(A)

Retail outlets for the sale of general merchandise including new or used automobiles, trucks and tractors, motorcycles, mobile homes, boats, automotive vehicle parts (but not automobile wrecking or storage yards, junk yards, or scrap processing yards), heavy machinery and equipment, dairy supplies, feed, fertilizer, plant nursery (including outside display) or landscape contractor, lumber and building supplies, food and drugs, medical marijuana treatment center dispensing facilities, wearing apparel, toys, sundries and notions, books and stationery, leather goods and luggage, jewelry (including watch repair), art, cameras or photographic supplies (including camera repair), sporting goods, hobby shops and pet shops, musical instruments, florist or gift shop, delicatessen, bakery (but not wholesale bakery), home furnishing and appliances (including repair incidental to sales), office equipment or furniture, antiques, secondhand merchandise, hardware, and similar uses.

(B)

Service establishments of all kinds including automobile service stations or truck stops, repair and service garages, motor vehicle body shops, rental of automotive vehicles, trailers, and trucks, auto laundries, small engine repair, restaurants (including drive-in restaurants), veterinarian or animal boarding kennels in soundproofed buildings, pest control, carpenter or cabinet shops, home equipment rental, ice delivery stations, marinas, radio or television broadcasting studios, offices, transmitter and antenna facilities, barber or beauty shops, shoe repair shops, interior decorator, reducing salons or gymnasiums, tailors or dressmakers, laundry or dry cleaning establishments, pick up stations or package plants in completely enclosed buildings using nonflammable liquids such as perchloroethylene and with no odor, fumes or steam detectable to normal senses from off the premises, funeral homes (including crematory), blueprinting, job printing (including newspaper), radio and television repair shops, travel agencies and similar uses. Motor vehicle body shops shall store wrecked automobiles in an area completely screened by a fence or other suitable visual barrier at least six (6) feet in height.

(C)

Commercial, recreational and entertainment facilities such as carnivals or circuses, shooting galleries, video games, game rooms, arcades, billiard rooms, skating rinks, pony rides, go-kart tracks, athletic complexes, arenas, auditorium convention centers, dance halls and similar uses.

(D)

Palmists, astrologists, psychics, clairvoyant, phrenologists and similar uses.

(E)

Outdoor fruit, vegetable, poultry or fish markets.

(F)

All types of professional and business offices.

(G)

Establishments or facilities for the retail sale and service of all alcoholic beverages, either for on-premises or off-premises consumption, or both.

(H)

Any type of wholesale, jobber or distributorship business where the total operation does not require more than four thousand (4,000) square feet of floor space; no vehicle is used in excess of one and one-half ton (1½) capacity; all merchandise is stored within an enclosed building; and no heavy machinery or manufacturing is located on the premises.

(I)

Hotels and motels (including convention facilities).

(J)

Building trades contractors not requiring outside storage; nor the use of any vehicle in excess of one and one-half (1½) ton capacity; nor any machinery, ditching machines, tractors, bulldozers, or other heavy construction equipment.

(K)

Theaters (including drive-in or open air theaters).

(L)

Express or parcel delivery offices, telephone exchanges, commercial parking lots, motor bus or other transportation terminals (but not truck terminal) and similar uses.

(M)

All uses permitted in the Commercial General District, except nursing homes and churches which are conditional uses.

(N)

Sexually oriented businesses, subject to the provisions of Ordinance No. 2005-10 [section 26½-1 et seq.], and article 33, section 33.02.

(O)

Self-service storage facility (mini-warehouse facility) subject to supplementary regulations in section 28.20.

(Ord. No. 2005-38, 5-23-05; Ord. No. 2017-23, 9-28-17; Ord. No. 2022-020, § 2, 7-25-22; Ord. No. 2025-022, § 4, 7-28-25)

(A)

The distance restriction applicable from churches and schools for the sale of alcoholic or intoxicating beverages is set forth in section 4-3 of Ordinance No. 2017-37.

(B)

In areas designated as conservation (wetlands) on the future land use map, only passive recreation and silviculture will be permitted.

(C)

Reserved.

(D)

Distance restrictions. Medical marijuana treatment center dispensing facilities shall not be located within five hundred (500) feet in airline distance of the real property that comprises a public or private elementary school, middle school, or secondary school.

(Ord. No. 2002-30, 5-20-02; Ord. No. 2007-20, § 1, 8-13-07; Ord. No. 2017-23, 9-28-17; Ord. No. 2017-38, 11-27-17)

State Constitution reference— Florida Constitution (1968), Article VIII, Section 6; 1961 Special Act, Chapter 61-2532, House Bill No. 2545.

(A)

See article 28, section 28.15.

(B)

On the same premises and in connection with permitted principal uses and structures, a single-family dwelling unit only for occupancy by an owner or employee thereof. Said single-family dwelling unit must be attached to the principal permitted structure.

(A)

Child care facilities.

(B)

Hospitals.

(C)

Wholesale, warehouse, or storage uses.

(D)

Building trades contractors with outside storage yards and heavy construction equipment.

(E)

Boat yards, boat repair or construction facilities, dry docks, boat railways and similar uses.

(F)

Light manufacturing, processing (including food processing but not slaughterhouses), packaging or fabricating.

(G)

Bulk storage yards including bulk storage of flammable liquids.

(H)

Automobile wrecking or storage yards (but not scrap processing yards or junk yards) shall be completely screened by a fence or other suitable visual barrier at least six (6) feet in height.

(I)

Commercial or noncommercial race tracks for animals or vehicles.

(J)

Travel trailer parks and campgrounds, subject to regulations in section 28.09.

(K)

Private/nonpublic schools.

(L)

Churches.

(M)

Assisted living facilities.

(N)

Adult day care centers.

(O)

Nursing homes.

(Ord. No. 2019-21, § 2E, 7-22-19; Ord. No. 2025-022, § 4, 7-28-25)

(A)

Minimum lot area: Twenty thousand (20,000) square feet.

(B)

Minimum lot width: One hundred (100) feet.

(A)

Front yard: Twenty-five (25) feet.

(B)

Rear yard: Twenty (20) feet: Those structures constructed along the Atlantic Coastline shall utilize the adopted "coastal construction control (setback) line", or a measurement of one hundred fifty (150) feet, measured from the mean high water line (MHL), whichever is the greater distance.

(C)

Side yard: Twenty (20) feet except where the CI District abuts a residential district, the side yard shall be increased to thirty (30) feet. No side yard shall be required where two (2) or more commercial buildings adjoin side by side, however, in the case of a series of adjoining buildings or lots of single and/or separate ownership abutting and paralleling a public right-of-way, a passage of not less than thirty (30) feet in width shall be provided at grade level at intervals of not more than four hundred (400) feet apart as may be required for public access.

(A)

Maximum building height: Forty (40) feet:

(1)

Providing that for structures exceeding thirty-five (35) feet or three (3) stories in height shall increase the minimum side yard by one (1) foot for every two (2) feet of building height exceeding thirty-five (35) feet.

(2)

Also, those structures fronting along a major water body, shall increase the minimum rear yard setback by one (1) foot for every two (2) feet of building height exceeding thirty-five (35) feet, utilizing the "coastal construction control line" as adopted, as the minimum rear yard, or one hundred fifty (150) feet from the mean high water line (MHL).

(B)

Maximum lot coverage:

(1)

Lot coverage by all buildings and structures shall not be more than seventy (70) percent of the lot.

(2)

Commercial intensive development should be encouraged only as nodal development with access located sufficient distance from intersections and interstate access ramps so as to minimize traffic impacts on these facilities.

(C)

Landscaping: The minimum landscape area shall be not less than ten (10) percent of the total lot area and shall be in conformance with article 28, section 28.17.

(D)

Within the unincorporated areas of Amelia Island, maximum building height is forty-five (45) feet.

(Ord. No. 2021-08, § 2E, 6-14-21; Ord. No. 2021-20, § 2D, 9-27-21)