(a) 
This Ordinance [division] shall apply solely to the following tract, which shall herein be referred to as the subject property:
Generally located north of the railroad, west of 10th Street, south of Lorrie Ave, and east of FM 439, as depicted in Attachment “B” [to Ordinance Z19-08 #3.]
(b) 
General purpose.
The purpose of the Main Street Spur District is to support a pedestrian-oriented, mixed-use urban development environment, with convenient access to shopping, employment, and neighborhood retail services. The intent is to revitalize Nolanville’s Main Street to be the center of life in the community. Therefore, an efficient, compact land use pattern; encouraging pedestrian activity; promoting a more functional and attractive community through the use of recognized principles of urban design; and allowing property owners flexibility in land use, while prescribing regulations assisting in promoting a walkable and aesthetically pleasing downtown area.
The subject property shall be governed by the rules applicable in B-1 Professional Business District unless otherwise amended in this ordinance.
(1) 
The Downtown Overlay is hereby created and applied upon the subject property. The boundary of the Overlay District shall be the same as the perimeter of the subject properties.
(2) 
Through application of the Downtown Overlay, the following rules, requirements and restrictions apply to the subject property:
(a) 
Permitted Uses:
All uses as they are permitted within the B-1 Professional Business District are allowed within the Main Street Spur Overlay except as it is amended within this ordinance.
i. 
Other uses permitted: Within the Downtown Overlay only, in addition to the other uses allowed in the B-1, Professional Business District, the following uses are permitted:
(1) 
Brewery/Winery/Distillery[.]
(2) 
Mixed Use Development[.]
(3) 
Mobile Food Vendors[.]
(b) 
Alcohol Sales:
The sale of beer, including the sale of beer to be consumed on the permitted premises, is allowed so long as the sale of alcohol is made in compliance with state law and other city ordinance.
(c) 
Prohibited Uses:
The following uses are specifically prohibited in the Downtown District:
(1) 
HUD-Code manufactured homes.
(2) 
Television and radio broadcasting towers.
(3) 
Automobile rental or sales (except where no outside display or storage occurs.)
(4) 
Automobile car-washing establishments (except as incidental to primary use).
(5) 
Heavy machinery storage, rental, sales and repair.
(6) 
Machinery, farm sales, repairing and overhauling.
(7) 
Warehouse storage.
(8) 
Lumberyards.
(9) 
Self-storage warehouses.
(10) 
Junkyards, automobile wrecking yards, salvage yards and scrap operations.
(11) 
Storage or refining of petroleum or its products.
(12) 
Sexually-oriented businesses.
(13) 
Outside open storage (screened and unscreened).
(14) 
Recreation vehicle (RV) parks.
(15) 
Pawn Shops[.]
(16) 
Check Cashing Facilities[.]
(3) 
Signs:
Specific standards for signs within the Downtown Overlay must be in compliance within Article 3.07, Signs, within the Code, except for as amended.
(a) 
Signs Prohibited: Pole signs[.]
(b) 
Sidewalk signs are permitted subject to the following requirements:
(1) 
The sign must be located on the sidewalk directly in front of a building that is built to the property line.
(2) 
The sign must be transportable and displayed at a designated location on the sidewalk only during the hours that the business it advertises is open to the public.
(3) 
The sign must not create a sight obstruction that poses a safety problem for vehicles and/or pedestrians.
(4) 
The sign may not be wider than the lesser of one-third the width of the sidewalk or thirty (30) inches.
(5) 
The sign may not be more than four (4) feet high.
(4) 
Parking:
Specific standards for parking within the Downtown Overlay must be in compliance within Division 6 of the Code, except for as amended:
(a) 
Where street parking, or adjacent parking lots are available, an applicant may apply for an alternative parking plan to be approved by the city manager.
(b) 
All parking shall be screened from the public right-of-way with either landscaping, or a combination of landscaping material and fencing. A fence alone shall not constitute screening.
(c) 
All parking areas within the Downtown Overlay are required to provide internal landscaping.
(5) 
Landscaping:
Landscaping should be appropriate for an urban context, emphasizing the built environment rather than camouflaging it. Landscaping does play an important supporting role, however, in providing shade, visual and textural relief, and recreation opportunities.
(a) 
Landscaping at street frontages is intended to enhance the pedestrian experience and should consist of regularly spaced shade trees and low ground cover plantings. For retail frontages, minimal or no landscaping should occur between the sidewalk and building face. In general, pedestrians should have a clear line of sight at eye level between building faces on either side of the street.
i. 
Street Trees shall be required at a general spacing of 40 feet for Shade Trees and 20 feet for Ornamental Trees along any side of the lot that is directly adjacent to the right-of-way. The city administrator may consider alternative spacing, species, and location based on existing conditions. Shade Trees shall be planted in a parkway strip or tree well that is sized and equipped with underground root barrier treatments. Ornamental Trees shall not require root barrier treatments.
(b) 
A minimum of one (1) shade tree is required per twelve (12) parking spaces. The shade trees shall be distributed throughout the site so that no parking space is more than fifty (50) feet away from an adjacent shade tree.
(6) 
Sidewalks:
Sidewalks located within the Downtown Overlay District shall be at least six (6) feet wide and constructed along all street frontages.
All persons, buildings, properties, sites, and structures located within the overlay district shall comply with this ordinance.
(Ordinance Z19-08 #3 adopted 7/18/19)