Dimensional standards
Uses
Permitted by right28
- Retail food stores
- Wearing apparel stores
- Drycleaners, laundries
- Auto and home appliance services
- Drug stores
- Bakeries
- Barber and beauty shops
- Gift, record, and tobacco shops
- Hardware stores
- Restaurants
- Theaters, assembly halls
- Hotels, motels
- Office buildings, banks
- Service stations
- Lumber and building supply (with storage under cover)
- Plumbing and electrical supply (with storage under cover)
- Machinery sales and service
- Furniture stores
- Auto sales and service
- Retail stores not otherwise classified
- Funeral homes
- Animal hospital or clinic
- Churches
- Libraries
- Lodges
- Mini-storage buildings
- Off-street parking
- Public utilities
Conditional / special use2
- Wholesale and processing not objectionable because of dirt, noise, or odors
- Public billiard parlors and pool rooms, bowling alley, dance halls and similar forms of public amusement
Extracted standards
7 individual requirements pulled out of this section’s prose, each with the sentence it came from.
Height
- AccessoryAccessory useA secondary activity customarily incidental to the main use of the lot — a garage, a home office. building heightMaximum heightThe tallest a building may be, given in feet, in storeys, or both — whichever binds first. within 10 feet of property line1 story
No accessory building which is within ten feet of any party [property] line shall be more than one story high.
- Parapet wall maximum heightMaximum heightThe tallest a building may be, given in feet, in storeys, or both — whichever binds first. above building4 ft
Parapet walls may be up to four feet above the height of the building on which the walls rest.
- Maximum heightMaximum heightThe tallest a building may be, given in feet, in storeys, or both — whichever binds first. for public or semipublic buildings60 ft
A public or semipublic building such as a school, church, library, or general hospital may be erected to a height of 60 feet from grade, provided that required front, side and rear yards shall be increased one foot for each foot in height over 35 feet.
Other
- Area approval for individual water/sewage systems
For permitted uses utilizing individual water supply or sewage disposal systems, the required area for any such use shall be approved by the health official.
- Loading and unloading provisions
There shall be provisions made for loading and unloading commercial supplies and goods where the administrator deems necessary.
- Minimum side yardYardThe open space left between a building and its lot line — the space a setback creates. when adjoining or adjacent to a residential districtZoning districtA mapped area with one set of rules, identified by a code like R-1 or B-2.25 ft
For permitted uses the minimum side yard, adjoining or adjacent to a residential district shall be 25 feet or more
- Site plan required for permitted uses
Before a building permit shall be issued or construction commenced on any permitted use in this district, or a permit issued for a new use, detailed site plans indicating compliance with the substantive provisions of this ordinance and in sufficient detail to show the operations and processes shall be submitted to the zoning administrator for study.
From the ordinance
In commercial district C-1, structures to be erected or land to be used, shall be for one or more of the following uses: