Sparta Township City Zoning Code
§ 18-4.20
C-1 Community Commercial Zone.
[Ord. No. 01-14 § 3; Ord. No. 09-12 § 1]
a.
Principal Permitted Use. This zone is limited to business uses of a retail sales and service type. Only the following uses are permitted:
1.
Stores or shops for retail business or wholesale display entirely within the confines of a building.
2.
Banks and offices for business, executive and professional purposes.
3.
Opera houses and theatrical and motion picture theaters, but not including open air theaters.
4.
Hotels and motels.
5.
Restaurants, but not including drive-in restaurants.
6.
Public buildings and uses.
7.
Apartments over retail commercial and office establishments existing or approved at the time of passage of this chapter.
8.
Bowling alleys and sports centers.
9.
Institutional uses and nonprofit clubs, lodges and fraternal organizations.
10.
Accessory uses customarily incident to the above permitted uses.
11.
Churches.
b.
Prohibited Uses. The following uses are specifically prohibited:
2.
Any business conducted outside the confines of a building.
3.
Any industry, process of manufacture, fabrication, assembly, disassembly, conversion or alteration. For the purpose of this subsection, any business use shall be deemed to be an industry where it employs more than five persons in the processing or manufacturing of a product or uses more than a total of 25 horsepower machinery in the direct processing or manufacturing operations, but is not intended that a retail store or service establishment such as a hotel, department store or bank be limited in the number of its employees or in the horsepower used for heating, air conditioning and other similar nonprocessing or manufacturing operations.
4.
Carousels, merry-go-rounds, miniature golf, outdoor theaters, pony tracts or other similar commercial outdoor amusements.
5.
Junk yards, warehouses, storage buildings and coal or fuel yards.
c.
Required Conditions. The following requirements must be complied with in the C-1 Zone:
1.
Height. The height of a principal structure shall not exceed 2 1/2 stories or 35 feet, whichever is the lesser.
2.
Front Yard. There shall be a front yard setback of not less than 25 feet, except that where existing buildings within 200 feet form an average established setback, new buildings shall conform to such established line.
3.
Side Yard. There shall be a minimum side yard of 10 feet.
4.
Rear Yard. There shall be a rear yard of at least 60 feet unobstructed by buildings or other permanent structures. Off-street parking is permitted within the rear yard, provided no parking area is closer than five feet to any building nor 15 feet to any residential zone boundary line.
5.
Impervious Coverage. The total impervious coverage of any site shall not exceed 40% of the total site area.
7.
Site Plan Approval. Prior to the issuance of a building permit or a certificate of occupancy where no building permit is required, the Planning Board shall review a site plan according to Subsections 18-4.2c and 18-4.2d of the proposed use to ascertain that all the requirements of this section are complied with.
8.
Lot Area. There shall be a minimum lot area of 20,000 square feet measured within 125 feet of the front street right-of-way line.
9.
Minimum Frontage. There shall be a minimum lot frontage of 60 feet.
d.
Conditional Uses. The following conditional uses may be permitted by the Planning Board acting in accordance with the provision of Subsection 18-4.7c of this chapter: public garages, automotive service stations, drive-in restaurants (with or without inside seating capacity), miniature golf courses, and any building containing a retail store or service establishment upon the first floor. With the exception of public garages and service stations, apartments may be constructed on the second floor in connection with a proposal for any of the aforesaid conditional uses.
1.
Outdoor dining conditioned on compliance with 18-4.7c, 19.