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Metamora City Zoning Code

CHAPTER 17

32 - PROVISIONS GOVERNING NEIGHBORHOOD BUSINESS C-1 DISTRICT

17.32.010 - Preamble.

The neighborhood business (C-1) district is established to provide for commercial development of a nature which would act as a buffer between residential development and other commercial districts. High traffic generating and traffic oriented commercial uses are prohibited in order to prevent an undesirable influence on adjacent residential uses.

(Zoning ordinance dated 6/3/03 § 7-1.0)

17.32.020 - Uses permitted.

A.

Residential uses;

B.

Business offices and offices of accountants, architects, artists, attorneys, authors or writers, dentists, engineers, insurance, landscape architects, physicians, veterinarians, psychiatrists, realtors, surgeons or other established or recognized professions in which only such personnel are employed as are customarily required for the practice of such business or profession;

C.

Other service stores, provided no more than three employees are on the premises at any one time: barber shops, beauty shops, dry cleaning and laundry receiving stations, laundromats or similar personal service shops;

D.

Retail stores provided no more than three employees are on the premises at any one time: apparel shops, art supply stores, art galleries, bakeries, book stores, candy shops, photography shops, gift shops, tailor shops, pharmacies, repair shops, florists, food stores, hobby stores, interior decorating shops, jewelry stores, musical shops, liquor stores, paint and wall-paper stores, postal substations, travel bureaus or other similar stores;

E.

Signs, as permitted in Section 17.52.060;

F.

Accessory uses.

(Zoning ordinance dated 6/3/03 § 7-2.0)

17.32.030 - Special uses.

A.

Utility office buildings; sub-stations; pump houses;

B.

Public services; fire and police protection; other public buildings;

C.

Banks and other financial institutions;

D.

Churches and religious establishments;

E.

Outdoor archery ranges.

F.

Towers which comply with the provisions of Chapter 15.52 of this Code.

G.

A traditional neighborhood development overlay district ("TND") as defined at Section 17.52.055 of this Code, but only under the following conditions:

1.

The TND is approved as provided in this title.

2.

To the extent that the procedures generally applicable to the consideration and approval of a special use conflict with the procedures set forth at Section 17.52.055 of this Code for the consideration and approval of a TND, the procedures set forth at Section 17.52.055 shall apply.

3.

To the extent that the uses, minimum lot areas and dimensions, provisions governing building height, density or setbacks or other standards established in the approved final development plan for the TND conflict with the uses, minimum lot areas and dimensions, regulations governing building height, density or setbacks or other standards established in this title, the provisions of the approved final development plan for the TND shall apply.

H.

The siting and construction of a small wind energy conversion system which complies with the wind energy code.

(Ord. No. 2008-6, § 5, 7-1-2008; Ord. No. 2007-2, § 4, 4-3-2007; Ord. No. 2006-16, § 4, 9-16-2006; zoning ordinance dated 6-3-2003, § 7-3.0)

17.32.040 - Required lot area and lot widths.

A.

Residential buildings to be allowed in the C-1 neighborhood business district shall meet the minimum lot area and minimum lot width requirements of the R-2 residential district;

B.

Each commercial building to be allowed in the C-1 neighborhood business district shall provide a minimum lot area of seventy-eight hundred square feet;

C.

A sixty-five foot minimum lot width is required for commercial uses.

(Zoning ordinance dated 6/3/03 § 7-4.0)

17.32.050 - Building height regulations.

Same as outlined in the R-2 district.

(Zoning ordinance dated 6/3/03 § 7-5.0)

17.32.060 - Yard requirements.

All structures to be constructed, altered, or moved in the C-1 district shall provide yards of the following minimum depths:

A.

Front Yard - same as outlined in the R-2 district;

B.

Side Yard - same as outlined in the R-2 district;

C.

Rear Yard - same as outlined in the R-2 district.

(Zoning ordinance dated 6/3/03 § 7-6.0)

17.32.070 - Exceptions to yard requirements.

Architectural features of buildings such as window sills, cornices, or roof overhangs may project into the required yards provided such projection is not more than four feet and does not reach closer than four feet to any lot line.

(Zoning ordinance dated 6/3/03 § 7-7.0)