
(x)
Essential services.
(y)
Financial institution.
(z)
Florist shop, excluding greenhouse.
(aa)
Food store.
(bb)
Funeral home.
(cc)
Garden nursery.
(dd)
General merchandise store.
(ee)
Grocery store.
(ff)
Health club.
(gg)
Hobby shop.
(hh)
Hotel or motel.
(ii)
Indoor entertainment.
(jj)
Medical offices; medical clinic.
(kk)
Museum; library.
(ll)
Newsstand.
(mm)
Noncommercial recreation.
(nn)
Nursing home.
(oo)
Personal care boarding home.
(pp)
Personal services.
(qq)
Printing establishment.
(rr)
Private club.
(ss)
Public recreation, other than Township-related
facilities.
(tt)
Repair shop.
(uu)
Restaurant, carry-out, fast-food or sit-down.
(vv)
Retail stores.
(ww)
Specialty retail.
(xx)
Township-related facilities.
(yy)
Vehicle accessories sales and installation.
(zz)
Vehicle rental, sales and service.
(aaa)
Video store, excluding adult video stores.
(ccc)
Incidental mineral removal.
B.
Conditional uses.
(1)
Principal uses.
(a)
Billboards, subject to § 240-95A(5).
(b)
Communications tower, subject to § 240-95A(11).
(c)
Firehouses, subject to § 240-95A(9).
(d)
Group care facility, subject to § 240-95A(20).
(e)
High technology industries, subject to § 240-95A(27).
(f)
Mini-warehouses or self-storage facilities, subject to § 240-95A(29).
(g)
Nightclub, subject to § 240-95A(46).
(h)
Places of assembly, subject to § 240-95A(27).
(i)
Planned shopping center, subject to § 240-95A(36).
(j)
Planned research or technology park, subject to § 240-95A(35).
(k)
Public parking lot or public parking garage, subject to § 240-95A(33).
(l)
Public buildings, other than Township-related facilities, subject to § 240-95A(9).
(m)
Public utility building or structure, subject to § 240-95A(39).
(n)
Research and development, subject to § 240-95A(27).
(o)
Schools, public or private, subject to § 240-95A(9).
(p)
Transitional dwelling, subject to § 240-95A(20).
(q)
Beer distributor, subject to § 240-95(51).
[Added 4-16-2007 by Ord. No. 7-2007]
(r)
Oil and gas development, subject to § 240-95A(54).
[Added 7-13-2016 by Ord.
No. 6-2016]
(s)
Natural gas compressor station and natural gas processing plant, subject to § 240-95A(55).
[Added 7-13-2016 by Ord.
No. 6-2016]
(t)
Automobile service station.
[Added 9-9-2020 by Ord. No. 6-2020]
(u)
Extended stay hotel, motel, and facility, subject to § 240-95A(61).
[Added 7-12-2023 by Ord. No. 3-2023]
(2)
Accessory uses.
(a)
Communications antenna mounted on an existing building or on an existing public utility storage or transmission structure, subject to § 240-95A(12).
(b)
Temporary construction trailer, model home or sales office, subject to § 240-95A(49).
C.
Uses by special exception.
(1)
Principal uses.
(a)
Animal hospital, subject to § 240-95A(2).
(b)
Car wash, subject to § 240-95A(7).
(c)
Equipment storage yard, subject to § 240-95A(16).
(d)
Florist with greenhouse, subject to § 240-95A(27).
(e)
Landscaping contractor, subject to § 240-95A(27).
(f)
Temporary use or structure, other than a construction trailer or sales office, subject to § 240-95A(42).
(g)
Truck and heavy equipment rental, sales and service, subject to § 240-95A(43).
(h)
Comparable uses not specifically listed, subject to § 240-95A(13).
(2)
Accessory uses. None.
In the C-2 Highway Commercial District, all uses shall be subject to the following regulations, except as they may be modified by the express standards and criteria for the specific conditional uses and uses by special exception contained in Article XV.
See Article XVII.
See Article XVIII.
See § 240-98.
See § 240-104.