C-1 Community Business Districts are designed and intended to provide a district of land use transition between major thoroughfares or other intense nonresidential uses and single-family residences. The C-1 District, therefore, is restricted to those types of convenience shopping and limited comparison shopping and service uses which are compatible with residential neighborhoods and which serve the shopping and service needs of persons in the community.

(Ord. 458. Passed 1-4-89.)

   In a C-1 Community Business District, no building or land shall be used and no building shall be erected except for one or more of the following specified uses, unless otherwise provided in this Zoning Code:

   (a)   Generally recognized retail businesses which supply commodities on the premises, such as, but not limited to, groceries, meats, dairy products, baked goods or other foods, drugs, dry goods, clothing, hobbies, crafts, appliances, notions or hardware, except retail outlets whose principal commodity is the sale of alcoholic beverages;

   (b)   Personal service establishments which perform services on the premises, such as, but not limited to, repair shops (watches, radios, televisions, shoes, etc.), tailor shops, beauty parlors or barber shops, photographic studios and self-service laundries, dry cleaning establishments and dry cleaning pick-up stations, except central dry cleaning plants, there being no plants of this type permitted in the C-1 District;

   (c)   Any service establishment in the nature of an office, showroom or workshop of a decorator, dressmaker, tailor, baker or upholsterer, or an establishment doing radio or home appliance repair, photographic reproduction or office supplies and office equipment sales, with a retail adjunct, but with no outdoor storage;

   (d)   Business establishments which perform services on the premises, such as, but not limited to, banks, loan companies, insurance offices and real estate offices;

   (e)   Professional services, including offices of doctors, dentists, osteopaths, attorneys, accountants and similar or allied professions;

   (f)   Business schools and colleges or private schools operated for profit;

   (g)   Private clubs, fraternal organizations and lodge halls;

   (h)   Off-street parking lots;

   (i)   Planned commercial centers; and

   (j)   Accessory structures and uses customarily incident to the permitted uses set forth in this section.

(Ord. 458. Passed 1-4-89.)

   In a C-1 Community Business District, the following uses shall be permitted subject to the conditions hereinafter imposed for each use, and subject further to approval by the Planning Commission in accordance with the public hearing requirements set forth in Section 1262.07:

   (a)   Mortuary establishments, when an adequate assembly area is provided off-street for vehicles to be used in funeral processions, provided that such assembly area shall be provided in addition to any required off-street parking area. A caretaker's residence may be provided within the main building of a mortuary establishment.

   (b)   Sit-down restaurants;

   (c)   Sit-down restaurants when outdoor eating facilities are proposed in conjunction with the principal use of the building. The use shall be subject to review and approval of a site plan by the Planning Commission. The outdoor eating facilities:

      (1)   Shall be accessory to the principal sit-down restaurant use;

      (2)   Shall provide sufficient off-street parking;

      (3)   May be located in any yard;

      (4)   Shall be fenced, and when located in a yard adjacent to a Residential District, shall be effectively screened from view in accordance with Section 1298.13;

      (5)   Shall direct all outdoor lighting inward, away from adjacent properties;

      (6)   When located within a public right-of-way, shall first require written authorization by the public entity in control of the right-of-way, approving such location and the erection of a fence required in paragraph (c)(4) hereof;

      (7)   Shall be a part of the license of the restaurant and shall meet all applicable State and local health and sanitary regulations;

      (8)   Shall only include tables, chairs, umbrellas, canopies, awnings, fencing, and other fixtures which are uniform in design and made of quality materials and with quality workmanship to ensure the safety and convenience of users and to enhance the visual quality of the City environment;

      (9)   Shall be maintained in a neat and orderly appearance at all times and shall be cleared of all debris on a periodic basis during the day and at the close of each business day;

      (10)   Shall include an outdoor trash receptacle within the seating area to help ensure an orderly appearance; and

      (11)   Shall not include any cooking, storage, cooling, refrigeration or other equipment located within the seating area. No food preparation shall be allowed in the outdoor eating area.

(Ord. 458. Passed 1-4-89; Ord. 814. Passed 11-16-05.)

   (d)   Accessory seasonal open air business areas, provided that:

      (1)   All such outdoor facilities are designed and intended to be an integral part of a planned commercial center;

      (2)   Such outdoor facilities are limited to the retail sale of plant material, lawn furniture and landscaping amenities, playground equipment and garden supplies, including lawn and gardening appliances;

      (3)   Such outdoor facilities shall be restricted to locations at the ends of the building mass where such facilities may extend into an interior side or rear yard only, but not into any required interior side yard or rear yard setback;

      (4)   Space may be provided in a non-required interior side or rear yard for the loading of customer vehicles, but no such area shall interfere with any off-street parking spaces, or vehicle maneuvering lanes or service drives; and

      (5)   The entire area shall be enclosed with building walls that shall represent a physical extension of the principal building, including the same exterior building wall materials and the same color materials as the principal building, except that, for purposes of display and to provide light and air to the interior display area, exterior walls of the accessory outdoor sales area may also consist of decorative ornamental metal fencing materials, other than chain link or woven wire fencing. Except where gates are provided, all such fencing shall be placed on top of a continuous wall structure, the vertical height of which shall not be less than three feet.

         To aid in its review of a site plan for an accessory outdoor sales area, the Planning Commission may require the submittal of drawings of sufficient detail and scale to clearly depict and identify, by name, the type of decorative ornamental metal fencing materials that will be used in conjunction with such areas, as required in paragraph (d)(5) hereof.

   (e)   Recreation space providing a children's amusement park and other similar recreation, provided that:

      (1)   Such space is made an integral part of a planned development;

      (2)   All such space is located only in a non-required interior side or rear yard setback at the end of the building mass; and

      (3)   All such space shall be securely fenced by a decorative ornamental metal fencing material, other than chain link or woven wire materials. The fence shall be at least four feet high.

         To aid in its review of a site plan for an accessory outdoor sales area, the Planning Commission may require the submittal of drawings of sufficient detail and scale to clearly depict and identify, by name, the type of decorative ornamental metal fencing materials that will be used in conjunction with such areas, as required in paragraph (e)(3) hereof.

   (f)   Publicly owned buildings, public utility buildings, telephone exchange buildings, electric transformer stations and substations, gas regulator stations with service yards, but without storage yards, and water and sewage pumping stations.

(Ord. 684. Passed 10-13-99.)

   The following conditions, where applicable, shall apply to all uses permitted under this chapter:

   (a)   All business establishments shall be retail or service establishments dealing directly with customers. All goods produced on the premises shall be sold at retail on the premises.

   (b)   All business, servicing or processing, except for off-street parking or loading/unloading, shall be conducted within a completely enclosed building. No building or use shall exceed 10,000 square feet of gross floor area.

   (c)   See Section 1298.01 for limitations on the height and bulk of buildings, the minimum size of lots by permitted land use, the maximum dwelling unit density permitted, building setbacks and development options.

   (d)   See Chapters 1292 and 1298 for provisions regarding:

      (1)   Accessory uses

      (2)   Off-street parking and loading

      (3)   Site plan review

      (4)   Improvement guarantees

      (5)   Landscape planting standards

      (6)   Exterior lighting

      (7)   Corner clearance

      (8)   Screen walls and earth berms

      (9)   Frontage on a public street

      (10)   Access to major thoroughfares

      (11)   Exterior building wall facades

      (12)   Signs

(Ord. 458. Passed 1-4-89; Ord. 479. Passed 7-5-90.)