A regional shopping district is designed primarily to embrace comprehensive shopping centers where all phases of retail business operations are carried on as one unit or as a series of units. The permissible uses hereinafter designated in this article are subject to the special use provisions of article XI of this chapter.

(Code 1978, § 5-8-1; Code 1997, § 98-165; Ord. No. 08-06-12, § 6, 6-17-2008)

(a)

A building or premises within the C-3 district shall be used only for the following purposes:

(1)

Any use permitted in the C-1 general business district except single-family dwellings and except apartments;

(2)

Any use permitted in the C-2 general service district, except single-family dwellings and apartments.

(3)

Bus depots and cab stands;

(4)

Facilities for outdoor amusements; provided, however, that the total occupied by such outdoor uses shall not exceed 50 percent of the area;

(5)

First aid stations for the treatment of emergency cases;

(6)

Gym, health club, spa or fitness center.

(b)

Accessory buildings and uses customarily incidental to the above uses, including storage and service areas within the structures, garages for delivery trucks, central heating and air conditioning plants and storage areas, yards, shops and similar facilities that are used solely for operating, servicing or maintaining the activities and improvements within the shopping district. Accessory buildings and uses shall also include dwellings occupied by watchmen, janitors, maintenance and similar employees of the center's management, subject to approval by the planning and development commission based upon genuine need for the living quarters and assurances that they will not be available for rental to the public. Accessory uses shall include signs and nameplates, but the size and location of any signs shall conform to the following requirements:

(1)

There may be a total of not more than eight freestanding ground signs, providing none of such signs shall exceed a total of 1,000 square feet of total face area. All signs shall be limited to advertising the shopping district or the stores, offices, facilities, uses, merchandise or services therein.

(2)

Signs may be attached to one or more facades or to the roof of any building providing they conform to the following requirements:

a.

They shall not project more than 24 inches from any facade.

b.

The total area of any sign attached to a facade or roof of a building shall not exceed two percent of the gross floor area including basements of the building to which such sign is attached, but in no event shall the total area of any single sign exceed 2,000 square feet for combined faces, but need not contain less than 50 square feet.

(c)

No merchandise, material or equipment shall be stored in any open areas, but may be kept and displayed in an open area for immediate sale or temporary display.

(Code 1978, § 5-8-2; Code 1997, § 98-166; Ord. No. 03-07-03, § 1, 7-1-2003; Ord. No. 15-10-19, § 4, 10-20-2015)

No building or other structure shall exceed three stories in height nor exceed 45 feet in height, provided that an exception shall be made for elevator penthouses, water tower, rooftop radio and television antennas, rooftop electrical and mechanical equipment and decorative building projections, and further provided that a single structure having a maximum area on any one floor above the third story, not exceeding 10,000 square feet and which is located not less than 250 feet from each boundary of the district may be erected to a height of not more than ten stories or 150 feet.

(Code 1978, § 5-8-3; Code 1997, § 98-167)

(a)

Yards and setbacks. No building or structure shall be erected or maintained within 25 feet of any residential district boundary line or within 25 feet of the right-of-way of any major highway or main street.

(b)

Buffer strip. A buffer strip not less than 25 feet wide shall be provided along any residential boundary line abutting or adjoining any boundary line of the regional shopping district. Parking shall be permitted in this buffer strip provided there shall be no less than a ten-foot area in width within the buffer strip and running parallel with its exterior limit, which ten-foot strip shall contain a green strip sodded and planted with permanent shrub and tree screen having a height of no less than five feet, which shrub and tree screen shall be no closer than five feet from the outside boundary of the ten-foot strip and shall further have a permanent chain link-type fence continuous in character (i.e., without opening) six feet in height running along the interior line of the ten-foot strip. There shall further be a landscaped green buffer strip of no less than five feet in width along the boundary line of the regional shopping center abutting the right-of-way of any major highway or main street.

(Code 1978, § 5-8-4; Code 1997, § 98-168)

(a)

Where the C-3 regional shopping district contains a gross area of more than ten acres, there shall be provided an area for vehicular parking of not less than five cars per 1,000 square feet of gross floor area for all permitted uses in the C-3 regional shopping district.

(b)

The term "gross floor area," as used herein, means the total floor area for occupancy and use measured from the outside face of all exterior walls and including upper floors and mezzanine space (other than additional space created by fixture installations designed to increase the usability of space exclusively for stock or storage purposes), but not including public washrooms, the public part of the enclosed mall, mechanical or electrical equipment penthouses or rooms, rubbish rooms, shopping center management offices, merchant's association management offices, community halls, bus stops, truck loading and docking areas, truck tunnels, service corridors, emergency exit corridors not contained within any area exclusively used by a single tenant and all areas, rooms or buildings designated for storage of equipment used for maintenance of common area.

(Code 1978, § 5-8-5; Code 1997, § 98-169)

Signs shall be subject to the village sign regulations, except where specifically covered in section 56-187(b).

(Code 1978, § 5-8-6; Code 1997, § 98-170)

A tentative site plan indicating the areas to be developed for buildings; the anticipated total gross floor space; the areas to be developed for parking; the points of ingress and egress; including access streets where required; and such surveys prepared by qualified experts as may be required in setting forth and analyzing the effects of the proposed regional shopping district upon the village shall be submitted to the village president and board of trustees as a preliminary to any development of the site.

(Code 1978, § 5-8-7; Code 1997, § 98-171)