Seagoville City Zoning Code
Division 16
C Commercial District Regulations
§ 25.02.371 Use regulations.
In an “C” 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 “LR” Local Retail District. |
Artificial flower manufacture. |
Artificial limb manufacture. |
Automobile dealers. |
Automobile laundry. |
Auto painting, auto upholstering. |
Awning manufacture, cloth, metal, wood. |
Aquarium, wholesale. |
Book printing, binding, bindery. |
Bottling works with syrup manufacture. |
Bowling alley. |
Bus and truck storage. |
Cabinet shop. |
Candy manufacture. |
Canvas awning manufacture. |
Car barns. |
Carpenter shop. |
Carpet cleaning - washing and scouring if dustproof room and dust-catching equipment is provided. |
Carting, express, hauling or storage. |
Cement storage. |
Ceramic products, handcraft shop having an area of not more than 6,000 square feet. |
Clothing manufacture. |
Cold storage plant. |
Commercial amusement. |
Commercial colleges. |
Cleaning and dry cleaning establishment having an area in excess of 6,000 square feet. |
Contractor’s storage yard. |
Driving range. |
Dry goods, wholesale and storage. |
Dyeing plant having more than 6,000 square feet. |
Egg candling and grading. |
Electrical and neon sign manufacture. |
Electrical repairing. |
Electro-plating; electro-tying. |
Engraving plant. |
Envelope manufacture. |
Feed store, wholesale and storage. |
Florist, wholesale. |
Food products manufacture, frozen food lockers, wholesale. |
Furniture repair and upholstering - wholesale. |
Furniture auction sales. |
Hauling, light or heavy. |
Household goods, storage. |
Ice cream manufacture; ice manufacture. |
Job printing and book printing. |
Laundry, commercial. |
Leather products manufacture. |
Lithographing. |
Loading or storage tracks. |
Looseleaf book manufacture. |
Lumberyard (building material). |
Market - public. |
Mattress making and renovating - where dust precipitating equipment is used. |
Milk depot, wholesale. |
Millinery manufacture. |
Miniature golf course. |
Mirror resilvering. |
Motion-picture studio, commercial films. |
Motorcycle repairing. |
Moving and storage company. |
Newspaper printing. |
Optical goods manufacture. |
Paint mixing, but excluding all cooking or baking operations of paints, varnish and lacquers. |
Paper products and paper box manufacture. |
Photoengraving plant. |
Plastic products, molding, casting and shaping. |
Penal or correctional institutions for insane, feebleminded, liquor or narcotic. |
Printing equipment, supplies, repairs. |
Print shop. |
Publishing company. |
Schools - all types including trade and commercial colleges. |
Secondhand furniture. |
Seed store, wholesale sales and storage. |
Sheetmetal shop. |
Shoe store, wholesale sales and storage. |
Skating rink. |
Storage and sales of used auto parts and accessories when located inside building and in which no automobile or parts of automobiles for sale is stored or displayed in the open. |
Storage of trucks, and gravel. |
Stone monument works - retail. |
Streetcar barns. |
Taxicab storage and repairs. |
Team tracks and unloading docks, railroads. |
Tire retreading and recapping. |
Tourist camp. |
Trade schools of all types. |
Transfer and baggage company. |
Trunk manufacturing. |
Typesetting. |
Used car lot. |
Venetian blind manufacturing. |
Warehouse, wholesale offices, sales and storage. |
Water distillation. |
(Ordinance 12-89, sec. 2b, adopted 9/14/89; Ordinance 04-10 adopted 5/6/10; Ordinance 22-2017 adopted 10/2/17)
§ 25.02.372 Height regulations.
No building shall exceed six standard stories in height unless setback from all lot lines or any required yard lines [is] one foot for each two feet of building height above such six-story limit.
(Ordinance 05-06, sec. 1, adopted 5/4/06)
§ 25.02.373 Area requirements.
(a)
Front yard.
Where all the frontage on one side of the street between two intersecting streets is located in the “C” District, no front yard shall be required. When the frontage on one side of the street between two intersecting streets is located partly in the “C” District and partly in a more restricted use district, the front yard shall conform to the more restricted use district.
(b)
Side yard.
No side yard shall be required for commercial or retail use, except:
(1)
For a single-family dwelling, two-family dwelling, or a multiple-family dwelling use, a side yard shall be required on each side of the lot as in the “A” District.
(2)
On the side of the lot adjoining a single-family, two-family, or Apartment District, there shall be a side yard. No side yard shall be required where the “C” District is separated from any 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.
(c)
Rear yard.
No rear yard shall be required for commercial or retail use except where a lot abuts single-family, two-family, or 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 in no case shall such rear yard be less than ten feet, but the required rear yard shall not be greater than 24 feet. For a single-family, two-family, or multiple-family dwelling 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 in the Apartment District. Where dwelling facilities are provided above stores, the lot area requirements shall be the same as those required for multiple-family dwellings in the Apartment District.
(e)
Width of lot.
The minimum width of the lot shall be 60 feet for a single-family dwelling, two-family, or multiple-family dwelling 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)
The parking regulations for all local retail uses are the same as those in the “LR” Local Retail District.
(3)
Motels shall provide off-street parking space at the ratio of one space for each guestroom.
(4)
Dance halls, commercial amusement establishments, nightclubs, and skating rinks shall provide off-street parking at a ratio of one space for each 100 square feet of floor area used for dancing, amusement or skating.
(5)
Driving range, amusement parks, miniature golf courses shall provide off-street parking at the ratio of one space for each five persons. The maximum number of patrons which can be served shall be the basis in determining parking requirements.
(6)
Manufacturing, industrial, and processing establishments, repair shops, warehouses, storage buildings, lumber and supply yards shall provide off-street parking space at a ratio of one space for each five employees. The maximum number of employees on duty at any time, day or night, shall be the basis determining [for] parking requirements for any establishment. Where the number of employees is indeterminate, off-street parking space shall be provided at a ratio of one space for each 1,000 square feet of floor area.
(7)
Retail, office service, industrial and manufacturing buildings shall provide and maintain off-street facilities for 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 of ten feet by 25 feet for each 20,000 square feet of floor space or fraction thereof in excess of 3,000 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)