SECTION 10.0 "C-l" COMMERCIAL DISTRICT
10.01 Intent
It is the intent of this district to provide for the establishment of commercial and service activities which draw from and serve customers from the community and its surrounding areas.
10.02 Permitted Uses
1. Business services including banks, offices and postal stations.
2. Clothing services, dry-cleaning and laundry establishments including incidental pressing and repair, Laundromats, shoe sales and repair shops.
3. Equipment services including radio and television shops, electrical appliance shops, showroom of a plumber, decorator or similar trade.
4. Food services including grocery stores, fruit, vegetable and meat markets, supermarkets, restaurants, delicatessen, candy shops, and bakeries whose products are sold only at retail on the premises.
5. Personal services including drug stores, hardware stores, stationary and bookstores, news shops, apparel shops, showrooms for articles to be sold at retail, flower shops, commercial greenhouses and Laundromats.
6. Personal services including barber and beauty shops, reducing salons, tanning salons, nail salons, photographic shops and funeral homes.
7. Public transportation terminals, public utility buildings and transformer stations without storage yards.
8. Buildings used for research and testing laboratories, storage buildings or distributing station.
9. Residence when included as an integral part of the principal buildings to be occupied by only the owner or his employee.
10. Governmental and public utility buildings and structures.
11. Recreational services including theaters, bowling lanes, clubs and lodges.
12. Hotels, motels, bed and breakfast establishments, taverns, private clubs and lodges.
13. Clinics and other buildings for the treatment of human beings.
10.03 Permitted Accessory Uses
1. Off-street parking and loading areas in compliance with Section 17.02 and 17.03 of this Ordinance.
2. Commercial or business buildings for a use accessory to the principal use.
10.04 Conditional Uses
The following uses shall require a Conditional Use Permit based on the procedures set forth in Section 20.0 of this Ordinance:
1. Open outdoor sales, services or rental as an accessory use provided:
(a) the area is fenced or screened from the abutting properties.
(b) sales areas are properly surfaced to control dust.
2. Automobile service stations including sales, gasoline service stations and automobile repair garages, provided that no filling station, public garage or motor fuel station shall be located within two hundred (200) feet of a school, church, hospital or meeting place having a seating capacity of more than fifty (50) persons.
3. Drive-in restaurants, drive-in banks and other drive-in services.
4. Multiple family dwellings provided that the use is adjacent to or provides off-street parking and the ground level is solely for permitted commercial activities.
5. Uses deemed by the Planning Commission and City Council to be of similar nature to the listed conditional uses above and found not to be detrimental to the health and welfare of the City and its citizens.
10.05 Lot, Yard, Area and Height Requirements
1. Area, width and setback minimums shall be as follows:
Lot Area Yard Setbacks
Square Ft. Lot Width Front Side Rear
N/A 100 ft. 30 ft. 10 ft. 10 ft.
2. Where adjacent structures within the same block have front yard setbacks different from those required, the front yard minimum setback shall be the average of the adjacent structures. If there is only one adjacent structure, the setback shall be the average of the required setback and the setback of the existing structure. In no case shall the front yard setback requirement exceed thirty (30) feet.
3. On corner lots, the side yard on the street side shall be the same as the front yard on the reverse interior lots on that street provided this does not reduce the buildable width to less than thirty (30) feet.
4. Building Height
Commercial structures hereafter erected shall not exceed two (2) stories or thirty five (35) feet in height.