Certain classes of districts, designated herein by the primary symbol "C" and collectively referred to as Commercial or "C" Districts, are established to provide for the various types of shopping, service and business facilities. The specific regulations set forth for each in the following Sections are subject to all the general regulations of Chapter 8 of this Title.

The primary purpose of and application of this District shall be to provide suitable lands and locations of various retail, service and commercial activities, including gaming (Group I) and for the location of offices for professional services and for business activities which involve a relatively low volume of direct consumer contact; and to regulate such development (Group II).

   (A)   Permitted Uses: The following principal uses are permitted in the C1 Group I category, when entirely conducted within an enclosed building:

      1.   Retail stores, including:

Bakery

Book or stationery store

Confectionery store

Drugstore, pharmacy

Dry goods or notions store

Florist or gift shop

Grocery, fruit or vegetable stores

Hardware or electrical appliance store

Jewelry store

Meat market or delicatessen store

Apparel and department stores

Amusement enterprises

Antique stores

Automobile and trailer sales provided that repair work be conducted wholly within a building

Furniture stores

Secondhand stores, if conducted wholly within completely enclosed building

Bar, cocktail lounge and eating and drinking establishments

Gaming and gambling establishments

      2.   Services:

Bank

Barber shop and beauty parlor

Cafe or restaurant (including dancing or entertainment)

Church

Clothes cleaning agency and/or pressing establishment

Club or lodge (non-profit), fraternal or religious association

Community Center

Dressmaker or millinery shop

Clinic (human or animal)

Laundry

Photographer

Post Office

Shoe store and repair

Tailor

Motion picture theater

Blueprinting or photostating

Cleaning and pressing establishment

Carpenter shop, if conducted wholly within a completely enclosed building and no more than five (5) persons are employed on the premises

Conservatory of music

Drive-in business

Fortune telling, clairvoyance or astrology

Interior decorating store

Locksmith shop

Massage

Medicine and dental laboratories

Mortuary

Newspaper plants

Public garage, including automobile repairing and incidental body work, painting or upholstering, if all operations are conducted wholly within a completely enclosed building. Provided, however, that where a public garage is located on a lot which does not abut an alley and is within sixty five feet (65') of a lot in any "R" District, the garage wall which parallels the nearest line of such district shall have no opening other than stationary windows

Public services, including electric distributing substation, fire or police station, telephone exchange and similar uses

Theater

Wedding Chapel

      3.   Other uses similar to above if approved by the Planning Commission

   (B)   Conditional Uses: The following are conditional uses in the Group I category and shall be permitted only if approved by the Planning Commission:

Frozen food locker plants (excluding wholesale processing or cold storage)

Plumbing shop

Printing, lithographing, publishing or reproducing

Distributors of petroleum products if location is approved by Planning Commission

Furniture warehouse, for storing personal household goods, provided the ground floor front is devoted to stores.

Ice storage house if not more than five (5) ton capacity

Trade school, if location is approved by the Planning Commission

Stadium and commercial recreation enterprise (Ord. 1975-A, 3-5-75, eff. 4-1-75)

Outdoor advertising signs (Ord. 1982-J, 9-8-82, eff. 10-1-82)

   (C)   Parking: One parking space shall be provided for each four hundred (400) square feet of usable floor area for all permitted and conditional uses in the Group I category.

   (D)   Yards: No requirements.

   (E)   Height Limitations: No building shall have a height in excess of fifty feet (50') or four (4) stories, or in excess of twenty feet (20') when located within fifty feet (50') of a Residential (R) District.

   (F)   Building Site Area: The minimum building site area or lot in this Group shall be ten thousand (10,000) square feet; the minimum width of a lot shall be seventy five feet (75').

   (A)   Permitted Uses: The following principal uses are permitted in a Group II category:

      1.   Office or office building for the conduct of business, professional or administrative services

      2.   Bank, loan agency

      3.   Church, library, exhibit hall, art gallery

      4.   Clinic, hospital

      5.   Clubhouse or rooms used by members of a lodge, union or society

      6.   Medical or dental laboratory

   (B)   Conditional Uses: The following are conditional uses and shall be permitted only if approved by the Planning Commission:

      1.   Pharmacy, limited to the sale of drugs and medical supplies

      2.   Restaurant or store needed to serve the occupants or existing buildings

      3.   Parking lot

      4.   Public utility substation or facility, not including any service yard or repair shop

      5.   Mortuary establishment (Ord. 1975-A, 3-5-75, eff. 4-1-75)

      6.   Outdoor advertising signs (Ord. 1982-J, 9-8-82, eff. 10-1-82)

   (C)   Accessory Uses: In a Group II category, a dwelling unit within a business building may be qualified as an accessory use if it is for occupancy by the owner or a lessee of business premises therein, or by a caretaker or watchman.

   (D)   Yards: The minimum yard requirements shall be as follows:

 

 

No required yard shall be used as a parking space.

All yards shall be landscaped or provided with growing ground cover, except for access driveways and walks.

   (E)   Height Of Building: No building in a Group II category shall have a height in excess of fifty feet (50') or four (4) stories.

   (F)   Signs: In a Group II category, the aggregate of identifying business signs on any one building site, or alternatively for each ten thousand (10,000) square feet of a building site containing two (2) or more separate main buildings, shall not exceed six (6) in number or fifty (50) square feet in area. No sign shall have any moving parts or extend more than four feet (4') above the roof or cornice line of any main building on the site. No sale or lease sign shall exceed nine (9) square feet in area.

   (G)   Building Site Area: The minimum building site area or lot in a Group II category shall be seven thousand five hundred (7,500) square feet. The minimum width of a lot shall be seventy five feet (75').

   (H)   Parking: One parking space shall be provided on site for each two hundred (200) square feet of usable floor area. (Ord. 1975-A, 3-5-1975, eff. 4-1-1975)

The C2 Highway Services and Tourist Commercial District is established to provide space for highway and tourist related enterprises adjacent to major routes of travel so regulated as to prevent the impairment of safe and efficient movement of traffic and to encourage attractive development, compatible with adjacent residential land uses.

   (A)   Permitted Uses: The following principal uses are permitted when conducted entirely within a completely enclosed building:

      1.   Store for the sale at retail of books, confectionery, dairy products, drugs, flowers, food, stationery, toys or variety household goods, excluding secondhand stores.

      2.   Barber shop, beauty parlor.

      3.   Tailor dressmaking or shoe repair shop.

      4.   Office, bank, rental agency.

      5.   Laundry, or dry cleaning pick-up agency, self-service automatic laundry.

      6.   Eating establishment, including liquor and gaming.

      7.   Commercial recreation facility.

      8.   Social, cultural, religious or philanthropic institution.

      9.   Liquor stores.

      10.   Motel, motor hotel, with gaming. (Ord. 1975-A, 3-5-1975, eff. 4-1-1975)

      11.   Outdoor advertising signs. (Ord. 1982-J, 9-8-1982, eff. 10-1-1982)

   (B)   Conditional Uses: The following are conditional uses and shall be permitted only if approved by the Planning Commission:

      1.   Any of the uses permitted when combined with or involving any outdoor display of goods or outdoor business activity.

      2.   Automobile service station, including facilities for general repair or mechanical washing.

      3.   Plant nursery, greenhouse, garden supply store.

      4.   Sale at retail of new or used automotive vehicles, trailers or boats.

      5.   Drive-in restaurant.

      6.   Establishment where liquor is sold for consumption on the premises.

      7.   Clinic, hospital (human or animal).

      8.   Recreational vehicle park. (Ord. 1975-A, 3-5-1975, eff. 4-1-1975)

      9.   Mobile home park. (Ord. 1979-AA, 11-8-1979, eff. 12-1-1979)

      10.   Truck service station, including services for general repair or mechanical washing. (Ord. 1980-I, 6-5-1980, eff. 6-25-1980)

      11.   Post offices. (Ord. 1997-B, 3-19-1997, eff. 4-3-1997)

   (C)   Accessory Uses: In a C2 District, a dwelling unit within a business building may be qualified as an accessory use if it is for occupancy by the owner or lessee of business premises therein, or by a caretaker or watchman.

   (D)   Yards: The minimum requirements for yards shall be as follows:

 

 

   (E)   Height Limitations: No building shall have a height in excess of fifty feet (50') or four (4) stories, or in excess of twenty feet (20') when located within fifty feet (50') of an "R" District.

   (F)   Building Site Area: The minimum building site area or lot in the C2 District shall be ten thousand (10,000) square feet; the minimum width of a lot shall be seventy five feet (75').

   (G)   Parking: One parking space shall be provided for each three hundred (300) square feet usable floor area for all permitted and conditional uses in the C2 District. (Ord. 1975-A, 3-5-75; eff. 4-1-75)

The C-3 High Rise General Commercial and Tourist Commercial District is established to provide space for office, general commercial, and tourist related enterprises adjacent to major arteries of travel within an unincorporated town so regulated to prevent the overtaxing of Municipal facilities and encourage attractive development compatible with adjacent land uses.

   (A)   Permitted Uses: The following principal uses when conducted within a completely enclosed building:

      1.   Retail stores for the sale of books, confectionery, dairy products, drugs, flowers, food, stationery, toys or variety household goods, excluding secondhand stores.

      2.   Services:

Barber shops, beauty parlor

Tailor, dressmaker

Bank

Office

Real estate office

Laundry or drycleaning pick-up or agency

Eating establishment, including liquor and gaming

Gaming and gambling establishments

Medical facilities, including clinic or hospital

Establishment where liquor is sold for consumption on the premises

Wedding Chapel

      3.   Public Buildings:

Theatres, live or motion picture

Conservatory of music

Churches, library or art gallery

Club or lodge, fraternal or religious association

Automobile parking structures used only for parking and not for the sale or repair of automobiles

      4.   Hotels, motels, motor hotels with gaming

      5.   Other uses similar to above if approved by the Planning Commission.

   (B)   Conditional Uses: The following are conditional uses and shall be permitted only if approved by the Planning Commission:

      1.   Automobile service station, including facilities for general repair or mechanical washing.

      2.   Animal Clinic

      3.   Parking Lot

      4.   Public utility substation or facility, not including any service yard or repair shop

      5.   Printing, lithographing, publishing, or reproducing plant

      6.   Stadium and commercial recreation enterprise

      7.   Schools, if location is approved by the Planning Commission (Ord. 1980-0, 2-7-80, eff. 3-1-80)

      8.   Outdoor advertising signs. (Ord. 1982-J, 9-8-82, eff. 10-1-82)

   (C)   Accessory Uses: In a C3 District a dwelling unit within a business building may be qualified as an accessory use if it is for occupancy by the owner or lessee of the business premise therein, or by a caretaker or watchman.

   (D)   Yards: The minimum requirements for yards shall be as follows:

 

 

   (E)   Height Limitations: No restrictions up to two hundred forty feet (240') or twenty (20) stories. Buildings in excess of these limits must be individually approved by the Planning Commission.

   (F)   Building Site Area: The minimum building site area or lot in the C3 District shall be one acre; the minimum width of a lot shall be two hundred feet (200').

   (G)   Parking: One parking space shall be provided for each three hundred (300) square feet of useable floor and for all permitted and conditional uses in the C3 District. Reduction of this requirement requires Planning Commission approval. (Ord. 1980, D, 2-7-80, eff. 3-1-80)