(A) Description and purpose. This District is intended to accommodate uses which can provide office, personal services, and commercial goods for visitors to and residents of the township, including auto-related uses which would ordinarily be incompatible with the character of residential districts. It is intended to serve primarily traffic along major county roadways and to contain uses which require access to and frontage on such roadways.
(B) Permitted uses. Land and/or buildings in the C District may be used for the following purposes as permitted uses:
(1) Office buildings for any of the following occupations: executive, administrative, professional, accounting, drafting, and medical and dental offices and clinics;
(2) Banks, credit unions, savings and loan associations, including those with drive-through facilities;
(3) Personal service establishments conducting services on the premises, including barber and dry-cleaning service outlets, beauty shops, fitness centers, and travel agencies;
(4) Retail stores, providing goods within a completely enclosed building;
(5) Drug stores and pharmacies;
(6) Restaurants, exclusive of drive-through facilities;
(7) Private clubs, fraternal organizations, and lodge halls;
(8) Dry-cleaning and laundry establishments performing cleaning operations on the premises, including retail/service operations;
(9) Indoor recreational facilities;
(10) Commercial child care centers;
(11) Utility and public service buildings without storage yards, but not including essential public services such as poles, wires, and underground utility systems;
(12) Accessory buildings, structures, and uses customarily incidental to any permitted or special land use; and
(13) Bulk fuel storage (propane).
(1) Commercial greenhouses and nurseries;
(2) Commercial kennels;
(3) Funeral homes and mortuary establishments;
(4) Hotels and motels;
(5) Theaters, or similar places of public assembly as determined by the Zoning Administrator;
(6) Restaurants with drive-through facilities;
(7) Vehicle service stations, with or without mechanical repair;
(8) Open air businesses;
(9) Veterinary hospitals and animal clinics;
(10) Commercial storage warehouses;
(11) Churches;
(12) Planned unit developments;
(13) Marinas;
(14) Light industrial processing;
(15) Vehicle sales; and
(16) Body shops.
(D) District regulations. No building or structure, nor the enlargement of any building or structure, shall be thereafter erected unless the following requirements are met and maintained in connection with such building, structure, or enlargement.
(1) The outdoor storage of goods or materials shall be prohibited in the required front yard. Goods or materials stored in the side or rear yard shall be screened from the view from the street or from abutting properties.
Building height | 35 feet |
Front yard | 75 feet |
Lot coverage | 40% |
Minimum lot area | 1 acre |
Minimum lot width | 150 feet |
Rear yard | 30 feet |
Side yard | 30 feet on each side |
(2) A maximum of one driveway per street shall be permitted per principal use, or collective principal use, as defined in § 155.022.
(3) The Planning Commission may permit additional driveways, if justified by a traffic study provided by the applicant or owner indicating the need for such additional driveways.
(4) Parking lots and driveways providing access to corner lots shall be required to gain sole access from the lesser traveled of the two intersecting streets. For the purposes of this division (D)(4), LESSER TRAVELED shall mean the street having the lowest daily traffic volume, or as may be determined by the Planning Commission where traffic count information is not available or was counted more than two years prior to the date of the application submission.
(Ord. 03-02, passed 7-2-2003; Ord. passed 7-30-2015; amended 8- -2005; Ord. 19-17, passed 6-12-2019)