(A) Purpose. The Service Commercial District is intended to provide areas suitable for commercial enterprises which require special traffic access considerations due to their nature of use. This district will guide the development of these uses in a manner which will be beneficial to both the residents and the land use growth pattern of the city by avoiding costly strip development.
(B) Permitted principle uses. The following shall be permitted:
(1) Adult use/accessory businesses;
(2) Armories, convention halls or exhibition halls;
(3) Automobile, truck and farm implement dealers, new and used vehicle lots, boat, trailer and mobile home display lots and structures;
(4) Bus stations;
(5) Commercial recreational facilities such as bowling alleys, miniature golf and driving ranges, skating arenas;
(6) Commercial retail and service establishments, greenhouses and produce sales;
(7) Enclosed warehousing and storage structures;
(8) Lumber yards, laundromats;
(9) Motels, hotels and automobile trailer courts (overnight or temporary stay only);
(10) Municipal service and utility buildings to include water treatment plant, transformer and relay stations, fire stations, highway department vehicle and equipment garages;
(11) Railway and rights-of-way, fire stations, excluding freight yards;
(12) Service stations and repair garages for motor vehicle; tire and battery sales;
(13) Taverns and restaurants, including drive-in facilities;
(14) Truck and machinery sales and service;
(15) Wholesaling and distributing operations; and
(16) Any use permitted in § 152.22(B).
(C) Permitted accessory uses. The following uses shall be permitted accessory uses within a C-2 District:
(1) Off-street parking and loading as regulated in § 152.41(L);
(2) Signs as regulated in § 152.41(K); and
(3) Uses as customarily incidental to the uses listed in divisions (B) and (D) of this section. All accessory uses shall be on the same lot as the principal use.
(D) Conditional uses. The following uses may be permitted subject to issuing a conditional use permit as provided in § 152.43:
(1) Any commercial use of the same general character as those listed in division (B) above; and
(2) Single and multiple family dwellings as regulated in § 152.17.
(E) Height, yard setback and lot coverage requirements. The height, yard setbacks and lot coverage requirements for the C-2 District shall be those stated in § 152.40.
(F) Performance standards. To ensure compliance with the performance standards set forth below, the Council may require the owner or operator of any permitted use to have made investigations or tests to show adherence to the performance standards. Investigation or tests shall be carried out by an independent testing organization selected by the Council. Investigations or testing shall be ordered by the owner or operator. The cost of the investigations and tests shall be shared equally by the owner or operator and the Council, unless the investigation or tests disclose noncompliance with the performance standards, in which case the owner or operator shall be responsible for the entire cost.
(1) Noise.
(a) At any property line the sound pressure level of noise radiated from a permitted operation shall not exceed the values given in the table below.
(b) The sound pressure level shall be measured with a sound level meter and an associated octave band analyzer, both of which are manufactured to specifications published by the American Standard Specifications for an Octave Band Filter Set for the Analysis of Noise and Other Sounds, Z24.10-1953, American Standard Association, Inc., New York, New York.
(c) Measurements shall be made using the flat network of the sound level meter.
Frequency Band Cycles Per Second | Maximum Permitted Sound Level (Decibels) |
Frequency Band Cycles Per Second | Maximum Permitted Sound Level (Decibels) |
20 - 75 | 72 |
75 - 150 | 67 |
150 - 300 | 59 |
300 - 600 | 52 |
600 - 1,200 | 46 |
1,200 - 2,400 | 40 |
2,400 - 4,800 | 34 |
Over 4,800 | 32 |
(2) Odors. No noxious odors shall be detectable beyond the limits of the property.
(3) Exterior lighting. Any lights used for exterior illumination shall direct light away from adjoining property. Glare, whether direct or reflected, such as from floodlights, spotlights or high-temperature processing, and as differentiated from general illumination, shall not be visible beyond the limits of the property.
(4) Vibration. No vibration shall be discernible to the human sense of feeling for an accumulated total of 3 or more minutes during any hour at any property line.
(5) Smoke.
(a) The Ringelman Smoke Chart, published by the United States Bureau of Mines, shall be used for measuring smoke at the point of emission.
(b) Smoke not darker or more opaque than No. 4 on the chart may be emitted, except that smoke darker or more opaque than No. 2 on the chart may not be emitted for period longer than 4 minutes in any 30-minute period.
(c) These provisions, applicable to visible gray smoke, shall also apply to visible smoke of a different color and equivalent apparent opacity.
(6) Dust.
(a) Solid or liquid particles shall not be emitted at any point in concentrations exceeding 0.3 grains per cubic foot of the conveying gas or air.
(b) For measurements of the amount of particles in gases resulting from combustion, standard corrections shall be applied to a stack temperature of 500°F and 50% excess air.
(7) Fumes or gases.
(a) Fumes or gases shall not be emitted at any point in concentrations or amounts that are noxious, toxic or corrosive.
(b) The values given in the following tables in the Air Pollution Abatement Manual, Chapter 5, Physiological Effects, by the Manufacturing Chemists’ Association , Inc., Washington, D.C., are guides for determining permissible concentration or amounts:
1. Table 1 (Industrial Hygiene Standards - Maximum Allowable Concentration for 8-hour day, 5 days per week;
2. Table III (Odor Thresholds);
3. Table IV (Exposure to Substances Causing Pain in the Eyes); and
4. Table 1 (Exposure to Substances Causing Injury to Vegetation).
(c) Detailed plans for the elimination of fumes or gases may be required before a building permit is issued.
(8) Sewer and water. The design and construction of water supply facilities and treatment of all sewage and waste shall comply with the city, county and state health standards and requirements.
(G) Regulations on screening, landscaping, lighting, storage and outdoor displays.
(1) Screening.
(a) All principal and accessory uses, except business signs, which are situated within 50 feet of a residential district, shall be screened from the district by a wall or fence of not less than 90% opacity and between 5 and 7 feet in height above the level of the residential district property at the district boundary.
(b) Walls or fences of lesser heights or planting screens may be permitted by the Council if the type of screen required by this code is found to interfere with the provisions of adequate amounts of light and air to the properties.
(c) Loading docks in the district shall be screened so as not to be visible from any public street right-of-way within a residential district.
(d) All required screening devices shall be designed so that they are architecturally harmonious with the principal structures on the site and they shall be properly maintained so as not to become unsightly hazardous, or less opaque than when originally constructed.
(2) Landscaping.
(a) All exposed ground areas surrounding or within a principal or accessory use, including boulevards, which are not devoted to drives, sidewalks, patios or other uses shall be landscaped with grass, shrubs, trees or other ornamental landscape materials.
(b) All landscaped areas shall be used for parking vehicles or for storing or displaying materials, supplies or merchandise.
(3) Lighting.
(a) All sources of artificial light shall be so fixed, directed, designed or sized that the sum total of their illumination will not increase the level of illumination on any nearby residential property by more than 0.1 foot-candle in or within 25 feet of a dwelling nor more than 0.5 foot-candle on any other part of the property.
(b) Glare, whether direct or reflected, as differentiated from general illumination, shall not be visible from beyond the limits of the immediate site from which it originates.
(4) Storage; displays.
(a) All materials, supplies, merchandise or other similar matter not on display for a direct sale, rental or lease to the ultimate consumer or user shall be stored within a completely enclosed building within the Service-Commercial District, or within the confines of a 100% opaque wall or fence not less than 5 feet in height.
(b) Merchandise which is offered for sales as described above may be displayed beyond the confines of a building in the Service-Commercial District, but the area occupied by the outdoor display shall not constitute a number of square feet greater than 10% of the ground floor area of the principal-use building, unless the merchandise is of a type customarily displayed outdoors such as garden supplies.
(c) No storage of any type shall be permitted within the 1/2 of the required front or side street setback nearest the streets.
(H) Requirements for vehicular and pedestrian circulation.
(1) (a) All commercial buildings or structures and their accessory uses shall be accessible to and from nearby public streets and sidewalks by driveways and walkways surfaced with a hard, all-weather, durable, dust-free material and properly drained.
(b) Vehicular traffic generated by a commercial use shall be channeled and controlled in a manner that will avoid congestion on the public streets, traffic hazards and excessive traffic through residential areas, particularly truck traffic.
(c) The adequacy of any proposed traffic circulation system to accomplish these objectives shall be determined by the City Engineer who may require additional measures for traffic control, including but not limited to the following: directional signalization, channelization, standby turn lanes, illumination and storage area and distribution facilities within the commercial site to prevent back-up of vehicles on public streets.
(2) No area used by motor vehicles other than driveways serving as ingress to and egress from the commercial site shall be located within the public street right-of-way.
(3) All driveways to or from the public street shall be subject to the following restrictions.
Driveways Widths: (Measurement Between Roadway Edges) | ||
Type | Maximum Feet | Minimum Feet |
One-way | 20 | 12 |
Two-way | 30 | 24 |
Minimum driveway angle to street | Thirty degrees when street is 1-way or divided, otherwise 60 degrees |
Minimum distance between driveways | Twenty feet, between roadway edges measured along street curb line. |
Minimum Distance of Driveway from Street Intersection (Measured Along Street Curb Line Between Driveway Edge Nearest Intersection and Intersection Street Curb Line) | |||
Type of Street Driveway Enters | Type of Intersection Street | Minimum Distance when Driveway Enters Lane Distance Approaching Intersection | Minimum When Driveway Enters Lane Leaving Intersection* |
Minor street | Minor street, Collector street or minor arterial, major arterial | 15 feet 20 feet | 15 feet 15 feet |
Collector street | Minor street collector, minor arterial, major arterial | 20 feet 25 feet 30 feet | 15 feet 15 feet 20 feet |
Major arterial | Minor street collector, minor arterial, major arterial | 20 feet 25 feet 40 feet | 15 feet 15 feet 20 feet |
* Note: Minimum distance to be the same as that specified for approaching lane if left turns are permitted into or out of driveways. | |||
(I) General regulations. Additional regulations applicable to the C-2 District are set forth in § 152.26.
(1987 Code, § 702.09)