[Ord. 639, 7/14/1975]
This Commercial District is for personal and business services,
general retail and wholesale business. Districts in this zone category
are intended to include areas where commercial development has displaced
or is displacing residential development or is occupying vacant land.
These regulations herein are designed to guide future change so as
to discourage the formation of future commercial slums, to preserve
the carrying capacity of the roads, and to provide for off-street
parking and loading. It is not the intent of this District to encourage
the extension of existing "strip" commercial areas along roads, but
rather to provide concentrations of general commercial activities.
[Ord. 639, 7/14/1975]
Where properties front commonwealth and major local roads or
streets, so designated by the county planning director or local Planning
Commission in the temporary absence of a county director, no driveway
ingress and egress points shall be closer than 50 feet measured from
driveway edge to driveway edge, except where a particular lot or unified
contiguous commercial development frontage exists, in which case only
one entrance and one exit are allowable per street side per lot or
unified development. There shall be a maximum width of 25 feet per
driveway entrance and all ingress and egress points shall be located
30 feet from any intersection right-of-way line. The distance along
the road frontage between guard railing, concrete or asphaltic curbs,
guard fencing, solid hedges, or a similar material to prohibit ingress
and egress by vehicles at points other than those designated. The
traffic barriers shall be placed by the property owner fronting said
road. Where the Planning Commission deems it necessary, a service
road shall be provided by the property owner(s) to further limit ingress
and egress points. All points of ingress and egress must be clearly
defined. This section of the chapter is hereby retroactive and enforceable
on existing properties in this District.