[Amended 12-5-2006 by L.L. No. 52-2006; 5-5-2009 by L.L. No.
27-2009]
The intent of the Business Center (BC) Zoning Use District is
to encourage single, freestanding roadside commercial uses, mainly
along Route 58, between the existing Destination Retail Center (DRC)
and Shopping Center (SC) Zoning Use Districts, with the employment
of transferred development rights where appropriate.
In the BC Zoning Use District, no building, structure, or premises
shall be used or arranged or designed to be used, and no building
or structure shall be hereafter erected, reconstructed, or altered,
unless otherwise provided in this chapter, except for the following
permitted uses or specially permitted uses and their customary accessory
uses:
A. Permitted uses:
(3) Restaurants, cafes, banquet facilities, and ice cream parlors.
(4) Bakeries with retail sales on premises, specialty food stores.
(7) Radio or television broadcast studios.
(10)
Dealerships for new motor vehicle and boat sales.
(11)
Indoor sports and recreation facilities.
[Added 12-5-2006 by L.L. No. 52-2006]
B. Special permit uses:
(2) Motor vehicle repair shops.
(3) Restaurants, drive-in, curb-service, when not adjacent to any residential
zoning district or use.
[Added 7-15-2014 by L.L. No. 8-2014]
C. Accessory uses. Accessory uses shall include those uses customarily
incidental to any of the above permitted uses or specially permitted
uses when located on the same lot. Specifically permitted are the
following:
(1) Drive-through windows for banks, restaurants and pharmacies.
[Amended 1-17-2006 by L.L. No. 3-2006; 7-15-2014 by L.L. No. 8-2014]
(2) Sales of preowned motor vehicles and boats, as accessory to a dealership
for new motor vehicles and boats.
[Amended 5-5-2009 by L.L. No. 27-2009]
The design standards and parking standards listed in the provisions
below (Subsections A and B of this section) are intended as a guide
or measure for improvements in parcels in this zoning district, and
the word "shall" recited in the provisions below, with the exception
of Subsection B(1) which requires adherence to the Parking Schedule,
is intended to obtain compliance with the provisions to the extent
practicable as determined by the Board responsible for review.
A. Design standards.
(1) Driveway openings and curb cuts shall be aligned with the existing
curb cuts along Route 58 or other major arterial roads, in order to
reduce the potential addition of traffic lights and conflicting turning
movements.
(2) Signage shall be provided in accordance with Article
XLVIII, Signs, of this chapter.
(3) Buffering and transitions.
(a)
Trash/dumpster areas shall be screened by wood fences or landscaping, or a combination thereof, pursuant to §
245-8.
(b)
Buffer plantings or opaque fences, preferably wood fences, shall
be provided between commercial uses and adjoining residential uses
or zones.
(c)
Deliveries and loading activities shall to the extent possible
be restricted to the hours between 8:00 a.m. and 5:00 p.m. on weekdays.
B. Parking standards.
(1) The number of off-street parking spaces in the BC Zoning Use District shall be provided in accordance with §
301-231, Off-street parking, of this chapter.
(2) Where credible evidence is provided by traffic counts or data by
a licensed traffic engineer, up to 20% reduction in off-street parking
may be permitted for shared parking, where the peak parking of two
or more uses occurs at different times.
(3) No off-street parking shall be allowed within 10 feet of any property
line.
(4) Curb cuts to parking lots shall be minimized by sharing driveways
and consolidating entrances for access to adjacent parking lots.
(5) Shared parking lots with cross-access agreements are encouraged so
as to allow drivers to park in one lot and walk to other businesses
without moving their cars, or to drive from one lot to another without
returning to the street.
(6) Driveways shall be set back at least five feet from side property
lines. However, driveways providing shared access to two or more properties
are exempt from this standard.
(7) Where site grading and topography result in parking areas being located
at higher elevation than and visible from the adjacent roadway, planted
berms shall be used to screen the view of automobiles from public
roadways.
(8) In order to provide shade, parking lots with 21 or more spaces shall
have "orchard" planting: one tree per 10 off-street spaces. Such trees
shall be spread throughout the parking lot, rather than clustered
only along the edges.
(9) In order to soften the appearance of parking lots, parking lots shall
be landscaped with ground cover, grasses, or low shrubs for at least
10% of their land area. This landscaping requirement is in addition
to the five-percent parcel-wide landscaping mentioned above.
(10)
In order to provide recharge of the groundwater basin and minimize
runoff into water bodies, at least one of the following stormwater
management techniques shall be used in parking lots where underlying
soils support infiltration of precipitation to the groundwater:
(a)
Where sanding and salting are not used in the winter, low-traffic
or seasonal parking overflow areas of the parking lot shall be surfaced
with porous pavement or gravel.
(b)
Landscaped areas of the parking lot shall be sited, planted,
and graded in a manner to provide infiltration and detention of runoff
from paved areas.