[Ord. 565, 11/17/1986; as amended by Ord. 642, 3/6/1995]
1. Permitted
uses in the C-1 General Commercial District are as follows:
A. Business
or professional office, bank, savings and loan association or other
financial institutions, passenger station for public transportation.
B. Retail
establishment for sale of dry goods, drugs, food, jewelry, variety
and general merchandise, hardware, household furnishings and supplies,
instruments, electronic appliances, including repair service and job
printing.
C. Restaurant,
tearoom, café, confectionery or other place serving food or
beverages.
D. Automobile
court or motel, indoor theater, bowling lanes or other similar place
of indoor recreation.
E. Sale
of new automobiles and farm implements, including repairs; used car
and used implement sales only as accessory to new sales; gasoline
filling station; storage garage; public garage; and car wash.
F. Personal
service shop, including barber, beauty salon, shoe repair, tailor,
dressmaking and pickup station for laundry and dry cleaning.
G. Automatic
self-service laundry and dry cleaning, with proper approval of waste
disposal by health authority having jurisdiction.
I. Office
or office building for administrative, executive and professional
activity and similar activities involving the performance or rendering
of professional services, such as financial institution, mortician
and the sale of real estate, and business office, including the showing
of samples, sale promotion and demonstration of equipment, and merchandise
can be warehoused on the premises for sale, exchange or delivery thereon.
J. Restaurant;
provided, however, that any professional or business establishment
may include private cafeteria or lunchroom facilities for the exclusive
use of its employees as an accessory use.
K. Living
quarters for a proprietor, building manager, caretaker or watchman
if employed on the premises, as an accessory use within a principal
building.
L. Retail
establishment for the sale of plumbing and heating equipment and supplies,
lumberyard, including the customary storage and work yards incidental
thereto when screened by a fence, wall or planting screen.
M. Schools
for music, dance, business, etc.
O. Research
and development industries.
Q. Multi-family
dwellings combined with a neighborhood commercial-type establishment.
R. Nursing
homes, sanatoriums and hospitals.
S. Appropriate
public uses and essential services.
T. Conversions to any permitted use provided that all regulations pertaining to conversions are met. See §
27-1317.
U. Indoor
theater, bowling lanes, or other similar place of indoor recreation.
[Ord. 565, 11/17/1986]
Conversions to single or two-family dwellings provided that all regulations pertaining to conversions are met. See §
27-1317.
[Ord. 565, 11/17/1986; as amended by Ord. 575, 12/12/1987; by Ord. 642, 3/6/1995; by Ord. 652, 3/6/1995]
1. Area
and bulk regulations for commercial uses in the C-1 General Commercial
District are as follows:
A. Impervious
Coverage. No lot shall be covered more than 80% with impervious surface,
including, but not limited to, principal and accessory buildings,
driveways, walkways and parking areas.
B. Building
Coverage. No lot shall be covered more than 50% by buildings.
C. Minimum
Front Yard. There shall be a front yard on each lot, the depth of
which shall be not less than 25 feet, exclusive of parking space.
D. Minimum
Side Yard. There shall be two side yards of a minimum of 25 feet per
side, except that when a mutual agreement is subscribed to by the
adjoining property owners, no side yard shall be required where two
or more commercial uses adjoin side by side. However, in no case shall
common walls be permitted between properties of separate ownership.
In the case of such a series of adjoining structures on lots of single
and separate ownership abutting and paralleling a public right-of-way,
an unobstructed passage at least 20 feet in width shall be provided
at grade level at intervals of not more than 400 feet apart.
E. Minimum
Rear Yard. There shall be a rear yard of not less than 25 feet.
F. Height.
Three stories or 40 feet maximum, whichever is the lesser.
2. Area
and bulk regulations for multi-family dwellings in the C-1 General
Commercial District are as follows:
3. Area
and bulk regulations for industrial uses in the C-1 Commercial District
are as follows:
A. Industrial uses shall conform to the area and bulk regulations in Subsection
1, except that there shall be a rear yard of not less than 20 feet.
[Ord. 565, 11/17/1986]
The neat and orderly outdoor display of merchandise may be permitted
in reasonable amounts, provided that such display does not interfere
with the safe and efficient flow of pedestrian or vehicular traffic.
[Ord. 565, 11/17/1986]
The performance standards in the C-1 General Commercial District
shall be the same as for research and development industries.
[Ord. 565, 11/17/1986]
Any part or portion of the site which is not used for buildings,
other structures, loading or parking spaces and aisles, sidewalks
and designated storage areas shall be provided with an all-season
ground cover and shall be landscaped with small trees and shrubs in
accordance with an overall landscape plan. To facilitate the processing
of plot plans, a plant schedule should be prepared giving the botanical
and common names of the plants to be used, the sizes to be planted
and the quantity and spacing of each.
[Ord. 565, 11/17/1986]
For off-street parking requirements, see Part
14.
[Ord. 565, 11/17/1986]
For sign regulations, see Part
15.