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Miami City Zoning Code

ARTICLE V

- COMMERCIAL DISTRICTS6


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State Law reference— Districts and district regulations authorized, 11 O.S. § 43-102.


Sec. 26-186.- C1 Off-street parking district.

(a)

Purpose. This district is designed to consist of:

(1)

Areas developed for off-street parking purposes in former residential districts to serve adjacent business establishments, and

(2)

Open areas that are appropriate for off-street parking development intended to serve nonresidential districts located adjacent to residential districts.

This district is intended to facilitate the providing of off-street parking facilities adjacent to residential areas and to act as a buffer between these residential areas and nearby commercial and industrial areas.

(b)

C1 district regulations. Zoning district regulations for the C1 district are set forth in section 26-192.

(c)

Permitted uses. Uses permitted in the C1 district are set forth in section 26-193.

(Ord. No. 1124, § 1(28-5.1.1), 6-18-79)

Sec. 26-187. - C2 Professional office district.

(a)

Purpose. This district is designed to accommodate professional offices and medical and dental clinics that can be adjacent to or combined with multifamily residential uses without undue harmful effects to the residential uses.

(b)

District regulations. Zoning district regulations for the C2 district are set forth in section 26-191.

(c)

Permitted uses. Uses permitted in the C2 district are set forth in section 26-192.

(Ord. No. 1124, § 1(28-5.1.2), 6-18-79)

Sec. 26-188. - C3 Neighborhood shopping district.

(a)

Purpose. This district is designed to provide locations for the conduct of retail trade and personal service enterprises to meet the regular needs of, and for the convenience of, adjacent residential areas. The types of uses authorized in this district are limited to those that serve the everyday needs of the household. Because these facilities are an integral part of the neighborhood, more restrictive requirements for open space and off-street parking are made than are provided in other commercial districts.

(b)

District regulations. Zoning district regulations for the C3 district are set forth in section 26-191.

(c)

Permitted uses. Uses permitted in the C3 district are set forth in section 26-192.

(Ord. No. 1124, § 1(28-5.1.3), 6-18-79)

Sec. 26-189. - C4 Central commercial district.

(a)

Purpose. This district is designed to be the central business district or the downtown shopping and employment area for the community and surrounding trade area. This district is intended to provide space for retailing of all kinds, professional offices, financial institutions, amusement facilities, transient residential facilities and limited wholesaling and warehousing.

(b)

District regulations. Zoning district regulations for the C4 district are set forth in section 26-191.

(c)

Permitted uses. Uses permitted in the C4 district are set forth in section 26-192. Off-street parking is not required in the central business district (Third Street South to Third Street North, between the alley west of A Street West and the alley east of A Street East).

(Ord. No. 1124, § 1(28-5.1.4), 6-18-79)

Sec. 26-190. - C5 General commercial district.

(a)

Purpose. This district is designed to accommodate miscellaneous commercial semi-industrial enterprises serving the consumer public, business, industry and agriculture. This district will provide for commercial uses that do not need to be in shopping centers or the central business district or that are undesirable in such areas. This district is also designed to permit and encourage the grouping, in defined areas along highways, of certain retail activities and services intended primarily to serve, and dependent on, the motoring public.

(b)

District regulations. Zoning district regulations for the C5 district are set forth in section 26-191.

(c)

Permitted uses. Uses permitted in the C5 district are set forth in section 26-192.

(Ord. No. 1124, § 1(28-5.1.5, 28-5.1.6), 6-18-79; Ord. No. 1198, § 2, 9-20-82)

Sec. 26-191. - Commercial district regulations.

No lot or yard shall be established in any commercial district that does not meet the minimum requirements set forth in the following table. No building or structure shall be erected or enlarged in any commercial district that will cause the maximum lot coverage or the maximum height regulations to be exceeded for such district as set forth in the following table. No lot or yard shall be reduced in dimension or area below the following requirements:

Zoning Districts Lot Area
Minimum
(square feet) 		Lot Width at Front Building Line (feet) Lot Coverage
Maximum
(percent) 		Yards, Minimum (feet) Height Maximum a.
Front Rear Side
Interior a. Exterior
Interior Lot Exterior Lot Single Frontage Lot Double Frontage Lot When Abutting Property In a Residential District When Abutting Property In a Nonresidential District When Backing Up To Abutting Side Yard When Backing Up To Abutting Rear Yard Stories Feet
C1 parking 5,000 50 20 20 25 10 25 5 none Same as required front yard on lot abutting rear lot line of subject lot. 10 2½ 35
C2 professional
office 		5,000 50 30 35 25 30 25 12 none Same as required on lot abutting rear lot line of subject lot. 2½ 35
C3 neighborhood shopping 5,000 50 30 35 25 30 25 12 none 2½ 35
C4 central 3,000 25 100 100 none none none 12 none 6½ 75
C5 general 3,000 25 50 50 25 12 25 12 none 2½ 35

 

a.  A building or structure may exceed the district maximum height shown in these regulations provided that each interior side yard is increased by the greater of the following quantities: (1) one (1) foot for each additional two (2) feet of height, or (2) five (5) feet per additional story.

(Ord. No. 1124, § 1(28-5.2), 6-18-79; Ord. No. 1198, § 1, 9-20-82)

Sec. 26-192. - Permitted uses.

(a)

Uses permitted in the commercial districts are shown by means of "Use Groups" established on the basis of similarity of function as well as compatibility with one another and with adjacent districts. The permitted "Use Groups" in each zoning district are shown by means of symbols in the permitted use tables.

(b)

The letter "x" means the use is permitted as a use of right subject to:

(1)

The providing of off-street parking in the amounts required by reference to the "Parking Group" column, and

(2)

The providing of off-street loading in accordance with section 26-356.

(c)

The letter "O" means that the use is permitted subject to the conditions specified in the section whose number appears in the "Special Conditions" column opposite the permitted use, in addition to the off-street parking and loading requirements.

(d)

No use shall be permitted in any district other than a use shown in the following tables, and no use shall be permitted in any such district unless the letter "x" or letter "O" appears opposite the "Use Group" within which the named use is listed and in the column headed by the designation of such district and all other requirements set forth herein have been met.

Zoning Districts
C1 C2 C3 C4 C5 Permitted Uses Parking Group a. Special
Conditions
x x x x x Use Group 2. (agriculture: field crops), as set forth in section 26-167.
O Use Group 4. (multiple-family residences). 1 26-440
x x x x x Use Group 7. (community facilities and utilities: residential), as set forth in section 26-167.
x x x x x Use Group 8. (temporary uses), as set forth in section 26-167.
O O O O O Use Group 10. Use Group 10 consists of off-street parking areas for customer parking or parking for a fee:
A.Off-Street Parking:
Off-street parking lot, free or customer.
B.Signs:
Sign, business, indirectly illuminated, nonflashing, or nonilluminated. 26-431—26-437
C.Accessory Uses.
O O O O O Use Group 11. Use Group 11 consists of offices for medical, professional, and governmental purposes, not including retail sales to the public, that are of a nature that may be located adjacent to residential uses without harmful effects to said residential uses:
A.Medical and Related Offices: 11
Chiropody, chiropractic, dental, electrology, medical, optical, optometric, osteopathic.
B.Professional and Governmental Offices: 13
Accounting, architecture, engineering, governmental, insurance sales and brokerage, law, real estate, and brokerage.
C.Other Offices: 13
All other offices that (1) are similar to the listed uses in function, traffic-generating capacity, and effects on other land uses, and (2) are not included in any other use group.
D.Signs:
Sign, business, indirectly illuminated, nonflashing, or nonilluminated. 26-431—26-437
E.Accessory Uses.
O O O Use Group 12. Use Group 12 consists of certain types of retail stores and service establishments that:
1. Provide for a wide variety of local consumer transient needs, and
2. Have a small service area and are, therefore, distributed widely throughout the city.
A.Retail Stores and Service Establishments:
Altering, pressing, and repairing of wearing apparel. 12
Barber or beauty shop. 11
Confectionery store. 12
Drug store. 11
Drycleaning pickup station. 12
Eating place, enclosed, without dancing or entertainment, and not providing service in automobiles. 11
Florist shop, retail. 12
Food store, including bakery (retail only). 11
Garden supplies sales. 13
Gift, novelty, or souvenir sales. 12
Hardware store and small tool rental, but not including sales of lumber or industrial hardware. 12
Hat blocking and repair. 13
Ice vending establishment.
Laundry pickup station. 12
Laundry self-service. 11
Liquor, wine, and beer sales for consumption off the premises. 11
Newsstand. 11
Notions and novelty store. 12
Nursery stock, retail sales. 13
Variety store. 12
Post office. 12
Other uses that (1) are similar to the listed uses in function, traffic-generating capacity, and effects on other land uses, and (2) are not included in any other use group.
B.Signs:
Signs, business, illuminated, nonflashing, or nonilluminated. 26-431—26-437
C.Accessory Uses.
O O Use Group 13. Use Group 13 consists primarily of consumer and nonconsumer type retail and wholesale stores and service establishments that serve a wide area, including the entire city and surrounding trade area, and are, therefor, appropriate within or adjacent to the central business district.
A.Shopping-Type Consumer Retail Stores:
Antique sales. 13
Appliance sales and service. 13
Art supply store. 12
Bicycle rental, repair, and sales. 13
Boat and marine rental, repair, and sales. 15
Book sales. 12
Camera or photographic supplies sales. 12
Clothing or costume rental and sales. 15
Department store. 12
Dry goods store. 12
Floor covering sales. 13
Furniture and home furnishings, retail sales, rental, repair, and custom upholstering. 13
Furrier shop, custom, including incidental storage and conditioning of furs. 13
Glass sales and cutting shop. 13
Hobby supply store. 5
Interior decorating shop. 13
Jewelry sales and repair. 12
Leather goods sales and repair. 12
Mail order agency. 12
Motorcycle sales, and service. 13
Music, musical instrument, and phonograph record store. 13
Optical goods, retail sales. 13
Orthopedic or medical appliance store. 12
Paint and wallpaper sales. 13
Pawn shop. 12
Pet shop. 12
Photographic equipment and supplies, sales. 12
Sewing machine sales and repair. 12
Shoe sales and repair. 12
Sporting goods sales. 12
Other shopping-type retail stores that (1) are similar to the listed uses in function, traffic-generating capacity, and effects on other land uses, and (2) are not included in any other use group.
B.Consumer Services:
Automobile parking lot, or parking garage, commercial.
Automobile rental.
Bank; savings and loan; trust company. 12
Beer sales, for consumption on the premises. 11
Bowling alley. 10
Bus passenger station. 15
Caterer. 14
Club or lodge, whose chief activity is carried on as a business. 16 26-409
Dry cleaning plant, including carpet cleaning 12
Eating place, enclosed, with dancing or entertainment. 11
Food locker plant; for consumer use. 15
Funeral home, mortuary, or undertaking establishment. 7
Loan office. 12
Locksmith, key shop. 13
Photographic processing. 15
Photograph studio. 12
Physical culture and health services (commercial gymnasium, reducing salon, masseur, public baths). 12
Picture framing. 12
Radio or television broadcasting studio. 12
Reading room. 12
School, commercial or trade, when not involving any danger of fire or explosion, nor of offensive odor, noise, dust, glare, heat, vibration, or other objectionable noise. 16
Skating rink, commercial. 12
Studio for professional work or for the teaching of any form of fine arts, photography, music, drama, etc. 13
Swimming pool, commercial (parking requirement includes pool area). 11 26-438
Taxidermist. 15
Theater, enclosed or indoor, commercial 9 26-429, 26-430
Veterinarian, office only. 14 26-403
Other consumer services that (1) are similar to the listed uses in function, traffic-generating capacity, and effects on other land uses, and (2) are not included in any other use group.
C.Business Services:
Barber and beauty equipment and specialties sales. 15
Blueprinting and similar reproduction processes. 12
Business machines rental, repair, sales. 13
Carting, crating, express hauling, moving, and storage. 17
Garage or parking for commercial or public utility vehicles
Laboratory: medical or dental 16
Letter shop. 13
Office equipment and supplies, retail sales, service, rental, and repair. 13
Photostating. 12
Recording studio. 16
Secretarial service. 13
Surgical and dental supplies sales. 12
Telephone answering service. 12
Other business services that (1) are similar to the listed uses in function, traffic-generating capacity, and effects on other land uses, and (2) are not included in any other use group.
D.Manufacturing:
Baked goods, candy, delicatessen foods, and ice cream, all for retail sales on the premises only. 15
Clothing: custom manufacturing or altering for retail, including custom dressmaking, millinery, or tailoring. 15
E.Accessory Uses.
O Use Group 14. Use Group 14 consists of automobile service establishments limited to the incidental repair and servicing of automobiles and trucks up to three-fourths ton manufacturer's rated capacity, and eating establishments providing service in automobiles: (See also Use Group 15.)
A.Automotive Service Establishments:
Automobile service stations, including customary minor incidental service and the sale of minor incidental parts and accessories, but not including body repair, motor repair, painting, or the sale of diesel fuel.
B.Eating Establishments Providing Service in Automobiles.
C.Signs:
Sign, business, illuminated, flashing. 26-431—26-437
D.Accessory Uses.
O Use Group 15. Use Group 15 consists primarily of automotive service establishments and nonconsumer retail and wholesale goods and services not appropriate for the central business district, including certain goods and services for agricultural, industrial, commercial, or institutional use:
A.Automotive Service Establishments, Other:
Automobile accessory and supply store, including tire, battery, glass, muffler, seat covers, and upholstery sales and installations.
Automobile, bus or truck body work or painting. 22
Automobile laundry. 26-404
Automobile sales (new and used) and service. 14
Automobile and truck repair or service. 15
Bus sales, service, and repair, not including body work or painting. 22
Tire recapping shop. 16
Truck rental.
Truck sales. 16
Truck service station, including truckers' dormitory and retail sale of diesel fuel or other fuel intended primarily for trucks. 16
Vulcanizing shop. 16
B.Retail and Wholesale Goods and Services:
Aircraft sales, rental, service. 17
Ambulance service. 21
Amusement park, commercial. 12
Auction room; auctioneer. 12
Baseball park, commercial. 7
Blacksmith shop. 15
Building materials and lumber yard, retail and wholesale (parking requirements do not apply to lumber sheds). 13
Carnival or circus. 15
Cold storage plant. 17
Contractor or construction offices and shops, air-conditioning, building, cement, electrical, heating, masonry, painting, plumbing, refrigeration, roofing, and ventilation. 15
Exterminator, pest. 15
Farm equipment sales, service, repairs. 15
Feed and fertilizer sales. 15
Freight depot, railroad or truck. 17
Golf driving range, commercial (parking requirements apply to tee area only). 18 26-416
Golf "pitch and putt" courses; miniature golf course. 18
Hardware, industrial sales. 15
Laundry plant. 17
Linen supply, diaper service, or uniform supply. 17
Machine tools: sales, service, rental, repair. 15
Mobile homes, sales and service. 19
Monument sales, including incidental processing. 17
Plumbing fixture sales. 12
Secondhand store. 12
Trailer sales, or rental (other than mobile home) 20
Transit vehicle storage and servicing. 17
Truck terminal or depot. 22
Warehousing establishment. 17
Wholesale establishment, including storage. 12
Other retail and wholesale sales and services that (1) are similar to the listed uses in function, traffic-generating capacity, and effects on other land uses, and (2) are not included in any other use group.
C.Signs:
Sign, business, illuminated, flashing. 26-431—26-437
D.Accessory Uses.
O O Use Group 16. Use Group 16 consists of commercial advertising signs:
A.Signs:
Advertising signs. 26-431—26-437
B.Accessory Uses.
x x Use Group 17. Use Group 17 consists of residential facilities used primarily for transient occupancy:
A.Transient Residential Facilities:
Hotel. 5
Motel. 4
Tourist Home. 4
B.Accessory Uses.
O O Use Group 18. Use Group 18 consists of community facilities and public utilities that:
1. Do not need to be located in residential areas to serve their function, and
2. May create objectionable influences in residential areas.
A.Community Facilities:
Auditorium, area coliseum, theater, or similar facility. 7
Institution, nonresidential. 14
Stadium. 7
B.Public Utilities:
State garage, yard, or similar facility.
C.Accessory Uses.
x x Use Group 19. Use Group 19 consists primarily of manufacturing uses that are of a low nuisance nature that are not harmful to nearby residential and commercial areas:
A.Manufacturing Uses:
Advertising displays. 16
Art needle work, hand weaving, or tapestries. 16
Bakery products: limited to 7,500 square feet of floor area per establishment. 16
Beverages, nonalcoholic. 16
Books, hand binding or tooling. 16
Bottling works, all beverages. 16
Carpentry, custom woodworking, or custom furniture making shops. 16
Clocks or similar products. 16
Custom ceramic products. 16
Custom hair products. 16
Jewelry manufacturing from precious metals. 16
Medical, dental, drafting instruments, optical goods, or similar precision instruments. 16
Printing or publishing, including engraving or photoengraving. 16
Sign painting shops. 16
Watch making. 16
B.Accessory Uses.
Use Group 24. Use Group 24 consists of the following uses:
x x x x x 1. Facilities of electric cooperatives or public utilities subject to the jurisdiction of the Corporation Commission of the State of Oklahoma or other similar state or federal body and that use public rights-of-way or easements.
O O O O O 2. Transportation, communication, and utility facilities: other. 26-33—26-40

 

a.  Parking groups are shown in section 26-357. For off-street parking requirements in the central business district, see section 26-139.

(Ord. No. 1124, § 1(28-5.3), 6-18-79; Ord. No. 1198, § 4, 9-20-82)

Sec. 26-193. - General planned unit development.

General planned unit developments are permitted subject to the provisions set forth in article VII, division 2.

(Ord. No. 1124, § 1(28-5.4), 6-18-79)