(A) Intent. The Class “C-1” District is intended to provide for travel-related businesses and services in rural areas of the county along major highways where controlled access to the highway is afforded for the convenience and safety of the highway user by the provisions of frontage roads, interchanges and channelized intersections.
(B) Principal uses. The following principal uses shall be permitted in the Class “C-1” District:
(1) Automobile and other vehicle washing establishments, including the use of mechanical conveyors, blowers and steam cleaning, and including self-service facilities;
(2) Convenience stores, including package foods and picnic supplies, souvenirs, novelties, toiletries, and similar merchandise;
(3) Automotive display, sales, service and repair;
(4) Governmental structures and uses including fire stations, libraries, police stations, post offices, substations and roadside rest areas; but excluding sanitary landfills or uses similar in their scope or effects;
(5) Motels, hotels, tourist camps and motor hotels, but only when serviced with public or common water and sewer facilities;
(6) Restaurants, cafés and drive-in eating and dining places;
(7) Service stations, including dispensing of diesel fuels and complete truck service;
(8) Transformer stations, booster stations and utility stations; provided, there is no yard or garage for service or storage, or any building for general administrative or sales offices;
(9) Transportation passenger terminals, including bus stations, railroad passenger stations or other passenger terminals; provided that, buses or other transit vehicles shall not be stored on the site and no repair work or servicing of vehicles shall be conducted on the site;
(10) Dry cleaners or laundry;
(11) Monument and marker display and sales;
(12) Greenhouse and plant nursery;
(13) Dance hall and skating rink;
(14) Bowling alley;
(15) Drive-in bank;
(16) Dwelling unit above a store or shop;
(17) Funeral parlor;
(18) Farm implement display, sales, service and repair;
(19) Railroads and public utilities, but not including storage or maintenance yards or buildings; and
(20) Boats, motors, travel trailers and mobile home display, sales, services and repair.
(1) Body and fender repair shops, including overall painting and upholstering, but not including, motor vehicle wrecking or used parts yards or outside storage of component parts;
(2) Cocktail lounges; provided, they are operated as incidental and subordinate activities in motels and restaurants;
(3) Grading and excavating when development exceeds 5,000 square feet on a site containing 14 to 30% slopes and/or when development exceeds 1,000 square feet on a site containing 30 to 50% slopes, when not associated with a major or minor subdivision plat, subject to the provisions of § 154.066 of this chapter;
(4) Transmitting stations and towers; and
(5) Sexually-oriented businesses, subject to the terms of County Ord. 8.101.
(D) Accessory uses. The following accessory uses shall be permitted in a Class “C-1” District:
(1) Accessory uses and structures normally incidental and subordinate to one of the permitted principal or conditional uses, unless otherwise excluded;
(3) Private parking facilities including garages, carports and other parking spaces;
(4) Storage of material or merchandise incidental to a permitted use, but not to exceed 40% of the floor area used for such use;
(5) Temporary roadside stands and Christmas tree lots, when approved by the Zoning Administrator for a specified time period, after which they all shall be disassembled and removed at the end of the authorized period each year; and
(6) Storage warehouses in conjunction with the permitted principal uses or structures of this district.
(F) Height requirements. The maximum height of buildings and structures in a Class “C-1” District shall be 50 feet or four stories, whichever is lower.
(G) Setback requirements. The setback requirements for buildings and structures in a Class “C-1” District shall be as follows.
(1) The front yard setback shall be a minimum of 15 feet.
(2) The side yard setback shall be a minimum of ten feet when such yard abuts a Class “A” District or Class “R” District or platted residential subdivision.
(3) The rear yard setback shall be a minimum of 20 feet when such yard abuts a Class “A” District or Class “R” District or platted residential subdivision.
(4) The minimum setback between buildings situated on the same site shall be ten feet.
(5) Where apartment units are above a store or shop, a rear yard of 20 feet shall be provided.
(H) Lot size and coverage requirements. The minimum lot size and maximum lot coverage for uses in a Class “C-1” District shall be as follows, except as provided in § 154.047 of this chapter for lots not having common water and/or sewer facilities:
Use | Minimum Lot Area | Maximum Lot Coverage |
Any permitted use | 1 acre | 50% |
(Ord. passed - -2010)