Lowry Crossing City Zoning Code
§ 13
“RET” RETAIL DISTRICT.
General purpose and description: The “RET” Retail District is intended for neighborhood shopping facilities which provide retail sales and limited business service predominately for the convenience of residents of the community.
13-1
Use Regulations:
A building or premise shall be used only for the following purposes:
(1)
General:
Uses that provide Personal Services or General Retail Sales to customers or clients including the uses listed below and any use that would be permitted in the “O” Office district.
(2)
Specific Uses
Antique Shop |
Auto, Car Rental Office Only |
Drugstores & Pharmacies |
Dry Cleaning and Laundry |
Film Developing & Printing |
Florist without Outside Storage |
Furniture Store |
Garden Equipment Sales, retail |
Grocery Store, Convenience Type with limited parking |
Jeweler, retail |
Meat Market, retail |
Pet Store, retail |
Photography, retail |
Print Shop, retail |
Television Service & Repair |
(3)
If the specific use sought is not listed above the Planning & Zoning Commission may make a finding that the specific use not listed is so like a use that is listed, that it may be included in the list under the general listing above without further public hearings or ordinance amendment. Provided, however if the specific use sought is listed in the Special Use Section of this Ordinance, a special use permit zoning classification must be obtained pursuant to the provisions of that section and subject to the conditions set out below unless specifically modified in the ordinance granting the special use classification.
(4)
Such other uses as may be permitted with the granting of a Special Use Permit.
13-2
General Conditions:
(1)
Business use must be conducted wholly within an enclosed building.
(2)
Required yards may not be used for display, sale or storage of merchandise, or for the storage of vehicles, equipment, or containers for waste material.
(3)
All merchandise must be first-hand and be sold at retail on the premises. This provision notwithstanding the merchandise within an antique shop need not be first-hand.
(4)
That such use not be objectionable because of odor, excessive light, smoke, dust, noise, vibration or similar nuisance.
13-3
[Reserved]
13-4
Maximum Height Regulations:
Thirty-five (35) feet nor more than two and one-half (2-1/2) stories high.
13-5
Area Regulations:
(1)
Minimum Size of Yards:
a.
Front Yard:
Thirty (30) feet, with no front yard parking. If front yard parking is utilized, then sixty (60) feet front yard shall be observed.
b.
Side Yard:
(adjacent to a street or property line); thirty (30) feet.
c.
Rear Yard:
Ten (10) feet unless adjacent to a residential zoning district in which case twenty (20) feet minimum be observed.
(3)
Lot coverage:
In no case shall more than forty (40%) percent of the lot area be covered by buildings.
13-6
Parking Regulations:
One (1) space per two hundred (200) square feet of gross floor area. In addition, no parking area shall be allowed within ten (10) feet of the front property line or within five (5) feet of the rear property line.
13-7
Type of Exterior Construction:
Exterior wall construction in districts permitting nonresidential uses shall be of such material that is required to conform with the City of Lowry Crossing Building Code for the particular nonresidential use or occupancy or as approved by City Council. All structures shall be eighty (80%) percent masonry exterior exclusive of doors and windows. Glass may be counted in place of masonry.
Exception: The Board of Adjustment may grant an Exception to the masonry construction requirement of this section and permit use of another type of exterior construction where the Board finds that the grant of the exception will not be contrary to the public interest and the spirit of this ordinance will be observed.
13-8
Screening.
In this district, if a building or parking structure is erected on a building site and a portion of the side or rear yard abuts or is across an adjoining alley from an “A” Agricultural, “RE” Single-Family Residential Estate, “R-1” Single-Family Residential, or a “2F” Two-Family Residential district, any portion of the building site directly across from that district must be screened from that district.
(Ordinance 110 adopted 8/3/99; Ordinance 179, sec. 2, adopted 1/6/04)