Carlisle City Zoning Code
ARTICLE IX
C-1 Central Business District
§ 255-59 Intent.
§ 255-60 Uses permitted by right.
[Amended 8-28-2008 by Ord. No. 2107, approved 9-1-2008; 7-11-2013 by Ord. No. 2182, approved 7-11-2013; 4-9-2015 by Ord. No. 2220, approved 4-9-2015; 7-10-2025 by Ord. No. 2460, approved 7-10-2025]
In the C-1 District, land or buildings may be used by right for only the following uses:
A.
Retail sales of goods or groceries.
B.
Business or personal services, including haircutting and styling.
C.
Massage therapist business.
D.
Offices.
E.
Community service facilities, including libraries, community recreation centers and post office.
F.
Hotels or motels, subject to compliance with § 255-199A(27).
G.
Bed-and-breakfast, subject to compliance with § 255-199A(9).
H.
Movie or performing arts theater.
I.
Custom printing and copying, not including printing of an industrial scale.
J.
Professional studio.
K.
Standard or fast-food restaurant, not including drive-through service, subject to compliance with § 255-199A(36).
L.
Exercise club.
M.
Child nursery/day-care center, subject to compliance with § 255-199A(29).
N.
Adult day-care center, subject to compliance with § 255-199A(2).
O.
Dance, photography, artisan or craft studio.
P.
Museum.
Q.
Parking lot or parking garage as a permitted use.
R.
Fire, emergency services and ambulance stations.
S.
Community gardens, subject to compliance with § 255-199A(53).
T.
Non-tower wireless communications facilities, subject to compliance with § 255-199A(50).
U.
Artisan industry.
§ 255-61 Accessory uses.
Only the following accessory uses shall be permitted:
A.
Accessory buildings and uses customarily incidental to and associated with permitted uses.
B.
Commercial communication antenna mounted on a permitted structure, subject to compliance with § 255-199A(50).
C.
Community gardens, subject to compliance with § 255-199A(53).
[Added 7-11-2013 by Ord. No. 2182, approved 7-11-2013]
§ 255-62 Uses by special exception.
The following uses may be permitted as a special exception when authorized by the Zoning Hearing Board, subject to § 255-197 of this chapter:
A.
Public utility uses, such as telephone exchange buildings, subject to compliance with § 255-199A(33).
B.
Places of worship, subject to compliance with § 255-199A(32).
C.
Testing, cleaning and repairing of small machines for household or business use.
D.
Laboratories for research and development.
E.
Apartments, subject to compliance with § 255-199A(5). Apartments shall not be allowed on a street level floor adjacent to Hanover Street or High Street.
F.
Tavern, provided that such building is not attached to a building that is principally residential.
G.
Auditorium.
H.
Trade school.
I.
Membership club, subject to compliance with § 255-199A(23).
J.
Neighborhood convenience store.
§ 255-63 Conditional uses.
The following uses may be permitted as conditional uses when authorized by the Borough Council, subject to § 255-198 of this chapter:
A.
Community event signs. For purposes of this section, a "community event sign" shall be a nontemporary sign designed to provide notice on a continuing basis of community activities and events as they occur, and so used. A community activity or event shall be one sponsored by a civic, service, charitable, scholastic or similar organization for the benefit of the community at large, for nonprofit purposes, or an activity or event expressly sanctioned by the Borough Council, such as sidewalk sales days, or an activity or event expressly approved for inclusion in community event signs by the Borough Council. A community event sign shall have a surface area not in excess of 35 square feet per side, shall have no more than two sides and shall not be of a prohibited type under § 255-218. A community event sign shall not be placed or maintained upon property without the consent of the property owner and, if not sooner removed, shall be removed at such time as it is no longer being used for the aforesaid purpose, it falls into a state of disrepair or any term of use specified by Borough Council in granting the conditional use expires, whichever is sooner.
§ 255-64 Prohibited uses.
[Amended 7-10-2025 by Ord. No. 2460, approved 7-10-2025]
The following uses are specifically prohibited:
A.
Video arcade.
B.
Auto service station or auto repair garage.
C.
Drive-through financial institution, drive-through restaurant or drive-through retail sales or any other similar use.
D.
Adult bookstore, adult movie theater or cabaret.
E.
Auto, boat or mobile/manufactured home sales.
F.
Car wash.
G.
Warehousing or storage as a principal use.
H.
Commercial convenience store.
§ 255-65 Area and bulk regulations.
The following regulations shall be observed:
A.
Minimum lot area: 1,000 square feet.
B.
Building setback line: none required.
C.
Minimum lot width: 12 feet minimum, at the minimum building setback line.
D.
Building coverage: no maximum.
E.
Impervious coverage: no maximum.
F.
Minimum rear yard: none required, except four feet from any right-of-way of an avenue.
G.
Side yard: none required.
H.
Maximum building height: 45 feet or 4 1/2 stories, whichever is less.
I.
Hours of operation: No retail use that is not located along an arterial street shall be open to the public between the hours of 11:00 p.m. and 6:00 a.m. if the building that the use shares one or more common vertical walls with is a single-family semidetached dwelling or townhouse.
J.
Paved area setback: none required.
§ 255-66 Parking and loading.
A.
Because minimum parking requirements for most uses in the C-1 Central Business District are provided by municipal public parking, off-street parking is not required for any permitted use except the following:
[Amended 7-12-2007 by Ord. No. 2076, approved 8-8-2007]
C.
Loading and unloading. No use shall be permitted in the C-1 District that would require severe and substantial obstruction of traffic on public streets for loading and unloading. This shall not include routine deliveries to retail sales, personal service and similar uses.