1147.01 Purpose.
1147.02 Permitted uses.
1147.03 Conditional uses.
1147.04 Development standards.
CROSS REFERENCES
Site Development Plans - see P.&Z. Ch. 1137
Development Standards - see P.&Z. Ch.1165
Landscaping and Screening - see P.&Z. Ch. 1167
Off-Street Parking and Loading Facilities - see P.&Z. Ch. 1169
Fences - see P.&Z. Ch. 1173
Signs - see P.&Z. Ch. 1175
The General Commercial (GC) District is intended to provide areas for a broad range of retail and commercial service facilities. Because of the wide range and intensity of commercial uses allowed, areas zoned General Commercial have the potential to become activity centers and community focal points. As a result, these areas should be carefully located to insure that proper traffic access, adequate utilities, and desirable land use relationships exist or can be provided.
Land and buildings in the General Commercial District (GC) shall be used only for the following purposes:
(a) Retail Stores. Retail stores primarily engaged in selling merchandise for personal or household consumption and rendering services incidental to the sale of the goods (including the buying or processing of goods for resale) including:
(1) General Merchandise: Hardware stores, department stores, mail order houses, limited price variety stores, appliance sales, and miscellaneous general merchandise stores.
(2) Food: Supermarkets, grocery stores, meat and fish (seafood) markets, fruit stores and vegetable markets, candy, nut and confectionery stores, dairy products stores, retail bakeries, supermarkets, and miscellaneous food stores.
(3) Building Materials, Retail: Lumber and other building materials, heating and plumbing equipment, electrical supply equipment, and hardware and farm equipment.
(4) Apparel: Clothing, accessories and personal furnishing stores, shoe stores, custom tailors, furriers and fur shops, and miscellaneous apparel and accessory stores.
(5) Home Furnishings: Furniture, home furnishings, and equipment stores, household appliance stores, and radio, television and music stores.
(6) Eating and drinking places.
(7) Electronic products.
(8) Video rental store.
(9) Miscellaneous Retail: Drug stores and proprietary stores, liquor stores, antique stores and secondhand stores, stationery stores, sporting goods stores and bicycle shops, jewelry stores, florists, cigar stores, news dealers, camera and photographic supply stores, gift, novelty and souvenir shops, optical goods stores, and miscellaneous retail stores not elsewhere classified.
(10) Business Services: Advertising, duplicating, addressing, blueprinting, photocopying, mailing, stenography, and business services not elsewhere classified.
(b) Business and Professional Offices. Business offices engaged in providing tangible and intangible services to the public, involving both persons and their possessions, including:
(1) Administrative, Business and Professional Offices: Administrative offices primarily engaged in general administration, supervision, purchasing, accounting and other management functions, and professional offices engaged in providing tangible and intangible services to the general public, involving both persons and possessions, including financial services, real estate and insurance.
(2) Professional: Offices of physicians and surgeons, dentists and dental surgeons, chiropractors, medical and dental laboratories, health and allied sciences not elsewhere classified, legal services, design services including engineering, architecture, landscape architecture, urban planning, graphic arts and interior design, and accounting, auditing and bookkeeping services.
(3) Health care maintenance and emergency services.
(c) Personal and Consumer Services. Personal services generally involving the care of the person or his/her personal effects and consumer services generally involving the care and maintenance of tangible property or the provision of intangible services for personal consumption, including:
(1) Personal: Photographic studios, including commercial photography, beauty shops, barber shops, laundromats, funeral services, shoe repair shops, pressing, alteration and garment repair, and miscellaneous personal service.
(2) Repair Services: Electrical repair shops, watch, clock and jewelry repair, reupholsters and furniture repair, and similar household item repair shops and related services.
The following uses may be allowed in the General Commercial District (GC) subject to approval in accordance with Chapter 1181:
(a) Drive-up window service or Open Display. Drive-up window service or outdoor service, or open display facility, developed in association with a principal permitted use.
(b) Automobile Service Stations, Automobile Convenience Markets, Repair, Services and Garages. Gasoline service stations provided no portion of a structure or its appurtenances, including ancillary, associated or auxiliary equipment, shall be located in front of the established building line. All repair work must be performed indoors. There shall be no outdoor storage. The proposed facility shall not be located within one hundred fifty (150) feet of a residential zoning district, including PUD and PRD.
(c) Commercial Recreation. Theaters, dance halls, dance studios, dance schools, bowling alleys, swimming pools, golf courses, driving ranges, and skating rinks.
(d) Hotels and Motels. Lodging facilities and subordinate eating and drinking facilities and recreational facilities, provided that the minimum lot area is two (2) acres.
(e) Offices of Veterinarians and Animal Hospitals.
(f) Commercial Kennel. Commercial kennels shall not be located within two hundred (200) feet of a residential zoning district, including PUD and PRD.
(g) Automobile Parking. An automobile parking lot as a principal use.
(h) Automobile Car Wash. Automobile car washes shall not be located within one hundred and fifty (150) feet of a residential zoning district, including PUD and PRD. No portion of a structure or its appurtenances, including ancillary, associated or auxiliary equipment, shall be located in front of the established building line.
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