The C-1 general commercial district consists of two sub-districts, C-1 commercial district for all uses as permitted in this chapter, and C-1-A central shopping district for those uses as permitted in this chapter. The C-1-A district is restricted to the central shopping area of Havana and is bounded by the north side of Adams Street on the south, the west side of Broadway Street on the east, the north side of Market Street on the north, and the west side of Schrader Avenue on the West.

This provision shall not apply to any real estate owned or occupied by the City of Havana in furtherance of its corporate purpose.

(Ord. No. 1443, § 1, 8-18-20)

The C-1 commercial district is designed to provide locations for the conduct of most all types of retail trade, offices, financial institutions, amusement facilities, transient housing and other similar businesses and service activities in order to maintain and provide for the future development of the central business district and other similar established uses and shopping areas. In addition to the provision of convenience goods, the uses will provide for shopping goods such as jewelry, furniture and television sets among others.

In the C-1 district no building or land shall be used and no building shall be erected or structurally altered unless otherwise provided in these regulations, except for one or more of the following uses:

A.

Any use allowed in the R-1 and R-2 districts, except as prohibited by Section 17 .04.050 of this code;

B.

Retail and service business as follows:

Amusement facilities, bowling alleys, theaters, billiard halls, dancehalls, nightclubs, cocktail lounges, or bars, clubs or lodges (chief activity is carried on as a business) and others, except go-kart tracks, riding stables, and miniature golf

Antique shops

Apparel shops

Appliance sales and services

Art shops and supply stores

Auction rooms, except livestock

Automobile, bus or truck sales, rental, and service, including body repairs

Automobile equipment sales

Automobile parking lots or garages

Automobile rentals

Bakery shops

Bank and financial institutions

Barber and beauty shops

Bicycle sales and repair

Blue printing and similar reproduction processes

Boat and marine sales, rental and repair

Book stores

Building material and lumberyards enclosed by a building, except for an interior courtyard or access area

Bus depots

Camera and photographic shops

Candy and ice cream shops

Coin stores

Clothing or costume rental and sales

Contractor construction offices and shops

Department or variety stores, no limit

Drugstores

Dry goods stores

Dry-cleaning and laundry plants, including carpet cleaning and supply services

Exterminators, pest

Farm equipment, sales and repair, provided, that all activity be confined within enclosed buildings

Feed and fertilizer sales

Floor covering or carpet stores

Florist sales

Flower shops

Food locker plants, including cold storage

Furniture and home furnishings

Furrier shops and incidental storage

Garden supply and seed stores

Gift shops

Glass, stained and lead manufacture and sales

Grocery sales, meat markets, and delicatessens

Gunsmiths

Hardware, industrial sales

Health centers and services

Heating, furnace equipment sales and service

Hobby shops

Hotels and motels

Interior decorating shops

Jewelry stores

Laboratories, medical, dental, or optical

Leather goods stores

Letter shops, stationers, and card shops

Liquor stores

Locksmith shops

Machinery and equipment, provided, that all activity be confined within closed buildings

Mail order agencies

Medical, dental offices and clinics

Monument sales and services

Motorcycle sales and services

Music instrument and record shops

Newspaper offices

Office supplies and equipment repair

Offices, general business and professional

Optical goods sales

Orthopedic or related medical appliances and artificial limbs

Paint and wallpaper, glass sales

Parking lots or garages for automobiles

Pawn shops

Pet shops

Plumbing fixtures sales

Radio, television, and broadcasting stations

Rail passenger depots

Restaurants, cafes

Schools, business, language, commercial and trade schools which do not involve offensive noise, odor, dust, glare, heat or vibration

Secretarial services

Sewing machine sales and repairs

Shoe stores

Sign painting shops

Sporting goods

Studios for professional work on the teaching of fine arts, photography, music, drama, dance, etc.

Tailor shops

Telegraph offices

Telephone answering services

Telephone shops, garages, or service facilities

Tire recapping, vulcanizing shops

Upholstery shops

Wholesale establishments;

C.

Accessory buildings and uses customarily incident to the above uses;

D.

Other uses which in the opinion of the Planning Commission are of the same general character as those enumerated in this section;

E.

Signs as permitted in Chapter 17.68, Article III.

(Ord. No. 1408, § 2, 10-17-17)

The following conditional uses may be permitted in specific situations in accordance with the procedures outlined in Section 17.24 (Variations) of this title, as appropriate:

Adult-use cannabis dispensing organization.

(Ord. No. 1435, § 4(Art. A), 12-17-19)

No building or structure shall be erected or altered to exceed eight stories or one hundred feet in height.

(Ord. 1245 § 3, 2005).

There is a twenty-foot minimum front yard required in the C-1 classification, except for residential which shall conform to the residential district front yard requirements. There is no front yard requirement in the C-l-A area.

A.

Except as otherwise provided in these regulations on interior lots, no side yard is required except where a lot abuts a residential district, then the side yard requirement shall apply and such side yards shall be landscaped or fenced to buffer the residential uses. Residential lots shall conform to residential district side yard requirements.

B.

In the C-1 areas, side yards on a street shall be not less than ten feet, except that it needs to be no greater than the average side yard depth established by forty percent of the existing structures between two intersecting streets.

(Ord. 842 § 1, 1984).

Except as otherwise provided in these regulations, a rear yard depth of twenty feet is required, except where a lot abuts a residential district, then the rear yard requirement of that district shall apply and such rear yard shall be landscaped or fenced in a suitable manner to buffer the residential uses.

There shall be a lot area of not less than two thousand five hundred square feet in the C-1-A area only. All other C-1 areas shall have a minimum lot area of six thousand square feet, except for residential areas which shall conform to residential district requirements.

All lots platted in the C-1-A area shall have an average width of twenty-five feet measured along the building line. All other C-1 areas shall have a lot width of not less than sixty feet measured along the building line.

There is no minimum requirement except for residential which shall conform to the regulations codified in this title for residential districts.