The purpose of this district is to provide suitable locations
for businesses that rely on a regional market area for customers.
The uses permitted include a wide range of retail goods. The large
minimum lot size encourages large uses or an integration of smaller
ones. The areas designated for this zone have premium vehicular access
and exposure around major interchanges of Route 30. Design standards
are imposed to create an attractive, well-landscaped setting with
abundant, convenient parking.
Permitted uses shall be as follows:
A. Offices (business and professional).
B. Banks and similar financial institutions.
C. Restaurants and taverns, but not including drive-through or fast-food
restaurants or nightclubs.
D. Retail sales of goods and services, including auto parts without
installation.
E. Theaters and auditoriums.
F. Fast-food restaurants if within an enclosed shopping center or mall
and no direct outside access to the restaurant is provided.
G. Shopping centers and malls if located on one common lot.
H. Automobile parts stores and automobile service and repair facilities if accessory to a department or variety store if those criteria contained within §
150-312 have been satisfied.
I. Medical and dental clinics.
[Added 6-14-1990 by Ord. No. 90-06]
J. Personal service business.
[Added 6-28-2001 by Ord. No. 01-03]
K. Alternative therapy office.
[Added 6-28-2001 by Ord. No. 01-03]
L. Commercial school.
[Added 6-28-2001 by Ord. No. 01-03]
M. Hospitals. (See §
150-333.)
[Added 6-28-2001 by Ord. No. 01-03]
N. Shopping centers and malls located on two or more contiguous lots. (See §
150-351.)
[Added 6-28-2001 by Ord. No. 01-03]
O. Drive-through and fast-food restaurants. (See §
150-324.)
[Added 6-28-2001 by Ord. No. 01-03]
P. Zoning lot reduction. (See §
150-357B.)
[Added 6-28-2001 by Ord. No. 01-03]
Q. Club warehouse stores. (See §
150-357.2.)
[Added 6-28-2001 by Ord. No. 01-03]
R. Home improvement and building stores. (See §
150-332.)
[Added 6-28-2001 by Ord. No. 01-03]
S. Forestry.
[Added 6-28-2001 by Ord. No. 01-03]
S.1. Car washes. (See §
150-317.)
[Added 9-27-2018 by Ord.
No. 18-07]
T. Accessory uses customarily incidental to the above permitted uses.
[Added 6-28-2001 by Ord. No. 01-03]
[Amended 6-28-2001 by Ord. No. 01-03]
Subject to the general criteria listed in §
150-302D, special exception uses shall be as follows:
B. Hotels, including related dining facilities. (See §
150-334.)
C. A communications antenna mounted on an existing public utility transmission tower, building or other structure, and a communications equipment building. (See §
150-322.1.)
D. Commercial recreation facilities (See §
150-322.)
[Amended 1-28-2016 by Ord. No. 16-01]
A. Unless
otherwise specified, each use within this zone shall have a minimum
lot size of five acres. For the purposes of this subsection, a use
can include several businesses that are developed in a coordinated
fashion (e.g., joint parking lots, access drives, loading areas, landscaping,
signage, etc.) that function as one development site and satisfy all
of those requirements imposed upon this zone.
B. Notwithstanding the limitation of Subsection
A, uses that are designed to be an integral part of a shopping center may be located on separate lots that shall have a minimum lot area of 10,000 square feet, provided that the aggregate area of all of the lots included as part of the shopping center have a minimum area of five acres.
[Amended 1-28-2016 by Ord. No. 16-01; 6-22-2017 by Ord. No. 17-06]
A. The minimum
lot width shall be 300 feet.
B. Notwithstanding the limitation of Subsection
A, uses that are designed to be an integral part of a shopping center may be located on separate lots that shall have a minimum lot width of 75 feet, as measured at the street right-of-way line or along a property line of the lot abutting the shopping center common access drive; provided that the aggregate of all of the lots included as part of the shopping center shall have a minimum lot width of 300 feet measured at a street right-of-way line.
Minimum setback requirements shall be as follows:
A. Front yard setback. All buildings, structures (except permitted signs)
and off-street loading areas shall be set back at least 50 feet from
the street right-of-way lines. Off-street parking lots shall be set
back at least 25 feet from street right-of-way lines.
B. Side yard setbacks. All buildings and structures shall be set back
at least 50 feet from the side lot lines. Off-street parking lots
and loading areas shall be at least 25 feet from side lot lines, unless
joint parking facilities are shared by adjoining uses. In such instances,
one of the required side yard setbacks can be waived for parking lots
only.
C. Rear yard setback. All buildings and structures shall be set back
at least 50 feet from the rear lot line. Off-street parking lots and
loading areas shall be set back at least 25 feet.
D. Residential buffer strip. Any lot adjoining land within a residential
zone shall maintain a seventy-five-foot setback for buildings and
structures and a fifty-foot setback for off-street parking lots and
loading areas from the residentially zoned parcels. Such areas shall
contain a fifty-foot wide landscape strip.
Maximum permitted height shall be 45 feet.
[Amended 6-22-2017 by Ord. No. 17-06]
A. The maximum
lot coverage shall be 70%.
B. Notwithstanding the limitation of Subsection
A, uses that are located on lots that are designed to be an integral part of a shopping center may have a lot coverage of up to 100%; provided that the aggregate lot coverage of all of the lots included as part of the shopping center shall not exceed 70%. At the time of any proposed land development or subdivision of a shopping center containing multiple lots, each of the lots forming part of the shopping center shall be made subject to reciprocal easements and covenants related to impervious coverage so as to prevent the overall impervious coverage from exceeding 70% of the aggregate area of all of the lots.
[Added 6-28-2001 by Ord. No. 01-03]
Multiple permitted uses may be located in one building located
on one lot of land.
No outdoor storage shall be permitted.
Off-street loading shall be provided as specified in Article
XXV of this chapter. In addition, no off-street loading area shall be permitted on any side of a building facing adjoining lands within a residential zone nor any side of a building facing an adjoining street.
Off-street parking shall be provided as specified in Article
XXIV of this chapter.
Signs shall be permitted as specified in Article
XXVII of this chapter.
A vegetative screen must be provided along any adjoining lands within a residential zone, regardless of whether or not the residentially zoned parcel is developed. (See Article
XXVI.)
Any portion of the site not used for buildings, structures, parking lots, loading areas and sidewalks shall be maintained with a vegetative ground cover and other ornamental plantings. A twenty-five-foot landscape strip shall be provided along all property lines. Such landscape strip can be waived for that portion of the site occupied by a joint parking lot shared by adjoining uses. (See Article
XXVI.)
Dumpsters used for domestic garbage may be permitted within
the side or rear yard, provided that such dumpsters are screened from
adjoining roads and properties. All dumpsters shall be set back at
least 25 feet from all lot lines and 50 feet from any adjoining residentially
zoned property.