(A) Purpose. This district is intended to provide certain land and structures for automotive service type use and automotive associated uses such as drive-ins. The district is intended to be located only along major thoroughfares where adequately sized and properly located parcels of land will allow for adequate setbacks, clear vision and safe ingress and egress. Frontage roads should be provided where possible.
(F) Lot size requirements. With the exception of planned developments, a separate ground area, herein called the zoning lot, shall be designated, provided and continuously maintained for each structure containing a .permitted use or a special use.
(1) Minimum lot area: 40,000 square feet.
(2) Minimum lot width: 125 feet.
(G) Yard requirements.
(1) Minimum front yard: all structures shall maintain a setback of not less than 50 feet from the front line. The first 30 feet of all front yards shall be devoted to landscape materials such as sod, trees and a means of ingress and egress, signs, and obstructions as permitted by other provisions of this chapter.
(2) Minimum corner side yard: 50 feet.
(3) Minimum interior side yard: 30 feet, with one side at least 12 feet.
(4) Minimum rear yard: 40 feet.
(5) Transition yards: where a side or rear lot line in this district coincides with a side or rear lot line in an adjacent residential district, the respective yard requirements of the residential district shall apply to the side or rear yard requirements of this district.
(H) Bulk regulations.
(1) Maximum structure height: 35 feet or three stories, whichever is less.
(2) Floor ratio: 0.8.
(I) Special provisions.
(1) All outdoor sales space shall be provided with a permanent durable and dustless surface and shall be graded and drained as to dispose of all surface water.
(2) All outdoor storage facilities for accessory uses and products shall be enclosed by a fence, wall or plant materials adequate to conceal the facilities from adjacent properties and the public right-of-way.
(3) No materials or wastes shall be deposited upon a lot in a form that they may be transferred off the property by natural causes or forces.
(4) No parking or roads shall be permitted in the first 30 feet of the front yard.
(5) No parking or roads shall be permitted in the minimum rear yard or side yard.
(1981 Code, Art. VIII, E) (Ord. passed 12- -1986; Am. Ord. 98-10, passed 5-4-1998; Am. Ord. 13-10, passed 4-1-2013)