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COMMUNITY COMMERCIAL DISTRICT
The following provisions shall apply to Community Commercial (C-2) Districts:
(A) All business, service, storage, merchandise, display and, where permitted, repair and processing, shall be conducted wholly within an enclosed building, unless authorized as a variance, and except as otherwise permitted herein for specified uses, such as off-street automobile parking and off-street loading;
(B) Goods sold shall consist primarily of new merchandise and any goods produced on the premises shall be sold at retail on the premises unless otherwise permitted herein for specified uses;
(C) Processes and equipment employed and goods processed or sold shall be limited to those which are not objectionable by reason of odor, dust, smoke, cinders, gas, noise, vibration, refuse matter or water-carried waste;
(D) In any commercial district where a commercial building is located on a lot which abuts property zoned for residential use, an opaque landscape screen, an opaque fence or screening having a minimum height of six feet shall be provided along any side and/or rear lot line contiguous to the property zoned for residential use;
(F) Parking spaces shall be in accordance with the provisions set forth in §§ 154.335 et seq.
(Ord. 1995-12, passed 7-6-95)
(A) The following shall apply to the Community Commercial (C-2) Districts as permitted uses:
(1) The uses permitted in the C-1 Zoning District;
(2) Antique shops;
(3) Art and school supply stores;
(4) Art galleries;
(5) Bakeries;
(6) Bicycle stores, sales, rental and repair;
(7) Book, used book and stationery stores;
(8) Camera and photographic supply stores;
(9) Carpet and rug stores;
(10) Catalog service stores;
(11) China and glassware stores;
(12) Coin and philatelic stores;
(13) Custom dressmaking (bridal);
(14) Department stores;
(15) Dry goods stores;
(16) Electrical and household appliance stores, including radio, television, video cassette recorder, washer and dryer sales;
(17) Employment agencies;
(18) Flower shops/gift shops;
(19) Furniture stores, including upholstery when conducted as part of the retail operation;
(20) Furrier shops, including the incidental storage and conditioning of furs;
(21) Garden supply and seed stores, excluding open lot sales;
(22) Gift shops;
(23) Hardware stores;
(24) Health food stores (retail);
(25) Hobby shops, for retailing of items to be assembled or used away from the premises;
(26) Interior decorating shops, including upholstery and making of draperies, slip covers and other similar articles when conducted as part of the retail operations;
(27) Jewelry stores, including watch repair;
(28) Laundromats;
(29) Leather goods and luggage stores;
(30) Libraries, public;
(31) Liquor stores, retail sales;
(32) Locksmith shops;
(33) Musical shops, including assorted instrument repair;
(34) Newspaper offices, but not including printing;
(35) Office supply stores;
(36) Opticians and optometrists;
(37) Paint and wallpaper stores;
(38) Pet shops, provided that animals shall not be boarded or bred in such shops;
(39) Photograph studios, including developing and printing of photographs when conducted on the premises as a part of the retail business;
(40) Photograph printing shops;
(41) Picture framing, when conducted on the premises for retail trade;
(42) Sewing machine sales and services;
(43) Reducing salons;
(44) Sporting goods stores;
(45) Tanning salons;
(46) Taverns, indoor live music permitted;
(47) Tailor shops;
(48) Tobacco shops, retail sales;
(49) Travel bureaus and transportation ticket offices;
(50) Wearing apparel shops;
(51) Toy shops;
(52) Video rental sales/services stores;
(53) Restaurants, when no entertainment or dancing provided.
(B) The following uses may be allowed by special exception:
(1) Any special exception allowed in the C-1 Zoning District shall be allowed, except such as are permitted uses in the C-2 Zoning District;
(2) All uses permitted and allowed by special exceptions in C-1 Zoning District;
(3) Public museum;
(4) Churches;
(5) Schools, commercial or trade, including those teaching music, dance, business, commercial or technical subjects when not thereby involving increased danger of fire and explosion, nor of noise, vibration, smoke, dust, odor, glare, heat and other objectionable influences;
(6) Health centers;
(7) Parking lots for motor vehicles;
(8) Planned development unit on a tract of land not less than ten acres in area;
(9) Drive-in restaurants;
(10) Public utility and public service uses, including:
(a) Electric substations;
(b) Fire stations;
(c) Police stations;
(d) Telephone exchanges, microwave relay towers and telephone transmission equipment buildings;
(e) Water filtration plants, pumping stations, reservoirs and sewage treatment plants, municipal;
(11) Recreational buildings and community centers;
(12) Personal storage buildings;
(13) Gymnasiums;
(14) Automobile service centers;
(15) Recording studios with adequate soundproofing;
(16) Taxidermists;
(17) Undertaking establishments and funeral parlors/funeral homes;
(18) Car washes, automatic or self-service, required stacking capacity of five cars for each space of capacity contained within the facility;
(19) Video dating establishments, with adequate soundproofing;
(20) Community centers (governmental);
(21) Municipal facilities and public utilities;
(22) Parks and playgrounds (public);
(23) Schools.
(Ord. 1995-12, passed 7-6-95; Am. Ord. 2002-8, passed 8-19-02)
(A) Minimum lot area and width. A minimum lot area of not less than 6,000 square feet and a lot width of not less than 50 feet at the building line shall be provided for every building or other structure erected or used for any use permitted in this Zoning District. In the case of a developmental plan, the heights of buildings and other structures erected or enlarged in this Zoning District and area, width, yard and building coverage requirements therefore shall be as specified on or in connection with the aforesaid development plan.
(B) Front yard. There shall be a front yard between the building line and the highway right-of- way lines as follows:
(1) On existing four-lane federal or state highways, a distance of 60 feet;
(2) On existing two-lane federal or state highways, a distance of 75 feet;
(3) All county highways, a distance of 50 feet;
(4) All other streets, a distance of 30 feet.
(C) Side yard.
(1) On each corner lot, there shall be a side yard abutting the street having a width of not less than 20 feet and another side yard having a width of not less than seven feet, unless the building employs a common party wall with the building on the adjoining lot.
(2) On a lot abutting any Residential Zoning District, there shall be a side yard abutting such district having a width of not less than 12 feet, which shall be effectively screened from abutting lots by a strip of planting not less than 12 feet in ultimate width, such planting consisting of not less than 50% evergreen material scattered throughout.
(3) Where abutting lots have buildings or other structures employing a common party wall, no side yard is required.
(4) All interior lots shall have two side yards, each having a width of not less than seven feet, except where party walls are used.
(D) Rear yard. There shall be a rear yard on each lot, the depth of which shall not be less than 30 feet from the rear lot line.
(E) Building coverage. No more than 50% of any lot may be covered by building or buildings.
(Ord. 1995-12, passed 7-6-95)
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