(A) General description. This commercial district is established as a district in which the principal use of land is for establishments offering accommodations, supplies of services to motorists, and for certain specialized uses such as retail outlets, extensive commercial amusement, and service establishments which serve the entire community but do not and should not necessarily locate in the Central Business District or the Convenience Commercial District.
(Prior Code, § 12-265)
(B) Uses permitted. Within the C-A/R, Automotive Commercial and Commercial Recreation District, the following uses are permitted:
(1) Any use permitted in the C-C, Convenience Commercial District;
(2) Other uses, including:
(a) Amusement enterprises;
(b) New and used automobile sales and services, new and used machinery sales and services and public garages;
(c) Ambulance service office or garage;
(d) Automobile service station;
(e) Billboards as permitted in division (D) below;
(f) Boat sales;
(g) Bowling alleys;
(h) Bus terminal;
(i) Dance hall;
(j) Drive-in theater or restaurant;
(k) Electric transmission station;
(l) Feed and fuel store;
(m) Funeral parlor;
(n) Garden stores;
(o) Golf course, miniature or practice range;
(p) Heating and plumbing sales and service;
(q) Hospital for small animals;
(r) Ice plant;
(s) Key shop;
(t) Kennel;
(u) Laundry;
(v) Motels;
(w) Music, radio and television shop and repair;
(x) Nightclub;
(y) Novelty;
(z) Pawnshop;
(aa) Pet shop;
(bb) Printing plant;
(cc) Public uses;
(dd) Recreation center, private;
(ee) Roller skating rink;
(ff) Sign painting shop;
(gg) Tavern;
(hh) Travel trailer park and sales; and
(ii) Wholesale distribution center.
(3) Any other store or shop for retail trade or for providing personal, professional, or business service other than those provided for in § 155.086(B); and
(4) Buildings, structures, and accessory uses customarily incidental to any of the above uses, provided that there shall be no manufacturing of products other than such as are customarily incidental to retail establishments.
(Prior Code, § 12-266)
(C) Area and height regulations.
(1) The regulations are as follows:
(a) Minimum lot area: 12,000 square feet;
(b) Minimum lot frontage: 100 feet;
(c) Maximum percent coverage: 30%;
(d) Maximum height: 35 feet;
(e) Minimum front yard setback: 50 feet;
(f) Minimum side yard setback: two feet per one foot of height adjacent to residential district; and
(g) Minimum rear yard setback: 20 feet.
(2) More specifically, these regulations are described below:
(a) The parcel of land on which any commercial use is located shall not be less than 12,000 square feet;
(b) Each lot shall have a frontage of not less than 100 feet;
(c) Not more than 30% of the lot area shall be covered with improvements. Paved areas are not considered improvements within the meaning of this provision;
(d) No improvement or structure shall exceed 35 feet in height above the mean elevation of the lot;
(e) It is intended that the commercial uses and parking areas within a C-A/R District be designed to protect, insofar as possible, adjacent residential areas. In no case shall the development have less than the following standards:
1. All buildings shall be set back from all street right-of-way lines not less than 50 feet;
2. On the side of a lot adjoining a residential district there shall be a side yard setback of two feet for each one foot of height; and
3. All buildings shall be set back from the rear lot line not less than 20 feet.
(Prior Code, § 12-267)
(D) Business signs. Business signs, poster boards, bulletin boards, or other similar display in the C-A/R District shall conform to the following requirements:
(1) In the C-A/R District, business signs not exceeding in the aggregate one square foot of display surface area per one lineal foot of street frontage may be erected on each street frontage of the parcel. Ground signs and billboards shall not exceed 30 feet in height. No sign or billboard shall be located within 50 feet of a residential district if visible from such district. Illumination, if any, shall be by constant light;
(2) A real estate sign advertising the sale, rental, or lease of the premises may be erected on each street frontage of the development. The sign shall not exceed 50 square feet in surface area nor 15 feet in height, and illumination, if any, shall be by constant light; and
(3) 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 city and they shall not overhang at a height of less than nine feet and shall not have a maximum projection greater than 72 inches.
(Prior Code, § 12-268)
(Ord. 1020, passed 1-15-1970) Penalty, see § 155.999