Seagoville City Zoning Code
Division 15
LR Local Retail District Regulations
§ 25.02.351 Use regulations.
In an "LR" District, no land shall be used and no building shall be used, erected, or converted to any use other than those listed below or those of a like and/or similar use:
Any use permitted in the "O" Office District. (Dwellings of all types are excluded.) |
Ambulance service. |
Antique shop. |
Aquarium. |
Art gallery. |
Auto laundry without boiler, heating and steam-cleaning facilities, in which all washing operations are carried on within a building. |
Auto repair garage where all work is conducted inside the building and not including the open storage of vans, trailers, or trucks. |
Auto seat covering. |
Bakery, retail. |
Bank, with or without drive through service, office, wholesale sales office, or sample room. |
Barber and beauty shop. |
Bird and pet shops, retail. |
Book or stationery store. |
Bowling alley - if air-conditioned and soundproofed. |
Camera shop. |
Candy shop. |
Caterer. |
Cleaning, dyeing and laundry pickup station for receiving and delivery of articles to be cleaned, dyed and laundered, but no actual work to be done on premises. |
Cleaning and pressing shops having an area of not more than 6,000 square feet. |
Curtain cleaning shop having an area of not more than 6,000 square feet. |
Department store, novelty or variety shop, retail sales. |
Dyeing plant with not more than 6,000 square feet of floor space. |
Electrical goods, retail sales only. |
Electrical repairing - domestic equipment and auto sales, retail sales only. |
Electrical substation. |
Exterminating company, retail. |
Film developing and printing. |
Fix-it shops, bicycle repairs, saw filing, lawn mower sharpening; retail only, but without outside storage. |
Florist, retail sales only. |
Furniture store - retail. |
Furniture repairs and upholstering, retail sales only, and where all storage and display is within the building. |
Frozen food lockers, retail. |
Gasoline motor fuel sales. |
Gasoline motor fuel sales, automated. |
Grocery store. |
Hardware, sporting goods, toys, paints, wallpaper, clothing, retail sales only. |
Household and office furniture, furnishings and appliances, retail. |
Ice delivery station. |
Job printing. |
Jewelry, optical goods, photographic supplies, retail. |
Laundry, automatic equipped with machines of the type customarily found in the home, where custom laundering and finishing may be done. The shop shall not exceed 6,000 square feet in area and no pickup and delivery shall be operated. |
Letter and mimeograph shop. |
Library, rental. |
Meat market, retail sales only. |
Moving picture theater. |
Nursery, retail sale of plants and trees. |
Office building. |
Outside display, new materials only. |
Outside storage units, portable (PODs). |
Parking lot without public garage or other automobile facilities for the parking of passenger cars and trucks of less than one ton capacity only. |
Pharmacy/drug store. |
Photographer's or artist's studio. |
Professional offices for architect, attorney, engineer and real estate. |
Public garage. |
Piano and musical instruments, retail sales only. |
Plumbing shop, retail sales only, without warehouse facilities (to include storage for ordinary repairs, but not storage for materials for contracting work). |
Restaurant, dine-in only; Restaurant, dine-in convenience; Restaurant, fast food. |
Restaurant with drive through service. Food sales must make up at least fifty-one percent (51%) of overall sales. |
Restaurant, outdoor/patio dining. |
Restaurant, private club. |
Rug cleaning shop having an area of not more than 6,000 square feet, chemical type, where all cleaning operations are carried on within a building, where rugs are laid flat on the floor, the chemical mixed with water, applied with a brush, and removed by vacuum cleaning, entirely without the generation of dust. |
Seamstress, dressmaker, or tailor. |
Seed store. |
Shoe repair shop, retail sales only. |
Studios, dance, music, drama, health massage and reducing. |
Studio for the display and sale of glass, china, art objects, cloth and draperies. |
Taxi stand. |
Washateria, equipped with automatic washing machines of the type customarily found in a home and where the customer may personally supervise the washing and handling of his laundry. |
Wearing apparel including clothes, shoes, hats, millinery and accessories. |
(Ordinance 12-89, sec. 2a, adopted 9/14/89; Ordinance 09-02, sec. 2, adopted 7/18/02; Ordinance 10-02, sec. 2, adopted 7/18/02; Ordinance 06-05, sec. 1, adopted 3/3/05; Ordinance 04-10 adopted 5/6/10; Ordinance 03-2017, sec. 1, adopted 3/6/17; Ordinance 32-2019 adopted 9/16/19; Ordinance 14-2023 adopted 6/5/2023)
§ 25.02.352 Height regulations.
No building or structure shall exceed 2-1/2 standard stories in height.
(Ordinance 05-06, sec. 1, adopted 5/4/06)
§ 25.02.353 Area regulations.
(a)
Front yard.
(1)
There shall be a front yard having a minimum depth of not less than 25 feet except as hereinafter provided in the division on variances and exceptions [division 27].
(2)
Where lots have double frontage, running through from one street to another, the required front yard shall be provided on both streets.
(b)
Side yard.
On the side of a lot in an “LR” District adjoining a single-family, duplex, or an Apartment District, there shall be a side yard. No side yard shall be required where the LR District is separated from a residential district by an alley. The minimum width of the side yard shall be ten feet or ten percent of the average width of the lot, whichever is smaller, but a side yard shall not be less than five feet. The side yard adjacent to a side street shall not be less than ten feet.
(c)
Rear yard.
No rear yard shall be required for a retail use except where a lot adjoins a single-family, duplex, or an apartment district, and is not separated therefrom by an alley in which event there shall be a rear yard on the rear of the lot equal to 20 percent of the depth of the lot, but the required rear yard shall not be greater than 24 feet. Where a lot or any portion of a lot is used for single-family dwelling, two-family or multiple-family use, there shall be a rear yard on the rear of the lot equal to 20 percent of the depth of the lot, but the required rear yard shall not be greater than 24 feet.
(d)
Area of the lot.
The minimum lot area requirements for single-family, two-family, or multiple-family dwellings shall be the same as those for the Apartment District. Where dwelling facilities are provided above or behind stores, the lot area requirements shall be the same as those required for multiple-family dwellings in the Apartment District.
(e)
Width of the lot.
The minimum width of the lot shall be 60 feet for single-family, two-family or multiple-family use. For other uses, the width may be less than 60 feet.
(f)
Parking regulations.
(1)
The parking regulations for single-family, two-family and multiple-family dwellings are the same as those in the Apartment Multiple Dwelling District.
(2)
Furniture stores shall provide off-street parking space at the ratio of one space for each 1,000 square feet of floor area.
(3)
Medical or dental clinics shall provide off-street parking space at the ratio of one space for each 250 square feet of floor area.
(4)
Banks, professional offices, business offices, other than medical or dental clinics, shall provide off-street parking space at a ratio of one parking space for each 500 square feet of floor area.
(5)
Establishments for the sale and consumption on the premises of food or refreshments shall provide off-street parking space at a ratio of one space for each 150 square feet of floor area.
(6)
Bowling alleys shall provide off-street parking space at the ratio of three spaces for each lane.
(7)
Any building hereafter erected, altered or converted for local retail or personal service use not listed above shall provide off-street parking space at the following ratio:
(A)
Buildings having less than 5,000 square feet of floor area shall provide one space for each 500 square feet of ground floor building area.
(B)
Buildings having over 5,000 square feet, but not more than 10,000 square feet of ground floor area shall provide ten spaces plus one space for each 333 feet of ground floor area in excess of 5,000 square feet.
(C)
Buildings having over 10,000 square feet of ground floor area shall provide 25 parking spaces plus one space for each 200 square feet of ground floor area in excess of 10,000 square feet.
(D)
Buildings having local retail or professional office uses on floors above the ground floor shall provide off-street parking spaces at the ratio of one space for each 500 square feet of floor area about the ground floor.
(E)
Where more than one building is located upon a lot the parking requirements shall be based upon the total floor area of all such structures.
(8)
Retail, office and service buildings shall provide and maintain off-street facilities for the loading and unloading of merchandise and goods within the building or on the lot adjacent to a public alley or private service drive to facilitate the movement of traffic on the public streets. Such space shall consist of a minimum area ten feet by 25 feet for each 20,000 square feet of floor space or fraction thereof in excess of 3,000 square feet in the building or on the lot used for retail, storage or service purposes.
(g)
Exterior fire-resistant construction.
(Ordinance 05-06, sec. 1, adopted 5/4/06; Ordinance 04-10 adopted 5/6/10)