In order to provide for modern retail shopping facilities of integrated designs in appropriate locations to serve residential neighborhoods, the C-4 Planned Commercial District is hereby established. The district shall be laid out and developed as a unit.
(A) Use regulations. Buildings or premises shall be used only for the following purposes:
(1) Uses allowed in C-2 General Commercial District; and
(2) (a) Planned developments. The owner or owners of any tract of land comprising an area of not less than five acres may submit to the City Council a plan for the use and development of all or part of the tract for the purposes of and meeting the requirements set forth in this section. The plan shall be referred to the Plan Commission for study, report and public hearing. If no report is transmitted by the Plan Commission within 60 days of notification, the City Council may take action without further awaiting the report. If the Commission approves the plans, they shall then be submitted to the City Council for its consideration and action. The Commission’s approval and recommendations shall be accompanied by a report stating the reasons for approval and that the application meets the requirements of the Planned Commercial District, as set forth in this section. In order that the purpose of this district may be realized, the land and buildings and appurtenant facilities shall be in single ownership or under the management or supervision of a central authority or otherwise subject to the supervisory lease or ownership control as may be necessary to carry out the provisions of this section. In the event the shopping center is not constructed, it shall revert to the same zoning classification which existed prior to the change to the C-4 Planned Commercial District, or a zoning classification the City Council deems appropriate, and the district regulations in force prior to the establishment of the commercial district shall thereupon be in full force and effect except when the zoning is changed. Within the C-4 Planned Commercial District, a building or premises may be used only for the retail sale of merchandise, services, recreation (except outdoor theatres and similar uses), parking areas and other facilities ordinarily accepted as shopping center uses approved by the Plan Commission and City Council.
(b) The shopping center shall be designated as a whole, unified single project in compliance with the following requirements and, if built in stages, each stage shall conform with the approved plan.
(B) Site plan requirements. In addition to the requirements of division (A) above, owner or developer must submit a site plan in accordance with § 159.052(D)(1).
(D) Parking and loading requirements. Off-street parking and loading spaces shall be provided in accordance with the requirements for specific uses set forth in § 159.065.
(F) New construction/additions. All new construction/additions shall meet the requirements of § 159.046(O).
(1999 Code, § 165.15) (Ord. 2247, passed 10-9-2001; Ord. 2256, passed 6-25-2002) Penalty, see § 159.999