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Footville Village City Zoning Code

§ 370-8

C1 General Commercial District.

[Amended 7-3-1997 by Ord. No. 7-3-97; 9-4-1997 by Ord. No. 9-4-97; 4-5-2018 by Ord. No. 2018-106]
A. 
Purpose. The C1 District is intended to provide an area for the business, financial, professional, and commercial needs of the community, especially those which can be most suitably located in a compact, centrally located traditional business district.
B. 
All uses conditional. All of the following uses which may be conducted upon land in the C1 District shall be conditional uses and shall be subject to the conditional use procedure set forth in § 370-15 of this chapter.
(1) 
Accounting, auditing and bookkeeping firms or services.
(2) 
Advertising agencies, consumer credit reporting, news agencies, employment agencies.
(3) 
Antique stores and secondhand stores.
(4) 
Bait and tackle shops.
(5) 
Banks and other financial institutions.
(6) 
Barbershops, beauty shops and hairdressers.
(7) 
Bed-and-breakfast establishments.
(8) 
Bookstores, not including sexually related materials as defined in § 370-18 of this chapter.
(9) 
Camera and photographic supply stores.
(10) 
Candy, nut or confectionery stores.
(11) 
Clothing and shoe stores.
(12) 
Commercial parking lots, parking garages, and parking structures.
(13) 
Computer services.
(14) 
Dairy products stores, including ice cream stores.
(15) 
Department stores, variety stores, and general merchandise stores.
(16) 
Drugstores and pharmacies.
(17) 
Duplicating, blueprinting, photocopying, addressing, mailing, mailing list and stenographic services, and small print shops.
(18) 
Engineering and architectural firms or consultants.
(19) 
Establishments engaged in the publishing and printing of newspapers, periodicals or books.
(20) 
Establishments for the washing, cleaning, or polishing of automobiles, including self-service car washes.
(21) 
Farm supplies and wholesale trade items.
(22) 
Florist shops.
(23) 
Furniture, home furnishings, floor covering and upholstery shops/stores.
(24) 
Gasoline service stations.
(25) 
Gift, novelty and souvenir shops.
(26) 
General grocery stores, supermarkets, fruit and vegetable stores, delicatessens, meat and fish stores and miscellaneous food stores.
(27) 
Hardware stores.
(28) 
Heating and plumbing supplies.
(29) 
Hotels, motor hotels, motels, tourist courts, tourist rooms including bed-and-breakfast establishments.
(30) 
Jewelry and clock stores.
(31) 
Law offices.
(32) 
Liquor stores.
(33) 
Licensed nursery schools and licensed day-care centers for children.
(34) 
Mini-storage rental facilities.
(35) 
Miscellaneous business offices.
(36) 
Miscellaneous repair shops and related services.
(37) 
Miscellaneous retail stores.
(38) 
Motion picture theaters, not including drive-in theaters.
(39) 
News dealers and newsstands.
(40) 
Nursing homes and adult nursing and day-care centers.
(41) 
Offices/clinics of physicians and surgeons, dentists and dental surgeons, osteopathic physicians, optometrists, chiropractors, counselors and veterinarians.
(42) 
Offices of governmental agencies and post offices.
(43) 
Offices of insurance companies, agents, brokers and service representatives.
(44) 
Offices, meeting places, churches, and premises of professional membership associations; civic, social, and fraternal associations; business associations, labor unions and similar labor organizations; political organizations; religious organizations; charitable organizations; or other nonprofit membership organizations.
(45) 
Offices of real estate agents, brokers, managers, and title companies.
(46) 
Paint, glass and wallpaper stores.
(47) 
Photographic studios and commercial photography establishments.
(48) 
Professional, scientific, or educational firms, agencies, offices, or services, but not research laboratories or manufacturing operations.
(49) 
Public transportation passenger stations, taxicab company offices, taxicab stands, but not vehicle storage lots or garages.
(50) 
Residential units located on the ground level and/or second story of a commercial structure, provided proper living area, sanitary facilities and adequate means of ingress/egress exist; the Village Board may impose appropriate requirements and/or limitations on such residential commercial uses.
(51) 
Residential uses permitted or conditional in zoning districts R, R1, R2 and R3.
(52) 
Restaurants, lunch rooms and other eating places, including drive-in-type establishments.
(53) 
Retail bakeries, including those which produce some or all of the products sold on the premises, but not including establishments which manufacture bakery products primarily for sale through outlets located elsewhere or through home service delivery.
(54) 
Retail laundry and dry-cleaning outlets, including coin-operated laundries and dry-cleaning establishments, commonly called "laundromats" and "launderettes." Tailor shops, dressmakers' shops, garments repair shops, garment pressing establishments, hand laundries and hat cleaning and blocking shops.
(55) 
Retirement homes, including assisted-living facilities, CBRFs, but not including nursing homes.
(56) 
Saddle shops, veterinarians' offices and clinics, including animal hospitals.
(57) 
Seed, feed and farm supplies sales, lumber yards and warehousing.
(58) 
Establishments providing sexually related materials and/or activities as defined in § 370-18 of this chapter.
(59) 
Shoe repair shops and shoe shine parlors.
(60) 
Sporting goods stores and bicycle shops.
(61) 
Stationery stores.
(62) 
Stores for the sale and installation of tires, batteries, mufflers and other automotive accessories and new parts.
(63) 
Taverns, bars and other drinking places permitted by the Village Board.
(64) 
Telephone and telegraph offices.
(65) 
Trade and contractor's offices (office only).
(66) 
Tobacco and smokers' supplies stores.
(67) 
Vacuum cleaner and sewing machine stores.
(68) 
Watch, clock and jewelry repair services.
(69) 
Other uses similar to or customarily incident to any of the above uses.
C. 
Lot, yard and building requirements.
(1) 
Minimum lot width.
(a) 
Fireproof construction: 25 feet.
(b) 
Non-fireproof construction: 45 feet.
(2) 
Minimum lot area: no minimum.
(3) 
Yards for principal building.
(a) 
Minimum front yard: none.
(b) 
Minimum side yard.
[1] 
Fireproof construction: none.
[2] 
Non-fireproof construction: nine feet.
(c) 
Minimum rear yard: 25 feet.
(4) 
Building height: maximum 60 feet.
(5) 
Alley setback: minimum 15 feet.
NOTE: Preexisting structures may be nonconforming. The above lot, yard and building requirements may be increased or decreased by the Village agency considering the issuance of a conditional use permit.