The commercial use category includes uses that provide a business service or involve the selling, leasing or renting of merchandise to the general public. The commercial use subcategories are as follows.
A. Animal Service: Uses that provide goods and services for care of animals, including the following specific use types:
1. Grooming: Grooming of dogs, cats and similar small animals, including dog bathing and clipping salons and pet grooming shops.
2. Boarding Or Shelter: Animal shelters, care services and kennel services for dogs, cats and small animals, including boarding kennels, pet resorts/hotels, pet adoption centers, dog training centers, animal rescue shelters and zoos and animal sanctuaries.
3. Veterinary: Animal hospitals and veterinary clinics. (Ord. 2018-16, 12-4-2018)
B. Assembly And Entertainment: Uses that provide gathering places for secular or non-secular assembly or entertainment events or for participants in recreation or entertainment activities. Assembly and entertainment uses may provide incidental food or beverage service.
1. Non-Secular Assembly And Entertainment: Non-secular assembly and entertainment uses are those that are primarily centered on religious or spiritual matters, such as customarily occur in churches, synagogues, temples, mosques and other facilities used for religious worship. When outdoor seating and assembly areas exceed fifty percent (50%) of the indoor floor area of the religious assembly the entire use is regulated as an outdoor use.
2. Secular Assembly And Entertainment: Secular assembly and entertainment uses are those that are not primarily centered on religious or spiritual matters. Typical uses include health clubs, gymnasiums, riding stables and academies, banquet halls, entertainment centers, event centers, billiard centers, bowling centers, fraternal organizations, private (member-based) clubs, community centers, cinemas, go-cart tracks, laser tag, paintball, miniature golf courses, stadiums, arenas, video arcades, race tracks, fairgrounds, rodeo grounds, water parks, amusement parks, food truck courts, and live theaters. When outdoor seating, assembly and entertainment areas exceed fifty percent (50%) of the indoor floor area of the subject principal use the entire use is regulated as an outdoor use. (Ord. 2019-5, 3-19-2019)
C. Broadcast Or Recording Studio: Uses that provide for audio or video production, recording or broadcasting. (Ord. 2018-16, 12-4-2018)
D. Reserved. (Ord. 2019-6, 3-19-2019)
E. Commercial Service: Uses that provide for consumer or business services and for the repair and maintenance of a wide variety of products. Examples of commercial service use types include the following:
1. Building Service: Uses that provide maintenance and repair services for all structural and mechanical elements of structures, as well as the exterior spaces of premises. Typical uses include janitorial, landscape maintenance, carpet cleaning, chimney sweeps, extermination, plumbing, electrical, HVAC, roofing, window cleaning and similar services.
2. Business Support Service: Uses that provide personnel services, printing, copying, package (delivery) drop-off, photographic services or communication services to businesses or consumers. Typical uses include employment agencies, day labor hiring services, armored car services, copy and print shops, delivery/courier service drop-off location for consumers, caterers, telephone answering services and photo developing labs.
3. Consumer Maintenance And Repair Service: Uses that provide maintenance, cleaning and repair services for consumer goods on a site other than that of the customer (i.e., customers bring goods to the site of the repair/maintenance business). Typical uses include laundry and dry cleaning pick-up shops, tailors, taxidermists, dressmakers, shoe repair, picture framing shops, gunsmiths, locksmiths, vacuum repair shops, electronics repair shops and similar establishments. Businesses that offer repair and maintenance service for large equipment or technicians who visit customers' homes or places of business are classified as a "building service".
4. Personal Improvement Service: Uses that provide personal grooming, cosmetic or health and well-being-related services. Typical uses include barbers, hair and nail salons, tanning salons, day spas, body art services and fortune telling services.
5. Research Service: Uses engaged in scientific research and testing services leading to the development of new products and processes. Such uses resemble office buildings or campuses and do not involve the mass production, distribution or sale of products. Research services do not produce odors, dust, noise, vibration or other external impacts that are detectable beyond the property lines of the subject property.
F. Day Care: Uses providing care and supervision for children or adults for a fee on a regular basis away from their primary residence for less than twenty four (24) hours per day. Examples of day care uses include adult day care centers, as defined in the Oklahoma Adult Day Care Act; child care facilities, family child care homes and large family child care homes, as defined in the Oklahoma Child Care Facilities Licensing Act and OAC 340:110-3-81; provided that uses providing care and supervision for children or adults for twenty four (24) hours per day or longer are classified as group living uses. Day camps are also classified as day care uses.
1. Family Child Care Home: A day care use that is accessory to a household living use and that provides care and supervision for seven (7) or fewer children for less than twenty four (24) hours per day. See section 10-8-5 of this title.
2. Day Camps: As defined in the Oklahoma Child Care Facilities Licensing Act, programs that serve only school-age children and operate during regular school vacations for no more than twelve (12) hours per day.
G. Eating And Drinking Places:
1. Bar Or Tavern: Uses that cater primarily to adults, twenty one (21) years of age and older and that sell and serve intoxicating beverages and/or beer as their principal business. Typical bar uses include bars, taverns, brewpubs, nightclubs, pool halls, dance halls and similar establishments. See also the definition of "accessory use bar" in section 10-20-4 of this title.
2. Restaurant: An establishment that serves food or beverages for on- or off-premises consumption as its principal business. The preparation and processing of food or beverages to be served or sold on-site directly to consumers is permitted as an accessory use to a restaurant, including on-site coffee roasting. Typical examples of restaurant uses include principal use restaurants, cafes, cafeterias, ice cream/yogurt shops, donut shops and coffee shops. A restaurant may include an accessory use bar if the restaurant employs at least one full-time cook, has a menu, a fully equipped kitchen for cooking and preparation of meals and in which dining, kitchen and non-service areas occupy at least seventy five percent (75%) of the floor area of the business. Any bar area that does not meet the definition of an accessory use bar (section 10-20-4 of this title) is classified and regulated as a bar or tavern.
H. Financial Service: Uses related to the exchange, lending, borrowing and safe-keeping of money. Automatic teller machines, kiosks and similar facilities that do not have on-site employees or amplified sound are not classified as financial service uses if they meet the criteria for classification as an accessory use (see subsection 10-8-1B of this title). Typical examples of financial service use types are banks, credit unions, and the following types of personal credit establishments:
1. Check Cashing: An establishment that:
a. Is not a bank or financial lending institution subject to Federal or State regulation;
b. Charges a fee to cash a check or have a check processed; and
c. Provides such services to the public.
2. Pawnshop: An establishment that is engaged to any extent in any of the following business or activities:
a. The lending of money on the deposit or pledge of personal property, other than choses in action, securities or written evidence of indebtedness;
b. The purchase of personal property either from an individual, another pawn business or any other business with an expressed or implied agreement or understanding to offer the property for sale to the public, and if that sale is unsuccessful, then to sell it back to the previous owner at a subsequent time at a stipulated price or negotiated price;
c. The purchase of precious metals with the intent to melt down, provided that such activity is not clearly incidental to the principal use of the establishment; or
d. The lending of money upon personal property, goods, wares, or merchandise pledged, stored or deposited as collateral security.
3. Payday Lender: An establishment that is substantially in the business of negotiating, arranging, aiding, or assisting a consumer in procuring payday loans.
4. Bail Bond: A use that provides surety and pledged money or property as bail for the appearance of persons accused in court.
I. Funeral And Mortuary Service: Uses that provide services related to the death of a human or domestic, household pet, including funeral homes and mortuaries. Funeral and mortuary services may include crematoriums as an accessory use. Other crematoriums and animal rendering uses are classified as moderate-impact manufacturing and industry.
J. Lodging: Uses that provide temporary lodging for less than thirty (30) days where rents are charged by the day or by the week. Lodging uses sometimes provide food or entertainment, primarily to registered guests. Examples of specific lodging use types include:
1. Bed And Breakfast Inn: A detached house in which the owner/operator offers overnight accommodations and meal service to overnight guests for compensation.
2. Hotel/Motel: An establishment, other than a bed and breakfast inn or rural retreat, in which short-term lodging is offered for compensation. A hotel/motel may include an accessory use bar.
3. Recreational Vehicle Park/Campground: An establishment that provides temporary overnight accommodations for camping in recreational vehicles or tents.
4. Rural Retreat: An establishment that is part of a working farm or ranch that provides temporary overnight accommodations for individuals or groups engaged in supervised training or personal improvement activities. Examples include corporate retreat facilities, educational retreat facilities and dude ranches or working farm learning centers.
K. Office: Uses in an enclosed building, customarily performed in an office, that focus on providing executive, management, administrative, professional or medical services. Examples of specific use types include:
1. Business And Professional Office: Office uses for companies and non-governmental organizations. Examples include corporate office, law offices, architectural firms, insurance companies and other executive, management or administrative offices for businesses and corporations. Also included are union halls that offer only office and meeting space and insurance claims adjusters/estimators with no more than one vehicle inspection bay and no on-site repair facilities.
2. Medical, Dental And Health Practitioner Office: Office uses related to diagnosis and treatment of human patients' illnesses, injuries and physical maladies that can be performed in an office setting with no overnight care. Typical uses include offices of physicians, dentists, psychiatrists, psychologists, chiropractors and practitioners of massage therapy. Surgical, rehabilitation and other medical centers that do not involve overnight patient stays are included in this use subcategory, as are medical and dental laboratories, unless otherwise expressly indicated. Ancillary sales of medications and medical products are allowed in association with a medical, dental or health practitioner office.
L. Parking, Non-Accessory: Parking that is not provided to comply with minimum off-street parking requirements or that is not provided exclusively to serve occupants of or visitors to a particular use, but rather is available to the public at-large. A parking facility that provides both accessory and non-accessory parking will be classified as non-accessory parking if it leases twenty five percent (25%) or more of its spaces to non-occupants of or persons other than visitors to a particular use.
M. Retail Sales: Uses involving the sale, lease or rental of new or used goods to the ultimate consumer. Examples of specific retail use types include:
1. Convenience Goods: Retail sales uses that sell or otherwise provide: a) sundry goods; b) products for personal grooming and for the day-to-day maintenance of personal health; or c) food or beverages for off-premises consumption, including grocery stores, retail bakeries and similar uses that provide incidental and accessory food and beverage service as part of their primary retail sales business. Typical uses include convenience stores, drug stores, grocery and specialty food stores, wine or liquor stores, gift shops, newsstands, florists and tobacco stores.
2. Consumer Shopping Goods: Retail sales uses that sell or otherwise provide wearing apparel, fashion accessories, furniture, household appliances and similar consumer goods, large and small, functional and decorative, for use, entertainment, comfort or aesthetics. Typical uses include clothing stores, department stores, appliance stores, TV and electronics stores, bike shops, book stores, costume rental stores, stationery stores, art galleries, hobby shops, furniture stores, pet stores and pet supply stores, shoe stores, antique shops, secondhand stores, record stores, toy stores, sporting goods stores, variety stores, video stores, musical instrument stores, medical supplies, office supplies and office furnishing stores and wig shops.
3. Building Supplies And Equipment: Retail sales uses that sell or otherwise provide goods to repair, maintain or visually enhance a structure or premises. Typical uses include hardware stores, home improvement stores, paint and wallpaper supply stores and garden supply stores.
N. Self-Service Storage Facility: An enclosed use that provides separate, small-scale, self-service storage facilities leased or rented to individuals or small businesses. Facilities are designed and used to accommodate only interior access to storage lockers or drive-up access only from regular size passenger vehicles and two-axle non-commercial vehicles.
O. Studio, Artist Or Instructional Service: Uses in an enclosed building that focus on providing individual or small group instruction or training in fine arts, music, dance, drama, fitness, language or similar activities. Also includes dance studios, ballet academies, yoga studios, martial arts instruction, tutoring, artist studios and photography studios.
P. Trade School: Uses in an enclosed building that focus on teaching the skills needed to perform a particular job. Examples include schools of cosmetology, modeling academies, computer training facilities, vocational schools, administrative business training facilities and similar uses. Truck driving schools are classified as "trucking and transportation terminals" (wholesale, distribution and storage use category).
Q. Vehicle Sales And Service: Uses that provide for the sale, rental, maintenance or repair of new or used vehicles and vehicular equipment. The vehicle sales and service subcategory includes the following specific use types:
1. Commercial Vehicle Repair And Maintenance: Uses, excluding vehicle paint finishing shops, that repair, install or maintain the mechanical components or the bodies of large trucks, mass transit vehicles, large construction or agricultural equipment, aircraft or similar large vehicles and vehicular equipment. Includes truck stops and fleet vehicle fueling facilities, which may dispense conventional vehicle fuels and/or alternative vehicle fuels.
2. Commercial Vehicle Sales And Rentals: Uses that provide for the sale or rental of large trucks, moving equipment (e.g., U-Haul and Ryder), construction or agricultural equipment, aircraft, or similar large vehicles and vehicular equipment.
3. Fueling Station (For Personal, Consumer Vehicles): Uses engaged in retail sales of vehicle fuels for personal vehicles, other than fleet fueling facilities and truck stops. (Note: Fleet vehicle fueling facilities and truck stops are part of the "commercial vehicle repair and maintenance" specific use type.) Fueling stations may dispense conventional vehicle fuels and/or alternative vehicle fuels.
4. Personal Vehicle Repair And Maintenance: Uses that repair, install or maintain the mechanical components of automobiles, small trucks or vans, motorcycles, motor homes or recreational vehicles including recreational boats or that wash, clean or otherwise protect the exterior or interior surfaces of these vehicles.
5. Personal Vehicle Sales And Rentals: Uses that provide for the sale or rental of new or used autos, small trucks or vans, trailers, motorcycles, motor homes or recreational vehicles including recreational watercraft. Typical examples include automobile dealers, auto malls, car rental agencies. Car-share vehicles that are parked or stored when not being used by members of a car-share program are not regulated as personal vehicle sales and rental uses, but are instead considered accessory parking.
6. Vehicle Equipment And Supplies Sales And Rentals: Uses related to the sale, lease or rental of new or used parts, tools or supplies for the purpose of repairing or maintaining motor vehicles.
7. Vehicle Body And Paint Finishing Shop: Uses that primarily conduct motor vehicle body work and repairs or that apply paint to the exterior or interior surfaces of motor vehicles by spraying, dipping, flow-coating or other similar means. (Ord. 2018-16, 12-4-2018)