Deer Park City Zoning Code

The purpose of the C-N zone is to provide supplemental shopping areas detached from the C-C zone. Such shopping areas shall be located so as to provide convenient shopping centers for the various outlying areas of the community. It is the intent of the C-N zone to provide for concentrated development of such shops and stores within small areas and to limit such goods and services initially to not more than one of a kind whether contained in one building or in separate buildings such as one beauty shop, one drug store, or one grocery store; to avoid strip developments; and to prevent nuisances such as noise and traffic from accompanying such areas.

A development in a C-N zone shall require a minimum offering of four different classifications of goods or services, such as one drug store, one grocery store, one barber shop or one shoe repair shop, with a minimum of 5,000 square feet of usable floor area and a minimum land area of 20,000 square feet. An additional 10,000 square feet of sales area for each additional acre of land to a maximum development of 80,000 total square feet of usable floor area and a maximum of eight acres shall be permitted in any one commercial neighborhood zone.

All retail uses, except the following:

All personal, professional, commercial recreation, household service establishments;

Signs;

Automobile parking;

Public uses;

Public utilities.

All open storage that does not constitute a display for retail, wholesale or rental use shall be enclosed by a fence or wall six feet in height which obscures the view of the open storage area from adjoining properties and streets. As an alternative to a fence or wall, the city may permit one of the following: planting of a solid evergreen hedge at least six feet in height (such as green arborvitae shrubs); installation of a landscaped berm with the berm being a minimum of six feet in height; or development of a combination landscaped earthen berm topped with a solid evergreen hedge having a combined total minimum height of at least six feet. No open storage shall exceed the height of its perimeter screening feature along the front property line or a property line that adjoins a residential use or zone.

Service stations (not including major overhaul or body work);

Building height in excess of the maximum established by this chapter;

Houses of religious worship including, but not limited to, churches, mosques, synagogues, temples, convents, and related uses;

Schools of either a public or private nature.

Front Yards. There shall be a front yard minimum depth of 15 feet which shall also apply on streets flanking the normal or original lot front.

Rear Yards. There shall be no rear yard requirement unless a building abuts a residential district, in which case the minimum rear yard depth shall be 10 feet.

Side Yards – Side Yards Abutting Interior Lot Lines. There shall be no side yard requirement unless a building abuts a residential district in which case the minimum side yard requirement shall be five feet in width.