(A) The purpose of this district is to encourage development for commercial purposes of small areas of land located in largely residential neighborhoods where such purposes are compatible with residential uses.
(B) Principal permitted uses in this district are any retail businesses or service establishments which supply services primarily for residents of the neighborhood, or which general small traffic volume which is not disruptive to the neighborhood. Such businesses or establishments must front on arterial, collector, or major streets. Uses include the following:
(1) Apparel and accessories (clothing, bridal, shoes).
(2) Banks.
(3) Bicycle shops.
(4) Bookstores or newsstands.
(5) Business offices.
(6) Churches.
(7) Credit agencies.
(8) Drug stores.
(9) Eating and drinking places without drive-in windows or drive-through service.
(10) Florist shops.
(11) Food stores (grocery, bakery) with less than four thousand five hundred (4,500) square feet of usable space.
(12) Gift shops, coin shops, and art supply stores.
(13) Jewelry stores.
(14) Laundry.
(15) Musical equipment and supply stores.
(16) Photo studios.
(17) Shoe repair shops.
(18) Travel services.
(19) Watch and clock repair facilities.
(C) Conditionally permitted uses shall be as follows:
(1) Agricultural uses.
(2) Automobile repair, minor.
(3) Filling stations.
(4) Other uses compatible with the character of surrounding residential districts as authorized by the Board of Zoning Adjustment including any use permitted in or C-2 Districts which would not overburden the street on which the use fronts.
(D) Prohibited uses shall include eating and drinking places with drive-in windows or drive-through service.
(E) Required conditions.
(1) All businesses, services, or processing shall be conducted wholly within a completely enclosed building except in filling stations (a conditional use). All products processed shall be sold primarily on the premises.
(2) Processes and equipment used 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.
(F) Residential uses. All residences existing before the adoption of this chapter shall be permitted to continue as conforming structures. All future residential development within this district shall conform to R-3 requirements.
(G) Height and yard regulations.
(1) No principal structure shall exceed two and one-half (2-1/2) stories or thirty (30) feet in height.
(2) Lot frontage shall be no less than fifty (50) feet.
(3) Front yard depth shall be at least ten (10) feet.
(4) Rear yard depth shall not be less than twenty (20) feet.
(5) Side lot requirements in business establishments adjacent to any R District shall be the same as those of the adjacent R District; otherwise, no side lot requirement shall apply.
(H) Accessory uses. Any accessory use of buildings customarily incidental to the above-mentioned permitted uses shall be permitted.
(Ord. passed 1-27-87) Penalty, see § 156.999