Hamburg City Zoning Code
ARTICLE XII
HC Highway Commercial Zone Regulations
§ 215-71 Principal permitted uses.
The zone is designated primarily for retail and service commercial uses normally requiring a larger area and generating a greater intensity of traffic and usage serving the needs of the immediate community and the larger region in accordance with the requirements hereinafter set forth:
A.
Banks, business, professional, executive and governmental offices.
B.
Music, dancing, act and photographic studios.
C.
Funeral homes and mortuaries.
D.
Hotels and motels.
E.
Retail stores and service establishments.
F.
Restaurants, eating and drinking places.
G.
Indoor theaters, bowling alleys, health and recreation facilities.
H.
Commercial printing plans and publishing houses.
I.
Service stations and mechanical repair garages.
J.
Lumber and building material yards.
K.
Professional and business offices.
L.
Designed shopping complex. A building or a group of abutting buildings designed to be utilized by more than one permitted use where such building or group of abutting buildings is constructed at one time. The area and yard requirements shall be applied to the one building or group of abutting buildings as one structure.
M.
Townhouses, garden apartments and multifamily residences as permitted in and in accordance with the requirements of Article IX, PR Planned Residential zone regulations.
N.
One residential dwelling unit shall be permitted in the same building housing a primary intended use in the Highway Commercial Zone.
O.
Senior citizen housing provided that each unit has a minimum of 500 square feet and at least one bedroom.
P.
Number of principal uses. There may be more than one principal use on a site provided that there is additional parking, paving, lighting, curbing and buffering, to provide for the additional traffic that will be caused by the additional use.
Q.
Mixed-use buildings containing any of the permitted uses of the HC Zone.
§ 215-72 Accessory uses.
§ 215-73 Conditional uses.
§ 215-74 Retail dimensional requirement.
The following requirements shall be met in the HC Highway Commercial Zone:
A.
Minimum lot area. There shall be a minimum lot area of at least 15,000 square feet.
B.
Minimum lot width. There shall be a minimum lot width of 100 feet at the street line.
C.
Front yard. There shall be a front yard of not less than 40 feet.
D.
Side yard. There shall be two side yards, totaling 40 feet, provided that no side yard is less than 15 feet.
E.
Rear yard. There shall be a rear yard of not less than 40 feet.
F.
Height. The height of the principal structure shall not exceed 35 feet or 2 1/2 stories in height, whichever is lesser.
G.
Minimum floor area. Every principal structure or separate permitted use shall have a minimum heated floor area of 800 square feet.
H.
Minimum residential floor area. Motel and hotel units shall have a minimum gross floor area of 400 square feet.
I.
Service stations and public garages dispensing gasoline may have gasoline pumps and/or service islands closer to the street line than the building setback line but in no event closer than 25 feet to the street line.
J.
Land coverage. Building coverage shall not exceed 30%. The total impervious cover of any site shall not exceed 60 feet of the total site area unless adequate surface recharge is provided.