(A) General description. This commercial district is intended for buildings of retail shops and stores and personal services that provide for the regular needs and are for the convenience of the people residing in the adjacent residential neighborhoods. It is intended that these establishments be developed with adequate off-street parking space for customers and employees and with appropriate landscaping and screening.
(B) Uses permitted. Within the C-C District, the following uses are permitted:
(1) General uses.
(a) Artists supplies and hobby shop;
(b) Bakery shop;
(c) Barbershop and beauty shop;
(d) Bookstore;
(e) Clothing or wearing apparel shops;
(f) Florist shop;
(g) Gift shop;
(h) Jewelry shop;
(i) Laundry and dry cleaning pick up stations;
(j) Medical facility;
(k) Office, professional or general;
(l) Restaurants (not drive-in);
(m) Self-service laundries; and/or
(n) Shoe repair shop.
(2) Uses permitted in R-G District. Any of the uses permitted in the R-G General Residential District subject to additional requirements as provided.
(3) Accessory buildings and uses. Accessory buildings and uses customarily incidental to the uses listed in divisions (B)(1) and (B)(2) above; provided, that there shall be no manufacturing of products other than such as are customarily incidental to retail establishments.
(4) Other commercial uses. Any other commercial use deemed by the Board of Adjustment to be of a similar nature to those listed in this section.
(C) Area and height regulations; parking.
(1) Table of requirements.
Minimum Lot Area | Minimum Lot Frontage | Maximum Percent Coverage | Maximum Height | Minimum Front Yard Setback | Minimum Side Yard Setback | Minimum Rear Yard Setback |
10,000 square feet | 100 square feet | 40% | 35 feet | 50 feet | 2 feet for every 1 foot of building height, adjacent to residential district | 10 feet |
(2) Off-street parking. Adequate off-street parking shall be provided for the average customer/employee loading.
(D) Business signs. Business signs, poster boards, bulletin boards or other similar displays in the C-C District shall conform to the following requirements:
(1) Sign specifications and location. In the C-C District, one business sign not exceeding 32 square feet in surface area and identifying the business or activity conducted on their premises may be erected on each street frontage of the parcel. Ground signs shall not exceed the height of the building in which the principal use is located or 20 feet, whichever is lower. No business sign shall be located within 50 feet of a residential district if visible from such district. Illumination, if any, shall be by constant light.
(2) Real estate signs. A real estate sign advertising the sale, rental or lease of the premises may be erected on each street frontage of the site. The sign shall not exceed 16 feet in surface area nor 15 feet in height.
(3) Placement on private property; projections. All signs in the C-C District shall be erected upon private property and shall not encroach upon any public street or walk, except as provided by the applicable codes of the town, and they shall not overhang at a height less than nine feet and shall not have a maximum projection greater than 72 inches.
(Prior Code, § 10-2E-4) Penalty, see § 152.99