The "HC" highway commercial district is intended primarily as a high intensity area permitting a mixed-use for office, commercial-retail, and highway oriented uses, such as hotels, restaurants, and low and mid-rise offices, and should be located generally along high-volume thoroughfares. The site characteristics for each area should be designed in a manner to create an attractive appearance from I.H. 635 and S.H. 121, and an impressive gateway into the community. Because these areas are designated as major thoroughfare entry points, emphasis has been placed on building arrangement, setbacks, parking, and landscape treatment, which are intended to be elements influencing the character of entrance into the city. It is the intention of the "highway commercial" zoning district to create an attractive and unique entrance into the city.

(Ord. No. 91500-A-30)

A building or premise shall be used only for the following purposes:

1.

Auto parts sales (new).

2.

Barber and beauty shop.

3.

Business or trade school.

4.

Business support services.

5.

College or university.

6.

Communications services.

7.

Community centers (public or private).

8.

Consumer repair services.

9.

Drug store or pharmacy.

10.

Dry cleaning and laundry.

11.

Exhibition hall.

12.

Film developing and printing.

13.

Financial services.

14.

Fix-it shops for such items as bicycles and lawn mowers but without outside storage.

15.

Florist (no outside storage).

16.

Fraternal club or lodge.

17.

Furniture stores.

18.

Hardware store.

19.

Hospital.

20.

Jeweler (retail).

21.

Laboratory: Scientific, research, testing, medical, dental, or optical so long as all operations are conducted indoors.

22.

Meat market (retail only).

23.

Municipal buildings.

24.

Museum.

25.

Other general retail sales of similar nature and character as provided in this section, subject to the following conditions:

(A)

that it be conducted wholly within an enclosed building;

(B)

that required yards not be used for display, sale or storage or merchandise, or for the storage of vehicles, equipment, containers or waste material;

(C)

that all merchandise be first-hand and be sold at retail on the premises; and

(D)

that such use does not promote objectionable odors, excessive light, smoke, dust, noise, vibration or similar type nuisance.

26.

Office/Warehouse (warehouse being limited to a maximum of 20 percent of the gross floor area).

27.

Personal services.

28.

Pet services.

29.

Photography studio.

30.

Postal facilities.

31.

Printing shop or company (retail only).

32.

Professional and administrative offices where services are provided only and no chattels or goods are offered for sale on the premises, including but not limited to doctors, dentists, attorneys, architects, engineers, urban planners, insurance, real estate, banks and similar offices.

33.

Radio, television or microwave receiving dish (subject to screening regulations; see section 12-33-1).

34.

Temporary amusement activity, i.e., carnival (approved by city council resolution).

35.

Temporary buildings for use incidental to construction work on the premises, which said building shall be removed.

36.

Veterinarian or animal hospital (no outside kennels or runs).

37.

Any use permitted by special use permit, as listed in section 12-30-9, subject to the exceptions set forth in section 12-22-2.

(Ord. No. 91500-A-30; Ord. No. 91500-A-129; Ord. No. 91500-A-275, § 1, 12-12-00; Ord. No. 91500-A-375, § 1, 5-11-04)

For clarity, the following uses, though not limited to the following, are specifically not permitted uses within the "HC" district even with a special use permit.

1.

Airport.

2.

Crop production.

3.

Kennels.

4.

Any use requiring outside storage.

5.

Pawn shops.

6.

Seed store.

7.

Used automobile sales or display, repair garages, tire and seat cover shops, or auto laundries unless incidental to a service station.

8.

Self-storage or mini-warehouses.

(Ord. No. 91500-A-30; Ord. No. 91500-A-129)

1.

Minimum size of yards:

(A)

Front yard: 60 feet.

(B)

Side yard: 30 feet.

(C)

Rear yard: 20 feet.

2.

Minimum size of lot:

(A)

Lot area: 10,000 square feet

(B)

Lot width: No minimum.

(C)

Lot depth: No minimum.

3.

Lot coverage: In no case shall more than 50 percent of the lot be covered by buildings.

4.

Height restrictions: Maximum height of 20 stories, but limited to 70 feet on any portion of the site within 300 feet of property zoned or used for A, SF-ED, SF-18, SF-12, SF-9, SF-7, SF-0, 2F-9, TH-1, or TH-2. In addition, no structure may exceed the maximum height limitations as established by the Dallas/Fort Worth International Airport Board.

(Ord. No. 91500-A-30; Ord. No. 91500-A-129)

Required off-street parking shall be provided in accordance with the specific uses set forth in article 31. No more than 50 percent of the required parking shall be utilized in the front yard. No parking or loading shall be permitted within 20 feet of the front property line.

(Ord. No. 91500-A-30; Ord. No. 91500-A-129)

All structures shall be 80 percent masonry exterior exclusive of doors and windows. Stucco is permitted by special use permit only.

1.

Masonry is further defined as brick and stone of earth tone colors, other brick colors shall be permitted as accent provided that, in combination, accent materials and non-masonry materials do not exceed the 20 percent non-masonry benchmark on any one facade.

2.

Flat roofs and parapet walls around flat roofs shall have a cornice, cap or other detail with a vertical dimension equal to at least three percent of the height of the building. Where as architectural feature extends above the roof line, and is visible from a public right-of-way, then the back side of this feature shall be finished of a material that is of the same or similar material as the front of this feature, i.e. brick. Pitched roofs shall have roofing material of a lusterless neutral/earth tone or green color. Green colors shall be limited to dark forest greens, gray greens, pale bluish-gray greens, slate greens and copper patina. Metal roofs may be standing seam either with a baked-on lusterless finish or made of copper.

3.

Exterior wall surfaces should consist of no more than three colors; a base color, and/or a trim color, and/or an accent color. The base color may be utilized on up to 100 percent of the surface area of any one facade of a building. Another color, other than a base color, shall be permitted on up to only five percent of the surface area of any one facade, and an accent color on up to only one percent of the surface area of any one facade. For calculation purposes, wall surfaces should include eaves, gables and parapets, but should exclude roofs, awnings, or signs.

4.

Glass should not exceed 50 percent of the total area of any one facade of a building.

5.

Awnings are limited to canvas, or a lusterless, non-metal material that closely resembles canvas, at least 98 percent of which is a single deep or neutral solid color. The remaining up to two percent, if different, shall be contrasting. Awnings shall not be backlit. Lettering and logos should be limited to a monogram, not exceeding 20 percent of the sign area.

(Ord. No. 91500-A-30; Ord. No. 91500-A-129; Ord. No. 91500-A-319, §§ 1, 2, 3-19-02)

Landscape requirements shall be provided according to article 33. Additionally, those areas which are specified within the Coppell Streetscape Plan shall be adhered to.

(Ord. No. 91500-A-30; Ord. No. 91500-A-129)

No owner, occupant or operator shall cause, permit, suffer or allow outside storage and/or display of goods and/or services as defined in this chapter, unless screened from public view from an adjacent street, except for the incidental or secondary use as a garden center or conducting a special event permitted under article 6-5 of the Code of Ordinances.

(Ord. No. 91500-A-551, § 1, 5-11-10)