The C-2 district is designed to provide and encourage concentrated locations, in defined areas along highways and major thoroughfares, of certain retail businesses and services which are automobile oriented or serve and are dependent on the motoring public.

In the C-2 districts, no buildings 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.

Churches or other places of worship.

B.

Public, parochial and high schools.

C.

Museums, libraries, parks, playground or public recreation areas and such public buildings as are necessary for health and safety such as fire stations. Also, hospitals and clinics, not including animal, which meet the standards of "Additional Provisions," Article XII, section 1.

D.

Public utilities and governmental buildings including substations, regulator stations, pumping stations, disposal or treatment facilities, radio or television transmitter or tower, transmission lines, water filtration plant and storage reservoir or other similar public service uses.

E.

Any use permitted in C-1.

F.

Additional retail and service business as follows:

Amusement facilities, skating rinks, bowling alley, go-cart tracks and miniature golf

Animal hospitals

Auction room, except livestock

Automobile car wash

Drive-in eating establishments

Drive-in theaters

Farm equipment sale, open storage, repairs, service, and sales

Kennels

Machinery and equipment, open storage, repair, service and sales

Mobile home and trailer sales

Motorcycle sales and service

Nursery stock, greenhouses, and sales

Tire recapping, vulcanizing shops

Tourist courts, cabins or motels

Warehouse, wholesale establishment, except for freight terminals (rail and truck)

G.

Light industrial use as follows:

Acetylene—The storage of oxygen and acetylene in tanks if oxygen is stored in a room separate from acetylene, and such rooms are separated by a not less than one-hour fire resistant wall

Bags and boxes, paper, manufacture of

Barrels, storage of empty barrels

Blacksmith shops

Boat buildings

Bottling plant

Breweries

Cabinet making and carpentry shop

Canvas products, the manufacture of

Cesspool pumping, cleaning, and draining

Cleaning and dyeing establishments, wholesale

Clothing, the manufacture of cloth products, including clothing of all kinds, but not tanning

Contractor's equipment yard, including farm equipment and all equipment used in building trades

Dairies

Draying yard or terminal

Electric appliance assembly

Electrical parts, the manufacture of, the sale at wholesale of, or the storage of, small electrical parts

Fabricating, other than snap riveting or any process used in bending or shaping which produces any annoying or disagreeable noises

Frozen food process plants

Fruit packing plant

Iron—Ornamental iron works, but not including a foundry

Leather products, the manufacture of, but not including tanning

Linen and towel supply

Lumber yards

Machine shops and storage yard and repair

Metals—Manufacture of metal, steel, and brass tamps, including hand and machine engraving, metal fabricating, spinning and storage

Moving van storage or operating yard

Optical goods, the manufacture of

Paper products, the manufacture of

Poultry and rabbits, the wholesale and retail sale of poultry and rabbits, including slaughtering and dressing within a building

Produce yard, or terminal

Storage of tractors, buses, contractor's equipment and cement mixers, not within a building

Tire retreading

Tools, the manufacture of

Truck storage or rental

Veterinary, the consulting office and hospital of a veterinary

Warehouse, storage warehouse

Welders and sheet metal shops

Wood, the manufacture of wood products.

H.

Accessory buildings and uses customarily incident to the above uses.

I.

Signs as permitted in Article XI.

No height regulations required.

A.

Front yard. There shall be a front yard having a depth of not less than fifteen (15) feet, except that it needs to be of no greater depth than the average front yard depth established by the existing buildings which occupy forty (40) per cent or more of the frontage between two (2) intersecting streets, or except when abutting a residential district, R-1 or R-2, then the front yard requirement of that district shall apply. Residential lots shall conform to the R-1 and R-2 front yard requirement.

B.

Side yard. No side yard required except when the lot abuts a residential district, then the requirements for such abutment of the C-1 district shall be met. Residential lots shall conform to the R-1 side yard requirements.

C.

Rear yard. No rear yard required except when the lot abuts a residential district, then the requirements for such abutment of the C-1 district shall be met. Residential lots shall conform to the R-1 and R-2 rear yard requirement.

D.

Lot area. There shall be a lot area of not less than five thousand (5,000) square feet, except for residential which shall conform to R-1 or R-2 lot area requirements, whichever is applicable.

E.

Lot width. All lots platted in the C-2 district shall have an average width of not less than fifty (50) feet measured along the building line, except for residential which shall not be less than sixty (60) feet measured along the building line.

F.

Lot coverage. The combined building area of the main building and accessory buildings shall not cover more than fifty (50) per cent of the total lot area, except for residential which shall not be less than forty (40) per cent of the total lot area.