(A) This district is composed of certain land and structures used primarily to provide personal services. The regulations for this district are designed to stabilize and protect the essential characteristics of the district, to promote and encourage a suitable environment for providing service to the people of the area and to prohibit activities of an industrial nature. To these ends, development is primarily limited to restricted types and personal services. The regulations are designed to permit development of the enumerated functions limited by standards designed to retain a favorable environment for the proper functioning of the district; plus certain public facilities which are needed to serve the occupants of the district.
(B) The following regulations shall apply to all C-1 Districts.
(1) Permitted uses.
(a) Bank and/or loan company or other similar financial institution with emphasis on a drive-up facility;
(b) Club, lodge or social/fraternal organization;
(c) Convenience store and/or filling station;
(d) Eating or drinking establishment;
(e) Hotel or motel;
(f) Jewelry store, watch and clock repair shop;
(g) Medical or dental clinic;
(h) Mortuaries and funeral homes;
(i) Parking lot;
(j) Professional offices; provided that, any storage of associated with such offices shall not exceed 50% of the gross floor area of the principal structure;
(k) Retail store or business;
(l) Studio: art, music, dance, health, photographic, radio or television broadcasting; and
(m) Wholesale office and showroom with merchandise on premises limited to samples only.
(2) Conditional uses. The following uses and their accessory uses are conditionally permitted in a C-1 District subject to the provisions of this chapter governing conditional uses:
(a) Auditorium, exhibitor hail or other public assembly room;
(b) Automobile laundry;
(c) Automobile service station;
(d) Grocery store;
(e) Discount retail and/or wholesale outlet;
(f) Single-family, duplex and multiple-family dwellings and associated home occupations; provided, they meet all requirements of the R-2 Multiple-Family Residential District;
(g) Child care centers;
(h) Adult day care and/or adult day health care facilities;
(i) Theater, not including drive-in type;
(j) Commercial amusement/recreation facilities, such as bowling alleys, miniature golf, arcades and similar facilities;
(k) Governmental structure or use including public park, playground, recreation building, fire station, library or museum;
(l) Utility substation or pumping station with no equipment in storage; and
(m) Supervised group home for youth operated by the state or agency or department thereof; or duly licensed, franchised or authorized by the state.
(3) Signs. All signs shall be in conformance with the regulations provided herein and with the provisions of § 11-514 of this chapter.
(4) Lot size. The lot size in a C-1 District shall be as follows.
(a) Lots used for dwelling purposes shall be governed by the requirements as specified for R-2 Districts.
(b) The minimum lot area for non-residential uses shall be 5,000 square feet.
(c) The minimum lot width at the front building line shall be 50 feet.
(d) The minimum lot depth shall be 100 feet.
(5) Setback requirements. In a C-1 District, the yards shall be as follows.
(a) The minimum yard dimensions of the residential district shall apply on the sides of a lot abutting a residential district.
(b) The front yard shall be a minimum of 25 feet for all yards abutting a street.
(c) There shall be no side yard requirement for non-residential uses, except as provided above; provided further that, corner lots shall have a minimum of 25 feet for all yards abutting a street.
(6) Height of buildings. In a C-1 District within 100 feet of a residential zone, no structure shall exceed 40 feet in height, and in no case shall such a structure exceed 60 feet.
(7) Lot coverage. In a C-1 District, business buildings shall not occupy more than 50% of the lot area.
(8) Limitations on use. In a C-1 District, the following conditions and limitations shall apply.
(a) All business, service, storage, or merchandise display on property abutting or facing a lot in a residential district shall be conducted wholly within an enclosed building unless screened from the residential district by a sight-obscuring fence permanently maintained at least six feet in height.
(b) Openings to structures on sides adjacent to or across a street from a residential district shall be prohibited if such access or openings will cause glare, excessive noise or other adverse effects on residential properties.
(9) Fence regulations. All fences, walls and hedges shall be in conformance with the regulations provided herein and with the provisions of § 11-515 of this chapter.
(2005 Code, § 11-207)