To provide sufficient space, at appropriate locations, to meet the need of the City’s projected requirements for all types of distributive, commercial and related activities, with due allowance for the need for choice of suitable sites.

To protect distributive, commercial and related activities, as well as residential and related activities by providing for the separation of these uses; to insure that appropriate space needs for distributive and commercial activities are available by prohibiting the use of such space for residential purposes.

To restrict those commercial activities which involve danger of fire, explosions, toxic or noxious matter, radiation, smoke, dust or other particulate matters, and other hazards, or to create offensive noise, vibration, heat, humidity, glare, and other objectionable influences, to areas where this ordinance restricts the emission of such nuisances, without regard to the products or processes involved.

To protect commercial activities and related developments against congestion, as appropriate for each area, by limiting the bulk of building in relation to the land around them and to one another, and by requiring off-street parking and loading facilities to be provided with such developments.

To promote the most desirable use of land and direction of building development, to promote stability of commercial and related development, to strengthen the economic base of the City of Blue Mound, to protect the character of these districts and their peculiar suitability for particular uses, and to conserve the value of land and buildings.

Any business and/or commercial use meeting the following development site plan requirement and performance standards:

A scale drawing showing the boundary of the tract and topography with a contour interval of not less than two-foot (2') intervals.

Where buildings and/or other structures are proposed, a site plan showing the location of each building and the minimum distance between buildings and between buildings and the property lines, street line and/or alley line shall be submitted.

A plan indicating the arrangement and provision of hard surface off-street parking, off-street loading, outside storage areas, method and location of storage area screening and points of entry from adjoining thoroughfares.

A table showing net land area, ratio of building area and outside storage areas to net land area.

A table of performance standards if deemed by Zoning Administrator necessary by the characteristics of the activities to be conducted on the site.

Scale, north arrow, and names and addresses of owners and/or developers with name(s) and address(es) of those responsible for preparation of the development plan.

Any lighting visible from outside the site shall be designed to reflect away from adjacent residential districts. No noise, odor or vibration shall be emitted so that it constitutes a nuisance which substantially exceeds the general level of noise, odor or vibration emitted by uses adjacent to or immediately surrounding the site. Such comparisons shall be made at the boundaries of the site.

Outdoor storage of trash receptacles shall be at the side or rear of the site and shall be totally encircled or screened by a fence, planting or other suitable visual barrier.

A permanent opaque screening fence or wall shall be constructed along any side or rear property line which abuts property zoned for residential purposes. The height of this screen or wall shall be no less than six feet (6') and shall be constructed of wood, masonry or other durable opaque material.

All properties within this district shall be developed under a unified site plan submitted to and approved by the Planning Commission. Criteria for submittal of the accompanying site plan shall follow the guidelines set forth in this ordinance.

Every use, or any part thereof, that is not conducted within a building completely enclosed on all sides shall be enclosed within a wall or fence a minimum of six feet (6') and a maximum of ten feet (10') in height. Such wall or fence shall completely screen all operations conducted within such wall or fence from observation. No exterior storage area shall encroach into any of the required yards.

The first thirty feet (30') of the required front yard setback, measured from the property line shall be landscaped with trees, grass and shrubs, provided with pedestrian walks to the front of the building and maintained in a neat and attractive condition. The balance of said required setback may be utilized for off-street parking.

No loading or storage of material or products shall be permitted in the required front yard.

Notwithstanding the yard regulations for this district, no part of any building or accessory structure shall be located closer than one hundred feet (100') to any residential district boundary.

There shall be a front yard having a depth of not less than fifty feet (50').

There shall be a side yard on each side lot line of any building having a width of not less than thirty feet (30').

There shall be a rear yard having a depth of not less than forty feet (40') from the lot line to the building. In the case of double frontage lots, the rear yard setback shall be increased to fifty feet (50').

There shall be a minimum lot area of not less than and [sic] one (1) acre. In addition, there shall be a minimum tract width of one hundred fifty feet (150') and tract depth of not less than two hundred feet (200').

All buildings shown on the required site plan shall not have a maximum lot coverage of more than fifty (50) percent of such site. The building shall not have a floor area ratio greater than 1.5.