§ 157.093 AUTOMOBILE SALES AND SHOW ROOMS.
   The building and premises for automobile sales and showrooms shall meet the following requirements.
   (A)   Setbacks and lot requirements.
      (1)   Parking. A minimum of 25-foot wide landscaped yard shall be required and maintained between any public street right-of-way and parking lots or buildings.
      (2)   Contiguous site. Motor vehicle sales shall be on one lot or contiguous lots not separated by a public street, alley or other use.
      (3)   Lot width. The minimum lot width shall be 150 feet at the minimum required front yard setback.
      (4)   Lot area. A minimum lot area of two acres shall be required.
   (B)   Access driveways.
      (1)   The distance of the driveway from the street intersection shall not be less than 50 feet, provided however, greater distances may be required to avoid reasonably anticipated traffic hazards.
      (2)   Minimum distance between driveways shall be 25 feet at the curb cut.
      (3)   Minimum driveway angle to street shall be 60 degrees, unless otherwise approved by the City Engineer.
      (4)   Minimum distance between driveway and adjacent property shall be five feet at the curb cut.
      (5)   No driveway shall exceed 25 feet in width and no curb cut shall exceed 32 feet in width.
   (C)   Screening. A screen shall be erected and maintained along all property lines separating institutional, residential dwelling or business and professional office districts or uses. The screening required in this section shall be not less than five feet in height.
   (D)   Landscaping. A landscaped yard shall be constructed and maintained on all areas of the site not devoted to the building or parking areas.
   (E)   Curbing. Interior concrete or asphalt curbs shall be constructed within the property to separate driving and parking surfaces from landscaped areas. Interior curbs required by this section shall be a nominal six inches in height.
   (F)   Surfacing. The entire site on which motor vehicle sales is located, other than that devoted to buildings and structures or landscaped areas, shall be hard surfaced and maintained to control dust, erosion and drainage, before operation of the business begins.
   (G)   Parking. The following required parking spaces shall be shown and designated on the site plan.
      (1)   Customer parking. A minimum of 16 customer parking spaces shall be provided for every acre of total site area in a commercial or business district, and in addition, three spaces for each 1,000 square feet of gross sales floor area.
      (2)   Employee parking. A minimum of two employee parking spaces shall be provided for every three employees.
   (H)   Parking for outside sales and storage. The maximum area permitted for outside storage of automobiles, new and used, shall not exceed five square feet of outside storage area to each one square foot of enclosed ground floor area. No more than one automobile shall be stored on each 300 square feet of outside paved storage area. No rooftop parking shall be permitted.
   (I)   Surface drainage plan and improvements. A drainage plan shall illustrate all paved area surface drainage flows. Catch basins and/or settling ponds shall be required to dispose of interior parking or display area drainage.
(Ord. passed - -) Penalty, see § 157.999