Onondaga City Zoning Code
§ 285-14
Commercial District, CD.
[Amended 8-21-1995 by L.L. No. 3-1995]
CD Districts shall have a total land area of not less than 10 acres. The following regulations shall apply in CD Districts:
A.
Permitted uses:
(1)
Offices.
(2)
Banks.
(3)
Public and private elementary or secondary schools.
(4)
Restaurants, without drive-in windows.
(5)
Motels or hotels.
(6)
Commercial nurseries or greenhouses.
(7)
Highway vehicle salesrooms and accessory service garages and sales lots.
(8)
Boat salesrooms and accessory service garages and sales lots.
(9)
Indoor recreation facilities.
(10)
Funeral homes.
(11)
Building supply.
(12)
Radio or television studios without transmitting or receiving antennas or towers.
(13)
Medical service facilities.
(14)
Religious uses.
(15)
Outdoor recreation facilities.
(16)
Nursing homes.
(17)
Adult homes.
(18)
Animal hospitals and kennels, provided that any structure or area used for such purpose, including pens and exercise yards, shall be located at least 200 feet from any residential district.
(19)
Retail businesses.
(20)
Studios or galleries.
(21)
Adult uses, provided that such adult use complies with all of the following restrictions:
[Added 8-21-2000 by L.L. No. 7-2000[1]]
(a)
All adult uses shall comply with the applicable provisions of the Zoning Law, including without limitation those relating to structures and uses permitted in a Commercial District (CD) and shall also comply with all other applicable law.
(b)
No person shall construct, establish, operate or maintain or be issued a certificate of occupancy for any adult use within the Town unless such use meets the following standards:
[1]
No more than one adult use shall be allowed or permitted on any one lot.
[2]
No adult use shall be allowed or permitted on a lot that is within 1,000 feet of:
[a]
A lot on which there is another adult use.
[b]
Any Residential Zoning District (R-C, R-1, R-2 or R-3).
[c]
Any property that is utilized, in whole or in part, for residential purposes, including without limitation, structures devoted to both residential and commercial or business uses.
[d]
Any church or other regular place of worship, community center, library, private or public school, nursery school, day-care use, mobile home, public park, public playground, public recreational area or hotels or motels.
[3]
Where there is a conflict between the regulations as provided in this § 285-14A(21) and any other applicable law, rule or regulation, the most restrictive law, rule or regulation shall apply.
[4]
All distances set forth herein shall be measured by following a straight line without regard to intervening structures or improvements from the nearest point of the lot line of the parcel on which the adult use is to be located to the nearest point of the lot line of the parcel of land from which the adult use is to be separated.
(c)
No adult use shall be conducted in any manner that permits the observation of any material depicting, describing or relating to specified sexual activities or specified anatomical activities from any public way or from any other lot, including but not limited to any lighting, display, decoration, poster, photograph, video, sign, show, doorway, window, screen or other opening.
[1]
Editor's Note: This local law also repealed former Subsection A(21), regarding adult entertainment uses.
B.
Permitted accessory uses:
(1)
Accessory buildings or uses, provided that such use is incidental to the principal use.
C.
Special permit uses, as provided in § 285-39:
(1)
Parking facilities.
(3)
Dry cleaners or laundries of more than 4,000 square feet.
(4)
Restaurants, with drive-in windows.
(5)
Car washes.
(6)
Facilities for the delivery of natural gas service, other than containerized natural gas, to the local community, except storage or heavy equipment yards. Such facilities shall not include those designed for exploration for natural gas deposits, extraction of same from the earth or activities related thereto.
[Amended 3-17-1997 by L.L. No. 3-1997; 12-3-2012 by L.L. No. 8-2012]
(7)
Facilities necessary for the provision of electrical service to the local community, except storage or heavy equipment yards.
[Added 3-17-1997 by L.L. No. 3-1997]
(8)
Facilities, other than towers, necessary for the provision of telephone service to the local community, except storage or heavy equipment yards.
[Added 3-17-1997 by L.L. No. 3-1997]
(9)
Facilities, other than towers, necessary for the provision of cable television service to the local community, except storage or heavy equipment yards.
[Added 3-17-1997 by L.L. No. 3-1997]
(10)
Emergency services facility.
[Added 1-7-2019 by L.L. No. 1-2019; amended 8-21-2023 by L.L. No. 4-2023]
D.
Lot and building requirements: