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Prospect Park City Zoning Code

ARTICLE VIII

C-2 Commercial District

§ 70-27 Purpose.

Zoning District C-2 is designed for commercial uses and other consumer-related needs in areas accessible from major roads and mass transportation routes. It is further designed to provide opportunities for planned commercial centers when conventional commercial uses are clustered in a building to form a neighborhood shopping or convenience shopping center and to provide opportunities for planned office and/or professional office centers.

§ 70-28 Use regulations.

A. 
Permitted principal uses shall be as follows:
(1) 
Any use permitted in District C-1, in accordance with Article VII, C-1 Commercial District.
(2) 
Sales and service of heavy equipment and motor vehicles.
B. 
Permitted accessory uses shall be as follows:
(1) 
Accessory use on the same lot with and customarily incidental to any of the above-permitted principal uses, except as limited above.
(2) 
Parking, in accordance with Article XII, Off-Street Parking and Loading Facilities.
(3) 
Signs, in accordance with Article XI, Signs.
C. 
Uses by special exception shall be as follows:
(1) 
Club or lodge.
(2) 
Movie theater and performing arts center.
(3) 
Hotel, motel or inn.
(4) 
Public garage.
(5) 
Motor vehicle service station, after approval of detailed plans for the proposed use by the Zoning Hearing Board. Such plans shall be drawn to scale and shall show the locations and dimensions of the site, together with all buildings and facilities proposed for the site, including pump islands, display racks, signs and accessways. In addition thereto, sufficient space shall be provided on a lot so that a reasonable number of motor vehicles may be parked while waiting to be serviced. All repair work shall be conducted within a building designed for such purposes. Lighting facilities shall be so arranged as to reflect away from abutting properties, and the Zoning Hearing Board may condition any approval upon the installation of fences, trees, shrubbery and other suitable barriers to protect adjacent uses.
(6) 
Funeral home.
(7) 
New automobile, light truck, mobile and modular home, boat and recreational vehicles sales and, as accessory uses, used vehicle sales and/or service.
(8) 
Commercial, recreation facility for fitness, racquetball, squash, swimming and like activities.
(9) 
Nursery or day-care center.
(10) 
Geriatric care center and institutional homes.
D. 
Conditional uses. Planned business center, including various uses permitted under Subsection A (above) when such uses are clustered in a building to form a neighborhood shopping, convenience or service center or an office and/or professional office center.

§ 70-29 Height regulations.

The maximum height of dwellings and other structures attached thereto is 35 feet. Measurement shall be in accordance with Article IV, R-1 Residential District, § 70-12.

§ 70-30 Area and bulk regulations.

A. 
Permitted principal uses.
(1) 
Lot area. Lot areas of not less than 2,500 square feet shall be provided for every principal permitted building erected or used for any permitted use.
(2) 
Lot width at street line. A lot width or lot frontage at the street line of not less than 25 feet shall be provided.
(3) 
Setbacks.
(a) 
There shall be a setback on each street on which the lot abuts, the depth of which shall be at least 25 feet.
(b) 
Side yard: none, except that where a side line abuts a residential district, a side yard at least 15 feet in width shall be provided which shall remain undeveloped and planted in accordance with the provisions of § 70-68.
(c) 
Minimum rear yard setback shall be 20 feet.
B. 
Uses by special exception. The area and bulk regulations for all uses by special exception in § 70-28C (above) shall be as follows:
(1) 
A lot area of not less than 10,000 square feet minimum.
(2) 
The lot width at street line shall be 100 feet minimum.
(3) 
Setbacks. There shall be a setback on each street on which the lot abuts a depth of which shall be at least 25 feet minimum.
(4) 
Rear yard. There shall be a rear yard setback of 50 feet minimum to be reserved for grassy open space.
(5) 
Side yard. There shall be two side yard setbacks of at least 20 feet each.
C. 
Building coverage and impervious surface. Not more than 40% of the total area of any lot shall be occupied by buildings and not more than 60% of any lot area shall be covered by impervious surfaces.
D. 
Conditional uses. The area and bulk regulations for a planned business center or for an office and/or professional office center shall be in accordance with § 70-28A and the special requirements set forth in § 70-28C.