The C-1 Commercial District is established to reserve and protect land for local or neighborhood oriented business purposes, to encourage the formation and continuance of a stable, healthy and compatible environment for uses that are located so as to provide nearby residential areas with convenience shopping and service facilities, to reduce traffic and parking congestion, and to discourage the encroachment of industrial or incompatible commercial uses which would adversely affect the surrounding residential development and the localized commercial character of the district.

In the C-1 Neighborhood Commercial District, the following uses are permitted:

601.1 Retail establishments customarily serving residential neighborhoods and business establishments rendering personal or professional services or repairing and servicing small equipment.

601.2 Appliance, radio and television sales and service stores.

601.3 Art supply stores.

601.4 Bakery shops, including the manufacture of products to be sold primarily on the premises.

601.5 Book, magazine and newspaper stores.

601.6 Branch banks and branch offices savings and loan companies.

601.7 Barbershops and beauty shops.

601.8 Bicycle repair and sales shops.

601.9 Candy stores.

601.10 Churches and other places of worship.

601.11 Clothing stores.

601.12 Delicatessens, restaurants and soda fountains, excluding drive-in facilities.

601.13 Dressmaker, seamstress or tailor shops.

601.14 Dry cleaners and laundries, including self-service facilities.

601.15 Drugstores.

601.16 Florist shops.

601.17 Gasoline service stations, provided that all structures, including pumps and underground storage tanks, are placed not less than twenty-five (25) feet from any property line and that such use shall front on a major thoroughfare or major collector street. Points of access and egress shall be located not less than twenty (20) feet from the intersection of street lines.

601.18 Grocery stores and the food stores.

601.19 Gift shops.

601.20 Hardware stores.

601.21 Hobby and toy shops.

601.22 Hospitals or clinics for treatment of human ailments.

601.23 Household furnishings stores.

601.24 Jewelry and watch repair stores.

601.25 Locksmiths or gunsmiths.

601.26 Millinery or hat stores.

601.27 Music stores and record shops.

601.28 Parks and public recreation facilities.

601.29 Personal services.

601.30 Photographic studios and camera supply and service stores.

601.31 Professional offices for doctors, lawyers, dentists, architects, artists, engineers, and similar professional services.

601.32 Public and semipublic recreation facilities and grounds.

601.33 Public and private schools offering general education courses.

601.34 Public uses, structures and facilities.

601.35 Shoe stores.

601.36 Signs, business and professional, which are attached to a building, do not extend over ten (10) feet above the roof line or more than five (5) feet from the face of such building.

601.37 Sporting goods stores.

601.38 Variety stores.

The C-2 General Commercial District is established to protect present business and commercial uses; to encourage the eventual elimination of uses inappropriate to the function of the central business area; and to encourage intensive development of this zone as a pedestrian-oriented shopping and business center for the City of Greenville and the surrounding trade area.

In the C-2 General Commercial District, the following uses are permitted:

602.1 Any retail business or service, including the making of products sold on the premises, providing such manufacturing is incidental to the retail business or service.

602.2 Automobile, truck, motor vehicle, watercraft, boat, or trailers for same, new and/or used, sales or display or repair, for fully operational watercraft and motor vehicles (precluding nonoperational, junked or abandoned watercraft or motor vehicles; and further precluding any sales of parts therefrom), provided that sales lots displays shall be offset from the street right-of-way at a distance determined by the Greenville Police Department for pedestrian and traffic safety. (Ord. No. 1977-7, § 1, 5-2-77)

602.3 Bakery shops, including the manufacture of products sold on the premises.

602.4 Banks, business offices, savings and loan associations, and personal loan company offices.

602.5 Barbershops and beauty shops.

602.6 Bicycle repair and sales shops.

602.7 Bus terminals and taxicab stands.

602.8 Churches and other places of worship.

602.9 Dressmaker, seamstress and tailor shops.

602.10 Dry cleaners and laundries, including self-service facilities.

602.11 Drugstores.

602.12 Florist shops.

602.13 Funeral parlors.

602.14 Gasoline service stations, provided that all structures, including pumps and underground storage tanks, are placed not less than twenty-five (25) feet from any property line and that such use shall front on a major thoroughfare or major collector street. Points of access and egress shall be located not less than twenty (20) feet from the intersection of street lines.

602.15 Grocery and other food stores.

602.16 Hospitals and clinics for human ailments.

602.17 Hotels.

602.18 Insurance and real estate offices.

602.19 Light industries in upper floors.

602.20 Lodges, fraternal organizations, clubs and union halls.

602.21 Newspaper offices and printing plants.

602.22 Off-street parking lots and garages.

602.23 Office supply and equipment stores.

602.24 Parks and recreational facilities.

602.25 Personal or business services.

602.26 Pet shops, provided all animals are housed within the principal building so that no sound is perceptible beyond the premises.

602.27 Philanthropic institutes.

602.28 Photographic studios and camera supply and service stores.

602.29 Professional offices for doctors, lawyers, dentists, architects, artists, engineers and similar professional services, including medical or dental clinics or laboratories.

602.30 Public uses and structures.

602.31 Public utility structures, including telephone exchanges, telegraph offices, and adjunct storage and parking facilities for equipment and supplies.

602.32 Radio, television and appliance repair stores.

602.33 Radio and television stations and transmission towers.

602.34 Restaurants, bars, cafes, grills, lounges and similar establishments, excluding drive-ins.

602.35 Schools, colleges and similar public and private institutions of learning, including institutions offering instruction in art, music, drama or similar cultural activities.

602.36 Shoe repair shops.

602.37 Signs, business, professional and outdoor advertising, which are attached to a building, do not extend over ten (10) feet above the roof line or more than five (5) feet from any face of such building.

602.38 Theaters, movie houses, billiard halls and similar indoor places of entertainment.

602.39 Residential units are permitted above the first floor. This permitted use is not allowed in any other commercial or industrial zone. (Ord. No. 1983-1, 5-2-83)

The C-3 Commercial District is established to protect and control highway-oriented commercial uses and to establish suitable areas along major thoroughfares and major collector streets for these types of development.

In the C-3 Highway Commercial District the following uses are permitted:

603.1 Any use permitted in the C-2 General Commercial District, except light industry, other than that which is incidental to a retail business or service.

603.2 Any retail business or service directly related to serving the needs of highway traffic provided they shall front on a major thoroughfare or major collector street.

603.3 Any retail business or service customarily serving residential neighborhoods.

603.4 Animal hospitals and veterinary clinics.

603.5 Agricultural implement and machinery sales, service and repair.

603.6 Automobile and truck sales and service, including used car lots.

603.7 Automobile parts sales.

603.8 Bakery shops, including the manufacture of products to be sold primarily on the premises.

603.9 Bus terminals, provided they shall front on a major thoroughfare or major collector street.

603.10 Bowling alleys.

603.11 Car washing establishments.

603.12 Cemeteries, provided that the application procedures conform with the provisions set forth in the Code of Alabama (recompiled 1958), Title 22, Section 88, and the Code of Alabama (recompiled 1958), Title 37, Section 478, ^[3] and further provided that satisfactory evidence of adequate perpetual care shall be furnished by the city council.

603.13 Commercial amusements and recreation services.

603.14 Drive-in restaurants.

603.15 Drive-in theaters and outdoor theaters, provided they shall front on a major thoroughfare or major collector street.

603.16 Dry cleaning and laundry pickup stations and self-service (coin-operated) establishments.

603.17 Garden centers, nurseries and greenhouses.

603.18 Gasoline service stations, provided that all structures, including pumps and underground storage tanks, are placed not less than twenty-five (25) feet from any property line and that such use shall front on a major thoroughfare or major collector street. Points of access and egress shall be located not less than twenty (20) feet from the intersection of street lines.

603.19 Hobby, antique and souvenir shops.

603.20 Motels, tourist courts and tourist homes.

603.21 Sales and service of boats, boat trailers, mobile homes, prefabricated homes and travel trailers.

603.22 Signs:

(a)

Business, professional or announcement;

(b)

Outdoor advertising.

603.23 Travel trailer parks.