(A) Preamble. The Service District is designed primarily to furnish areas served by General Retail Districts with necessary services and goods not allowed in General Retail Districts because they are incompatible with the uses permitted in the General Retail Districts. The following regulations shall apply in all C-3 Districts:
(B) Uses permitted.
(1) Any use permitted in C-1 and C-2 Districts;
(2) Accessory uses;
(3) Animal hospitals;
(4) Animal pounds;
(5) Apartments, attached dwellings and other multiple-family dwellings; provided the residential development has an unbroken frontage of at least 100 feet, that there is at least 2,500 square feet of lot area per dwelling unit;
(6) Auction rooms;
(7) Auto service stations, including minor services customarily incidental thereto, facilities for chassis and gear lubrication, and vehicle washing, but not including the sale of vehicles, new or used;
(8) Blue printing and photocopying establishments;
(9) Boat sales;
(10) Building material establishments, dimension lumber, millwork, cabinets and other building materials provided that no milling, planing, jointing or manufacture of millwork shall be conducted on the premises;
(11) Cartage and express facilities providing storage of goods, motor trucks and other equipment, if in enclosed structures;
(12) Caskets and casket supplies;
(13) Catering establishments;
(14) Clothing and costume rental shops;
(15) Clubs and lodging; private, fraternal or religious;
(16) Contractors or construction offices and shops such as building, concrete, electrical, masonry, painting, plumbing, refrigeration and roofing;
(17) Dog kennels;
(18) Dry cleaning and laundry establishments, employing not more than ten persons in addition to office help and owner or manager;
(19) Employment agencies;
(20) Exterminating shops;
(21) Feed stores;
(22) Fuel and ice sales;
(23) Garages, public, for storage, repair and servicing of automobiles and trucks, including body repair and painting, but not including auto wrecking yards;
(24) Greenhouse and/or nurseries;
(25) Ice storage limited to five tons capacity;
(26) Linens, towels, diapers and similar supply services;
(27) Live bait stores;
(28) Machinery sales, including farm machinery sales;
(29) Mail order houses;
(30) Meat markets, including the sale of meats and meat products to restaurants, hotels, clubs or other similar establishments when conducted as a part of the retail business on the premises;
(31) Monument sales;
(32) Motels;
(33) Motorcycles sales;
(34) Motor vehicle and equipment sales and service;
(35) Municipal or privately owned recreational buildings or community centers;
(36) Orthopedic and medical appliance stores, but not including the assembly or manufacture of such articles;
(37) Open sales lots;
(38) Outdoor areas where outdoor merchandise, machinery or equipment may be displayed and others taken, but no regular delivery of large or heavy items shall be made therefrom;
(39) Packaging and cratings;
(40) Pawn shops;
(41) Pet shops;
(42) Plumbing showrooms and shops;
(43) Poultry; live, slaughtering and retail sales;
(44) Printing and publishing establishments having not more than 25 employees other than office and building service employees;
(45) Recording studies;
(46) Research laboratories;
(47) Riding academics and public stables;
(48) Seed processing establishments;
(49) Sheet metal shops;
(50) Storage and warehousing, and wholesale establishments;
(51) Taverns;
(52) Theaters (not outdoor);
(53) Trailer sales;
(54) Travel bureaus and transportation ticket offices;
(55) Typewriter and adding machine sales and service; and
(56) Undertaking establishments and funeral parlors.
(C) Special uses. The following uses are permitted as special uses when authorized by the City Council after a public hearing and recommendation by the Planning Commission:
(1) Those permitted in a C-2 District as special uses;
(2) Auto laundries;
(3) Recreation and amusement establishments, including archery ranges, bowling alleys, pool halls, dance halls, gymnasiums, swimming pools, skating rinks, golf driving ranges, miniature golf courses, miniature railroads, merry-go-rounds and other mechanical rides; and
(4) Theaters, automobile drive-in.
(D) Floor area ratio. Floor area ratio shall not exceed 1.2.
(E) Required area. Regulations governing lot area in C-2 Districts shall apply.
(F) Required yard.
(1) Front yard. Regulations governing front yard requirements in C-2 Districts shall apply, except that for auto service stations fuel pumps and poles for air and water hoses shall be permitted to be located not closer than 13 feet to the street line, and except for open sales lots second hand vehicles in operable condition shall be permitted to be located not closer than 13 feet to the street line.
(2) Side yard.
(a) There shall be provided a side yard along any side lot line which adjoins a residence district; its width shall not be less than ten feet and it shall not contain off-street parking and loading facilities.
(b) In side yards of less than 40 feet width, adjoining residence districts, a solid wall or solid fence shall be provided along the property line. Such fences or wall shall be uniformly painted, and in no case shall be less than six feet high nor more than seven feet high.
(3) Rear yard. Regulations governing rear yard requirements in C-1 Districts shall apply, except that were the rear yard adjoins another business property and where loading and unloading space is located elsewhere on the property and where the building is not more than one story in height the rear yard may be reduced five feet.
(G) Signs. Regulations for signs shall be the same as required for C-2 Districts, except that for auto service stations signs having an elevation not less than 12 feet above the curb level, and supported by a single column having a maximum diameter or horizontal exterior dimension of 12 inches, measured four feet above the curb level, and from four to 12 feet above the curb level having a diameter of not more than six inches, shall be permitted to be located within three feet of the street line.
(H) Automobile storage or parking space. Adequate off-street parking and loading in accordance with the provisions of § 153.093.
(Ord. passed 2-25-1960)