The purpose of this district is to provide sufficient space
for automobile-oriented merchandising, including the provision of
off-street parking spaces and safe circulation of pedestrian and motor
traffic within the district and adjoining areas. Techniques such as
marginal access roads, joint access to thoroughfares and flexible
placement of structures to promote an orderly and safe environment
shall be encouraged.
In the C-2 Commercial District, land, buildings or premises
shall be used by right only for one or more of the following:
A. All uses permitted in the C-1 District.
B. Hotel, motel or inn, and related facilities when on a lot of two
acres minimum.
D. Fast-food or drive-in restaurant.
E. Gas or automobile service station.
H. Motor vehicle sales and service agency.
The following uses shall be permitted as special exceptions when authorized by the Zoning Hearing Board. All special exceptions are subject to Articles
XVIII and
XIX of this chapter, as well as any specific conditions listed below in this section.
A. All uses permitted by special exception in the C-1 Commercial Districts.
B. Planned shopping center when located on a lot of five acres minimum,
subject to the following conditions:
(1) Building coverage: 30% maximum.
(2) Building setback: 50 feet from a public street.
(3) Lot width at setback line: 200 feet minimum.
(4) Total development coverage: 75% maximum.
(5) Construction type: Buildings shall be constructed in an attached
fashion in order to avoid small-scale, fragmented development.
(6) Landscaping: Any part of a site which is not covered by permitted
and approved impervious surfaces shall be landscaped according to
an overall plan. Maximum use of existing natural plantings shall be
utilized.
(7) Parking and loading must be computed for each individual use within the shopping center, and the required spaces shall be the total of the requirement for each individual use, as specified in Article
XII, Off-Street Parking and Loading, of this chapter.
C. Towers for any use, including but not limited to those required for
the operation of CB radios, amateur or ham radios, portable and/or
car phones, microwave dishes, satellite disks, etc.
The following are accessory uses:
A. Accessory use on the same lot and customarily incidental to and subordinate
to any of the above permitted uses.
B. Storage within a completely enclosed building in conjunction with
a permitted use.
The following regulations shall be observed:
A. Lot area: 1,500 square feet minimum.
B. Frontage: 50 feet minimum.
C. Setback: 10 feet from all property lines minimum, with the exception
that no building shall be constructed closer to the street right-of-way
line than the average setbacks of the existing structures along the
same block frontage.
D. Building height: 35 feet maximum.
E. Total net floor area: not less than 0.75 of the area of the lot on
which the building is situated.
F. Building coverage: 40% maximum.
G. Total improvement coverage: 80% maximum.