(A) Within the CD District, there may exist three sub-zones: CD - Community Commercial; CDh - Commercial Highway; and CDi - Industrial. Designation of such sub-zones shall be the responsibility of the Board of County Commissioners upon the recommendation of the county’s Planning Commission.
(B) Applications for conditional uses or requests for variances in CD District must first have appropriate sub-zone designation. Such designation shall become part of the official county zone plan. Applicants are required to provide a reproducible Mylar or linen and three copies of detailed site plan drawings of their proposed use and sub-zone boundary including:
(1) Format size not less than eight and one-half inches by 11 inches, or greater than 24 inches by 36 inches;
(2) Precise dimension at a convenient engineering scale;
(3) Location of all existing structures and improvements (buildings, roads, fences, ditches and canals, utility systems), and other information as required by Planning Commission within 500 feet of the proposed sub-zone boundary; and
(4) Proposed methods of providing utility needs including water, sewer, electrical and fuel services, access and parking and appropriate methods from dealing with any special site problems such as storm water drainage.
(C) No commercial or industrial building shall be erected within 25 feet of a residential building or residential district boundary. Commercial or industrial buildings within 100 feet of a residential district boundary shall not exceed the height limitations of that district.
(D) The Planning Commission shall review all pertinent information on the proposed sub-zone designation and submit their recommendation to the County Board of Commissioners. Upon receiving the Planning Commission’s recommendation(s), the Board of County Commissioners shall advertise for and hold a public hearing to receive public input in order to make an informed decision whether or not to designate the sub-zone by ordinance.
(E) (1) The following uses require an approval from the Planning and Zoning Commission prior to any use in Industrial Cdi: manufacture of any of the following products from raw materials: acids, asphalt, carbide, caustic soda, carbon or bone black, cellulose, charcoal, chlorine, creosote, fertilizer, hydrogen, industrial alcohol, nitrates of an explosive nature, plastics, portland cement, potash, synthetic and resins, fibers.
(2) Any of the following processes: distillation of wood or bone; filtrating of cotton or other materials; reduction, refining, smelting and alloying of metals or metal ores and radioactive materials; refining of petroleum and petroleum products; slaughtering and packing of animals larger than poultry and rabbits; tanning of raw, green or salted hides of skins.
(3) Automobile salvage and wrecking operations and industrial metal, rag, glass or paper salvage operations; provided that, all operations are conducted within a solid view obscuring wall or fence not less than eight feet in height.
(Ord. passed 9- -2011)