The C-4 shopping center commercial district is intended to accommodate certain general retail, personal service, and professional offices uses of relative compatibility in locations outside the central business district, when developed as part of an integrated shopping center complex.

It is not the intent of this district to permit scattered, unrelated commercial developments, but rather to provide the opportunity to assemble a complex of commercial uses in one location, serving the daily shopping and service needs of the consumer and having common access drives, parking areas and pedestrian walkways.

(Ord. 952 (part), 1993)

Only the uses of structures or land listed in this section shall be permitted in the C-4 district:

A.

Automotive service stations, but not including automotive or farm machinery display or sales;

B.

Beauty shops and barbershops;

C.

Business and professional offices and studios;

D.

Can redemption centers that are wholly contained within a building and create no offensive noise, dust, or odor;

E.

Grocery, apparel, appliance, hardware, toy, and drugstores and retail stores similar in nature;

F.

Department stores;

G.

Gift and specialty shops;

H.

Personal service and repair shops;

I.

Dry cleaners and laundries;

J.

Real estate, insurance, and financial institutions, including drive-in banks;

K.

Dance or music schools;

L.

Commercial amusements contained within a building;

M.

Clubs and lodges;

N.

Medical, dental and chiropractic clinics;

O.

Restaurants, cafes, and nightclubs, but not including drive-in eating or drinking establishments;

P.

Liquor store;

Q.

Public utilities, but not including storage or maintenance yards or buildings;

R.

Warehousing and plumbing, HVAC, electrical and other trade shops;

S.

The sale and outdoor display of automobile, trailer, motorcycle, boat, farm implement, recreational vehicles and lawn and garden equipment.

(Ord. 1112 § 1, 2008; Ord. 952 (part), 1993)

(Ord. No. 1338, § 2, 11-4-2024)

Accessory uses permitted in the C-4 district are as follows:

A.

Accessory uses and structures clearly incidental and necessary to the permitted principal uses or structures;

B.

Storage in conjunction with the permitted principal uses or structures, but only when contained within the same building;

C.

Temporary buildings and equipment used in conjunction with construction work; provided, that such buildings and equipment are removed promptly upon completion of the construction work;

D.

Permitted Signs:

l.

Traffic, parking and directional signs necessary for safety and public information;

2.

Advertising signs, trade, business or industry identification signs for the business located on the site; provided that the following requirements are met:

a.

One freestanding sign per shopping center, not to exceed thirty-five feet in height and one hundred square feet per face and located at least twenty-five feet from lot lines;

b.

One exterior wall-mounted sign per business per exterior side with public entrance door, not to exceed fifty square feet per sign. A maximum of fifty square feet of these signs will be counted toward the total area allowed in subsection D.3.g. below;

c.

One wall-mounted sign facing an interior wall or walkway, not to exceed seventy-five square feet per business where such sign is not visible from the public street;

d.

Signs attached to a building shall not project above the height of the wall of the building or more than thirty inches from the wall of the building;

e.

No sign attached to a wall shall be double-faced;

f.

No signs shall cover more than ten percent of the building wall face on which it is located;

g.

The total combined area of all signs shall not exceed two and one-half square feet of sign area for each lineal foot of business building frontage.

3.

Under-canopy signs. Signs attached to the underside of a canopy shall have a copy area no greater than six square feet, with a maximum letter height of nine inches, subject to a minimum clearance of eight feet from the sidewalk, and shall be mounted as nearly as possible at right angles to the building face;

4.

Signs on awnings. Signs consisting of one line of letters not exceeding nine inches in height may be painted, placed or installed upon the hanging border only of any awning erected and maintained in accordance with this title. A business name identification emblem, insignia, initial or other similar feature, not exceeding an area of eight square feet, may be painted, placed or installed elsewhere on any awning provided that any sign, emblem, insignia, or other such similar item shall comply with all other provisions of this title;

5.

Marquee sign that is attached to and contained within the perimeter of the face or valance of a marquee.

E.

Fences shall not exceed four feet in height. A screening fence may be authorized or required by city ordinance or administrative board or official, or by state law.

F.

Solar collectors mounted on the ground in the rear yard or attached to the principal or accessory building facing the front, side or rear yard. The mounting of solar collectors shall be in accordance with the requirements of the state building code. If required, solar access easements may be obtained from adjoining property owners in accordance with state statutes.

(Ord. 952 (part), 1993)

(Ord. No. 1151, § 4, 2-4-2013; Ord. No. 1175, § 1, 8-17-2015; Ord. No. 1237, § 7, 10-21-2019)

The following minimum requirements shall be observed, subject to the modifications contained in Chapter 17.40:

A.

Lot area: Minimum 5 acres; Maximum 25 acres.

B.

Lot width: No minimum requirement.

C.

Front yard: 50 feet.

D.

Side yards: 50 feet.

E.

Rear yard: 50 feet.

F.

Maximum height: 35 feet.

G.

Maximum number of stories: 3 stories.

(Ord. 952 (part), 1993)

A.

An application for a change in zoning to the C-4 shopping center classification shall be accompanied by a preliminary development plan of the proposed shopping center showing the following:

1.

The number and types of businesses to be housed in the shopping center;

2.

The floor area of buildings proposed;

3.

The number and arrangement of parking spaces;

4.

Provisions for loading and unloading service vehicles;

5.

The location of pedestrian ways and landscaped areas;

6.

The size, type and location of all signs;

7.

Entrance and exit drives, including frontage roads when needed to control traffic.

B.

The following conditions shall apply to all warehousing permitted uses located within a C-4 shopping center classification:

1.

The uses may not include any combustible materials and/or flammable liquids nor any hazardous, offensive or objectionable materials by reason of odor, dust, cinders, gas, fumes, noise, vibrations, radiation, refuse matter or fluid waste.

2.

The building fronts must have a minimum of ten percent of the square footage available for any other "nonwarehousing" C-4 permitted uses.

3.

Nonincidental warehousing uses are only permissible in a C-4 when the C-4 zoning district adjoins an industrially zoned property.

4.

All truck traffic accessing the warehousing for loading or unloading of merchandise purposes shall not use Division Street as a means of access.

C.

A landscaped buffer strip at least thirty-five feet in width shall be provided around the perimeter of the site to minimize any adverse effects the development might have on nearby properties or which adjacent uses might have on the proposed development.

D.

An area equivalent to not less than five percent of the gross developed area, excluding the required thirty-five-foot buffer strip, shall be devoted to landscaped amenities such as malls, planters and parking area islands.

E.

Parking, loading space or interior drives shall not be located closer than thirty-five feet to any property line.

F.

There shall be no exterior display or storage of merchandise, or storage of waste materials other than within a permanent screened enclosure, not visible from a public street.

G.

Where the shopping center abuts on the side or rear of a residential zone, there shall be constructed a six-foot-high decorative screen fence along the property line.

(Ord. 1112 § 2, 2008; Ord. 952 (part), 1993)

Site plans shall be required in accordance with the provisions of Chapter 17.36 following approval of rezoning to C-4 shopping center commercial district.

(Ord. 952 (part), 1993)