The planning commission may permit a gasoline service station in C-1, C-2 and C-3 districts, provided that the planning commission shall find that said gasoline service station is so arranged and maintained so as not to affect adversely the normal development or use of neighborhood property in the same district or in an adjoining residential district and in addition the following conditions and safeguards are complied with:

(1)

Gasoline service stations shall observe all regulations required for such structures and their uses by the laws of the state and city code.

(2)

Gasoline service stations shall provide a front yard and two side yards of not less than 20 feet each.

(3)

Where open space is used for storage, parking or sales purposes and is adjoining a residential district, separated only by an alley, a solid wall, compact planting screen or a uniformly painted board fence, not less than four feet in height, shall be erected to screen the view and temper the noise of the station from the adjoining residential district.

(4)

Pumps, hoists or other equipment used in servicing of motor vehicles by either a service garage or a gasoline service station, shall be placed and used only inside the lot lines and shall be set back not less than 18 feet from any street line to which the pump island or hoist is vertical and 12 feet from any street line to which the pump island or hoist is parallel, and not less than ten feet from any residential boundary line; and no servicing shall be permitted on any vehicle while said vehicle is resting wholly or partly on a sidewalk or on a public street or highway.

(5)

On all corner lots all vehicular entrances to or exits from any curb openings shall be set back a minimum of ten feet from the corner property lines extended or from the established right-of-way lines as shown on the master thoroughfare plan. All curb openings, whether on a corner lot or not, shall not exceed 35 feet at the property line. There shall be a minimum of 30 feet measured along the property line between any series of driveways. On corner lots no driveway from a side street shall be less than 40 feet from the rear property line as measured along the side street property line.

(6)

The total storage gasoline capacity of each gasoline service station, hereafter established, shall at no time be in excess of 10,000 gallons per unit, or more than 20,000 gallons.

(Code 1969, § 5.267; Code 1977, § 28-451)