The C-2 zone is established to provide for business centers in areas where a wide range of retail sales and service establishments are needed to accommodate the surrounding community.

(Prior code § 9240.1)

Uses permitted in the general commercial (C-2) zone shall generally be those with higher traffic and longer hours such as retail sales, medical and professional offices, general office, as well as service stations and automobile sales yards subject to conditional use permits:

A.

Principal uses:

1.

See Appendix A, Index of Primary Uses, for specific uses allowed in the C-2 zone;

B.

Accessory uses:

1.

All accessory uses and structures incidental to the permitted primary use,

2.

Automobile service and garages when repair is incidental to the operation of a permitted automobile service station or auto sale use and; provided, that all repair work is conducted within an enclosed building,

3.

Outdoor vending subject to a conditional use permit and the following limitations:

a.

Primary business must have at least thirty thousand square feet of floor area,

b.

Primary business must be located at least eighty feet from a public street,

c.

Vending operations must be located immediately adjacent to the primary business' building,

d.

Vending operations may be conducted only during hours in which the primary business is in operation,

e.

The primary business to which the vending operations are accessory must be at least one thousand feet away from any other business which has outdoor vending operation(s);

4.

Dancing, pool and billiard tables and amusement games machines which are accessory to restaurants, cafes, bars and cocktail lounges; provided, that the accessory uses are limited to a maximum usage of twenty-five percent of the total floor area used by the primary use,

5.

Dry cleaning plants accessory to a retail dry cleaning agency located on the same premises, excluding carpet cleaning,

6.

Retail sale of used articles taken as trade-in on the sale of new articles when such new articles are sold from the premises,

7.

Dwellings; provided, that only those portions of a building located above the ground floor may be used for dwelling purposes, and that the dwellings are occupied only by persons employed on the premises or by the owner of the property. Front and side yard requirements are not applicable to these dwellings.

(Prior code § 9240.2)