(A) Intent. The purpose of the restricted commercial district shall be to locate and establish areas within the city which are uniquely suited for commercial development but which are transitioning from residential or other noncommercial development to commercial use. Such areas to be primarily along major transportation corridors connecting other community commercial clusters. The uses and development standards included in the district are intended to provide compatibility between uses, protect nearby residential districts, provide access control along corridors, provide quality development, enhance corridor appearance, and provide additional commercial opportunities within the city.
(B) Principal uses and structures. The following uses and structures are permitted:
(1) Professional offices: accounting, architecture, engineering, dentistry, medical, insurance, legal, real estate, financial services (non-banking), and similar uses.
(2) General offices: administrative, corporate, business, and similar uses.
(3) Personal services: beauty, barber, dry cleaning pick-up, and similar uses (minimum fifteen thousand (15,000) square foot lot).
(4) Business services: graphic design, interior design, advertising, photography, printing, employment services, telemarketing, business schools, and similar uses (minimum fifteen thousand (15,000) square foot lot).
(5) Financial institutions: banks, credit unions and savings and loans (minimum fifteen thousand (15,000) square foot lot).
(6) Retail sales and service: clothing, jewelry, luggage, shoes, electronics, sporting goods, books, gift shops, florists, photographic supplies, art dealers, tobacco products, grocery stores, drug stores, cosmetic and beauty supply, optical, specialty food, and similar uses (minimum fifteen thousand (15,000) square foot lot).
(7) Veterinarians and veterinary clinics provided all activities are within the principal structure and there is no boarding of animals (minimum fifteen thousand (15,000) square foot lot).
(8) Schools licensed by the State of Florida (minimum fifteen thousand (15,000) square foot lot).
(9) Day care centers licensed by the State of Florida (minimum fifteen thousand (15,000) square foot lot), provided the lot has frontage on an Arterial or Collector Roadway, as identified in the adopted City Comprehensive Plan.
(10) Public uses: any federal, state, county, municipal, special district, or similar use.
(11) Funeral homes (minimum fifteen thousand (15,000) square foot lot).
(12) Eating establishments: restaurants, coffee shops, pastry shops, ice cream parlors, cafeterias, snack shops, and similar uses (minimum fifteen thousand (15,000) square foot lot).
(13) Contractors' administrative offices: plumbers, electricians, carpenters, masons, roofers, builders, cabinet makers, fence installers, gutter and siding installers, flooring and tile installers, drywall installers, painters, heating and air conditioning installers, glass repair and replacement, and similar uses, provided no storage occurs at the site, no construction equipment is parked or stored at the site, and all parking is on a paved surface (minimum fifteen thousand (15,000) square foot lot).
(C) Accessory uses and structures. Customary accessory uses of one (1) or more of the principal uses, clearly incidental and subordinate to the principal use, in keeping with the low intensity commercial nature of the district. All storage shall be within an enclosed structure unless clearly provided or excluded for herein.
(D) Conditional uses.
(1) Major retail sales, rental and service: building supply, major appliances, furniture, paint, hardware, lawn and garden supplies, consumer goods rentals, and similar uses (minimum fifteen thousand (15,000) square foot lot).
(2) Plant nurseries, greenhouses (minimum fifteen thousand (15,000) square foot lot).
(3) Public utility facilities.
(4) Clubs, lodges, and fraternal organizations (minimum fifteen thousand (15,000) square foot lot).
(5) Hospitals and nursing homes (minimum fifteen thousand (15,000) square foot lot).
(6) Model home centers subject to the following:
(a) No storage of construction materials is permitted on the site.
(b) Off-street parking must be provided at one (1) space per three hundred (300) square feet of overall building.
(c) Minimum lot area for the combined center is fifteen thousand (15,000) square feet.
(d) The site and buildings only be utilized for sales and marketing purposes.
(e) No residential use is permitted.
(f) Only a sales office and homes representing those offered for sale by the builder are permitted uses under this category.
(E) Prohibited uses and structures.
(1) All uses not specifically permitted herein.
(2) Building services: pest control, carpet cleaning, janitorial, water treatment, vending, and similar uses.
(3) Retail automotive fuel sales.
(4) Drinking establishments.
(5) Pawn shops.
(6) Tattoo parlors.
(7) Contractors' offices with outside storage: plumbers, electricians, carpenters, masons,roofers, builders, cabinet makers, fence installers, gutter and siding installers, flooring and tile installers, drywall installers, painters, heating and air conditioning installers, glass repair and replacement, and similar uses.
(8) Dancing in eating establishments.
(9) Fireworks sales.
(10) Fortune tellers, tarot card reading, palm readers, and similar uses.
(11) Commercial towers.
(12) Pain-management clinic.
(F) Lot and structure requirements.
(1) Minimum lot area fifteen thousand (15,000) square feet.
(2) Minimum lot width one hundred (100) feet.
(3) Minimum lot depth - one hundred fifty (150) feet.
(4) Maximum building coverage - thirty-five percent (35%).
(5) Minimum floor area - three hundred (300) square feet.
(6) Maximum height - twenty-five (25) feet.
(7) Minimum yard requirements:
(a) Front: Forty (40) feet minimum building setback. Thirty (30) feet minimum building setback for front yards which face an arterial road. Parking areas may be located in the front yard except within fifteen (15) feet on the front lot line or ten (10) feet for parking areas located in a front yard which face an arterial road.
(b) Side interior: Ten (10) feet minimum building setback. Parking areas may be located in the side yard, except within five (5) feet of the side lot line. Side yards abutting residentially zoned property shall maintain a thirty (30) feet minimum setback for all buildings and parking.
(c) Side corner: Twenty-five (25) feet minimum building setback. Parking areas may be located in side corner yard, except within ten (10) feet of any street.
(d) Rear: Thirty (30) feet minimum building and parking setback.
(8) Shared access and parking areas:
(a) No side interior building and parking area setbacks are required provided all of the following are met:
1. Buildings on adjacent parcels, under separate ownership, are joined by a common wall.
2. Parking areas and aisles are joined with adjacent parcel(s) under separate ownership.
3. Curb cuts and driveways on principal roadways (collector and arterial streets) are shared in common parcels involved and a minimum spacing of one hundred fifty (150) feet is maintained, or access is provided by an approved frontage road.
4. Easements and/or written assurances of cross access and a sharing of common facilities (stormwater system, solid waste container(s), lighting, landscaping, etc.), as may be applicable, common facilities from all property owners involved must be approved prior to the issuance of a building permit.
(b) No interior side parking area setbacks are required, provided the requirements of subdivisions (8)(a)2. through 4. above are met.
(c) For adjacent developments meeting the requirements of subdivisions (8)(a)2. through 4. above, the total number of off-street parking spaces required for uses on all parcels involved may be reduced by ten percent (10%) where the location of shared parking areas provides convenient access to all principal buildings.
(9) Wall requirements. An eight (8) foot high completely opaque masonry wall shall be provided along the entire length of any side or rearproperty line abutting property zoned residential. This required masonry wall shall provide a finished treatment on all sides and shall be set back from the property line a minimum of three (3) feet to provide adequate room for maintenance of both sides of the wall.
(10) Design requirements:
(a) An Architectural Style for each structure is required. This shall include adherence to all standards contained in § 185.134.
(11) Signs. Maximum height for any detached sign shall be ten (10) feet. All other criteria of the Sign Code shall be met.
(12) Landscaping. All lots abutting residentially zoned land shall plant a minimum of one (1) tree for every thirty-five (35) feet of abutting distance. These required trees shall be a minimum of ten (10) feet in height at planting and shall be placed on the commercial lot between the residential property and any buildings or parking on the commercial lot.
(Ord. 2001-48, passed 7-19-01; Am. Ord. 2003-45, passed 11-20- 03; Am. Ord. 2004-59, passed 10- 7-04; Am. Ord. 2008-27, passed 5- 1-08; Am. Ord. 2009-16, passed 5- 7-09; Am. Ord. 2010-41, passed 9-16-10; Am. Ord. 2016-17, passed 4-21-16; Am. Ord. 2020-87, passed 1-7-21)