The purpose of the Limited Commercial District is to provide for those businesses and services that are commercial, but not necessarily retail in nature. Further, the moderate size of the permitted use is intended to limit the intensity of the use.

(Ord. 08-33. Passed 5-4-09.)

   (a)   Uses permitted in Section 1260.02 (MB, LB, GO, CSI).

   (b)   Wholesale and distribution businesses.

   (c)   Mini-warehouses.

   (d)   General office and service businesses.

   (e)   Municipal and public utility service facilities.

   (f)   Monument and memorial shops.

   (g)   Automobile major repairs, including, but not limited to:

      (1)   Vehicle engine rebuild.

      (2)   Vehicle body repair.

      (3)   Uses permitted in Section 1260.02(j).

      There shall be screening along any property line adjoining an R-District in accordance with the standards outlined in Section 1290.03(a) regardless of the number of vehicles.

   (h)   Automobile sales or leasing lots with a lot area not exceeding 20,000 square feet gross area.

   (i)   Low intensity retail, including, but not limited to:

      (1)   Small or large construction equipment rental or sales.

      (2)   Office equipment sales.

      (3)   Furniture sales.

      (4)   Animal feed sales.

   (j)   Contracting and building trade business.

   (k)   Printing business.

   (l)   Mail order business.

   (m)   Commercial greenhouses and nurseries.

   (n)   Beverage and other retail drive-thrus.

   (o)   Places of assembly including, but not limited to, fraternal organizations and bingo halls.

   (p)   Restaurant or other eating or drinking establishment.

   (q)   Residential uses per Section 1263.14.

   (r)   Recycle collection points.

(Ord. 08-33. Passed 5-4-09.)

   (a)   Uses which are customary in the course of or associated with a specified permitted use are allowed.

   (b)   Flagpoles, television and radio antennas for the exclusive use of the property owner.

(Ord. 08-33. Passed 5-4-09.)

   (a)   Recycle transfer points.

   (b)   Water towers, observation towers, and transmission towers.

   (c)   Medical marijuana and adult use dispensaries pursuant to the authority and limitations set forth at Chapter 1260: MB Medium Intensity Business, Section 1260.04.

(Ord. 08-33-A. Passed 5-4-09; Ord. 17-43A. Passed 1-2-18; Ord. 24-18-A. Passed 9-16-24.)

   Accessory structures shall comply with Chapter 1274.

(Ord. 08-33. Passed 5-4-09.)

   (a)   The gross floor area devoted to business use in this district shall not exceed 6,000 square feet. A basement used exclusively as a mechanical space or an abandoned upper floor level is not a part of the gross floor area.

   (b)   The combined square footage of the footprint of all buildings and structures on a given lot shall not be more than thirty-five percent of the lot area, exclusive of any lot area in the floodway.

   (c)   New construction, including additions, shall be reviewed by City Engineer for compliance with the City's current Development Regulations. These items to be considered in determining compliance include, but are not limited to, the following: roadway improvements, access management or traffic congestion prevention, storm water management, floodplain management, public utility connections, FAA requirements and landscaping requirements.

   (d)   All uses in this district shall comply with the applicable requirements of Chapter 1296.

   (e)   There shall be a maximum of four recycling collection point containers allowed per lot.

   (f)   There shall not be more than one principle building per lot.

(Ord. 08-33. Passed 5-4-09.)

   (a)   No structure shall exceed three stories or forty feet in height.

   (b)   Flagpoles, television and radio antennas shall not exceed the height of existing buildings on the property by more than four feet.

(Ord. 08-33. Passed 5-4-09.)

   The following minimum requirements shall apply, except as provided in Chapters 1270 and 1271.

 

 

(Ord. 08-33. Passed 5-4-09.)

   Off-street parking and loading spaces shall be provided in accordance with Chapter 1290.

(Ord. 08-33. Passed 5-4-09.)

   Corner lots shall meet the requirements of Section 1240.11.

(Ord. 08-33. Passed 5-4-09.)

   Landscaping, buffering, and green space shall be provided in accordance with Chapter 1292.

(Ord. 08-33. Passed 5-4-09.)

   (a)   Front yard setbacks from public and private roadways shall be modified in accordance with the thoroughfare maps maintained in the office of the City Engineer.

   (b)   Lots with no legal access to an adequate public right-of-way shall obtain approval from the Planning Commission for the proposed access prior to issuance of a zoning certificate. Approval of a lot split by the Planning Commission is evidence of an acceptable legal access.

(Ord. 08-33. Passed 5-4-09.)

   Deed restrictions and covenants may establish additional restrictions.

(Ord. 08-33. Passed 5-4-09.)

   (a)   In this district, a one-family dwelling and related accessory structures on a single lot or parcel in existence at the time of the adoption of this Code may be repaired, altered or enlarged in accordance with Chapters 1242, 1248, 1249, or 1251 as determined by the Zoning Inspector.

   (b)   While solely new one-family or multi-family residences are not a permitted use in this district, dwelling units are permitted on a maximum of two upper levels of a building when the use of the story at grade level is a permitted use in this district.

(Ord. 08-33. Passed 5-4-09.)