The C-1 commercial district is designed to provide locations for the conduct of most all types of retail trade, offices, financial institutions, amusement facilities, transient housing, and other similar business and service activities in order to maintain and provide for the future development of the City's business district and other similar established uses and shopping areas.

The C-1-A commercial district encompasses the traditional shopping district of Beardstown, including its downtown. It is intended to accommodate a wide variety of retail commercial uses, with emphasis on the sale of retail goods, dining, and entertainment, which attracts visitors and shoppers from both inside and outside Beardstown. This district seeks to preserve the older business structures, many of which qualify as storefront buildings, wherein a mixture of business and dwelling units are permissible, but in which all ground floor building space, having frontage and direct access to a street, is limited to retail trade and services.

(Ord. No. 2022-03, § 3, 2-8-2022)

In the C-1 district, no building or land shall be used and no building shall be erected or structurally altered unless otherwise provided in these regulations except for one or more of the following uses:

A.

Any use allowed in the R-1 and R-2 districts, subject to the restriction that any building in the C-1-A district which historically or currently qualifies as a storefront building, as defined in Article H, cannot be used for a dwelling except for the upper stories, although a dwelling may be permitted in the rear of the building on the ground floor if the dwelling is permanently separated from the commercial or office use and has a separate entrance.

B.

Retail and service businesses as follows:

Amusement facilities, bowling alley, theaters, billiard hall, dance halls, nightclubs, cocktail lounges, or bars, clubs or lodges (chief activity is carried on as a business) and others, except go-cart tracks, riding stables and miniature golf

Antique shops

Apparel shops

Appliance sales and service

Art shop and supply store

Auction room, except livestock

Automobile, bus or truck sales, rental, and service, including body repair

Automobile equipment sales

Automobile parking lot or garage

Automobile rental

Bakery shop

Bank and financial institutions

Barber and beauty shops

Bicycle sales and repair

Blueprinting and similar reproduction processes

Boat and marine sales, rental and repair

Bookstores

Building material and lumber yard enclosed by a building except for an interior courtyard or access area

Bus depot

Camera and photographic shop

Candy and ice cream shops

Coin store

Clothing or costume rental and sales

Contractor construction offices and shop

Department or variety store, no limit

Drugstore

Dry goods stores

Dry cleaning and laundry plan, including carpet cleaning and supply service

Exterminator, pest

Farm equipment, sales and repair; provided that all activity be confined within enclosed buildings

Feed and fertilizer sales

Floor covering or carpet store

Florist sales

Flower shops

Food locker plant, including cold storage

Furniture and home furnishings

Furrier shop and incidental storage

Garden supply and seed stores

Gift shop

Glass, stained and lead manufacture and sales

Grocery sales, meat market, and delicatessen

Gunsmith

Hardware, industrial sales

Health center and services

Heating, furnace equipment sales and service

Hobby shops

Hotels and motels

Interior decorating shops

Jewelry store

Laboratories, medical, dental or optical

Leather goods store

Letter shop, stationers, and card shop

Liquor store

Locksmith shops

Machinery and equipment; provided that all activity be confined within closed buildings

Mail order agency

Medical, dental offices and clinics

Monument sales and service

Motorcycle sales and service

Music instrument and record shop

Newspaper office

Office supplies and equipment repair

Office, general business and professional

Optical goods sales

Orthopedic or related medical appliances and artificial limbs

Paint and wallpaper, glass sales

Parking lot or garage for automobiles

Pawnshop

Pet shop

Plumbing fixtures sales

Radio, television, and broadcasting station

Rail passenger depot

Restaurants, cafes

Schools, business, language, commercial and trade schools which do not involve offensive noise, odor, dust, glare, heat or vibration

Secretarial service

Sewing machine sales and repair

Shoe stores

Sign painting signs

Sporting goods

Studios for professional work on the teaching of fine arts, photography, music, drama, dance, etc.

Tailor shops

Telegraph office

Telephone answering service

Telephone shop, garage, or service facilities

Tire recapping, vulcanizing shop

Upholstery shop

Wholesale establishments.

C.

Accessory buildings and uses customarily incident to the above uses.

D.

Other uses which in the opinion of the planning commission are of the same general character as those enumerated in this subsection.

E.

Signs as permitted in Article XI.

(Ord. No. 2022-03, § 4, 2-8-2022)

No height regulations required.

A.

Front yard. There is a twenty-foot minimum front yard required in the C-1 classifications, except for residential which shall conform to the residential district front yard requirements. There is no front yard requirement in C-1-A area.

B.

Side yard.

1.

Except as otherwise provided in these regulations on interior lots, no side yard is required except where a lot abuts a residential district, then the side yard requirement shall apply and such side yards shall be landscaped or fenced to buffer the residential uses. Residential lots shall conform to residential district side yard requirements.

2.

In the C-1 areas, side yards on a side street shall be a minimum of ten (10) feet deep or equal to forty (40) per cent of the established side yards as determined by the existing uses of the adjacent properties.

C.

Rear yards. Except as otherwise provided in these regulations, a rear yard depth of twenty (20) feet is required, except where a lot abuts a residential district, then the rear yard requirements of that district shall apply and such rear yard shall be landscaped or fenced in a suitable manner to buffer the residential uses.

D.

Lot area. There shall be a lot area of not less than two thousand five hundred (2,500) square feet in the C-1-A area only. All other C-1 areas shall have a minimum lot area of six thousand (6,000) square feet, except for residential which shall conform to residential district requirements.

E.

Lot width. All lots platted in the C-1-A area shall have an average width of twenty-five (25) feet measured along the building line. All other C-1 areas shall have a lot width of not less than sixty (60) feet measured along the building line.

F.

Lot coverage. There is no minimum requirement except for residential which shall conform to the regulations herein for residential district.