The "CN" Neighborhood Commercial District is established in order to identify and provide those geographic areas within the City of Pinellas Park that are appropriate for the development and maintenance of a neighborhood-serving commercial environment. This district is intended primarily for limited commercial establishments of a convenience nature and accessory residential uses located in proximity to existing residential areas, together with accessory uses and public facilities customary to or required for such an environment. In keeping with the integration of the CN District with residential neighborhoods, operating hours are limited in order to ensure a peaceful and quiet neighborhood environment (see Section 18-1518.5(A)). It is the intent of the City to strictly limit rezonings of land into this zoning category. Criteria for acceptance of rezoning petitions are stated in Section 18-1518.5(D) below.

This district is appropriate for areas designated on the Official Land Use Plan Map as Residential/Office/Retail (R/O/R) on lots of forty-three thousand five hundred sixty (43,560) square feet or more.

(Ord. No. 3748, § 3, 10-28-2010; Ord. No. 4079, § 1(Att. A)69., 3-14-2019)

Public/semi-public uses (except Public Educational Facilities) or Transportation/Utility uses shall not exceed a maximum of five (5) acres. Any such use, alone or when added to existing abutting or functionally abutting like uses, which exceeds the threshold stated above, shall require a Land Use Plan Map amendment to Institutional (I) or Transportation/Utility (T/U) as appropriate, which shall include such use and all abutting or functionally abutting like uses.

(Ord. No. 3748, § 3, 10-28-2010; Ord. No. 4079, § 1(Att. A)70., 3-14-2019)

No building or land in the "CN" District shall be used, and no building shall be hereafter erected, structurally altered or enlarged, except for the permitted and conditional uses listed below. The uses listed as conditional uses below may be permitted if their site locations and proposed development site plans are first approved, as provided in the procedure for approval of conditional uses under Section 18-1531, "Conditional Use Regulations", of this Article. Uses that are similar to any permitted or conditional use, as determined by the Planning and Development Services Director, shall be permitted in the same manner (i.e. permitted versus conditional) as the listed use to which it is similar, provided that any similar use specifically permitted in another zoning district shall not be permitted. Permitted (P) and conditional (C) uses shall be subject to the conditions established in the following Table 18-1518.3 and other applicable conditions of this district and Article.

Table 18-1518.3 Authorized Uses in CN District

(Ord. No. 3748, § 3, 10-28-2010; Ord. No. 3928, § 14, 1-22-2015; Ord. No. 4042, § 2, 10-26-2017; Ord. No. 4079, § 1(Att. A)71., 3-14-2019; Ord. No. 4106, § 4, 3-12-2020; Ord. No. 4205, § 14, 7-27-2023; Ord. No. 4280, § 2, 1-9-2025)

(A)

MINIMUM LOT REQUIREMENTS.

1.

Lot Area: Twelve thousand (12,000) square feet.

2.

Lot Width: One hundred twenty (120) feet on a corner.

3.

Lot Depth: One hundred (100) feet.

4.

Lots of record not meeting the lot area, width or depth requirements of this section and having been of record prior to August 25, 1977 may be used for a permitted or conditional use provided that all other dimensional regulations will apply.

(B)

MINIMUM YARD SETBACK REQUIREMENTS.

1.

For corner, double frontage and multiple frontage lots, see Section 18-1503.7, "Yard Determinations."

2.

Any yard directly abutting a single-family zoning district shall have an additional five-foot setback added to the basic requirements of this Section.

3.

Refer to Section 18-1503.8 for measurement of yard setbacks on lots adjacent to rights-of-way of insufficient width.

4.

Refer to Section 18-1504.3(G)(2) for special yard setbacks for additions to buildings in existence as of August 14, 1997.

(C)

MAXIMUM LOT COVERAGE. Seventy (70) percent.

(D)

MAXIMUM BUILDING HEIGHT. Thirty-five (35) feet. See Section 18-1503.13, "Exclusion from Height Limits", for height limit exclusions.

(E)

FLOOR AREA RATIO.

1.

Four-tenths (0.40).

(F)

MINIMUM BUILDING SEPARATION. Must meet Florida Building Code separation requirements.

(Ord. No. 3748, § 3, 10-28-2010; Ord. No. 4079, § 1(Att. A)72., 3-14-2019; Ord. No. 4279, § 13, 11-26-2024)

(A)

All businesses in this zoning district are limited to the operating hours of 7:00 a.m. to 12.00 a.m. in order to insure a peaceful and quiet neighborhood environment.

(B)

FENCES. See Section 18-1530.10, "Fences, Walls and Hedges" for fence regulations and setbacks.

(C)

DUMPSTER ENCLOSURES (See Section 18-1530.20, "Dumpsters" and Section 18-1530, "Accessory Use and Supplementary District Regulations").

(D)

OFF-STREET PARKING AND LOADING. See Section 18-1532, "Parking and Loading Regulations."

(E)

CRITERIA FOR APPROVAL OF REZONING PETITIONS TO "CN." The following conditions must be met before a petition to rezone to "CN" can be approved:

1.

The maximum size of the lot is limited to thirty thousand (30,000) square feet.

2.

Such lot must be located at the terminus of a block, with direct access to the lot by at least one (1) collector street. Said parcel shall not be located within the interior of a residential block.

(Ord. No. 3748, § 3, 10-28-2010; Ord. No. 3991, § 1, 9-8-2016)