The HS-1 Highway Service District is intended to provide an appropriate location for commercial establishments offering accommodations, supplies and services to the motoring public. These uses are thus discouraged to locate in other development areas where their heavy traffic and other characteristics could prove detrimental or incompatible.

(Ord. 6774. Passed 4-2-19.)

   (a)   The following uses are generally permitted in the HS-1 District:

      (1)   All generally permitted and special uses in the GB-1 District, with the exception of those uses permitted as special uses in subsection (b) hereof.

      (2)   Par three golf courses, miniature golf, driving ranges.

      (3)   Plant materials nursery for the sale of plant materials not necessarily grown on the same premises.

      (4)   Accessory buildings incidental to the principal use.

   (b)   The following special uses are subject to review in accordance with Chapters 1294 and 1296:

      (1)   Amusement machine centers.

      (2)   Automobile service stations.

      (3)   Automobile fueling/recharging stations.

      (4)   Automobile repair garages.

      (5)   Boat and marine equipment sales, rental and service; trailer sales and rentals.

      (6)   Equipment and recreational vehicle rental, sales and service.

      (7)   Other indoor recreational uses.

      (8)   Car washes.

      (9)   Drive-in theaters.

      (10)   Hotels and motels.

      (11)   Bars, discotheques, lounges, taverns, nightclubs.

      (12)   Nursing homes.

      (13)   Churches.

      (14)   Greenhouses.

      (15)   Welding shops.

      (16)   Kennels.

(Ord. 6774. Passed 4-2-19.)

   (a)   Lot requirements in the HS-1 District are as follows:

   (1)   Minimum lot area:      20,000 square feet

   (2)   Minimum lot frontage:   150 feet

   (b)   Special uses shall comply with all pertinent development standards contained in Chapter 1296.

(Ord. 6774. Passed 4-2-19.)

   (a)   A setback of fifty feet shall be provided along the entire perimeter of the development, except where it adjoins a business or industrial district, in which case setback and screening requirements shall be at the discretion of the Planning Commission. Where situated adjacent to a residentially zoned or used area, a landscaped buffer at least thirty feet wide shall be created along the entire length of the property for screening and buffering purposes. This bufferyard shall contain a sight-proof landscape screening of Group A and C (minimum seventy percent Group C trees) trees and compact evergreen hedge. An opaque fence of adequate height, as adjudged by the Planning Commission, may be substituted or required in place of such hedge plantings (but not the Group A or C trees) if approved or required by the Planning Commission.

   (b)   Open storage, service and loading areas shall be screened by walls, fences or other enclosures at least six feet, but not more than eight feet, in height. These screening facilities shall not obscure traffic visibility within fifty feet of an intersection. Said sightproof screening provisions shall appear on the site plan submitted for a building permit and shall be physically constructed when the business is occupied. These screening requirements may be waived if the business is screened effectively by natural topography. The Planning Commission shall determine the effectiveness of the natural topography as screening, by whatever means it deems necessary to make such determination, and grant such relief from this standard, in writing, to the proposed user of the land, if warranted.

(Ord. 6774. Passed 4-2-19.)

   Structural requirements in the HS-1 District are as follows:

   (a)   Maximum building height:   Forty feet.

(Ord. 6774. Passed 4-2-19.)

   See Chapter 1292 for off-street parking and loading space requirements.

(Ord. 6774. Passed 4-2-19.)

   See Chapter 1293 for sign regulations.

(Ord. 6774. Passed 4-2-19.)

   (a)   A request to rezone land to an HS-1 District must be substantiated with evidence that the proposed use will not conflict with the intended function or a major street to carry traffic, and that the capacity of the street(s) will not be materially reduced by the additional commercial facilities.

   (b)   A ten-foot wide planting strip shall be provided along all right-of-way lines directly abutting the property.

   (c)   Driveways shall not be permitted within 600 feet of an interstate ramp.

   (d)   Driveway access shall be guided by the standards for driveway locations contained in Access Control Guidelines for Streets and Highways, published by the Montgomery-Greene County Transportation and Development Planning Program. Wherever feasible, the applicant is encouraged to design and construct a common service drive to accommodate individual access drives within the development. When located upon an arterial thoroughfare, the Planning Commission may require that such service drives be incorporated within the plan and be constructed, or that performance bonds, in lieu of such construction, be presented to the City prior to the issuance of a building permit for the proposed structures.

   (e)   For site plan review, refer to Chapter 1294.

(Ord. 6774. Passed 4-2-19.)