The C-1 general business district area is designed primarily for the retail shopping activities of persons residing in the trading area and to permit such service and retail uses as shall be compatible with each other as distinguished from non-retail activities which are not conducive to enhancing a retail shopping area. The permissible uses hereinafter designated in this article are subject to the special use provisions of article XI of this chapter.

(Code 1978, § 5-6-1; Code 1997, § 98-115; Ord. No. 08-06-12, § 4, 6-17-2008)

(a)

A building or premises shall be used only for the following purposes in this district:

(1)

Bakeries, where all goods are sold on the premises at retail;

(2)

Banks, currency exchanges, savings and loan associations and finance companies;

(3)

Barbershops and beauty parlors;

(4)

Dress and millinery shops employing not more than five persons engaged in the making of dresses or hats;

(5)

Cleaning establishments where work is done elsewhere (pickup stations only);

(6)

Launderettes (self-service laundries);

(7)

Self-service dry cleaning establishments;

(8)

Electric appliance shops employing not more than five persons engaged in repairing;

(9)

Locksmith shops;

(10)

Messenger and telegraph service stations;

(11)

Offices;

(12)

Photographic studios;

(13)

Restaurants, except drive-in restaurants;

(14)

Shoe repair shops;

(15)

Tailor shops employing not more than five persons engaged in making clothes;

(16)

Book and stationery stores;

(17)

Drug stores;

(18)

Meat markets where no stripping or slaughtering is involved;

(19)

Florist shops;

(20)

Hardware stores;

(21)

Radio, television sales and service and radio and TV studios of an accessory operation;

(22)

Grocery and fruit stores;

(23)

Pet shops with no permanent boarding of animals;

(24)

department stores;

(25)

Hand laundries employing not more than five persons;

(26)

Public parking lots or garages for the temporary parking of vehicles, but not including repair service;

(27)

General retail stores;

(28)

Furniture stores;

(29)

Business signs;

(30)

Parking, subject to article XII of this chapter;

(31)

Uses customarily incidental to any of the above uses and accessory buildings when located on the same lot. All business or service of aforesaid stores, shops, businesses shall be conducted wholly within a completely enclosed building, except for automobile parking and off-street loading areas;

(32)

The parking of trucks as an accessory use, when used in the conduct of a permitted business listed in this subsection, shall be limited to vehicles of not more than 1½-ton capacity when located within 150 feet of a residence lot or residence district boundary line.

(33)

Adult-use cannabis craft grower;

(34)

Adult-use cannabis dispensing organization.

(b)

Other permitted uses. Provided they are located above the main floor and above a business use permitted in this district, the following uses are permitted:

(1)

Business, music, dance, beauty or commercial schools;

(2)

Offices;

(3)

Lodge rooms and halls;

(4)

Radio or TV studios;

(5)

Apartment provided the ground floor permitted use complies with all current safety standards and zoning code requirements.

(Code 1978, § 5-6-2; Code 1997, § 98-116; Ord. No. 19-02-05, § 3(Exh. A), 2-19-2019; Ord. No. 19-02-05, § 3(Exh. A), 2-19-2019; Ord. No. 19-12-22, § 5, 12-3-2019)

No building shall be erected or enlarged to exceed a height of three stories nor shall it exceed 45 feet in height, except as otherwise provided in section 56-368.

(Code 1978, § 5-6-3; Code 1997, § 98-117)

No building or structure nor the enlargement of any building or structure shall be hereafter erected or maintained unless the following yards and lot areas, including adequate off-street parking facilities as defined in article XII of this chapter, are provided and maintained in connection with such building, structure or enlargement:

(1)

Front setback. All new structures permitted in this district shall be set back from the front street line a distance of five feet.

(2)

Side yard. A side yard is not required except on the side of a lot adjoining a residence district lot, in which case there shall be a side yard of not less than five feet.

(3)

Rear yard. Where the rear lot line abuts a public alley adjacent to a residential area, no rear lot is required if adequate and usable loading and unloading and refuse disposal facilities are provided elsewhere. Where adequate loading and unloading and refuse disposal facilities are not otherwise provided, there shall be a rear yard having a depth of not less than ten feet.

a.

Where no public alley exists, there shall be a rear yard of the same depth as that required for either the rear or side yard, whichever is lesser, in the adjacent residential lot.

b.

Where a lot in this district abuts a lot in a nonresidential district, there shall be a rear yard of not less than five feet.

(Code 1978, § 5-6-4; Code 1997, § 98-118)

Buildings, premises and uses permitted in this district are subject to the applicable performance standards listed in section 56-229.

(Code 1978, § 5-6-5; Code 1997, § 98-119)