§ VI. C-1 Neighborhood commercial district.  


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  • (A)

    Purpose. This district includes land which is used primarily for retail business establishments designed to serve the residents of the area adjacent to it.

    (B)

    Permitted uses. In the C-1 district, no buildings or land shall be used and no building shall be erected or converted to any use other than:

    (1)

    Automobile parking lots.

    (2)

    Bakery, retail only.

    (3)

    Bank.

    (4)

    Barber and beauty shops.

    (5)

    Bookstore.

    (6)

    Cafeteria.

    (7)

    Child care facilities, as defined by state.

    (8)

    Christmas tree lot.

    (9)

    Clinic, other than veterinary.

    (10)

    Cleaning and pressing shops.

    (11)

    Computer sales/repair - Cell phone - electronics.

    (12)

    Drug store/pharmacy.

    (13)

    Filling station - Convenient Store.

    (14)

    Fitness center.

    (15)

    Florists shops.

    (16)

    Grocery stores.

    (17)

    Ice retail distributing; no manufacture.

    (18)

    Mortuaries.

    (19)

    Motels/hotels.

    (20)

    Moving picture (motion picture) theater, not including drive-in theaters.

    (21)

    Office.

    (22)

    Private club.

    (23)

    Radio/TV repair and sales.

    (24)

    Radio/TV studio (excluding tower).

    (25)

    Real estate office.

    (26)

    Restaurants.

    (27)

    Shoe repair.

    (28)

    Small appliance repair/sales.

    (29)

    Stores and shops for the sale indoors of products at retail only (exception: occasional sidewalk/parking lot sales by established indoor business on its premises).

    (30)

    Studio (art, music, photo).

    (31)

    Taxidermist.

    (32)

    Video tape sales/rental.

    (33)

    Washeteria.

    (34)

    Garden center.

    (35)

    Lumber yard.

    (36)

    A residential apartment may be located above any business; and, by specific use permit, a ground floor residential apartment at any business to be occupied by the owner or owner's agent and the immediate family of the owner or owner's agent.

    (37)

    Any other commercial use, provided such use is not noxious or offensive by reason of emission of odors, soot, dust, smell, gas, fumes or vibrations which can be seen, smelled, heard or felt on the adjoining land of another person but excluding such uses as are enumerated in section VIII(A)(2) below in the M-1 industrial district. Provided, however, a specific use permit must be obtained for any such other commercial use.

    (C)

    Height regulations. No building hereafter erected or structurally altered shall exceed 22 stories or 35 feet. See section X for special exceptions.

    (D)

    Area regulation.

    (1)

    Front yard. Same as required in R-1 district.

    (2)

    Rear yard. There shall be a rear yard having a depth of not less than 15 feet from the property line. Accessory buildings not exceeding one story in height may occupy as much as 50 percent of a required rear yard. Accessory buildings exceeding one story in height may occupy as much as 40 percent of a required rear yard; provided however that no part of an accessory building may extend over the rear property line.

    (3)

    Side yard. For additional uses in this district, no side yards are required, except that on a corner lot the side yard on the street side shall not be less than 122 feet in width. If side yards are provided, on interior lots, they shall be not less than five feet in width. The side yard of a lot which abuts upon property zoned for R-1 or R-2 use shall have a minimum width of five feet on the abutting side, and conform to article VI, section 6.3.

    (4)

    Lot area. There are no minimum lot area or lot width requirements for other uses permitted in this district.

    (E)

    Parking. See schedule [of] minimum off-street parking requirements, section XII.

    (F)

    Materials of construction. Uses allowed in a C-1 district, all customary material of construction may be used so as to conform to the Standard Building Code with the following exceptions:

    (1)

    Corrugated tin; and

    (2)

    Transite.

    (G)

    Screening fences. Screening fences shall be required as in section 6.3 of this ordinance.

    (H)

    Specific uses permitted. Refer to section XIII below.

(Ord. No. 79-22, § 2(18), 8-9-79; Ord. No. 79-34, § 2(1), 11-29-79; Ord. No. 80-13, § 2, 3-27-80; Ord. No. 83-23, § 2, 12-8-83; Ord. No. 92-17, §§ 2(g), (h), 11-5-92; Ord. No. 2008-7, § 2, 3-13-08; Ord. No. 2010-16, § 2(a), 8-26-10; Ord. No. 2016-008, § 2, 3-24-16 )