Development standards applicable to particular service uses identified in Table 155-8, Table of Permitted Uses include:
(A) Cemetery, columbarium or mausoleum (principal use not an accessory use to a church or other place of worship).
(1) All applicable requirements of the North Carolina General Statutes and the county concerning the interment of human dead shall be met.
(2) No interment shall take place within 20 feet of any property line or public road right-of-way.
(3) Buildings for the maintenance, management, rent and/or sale of cemetery lots shall conform to the requirements of the principal use for the district in which located.
(4) Adequate off-street lot area shall be provided for funeral processions.
(5) The use shall have direct access to a collector or higher capacity street.
(B) Funeral home, crematorium.
(1) Defined. A facility used for the preparation of the deceased for burial and the display of the deceased and ceremonies connected therewith before burial or cremation.
(2) Additional requirements.
(a) The use shall have a minimum area of one acre and a frontage of not less than 150 feet.
(b) All applicable requirements of the North Carolina General Statutes and the county concerning the interment of human dead shall be met.
(c) Principal access shall be from a collector or higher capacity road.
(d) Adequate off-street lot area shall be provided for funeral processions.
(e) Crematoriums shall not create noxious fumes, dust, smoke and noise and shall be compliant and registered with the State Board of Mortuary Science.
(C) Mini-storage (self-storage).
(1) Defined. The use of a wholly enclosed building for the storage of personal property in self-contained, self-storage units, each of which unit has separate and exclusive access from either the exterior or interior of the building.
(2) Additional requirements.
(a) Drive aisle width between all buildings or structures shall be a minimum of 24 feet in width and allow for movement and circulation of trucks or the transferring of goods and equipment in and around the structures.
(b) Site shall be designed for adequate fire suppression and easily accessible for emergency access and shall be designed for adequate turn around areas per State Fire Prevention Code.
(c) If applicable, where the mini storage facility has a locked gate, the stacking of vehicles through the gate facility shall meet requirements of the NCDOT - Policy on Street and Driveway Access to NC Highways.
(d) Portions of buildings visible from a public street right-of-way shall be sheathed in materials such as wood siding, stone, brick, tilt-up concrete panels and sandstone and tinted/textured concrete masonry units (CMUs) in a low reflective, subtle or neutral color.
(e) No outdoor storage of material, equipment, junked vehicles and similar items.
(D) Automobile repair services.
(1) No motor vehicle parked or stored on the premises shall be located closer than ten feet to the street line.
(2) No outdoor servicing, repair or disassembly is allowed.
(3) Temporary storage of wrecked or disabled motor vehicles is permitted as an accessory. The date of commencement of storage shall be prominently displayed by the repair shop operator on the windshield of the vehicles, and vehicles shall be stored no longer than 90 days. All motor vehicles shall be stored within a suitably screened enclosure at least six feet high. No more than six vehicles shall be stored on the premises at the time.
(4) The entire property shall be kept in a clean, neat and orderly condition.
(5) Junkyards, automobile graveyards, disassembly plants or the outside storage of secondhand material for resale are prohibited in any form.
(E) Hospital.
(1) Minimum development area: two acres
(2) Minimum lot area: 8,000 square feet for the first nine patient beds, rooms or suites plus 1,000 square feet for each additional patient bed, room or suite or the minimum lot area requirement for the zoning district, whichever is greater.
(3) Vehicular access: principal access shall be from a collector or higher capacity road.
(F) Nursing and convalescent home, rest home.
(1) Minimum development area: one acre.
(2) Minimum lot area: 8,000 square feet for the first nine patient beds, rooms or suites plus 1,000 square feet for each additional patient bed, room or suite or the minimum lot area requirement for the zoning district, whichever is greater.
(G) Contractor office with outside storage yard.
(1) Use separation: 50 feet minimum from any side or rear property line of any residentially-zoned or used lot.
(2) Security fencing: security fencing, a minimum of six feet in height, shall be provided around all outside storage areas.
(H) Day care center, adult and child, five or less clients (accessory to a principal residential use). Day care centers providing services to five or less clients are allowed as an accessory use in all residential districts provided the following requirements are met.
(1) Day care services may include a care facility established in a residential dwelling where, at any one time, five or less children, receive day care as defined in G.S. § 110-86. Day care services may also include providing adult day care for five or fewer adults on a regular basis for more than two hours per day.
(2) The lot shall have sufficient land area to accommodate minimum required parking and loading/unloading areas for the residential dwelling and the day care use.
(3) The use shall comply with all state statute and licensing requirements.
(4) The additional standards of § 155.0704(B) for home occupations shall also be met.
(I) Day care center, adult and child, six to 12 clients (principal use). Day care centers providing services to six to 12 clients are allowed as a principal use provided the following requirements are met: state licensing requirements: the use shall comply with all state statute and licensing requirements.
(J) Day care center, adult and child, 13 or more clients (principal use). Day care centers providing services to 13 or more clients are allowed as a principal use provided the requirements are met: state licensing requirements: the use shall comply with all state statute and licensing requirements.
(K) Tree service (with outdoor raw material/tree storage).
(1) Use separation: 50 feet from any side or rear property line of any residentially zoned or used lot.
(2) Security fencing: visibility blocking security fencing, a minimum of six feet in height, shall be provided around all outside raw material/tree storage areas.
(3) Lot size no smaller than 0.5 acres, with outdoor raw material/tree storage to be in rear of property behind fence covering no more than 25% of lot.
(Ord. passed 7-25-2011; Ord. 20-O-02, passed 6-1-2020)