(1) INTENT. The intent of the C-1 Central Commercial District is to provide for commercial business services and activities to support community and trade area needs and to promote the traditional character of the original center of the community.

(2) PRINCIPAL USES. Principal uses in the C-1 Central Commercial District are those primarily considered to be, or similar to, service or retail businesses or establishments. The following shall be principal uses by right when located within a building or structure that conforms with all applicable federal, state, and local laws and regulations:

(a) Antique stores.

(b) Apparel and accessory stores.

(c) Appliance stores.

(d) ATM drive-thru or walk-up locations.

(e) Automobile wash facilities.

(f) Bakeries.

(g) Banks, savings and loan associations, and other financial institutions.

(h) Barber and beautician services.

(i) Book and stationery stores.

(j) Bowling alleys.

(k) Business or professional offices that supply commodities or perform services.

(l) Bus terminals.

(m) Camera supply stores and photographic studios.

(n) Confectionery stores.

(o) Contract construction services.

(p) Drapery, curtain, and upholstery stores.

(q) Drug and proprietary stores.

(r) Eating places, indoor or outdoor.

(s) Food and beverage stores, general retail.

(t) Food lockers without preparation facilities.

(u) Furniture and home furnishing retail stores.

(v) Garden supplies and nurseries.

(w) Gas stations.

(x) General merchandise retail stores.

(y) Hardware retail stores.

(z) Jewelry retail.

(aa) Laundry, self-service or dry cleaning plants.

(bb) Lumber yards.

(cc) Medical, dental, and other health services.

(dd) Mixed use buildings.

(ee) Motels.

(ff) Multi-family dwellings.

(gg) Paint, glass, and wallpaper retail.

(hh) Plumbing and heating services.

(ii) Public buildings, parks, and other similar property.

(jj) Radio and television, sales and service.

(kk) Sporting goods, retail.

(ll) Taverns.

(mm) Variety and gift stores.

(3) PERMITTED ACCESSORY USES. The following accessory uses and structures shall be permitted if the principal use or structure is present:

(a) Accessory uses and structures normally appurtenant to the permitted uses and structures and to uses and structures permitted as special exception uses.

(4) SPECIAL EXCEPTION USES. A building or premises may be used for the following purposes in the C-1 Central Commercial District if a special use permit for such use has been obtained in accordance with section 11-230:

(a) Bed and breakfast guest homes.

(b) Child care centers.

(c) Churches and places of worship.

(d) Civic, social, and fraternal associations.

(e) Electrical and gas distribution substations, and other public utility substations and other public utility installations, but not including equipment storage or maintenance yards.

(f) Funeral homes.

(g) Motion picture theaters.

(h) Outdoor advertising businesses.

(i) Recycling centers.

(j) Single- and two-family dwellings.

(k) Alternative energy systems utilizing biomass, geothermal, hydropower, solar, or wind sources in conformance with net metering per Neb. Rev. Stat. §§ 70-2001 to 70-2005 (August 30, 2009, as amended) and shall also be in conformance with the provisions of sections 11-525 and 11-526.

(l) Co-location of additional cellular or communication antennas on an existing tower in conformance with the provisions of section 11-528.

(5) PROHIBITED USES. All other uses and structures, which are not specifically permitted or not permissible as special exception uses, shall be prohibited from the C-1 Central Commercial District.

(6) SPACE LIMITATIONS. No residential structure shall be constructed or substantially improved within a floodplain or flood prone area unless the lowest floor, including basement, is elevated to at least one foot above the base flood level. Additionally, no structures for human habitation shall be allowed in a designated floodway. No property shall be utilized for any purpose other than permitted by this district, and no structure shall be moved, constructed, or substantially improved without complying with the provisions of the Floodplain Regulations. The following shall apply except as otherwise allowed for community unit plans of the Supplementary Regulations:

(a) The maximum height and minimum lot requirements within the C-1 Central Commercial District shall be as follows:

(7) MISCELLANEOUS PROVISIONS. Supplementary Regulations shall be complied with as defined herein, except there shall be no minimum parking or loading requirements for any commercial use. Minimum parking and loading requirements shall be complied with for all residential uses, except for residential uses located on the second or higher floors of a commercial building built prior to January 1, 1990.

(8) SIGN REGULATIONS. Signs within the C-1 Central Commercial District shall be in conformance with the Sign Regulations.

(9) FENCE REGULATIONS. Fences within the C-1 Central Commercial District shall be in conformance with the provisions of section 11-502.

Source: Ord. 978 (1985); Ord. 1142 (1991); Ord. 1400 (1998); Ord. 1436 (1998); Ord. 1579 (2003); Ord. 1926 (2015); Ord. 1964 (2015); Ord. 1974 (2016); Ord. 2023 (2017); Ord. 2063 (2019); Ord. 2119 (2021)