Renovo City Zoning Code
PART 12
C-3 GENERAL COMMERCIAL DISTRICT
§ 27-1201 General Description and Purpose.
[Ord. 639, 7/14/1975]
This Commercial District is for personal and business services, general retail and wholesale business. Districts in this zone category are intended to include areas where commercial development has displaced or is displacing residential development or is occupying vacant land. These regulations herein are designed to guide future change so as to discourage the formation of future commercial slums, to preserve the carrying capacity of the roads, and to provide for off-street parking and loading. It is not the intent of this District to encourage the extension of existing "strip" commercial areas along roads, but rather to provide concentrations of general commercial activities.
§ 27-1202 Area Regulations.
[Ord. 639, 7/14/1975]
1.
The following requirements shall apply to all uses permitted in a C-3 District:
A.
Front Yard. All buildings shall be set back from the road right-of-way line a minimum of 10 feet except when abutting commonwealth roads, the setback shall be 20 feet.
B.
Side Yard. On corner lots, a minimum side yard of 10 feet is required except that the width of a side yard which abuts a residential zone shall be a minimum of 20 feet.
C.
Rear Yard. Where a commercial building is to be serviced from the side or rear, there shall be provided an alleyway, service court, rear yard, or combination thereof of not less than 30 feet in depth. The depth of a rear yard which abuts a Residential District shall be a minimum of 20 feet. In all other cases no side or rear yard is required.
§ 27-1203 Other.
[Ord. 639, 7/14/1975]
1.
Wholesaling and Distributing Centers. Wholesaling and distributing centers may be located in C-3 Districts that do not involve over 5,000 square feet of storage to be wholesaled or distributed, nor the use of any delivery vehicle rated at more than a two-ton empty weight capacity, nor a total of more than five delivery vehicles.
2.
Accessory Uses. On the same premises, and in connection with permitted principal uses and structures, dwelling units for occupancy only by owners or employees thereof, and other uses and structures which are customarily accessory and incidental to permitted or permissible uses and structures and are not of a nature prohibited.
§ 27-1204 Permitted Uses and Structures.
[Ord. 639, 7/14/1975]
1.
All uses permitted in C-3 Districts.
2.
Bowling alleys, major repair garages.
3.
Small plants: bakeries, bottling plants, dairies:
A.
Bookbinding, creamery, laundry, small-scale cleaning and dyeing establishments.
B.
Building material sales yard or storage and rental or equipment commonly used by a contractor.
C.
Carpenter, cabinet making, furniture repair and upholstery, electrician, metal working, tinsmith, welding shops, plumbing, gas, steam, or hot water fitting shops, when these shops are in a completely enclosed building and are primarily sales and service shops and not manufacturing plants.
D.
Florists or nurseries, provided that all incidental equipment and supplies including fertilizers and empty cans are kept within the building.
E.
New and used car lots, trailer coach sales, automobile service stations including major repair.
F.
Trucking terminals, freight stations, produce markets.
G.
Truck, trailer and farm implement establishments including major repair.
§ 27-1205 Prohibited Uses and Structures.
[Ord. 639, 7/14/1975]
1.
Mobile home parks, single-family and two-family dwellings.
2.
Manufacturing, except as provided under permitted uses.
3.
Elementary schools.
4.
Bulk petroleum products storage.
5.
Any use which the Planning Commission, upon appeal and after investigating similar uses elsewhere, shall find to be potentially noxious, dangerous, or offensive to adjacent occupancies in the same or neighboring districts or to those who pass on roads, by reason of odor, smoke, noise, glare, fumes, vibration, threat of fire or explosion, emission of particulate matter, interference with radio or television reception, radiation, or likely for other reasons to be incompatible with the character of the district.
6.
Junkyards, salvage yards.
§ 27-1206 Open Storage Regulations.
[Ord. 639, 7/14/1975]
1.
All open storage and display of merchandise material and equipment shall be screened by adequate ornamental fencing or evergreen planting at the side and rear of the lot on which open storage or display occurs that abuts a Residential District; provided that such screening shall be a minimum of six feet in height.
2.
All of the lot utilized for parking of vehicles, for the storage and display of merchandise and all driveways used for vehicle ingress and egress shall be constructed and maintained in such a manner that no dust will be produced by continued use.
3.
All servicing of vehicles carried on as an incidental part of the sales operation shall be conducted within a completely enclosed building.
4.
Driveways used for ingress and egress shall not exceed 25 feet in width, exclusive of curbs.
5.
Outdoor lighting shall have an arrangement of reflectors and an intensity of lighting which will not interfere with adjacent land uses or the use of adjacent streets.
§ 27-1207 Points of Ingress and Egress.
[Ord. 639, 7/14/1975]
Where properties front commonwealth and major local roads or streets, so designated by the county planning director or local Planning Commission in the temporary absence of a county director, no driveway ingress and egress points shall be closer than 50 feet measured from driveway edge to driveway edge, except where a particular lot or unified contiguous commercial development frontage exists, in which case only one entrance and one exit are allowable per street side per lot or unified development. There shall be a maximum width of 25 feet per driveway entrance and all ingress and egress points shall be located 30 feet from any intersection right-of-way line. The distance along the road frontage between guard railing, concrete or asphaltic curbs, guard fencing, solid hedges, or a similar material to prohibit ingress and egress by vehicles at points other than those designated. The traffic barriers shall be placed by the property owner fronting said road. Where the Planning Commission deems it necessary, a service road shall be provided by the property owner(s) to further limit ingress and egress points. All points of ingress and egress must be clearly defined. This section of the chapter is hereby retroactive and enforceable on existing properties in this District.