12-291: USES PERMITTED:
   A.   Property and buildings in the C-2 general commercial district shall be used only for the following purposes:
Any use permitted in a C-1 neighborhood commercial district.
Automobile service station.
Bakery.
Bank.
Bar.
Bowling alley.
Building materials sales yard and lumberyard, including the sale of rock, sand, gravel and the like as an incidental part of the main business, but not including a concrete batch plant or transit mix plant.
Car wash.
Carpenter and cabinet shop.
Cleaning and dyeing works.
Club.
Commercial school or hall.
Copy shop.
Dance hall.
Department store.
Electric transmission station.
Feed and fuel store.
Frozen food locker.
Funeral parlor or mortuary.
Furniture repair and upholstery.
Garden supply store or nursery.
Gasoline and oil retail distributing plant.
Hospital and sanatorium.
Hospital for small animals.
Ice storage locker plant or storage house for food, not more than ten (10) tons' capacity.
Interior decorating store.
Kennels.
Key shop.
Laboratories, research testing and experimental.
Laundry.
Liquor store.
Nightclub.
Novelty shop, retail.
On premises advertising signs and structures in accordance with section 12-601 et seq., of this part.
Pawnshop.
Pet shop.
Public garage.
Recreation center.
Sign painting shop.
Buildings, structures and uses accessory and customarily incidental to any of the above uses, provided that there shall be no manufacture, processing or compounding of products other than such as are customarily incidental and essential to retail establishments.
Any other store or shop for retail trade or for rendering personal, professional or business service which does not produce more noise, odor, dust, vibration, blast or traffic than those enumerated above. (1986 Code; amd. Ord. 2009-5, 7-15-2009; Ord. 2017-2, 2-9-2017)
   B.   Outside display and sales activities for uses permitted under subsection A of this section shall be allowed subject to the following guidelines:
      1.   Restaurants with outside serving areas shall be included.
      2.   No required parking spaces shall be used as a display or sales area.
      3.   Any article or material which is being stored or which is not actively being offered for sale shall be kept within the confines of a building or so screened by permanent opaque walls, fences, or planting that it cannot be seen from adjoining streets or lots when viewed by a person standing on ground level, provided, however, that no screening in excess of seven feet (7') in height shall be required. (Ord. 1997-20, 12-18-1997)
   C.   No residential use shall be allowed within this district other than the temporary use for a caretaker on night watch duty.
   D.   Churches shall not be permitted in C-2 zoning districts. (Ord. 1992-13, 6-18-1992)
   E.   Articles and materials stored and offered for sale in connection with uses permitted in this district may be stored or displayed outside the confines of the building only under the following conditions: Upon written application the city manager may grant a permit for a sales promotion or special event during which retail open display may be used within such restrictions as the city manager may set. (Ord. 1992-12, 6-18-1992)