(A) Agricultural Uses
Activities that primarily involve raising, producing, or keeping plants or animals, or cultivation and management of other natural resources. Accessory uses may include dwellings for proprietors and employees, barns, storage of grain, animal raising, feed preparation, and wholesale sales of products produced on-site. Specific use types include:
(1) Agri-Tourism
An area of land used for the purpose of education and participation in an agricultural related business operation.
(2) Farming, General
An area of land used for the commercial production of agricultural products such as crops, dairy products, livestock, poultry, and beekeeping products.
(3) Forestry
The science, business, and art of creating, conserving, and managing forests or forestlands for the continuing uses of commodity and noncommodity benefits.
(4) Produce Stand
A structure and/or area devoted to the small scale retail and/or wholesale sales of agricultural goods or products which have been grown on the same site or property as the stand.
(B) Animal Service
Uses that involve the selling, boarding, or care of animals on a commercial basis. Accessory uses may include confinement facilities for animals, parking, and storage areas. Specific use types include:
(1) Kennel
An establishment where domesticated animals are kept, sold, boarded, or bred, typically with fenced or enclosed spaces, areas, or runs for individual animals. Kennels may be indoor only, or indoor/outdoor, depending on the zoning district in which they are located; see Table 5.1-1. Ancillary services may include pet grooming.
(2) Veterinary Hospital/Office
An establishment for the care and treatment of animals that are admitted for daytime and/or overnight stay in order to obtain veterinary treatment for illnesses, diseases, or injuries. Such facilities may be indoor only, or may have both indoor and outdoor facilities, depending on the zoning district in which they are located; see Table 5.1-1.
(C) Assembly
Buildings, facilities owned or operated by associations, corporations, or other persons for social, educational, or recreational purposes primarily for members and their guests as well as out-patient rehabilitation and counseling services. Accessory uses may include offices, meeting areas, food preparation areas, concessions, parking, and maintenance facilities. Specific use types include, but are not limited to:
(1) Club, Lodge, or Hall
An organization and its premises catering exclusively to members and guests for social, intellectual, recreational, or athletic purposes not intended for profit.
(2) Special Event Center
A facility or building used by individuals or groups for the purpose of hosting private assemblies and/or functions such as parties, weddings, banquets, business conferences and other similar types of events. Such facilities may include an on-site kitchen and/or food preparation areas. Food and beverages may be served to event guests, but are not served to the general public. This use does not include facilities that are part of a club, lodge or hall use as defined in this Ordinance.
(D) Financial Institution
Establishments that provide retail banking services, mortgage lending, and similar financial services to individuals and businesses. This classification includes those institutions engaged in the on-site circulation of cash money and check-cashing facilities. Accessory uses may include automatic teller machines, offices, and parking. Financial institutions may or may not have drive-through service depending on the zoning district in which they are located; see Table 5.1-1.
(1) Bank, with Drive-Through Service
A financial institution with a drive-though window that is open to the public and engaged in deposit banking, and that performs closely related functions, such as making loans, investments, and fiduciary activities.
(2) Bank, without Drive-Through Service
A financial institution without a drive-though window that is open to the public and engaged in deposit banking, and that performs closely related functions, such as making loans, investments, and fiduciary activities.
(E) Reserved
(F) Food and Beverage Service
Businesses serving prepared food or beverages for consumption on or off the premises. Accessory uses may include food preparation areas, offices, and parking.
(1) Nightclub/Bar
An establishment where alcoholic beverages are sold at retail for consumption on the premises and where minors are usually excluded and where dancing and musical entertainment may also be provided. This shall include taverns, lounges, eating establishments and private clubs where gross receipts from alcoholic beverages exceed gross receipts from food, but shall not include restaurants as defined by G.S. 18B-1000(6). Nightclubs/bars may be indoor only, or may also have outdoor operations, depending on the zoning district in which the use is located; see Table 5.1-1.
(2) Restaurant
A commercial establishment whose principal purpose is the preparation and sale of food and beverages in a state that is ready to eat, either on the premises or off the premises. Restaurants may be indoor only, or may also have outdoor operations, depending on the zoning district in which the use is located; see Table 5.1-1.
(G) Office
Office uses are characterized by activities generally focusing on business, professional, health care, insurance, or financial services. Accessory uses may include cafeterias, health facilities, parking, or other amenities primarily for the use of employees in the firm or building. Specific use types include:
(1) Office, Business, or Professional
A use or building where business is conducted that does not primarily involve the sale or transfer of goods by the business to the customer at that location. This includes, but is not limited to, general business offices, health care offices, insurance offices, law offices, and real estate sales and management offices. (Government offices are classified under "Government Services," above.)
(2) Radio or TV Broadcasting Studio
A programming origination studio of a television station, radio station, or cable television provider.
(3) Wellness Center
An establishment containing customized health services that may include fitness, personal training and nutrition consulting, incorporating an individualized program with specific goals. Clients are generally under the supervision of licensed staff which may include health care providers, nutritionists, personal trainers, and practitioners of medical and other specialties such as chiropractic, acupuncture and biofeedback. Clients may be enrolled in an individualized nutritional and fitness program and may exercise independently or in small group settings. Amenities often include limited weights and cardio machines.
(H) Parking
(1) Parking Lot
An off-street, surfaced, ground level area where motor vehicles are stored for temporary, daily, or overnight parking.
(2) Parking Structure
A structure or facility designed with one (1) or more levels or floors partially or fully enclosed and used exclusively for the parking or storage of motor vehicles. The facility may be above, below, or partially below ground. Includes parking garages and parking decks.
(I) Public Accommodation
For-profit facilities where lodging, meals, and the like are provided to transient visitors and guests for a defined period. Specific use types include:
(1) Hotel or Motel
A building or a group of buildings primarily containing guest rooms for sleeping purposes, but also including accessory dining areas, meeting rooms, and recreational facilities.
(2) Hotel or Motel, Extended Stay
A hotel or motel typically rented or hired out for periods of one (1) week or more that also provides kitchen facilities with refrigerators, stoves, and ovens for food preparation in individual rooms.
(J) Recreation/Entertainment, Indoor
Uses that provide primarily indoor recreation or entertainment activities but may include associated outdoor activities. Accessory uses may include concessions, snack bars, parking, and maintenance facilities. Specific use types include, but are not limited to:
(1) Amusement Establishment
An establishment offering sports, game playing, or similar amusements to the public within a fully enclosed building. This shall include bowling alleys, billiard parlors, and skating rinks. This shall not include neighborhood recreation centers or such amusements that are accessory to churches, schools, or colleges.
(2) Neighborhood Recreation Center (Indoor/Outdoor)
A building, structure, or facility available for recreational clubs and activities. Such uses commonly include clubhouses, restaurants, tennis courts and swimming pools, restaurants for members and guests only, and gymnasiums. Such uses may be either public or private, but typically are intended only for the residents and guests of a particular residential development or neighborhood.
(3) Commercial Recreational Facilities (Indoor/Outdoor)
A recreational facility operated as a business, and which is open to members of the general public for a fee and provides instructional classes and/or equipment and practice area for sports-related or physical fitness activities. Such uses generally include, but are not limited to: gyms, health clubs, courts, pools, and group instruction classes such as dance, yoga, and martial arts.
(4) Pool or Billiard Hall
A business establishment with more than two (2) pool or billiard tables for the use of patrons, and whose primary use is for billiards, not a nightclub/bar.
(5) Theater
An indoor or outdoor structure or establishment used for showing motion pictures or for dramatic, operatic, dance, musical, or other live performances. May include food and beverage sales and similar concessions. Theaters may be small (up to two hundred (200) seats) or large (two hundred one (201) seats or more).
(K) Recreation/Entertainment, Outdoor
Uses that provide primarily outdoor recreation or entertainment activities but may include associated indoor activities. Accessory uses may include concessions, snack bars, parking, and maintenance facilities. Specific use types include, but are not limited to:
(1) Athletic Field, Private
Privately owned land, often requiring equipment, designed for outdoor games and sports such as baseball, football, and soccer.
(2) Commercial Outdoor Recreation Facility
Includes intensely developed, for-profit recreational uses such as amusement parks, miniature golf courses, batting cages, skateboard or skate courses, bicycle motocross courses, go-cart tracks, water slides, drive-in movie theaters, and courses for paramilitary games.
(3) Golf Course, Privately-Owned
A tract of land laid out with a course having nine (9) or more holes for playing the game of golf, including any accessory clubhouse, driving range, office, restaurant, concession stand, picnic tables, pro shop, maintenance building, restroom facility, or similar accessory use or structure. This term shall not include miniature golf courses as a principal or accessory use, nor shall it include driving ranges that are not accessory to a golf course.
(4) Golf Driving Range
A sports facility equipped with tee areas, distance markers, and related features for practicing golf, and which may include a pro shop, snack bar, but excludes miniature golf courses.
(5) Motor Vehicle Raceway
A for-profit facility designed or operated for racing trucks, tractors, automobiles, motorcycles or any other motorized vehicle.
(6) Outdoor Amphitheater, Commercial
An outdoor, for-profit facility or structure with tiers of spectator seats around a stage, court, or field not constructed or operated in conjunction with a bar, nightclub, lounge, restaurant, school, college, university, or the Town.
(L) Retail Sales and Service
Retail sales firms are involved in the sale, lease or rent of new or used products, or the provision of certain services, to the general public. No outdoor display is permitted unless specifically authorized by this Ordinance. Accessory uses may include offices, parking, storage of goods, and assembly, repackaging or repair of goods for on-site sale. Specific use types include, but are not limited to:
(1) ABC Store
A store, licensed by the North Carolina Alcoholic Beverage Control Commission, for the retail sale of alcoholic beverages.
(2) Convenience Store
A retail establishment with a
floor area
of less than five thousand (5,000) square feet, which sells a limited line of groceries and household items, gasoline, and/or beer and wine generally intended for the convenience of the neighborhood, but not including an automobile service station.
(3) Farm Market
An area that is used by one (1) or more operators of bona fide farms for the direct sale to consumers of agricultural products that are not grown or raised on the same premises as the market.
(4) Funeral Home
A building, or portion thereof, used for funeral services in preparation of the dead for burial. Such uses may include a chapel or gathering area, facilities needed for cremation, storage of required materials, vehicles, or supplies, but not for the interment of remains.
(5) Crematorium
An establishment for the burning of human or animal remains.
(6) Postal Center, Private
A business not operated by the US Postal Service that provides facilities for mailing packages and letters, receiving packages and letters in post office boxes, and similar activities.
(7) Personal Service Establishment
A business that provides individual services related to personal needs directly to customers at the site of the business, or that receives goods from or returns goods to the customer which have been treated or processed at that location or another location. This includes businesses such as travel agencies, dry-cleaners, laundries, tailors, hair and nail salons, massage business and spa services, cosmeticians, toning or tanning salons, photocopy centers, shoe repair shops, appliance repair shops, interior design studios, tutoring services, one-on-one fitness instruction and pet grooming establishments. This shall not include automobile service stations, wellness centers, or Commercial Indoor/Outdoor Recreation uses.
(8) Retail Store
A commercial enterprise that provides goods, products, or materials directly to the consumer. This includes clothing stores, appliance stores, bakeries, food stores, grocers, caterers, pharmacies, bookstores, florists, furniture stores, hardware stores, pet stores, toy stores, and variety stores. It does not include restaurants, personal service establishments, convenience stores, or amusement establishments.
(9) Adult Business
Any business or enterprise that has as one (1) of its principal business purposes or as a significant portion of its business an emphasis on matter and conduct depicting, describing, or related to anatomical areas and sexual activities specified in G.S. 14-202.10. The term "Adult Business" does not include "Massage Business" as defined in LDO Section 12.4.
(10) Shopping Center, General
A building or group of buildings, with common parking, pedestrian circulation, ingress and egress, either freestanding or connected and under unified or multiple ownership of land parcels, which contains two (2) or more commercial or retail uses, one (1) or more of which is a primary or anchor retail tenant occupying a minimum of twenty-five thousand (25,000) square feet of floor area. No more than forty percent (40%) of the cumulative building square footage (existing and/or proposed) of the center shall be allocated for uses other than retail sales and services (12.3.4(L)) and/or Food and Beverage Services (12.3.4(F)).
(11) Shopping Center, Small
A building or group of buildings, with common parking, pedestrian circulation, ingress and egress, which are typically one (1) story tall and one (1) store deep, either freestanding or connected and under unified or multiple ownership of land parcels, which contains two (2) or more commercial or retail uses, with no individual use occupying more than twenty-five thousand (25,000) square feet of floor area. No more than forty percent (40%) of the cumulative building square footage (existing and/or proposed) of the center shall be allocated for uses other than retail sales and services (12.3.4(L)) and/or Food and Beverage Services (12.3.4(F)).
(12) Trade School
A school, other than a college, which provides specialized training and education beyond the high school level, principally in the business, commercial, or vocational arts, and does not provide lodging or dwelling units for students or faculty, and has programs which typically result in the awarding of a certificate.
(13) Moped Sales/Rental
A business establishment offering the sale and/or rental of mopeds as defined by G.S. 105-164.3.
(M) Vehicles and Equipment
Vehicle and Equipment facilities include a broad range of uses for the sale, rental, and/or maintenance of motor vehicles and related equipment. Large parking areas and outdoor storage areas may be included with these uses. Accessory uses may include incidental repair and storage, offices, and sales of parts and/or tires. Specific use types include:
(1) Motor Vehicle Sales/Rental
The storage, display, sale, lease or rental of motor vehicles as defined by G.S. 20-4.01, including automobiles, vans, and light trucks. Such businesses may also include sales and/or rental of mopeds. This shall not include salvage operation or scrap operations.
(2) Car Wash
A commercial establishment that washes, cleans, and/or waxes automobiles or other motor vehicles, whether or not in conjunction with other goods or services provided to customers.
(3) Heavy Equipment Sales/Rental
The storage, display, sale, lease or rental of vehicles or other apparatus commonly used in commercial, industrial, or construction enterprises, including trucks, trailers, bulldozers, cranes, backhoes, rollers, lifts, and loaders. This shall not include salvage operations or scrap operations.
(4) Towing/Storage Facility
A commercial establishment engaged in towing of vehicles or equipment from one (1) location to another. Such facilities may also include an indoor or outdoor storage component for such vehicles or equipment, but may not include junked, salvage or permanently inoperable vehicles or equipment.
(5) Vehicle Filling Station
A facility limited to retail sales of vehicle fuels, oils, and accessories where repair service, if any, is incidental to the activities on the site.
(6) Vehicle Repair, Heavy
The use of a site for the repair and maintenance of trucks, trailers, commercial and/or construction vehicles.
(7) Vehicle Service, Light
Any building, structure, or lot used for one or more of the following: (1) dispensing, selling, or offering for retail sale items such as gasoline, kerosene, lubricating oil, or grease for the operation and maintenance of automobiles, including the sale and installation of tires, batteries and other minor accessories and services for automobiles; or (2) the business of repairing automobiles. This shall not include car washes, the retreading and/or recapping of tires, or convenience stores which sell gasoline or lubricating oil, but not other automotive accessories or services.
(8) Private Transportation Service
A business that provides transportation services to move people from one (1) location to another location using passenger vehicles such as sedans, special utility vehicles, limousines, vans or buses. The business may include both an office component and a parking component, with the opportunity for the parking component to occur independently of the office component if certain conditions are met. This use does not include taxis or medical transportation vehicles.
(N) Electronic Gaming Operation
Any business or enterprise where persons utilize electronic machines, including but not limited to computers and gaming terminals, to conduct games of chance or sweepstakes, and where cash, merchandise or anything else of value is redeemed or otherwise distributed or placed on an account or other record, whether or not the value of such distribution is determined by electronic games played or by predetermined odds. Electronic gaming operations may include, but are not limited to, internet cafes, internet sweepstakes, electronic gaming machines/operations, cybercafés, business centers, or by whatever other terminology such establishment might be known. Electronic gaming operation does not include any lottery approved by the State of North Carolina.