(A) General description. This commercial district is established as a district in which the principal use of land is for establishments offering accommodations, supplies or services to motorists, and for certain specialized uses as retail outlets, commercial amusement and service establishments which serve the entire community but do not and should not necessarily be located in the Central Business District or the Convenience Commercial District.
(B) Uses permitted. Within the C-A/R District, the following uses are permitted: any use permitted in the C-C District; and other uses, including:
(1) General uses.
(a) Ambulance service offices or garages;
(b) Amusement enterprises;
(c) Automobile service stations;
(d) Billboards as permitted in division (D) below;
(e) Boat sales and service;
(f) Bowling alleys;
(g) Bus terminals;
(h) Dance halls;
(i) Drive-in theaters or restaurants;
(j) Electric transmission stations;
(k) Food and fuel stores;
(l) Funeral parlors;
(m) Garden stores;
(n) Golf course, miniature or practice range;
(o) Heating and plumbing sales and service;
(p) Hospital for small animals;
(q) Ice plants;
(r) Kennels;
(s) Key shops;
(t) Laundries;
(u) Motels;
(v) Music, radio and television shop and repair;
(w) New and used automobile sales and services, new and used machinery sales and services and public garages;
(x) Nightclubs;
(y) Novelty shops;
(z) Pawnshops;
(aa) Pet shops;
(bb) Printing plants;
(cc) Public uses;
(dd) Recreation center, private;
(ee) Roller skating rinks;
(ff) Sign painting shops;
(gg) Taverns;
(hh) Travel trailer park and sales; and
(ii) Wholesale distribution center.
(2) Other businesses. Any other store or shop for retail trade or for providing personal, professional or business service other than those provided for in the C-G General Commercial District.
(3) Buildings and accessory uses. Buildings, structures and accessory uses, customarily incidental to any of the uses listed in this section; provided, that there shall be no manufacturing of products other than such as are customarily incidental to retail establishments.
(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 feet | 30% | 35 feet | 50 feet | 2 feet for every 1 foot of height of the building | 20 feet |
(2) Off-street parking. Adequate off-street parking shall be provided for the average customer/employee number.
(D) Business signs. Business signs, poster boards, bulletin boards or other similar displays in the C-A/R District shall conform to the following requirements.
(1) Sign specifications and location. In the C-A/R District, business signs not exceeding in the aggregate one square foot of display surface area per one linear foot of the street frontage 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 50 feet in surface area nor 15 feet in height.
(3) Placement on private property; projections. All signs in the C-A/R 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-5) Penalty, see § 152.99