In C Commercial Districts, the following regulations shall apply:
A.
Uses permitted:
(1)
All
uses permitted in any residence district, and subject to the controls
set forth therein, and further provided that any residential use shall
be permitted only when accessory and incidental to one or more commercial
uses.
(2)
Stores and shops for the conducting of any retail business.
(3)
Personal service shops (barbershops, beauty parlors, etc.).
(4)
Banks, theatres, offices, restaurants and similar community services.
(5)
Garages and filling stations, subject to the following provisions:
(a)
No repair work is performed out of doors.
(b)
Pumps, lubricating or other devices are located at least 20
feet from any street line or highway right-of-way.
(c)
All fuel, oil or similar substances are stored at least 35 feet
distant from any street or lot line.
(d)
All automobile parts, dismantled vehicles and similar articles
are stored within a building.
(6)
Shops for custom work; shops for making articles or products to be
sold at retail on the premises.
(7)
Restaurants, cafes, tearooms and similar establishments.
(8)
Theatres, assembly halls, billiard or pool parlors, bowling alleys,
and any public recreation use.
(9)
Motor vehicle sales room.
(10)
Mortuaries, funeral homes and undertaking establishments.
(11)
Parkway or bus passenger station, telegraph office, express
office, electric substation, printing plant.
(12)
Accessory buildings and accessory uses on the same lot customarily
incidental to any of the above permitted uses.
(13)
Any use of the same general character as the above permitted
uses when authorized as a special exception, but not to include any
uses which are permitted only in a less-restricted use district.
(14)
Signs. Only those signs referring or relating to the uses conducted on the premises or to the materials or products made, sold, or displayed on the premises shall be permitted, and further provided that all signs and advertising structures shall be maintained in accordance with Article X hereof.
B.
Area regulations. A commercial lot shall be no less than 6,000 square
feet and shall have a minimum lot width of 40 feet.
C.
Coverage regulations. All buildings, including accessory buildings,
shall not cover more than 65% of the lot area.
D.
Yard regulations. Each lot shall have front, side, and rear yards
of not less than the depth or width indicated below:
(1)
Front yard depth: 25 feet.
(2)
Side yards: two; width: five feet each side of a principal building,
provided that when a written agreement is provided by adjoining property
owners, no side yard shall be required where two or more commercial
uses abut side to side. However, in no case shall party walls be permitted
between properties of separate ownership. In the case of a series
of abutting structures abutting and paralleling a public right-of-way,
an open and unobstructed passage for vehicles and pedestrians, of
at least 20 feet in width, shall be provided at grade level at intervals
of not more than 400 feet.
(3)
Rear yard depth: 20 feet.
Off-street parking shall be provided in accordance with Article XI.
A.
In the case of a building erected, altered or remodeled for commercial
or business purposes, there shall be at least one off-street loading
and unloading facility provided. The minimum size loading space shall
be 10 feet by 25 feet and shall be provided according to the following
schedule:
|
Square Feet of Gross Floor Area Each Space Can Service
| |||
|---|---|---|---|
|
No. of Spaces
|
Retail Storing and Warehousing
|
Office Buildings and Hotels
| |
|
1
|
25,000 or less
|
100,000 or less
| |
|
2
|
25,000 to 75,000
|
100,000 to 300,000
| |
|
3
|
75,000 to 200,000
|
300,000 to 600,000 and over
| |
B.
In no case where a building is erected, altered or remodeled for
commercial or business purposes shall the public right-of-way be used
for loading or unloading of materials.
