Cumming City Zoning Code
165.18 C-1
HIGHWAY COMMERCIAL DISTRICT REGULATIONS.
The regulations set forth in this section or elsewhere in this chapter, which are applicable, shall apply in all C-1 Highway Commercial Zoning District. The C-1 District is established as a district which the principal use of land is for establishments offering accommodations, supplies, or services to motorists, and for certain specialized uses such as retail outlets, extensive commercial amusements, and service establishments which although serving the entire community and its trading area do not and should not locate in other C Districts. The C-1 Highway Commercial District will ordinarily be located along numbered State or federal highways or other highways designated as major streets.
1. Principal Permitted Uses and Structures. Following are the principal uses and structures permitted in the C-1, Highway Commercial District:
A. Any principal permitted use in the C-2 Zoning District, provided such use shall comply with the minimum requirements of the C-1 Zoning District.
B. The following retail, commercial, and service establishments and uses:
(1) Amusement parks, and outdoor stadiums and arenas.
(2) Automobile, trailer, motorcycle, boat, and farm implement establishments for display, hire, rental, and sales (including sales lots); including all repair work in connection with personal or customers’ vehicles.
(3) Carpenter and cabinetmaking shops.
(4) Car washes, including self-service.
(5) Educational center, other than elementary and secondary schools
(6) Gas stations or service stations
(7) Golf courses
(8) Greenhouses and plant nursery
(9) Health and fitness club with indoor facilities
(10) Hotels and motels
(11) Lumber yards, retail only
(12) Monument sales yards
(13) Public auction buildings or rooms. (Does not include animal, vehicle auctions.)
(14) Mini-warehouse
(15) Small repair shop, including but not limited to bicycle, motorcycle, lawn mower, and garden tractor repair. All activities must be confined inside the buildings, including storage of parts and machines.
(16) Any use which is found by the Zoning Administrator to be a use similar to one of the above named uses, and in his/her opinion, conforms to the intent of this section.
2. Permitted Accessory Uses. Following are the permitted accessory uses and structures permitted in the C-1 Highway Commercial District:
A. Any accessory use permitted in the C-2 Zoning District, providing such use shall comply with the minimum requirements of the C-1 Zoning District.
3. Special Exception Uses and Structures. Special exception uses and structures are permitted in the C-1 Highway Commercial District in accordance with subsections 165.42(2) and (3), after notice and public hearing.
4. Maximum Height Regulations. The maximum height for principal structures in the C-1 Highway Commercial District is three stories or 35 feet.
5. Bulk Regulations. The following minimum requirements shall be observed for permitted uses in the C-1 Highway Commercial District:
Use | Lot Area | Lot Width | Front Yard Setback | Side Yard Setback | Street Side Corner Lot | Rear Yard Setback |
Schools, churches, other public or semi- public buildings | 10 acres | 75 feet | 50 feet | 50 feet | ||
All other uses | 20,000 square feet | 125 feet | 50 feet | * | 30 feet | * |
* No side or rear yard, except where apartments are above a store or shop, a rear yard of 20 feet shall be provided and where adjacent to an Agricultural zoning district or Residential zoning district, a side yard of 10 feet and a rear yard of 20 feet shall be provided or as specified in the buffer regulations. | ||||||
6. Frontage Road Requirement. Lots directly abutting arterial streets shall not exceed one drive access onto each such arterial street except as provided below. Common drives between adjacent landowners shall in lieu of individual drives be located with the common property line as the centerline of the drive and required to be located a minimum of 125 feet from any other drive as measured from centerline to centerline. One additional drive access may be permitted for a lot with continuous frontage in excess of 300 feet, or two additional drive accesses for continuous frontage in excess of 600 feet, if proper spacing is provided.
7. Sign Regulations. See Section 165.27.
8. Green Space and Buffer Requirements. See Section 165.29.
9. Off-Street Parking and Loading. See Section 165.47.
10. Architectural Standards. See Chapter 166.
11. Site Plan Requirements. See Section 165.48.
12. Special Exception Permits. See subsections 165.42(2) and (3).
