(a) Intent. The purpose of C-1 District is to provide for a variety of retail, service and administrative establishments which are required to serve a large trading area population. The District is to accommodate and encourage further expansion and renewal in the business area of the community. A variety of business, institutional, public, semi-public, cultural, residential and other uses are permitted. High density apartments are permitted in order to have a resident population in the commercial area where goods, services, employment, entertainment and educational opportunities exist within walking distances. Structures in C-1 must be well-located and designed to accommodate high traffic and create a proper business environment. To preserve the overall integrity and desirability of this commercial zone, no billboard type signage is permitted over 50 (fifty) feet in height from the ground or supporting structure to the top of the sign. Billboards are to be no larger than the standard size billboard and must have Planning Commission approval. All construction in C-1 must have Planning Commission approval prior to issuance of a building permit.
(b) Permitted Uses. The following shall be in the permitted uses in C-1:
(1) Amusement, entertainment or recreation such as: tennis clubs, skating rinks, health clubs, dance halls, indoor theater, bowling alley, billiard halls.
(2) Automobile filling stations, sales, and service facilities.
(3) Financial services, including drive-in facilities.
(4) Institutions.
(5) Radio and television broadcasting stations, not including the transmission towers.
(6) Any use as permitted by the Planning Commission.
(7) Retail stores and services conducted wholly within enclosed buildings, such as the following examples.
A. Retail sales.
1. The sale of baked goods, confections, groceries, meats, fruits, vegetables, dairy products and packaged beverages;
2. The sale, serving and consumption of food, beverage, ice cream in such places as restaurants; places where food and beverages are consumed outside a building may be allowed if a conditional use is granted by the Planning Commission.
3. The sale of drugs, gifts, antiques and art goods, flowers, books, periodicals, musical instruments, and supplies provided no loudspeakers broadcast outside the building;
4. Sporting and athletic goods;
5. The sale of wearing apparel, shoes, hats;
6. Variety stores; and
7. The sale of hardware, tools, paint, garden supplies, household appliances and furniture.
B. Services.
1. Personal services such as beauty, and barber shops and interior decorating services;
2. Dry-cleaning and laundromats; and
3. Repair services, such as shoes and hats, radio and television and household appliances.
C. Dimensional and density requirements.
2. Maximum height of building - 80 feet.
3. Minimum lot area; 2,400 square feet.
4. Minimum lot width: 50 feet.
5. No minimum yard size, front, rear or side.
D. Off-street parking.
E. Incentives for increased lot area coverage. If the development site plan incorporates the following characteristics, the Planning Commission may grant the following increases in maximum lot area coverage;
1. If parking areas occur on the side or rear of the structure and no parking occurs in front of the building, building coverage may be increased up to five percent (5%).
2. If businesses are grouped in an integrated center of common structure, building coverage may be increased two percent (2%) for a grouping of two or four businesses; four percent for a grouping of five or six businesses; six percent (6%) for a grouping of seven or eight businesses; eight percent (8%) for a grouping of nine or ten businesses; and ten percent (10%) for a grouping of more than ten businesses.
3. If a common access point for ingress and egress is shared by two or more adjacent separate parcels, or a parallel service road is created for adjacent parcels, building coverage may be increased up to five percent (5%).
4. If no freestanding sign is to be incorporated into the development plan, building coverage may be increased up to five percent (5%).
5. In no case shall building coverage be increased to more than ninety percent (90%) overall.
(c) Effective from the date of the adoption of this Ordinance, an owner of property located in District C-1, which property abuts or adjoins property located in any R District, shall be required, prior to or coincidental with the development thereof to “screen” or visually obscure such property (C-1) with the use of densely planted vegetation or other screening methods, all of which shall be approved by the Planning Commission. This provision shall not apply to any commercial development existing at the time of the adoption of this Ordinance.
(Passed 5-22-97.)