Land and buildings shall be used only for the following:

Agricultural uses.

Ambulance services.

Animal hospital or veterinary clinic, pet shops.

Apparel stores.

Auction gallery, including auto auction.

Automobile repair garage, mechanical and body, provided all operations are conducted entirely within an enclosed structure.

Automobile sales, new and used, retail and wholesale with attendant facilities, except that any mechanical or body repair must be conducted entirely within an enclosed structure and provided further that all vehicles on a used car sales lot must be in operating condition at all times.

Bakery, where not more than five persons are employed on the premises and where the products made are sold exclusively at retail on the premises.

Banks, savings and loan associations.

Barbershops, beauty parlors, reducing salons.

Building and lumber supply establishments, provided the entire storage area is enclosed within a solid fence at least seven feet in height, or greater, if required to adequately screen such area, and that any machine operations must be conducted entirely within an enclosed structure.

Bus depots.

Cafes, delicatessens, coffee shops and restaurants without alcohol.

Carwash establishments.

Commercial parking garages or lots.

Confectionery stores.

Drugstores and apothecaries.

Dry cleaning establishments utilizing only non-flammable dry cleaning fluids.

Farmers markets.

Florist shops and greenhouses.

Furniture stores.

Gasoline service stations.

Grocery stores.

Gymnasiums, fitness and exercise centers, health clubs and spas.

Hardware stores, gift shops and variety stores.

Hotels and motels are permitted as special exceptions when they are located in areas of 65 Ldn or less as defined on the airport noise exposure map, dated 1990, as adopted by and as the same may be amended by the City of Huntsville.

Jewelry stores, watch repair shops.

Laundry operations, launderette, coin-operated dry cleaning establishments.

Light manufacturing and assembly, provided all such uses are in accordance with the performance standards referenced in section 64.10 hereof.

Mortuaries and crematoriums.

Municipal, county, state or federal uses.

Music or record shops.

Newsstands, hobby shops.

Notions and dry goods stores.

Offices, professional buildings.

Photographic studios, photo retail sales.

Places of amusement, golf driving ranges, miniature golf, baseball batting, and similar non-offensive establishments, but not including theatres or drive-in theatres.

Print shops, newspaper publishing houses.

Radio and television appliance stores and repair shops.

Self-propelled camping and recreational vehicle sales; trailer and mobile home sales; boat sales.

Shoe stores, shoe repair shops.

Tailor shops.

Upholstering shop, where not more than five persons are employed.

Warehousing, wholesaling, interior storage, and distribution in conjunction with manufacturing, assembly and office use.

Accessory structures and uses to those permitted herein.

Permitted uses as special exceptions as defined and regulated by subsection 92.5.3 hereof.

(Ord. No. 97-707, § 1, 11-13-1997; Ord. No. 03-593, § 5, 8-14-2003; Ord. No. 09-1053, § 1, 12-17-2009; Ord. No. 11-11, § 14, 2-24-2011; Ord. No. 11-899, § 2, 1-26-2012; Ord. No. 15-406, § 2, 7-23-2015)

64.2.1. All structures shall be set back not less than 40 feet from all existing or proposed public streets.

64.2.2. Minimum lot size shall not be less than one acre for each tract.

64.2.3. Minimum lot width of each tract shall be not less than 100 feet as measured at the minimum building line.

64.3.1. All required yards shall be kept clear of driveways, vehicular access ways, parking areas, loading areas, accessory uses and buildings, provided however, that a gate or security station or a detached ground identification sign meeting the requirements of section 72.4.5(3) may be located in a required yard.

64.3.2. Yards facing an existing or proposed public street shall be considered front yards. Such yards shall have a minimum depth of 40 feet. On corner lots having two front yards, a 40-foot required front yard shall be maintained on the street that the building front faces; the required front yard on the remaining street may be reduced to a minimum depth of 30 feet.

64.3.3. Minimum required depth of rear yard shall be 15 feet.

64.3.4. Minimum required width of each side yard shall be ten feet.

(Ord. No. 09-430, § 26, 7-9-2009)

Each lot shall have a minimum frontage of 100 feet on a public road, provided, however, the manager of planning may approve a lesser frontage to a minimum of 50 feet for lots located on culs-de-sac or street curves.

Except as provided for herein all off-street parking and loading requirements shall be provided for as set forth in article 70 hereof.

64.5.1. Driveways and vehicular access ways, except as necessary to cross a required yard, are not permitted in any required yard. Driveways and vehicular access ways shall be paved and properly drained.

64.5.2. Parking areas shall not be placed in any required yard. All parking areas shall be paved and properly drained. No parking shall be permitted any place other than in paved parking areas.

64.5.3. Loading areas shall not be placed within any front yard or in any required yard and shall be located and properly screened, as well as practicable, so as to not be visible from any existing or proposed street.

64.5.4. Parking and loading areas shall be landscaped in accordance with section 64.8, landscaping requirements.

64.5.5. Lighting of off-street parking and vehicular use areas is required in accordance with section 71.6, PVA lighting requirements.

Required bicycle parking spaces and facilities shall be provided as set forth in article 76 hereof.

(Ord. No. 99-1020, § 14, 1-13-2000; Ord. No. 09-430, § 27, 7-9-2009; Ord. No. 10-507, § 2, 8-26-2010)

Signs shall be permitted in accordance with the provisions of article 72—Sign control regulations.

(Ord. No. 21-46, § 1(Exh. A, § B.2.), 2-25-2021)

Maximum number of stories: three

Maximum height of building: 45 feet

Every building site on which a building shall be placed shall be landscaped in the following manner. All landscaping must be installed in accordance with the provisions of section 73.19, installation of landscaping.

64.8.1. All yards required under this ordinance shall be landscaped and maintained. A minimum of one tree per 20 linear feet of distance for each boundary line shall be planted in the required yards.

64.8.2. All off-street parking areas, to include drives within the parking areas, greater than either 15 automobile spaces or 5,000 square feet shall have at least five percent of the interior of the parking area landscaped in planting islands or peninsulas. Width of islands or peninsulas shall be a minimum width of at least five feet between backs of curbs, and at least one tree per 20 parking spaces shall be planted within the planting islands or peninsulas in addition to other landscaping materials and plants.

64.8.3. All mechanical and utility equipment, incinerators and trash containers, and accessory structures necessary for the conduct of a permitted use shall be adequately screened, as well as is practicable, by fencing or landscaping so as to not be visible from any existing or proposed street or from the ground floor of adjacent buildings.

(Ord. No. 02-43, § 1, 2-28-2002)

All power, communication, and other wiring hereafter installed in an airport commercial district shall be placed underground.

The performance standards listed in article 50, section 50.2 (research park district) hereof shall be required for all uses located in an airport commercial district.

64.11.1. Any landowner of property lying within an airport commercial district desiring to dedicate any street, road, or right-of-way to the public must submit to the planning commission for approval a plan of the proposed street, road, or right-of-way.

64.11.2. Anyone desiring to secure a building permit for the use of land lying within an airport commercial district must submit to the manager of planning the following information, as appropriate, for approval of plans:

(1)

A site plan for traffic engineering analysis, showing location and design of buildings, driveways, driveway intersections with streets, parking areas, loading areas, maneuvering areas and sidewalks;

(2)

A planting plan, including screen walls and fences, for analysis of adequacy of visual screening and landscape architectural design;

(3)

Plans for all signs to be erected, including location and lighting of each sign.

The manager of planning shall review and approve by signature the proposed plot plan upon finding that the same complies with these regulations. If the proposed plot plan is not approved, the manager of planning shall state in writing on the proposed plot plan the cause for such disapproval.

Alcoholic beverage establishments shall be permitted in accordance with section 75.3 - permitted establishments by districts, subsection 75.3.5, and shall be regulated by article 75 - alcoholic beverage establishment regulations.

(Ord. No. 11-11, § 14, 2-24-2011)