§ 44-573. Uses permitted.

In C-2 districts, except as otherwise provided in this chapter, all buildings shall be erected and all land shall be used only for one or more of the following specified uses:

(1)

All uses permitted in C-1 districts.

(2)

Retail stores, business and professional offices, newspaper distributing stations, hotels, restaurants, indoor theatres, assembly halls, trade schools, mortuaries, veterinary hospitals, research and testing laboratories, parking lots, motor vehicle sales rooms, open air sales and display of motor vehicles, or other machinery and equipment, provided that outdoor or open display of used parts for motor vehicles, used materials or other equipment, or any open storage yards for coal, oil, lumber, contractor's machinery or equipment or new or used building materials, shall not be a permitted use in a C-2 district. The storage of lumber and other building supplies or similar materials for retail sales shall be housed within building having four walls and a roof.

(3)

The executive or administrative offices or departments of professional, philanthropic, industrial or commercial enterprises.

(4)

Personal service shops such as barbershops, beauty parlors, shoe repair shops, tire repair shops, laundry pickup shops, dry cleaning pickup shops, messenger or telegraph service stations and any similar service or use.

(5)

Office and showroom of a plumber, electrician, decorator or similar trade.

(6)

Publicly owned buildings, public utility buildings, telephone exchanges, transformer stations and substations with service yards, but without storage yards, water and sewerage pumping stations.

(7)

Gasoline service stations, garages (this does not include the storage of wrecked or junked cars), cleaning establishments, dance halls, pool rooms, roller rinks, bowling alleys, rebound tumbling apparatus or other outdoor recreational facilities or those conducted within a building upon approval of the planning commission.

(8)

Establishments within buildings or structures for the repair, alterations, finishing, assembling, fabrication, or storage of goods primarily for the residents of the locality or for sale at retail on the premises, provided there is not in connection therewith the operation of any activity or the storage or display of goods in such manner as to be obnoxious or offensive by reason of the emission of odors, fumes, dust, smoke, waste, noise or vibration, and further provided, that no commercial enterprise involving the use of machinery or processes for the repair, conversion, alteration, finishing or fabrication of goods shall be begun or extended, if the measurable noise emanating from the premises is greater than 65 decibels, as measured from any point on the property line. Noise may equal street traffic noise at such periods as the adjoining street traffic noise exceeds 65 decibels.

(9)

Motels or motor courts, subject to the following requirements:

a.

Requirements for motels and motor courts. Lot area and yards: In C-2 districts each unit of a motel or motor court shall be provided with a lot area of not less than 600 square feet for the first unit of 175 or more square feet and an additional lot area equal to two times the room area for each additional room of 80 square feet or more; side yards of not less than ten feet each; a front yard of not less than 25 feet; and a rear yard of not less than 15 feet; and no separate buildings shall be less than ten feet apart. Where the front yard is used for an access road and to provide off-street parking space, a planting strip not less than eight feet wide shall be provided and maintained along the front lot line, two driveway openings not more than 24 feet each in width excepted, as a landscaped area with a low hedge or suitable planting.

b.

Size of units. Each unit shall have one room of not less than 150 square feet of floor area, a bathroom of not less than 25 square feet of floor area and not less than 50 square feet of floor area for a kitchenette, if provided.

c.

Residence for management. One complete dwelling unit, of not less than 720 square feet of floor space for the permanent residence of the owner or manager of the motel or motor court, shall be provided as a part of each motel or motor court.

d.

Greenbelt or barrier wall. Where a motel or motor court is adjacent to a residential district, or where a rear yard of a motel or motor court is located on the opposite side of a street zoned for a residential use, a four foot chainlink fence or masonry wall shall be erected on the property line and a greenbelt planting strip shall be planted and maintained inside of and parallel to such fence or masonry wall. The greenbelt planting shall be composed of deciduous trees, spaced not more than 40 feet apart and not less than one row of shrubs, spaced not more than five feet apart, and which grow at least five feet or more in height. In place of the fence a solid masonry wall, not less than 3½ feet and not more than five feet in height, shall be erected and maintained thereon.

(10)

Signs pertaining to the use of the premises on which located or to goods sold or services provided or activities conducted therein, shall be a part of the building and may project not more than 18 inches beyond the face of the wall or front and/or side property line, and shall be attached to and be parallel to the wall of the building fronting the principal street or, in the case of a corner building, on that portion of the side street wall within 50 feet of the principal streets. Signs shall be limited in size and shall not exceed 35 square feet in area. Signs shall be maintained in a clean, presentable condition so as not to become an eyesore.

a.

Signs pertaining to premises or use of premises not housed in buildings may be freestanding, but in such case shall observe all yard requirements for structures on the lot in which erected and shall not exceed in display surface an area of 70 square feet; provided, that when there is an open front yard, such signs must be set back not less than ten feet from the front lot line or must set back against the wall of the building.

b.

Billboards, not greater than 300 square feet in area.

c.

One nonilluminated sign pertaining to the sale, rental or lease of a building or lot and not exceeding 30 square feet in area for any one building or lot.

(11)

Temporary buildings and signs for a use incidental to construction work, which buildings or signs shall be removed upon the completion or abandonment of the construction work.

(Code 1969, § 5.175; Code 1977, § 28-311)