Chapter 18.44 — CH-SAL HIGHWAY COMMERCIAL ZONE

Uses in the commercial classification generally do not belong in either the specialty commercial center or the business park. They are related to the use of the highway and to other types of drop-in trade. These uses are provided for in the CH-SAL highway commercial zone. The CH-SAL zone is intended for application to planning areas 12, 13, 15 and 16 of the San Antonio Lakes specific plan area. The zone may serve many purposes, including the site for neighborhood shops, the commercial center, and such other uses as may properly belong in a city's commercial center.

(Prior code § 9631.010)

• A. Commercial;

  1. Amusement enterprises;

  2. Antique shops;

  3. Apparel stores;

  4. Automobile parts, sales and service, including automobile centers and new car dealerships;

  5. Bakery;

  6. Bookstores;

  7. Building materials store;

  8. Confectionery store, including fountain;

  9. Convenience market, including food, produce, and alcoholic beverages;

  10. Dairy products store;

  11. Department store;

  12. Donut shop;

  13. Dry goods or notions store;

  14. Egg and poultry store (no slaughtering, evisceration, plucking or dressing);

  15. Electrical appliance store;

  16. Feed and fuel stores (all within an entirely enclosed building; retail only);

  17. Florist shop;

  18. Frozen food lockers (retail only);

  19. Furniture stores;

  20. Game arcades;

  21. Gift shop;

  22. Grocery, fruit and vegetable store;

  23. Hardware store;

  24. Hobby and craft supply store;

  25. Hotels, resort hotels, and motels;

  26. Home improvement store;

  27. Ice cream and frozen yogurt stores;

  28. Ice storage houses (limit capacity to five tons);

  29. Jewelry store;

  30. Laundromat;

  31. Liquor stores (sale of packaged alcoholic beverages);

  32. Locksmith;

  33. Meat, fish, and seafood stores;

  34. Museum;

  35. Music, musical instruments, phonographic record stores;

  36. Newsstands;

  37. New travel trailers and camper sales agencies (service and repair conducted within an enclosed building);

  38. Pharmacy;

  39. Photography and camera shop;

  40. Photographic supplies and processing;

  41. Plant nurseries (fertilizer stored in bags and within an enclosed building);

  42. Radio and television store and repair;

  43. Shoe store;

  44. Sporting goods store;

  45. Stationery and art supply store;

  46. Supermarket;

  47. Trunk and leather good stores;

  48. Variety store.

• B. Offices.

  1. Business and professional offices.

  2. Biological, dental, and medical offices and laboratories.

• C. Parking.

  1. Automobile parking lots and parking structures.

• D. Services.

  1. Banks and savings and loan companies;

  2. Barber shop;

  3. Beauty shops for humans and/or pets;

  4. Dance studios;

  5. Dressmaking or millinery;

  6. Electric distribution substation;

  7. Library;

  8. Medical and dental laboratories;

  9. Mortuaries and funeral parlors;

  10. Printing and photocopy shop;

  11. Self-service laundry;

  12. Shoe repair store;

  13. Small equipment rental or furniture rental within a fully enclosed structure;

  14. Tailor shop;

  15. Taxi stand.

• E. Any compatible general retail commercial uses.

• F. Such other uses as the administrative committee or the planning commission may deem to be similar to those listed above and which are related to highway use or service. Such uses shall not be obnoxious to surrounding property or be specifically listed in a less restrictive zone.

• (Prior code § 9631.020)

The provisions of Section 18.36.030 shall apply. (Prior code § 9631.030)

The provisions of Section 18.36.040 shall apply. (Prior code § 9631.040)

The conditional uses and structures provided for in Section 18.36.050 and the following shall apply, subject to a conditional use permit and subject to the provisions of Chapter 17.16 , Development Application and Review Procedures; provided, further, that such uses and structures listed hereinbelow shall not be permitted without notice of public hearing:

1. Ambulance service (with incidental hospital equipment rental and sales);

2. Animal hospitals and shelters;

3. Automobile and paint shop and repair store;

4. Automobile sales agencies for both new and used vehicles, with incidental repairs and services;

5. Automotive service station;

6. Billiard and pool hall;

7. Bowling alley;

8. Bus passenger terminal (intercity and interstate);

9. Boats and recreational vehicles sales;

10. Café, restaurant;

11. Child care center (day nursery school);

12. Cocktail lounge and tavern, except when the building housing a cocktail lounge or tavern is proposed to be located within 600 feet of a school, municipal park site, church, residence, or land either zoned or master planned for the uses above mentioned, measured from the nearest point of the premises of which the uses above mentioned are either located, proposed, zoned or master planned to the nearest point of the building in which the cocktail lounge or tavern is to be housed. In the event the proposed tavern or lounge is located within the 600-foot limitation mentioned above and/or offers dancing and/or live entertainment, then the permission to operate the cocktail lounge or tavern may be granted only as a conditional use in pursuance to the provisions of Chapter 17.16 , Development Application and Review Procedures.

13. Convention centers and auditoriums and related accessory uses;

14. Dance halls;

15. Drive-in dairy products store;

16. Drive-in and fast food restaurant, restaurant, tearoom, cafeteria, café, and similar types of use;

17. Dry cleaners;

18. Government facilities;

19. Health and fitness centers;

20. Hospitals;

21. Kiosks, including locksmith as well as key duplicating, photographic, and other similar and/or compatible services;

22. Mechanical or self-service car wash;

23. Motels and motor hotels;

24. Movie theater;

25. Outdoor commercial recreation establishments;

26. Pet shop;

27. Public utility buildings and structures (no outdoor storage);

28. Veterinarian animal clinic (day treatment; no animals kept overnight);

29. Used trailer sales lot when provided in conjunction with new trailer sales (service and repair conducted within an enclosed building).

• (Prior code § 9631.050)

The provisions of Section 18.36.060 shall apply. (Prior code § 9631.060)

The provisions of Section 18.36.070 shall apply, excepting as otherwise specified herein.

(Prior code 9631.100)

• A. Minimum Size of Zone. No requirement.

• B. Minimum Frequency of Zone. No requirement.

• C. Minimum Lot Dimensions. No requirement.

• D. Maximum Building Coverage. The maximum lot coverage shall be not greater than 50 percent; provided, however, that where the required parking is provided for any approved lot within 500 feet from the subject lot, coverage may be increased to 100 percent of the lot area.

• (Prior code § 9631.102)

Excepting as provided in Section 18.36.100 , Structural setbacks and yards—Exceptions, all lots shall have front, side and rear yards of a minimum depth as provided in this section:

• A. Front Yard. 25 feet.

• B. Side Yard. No requirement, excepting when a CH-SAL zone abuts a residential zone there shall be a required side yard of not less than 10 feet on that side of the lot in the CH-SAL zone that abuts a residential zone. When any side yard borders on a street, the side yard shall be not less than 25 feet.

• C. Rear Yard. There is no requirement excepting where a CH-SAL zone abuts a residential use or zone, in which case the minimum rear yard is 25 feet, 10 feet of which must be landscaped with a six to eight feet wall erected on the rear of the CH property; provided however, that there is no setback requirement where a street divides the CH zone from the residential use or zone.

• (Prior code § 9631.103)

Notwithstanding the setback and yard provisions of this zone, projections may be permitted into required yards in compliance with the provisions of Section 18.36.120 , Permitted encroachments into required yards—General. (Prior code § 9631.105)

The provisions of Section 18.36.150 shall apply, excepting as otherwise specified in this section:

Rear Yard Separation of CH Zone and Residential Zone. Where a CH zone rears upon a street which is the boundary between a CH zone and a residential zone, there shall be constructed a sixfoot-high masonry wall designed to building department specifications on the rear of the CH property. (Prior code § 9631.106)

Maximum Structural Height. 40 feet or two stories, except as provided herein and in Section 18.36.070 ; provided, however, that buildings higher than 40 feet or two stories, except as provided herein and in Section 18.36.160 ; provided, however, that buildings higher than 40 feet or two stories may be permitted subject to the issuance of a conditional use permit as provided for in Chapter 17.16 , Development Application and Review Procedures. (Prior code § 9631.107)

Minimum Distance Between Buildings. No requirement. (Prior code § 9631.108)

The provisions of Section 18.36.180 and the following shall apply. (Prior code § 9631.109)

The provisions of Section 18.36.190 and the following shall apply. (Prior code § 9631.110)

The provisions of Section 18.36.200 shall apply. (Prior code § 9631.120)

The provisions of Section 18.40.170 shall apply. (Prior code § 9631.140)

Refer to the provisions of Section 17.12.170, Penalties for violation of regulations—General. (Prior code § 9631.150)