§ 3-3-3 C-2 General Commercial District.
General retail, service and office use is provided for in the C-2 District, as well as encouragement of major, masterplanned retail shopping centers to respond to community and regional area demand for goods and services. Combined, multiple-use developments with shared access, parking, design themes and amenities are particularly intended.
A. PRINCIPAL PERMITTED USES. Only listed use of structures or land shall be permitted.
1. Adult bookstore, adult novelty store and adult theater, subject to the conditions of subsection 4-2-1.
2. Automotive repair and upholstering.
3. Banks and financial institutions, excluding non-chartered financial institutions.
4. Bus terminals.
5. Business and professional offices.
6. Carpet and rug cleaning services.
7. Cleaning and dying plants.
8. Bar/cocktail lounge subject to the following conditions or limitations:
a. Live music or entertainment shall only be allowed as an accessory use if the facility is located a minimum of three hundred feet (300’) from the property line of any residentially zoned or designated property. The area within the facility designated for music or entertainment activities shall not exceed 5,000 square feet. All noise generated by live music or entertainment activities shall be fully contained within the indoor space occupied by the bar/cocktail lounge.
b. The area devoted to patron dancing shall not exceed twenty-five percent (25%) of the total floor area.
9. Costume rentals.
10. Day care (elderly and youth).
11. Drive through windows and outdoor teller facilities for banks and financial institutions.
12. Employment agency.
13. Entertainment establishments, general, including athletic facilities, bowling alleys, electronic game centers and arcades, ice and roller rinks, miniature golf, performing arts centers, pool halls and theaters.
14. Express office, including railway.
15. Fine arts studios.
16. Frozen food lockers.
17. Funeral home.
18. Fur cleaning and storage.
19. Health club.
20. Hospital supplies.
21. Hotels and motels.
22. Key and lock service.
23. Large Retail User, subject to the provisions of Article 4-2-7.
24. Parking lots.
25. Pawn shop.
26. Personal and household services, such as barber and hair styling shops, beauty salons, clothing alterations, dry cleaning shops, furniture and appliance repair, copying services, self service laundry, shoe repair shops (but excluding drive through facilities).
27. Plumbing shop.
28. Private business, professional, and trade schools.
29. Public utility facilities and offices including facilities to serve the immediate area, but not including outside storage or maintenance yards for public utility use.
30. Restaurants, including Drive-Through Restaurants with drive-through lanes located more than five hundred (500) feet from any residential zoning district, but excluding Drive-In Restaurants and all other Drive-Through Restaurants except as set forth herein, subject to the following conditions or limitations:
a. Live music and/or other forms of entertainment activities shall only be allowed as an accessory use if all of the following requirements are met. The restaurant is located a minimum of three hundred (300) feet from the property line of any residentially zoned or designated property. The area within the restaurant designed and/or used for live music and/or entertainment activities does not exceed five thousand (5,000) square feet. All noise generated by live music and/or entertainment activities is fully contained within the indoor space of the restaurant.
b. Patron dancing within the indoor space of a Restaurant shall be allowed as an accessory use provided the area within a Restaurant devoted to patron dancing does not exceed twenty-five (25) percent of the total indoor floor area of the Restaurant.
c. Drive-Through Restaurants shall meet the requirements of Section 4-2-18 (Drive-Through Restaurants).
31. Retail stores with sales only, excluding drive through facilities and convenience uses as defined in Article 4.
32. Second hand stores.
33. Seed and feed, retail and sales office.
34. Sign painting shop.
35. Taxidermist.
36. Travel bureaus.
37. Typewriter and business machine sales and repair.
38. Window glass installation shops.
39. Veterinary Offices, provided such facilities are constructed to prevent objectionable noises and odors outside the walls of the office. Boarding of animals shall be permitted only for short time periods for the purpose of observation incidental to care.
40. Non-Chartered Financial Institution, subject to the provisions of Article 4-2-8.
41. Massage Establishment, Tattoo Studio and Body Piercing Studio, subject to the provisions of Article 4-2-10.
42. Brewpub, subject to the provisions of Article 4-2-15.
43. Microbrewery, producing 15,000 barrels of beer or less per year.
B. PERMITTED ACCESSORY USES.
1. Uses of land or structures customarily incidental and subordinate to one of the permitted principal uses, unless otherwise excluded.
2. Signs, on site, as provided in Article 7 of this Ordinance.
3. Portable Storage Containers, subject to Article 8-2 of this Ordinance.
C. USE PERMIT USES. The following uses may be approved by Use Permit:
1. Automobile service stations, subject to the provisions of Article 4.
2. Car wash (hand or automatic), subject to the provisions of Article 4.
3. Convenience use subject to the provisions of Article 4.
4. Hospitals and related uses.
5. Limited outdoor display of nursery stock, lawn furniture, garden supplies and outdoor accessory items, in conjunction with a primary retail use, when not in conflict with pedestrian and/or traffic movement or established parking areas.
6. Storage buildings consisting of individually rented storage rooms which are independently accessed and locked and are used for dead storage purposes.
7. Mobile home sales.
8. Veterinary Hospitals, provided such facilities are constructed to prevent objectionable noises and odors outside the walls of the office.
a. Keeping or boarding of animals shall not occupy more than twenty-five percent of the gross area of the office.
1. There shall be no outdoor kennels or runs.
2. There shall be no direct outside exit from any room containing kennels.
9. Drive-In Restaurants. The required information and evaluation criteria shall be the same as for convenience uses under Section 4-2-2.
10. Drive-Through Restaurants when any portion of a drive-through lane is located within five hundred (500) feet of any residential zoning district. The required information and evaluation criteria shall be the same as for convenience uses under Section 4-2-2. Drive-Through Restaurants shall meet the requirements of Section 4-2-18 (Drive-Through Restaurants).
D. DEVELOPMENT REGULATIONS.
1. All uses are subject to Site Plan review.
2. Area, Setback and Height and related requirements shall conform with the standards for the District, as set forth in Commercial Districts standards, Section 3-3-7.
3. Off-Street Parking. Paved, screened parking, which may be covered, subject to setback standards, shall be provided in accord with the requirements of Article 6, Parking and Loading.
4. Landscaping, Walls, Screening. Refer to Article 5, Property Improvements Standards.
5. Supplemental Regulations. Refer to Article 8, General Provisions. (Am. Ord. 22-1534, passed 6-27-22; Am. Ord. 23-1592, passed 9-25-23)