A. 
Unless otherwise provided by these regulations, in a business or industrial zone, every building shall be required to be set back from the property line such a distance as may be necessary to keep its street wall, walls or covered porches thirty-five (35) feet from the center line of the street or streets upon which its lot may abut or front, except that where twenty-five percent (25%) of the length of a given block front is occupied by buildings on the street line or within one (1) foot of same, no setback shall be required for additional buildings on said block front.
[Amended effective 1-16-1987]
B. 
Wherever the Common Council shall have established a building line or wherever the Common Council may in the future establish a building line, as provided in the Charter of the City of Norwalk, then such building line shall control the distance that the buildings shall be set back upon the lot, in lieu of these regulations.
C. 
No building or structure shall be maintained within seventy (70) feet of the center line of Connecticut Avenue as established by George C. Stout, City Engineer, and which center line is shown and delineated on a certain map entitled "Map Showing Center Line of Traveled Portion of Connecticut Avenue, Norwalk, Connecticut, August, 1944," said map on file in the Town Clerk's office.
[Amended effective 12-20-1944]
D. 
No building or structure of any kind shall be erected or maintained within fifty (50) feet of the center line of Main Avenue as shown on a certain map entitled, "Map of Main Avenue, Showing Center Line Established for Zone and Building Line Purposes from Merritt Parkway to Wilton Town Line, 1946," on file in the Town Clerk's office.
[Amended effective 3-22-1946]
E. 
No building or structure of any kind shall be erected or maintained within fifty (50) feet of the center line of Westport Avenue, said center line as shown on certain maps, three (3) entitled "Maps Showing Center Line of Traveled Portion of Westport Avenue, Norwalk, Connecticut, 1" = 40', 1947," said maps being on file in the office of the Town Clerk under file numbers 2560, 2561 and 2562. Reference to said maps is hereby made and had for the particular location of said center line.
[Amended effective 12-15-1950]
F. 
All properties used for commercial and industrial purposes shall provide a buffer strip on every side which abuts a residence zone, except that no buffer or graduated setbacks from residence zones shall be required where the abutting property is within a limited access highway or railroad right-of-way. An existing commercial or industrial building or use shall be exempt from the requirements of this section. All buffer strips must be kept free of litter and maintained to the satisfaction of the Zoning Inspector.
[Added effective 9-15-1975; amended effective 1-16-1987; effective 8-30-2002]
G. 
Each buffer strip shall be a minimum of 10% of the average lot width or depth, but need not exceed 30 feet maximum.
[Added effective 9-15-1975; amended effective 1-16-1987]
H. 
The treatment of the buffer strip shall be subject to the approval of the Zoning Inspector. Fences, walls, berms, existing vegetation or natural changes in grade may supplement planted material or be considered in lieu thereof when, in the opinion of the Zoning Inspector, the intent of this regulation is adequately served. The Zoning Inspector shall consider the extent to which the treatment of the buffer strip screens noise, glare, smoke and visibility from adjacent properties.
[Added effective 9-15-1975]
A. 
Except with the permission of the Commission, under appropriate conditions and safeguards, no zoning approval shall be issued for the erection of a garage for more than five motor vehicles or a motor vehicle service station or gas filling station, or for the conversion of any premises not so used to be used for such purposes, in any business or industrial zone, if any part of the lot or plot in question is situated within a distance of 200 feet as measured along the public street of or within any portion of a street between two intersecting streets, between two intercepting streets, or between an intersecting or intercepting street in which portion there exists:
[Amended effective 7-15-1976; 12-11-1981; effective 7-28-2006]
(1) 
Schools.
(2) 
A hospital maintained as a charitable institution or a private hospital maintaining at least 15 beds for patients.
(3) 
A church with a meeting capacity of 300 persons.
(4) 
A theater containing at least 300 seats.
(5) 
A public library.
B. 
No gasoline filling appliance shall be located within 10 feet of a street line or within five feet of an adjacent property line.
C. 
No existing garage for more than five motor vehicles, a group of garages for more than five motor vehicles or a motor vehicle service station or gas filling station shall be deemed to become a nonconforming use through the subsequent erection of such a school, hospital, theater or library, as defined above, within the aforesaid prescribed area.
D. 
So as to reduce traffic generation and traffic hazards, after the effective date of this amendment to this section and these regulations, no retail gasoline station shall be constructed or located within 2,000 feet of an existing gasoline filling station (retail). This provision shall not, however, make nonconforming uses of retail gasoline filling stations otherwise conforming as of the effective date thereof.
[Amended effective 12-11-1969]
E. 
In accordance with Section 14-54 of the Connecticut General Statutes, as revised, and any additional requirements herein, the Commission shall review and act on requests for certificates of approval of locations for licenses for dealing in or repairing of motor vehicles.
[Added effective 7-28-2006]
[Added effective 1-28-1994; amended effective 6-25-1999]
A. 
Adult use establishments, where otherwise permitted by these regulations, shall be subject to the following restrictions:
(1) 
No adult use establishment shall be allowed within 1,000 feet of another existing adult use establishment. The 1,000 feet shall be measured as a straight airline distance, without regard to intervening terrain or the actual means of travel between the two points, from the entrance of the proposed adult use establishment to the property line of a lot of an existing adult use establishment, as certified by a licensed surveyor.
(2) 
No adult use establishment shall be located within 500 feet of an existing place of worship, school or community center. The 500 feet shall be measured as a straight airline distance, without regard to intervening terrain or the actual means of travel between the two points, from the entrance of the proposed adult use establishment to the property line of a lot with an existing place of worship, school or community center, as certified by a licensed surveyor.
(3) 
No adult use establishment shall be located within 200 feet of a residence zone. The 200 feet shall be measured as a straight airline distance, without regard to intervening terrain or the actual means of travel between the two points, from the entrance of the proposed adult use establishment to the boundary of the residence zone.
(4) 
No adult use establishment shall be permitted in a Neighborhood Business, Rowayton Avenue Village District, East Avenue Village District, Silvermine Tavern Village District, Golden Hill Village District, Executive Office, South Norwalk Business District, Central Business District, SoNo Station Design District, Washington Street Design District, Reed Putnam Design District or a Marine Commercial Zoning District. Adult use establishments shall not be permitted by variance in zones where adult use establishments are prohibited.
[Amended effective 11-28-2003; effective 1-28-2010; effective 6-13-2019]
(5) 
No adult use establishment shall be conducted in any manner that permits the observation from any public right-of-way of any material depicting, describing or relating to the adult use activities or products located therein, specifically those activities or products in the adult use definition.
(6) 
Where permitted, adult use establishments shall be permitted by Special Permit in accordance with § 118-1450, Special Permits.
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Editor's Note: Former § 118-1031, Amortization of adult use establishments, added effective 1-24-1994, was repealed effective 5-26-2000.