[Amended 7-26-1990]
It is the intent and purpose of this Zoning
Ordinance to provide that the C-1 Business Zone District shall serve
as the principal retail and service area of the Borough, accommodating
shopping and business needs customary in a residential community.
The zone is intended to serve the following functions: to provide
convenience goods and services to the Borough and its residents; to
provide consumer goods and services usually attendant to the needs
of a residential community; and to provide office uses which complement
and support the business uses and which are customarily attendant
to the needs of a residential community.
[Added 7-26-1990]
In the C-1 Business Zone District, no building
or premises shall be used and no building or part of a building shall
be erected, constructed or altered which shall be arranged, intended
or designed to be used for any purpose other than the following uses:
A. Any use permitted in the A, AA, AAA or B Zone Districts;
provided, however, that no residential use shall be permitted below
the level of the second floor in any structure.
B. Shops or stores for retail merchandising, provided
that there are no fabricating, manufacture, conversion, alteration
or assembling operations permitted, except as may be only incidental
to the particular retail trade to be conducted.
C. Restaurant, tavern or ice cream parlor, shops rendering
a retail service, such as a baker, barber, cleaner, hairdresser, cobbler,
tailor, milliner or other retail service, appliance sales and their
incidental repair or servicing.
D. Banks, savings and loan associations, real estate
or insurance agents or brokers, travel agents or professional service
offices, such as doctor, lawyer, accountant, architect, artist, schools
of dance or music or government offices.
[Amended 7-26-1990]
The C-1 Business Zone District is intended to
be used for retail sales and service only. Accordingly, all uses not
specifically permitted are prohibited. Without intending to limit
the application of this provision, the following uses are specifically
prohibited:
A. Subject to the provisions of §
270-66D aforesaid, office uses whose primary principal activity is other than on-site sales or service to retail consumers or professional services.
B. Repair facilities, including body shops, automobile
repair shops or shops, businesses or uses whose major activity is
the fabrication, repair, manufacture or assembly or storage of equipment,
machinery or other products and any repairs not incidental to a retail
sales or service activity.
C. General executive business and nonretail sales and
service offices are prohibited within the business zone district.
Corporate headquarters, regional and sales offices and similar offices
are specifically excluded from this zone district.
D. No uses permitted in this zone shall be conducted
out of doors except licensed outdoor cafes.
[Amended 8-12-1999]
E. Drive-through style fast-food restaurants primarily
engaged in the sale of foods for off-premises consumption.
F. No unattended business or any business of a laundry,
dry-cleaning establishment, self-service laundry, bakery or repair
shop where any one of the same shall employ more than six persons
or use machinery having a cumulative horsepower rating of more than
20 is permitted.
[Added 7-26-1990; amended 8-12-1999]
Within this zone district, any and all businesses,
together with the appurtenant uses thereof, including warehousing
and storage, shall be conducted entirely within a permanent, enclosed
roofed structure which shall comply with the Building Code of the Borough of Allendale, except licensed outdoor cafes.
No warehousing or storage is permitted except insofar as it is ancillary
and incidental to the primary and intended uses conducted lawfully
on the premises.