(A) Purpose. The purpose of this district is to service the automobile and its passengers and to provide for commercial activities in harmony with highway development. This district also is intended to provide convenience services and goods to relatively small residential areas, and to accommodate commercial development outside of the central commercial district. For these reasons, open space, off-street parking and building setbacks are prerequisite to new construction in this district.
(B) Permitted uses. Within the C-2 district, a building or premise shall be used only for the following purposes:
(1) Any use, together with the conditions attached thereto, permitted in the A-3 district;
(2) Any retail, wholesale or storage business involving the sale of merchandise, except the following, which are expressly prohibited:
(a) Junk and salvage yards; or
(b) Adult arcades, theaters, food and video stores within 500 feet of a residential, religious, recreational or educational facility.
(3) Business involving the rendering or personal and general services, including but not limited to barber and beauty shops, dressmaker, jewelry and watch repair, photographers, studios, funeral homes, laundry and dry cleaning, plumbing and upholstery;
(4) Private or semi-private club, lodge, union hall or social center;
(5) Off-street commercial parking lot or garage;
(6) Hotels, tourist homes and motels;
(7) Frozen food lockers;
(8) Commercial recreation facilities, including, but not limited to billiard parlors, theaters, including drive-ins, bowling alleys and golf courses, including driving range, miniature or Par Three operation;
(9) Newspaper plants and printing shops;
(10) Child day-care services;
(11) Eating and/or drinking establishments including drive-ins;
(12) Public utilities, parks and facilities;
(13) Horticultural operations, including greenhouses and commercial nurseries, but not the keeping of poultry or livestock;
(14) Social, cultural, philanthropic, educational, financial, medical, business and governmental institutions and offices;
(15) Radio and television stations;
(16) Bus and transportation terminals;
(17) Veterinarians, animal hospitals or kennels;
(18) Bottling works and beverage distribution;
(19) Fabricating and assembling establishments provided the entire operation is enclosed within a building;
(20) Mechanical and repair services;
(21) Tire recapping services;
(22) Cemeteries;
(23) Recycling facilities;
(24) Accessary uses and structures customarily incidental to permitted;
(C) Dimensional requirements. Regulations governing the location and height of structures, and the area on which they may bet placed are as follows:
(1) Lot area requirements.
(a) The minimum for single-family dwellings shall be 5,000 square feet.
(b) The minimum for two-family dwellings shall be 7,500 square feet.
(c) The minimum for three- or more dwellings shall be 7,500 square feet, plus 3,000 square feet for each unit over two.
(d) There shall be no minimum for other permitted uses.
(2) Yards.
(a) The minimum depth of a front yard shall be 40 feet.
(b) The minimum depth of a rear yard shall be ten feet.
(c) The minimum width of side yards shall be 7.5 feet total. It may be observed, however, on either side or divided.
(3) Height requirements.
(a) The maximum height of structures shall be 45 feet.
(b) The maximum height of church steeples and spires shall be 75 feet.
(Ord. 94-06-01, passed 6-14-94)