(A) The intent of the Commercial/Professional Office (C/PO) District is to accommodate existing and future commercial and professional business development in such locations and with such” regulations so as to provide availability and accessibility for the success of commercial/ professional business operations, to encourage the development of new business at appropriate locations, and to preserve and protect existing and future development of all kinds through the use of limited access points, service roads, parking and loading areas, screening and other regulations.
(B) The Commercial/Professional Office District (C/PO) is to establish and preserve general commercial areas consisting of shopping centers, commercial strips and professional and service oriented businesses where customers reach retail and professional and service business establishments primarily by automobile, while minimizing the undesirable impact on adjacent residential areas.
(1) Permitted uses.
(a) Offices of professional medical, insurance, attorneys, real estate, financial organizations and the like: of individuals, sole proprietors, labor unions or of civic, social, fraternal and non-profit organizations;
(b) Laboratories and other research facilities where all activity and equipment, including ventilators and other equipment on roofs, is housed in a fully enclosed building or screened so as not to be visible from off the lot, and where no noise or odors are created which are discernible beyond the boundaries of the lot; and
(c) Retail sales, barber and beauty shops; gas stations, general and specialty food stores; drugstores; restaurants; clothing and dry good stores; appliance stores; hardware stores, bakeries; dry cleaning and laundry establishments; gas stations; veterinarians and kennels when housed in a fully enclosed building; motels; hotels, clinics; funeral homes; indoor/outdoor theaters and other places of amusement including bowling lanes, lighted golf courses, skating arenas and the like; however, meat and poultry shops where slaughtering is done on the premises is excluded.
(2) Special provisions for shopping centers. Shopping centers comprised of a building or group of buildings to house three or more permitted commercial activities shall be permitted as a special use in conformance with the provisions for Planned Unit Developments as specified in §§ 154.205 through 154.213. The following guidelines will apply in designing shopping centers:
(a) Neighborhood shopping center. Planned development of commercial, professional and service-oriented activities providing convenience goods such as food, drugs, hardware and professional/service oriented services, intended to serve a market area of 800 families. Neighborhood shopping centers shall contain at least 16,000 square feet of floor area and two acres, and shall be located adjacent to an arterial or collector street. Access shall be determined by the Planning Commission, i.e., service road or direct entry; and
(b) Community shopping center. A planned development of commercial activities providing convenience and shopper goods, such as apparel and home furnishings serving approximately 2,000 families. Community shopping centers shall contain at least 30,000 square feet of floor area and a site of at least five acres. Direct access must be available to arterial streets, or frontage road as indicated in the Comprehensive Plan.
(3) Conditional uses. Conditional uses are special exceptions and require written approval of the Board of Adjustment. The Board may attach certain conditions to its approval which it feels are necessary to preserve and protect the character of the district in which the proposed use would locate. Conditional uses shall be so located, site-planned and designed as to avoid undue noise, nuisances and dangers.
(a) Schools;
(b) Drive-in theaters;
(c) Auto, truck and farm implement sales and repair, mobile home sales; and
(d) Public facilities such as libraries, churches, parks, recreation facilities and hospitals.
(4) Accessory uses. Any accessory use or building customarily incidental to the above permitted uses is permitted, including dwelling units occupying the same building as the principal commercial use for the express use of the owner and/or operator of the permitted commercial use.
(5) Required conditions.
(a) Screening. Where a side lot line is shared with an adjoining residential lot or zone, a well-maintained compact hedge, a solid fence or similar solid screening device at least six feet in height shall be installed to screen the business use from the adjoining lot in the residential district. The screen shall begin at the front building line and extend along the common side lot line to the rear property line.
(b) Access to highways and streets. Before any building permit for any structure in a C/PO district may be issued the applicant of the proposed C/PO activity shall submit a sketch of the site layout and design of the proposed structure(s) and use; the proposed interior street circulation plan along with the proposed access points to the Highway Department and the Planning Commission. The Planning Commission may require that when two or more consumer commercial establishments adjoin along one side of any street or highway that they share access points to the street When more than four consumer commercial establishments adjoin along any highway or street, a service road parallel to the highway or street may be required by the Planning Commission to be built, at the expense of all adjoining consumer commercial establishments, to provide service to all consumer commercial establishments on the same side of the street or highway. This road shall have access to the highway or street at no more than two points for every four consumer commercial establishments. The provisions of §§ 154.120 through 154.130 shall also apply in a C/PO District. Parking and off-street loading requirements are provided in §§ 154.165 through 154.172.
(c) Processing shall be conducted wholly within a completely enclosed building.
(d) Processing is permitted if all such processing is performed as a consumer service for retail customers served on the premises. Processes and equipment employed in goods processed or sold shall be limited to those which are not objectionable by reason of odor, dust, smoke, gas fumes, noise, vibration, refuse matter or water-carried waste.
(6) Development standards (C/PO): per each principal building.
Minimum lot area | |
on public sewers | 22,000 sq. ft. |
no public sewers | 43,560 sq. ft. |
Min. public road frontage | 75 feet (public sewer) 100 feet (private sewage) |
Min. width at building line | 75 feet |
Minimum front yard | 50 feet |
Minimum side yard | 25 feet - 35 feet adjacent to any R District |
Minimum rear yard | 30 feet |
Max. percentage of lot covered by buildings | 60% |
Signs | |
Parking | |
(7) Required conditions/minimum design standards.
(a) Access. Access to business establishments on U.S. Highway 150 district shall either be from parallel frontage roads (along U.S. 150 from Stanford to Crab Orchard, U.S. 27 and U.S. 127 or driveways with approved encroachment permit from Transportation Cabinet -Highway Department. All intersections of frontage roads or driveways with arterials streets shall provide acceleration and deceleration lanes of not less than 150 feet and eleven feet wide. No entrance or exit shall be closer than 600 feet to any intersection on an arterial road or to the access road of any freeway. Entrances off controlled access streets shall require both a permit from the District 8 office of the State Transportation Cabinet and the approval of the Planning Commission.
(b) Landscaping. A landscaped planting strip at least ten feet in width shall be provided along boundaries of a C/PO District adjacent to any residential zone or any property being used for residential or institutional purposes. This area shall be planted with native trees or shrubs in a manner approved by the Planning Commission.
(Ord. passed 1-11-2005)