The following provisions apply to shopping centers:
(A) A development plan as provided in this chapter shall be approved by the Planning Commission for all shopping centers. Each development plan shall include each of the items set forth in this section for the Planning Commission’s review and approval.
(B) The ground area occupied by all buildings shall not exceed in the aggregate 40% of the total area of the lot or tract.
(C) Notwithstanding any other provision of this chapter, there shall be provided four and one- half parking spaces per 1,000 square feet of gross area available for lease provided for each shopping center.
(D) For purposes of computing the area of parking spaces available for a shopping center, the ratio of 300 square feet per parking space shall be used. The parking space shall include both the parking stall and the adjacent passage way.
(E) Vehicular locations shall be provided so that vehicles entering or departing a planned shopping center site shall do so only at specified locations. Elsewhere along the property lines of the planned shopping center site a physical separation between the site and public rights-of-way shall be provided. A vehicular location shall consist of such entrance and exit driveway openings so designed and located as to minimize hazardous vehicular turning movements and traffic congestion.
(F) Access ways and parking areas shall be lighted adequately by lighting fixtures which shall be so installed as to reflect light away from adjoining properties.
(G) Where a shopping center abuts or is contiguous to any Residential District, without an intervening public street, but with or without an intervening alley, there shall be provided, as a part of the development plan provided for in this chapter, landscaping, including screening, to assist in the prevention of the transmission of light and noise from within the planned shopping center.
(h) Section 153.003 shall not apply internally to the shopping center provided ample evidence is presented to the Planning Commission that permanent easements have been granted the tenant/land or building owners. Evidence shall be considered ample by filing a copy of the master deed, easement or other legal documents which subsequently will be filed at the Allen County Court Clerk’s office.
(Ord. 665-98, passed 12-21-1998)