Dealerships or establishments offering new or new and used automobiles, motorcycles, recreational vehicles, trailers, or boats for sale may be conditionally permitted in an M-1 or M-2 district in compliance with the following divisions (a) through (h) of this section:
(a) Primary and Conditional Accessory Uses: Sale of new automobiles means a building and land primarily used by a franchised automobile dealer principally for the sale of new automobiles. The sale of used automobiles may be permitted only as a conditional accessory use provided the inventory of used automobiles does not exceed fifty percent (50%) of the overall vehicle inventory at any one time. The sale of accessory used vehicles must be located on the same site as the new vehicle sales.
(b) Site Plan Requirements: The franchised automobile dealership must be on a lot with not less than 300 feet frontage, and, where the open lot abuts on more than one street, not less than 300 feet frontage on each such street, for the sale of used motor vehicles. The franchised automobile dealership must have customer and employee parking on site including required ADA parking per applicable building codes. A site plan showing areas of surface parking for new vehicles, used vehicles (if applicable), customer and employee parking shall be submitted to the appropriate City commission for review and approval. This site plan must meet all regulations as set forth in Chapter 770
, 771
and 772
for signs, landscaping and parking respectively of Part Seven of the Planning and Zoning Code.
(c) Accepted Accessory Uses: Service garage, leasing department, car wash and other activities customarily incidental to a full service franchised automobile or vehicle dealer shall be permitted as accessory to the sale of new automobiles provided these activities are conducted in wholly enclosed buildings. Only repair of vehicles customarily associated with new automobile sales shall be permitted and shall be conducted inside a suitable building.
(d) Storage on Site: No junk, inoperative or unlicensed vehicles will be permitted to remain outside on the primary property for more than forty-eight hours.
(e) Screening: Locations where such vehicle dealerships or establishments use abuts a neighborhood district or residential dwelling, they shall provide a buffer zone along the entire length of the common boundary between the commercial use and the residential use which shall be maintained not less than ten feet in depth. This buffer zone shall be landscaped with grass, shrubbery, trees, and a solid brick or split faced concrete block wall as per Chapter 771
.
(f) Storage Offsite: Storage of new or new and used vehicles offsite due to lack of storage on site shall require a conditional use permit for the storage site subject to the following conditions:
(1) Storage site must be in same zoning district of M-1, M-2 and must be screened as described above.
(2) No inoperable vehicles may be stored at the offsite location.
(3) No vehicle shall be stored for more than 120 days.
(4) Offsite storage area must be locked at all times except when moving vehicles in and out of the lot.
(g) Conditional use permit and conditional permits for accessory uses or for offsite storage use shall be non-transferable. Conditional use permit and conditional permits for accessory uses or for offsite storage use for an existing open business that is sold to a new owner and remains open continuously during the transfer of ownership shall be allowed and must be transferred into the new business name.
(h) All non-conforming used car sale lots currently in operation at the time of passage of this specific legislation must conform to Chapter 1107, Automobile, Motorcycle, Recreational Vehicle, Trailer and Boat Sales. Existing non-conforming businesses must be in compliance with Chapter 751, Regulations for Nonconforming Uses of the Codified Ordinances of South Euclid.
(Ord. 04-21. Passed 1-24-22.)