CHAPTER 8

LIMITED COMMERCIAL ZONE - (C-2)

3-8-1: PURPOSE
3-8-2: PERMITTED USES
3-8-3: CONDITIONAL USES
3-8-4: YARDS
3-8-5: BUILDING HEIGHTS
3-8-6: LOT SIZE
3-8-7: USE LIMITATIONS
3-8-8: SIGN LIMITATIONS
3-8-9: OFF STREET PARKING AND LOADING

3-8-1: PURPOSE: This district is intended to comprise all commercial uses customarily found in a commercial area, including but not limited to retail and service activities, office buildings, and quasi-public land uses.

3-8-2: PERMITTED USES:

  1. Amusement devices, sales and services.
  2. Appliance services and sales.
  3. Automobile parts, and supplies and accessories, not to include warehousing.
  4. Automobile parking lot or garage (public or private).
  5. Automobile, boat or recreational vehicle sales, rental, service or repair.
  6. Bakery, wholesale.
  7. Billiard or pool hall.
  8. Bowling alley.
  9. Building supplies.
  10. Bus terminal.
  11. Cabinet or woodworking shop.
  12. Carpet and rug cleaning service.
  13. Convenience store.
  14. Electric power substations.
  15. Floor materials, service and retail.
  16. Freight office.
  17. Funeral home or parlor (crematorium: conditional use is required)
  18. Gas service station.
  19. Government administration building, police or fire station.
  20. Grocery store.
  21. Guns, retail, gunsmith, or service.
  22. Gymnasium, athletic club.
  23. Hunting and fishing supply center.
  24. Janitor and building cleaning service.
  25. Laundry (processing) commercial.
  26. Liquor wholesale.
  27. Lumber yard.
  28. Manufactured or mobile home sales, rental, service or repair.
  29. Miniature golf.
  30. Paint store, retail only, or wall paperhanger.
  31. Parcel delivery service, off street loading only.(LTL services)
  32. Plumbing shop, heating and air conditioning.
  33. Publicly owned and operated parks, recreation areas and centers libraries and museums.
  34. Recreation, social and service clubs.
  35. Retail liquor establishments.
  36. Scales, commercial.
  37. Swimming pool.
  38. Taxi service.
  39. Tele-communications.
  40. Theater, excluding drive-in.
  41. Tire repair, batteries and accessories.
  42. Utility company storage.
  43. Warehousing.
  44. Veterinarian clinic, pet shop, kennel, and/or pet grooming.

3-8-3: CONDITIONAL USES: All conditional use permits will be required to comply with Title 3, Chapter 17, 1 through 8, of the zoning ordinance.

  1. Auction house/yard.
  2. Auto body shop.
  3. Casino.
  4. Crematorium.
  5. Employment agencies.
  6. Flea market.
  7. Hotel, motel.
  8. Laboratory, experimental, or scientific or medical or dental, optical glass.
  9. Loan or pawn shop.
  10. Planned commercial.
  11. Taxidermist.
  12. Etc.

3-8-4: YARDS: In a C-2 zone, the minimum yard requirements shall be as follows:

  1. A yard abutting a residential zone shall be a minimum of fifty feet (50') including a public right-of-way.
  2. A rear yard abutting an alley shall be twenty feet (20') when the alley is used for serving the commercial establishment.
  3. A side yard abutting a street shall be twelve feet (12')the minimum set back between a structure and an existing use permitted by this section shall be as outlined in the Uniform Building Code.

3-8-5: BUILDING HEIGHTS: In a C-2 zone, no building shall exceed a height of forty-five feet (45') except as approved by the Planning Commission.

3-8-6: LOT SIZE: In a C-2 zone, the minimum lot size shall be 5,000 square feet with a minimum of fifty feet (50') lot frontage and one hundred feet (100') lot depth.

  1. In consideration of lot size, the requirements for yard, off street parking requirements and other requirements of this Chapter shall be given consideration.

3-8-7: USE LIMITATIONS: In a C-2 zone, permitted uses shall be subject to the following limitations and standards:

  1. The outdoor storage of goods or material shall be prohibited except when enclosed by a six-foot (6')opaque or site obscuring fence or wall.
  2. All parking demand created by any use permitted under the provisions of this Chapter shall be accommodated on the subject premises entirely off street, except as approved by the City.
  3. No use permitted by this Chapter shall require the backing of traffic onto a public or private street, road or alley right-of-way to accommodate ingress and egress to any use or the premises thereof, except as approved by the City.
  4. All uses permitted by this Chapter shall be screened from abutting properties, in a residential zone by densely planted trees and shrubs or sight obscuring fencing, except as approved by the City.

3-8-8: SIGN LIMITATIONS: In a C-2 zone, all signs shall be as stipulated in Section 3-17-4 of this Title.

3-8-9: OFF STREET PARKING AND LOADING: In a C-2 zone, off street parking and loading shall be in accordance with the provisions of Chapter 14 of this Title.