(a) Purpose. The purpose of the General Commercial district is to encourage and provide suitable areas for the development of traffic-oriented business service facilities and restricted types of retail sales, operations, and community service facilities.
(b) Permitted and Conditional Uses.
(1) Permitted uses.
A. Any use permitted as regulated in the Neighborhood Commercial and Community Commercial Districts.
B. Discount houses, garden supply stores, and laundries, excluding cleaning and dying bulk plant establishments.
C. Drive-in eating and drinking places provided the principal building is not less than 100 feet from any residential area.
D. Bowling lanes, but not within 100 feet of any residential district, drive-in theaters provided such screen shall be set back not less than 200 ft. from the established right of way of any such street or highway.
E. Commercial recreation facilities including baseball fields, miniature golf courses, trampoline centers and similar open air facilities provided such facilities shall be at a distance of at least 100 ft. from any residential district.
F. Carpenter shops, electrical, plumbing, and heating shops, furniture and upholstery shops, job printing, lithographing, blue printing and similar enterprises not including contractor's yards, not within 50 ft. of any residential district and containing less than 10,000 sq. ft. of floor space.
G. Sign painting shops and wholesale bakeries, but not within 100 ft. of any residential district.
H. Lumber and other building material dealers.
(Ord. 05-2010. Passed 2-8-10.)
(2) Conditional uses.
A. Private assembly halls.
B. Automotive service station, but not within 50 ft. of any residential district; establishments for automobiles, trucks, trailers, recreational vehicles, motorcycles, farm tractors, or implements or machinery and other types of vehicles for sale, display, hire, or repair, including sales lots, used car lots, or lots for the sale of other used vehicles, implements and equipment but not within 100 ft. of any residential district.
C. Animal hospital or animal clinic but without overnight boarding and/or outside runs.
D. Hospital, convalescent center and nursing home.
E. Mortuary and funeral home.
F. Commercial greenhouse.
G. (EDITOR’S NOTE: Former subsection (b)(2)G. was repealed by Ordinance 17-2023, passed June 26, 2023.)
H. Any other retail business or service establishment determined by the Planning Commission to be of the same general character as the above conditional and permitted uses, not including those which are first permitted or not permitted in this General Commercial District.
I. Sexually Oriented Business Establishments.
1. In addition to all other applicable development standards, no person shall operate, locate, or permit the location of a sexually oriented business establishment within 1,000 feet (as measured from property line to property line) of any residential use or district, school, preschool, daycare, place of worship, or other civic or public use.
2. No person shall operate, locate or permit the location of a sexually oriented business establishment within 1,000 feet (as measured from property line to property line) of another sexually oriented business establishment.
3. No person shall operate, locate or permit the location of a sexually oriented business establishment within 1,000 feet (as measured from property line to property line) of any commercial establishment selling beer or alcohol for consumption on the premises.
4. No person shall operate, locate or permit the location of a sexually oriented business establishment within 1,000 feet (as measured from property line to property line) of any hotel or motel.
5. No person shall operate, locate or permit the location of more than one(1) sexually oriented business on the same property, in the same building or structure, or any part thereof.
J. Completely enclosed self-service personal storage garage and/or storage facility which serves the storage needs of private individuals through the provision of compartmentalized and controlled-access stalls, lockers, or spaces only if:
1. The parcel or assembled parcels, upon which the structure is erected, total 3 or more acres;
2. Such facility does not include sales, service, or storage of hazardous materials;
3. Loading and unloading areas shall be paved and shall be located only as approved by the Board of Zoning Appeals;
4. Fencing and/or landscape screening of the perimeter shall be provided as determined by the Board of Zoning Appeals in a manner which promotes security and presents an appropriate appearance to abutting properties;
5. Door openings facing residential areas shall not be permitted unless approved by the Board of Zoning Appeals;
6. Activities on the site shall be limited to the storage of property only. Other activities, such as the operation of tools, rummage sales, temporary residency, etc. shall be prohibited;
7. Hours of operation shall be only as approved by the Board of Zoning Appeals, after consideration of the impact of the proposed use upon the character, safety, and tranquility of the neighborhood;
8. The structure is setback at least 175' from the road right-of-way;
9. The structure is incorporated into a development that includes another GC District Permitted Use on the parcel or assembled parcels other than then an on-site leasing office.
(Ord. 01-2017. Passed 3-13-17.)
(Ord. 05-2010. Passed 2-8-10.)