(a)

In C-1 districts, except as otherwise provided in this chapter, all buildings shall be erected and all land shall be used only for one or more of the following specified uses:

(1)

Clothing service, including laundry pickup, automatic laundry, dressmaking, millinery, tailor shop, shoe repair shop.

(2)

Food service, including grocery, meat market, supermarket, restaurant, delicatessen and fruit market, ice-o-mats and similar self-service units.

(3)

Personal services, including barbershop and beauty shop.

(4)

Municipally owned and operated buildings.

(5)

Public utility buildings, telephone-exchange buildings, electric transformer stations and substations, and gas regulator stations, with service yards, but without storage yards.

(6)

Water and sewage pumping stations, subject to the approval of the planning commission.

(7)

Retail services including banks, drug stores, haberdashers, stationery, book stores, news dealers, apparel shops, show rooms for articles to be sold at retail. Gasoline service stations upon approval of planning commission.

(8)

Signs, as hereinafter regulated.

(9)

Private clubs, fraternities and lodges, excepting those the chief activity of which is a service customarily carried out as a business.

(10)

Buildings and uses customarily accessory to any such permitted uses when located on the same lot.

(b)

Such specified stores, shops or businesses shall be retail establishments selling new merchandise or services only, and shall be subject to the following conditions:

(1)

Such stores, shops or businesses shall be conducted entirely within a building.

(2)

Products made incident to a permitted use shall be only sold at retail on the premises.

(3)

All public entrances to such stores, shops or businesses shall be from the principal street upon which the property abuts, or within 50 feet thereof, except that a rear entrance from the building to a public or private parking area may be provided.

(4)

Dwelling units above or in the rear of a commercial use shall not be permitted.

(5)

Any exterior sign displayed may project not more than 18 inches beyond the face of the wall or front or side property line and shall be attached to and be parallel to the wall of the building fronting the principal street or, in the case of a corner building, on that portion of the side street wall within 50 feet of the principal street and shall pertain only to the use conducted within the building.

a.

One nonilluminated sign pertaining to the sale or lease of a building or lot and not exceeding 30 square feet in area for any one building or lot.

b.

Roof signs and projecting signs and billboards shall not be permitted in C-1 districts.

(6)

All exterior walls of every building which faces or abuts on any street or property classified as residential, hereafter erected, extended or where the exterior is structurally altered, shall be designed, treated and finished in a uniform manner similar to the exterior surfaces at front entrances of such buildings.

(c)

Approval of the board of appeals.

(1)

Repair or storage facilities incidental to any of the permitted uses only on approval of the board of appeals.

(2)

Public parking areas for the exclusive use of the patrons of the stores, shops or business in the immediate commercial district (when located and developed as required in article VI of this chapter).

(Code 1969, § 5.161; Code 1977, § 28-289; Ord. No. 365, 6-27-2011)

In C-1 districts no building hereafter erected or altered shall exceed 35 feet in height, except as provided in article XXV of this chapter.

(Code 1969, § 5.162; Code 1977, § 28-290; Ord. No. 153, 5-11-1987)

Every lot in C-1 districts used as a business shall have an area sufficient in size to provide an adequate and safe water supply and a safe and adequate sewage disposal system as established by standards required by the state or county health department rules and regulations.

(Code 1969, § 5.163; Code 1977, § 28-291)

In C-1 districts front yards shall be provided, as measured from the centerline of the street as specified under section 44-93. Commercial buildings and uses may be set back from the front building line in order to allow for off-street parking. Off-street parking may be permitted in the front of commercial buildings when boundary of parking area is located not less than five feet from the front property line, when access to each parking stall is from a drive located on business property and the plot plan of parking area is approved by the planning commission.

(Code 1969, § 5.164; Code 1977, § 28-292)

In C-1 districts side yards are not required along an interior side lot line where all walls of buildings abutting such interior side lot line are wholly without windows or other openings and are of fireproof construction, but if the side wall is not of fireproof construction, a side yard of not less than ten feet shall be provided. When the interior business lot abuts a residential lot, a side yard of not less than 20 feet shall be provided in addition to the required greenbelt.

(Code 1969, § 5.165; Code 1977, § 28-293)

In C-1 districts no side yard is required on the street side of corner lots when the side yard is not used for parking. When parking is furnished in the side yard on the street side of a corner lot parking shall comply with regulations specified in section 44-546.

(Code 1969, § 5.166; Code 1977, § 28-294)

In C-1 districts a rear yard not less than 20 feet shall be required; where alleys exist the measurements of the rear yard may include the width of the alley.

(Code 1969, § 5.167; Code 1977, § 28-295)

In C-1 districts on any lot running through from street to street, a rear yard shall be provided on the rear street conforming to the requirements for front yards on that street.

(Code 1969, § 5.168; Code 1977, § 28-296)

All nonresidential uses, when adjacent to a residential district and not separated therefrom by a street or alley, shall provide and maintain in a healthy growing condition, greenbelt buffer strip of trees and shrubs of not less than eight feet in width, along the adjoining property line.

(Code 1969, § 5.169; Code 1977, § 28-297)

No commercial or business building shall hereafter be erected or altered in a C-1 district having a first floor area of less than 400 square feet or as otherwise approved by the zoning board of appeals.

(Code 1969, § 5.170; Code 1977, § 28-298)

Loading space and off-street parking requirements shall be provided as hereinbefore specified in article VI of this chapter.

(Code 1969, § 5.171; Code 1977, § 28-299)