Garden City City Zoning Code
C-3 GENERAL
BUSINESS DISTRICT
§ 154.300 PURPOSE.
(A) The intent of the C-3 General Business District is to provide for intensive commercial development. C-3 districts typically exhibit one or more of the following characteristics.
(1) Permitted businesses offer a broad range of goods and services, including both comparison and convenience goods and services.
(2) The market for businesses in the C-3 district may include the general city population, residents in surrounding communities, and the people in transit.
(3) Permitted businesses are frequently auto-oriented, rather than pedestrian-oriented.
(4) Because of the negative impacts commonly generated by C-3 uses, these districts are not generally appropriate adjacent to residential uses unless extensive buffering is provided.
(B) Because of the variety of business types permitted in the C-3 district, special attention must be focused on site layout, building design, vehicular and pedestrian circulation, spacing of uses, and coordination of site features between adjoining sites. Accordingly, General Business District developments should be as follows.
(1) Compatible in design with adjacent commercial development.
(2) Designed in coordination with development an adjoining commercial sites.
(3) Buffered from or located away from residential areas.
(4) Directly served by a major thoroughfare.
(Ord. 92-005, passed 2-17-92)
§ 154.301 PERMITTED USES AND STRUCTURES.
(A) Principal uses and structures. In all areas zoned C-3 General Business District, no building shall be erected, used, or structurally altered, nor shall the land or premises be used, in whole or in part, except for one or more of the following principal permitted uses.
(1) All uses permitted in the C-2 district.
(2) Service establishments, including, but not limited to, a workshop maintained by electricians, plumbers, painters, upholsterers, printers, when in conjunction with retail establishments that offer merchandise of a related nature.
(3) Greenhouses or nurseries.
(4) Public utility buildings, telephone exchange buildings, electric transformer stations and substations, gas regulator stations with service yards but without storage yards, or water and sewage pumping stations.
(5) Minor auto repair garages.
(6) Standard and carry-out restaurants without drive-through facilities.
(7) Cigar lounges, subject to the provisions of § 154.169.
(8) Other uses not specifically listed in this chapter, after determination by the Zoning Administrator that the use is similar to other permitted uses in this district.
(9) Accessory structures and uses customarily incidental to the above permitted use.
(1) All special land uses permitted in the C-2 General Business District as stated in § 154.286(B).
(2) Automobile and vehicle sales and rental establishments.
(3) Automobile filling stations, automobile or vehicle service stations, major automobile repair garages.
(4) Automobile washes or car wash establishments.
(5) Commercial kennels.
(6) Drive-in establishments.
(7) Indoor motion picture theaters and rental halls.
(8) Open-air businesses.
(9) Private recreation facilities, indoor and outdoor.
(10) Regulated uses as stated in § 154.163, including the following.
(a) Adult physical cultural establishment.
(b) Adult book or supply store.
(c) Cabaret.
(d) Adult motion picture theater or adult live stage performing theater.
(e) Adult model studio.
(f) Adult motion picture arcade.
(g) Massage parlor or massage establishment.
(h) Adult outdoor motion picture theater.
(i) Bar/lounge/tavern.
(j) Pawn shops and exchange establishments.
(k) Public lodging house.
(l) Boarding house, rooming house, or fraternity house.
(m) Smoke shop.
(n) Specially designated distributor's establishment.
(o) Specially designated merchant's establishment.
(p) Hookah lounge or club.
(11) Restaurants with drive-through facilities.
(Ord. 92-005, passed 2-17-92; Am. Ord. 94-013, passed 10-17-94; Am. Ord. 97-001, passed 4-7-97; Am. Ord. 97-006, passed 7-1-96; Am. Ord. 08-004, passed 11-5-07; Am. Ord. 10-011, passed 10-26-09; Am. Ord. 12-008, passed 11-19-12; Am. Ord. 20-003, passed 7-6-20; Am. Ord. 22-001, passed 1-24-22) Penalty, see §
154.999
§ 154.302 DEVELOPMENT STANDARDS.
(A) Required conditions. Unless otherwise noted, buildings and uses in the C-3 district shall comply with the following requirements.
(1) All permitted retail or service establishments shall deal directly with customers. Manufacturing of products for wholesale distribution off of the premises is not permitted.
(2) All business, services, or processing, except off-street parking and loading, shall be conducted within a completely enclosed building, unless otherwise specifically permitted.
(3) There shall be no outside storage of any goods, inventory, or equipment without a temporary use permit, to be issued by the Zoning Administrator. Approval shall be in accordance with § 154.025. Any storage must be clearly accessory to the principal permitted use.
(4) Commercially used or commercially licensed vehicles used in the normal operation of a permitted retail or service use on the site may be parked in the rear only. This provision shall apply to operable vehicles that are moved on and off of the site on a regular basis.
(5) Parking or storage of damaged or disabled vehicles shall be prohibited. Vehicles parked on a site shall not be used principally for storage, sales, or advertising.
(6) All sites shall be maintained in compliance with the open space and landscaping requirements of § 154.082.
(C) Area, height, bulk, and placement requirements. Buildings and uses in the C-3 General Business District are subject to the area, height, bulk, and placement requirements in Appendix A, Schedule of Regulations.
(Ord. 92-005, passed 2-17-92; Am. Ord. 02-015, passed 8-5-02) Penalty, see § 154.999