1.   Intent. This district is intended to accommodate the major business and office concentration in Anamosa. It is characterized further by a variety of stores and related activities which occupy the central commercial area of Anamosa. This district is intended to be the single central business district of Anamosa and no other use of this district shall be utilized other than contiguously with the currently established C-1 District. Architectural design of the construction components of the facade of the building shall be compatible with other structures within the central business district.

2.   Permitted Uses. The following uses are permitted in the C-1 District:

   A.   Business sales and services conducted entirely within the building, including those with incidental manufacturing or processing of goods or products.

   B.   Offices/clinics.

   C.   Hotels and motels.

   D.   Publicly owned and operated buildings and facilities.

   E.   Dwellings - second floor and above.

   F.   Sexually oriented businesses - provided that:

      (1)   The sexually oriented business may not be operated within 1,000 feet of: (a) a church, synagogue, chapel or similar place of religious worship or instruction; (b) a public or private elementary or secondary school; (c) a boundary of residential zoning district; (d) a library or a public park, playground, or other recreational facility; (e) a licensed day care center or nursery or preschool; or (f) another sexually oriented business.

      (2)   A sexually oriented business may not be operated in the same building, structure, or portion thereof, containing another sexually oriented business.

      (3)   For the purpose of this subsection, measurement shall be made in a straight line, without regard to intervening structures or objects, from the nearest point of the building or structure used as a part of the premises where a sexually oriented business is conducted, to the nearest property line of the premises of a church, synagogue, regular place of worship, or library, or public or private elementary or secondary school, or to the nearest boundary of an affected public park, residential district or residential lot or licensed day care center.

      (4)   For purposes of Paragraph (3) above, the distance between any two sexually oriented business uses shall be measured in a straight line, without regard to intervening structures or objects, from the closest exterior wall of the structure in which each business is located.

3.   Accessory Uses. Uses of land or structure customarily incidental and subordinate to a permitted use in the C-1 District:

   A.   Outdoor sales and service. Repair businesses shall have limited outdoor storage privileges for items being repaired by them. Items, including motor vehicles, brought to any business for repair may be stored outside the business for up to 30 days. An additional 30 days of outdoor storage may be secured with written application to the Zoning/Building Administrator. Additional extensions for outdoor storage shall only be given upon a finding of good cause by the Zoning/Building Administrator following written application. Motor vehicles brought to businesses for repair may not be stored on any City street or alley for more than 24 hours. Wrecked motor vehicles brought to businesses in the C-1 District for other than repair shall be screened from the public’s view by a fence of solid maintenance free construction six feet in height, which fence shall be located within the setback requirements for the property.

   B.   Private garages.

   C.   Parking lots.

   D.   Temporary buildings for uses incidental to construction work. Such buildings shall be removed upon the completion or abandonment of the construction work.

4.   Special Exceptions. Certain uses may be permitted in the C-1 District subject to specific conditions and requirements intended to make them compatible with and acceptable to adjacent uses.

   A.   Service stations.

   B.   Warehousing.

   C.   Outdoor storage.

   D.   Churches or accessory facilities, on or off site.

   E.   Single-family dwellings at ground level.

   F.   Multi-family dwellings at ground level.

   G.   Communication towers, wind generation equipment, freestanding solar generation equipment.   

5.   Bulk Regulations. The following requirements shall provide for light and air around permitted uses and buildings in the C-1 District:

 

 

6.   Off-Street Parking. None required.

7.   Off-Street Loading. See Section 165.23(8)(B).

8.   Signs. See Sections 165.23(9) and (11).