Ellettsville City Zoning Code
COMMERCIAL DISTRICTS
§ 152.080 PURPOSE.
(A) The light commercial district supports less-intense light retail and personal service businesses along collector streets and adjacent to or near residential areas, offering a transitional area between the residential uses and the heavier commercial and industrial uses.
(Ord. 03-05, § 822-05, passed 5-27-2003)
(B) The district caters to non- residents parking and walking to multiple shops and restaurants as well as personal services.
(Ord. 03-05, § 822-10, passed 5-27-2003)
(C) Serves the business trade area with vehicular orientated shopping, serving weekly shopping trips.
(Ord. 03-05, § 822-15, passed 5-27-2003; Am. Ord. 2013-17, passed 2-24-2014)
§ 152.081 PERMITTED USES; DEFINITIONS AND CONDITIONS.
Reference shall be made to §§ 152.001 and 152.295 et seq. for the definitions of and special conditions concerning the uses listed in the following sections.
(Ord. 03-05, § 822-20, passed 5-27-2003; Am. Ord. 2013-17, passed 2-24-2014)
§ 152.082 PERMITTED USES; UNRESTRICTED.
The following uses are permitted, except as restricted or prohibited by this chapter or by Indiana or federal law:
(A) Commercial, retail and service.
(1) All C Districts. Bakery (with retail sales, and not exceeding 10,000 square feet); babysitting and child care home; bed and breakfast; bicycle sales and repair; communication facility (attached); gun sales and repair (without a shooting range); home occupation; hotels and motels; liquor store; micro-brewery; personal services (including barber, beauty, clothes tailoring, hair, nail, and shoe repair shops); pet shop; print shop (with retail sales, and not exceeding 10,000 square feet); professional and government offices; small item retail (including department stores, food, drug, beverage, small appliances, florist, gifts, hardware, furniture, paint, clothes and sporting goods); small appliance repair and servicing studios (arts and crafts, design, photography, broadcasting [including with attached communications facilities per the chapter on Communications Facilities]); tavern; video tape rental (not including adult entertainment).
(2) C2 and C1 districts only. Child care facilities (including centers, ministries or pre-schools, located not closer than 250 feet to a business in which alcoholic beverages are served); catering; drive-in facility; laundromat.
(3) C3. Auto and truck repair (under four tons gross vehicle weight); kennel; carwash (under four tons gross vehicle weight); convenience mart or store; greenhouse; laundry and dry cleaning; pawn broker; veterinary clinic; mini rental storage facilities.
(B) Health and long-term care. Extended care facility (C3 only); health maintenance facility (C3 only); outpatient medical, dental and health care offices and clinics.
(C) Residential. All C districts. Apartments above commercial uses; group homes; single-family dwellings; two-family dwellings.
(D) Recreational. Health and fitness facility; indoor and outdoor amusements; parks; playgrounds.
(E) Cultural, religious, social and public. In all C districts libraries, museums and art galleries; cultural, social and religious organizations not closer than 250 feet to a business in which alcoholic beverages are served; schools if not closer than 250 feet to a business in which alcoholic beverages are served.
(F) Miscellaneous. Accessory buildings for permitted uses; mobile construction office; parking lots and garages; ponds and lakes.
(Ord. 03-05, § 822-25, passed 5-27-2003; Am. Ord. 2013-17, passed 2-24-2014; Am. Ord. 2016- 13, passed 11-14-2016)
§ 152.083 PERMITTED USES; RESTRICTED.
Except as noted, the following uses are permitted only in the C3 district, and must have access from a designated truck route, and may have incidental storage, but shall not permit on- site assembly, construction, manufacturing or millwork or other industrial activity: Auto, truck, motorcycle, manufactured housing and RV washing, sales or service facility (for vehicles over four tons gross vehicle weight); building materials sales; parcel post distribution facilities; gasoline and diesel fuel service stations; heavy equipment sales and service; quarrying, mining and transportation terminal (bus and cab C2 and C3 only).
(Ord. 03-05, § 822-30, passed 5-27-2003; Am. Ord. 2013-17, passed 2-24-2014)
§ 152.084 USES PERMITTED BY SPECIAL EXCEPTION.
The following uses require the granting of a special exception by the Board of Zoning Appeals: halfway house, multi-family dwellings, boarding houses sports facilities and commercial uses different than approved uses, which may be due to product or service innovation.
(Ord. 03-05, § 822-35, passed 5-27-2003; Am. Ord. 2013-17, passed 2-24-2014; Am. Ord. 2016- 13, passed 11-14-2016)