§ 154.093 HC HIGHWAY COMMERCIAL ZONE.

   (A)   Uses permitted. The following retail sales and service businesses shall be permitted:

      (1)   Automobile, motorcycle, and truck sales, new or used.

      (2)   Automotive service and repairs providing that all business activities shall be conducted within a completely enclosed building .

      (3)   Banks and other financial institutions including savings, loan, and finance companies, with drive-in windows.

      (4)   Barber shops.

      (5)   Beauty shops.

      (6)   Boat and other marine equipment sales and service, new and used.

      (7)   Bowling alley.

      (8)   Eating and drinking places including drive-ins .

      (9)   Flea market.

      (10)   Hotels and motels .

      (11)   Mobile home and trailer sales, rental and service (new and used).

      (12)   News and confectionery stands.

      (13)   Off-street parking lots and garages.

      (14)   Police and fire stations.

      (15)   Skating rinks, golf driving ranges, miniature and par-three golf courses.

      (16)   Veterinary clinics and animal hospitals .

      (17)   Theater, drive-in.

      (18)   Service station.

      (19)   Single- and two-family residential uses, provided that such uses occupy the second or third floor or attached to the rear of a commercial use. In the case of this use, more than one principal use may be constructed on one lot .

      (20)   Kennel .

      (21)   Floor covering warehouse and retail sales.

      (22)   Equipment sales and rental services.

   (B)   Accessory uses. The following accessory uses shall be permitted:

      (1)   Customary accessory buildings and uses.

      (2)   Fences and walls as regulated by §§ 154.165 through 154.172.

      (3)   Signs as regulated by §§ 154.185 through 154.192.

      (4)   Swimming pools, indoor and outdoor in connection with motel or hotel.

      (5)   Uses as listed below included within and entered from within, any building as a convenience to the occupants thereof, and their customers providing that the accessory uses shall not exceed 10% of the gross floor area of the permitted uses in the building and no exterior advertising displays for any accessory uses shall be visible from outside the building .

         (a)   Barber shop

         (b)   Beauty shop

         (c)   News and confectionery stand

   (C)   Area and height regulations. No building shall be erected or structurally altered hereafter, except in accordance with the following regulations:

      (1)   Minimum lot area , one acre.

      (2)   Minimum lot width , 100 feet.

      (3)   Minimum front yard depth , 50 feet.

      (4)   Minimum side yard width on each side of lot . Restrictions when adjacent to a street, road, highway, or other right-of-way when the required width shall be the same as required for a minimum front yard depth in this zone . When buildings abut each other, firewall construction, as required by the county's building code, shall be required. A side yard is never to be less than 15 feet.

      (5)   Minimum rear yard depth , 25 feet.

      (6)   Maximum building height , 40 feet.

   (D)   Other development controls.

      (1)   Off-street parking and loading or unloading shall be provided in accordance with §§ 154.120 through 154.151.

      (2)   No outdoor storage of any material (usable or waste) shall be permitted in this zone except within enclosed approved containers.

      (3)   No lighting shall be permitted which would glare from this zone onto any street, road, highway, deeded right-of-way or into any adjacent property.

      (4)   Where any yard of any use permitted in this zone abuts a residential zone , a minimum yard requirement of 50 feet for each side and/or rear yard which abuts said zone shall be provided, ten feet of which shall be maintained by a screening area as regulated by § 154.052.

      (5)   A site plan as regulated by § 154.054 shall be required for any use in this zone .

      (6)   No use producing objectionable odors, noise, or dust shall be permitted within 500 feet from the boundary of any residential zone .

      (7)   Off-street parking and loading and/or unloading areas may be located in front and side yard areas in this zone provided that no off-street parking areas shall be closer than 15 feet to the street, road, highway or right-of-way line or the boundary line of any adjacent district . This 15 foot area shall remain open and unobstructed except by items specifically permitted in yard areas in this chapter.

(Ord. 0-11-82, passed 11-3-82; Am. Ord. 0-4-84, passed 3-3-84; Am. Ord. 0-20-88, passed 9-21-88; Am. Ord. 0-3-97, passed 3-12-97; Am. Ord. O-01-13, passed 2-6-13) Penalty, see § 154.999