(a)

Purpose. The RC (Regional Commercial) District is to provide general and large-scale commercial activities such as: retail, eating and entertainment complexes, convenience retail establishments, professional offices and services, clusters of commercial development, commercial accommodations and automotive sales and services. The RC District is to provide more intense commercial uses than those located in the CMU (Commercial Mixed Use) District. Preferred uses are those that particularly provide services for the traveling public.

(b)

Allowed uses. See Use Matrix - Table 16-5 of this Article.

(c)

Dimensional standards. The Dimensional Standards within the RC District are outlined in Table 16-6 of this Article.

(d)

Use by special review. See the Use Matrix - Table 16-5.

(e)

General provisions. The requirements as outlined in Subsection 16-1-140(e) above are applicable to the designated uses in Table 16-5.

(f)

Sexually oriented businesses:

(1)

Sexually oriented businesses shall be located a minimum of three hundred (300) feet from any:

a.

Area zoned for residential use,

b.

Single-family, two-family or multi-family dwelling.

c.

Place of religious assembly.

d.

Licensed day care facility.

e.

School or educational facility serving persons age eighteen (18) or younger.

(2)

Sexually oriented businesses shall also be located a minimum of one hundred fifty (150) feet from any other sexually oriented business.

(3)

The distance between any two (2) sexually oriented businesses shall be measured in a straight line, without regard to intervening structures, from the closest exterior structural wall of each business. Distance between any sexually oriented business and any place of religious assembly, school, day care facility, dwelling unit or residential district shall be measured in a straight line, without regard to intervening structures or objects, from the nearest portion of the building or structure used as part of the premises where the sexually oriented business is conducted to the nearest property line of the premises of a place of religious assembly, school, day care facility or dwelling unit, or the nearest boundary of a residential district.

(4)

Sexually explicit advertisements or other promotional displays for sexually oriented businesses that are harmful to minors shall not be visible to minors from pedestrian ways, walkways or other public areas.

(Ord. 12-02 §1)