The primary purpose of this district is to establish
and protect a limited business district that will serve the surrounding
residential district. Traffic and parking congestion is to be held
to a minimum to protect and preserve property values in the surrounding
residential districts, and, insofar as possible, all neighborhood
business development shall take place in a limited business district.
[Amended 5-16-1995]
A.
In a Light Commercial District (LC), as indicated
on the Zoning Map, no lot, building or structure shall be used and
no building shall be erected which is intended or designed to be used
for other than the following specific purposes:
(1)
All uses permitted (as permitted uses) and in the
same manner permitted in the aforesaid residential districts.
(2)
Bakeries and confectioneries whose products are sold
at retail and only on the premises.
(3)
Neighborhood grocery stores and drugstores.
(4)
Banks and office buildings.
(5)
Barbershops and beauty parlors.
(6)
Photographic studios and watch repair shops.
(7)
Retail stores, not exceeding 4,000 square feet of
floor space, provided that no manufacturing, wholesaling or jobbing
shall be carried on, and in the permitted stores and shops, no merchandise
shall be carried other than that intended to be sold for retail on
the premises.
(8)
Bed-and-breakfast establishments, not exceeding eight
units.
(9)
Pickup laundries and dry-cleaning stations, where
the cleaning is conducted off premises, the place of business being
only a pickup and dropoff station.
(10)
Dormitories and boardinghouses.
(11)
Public library.
B.
Uses with special use permits.
(1)
Public and semipublic uses, such as schools, churches,
playgrounds and parks.
(2)
Freestanding signs and billboards.
(3)
Hospitals and nursing homes.
(4)
Lodges and fraternal, social, recreational and civic
organizations.
(5)
Funeral homes, funeral chapels and undertaking establishments.
(6)
Hotels, motels and tourist courts, not exceeding 24
sleeping units.
(7)
Greenhouses and nurseries operated on a commercial
scale, including sales rooms and offices.
(8)
Parking lots for automobiles, other than parking lots
which are an accessory to a permitted or specially permitted use,
and excluding house trailers, freight trucks and trailers.
(9)
Coin laundries, and all other laundries of a self-service
type.
(10)
Multifamily dwellings and apartments.
For off-street parking provisions, see § 165-11 herein.
No building or structure shall be erected to
a height in excess of 50 feet above grade without the recommendation
of the Commission and approval of the Town Council after the required
public hearing(s).
[Amended at time of adoption of Code (see Ch. 1, General
Provisions, Art. II)]
All signs and outdoor advertising shall conform to Chapter 134, Signs, of the Town Code.
