Sec 21-173 through Sec 21-176
Dimensional standards
Lot
Height & bulk
- Minimum landscaping
- 2%
Uses
Permitted by right20
- accessory use
- bank
- financial institution
- bowling alley
- convenience and service establishment
- library
- contractor (enclosed)
- pet shop
- office building
- repair service
- restaurant
- retail store
- storage of materials and supplies
- theatre
- motion picture theatre
- assembly hall
- wholesale business
- off-street parking
- sign
- dwelling above commercial use
Conditional / special use6
Prohibited2
Extracted standards
7 individual requirements pulled out of this section’s prose, each with the sentence it came from.
Design
- Commercial uses oriented toward major/minor arterials or collector streets
Commercial and service uses and structures and their parking areas shall be oriented toward major arterials, minor arterials or collector streets and away from adjacent minor streets in residential neighborhoods
Other
- Landscape plan required
A landscape plan shall be required and landscaping, trees, buffers and screening shall be provided in accordance with the applicable provisions of ATC article XXIII of this chapter.
- Maximum duration of temporary use permit4 months
However, no permit shall exceed four (4) months in any twelve-month period.
- Perimeter setbacksSetbackThe distance a building must be held back from a lot line. conform to abutting zoning districts
When a PSC District adjoins another zoning district, the front, side or rear yard setbacks only on the perimeter of the PSC District shall conform to the abutting zoning districts as provided in this chapter.
- Principal vehicular access only from major or minor arterials
Principal vehicular access for the general public shall be only from major arterials or minor arterials.
Signage
- Maximum area for fuel sales monument sign30 sqftsq ftSquare feet. An acre is 43,560 sq ft; a typical suburban lot is 7,000–10,000.
a conditional use permit authorizing the use described in this subsection may permit one (1) monument-type freestanding sign, not exceeding thirty (30) square feet in area
- Maximum heightMaximum heightThe tallest a building may be, given in feet, in storeys, or both — whichever binds first. for fuel sales monument sign8 ft
and not exceeding eight (8) feet in height.
From the ordinance
Structures to be erected or land to be used shall be for the following uses permitted with a shopping center of two hundred thousand (200,000) square feet or less... The minimum permitted size for any PSC District shall be five (5) contiguous acres. The minimum landscaped open space in any PSC District shall not be less than two (2) percent of the gross area of the lot. No building or structure in a PSC District shall exceed a height of forty-five (45) feet.