Plymouth Township City Zoning Code
ARTICLE X
Commercial Districts
In the Commercial Districts, the following regulations shall apply:
Section 1000 Use regulations.
[Ord. No. 709, § 1, 11-25-1974; Ord. No. 1019, § 2, 11-13-1989; Ord. No. 1088, § 2, 11-18-1991; Ord. No. 1195, § 1, 7-15-1996; Ord. No. 1241, § 2, 9-22-1997; Ord. No. 1476, § 18, 6-11-2007]
A building or combination of buildings may be erected, altered or used, and a lot may be used or occupied for any of the following purposes, and no other:
A.
Retail sales;
B.
Retail services, excluding hotels and motels;
C.
Barbershops, tearoom hair dresser, tailor shop and other personal service shop;
D.
Restaurant, tearoom, cafe, confectionery or similar establishment serving food or beverages;
E.
Business or professional office, studio, bank and financial institution, other public utilities, office, passenger station for public transportation;
F.
Indoor theater, bowling alley, billiard room; athletic or health club, or indoor recreational establishment for tennis, squash or similar athletic endeavors;
G.
New automobile sales and service agency, including used car lot and repair shop adjacent to and in connection therewith;
H.
Newspaper publishing and job printing;
I.
Greenhouse, nursery sales yard;
J.
Club, fraternal organization or roominghouse dwelling;
K.
The following uses when authorized as a special exception subject to the provisions of article XXI, section 2101 B, herein:
1.
Gasoline filing station, storage or public garage, automobile repair shop, used car lot;
2.
Outdoor theater, miniature golf course and similar outdoor amusement;
3.
Funeral home. If a crematorium is accessory to a funeral home use, it must be set back a minimum of 500 feet from a residential district, residential use, school, or day-care facility.
[Ord. No. 1600, § 8, 5-11-2015]
4.
Animal Hospital, kennel, pet shop;
5.
Hand or automatic self-service laundry, provided adequate provision is made for waste disposal;
6.
Electric substation;
7.
Any use of the same general character as any permitted use.
L.
Accessory use on the same lot with, and customarily incidental to, any permitted use.
Section 1001 Height regulations.
[Ord. No. 971, § 3, 6-8-1987]
The maximum height of buildings and other structures erected or enlarged in this district shall be thirty-five (35) feet, except that such height may be increased to a maximum of sixty-five (65) feet; provided, that for every foot of height in excess of thirty-five (35) feet there shall be added to each yard requirement two (2) corresponding feet of width or depth; and, provided further, however, that where the lot on which the building to be erected or enlarged abuts a residential district, then such height may be increased to a maximum of sixty-five (65) feet; provided, that for every foot of height in excess of thirty-five (35) feet there shall be added to each yard requirement five (5) corresponding feet of width or depth.
Section 1002 Area, width, yard, building coverage, impervious surface and green space area regulations.
[Ord. No. 379, § 5, 11-13-1961; Ord. No. 976, § 1, 8-10-1987; Ord. No. 1476, § 19, 6-11-2007]
A.
Minimum Lot Area and Width.
1.
For any permitted dwelling use there shall be a minimum lot area and width as prescribed for the residential districts nearest the commercial district, as set forth in section 1000 A. above.
2.
For any commercial use permitted in section 1000 there shall be required a lot area of not less than nine thousand (9,000) square feet and a lot width of not less than sixty (60) feet at the building line.
B.
Front Yard. There shall be a front yard on each lot, the depth of which shall be not less than thirty (30) feet.
C.
Side Yards.
1.
On a lot for any permitted dwelling use, there shall be the minimum side yards prescribed for the residential district nearest thereto as set forth in section 1000 A. above.
2.
For all commercial uses permitted by section 1000.
(a)
On each interior lot there shall be two (2) side yards having an aggregate width of not less than thirty (30) feet with a minimum width of not less than ten (10) feet.
(b)
On a lot abutting a residential district the side yard abutting that residential district shall have a width of not less than fifty (50) feet.
(c)
On each corner lot there shall be two (2) side yards, the one abutting the street having a width of not less than twenty-five (25) feet and the other having a width of not less than ten (10) feet.
D.
Rear Yard. For any permitted use there shall be a rear yard on each lot, the depth of which shall be not less than thirty (30) feet, except where abutting a residential district, in which event the rear yard abutting the residential district shall have a depth of not less than fifty (50) feet.
E.
Building Coverage.
1.
For any permitted dwelling use the maximum coverage shall be as prescribed for the residential district nearest thereto as set forth in section 1000 A. above.
2.
For all other permitted uses the building coverage on any lot shall not exceed twenty-five (25) percent.
F.
Impervious Surface Coverage. For any nonresidential use, no lot shall have an impervious surface coverage of more than sixty-five (65) percent of the total lot area.
G.
Green Space Area Requirement. The minimum required green space area on any lot shall not be less than thirty-five (35) percent.
