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Beachwood City Zoning Code

§ 17-23.8

B-2 Planned Commercial Zone Regulations.

[Ord. #1/6/78, A XXI; Ord. #2002-18, § 3]
a. 
Permitted principal uses.
1. 
Regionally oriented retail shopping centers, consisting of integrated developments of such uses as retail stores and shops, personal service establishments, department stores, professional and business offices, banks, post offices, restaurants, theaters and auditoriums, housed in an enclosed building or buildings and utilizing such common facilities as customer parking areas, pedestrian walks, truck loading and unloading space, utilities and sanitary facilities, and other necessary and appropriate accessory uses, subject to and in conformance with the regulations cited herein.
2. 
Schools as defined in Section 17-11.
b. 
Permitted accessory uses.
1. 
Off-street parking spaces, parking garages, and off-street loading areas.
2. 
Indoor storage of goods incidental to the conduct of the retail business.
3. 
Accessory uses as part of a permitted school facility including off-street parking, recreation and athletic facilities, signs, fencing, and storage buildings and outdoor storage for school and athletic equipment.
c. 
Conditional uses. Permitted upon application to and approval of the Board of Adjustment.
1. 
Structures for public utilities and municipal services as necessary to provide adequate service and protection to the surrounding area subject to the provisions of this chapter.
d. 
Bulk regulations. As specified in the Bulk Schedule, attached to, and made part of this chapter.
Editor's Note: The Bulk schedule for all zones is included as an attachment to this chapter. For the bulk schedule for the Pinelands Area, see Section 17-27.
e. 
Permitted signs.[1]
1. 
One (1) non-flashing sign indicating permitted professional offices provided that such signs shall not exceed one (1) square foot.
2. 
One (1) sign shall be permitted for each permitted use, and may be an illuminated business sign, provided that the total area of any sign should not exceed one hundred fifty (150) square feet. Such signs shall be displayed so as not to project more than eighteen (18") inches from the surface of the building or beyond the ends of the building.
3. 
One (1) non-flashing, non-illuminated, temporary sign pertaining to the lease or sale of the same lot or building upon which it is placed situated within the property lines and the premises to which it relates and not exceeding ten (10) square feet in area on any one (1) side. The sign must be removed from the premises within two (2) days after property has been sold.
4. 
Identification signs. Free-standing signs may be erected to identify a shopping center and to list individual occupants, provided that not more than one (1) such sign shall be erected for each five hundred (500') feet of frontage on a public street, and further provided that the aggregate area of all sides of any such signs shall not exceed two hundred (200) square feet. Such signs may be illuminated, but shall not be of the flashing type, shall not exceed the height of the principal building, shall not be located within fifty (50') feet of a public street or parking area driveway or within one hundred (100') feet of the boundary of a residence zone, and shall in no way interfere with the safe functioning of any traffic control signal or directional device.
5. 
Directional signs (ingress). One (1) free-standing sign may be erected at each driveway which provides a means of ingress for off-street parking facilities on the premises, relate only the name of the use or facility and appropriate traffic instructions, shall not exceed ten (10) square feet in area for each of two (2) faces, shall be mounted so as not to obstruct vision and shall not exceed ten (10') feet in height.
6. 
Directional signs (egress). Free-standing signs may be erected on the premises for the purpose of providing directions to traffic leaving the premises, shall not exceed ten (10) square feet in area on each of two (2) sides, shall be mounted so as not to obstruct vision and shall not exceed ten (10') feet in height.
7. 
Traffic control signs. Free-standing signs may be erected which are necessary to control and regulate the movement of traffic on the interior roadways on the premises, provided the number and location of such signs are approved by the Planning Board. Such signs shall not exceed four (4) square feet in area and shall not exceed a height of six (6') feet.
8. 
Parking lot signs. Free-standing signs may be erected within the parking areas to identify particular areas or sections of the parking lot, provided that not more than one (1) such sign shall be permitted for each forty thousand (40,000) square feet of parking area, and further provided that such signs shall not exceed an area of three (3) square feet on each of four (4) faces nor exceed a height of twenty (20') feet. In addition, free-standing signs may be erected at each end of a parking aisle for identification purposes, provided that such signs shall not exceed one (1) square foot in area nor exceed a height of ten (10') feet. All of the above described signs must be mounted not less than seven (7') feet above the ground.
[1]
Editor's Note: Sign regulations also included in subsection 17-21.3 (paragraph s).
f. 
Parking and other provisions and requirements.
1. 
Public and private parking lots and parking garages permitted.
2. 
For permitted commercial uses - four (4) parking spaces for each one thousand (1,000) square feet of gross floor area of the establishment.
3. 
Off-street loading berths for all retail and commercial establishments having a gross floor area in excess of ten thousand (10,000) square feet - one (1) loading berth for every ten thousand (10,000) square feet, or fraction thereof, of gross floor area.
4. 
Not more than two (2) driveways, of ingress or egress for parking areas shall be permitted for each three hundred (300') feet of frontage upon a public street, nor shall any driveway be located closer than one hundred (100') feet to the intersection of two (2) public streets. Acceleration and deceleration lanes shall be provided.
5. 
A buffer area shall be established on all sides of the proposed commercial use, which shall include an area of land twenty-five (25') feet in width as measured from street or property line. Within the buffer area, no use, activity or sign shall be established other than driveways and directional signs.
6. 
The proposed development shall be constructed in accordance with an overall site plan, shall be designed as a single architectural scheme with appropriate common landscaping and shall provide initially at least for the construction of a prime tenant of ten thousand (10,000) square feet of ground floor area and a minimum of six (6) other permitted main uses. The total area of the lot devoted to such use shall be not less than five (5) acres in size.
g. 
Prohibited uses.
1. 
All noncommercial uses such as but not limited to residential and industrial uses.
2. 
All commercial uses except as permitted herein.
3. 
Any use that may be noxious or injurious by reason of the production or emission of dust, smoke, refuse, matter, coal, or gas fumes, noise, vibration, or similar substances or conditions.
4. 
Billboards or exterior wall signs.
5. 
Curb service type restaurants, junkyard, livestock and poultry keeping.
6. 
The sale, rental, leasing, storage and/or repairs of new and/or used cars, trucks or other vehicles.
7. 
Gas stations, filling stations, service stations, etc.
8. 
All classes of cannabis establishments or cannabis distributors or cannabis delivery services as said terms are defined in Section 3 of P.L. 2021, c. 16,[2] but not the delivery of cannabis items and related supplies by a delivery service.
[Added 5-5-2021 by Ord. No. 2021-06]
[2]
Editor's Note: See N.J.S.A. 24:6I-31 et seq.