To provide a more attractive and varied commercial environment than would be possible through the strict application of commercial Euclidean zonal district requirements.

To encourage developers to use a more creative approach in the development of land.

To encourage small or local businesses designed to serve the surrounding neighborhood to locate in these areas.

To encourage shopping by pedestrian and bicycle access.

Accessory uses and buildings customarily incidental to any permitted use in this section.

Alcoholic beverage package stores.

Animal hospitals, veterinary clinics and accessory kennels without exterior runways.

Antique and crafts shops.

Art shops, art galleries and/or art and craft supplies.

Household appliance and equipment and home electronic sales, lease and service containing 10,000 gross square feet or less.

Art, trade and business schools.

Automobile accessory stores containing 10,000 gross square feet or less.

Bakery shops.

Banks, savings and loan and financial institutions.

Beauty parlors, barbershops and tanning, toning and nail salons.

Bed-and-breakfast establishments and/or tourist homes containing 10 rooms or fewer.

Bicycle sales, lease and services, including sale of bicycling accessories.

Bookstores.

Cafeterias, lunchrooms, snack bars and automats.

Candy stores.

Card, stationery and related paper products supply stores.

Carpet or flooring material retail sales.

Carpentering shops containing 500 gross square feet or less.

Catalog sales center, without showrooms.

Catering sales and commercial kitchen for off-premises service.

China and glassware stores.

Clock shops, sales and repairs.

Clothing apparel stores.

Commercial artist studios.

Computer stores.

Custom printing, reproduction and copy shops containing 5,000 gross square feet or less.

Cultural arts centers.

Dancing, gymnastics instruction and exercise studios.

Data and computer services.

Day-care facilities for adults or children and nursery schools.

Dress or millinery shops.

Drugstores or pharmacies.

Dry cleaners.

Fabric stores.

Florist or garden shops with no exterior storage.

Food and grocery stores.

Furniture stores, including ancillary upholstery service.

Furriers.

Gift or jewelry shops, including engraving and repairs.

Hardware stores with no exterior storage.

Health clubs.

Hobby or craft shops and supplies.

Institutes for special education and training.

Interior design and decorating shops.

Locksmith shops.

Magazine, comic books and periodicals shops, which shall not include adult entertainment activities.

Medical or dental offices and clinics, including ancillary laboratories.

Medical supply sales.

Music stores, including sales of records, tapes, and instruments, instrument repairs and musical and voice instruction.

Newsstands.

Offices, professional and business.

Office supplies, equipment sales, lease and service.

Optical and eye care facilities.

Package, telecommunications and courier service.

Paint and wallpaper supply sales.

Pet grooming service that does not include on-site boarding.

Picture framing shops.

Photography studios, retail sales of photographic equipment and supplies and film processing laboratory service.

Places of worship.

Public buildings, structures and properties of the recreational, cultural, institutional, educational, administrative or public-service type, including fire, ambulance or rescue squad.

Radio and television sales and repair.

Restaurants and lunchrooms, which may include live entertainment and dancing, provided that it is interior to a building and does not constitute adult entertainment activities.

Shoe sales and repair shops.

Social clubs, fraternal organizations and community meeting halls.

Sporting goods and related outdoor hobby shops with the exception of firearms.

Stamp, coin and other collectibles stores.

Tack and leather goods stores.

Tailor and seamstress establishments.

Theaters for movies and performing arts, containing three screens or fewer.

Tobacconists.

Toy stores.

Travel agencies.

Vape shops.

Video rental establishments with the exception of adult entertainment activities.

Facades greater than 100 feet in length must incorporate recesses and projections along at least 20% of the length of the facade.

Facades must include windows, awnings and arcades which total at least 60% of the facade; however, no portion of the facade shall be of highly reflective glass with a reflectance factor of 0.25 or greater.

Facade color must be of low-reflective, subtle, neutral or earth-tone colors. The use of high-intensity colors, metallic colors, black or fluorescent colors is prohibited.

Building trim may feature brighter colors, but neon tubing is not permitted as an accent material.

Facade building materials must include brick, wood, native stone or tinted/textured concrete masonry units. Smooth-faced concrete block, tilt-up concrete panels or prefabricated steel or metal panels are prohibited for exterior facades.

Along a side or rear property line abutting residential or public property other than a public street, a vegetated buffer shall be provided, 50 feet in width, containing hedges, evergreens and shrubbery. or suitable vegetation of sufficient planted density to produce total year-round visual screening consistent with the topography, the existing vegetation and the use of the adjacent land. Wherever possible, every effort shall be made to protect and retain the existing natural vegetation.

Where the facade faces adjacent residential uses, provide an earthen berm of at least six feet in height that will be planted with evergreen trees at intervals of 20 feet on center, or in clusters.

Materials, colors and shapes of proposed signs shall be compatible with the related building.

Every individual sign shall be designed as an integral architectural element of the building and site to which it principally relates.

Each sign shall be compatible with other signs on the site and shall not compete for attention.

All flashing, fluttering, undulating, swinging, rotating, or otherwise moving signs, and pennants, banners and streamers or other decorations are prohibited.

All other provisions of Article XVII shall apply, except that to the extent that there are any discrepancies between this section and Article XVII, the provisions of this section shall control.

No more than 50% of the off-street parking area for the entire project shall be located between the front facade of the principle building and the primary abutting street.

Parking lot landscape islands shall equal at least 10% of the total area of the parking lot. All other requirements of the Landscape Manual shall apply, except that to the extent that there are any discrepancies between this section and the Manual, the provisions of this section shall control.

At least three bicycle parking spaces or 10% of the required off-street parking spaces, whichever is greater. After the first 50 bicycle parking spaces are provided, the required number of additional bicycle parking spaces is 5% of the required off-street parking spaces.

Bicycle parking facilities shall provided for storage and locking of bicycles in which both the bicycle frame and the wheels may be locked by the user; be designed so as not to cause damage to the bicycle: facilitate easy locking without interference from or to adjacent bicycles; and consist of racks or lockers anchored so that they cannot be easily removed and of solid construction, resistant to rust, corrosion, hammers and saws.

Bicycle parking facilities shall be consistent with the site in color and design and be incorporated whenever possible into building or street furniture designs.

Bicycle parking facilities shall be located in convenient, highly visible, active, well-lighted areas but shall not interfere with pedestrian or vehicular movements.

The standards contained in this section are intended to foster development of integrated commercial and shopping facilities while at the same time maintaining reasonable limitations upon their design, size and operation. Conditions may arise when full compliance with the design standards is impractical, impossible or under circumstances where maximum achievement of the City's objectives can only be obtained through modified requirements. In specific cases, modification of these standards may be permitted by the Planning Director, subject to the approval of the Council, upon a finding that such modification more fully achieves the objectives of this zone and that any such modification would not have an adverse impact upon adjoining properties or the general character of the proposed development plan.

All requests for modifications must be submitted to the Planning Director in writing and shall be accompanied by sufficient explanation and justification, written and/or graphic, to allow appropriate evaluation and decision by the Planning Director, subject to the approval of the Council.

Modification to design standards shall be limited to the specific project under consideration and shall not establish any precedent for use or approval in any other application.

Unless otherwise permitted, lighting shall be controlled by automatic switching devices, such as timers, motion detectors and/or photocells, to extinguish offending sources between 10:00 p.m., or one hour after the end of the business hours of the business served, whichever is later and dawn, to mitigate glare and sky-lighting consequences.

All outdoor lighting shall be aimed, located, designed, fitted and maintained so as not to present a disabling glare hazard to drivers or pedestrians or a nuisance glare concern to neighboring properties. All exterior lighting shall be hooded and/or screened so as not to permit the source of illumination or lenses to be seen from off the premises.

The amount of illumination projected onto a neighboring residential use shall not exceed 0.1 vertical footcandle at the property line.

Lighting fixtures shall not be mounted in excess of 20 feet above grade.

Exterior lighting of a building and/or grounds for security surveillance purposes is permitted. Such lighting shall be arranged and of sufficient illumination to enable the detection of suspicious movement rather than the recognition of definitive detail. For security lighting of grounds and parking lots, the level of illumination shall not exceed one footcandle. Security lighting for buildings/structures shall be directed toward the face of the building/structure rather than the area around it and shall not exceed five footcandles.

No outdoor illumination may be used in any manner that could interfere with the safe movement of motor vehicles on public streets, including any fixture that may be confused with or construed as a traffic control device.

Blinking, flashing or changing intensity lights, except for temporary holiday displays which are permitted between November 15 and January 7, are prohibited.

No person shall install, illuminate or maintain any beacon or searchlight.

A tract of land not more than five acres, provided that no individual use and/or tenant space in a project shall occupy more than 15,000 square feet of gross floor area, unless otherwise limited to a lesser amount in § 164-64.2.

A tract of land more than five acres, and less than 15 acres, provided that no more than one individual use and/or tenant space in a project shall occupy more than 55,000 square feet of gross floor area, and all other uses shall not exceed 15,000 square feet of gross floor area, unless otherwise limited to a lesser amount in § 164-64.2.

Lot size and width:

Building or use setback:

Direct access to state roads is not permitted unless the property has an existing access prior to the adoption of this chapter.