Motor vehicle washing, conveyor- or non-conveyor-type, may be permitted in the GB General Business District subject to the following special land use approval requirements.
(A) All cleaning operations shall be completely enclosed within a building, excepting points of ingress and egress.
(B) A hard-surfaced driveway of one or more lanes shall be constructed on the parcel in a manner so as to provide for a continuous movement of cars into the wash rack.
(C) The driveway so provided shall be not less than ten feet wide for a single lane and not less than ten additional feet in width for each additional lane.
(D) Where only a single lane is provided, it shall be used for no other purpose than to provide access to the wash rack. All lanes provided shall be suitably protected from interference by other traffic.
(E) The total length of the required lane or lanes so provided for a conveyor-type wash rack shall be determined by the overall length of the building, including areas having sidewalls but no roof. In any building where the washing operation moves in other than a straight line, the length of the building, for the purposes of this section, shall be the distance measured along the centerline of the conveyor or wash line from the point of entry to the point of exit from the building. The overall length of the required lane or lanes, as measured along the centerline, shall be determined in accordance with the following formula:
Where the building is 80 feet or less in overall length, the total required lanes shall be not less than 400 feet in length. Where the building exceeds 80 feet in length, the length of the required lane or lanes shall be increased 50 feet for each ten feet of or fraction thereof by which the building exceeds 80 feet in overall length.
(F) For a non-conveyor-type auto wash, five waiting spaces, each 20 feet in length, shall be provided for each washing stall on the entrance side of the stall and two spaces per stall shall be provided on the exit side for a drying area.
(G) The site shall be designed in a manner so that no operations are conducted off the parcel.
(H) A building setback of at least 60 feet must be maintained from the proposed or existing street right-of-way.
(I) Ingress and egress points shall be located at least 60 feet from the intersection formed by the existing or proposed right-of-way lines, whichever is greater, and shall be directly from a major thoroughfare.
(J) The site shall be drained so as to dispose of all surface water in a way so as to preclude drainage of water onto adjacent property.
(K) Gasoline sales shall be permitted on the property provided there is compliance with division (D) above, and § 154.122(A) through (H).
(Ord. passed 6-28-2006)