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New Plymouth City Zoning Code

CHAPTER 8

COMMERCIAL D ZONE

11-8-1: USE REGULATIONS:

The following uses shall be permitted in the commercial D zone:
Agricultural implement sales and service conducted wholly within completely enclosed buildings.
Apartments, provided they are located above the first floor and above a business use permitted in this district.
Auction rooms.
Auditoriums.
Beverage distributors, but not including bottling plants.
Billiard and pool rooms.
Business and professional offices.
Churches.
Hotels.
Launderettes and laundromats.
Meat market or poultry stores, if no slaughter or stripping is involved.
Motels.
Parking lots.
Pet shops or animal hospitals when conducted wholly within enclosed buildings.
Places of amusement.
Printing and bookbinding.
Restaurants.
Retail commercial business.
Schools.
Tavern or retail sale of alcoholic liquors, subject to the regulations of other provisions of this code.
Temporary buildings incidental only to construction of a permitted use.
Theaters, indoors (not including outdoor theaters).
Tourist homes.
Undertaking establishments.
Wholesale commercial business. (Ord. 220, 5-15-1995; amd. Ord. 418, - -2022)

11-8-2: CONDITIONAL USES:

   (A)   Automobile or trailer sales lots, ministorages and the other conditional uses allowed in prior chapters of this title, may be permitted in the commercial D zone whenever such use is specifically authorized by the zoning commission.
   (B)   Ministorage units shall not be used for storage of corrosive, hazardous or flammable materials, toxic wastes or any other substances which could create a health hazard. (Ord. 277, 9-16-2002)

11-8-3: HEIGHT:

No building or structure shall be erected or structurally altered in the commercial D zone to exceed a height of three (3) stories nor shall it exceed forty five feet (45') in height. (Ord., 5-7-1984)

11-8-4: AREAS:

No front or side yards shall be required except that when a building or group of buildings abuts upon a residential district, a yard shall be provided on the side of the lot abutting the residential district, such yard having a width of not less than ten feet (10'). There shall be a rear yard with a depth of not less than fifteen feet (15') when abutting upon a public thoroughfare and not less than twenty feet (20') when no dedicated alley or public way exists at the rear of the lot. The rear yard may be used for off street parking and loading as provided in this title 1 . (Ord., 5-7-1984)