A building or premises in the C-2 Commercial District shall be used only for the following purposes:
A) General Uses: General uses allowed in the C-2 Zoning District are as follows:
2) Automobile service station, provided, all storage tanks shall be below the surface of the ground;
3) Automotive service centers including tire sales, repair and alignment, muffler sales, oil change/lubrication services, and brake services;
5) Animal hospital, kennel, or veterinary clinic;
6) ATM machines, banks, and financial institutions provided that they are secondary and incidental to a primary use that is authorized as a general use herein;
7) Barber shop and/or beauty parlor;
9) Bicycle repair shop and sales;
11) Building material sales;
12) Carpet & Floor Coverings;
13) Catering establishment;
14) Clinic for medical, dental, chiropractic, or eye care services;
17) Eating establishments including restaurants, cafes, cafeterias, ice cream/frozen yogurt parlors, and delicatessens. (See definitions, Section
24-1);
18) Electric appliance, audio/video, computer stores and repair shops;
21) General Merchandise Store;
24) Home Improvement Store;
26) Nursery or garden center;
28) Office for corporate/business use or for professional services, including insurance offices, real estate offices, medical offices, legal offices, CPA or bookkeeping office, newspaper publisher, tag agencies, and public facilities, provided that such uses shall be limited to two-story buildings;
29) Office buildings in existence as of October 19, 2004, and which exceed the two-story limitation, shall not be considered non-conforming and shall not be subject to the provisions of Division 5 of this Chapter;
31) Parcel or mail service;
32) Painting and decorating shop;
33) Pharmacy or drug store;
34) Photographers or artist's studio;
36) Pool, spa, and patio sales;
38) Retail shop, sales, or showroom, but not including automobile, motorcycle, or boat sales;
39) Shoe/leather goods sales and repair;
40) Sporting Goods Store;
42) Tattoo Parlor & Body Piercing Establishment;
45) Video, Audio, TV, Furniture, Equipment, or Appliance rental store:
46) Business or commercial schools of dancing, music, or martial arts academies that are less than 5,000 square feet in gross floor area. (Ord. No. 710, §1 08-04-2015)
47) Fitness centers that are less than 5,000 square feet in gross floor area. (Ord. No. 710, §1, 08-04-2015)
48) Massage therapist duly licensed by the State of Oklahoma, provided that such service is an accessory use only. The conviction of any message therapist employed by the service for any crime involving moral turpitude shall be grounds for revocation of the business' occupancy permit. (Ord. No. 734, §2, 01-15-2018.)
49) Accessory buildings, structures and uses customarily incident to the above uses provided there shall be no manufacture, processing or compounding of products other than such as are customarily incidental and essential to any permitted use. Any building may have not more than forty (40) percent of its floor area devoted to accessory uses.
B) Specific Uses: Specific uses permitted in the C-2 Commercial District pursuant to Section
24-25 and Section
24-26 of this chapter shall be limited to only the following uses:
1) Amusement place, video arcade or theater;
2) Banks and financial institutions including cash advance, check cashing services;
4) Business or commercial schools of dancing, music, or martial arts academies that contain 5,000 square feet or more in gross floor area; (Ord. No. 710, §2, 08-04-2015)
6) Church, synagogue, mosque, temple, or similar building used for the gathering of people for the study or worship of religious beliefs, and/or fellowship, and provided the building:
a) Has direct and primary means of ingress and egress from Britton Road, Hefner Road, May Avenue, or Pennsylvania Avenue;
b) Has a minimum lot size of at least one half (1/2) acre; and is not located in a shopping center or strip mall.
7) Church-Rectory/Parsonage; provided the rectory/parsonage use is secondary to the primary use of the property as a church and provided that the rectory/parsonage use is located in, or structurally connected to and made a part of the main building;
8) Community Center or similar place of assembly;
9) Fitness centers that contain 5,000 square feet or more in gross floor area; (Ord. No. 710, §2, 08-04-2015)
10) Fraternal organization or similar place of assembly;
12) Group counseling centers, services;
14) Laundry, dry cleaning, or dyeing establishment;
17) Oil and gas production facilities;
20) Commercial greenhouse, indoor grow facility, or other commercial growing operation for medical marijuana owned and operated by a person or entity licensed pursuant to 63 O.S. § 422 and constructed, operated, secured, and maintained in strict compliance with Oklahoma law, including 63 O.S. § 420, et seq., and all rules and regulations promulgated by the Oklahoma State Department of Health and Oklahoma Medical Marijuana Authority; (Ord. No. 747, §2, 07-15-2019)
21) Processing facility, or operation, for medical marijuana owned and operated by a person or entity licensed pursuant to 63 O.S. § 423 and constructed, operated, secured, and maintained in strict compliance with Oklahoma law, including 63 O.S. § 420, et seq., and all rules and regulations promulgated by the Oklahoma State Department of Health and Oklahoma Medical Marijuana Authority. (Ord. No. 747, §2,07-15-2019)
C) Exclusions: Uses that are specifically excluded from the C-2 Commercial District include, but are not limited to, the following:
3) Adult Entertainment Establishments;
4) Alcoholic Beverage Establishment meaning any beer or wine establishment, or bottle club, which has been licensed by the Alcoholic beverage Law Enforcement Commission and which has as its main purpose the selling or serving of alcoholic beverages for consumption on the premises. (State Law Reference --Title 37 O.S. §§ 518.3, as amended.)
6) Bingo & Similar Gaming Operations;
7) Manufacturing & Assembly Facility;
8) Pool or Billiard Hall;
9) Palm Reader, Tea Reader. Card Reader, Psychic, Fortune Teller, or other Similar Spiritualist;
10) Storage & Warehousing Facility;
11) Telemarketing, call centers;
12) Vocational School, Business College, Public or Private Schools.
Ord. No. 734, §3, 01-15-2018.
D) All other uses not listed in this section are specifically excluded from the C-2 Commercial District.
E) Any church located in the C-2 Commercial District as of October 19, 2004, shall not be considered a non-conforming use and therefore shall not be subject to the limitations provided in Division 5 of this Chapter pertaining to non-conformances. Nothing herein shall prevent an existing church from using C-2 Commercial properties already in church ownership as of October 19, 2004, or from acquiring adjacent or nearby C-2 property, provided however that the church will be required to obtain a Specific Use Permit or obtain re-zoning from C-2 Commercial to C-1 Commercial prior to extending church operations, programs, or activities to any such property purchased after October 19, 2004.
F) Any residence or accessory building or accessory structure associated thereto that is situated on any property at the time the property is zoned as C-2 Commercial District shall be razed and removed from the property before the property may be used for any of the purposes provided for in this section.
(Code 1976, §12-6-7; Ord. No. 505, §2, 9-20-1994; Ord. No. 596 §8, 10-19-2004)