The purpose of the “C-2” Local and Through Highway Business District is to provide a common location which caters mainly to through traffic which requires conveniently grouped rest and refreshment auto maintenance and lodging stops. It is the intent to group these businesses not only for convenience purposes but because highway businesses are inclined to be brightly lighted. It is further intended to provide an area along highways and major traffic thoroughfares which has lots large enough to meet the needs of drive-ins and other highway uses that require large lots with low building coverage, in order to lessen the friction with surrounding uses and to obtain better business advertising through groupings. Permitted uses in the “C-2” Local and Through Highway Business District shall not be noxious or offensive by reason of the emission of odor, dust, smoke, gas, vibration, noise or other similar causes beyond the property line which contains the use.
(Ordinance 1995-2 adopted 7/11/95; Ordinance 2002-08 adopted 11/12/02)
In the “C-2” Local and Through Highway Business District, no building, structure, land or premises will be used and no building or structure shall hereafter be erected, constructed, reconstructed, or altered, except for one or more of the permitted uses as listed as in this section. (PLEASE NOTE: Any property located along Highway 190 and Highway 16, when ceasing to be used for residential property will automatically be rezoned for commercial use.)
A. 
The following uses shall be permitted as principal uses:
1. 
Appliance and furniture stores
2. 
Amusement establishments, including archery ranges, shooting galleries and other amusement facilities.
3. 
Amusement parks, including permanent carnivals and kiddy parks
4. 
Animal hospitals, kennels and pounds, provided that such uses are located not less than 150 feet from the boundary line of any residential district
5. 
Automotive repair and sales
6. 
Automotive laundries
7. 
Bakery whose products are sold at retail on the premises
8. 
Banks and financial institutions
9. 
Barbershops
10. 
Beauty shops
11. 
Boat showrooms
12. 
Bowling Alleys
13. 
Branch bank
14. 
Bus and rail terminal facilities
15. 
Cafes and taverns
16. 
Clothing or wearing apparel shops
17. 
Clubs, private and public
18. 
Discount department stores
19. 
Drugstores
20. 
Gasoline service stations
21. 
Golf, driving ranges, pitch and putt, miniature golf and par-3 golf courses
22. 
Greenhouses
23. 
Grocery stores or supermarkets
24. 
Hotels and motels
25. 
Implement sales and service, provided that no outside sales shall be permitted that encroach upon the yards as established
26. 
Mobile home sales
27. 
Laundry and dry cleaning pickup stations
28. 
Medical offices and buildings
29. 
Outdoor theaters
30. 
Offices
31. 
Pawnshops
32. 
Post offices
33. 
Public and private parking lots
34. 
Repair and service of automobiles carried on in the same building
35. 
Restaurants, including drive-in
36. 
Retail stores
37. 
Retail tire sales and supply
38. 
Retail use where no fabrication or manufacture takes place on the premises
39. 
Self-service laundry
40. 
Shoe repair shops
41. 
Store or shop for the conducting of a convenience type or service type retail business where there is no manufacture or prefabrication of a product [or] merchandise
42. 
Theaters
B. 
The following special uses are also permitted:
1. 
Arboretum or botanical garden
2. 
Churches, convents and monasteries
3. 
Fire and public stations
4. 
Libraries, public
5. 
Schools, both public and private with curriculum similar in nature and preparation of course work to the public school.
C. 
Nursing homes/assisted living facilities.
Editor’s note–Ordinance 2002-08 amended the zoning ordinance by adding “nursing homes/assisted living facilities” to article XII, but did not specify the section and subsection number. Inclusion of these provisions as subsection C. of section 12.2 was at the discretion of the editor.
(Ordinance 1995-2 adopted 7/11/95; Ordinance 2002-08 adopted 11/12/02)
No use shall be constructed or commenced in the “C-2” District which does not conform with the following minimum requirements.
Minimum Front Footage -
100 ft.
(Ordinance 1991-13 adopted 11/7/91)
The maximum building coverage of any lot in the “C-2” District shall be governed by the floor to area ratio (FAR) of 1:4 where building coverage is limited to one-fourth (1/4) of the total lot area.
(Ordinance 1991-13 adopted 11/7/91)
The following minimum requirements for yards shall apply to any use that is constructed or commenced on a parcel of land in the “C-2” District.
Front Yard -
30 ft.
Side Yards -
30 ft. (only if abutting property is of another zoning classification or is a dedicated street)
(Ordinance 1991-13 adopted 11/7/91)
No building in the “C-2” District shall be constructed with a height in excess of thirty-five (35) feet from the mean lot elevation nor will it exceed two and one-half (2-1/2) stories.
(Ordinance 1991-13 adopted 11/7/91)
All permitted uses in the “C-2” District shall comply with the minimum requirements for off-street parking as contained in ARTICLE XVII Off-street Loading and Parking of this ordinance.
(Ordinance 1991-13 adopted 11/7/91)
All permitted uses in the “C-2” District shall comply with signage regulations as contained in ARTICLE XVI Sign and Billboards Regulations.
(Ordinance 1991-13 adopted 11/7/91)
The “C-2” District shall be permanently screened from adjoining residential uses by a solid fence, of minimum height of five (5) feet and maximum height of seven (7) feet. The Planning Commission may waive the requirement for a screening enclosure and/or screening area if equivalent screening is provided by topography or other natural conditions.
(Ordinance 1991-13 adopted 11/7/91)
(a) 
[Reserved.]
(b) 
[Reserved.]
(c) 
[Reserved.]
(d) 
All buildings or structures that are built or rebuilt within the “C-2” zoning district must have all of the exterior walls that face any portion of State Highway 16 or U.S. Route 190, excluding doors and windows, constructed with a masonry facade. No blank walls shall face either of the highways.
(1) 
[Reserved.]
(2) 
[Reserved.]
(3) 
The following approved masonry list shall apply:
a. 
Stone, brick, or tile laid up unit by unit and set in mortar;
b. 
Stucco (exterior Portland cement plaster with 3 coats over metal lath or wire fabric lath);
c. 
Cultured stone or cast stone; or
d. 
Architecturally finished block (i.e., burnished block, split faced concrete masonry units, or architecturally finished tilt wall).
(4) 
A maximum of 10% of the facade may include accent materials not listed on the approved masonry list in subsection (1) [(3)] above.
(e) 
Existing structures as of the adoption date of this ordinance shall be exempt from these nonresidential design standards.
(f) 
If existing structures are expanded by 20% or more of their original size, all new construction shall comply with these design standards.
(Ordinance 2018-01, sec. 3, adopted 2/12/18)