Uses
Permitted by right6
- Stores for the sale of goods at retail or the performance of customary personal services or services clearly incidental to retail sales
- Business, professional or banking offices
- Restaurants, cafes or similar places serving food and/or beverages
- Parking areas for transient auto vehicles, but not the storage of new or used motor vehicles for sale
- Gasoline service stations
- Drive-in establishments, except theaters
Extracted standards
6 individual requirements pulled out of this section’s prose, each with the sentence it came from.
Lighting
- Lighting restriction
Lighting for building, signs, access ways and parking areas shall be so arranged as not to reflect toward public streets or cause any annoyance to surrounding property owners or residents.
Other
- Minimum distance from intersecting street200 ft
All means of ingress or egress from the shopping center to any public street or state highway shall be located at least 200 feet from any other intersecting street or streets
- Development plan required
Prior to the issuance of a special use permit, 10 copies of a development plan shall be submitted to the Zoning Administrator
- Shopping cart storage
Where deemed necessary, areas on the site for the storage of shopping carts or mobile baskets shall be provided.
- Trash storage screening
Storage areas for trash and rubbish shall be completely screened, and all organic rubbish shall be contained in containers with tightly fitting lids. No such storage area shall be permitted within any required yard space, except such areas may be located in the required rear yard.
Parking
- Off-street parkingMinimum parkingThe number of off-street spaces a development must provide before it may open. ratio1 space per 100 sqftsq ftSquare feet. An acre is 43,560 sq ft; a typical suburban lot is 7,000–10,000.
one off-street parking space for every 100 square feet of gross floor area
From the ordinance
Shopping centers shall be in single ownership or under a guaranteed unified management control... subject to the following provisions.
Parking requirements
{
"shopping_center": "1 space per 100 sq ft gross floor area"
}