A. General Retail Sales, Less Than 10,000 Square Feet.
1. Characteristics. General retail and services establishments are involved in the sale, lease or rent of new or used products and services at the neighborhood level. Generally, general retail less than 10,000 square feet is localized retail meant to serve the needs of an immediate area.
2. Accessory Uses. Accessory uses may include offices, storage or repackaging of goods for on-site sale, and parking.
3. Examples. Establishments selling, leasing, or renting consumer, home, and business goods including art, art supplies, bicycles, clothing, dry goods, electronic equipment, fabric, furniture, garden supplies, gifts, groceries, hardware, home improvements, household products, jewelry, pets, pet food, pharmaceuticals, plants, printed material, stationary, and videos; food sales, photographic studios; and photocopy and blueprint services.
4. Uses Not Included.
a. Lumber yards and other building material sales that sell primarily to contractors and do not have a retail orientation are classified as light industrial and manufacturing.
b. Sales of landscape materials, including bark chips and compost, is classified as light industrial and manufacturing.
c. Sales, rental, or leasing of heavy trucks and equipment is classified as light industrial and manufacturing.
B. General Retail Sales, 30,000 to 25,000 Square Feet.
1. Characteristics. General retail and services establishments are involved in the sale, lease or rent of new or used products and services at the neighborhood level. Generally, general retail less than 25,000 square feet is neighborhood level retail meant to serve the needs of a neighborhood area.
2. Accessory Uses. Accessory uses may include offices, storage or repackaging of goods for on-site sale, and parking.
3. Examples. Stores selling, leasing, or renting consumer, home, and business goods including art, art supplies, bicycles, clothing, dry goods, electronic equipment, fabric, furniture, garden supplies, gifts, groceries, hardware, home improvements, household products, jewelry, pets, pet food, pharmaceuticals, plants, printed material, stationary, and videos; food sales, photographic studios; photocopy and blueprint services.
4. Uses Not Included.
a. Lumberyards and other building material sales that sell primarily to contractors and do not have a retail orientation are classified as light industrial and manufacturing.
b. Sales of landscape materials, including bark chips and compost, is classified as light industrial and manufacturing.
c. Sales, rental, or leasing of heavy trucks and equipment is classified as light industrial and manufacturing.
C. General Retail Sales, 25,000 to 100,000 Square Feet.
1. Characteristics. General retail and services establishments are involved in the sale, lease or rent of new or used products and services at the neighborhood level. Generally, general retail of 25,001 to 100,000 feet is community level retail meant to serve the needs of several neighborhoods.
2. Accessory Uses. Accessory uses may include offices, storage or repackaging of goods for on-site sale, and parking.
3. Examples. Stores selling, leasing, or renting consumer, home, and business goods including art, art supplies, bicycles, clothing, dry goods, electronic equipment, fabric, furniture, garden supplies, gifts, groceries, hardware, home improvements, household products, jewelry, pets, pet food, pharmaceuticals, plants, printed material, stationary, and videos; food sales, photographic studios, and photocopy and blueprint services.
4. Uses Not Included.
a. Lumberyards and other building material sales that sell primarily to contractors and do not have a retail orientation are classified as light industrial and manufacturing.
b. Sales of landscape materials, including bark chips and compost, is classified as light industrial and manufacturing.
c. Sales, rental, or leasing of heavy trucks and equipment is classified as light industrial and manufacturing.
D. General Retail Sales, 100,00D or Greater Square Feet.
1. Characteristics. General retail and services establishments are involved in the sale, lease or rent of new or used products and services at the neighborhood level. Generally, retail of this magnitude features regional commercial retail options.
2. Accessory Uses. Accessory uses may include offices, storage or repackaging of goods for on-site sale, and parking.
3. Examples. Large retail stores, shopping malls, and shopping plazas.
4. Uses Not Included.
a. Lumber yards and other building material sales that sell primarily to contractors and do not have a retail orientation are classified as light industrial and manufacturing.
b. Sales of landscape materials, including bark chips and compost, is classified as light industrial and manufacturing.
c. Sales, rental, or leasing of heavy trucks and equipment is classified as light industrial and manufacturing.
E. Personal Services.
1. Characteristics. Establishments that cater to personal services for a community. May also provide personal services or entertainment or provide product repair or services for consumer and business goods.
2. Accessory Uses. Accessory uses may include offices, storage or repackaging of goods for on-site sale, and parking.
3. Examples. Examples include barbers, hair salons, nail salons, tanning facilities, day spa, personal care services, animal grooming, product repair or services for consumer and business goods (i.e. computer repair shop, watch repair).
F. Lodging-Hotel and Motel.
1. Characteristics. Transient accommodation units arranged for short term stays of less than thirty (30) days for rent or lease. This does not include patient transient accommodations, shelters for the homeless or short-term rentals.
2. Accessory Uses. Ancillary indoor storage, associated office, bar or tavern, food preparation and dining facility, laundry facility, meeting facility, off-street parking, restaurant, swimming pool, other recreational facility.
3. Examples. Examples include hotels and motels.
4. Uses Not Included.
a. Short term rentals.
G. Lodging-Bed and Breakfast.
1. Characteristics. A transient accommodation that is a house (or portion of a house) where lodging rooms and meals are provided on a daily or weekly basis.
2. Accessory Uses. Ancillary indoor storage, associated office, food preparation and dining facility, off-street parking, restaurant, swimming pool, other recreational facility.
3. Uses Not Included.
a. Short term rentals.
H. Tattoo and Piercing Establishment.
1. Characteristics. Any establishment in which tattooing or piercing is carried out.
2. Accessory Uses. Accessory uses may include ancillary indoor storage, associated office, limited retail sales of items relating to tattoos or piercings.
I. Fortune Telling.
1. Characteristics. Any establishment which performs the act of predicting a person’s future by using palmistry, a crystal ball, or similar methods.
2. Accessory Uses. Accessory uses may include ancillary indoor storage and associated office space.
J. Indoor Recreation.
1. Characteristics. Commercial uses providing daily or regularly scheduled recreation-oriented activities in an indoor setting.
2. Accessory Uses. Accessory uses include ancillary indoor storage, associated office, concession, dining area or cafeteria, pro-shop and limited sales of goods related to on-site activities.
3. Examples. Examples include indoor entertainment activity such as a pool hall, bowling alley, health and fitness facilities, indoor sports facility, gymnastic facility, karate, indoor shooting range, dance studio, movie theater or indoor theater.
K. Outdoor Recreation.
1. Characteristics. Uses which provide recreation-oriented activities predominately outdoors. May vary in size and feature generally commercial uses.
2. Accessory Uses. Accessory uses include ancillary indoor storage, associated office, concession, dining area or cafeteria, pro-shop and limited sales of goods related to on-site activities.
3. Examples. Examples include drive-in theater, campground, extreme sports facility such as paintball or BMX, shooting range, stadium, arena, and golf course.
4. Use Standards.
a. If the outdoor entertainment involves any projectiles, berms or backstops are required at the perimeter boundary of the activity to ensure safety to off-site areas.
b. No associated outdoor features shall be located between the front facade of the building and the street fronting the lot.
c. The use requested to be conducted shall not have adverse effects without mitigation techniques including (but not limited to) stormwater, dust, odor, smoke, vibration, lighting, or noise.
L. Restaurant.
1. Characteristics. Establishments that prepare and sell food for on-premises consumption or off-premises consumption. Includes a customer service area consisting of tables, chairs, or customer counters.
2. Accessory Uses. Ancillary indoor storage, associated office, deck, patio for outdoor seating or dining and entertainment, parking, valet parking facility, bar seating, and limited catering.
3. Examples. Examples include sit down restaurants such as a diner, café, or fine dining restaurants.
4. Uses Not Included.
a. Drive-throughs are classified in Restaurant with Drive-Through.
M. Restaurant with Drive-Through.
1. Characteristics. Establishments that prepare and sell food for on-premises consumption or off-premises consumption including a drive-through. Includes a customer service area consisting of tables, chairs, or customer counters.
2. Accessory Uses. Ancillary indoor storage, associated office, deck, patio for outdoor seating or dining, parking, valet parking facility, bar seating, limited catering.
3. Examples. Examples include fast food restaurants and any restaurant featuring a drive-through lane.
4. Use Standards.
a. Drive-through windows, speaker boxes, and ordering stations shall not be adjacent to any residential use or district.
b. Outdoor speakers associated with a drive-through shall be at least fifty (50) feet from any property line.
c. Menu boards shall be a maximum of thirty-two (32) square feet.
d. Drive-throughs shall comply with the standards of Section 8.4.5: Stacking Requirements.
e. Streetwalls are required at the boundaries of drive aisles along drive-through lanes. Streetwalls shall meet the requirements of Section 8.7.4.6: Pedestrian Considerations.
N. Bar/Tavern/Nightclub.
1. Characteristics. Any business or commercial establishment which is devoted primarily to the retailing and on-premises consumption of alcoholic beverages not made on-site) and which is licensed by the state to dispense or sell alcoholic beverages. May be subject to locational requirements.
2. Accessory Uses. Selling of food, ancillary indoor storage, associated office, deck, patio for outdoor seating or dining and entertainment, parking, valet parking facility.
3. Examples. Bars, taverns, cocktail lounges.
O. Microbrewery/Winery/Distillery.
1. Characteristics. Any business or commercial establishment which is devoted primarily to the production of beer, malt beverages, wine or spirits for distribution, retail, or wholesale. May be subject to locational requirements.
2. Accessory Uses. Tasting room, selling of food, ancillary indoor storage, associated office, deck, patio for outdoor seating or dining and entertainment, parking, valet parking facility.
3. Examples. Bars, taverns, cocktail lounges.
P. Car, Boat, Other Vehicle Sales & Rentals.
1. Characteristics. Establishments that are involved with the sale or lease of motor vehicles (including but not limited to cars and boats), renting of motor vehicles, and display of these motor vehicles.
2. Accessory Uses. Accessory uses may include ancillary indoor storage, associated office, showroom, vehicle fueling (for vehicles for sale or lease, not open to the general public), car wash (for vehicles for sale or lease, not open to the general public), and limited retail sales of items associated with motor vehicles.
3. Examples. Examples include but are not limited to car dealerships, boat dealerships, motor vehicle dealerships dealing in recreational vehicles, car rental establishments, moving vehicle rental establishments.
4. Use Standards.
a. Minimum lot size for car, boat, other vehicle sales and rental establishments shall be two (2) acres.
b. Vehicle display areas shall not be raised above general topography of the site.
c. Vehicle display areas with frontage along a street right-of-way shall include an additional ten (10) foot landscaped buffer. Vehicles shall not be displayed in any required buffer.
Q. Minor Vehicle Service & Vehicle Part Sales.
1. Characteristics. Minor vehicle service establishments are involved with the body detailing, mechanical repairs, or the painting of automotive vehicles. These repairs should be minor in nature and any services rendered on site should be minor in nature as well.
2. Accessory Uses. Accessory uses may include limited sale of parts or vehicle accessories, towing, associated office, parking, repackaging of goods for on-site sale or use.
3. Examples. Examples of services to be rendered include quick service such as (but not limited to) lubrication, battery sales and installation, auto detailing, minor scratch and dent repair, tire alignment, and fluid replacement.
4. Use Standards.
a. No stockpiling of parts or salvaging of vehicle parts.
b. If located in the GB district or abutting a residential use, a landscape buffer with buffer intensity of 2 shall be provided.
c. No storage of impounded vehicles in front yard.
d. All storage of vehicles shall be fenced and prevented from view.
e. A minimum lot size of 20,000 square feet is required.
R. Major Vehicle Service.
1. Characteristics. Facility dealing in more than minor vehicle service as defined. Major vehicle service includes an auto body shop, repair of motor vehicles components such as engines and transmission.
2. Accessory Uses. Accessory uses may include (but are not limited to) associated office, ancillary indoor storage, towing, outdoor storage of vehicles.
3. Examples. Examples include auto collision repair shops and paint shops.
4. Use Standards.
a. If located in the GB district or abutting a residential use, a landscape buffer with buffer intensity of 2 shall be provided.
b. No stockpiling of parts or salvaging of vehicle parts.
c. No storage of impounded vehicles.
d. All storage of vehicles shall be fenced and prevented from view.
e. A minimum lot size of 20,000 square feet is required.
S. Convenience Store with Fuel Pumps.
1. Characteristics. Convenience stores with fueling stations are involved in the retail sale of fuel for motor vehicles, and convenience items including but not limited to food, beverages, tobacco products, and other similar products as its primary sales.
2. Accessory Uses. Accessory uses may include offices, storage or repackaging of goods for on-site sale, parking, and car wash.
3. Examples. Motor vehicle fuel stations with one (1) or more fuel pump selling fuel for motor vehicles and selling items which generally serve the day-to-day retail needs of travelers (e. g. gas station).
4. Uses Not Included.
a. General retail stores as defined above.
b. Sales of landscape materials, including bark chips and compost, is classified as light industrial.
c. Sales, rental, or leasing of heavy trucks and equipment is classified as light industrial.
5. Use Standards.
a. All car washing, waxing, machine powered drying shall be in an enclosed building. Hand washing and drying may be conducted outside of an enclosed building.
T. Car Wash.
1. Characteristics. Car washes are involved with a commercial activity used primarily for the washing of motor vehicles, providing car washing and car cleaning services, either full or self-service. A car wash is a free-standing use and does not include fueling stations.
2. Accessory Uses. Accessory uses may include offices, parking, retail sales of items associated with the cleaning of motor vehicles.
3. Examples. Car Wash examples include full service, self-service facilities which may or may not include an automatic car wash.
4. Uses Not Included.
a. Vehicle service or motor vehicle repair is classified as Car, Boat, Other Vehicle Sales and Rentals (with accessory service).
5. Use Standards.
a. All washing, waxing, machine powered drying shall be in an enclosed building. Hand washing and drying may be conducted outside of an enclosed building.
U. Funeral Home.
1. Characteristics. A facility used for the preparation of the deceased and the display of the deceased, connected to human funeral services. The facility may include space and facilities for embalming and preparation of the dead for burial, performance of autopsies, the storage of caskets and funeral supplies.
2. Accessory Uses. Accessory uses may include ancillary indoor storage, associated office, parking, storage of funeral vehicles, crematorium meeting all related laws and regulations.
V. Laundromat with Onsite Cleaning.
1. Characteristics. Laundromat with onsite cleaning establishments offer the renting of equipment, on-site, for the cleaning and washing of laundry to individual customers. May also provide limited dry-cleaning. Laundromat with onsite cleaning is intended to offer small scale facilities and not a wholesale or industrial level facility for mass cleaning of laundry.
2. Accessory Uses. Accessory uses may include ancillary indoor storage, associated office, parking.
3. Uses Not Included.
a. Wholesale laundry cleaning facilities (see laundry or Dry-Cleaning Plant under industrial uses).
W. Electronic Gaming Operations.
1. Characteristics. Electronic gaming operations shall occur in an electronic gaming operation establishment and shall be a principal, not accessory, use.
2. Standards.
a. Shall not be located within four-hundred (400) feet (determined by straight line and not street distance) from any other electronic gaming operation as measured by horizontal distance from the closest building exterior walls of each.
b. No electronic gaming operation establishment shall be located within four-hundred (400) feet (determined by straight line and not street distance) of the closest boundary line of any residential zoning district, or of any point on the closest property line of school, residence, public park, daycare or religious use as measured by a horizontal distance from closest point on the closest building exterior wall of the electronic gaming operation.
c. No electronic gaming operations establishment shall exceed 3,000 square feet in size.
d. No electronic machines and devices shall be used for sweepstakes games as defined in G.S. § 14-306.4.
e. All local, state, and federal laws shall be met.
f. All electronic gaming operations must be approved by City Council by a CC Rezoning as described in Section 4.6: Conditional Zoning.
X. Daycare Center/Adult Care.
1. Characteristics. An establishment for the daycare of children or adults in a commercial use setting. May not be twenty-four (24) hour care (see Family Care Home). Child daycare centers shall comply with the standards in Article 7, Chapter 110, of the North Carolina General Statutes. All requirements, licenses and permits from the State shall be met.
2. Accessory Uses. Accessory uses may include ancillary indoor storage, associated office, parking, cafeteria.
3. Use Standards.
a. Areas dedicated for drop off and pickup must be included for any site plan or permit request for a daycare center/adult care.
Y. Commercial Parking Lots & Structures.
1. Characteristics. Parking area or structure which is available to the public, but may also be used to accommodate employees, customers, and clients. No extended parking beyond overnight parking is permitted unless associated with transportation facilities such as an airport, rail, or bus terminal.
2. Accessory Uses. Valet parking.
3. Examples. Examples include a commercial parking lot and a parking garage.
4. Uses Not Included.
a. Outdoor storage of vehicles, boats, other vehicles, machinery, or equipment (see outdoor storage).
b. Trucks, trailers, delivery vehicle parking.
5. Use Standards.
a. In an effort to promote mixed-use, a parking structure (such as a parking garage) may feature additional accessory uses such as first floor retail, or rooftop amenities such as a restaurant, if the underlying zone district allows for the accessory use as a permitted right.
Z. Commercial Parking Lot —Trucks, Trailers, Delivery Vehicles.
1. Characteristics. Parking area dedicated for the parking of vehicles (trucks, trailers, delivery vehicles, etc.) associated with deliveries and logistics. Parking may be provided for overnight and weekends.
2. Examples. Examples include parking lots dedicated for delivery vehicles for ecommerce facilities, interstate travel, etc.
AA. Event Center/Convention Center.
1. Characteristics. Venues or facilities used by a group of people for temporary events such as conferences, sports, weddings, event halls, concerts, or similar events.
2. Accessory Uses. Accessory uses include offices; meeting rooms; indoor restaurant; bar; lounge; cabanas; boat docks; parking; indoor or outdoor recreation such as: swimming pools, tennis courts, fitness center, sauna, and other similar facilities.
3. Examples. Examples may include a convention center, coordinate wedding and banquet halls, sports stadium, or concert hall.
4. Uses Not Included.
a. Any fraternal organization, community centers and private clubs (see civic and private club);
b. Halls or rooms available to rent from public safety facilities including fire and police stations.
5. Use Standards.
a. Landscape buffer with a buffer intensity of 3 shall be established along any side of the property abutting any residential use or public right-of-way.
(Am. Ord. O-2022-70, passed 11-8-22)