32-61 C GENERAL COMMERCIAL DISTRICT.

a. General Provisions . All land within a C general commercial district may be used for any of the following uses, under the following regulations set forth in this chapter.

a. Uses Allowed . The following uses are allowed in C districts:

1. All types of wholesale businesses, warehouses, freight terminals, trucking yards, lumberyards, cabinet shops, sheet metal shops, auto repair garages, contractor's yards, and uses allowed in single family and two family residential districts without or with a land use permit;

2. Uses allowed in R-B districts;

3. Animal hospitals;

4. Commercial dog kennels;

5. Accessory signs which are not rotating, flashing or animated, do not exceed eighty (80) square feet in surface area except that double-face signs shall be considered having one (1) surface, and do not exceed twenty-five (25') feet in height.

b. Uses Requiring Land Use Permit . In the C district the following uses are permitted after the issuance of a land use permit:

1. Transit-mix plants;

2. Motels;

3. Hotels;

4. Structures having three (3) or more residential apartment units. Minimum off-street parking requirements for apartment units shall be as required in Section 32-8;

5. Nonaccessory signs;

6. Accessory signs having more than eighty (80) square feet in area, or more than twenty-five (25') feet in height, or that are rotating, flashing or animated;

7. Where a road, having a right-of-way width of fifty-five (55') feet or less, forms the common boundary between a district of this classification and a district of any residential classification, no access to property in the district of this classification adjacent to such common boundary shall be permitted to or from such road until a land use permit therefor shall have first been obtained. Such permit shall be determined by the effects of traffic upon such a road occasioned by use within such district, the characteristics of the adjacent areas, traffic problems, pedestrian traffic, and other considerations found pertinent to the particular area concerned.

8. Gasoline service station.

a. Lot Area . All buildings or parts of buildings hereafter erected in the C district shall be situated on lots at least seventyfive hundred (7,500) square feet in area.

a. Building Height; Maximum . No building or structure or part of it hereafter erected for a neighborhood business shall be more than fifty (50’) feet high above the highest point of ground elevation on the lot on which the building is erected.

a. Side Yard . There shall be a side yard on each side of each building in the C district. There shall be aggregate side yards not less than ten (10’) feet wide, and the rear yard shall be at least twenty (20’) feet deep.

b. Yard; Setback . Every structure erected in the C district and every structure accessory to it shall be located at least ten (10’) feet from the boundary line of an existing public road or highway.

a. Granting . Land use permits for the special uses enumerated in paragraph b of subsection 32-61.2 and variance permits to modify the provisions of subsections 32-61.3 through 32-61.5 may be granted after application in accordance with Section 32-3.

a. Required Procedure . No development is lawful in a C district until a Development Plan for it has been submitted and approved.