(A) Purpose. The Neighborhood Commercial District (NC) is intended to encourage the clustering of small individual retail and personal service establishments to promote convenience in serving the daily staple needs of the surrounding residential areas.
(B) Permitted uses. Land and buildings in the Neighborhood Commercial District (NC) shall be used only for the following purposes:
(1) Retail stores. Retail stores primarily engaged in selling merchandise for personal or household consumption and rendering services incidental to the sale of the goods (including the buying or processing of goods for resale) including:
(a) Hardware stores;
(b) Grocery stores;
(c) Meat and fish (seafood) markets;
(d) Fruit stores and vegetable markets;
(e) Candy, nut, and confectionery stores;
(f) Dairy products stores;
(g) Retail bakeries;
(h) Drug stores and proprietary stores; and
(i) Florists.
(2) Personal services. Personal services generally involving the care of the person or his or her personal effects including:
(a) Beauty shops;
(b) Barber shops;
(c) Shoe repair shops; and
(d) Pressing, dry-cleaning, alteration, and garment and repair.
(3) Business and professional offices. Business offices carrying on no retail trade with the general public and having no stock of goods maintained for sale to customers and professional offices engaged in providing tangible and intangible services to the general public, involving both persons and their possessions including:
(a) Commercial and stock savings banks;
(b) Credit agencies other than banks;
(c) Personal credit institutions;
(d) Insurance agents, brokers, and service;
(e) (Real estate) agents, brokers, and managers;
(f) Combinations of real estate, insurance, loan, and law offices;
(g) Offices of physicians and surgeons;
(h) Offices of dentists and dental surgeons;
(i) Offices of osteopathic physicians;
(j) Offices of chiropractors; and
(k) Legal services.
(4) Child care. Children’s nurseries and day care centers.
(C) Conditional uses. The following uses may be allowed in the Neighborhood Commercial District (NC) subject to approval in accordance with § 153.042:
(1) Automotive service stations. Gasoline service stations, provided no portion of a structure or its appurtenances, including ancillary, associated, or auxiliary equipment shall be located in front of the established building line;
(2) Drive-in facility. Drive-in or outdoor service facility developed in association with and subordinate to a permitted use; and
(3) Significant developments. Any proposed structure in the Neighborhood Commercial District (NC) that contains at least 50,000 square feet of gross floor area shall be considered a significant development and may be allowed subject to approval in accordance with § 153.042.
(D) Development standards.
(1) Lot and building requirements. The following lot and building requirements are minimum standards, except where noted, and shall apply in the Neighborhood Commercial District (NC):
(a) Lot area: no minimum lot area is required; however, all lots shall abut an improved public right-of-way and lot area shall be adequate to provide the required yard space;
(b) Lot coverage (maximum): no maximum lot coverage is required; however, the lot coverage shall be adequate to provide the yard space required;
(c) Lot width: no minimum lot width is required; however, all lots shall abut an improved public right-of-way and have adequate width to provide the required yard space and meet minimum access requirements;
(d) Front yard setback: the minimum front yard setback shall be the average of the existing adjacent commercial structures on the same side of the street and facing thereon within the same block. Where there are no adjacent commercial structures, the building line shall not be less than 50 feet measured from the street right-of-way;
(e) Side yard setback: for main and accessory structures, including open service and loading areas, the required side yard shall be not less than 20 feet, unless adjacent to any residential zoning district, Planned Residential District, and Planned Unit District whereby the side yard shall be no less than 50 feet; and
(f) Rear yard setback: for main and accessory structures, the required rear yard shall be not less than 25 feet, unless adjacent to any residential zoning district, Planned Residential District, and Planned Unit District whereby the side yard shall be no less than 50 feet.
(2) Supplemental standards. The following supplemental standards shall apply within the Neighborhood Commercial District (NC).
(a) No building shall exceed 30 feet in height, nor more than two stories in height.
(b) Applicable standards shall be met in corresponding provisions of this chapter.
(Ord. 96-152, passed 10-7-1996)
Cross-reference:
Ground satellite stations, see § 153.198