§ 110-317. C-3, Heavy Commercial classification.

(a)

Purpose and intent. The purpose and intent of the C-3 Heavy Commercial classification is to provide areas for commercial uses and structures that are not generally compatible with intensive C-l or C-2 uses and structures.

(b)

Permitted principal uses and structures. In the C-3 Heavy Commercial classification, no premises shall be used except for the following uses and their customary accessory uses or structures:

Art, dance, modeling and music schools.

Auction parlors.

Automobile body shops.

Automobile driving schools.

Automobile rental agencies.

Automobile sales, new and used.

Automobile service stations, types A, B and C.

Bars and liquor stores.

Beauty and barber shops.

Boat, truck, motorcycle, trailer, bicycle and mobile home storage, sales, service and rental for off-site use (new and used).

Bowling alleys.

Building material sales and storage.

Car washes.

Catering services.

Communication towers up to 70 feet high, in accordance with the requirements of chapter 82, Code of Ordinances, as it may be amended from time to time.

Contractor's shop, storage and equipment yard.

Cultural art centers.

Dental laboratories.

Employment agencies.

Essential utility services.

Exempt excavations (refer to section 110-817(o)).

Exempt landfills (refer to section 110-817(p)).

Financial institutions.

Fire stations.

Funeral homes.

Game rooms or arcades for pool, billiards, pinball machines, jukeboxes or other coin-operated amusements.

General offices.

Government sponsored civic centers.

Home occupations (refer to section 110-807).

Laundry and dry cleaning establishments.

Libraries.

Marine engine repair and service.

Mini-warehouses which meet the requirements of section 110-817(e).

Mobile recreational vehicle and shelter sales, service, storage and repair.

Museums.

Nightclubs.

Outdoor musical event.

Pawnshops.

Pest exterminators.

Printing and engraving, including photostatting and publishing.

Private clubs.

Public schools.

Publicly owned parks and recreational areas.

Publicly owned or regulated water supply wells of less than eight inches in diameter in accordance with the potable water wellfield protection requirements of the Land Development Code, chapter 98, article V, Code of Ordinances, as it may be amended from time to time.

Radio and television broadcasting stations.

Recycling collection center.

Restaurants, types A and B.

Retail sales and services.

Retail specialty shops.

Rug cleaning establishments.

Stamp redemption centers.

Tailors.

Tattoo parlors.

Taxicab stands.

Theaters.

Travel agencies.

Veterinary clinics.

Welding and soldering shops.

Wholesale-retail nursery.

(c)

Conditional uses. Additional regulations/requirements governing permitted conditional uses are located in sections 110-817 and 110-1102 of this chapter.

Communication towers greater than 70 feet high, in accordance with the requirements of chapter 82, Code of Ordinances, as it may be amended from time to time.

Bus garages and repair shops.

Bus stations.

Curb markets.

Drive-in theaters.

Excavations only for stormwater retention ponds of which a permit is required by this chapter.

Flea markets (refer to section 110-817(g)).

Houses of worship (refer to section 110-817(d)).

Moving and storage companies.

Outdoor entertainment and recreational uses and structures.

Professional or trade schools related to permitted uses (refer to section 110-817(b)).

Public markets.

Public use not listed as a permitted principal use.

Public utility uses and structures (refer to section 110-817(a)).

Publicly or privately owned municipal or public water supply wells of eight inches diameter or greater.

Schools, parochial or private (refer to section 110-817(d)).

Only one single-family dwelling for the owner or manager of an existing permitted principal use.

Truck and freight transfer terminals.

Truck stops.

Truck storage.

Warehouse.

(d)

Dimensional requirements.

C-3, Heavy Commercial
Minimum lot size
Area (sq. ft.)	15,000
Width (ft.)	100
Minimum yard size
Front yard (ft.)	35
Rear yard (ft.) (1)	25
Side yard (ft.) (1)	10
Waterfront yard(ft)	25
Maximum building height (ft.)	75
Maximum lot coverage (%) (with principal and accessory buildings)	35
Maximum floor area ratio (F.A.R.)	0.55
(1) Unless abutting any residentially zoned property, then 35 feet.

 

(e)

Off-street parking and loading requirements. Off-street parking and loading areas meeting the requirements of section 110-828 shall be constructed.

(f)

Landscape buffer requirements. Landscaped buffer areas meeting the requirements of section 110-808 shall be constructed.

(g) Final site plan requirements . Final site plan approval meeting the requirements of the Land Development Code chapter 75, Code of Ordinances, as it may be amended from time to time, is required.

(h)

Types of signs permitted. Signs are permitted in accordance with the requirements of the city's sign code chapter 102, Code of Ordinances, as it may be amended from time to time.

(Ord. No. 06-2003, § 1, 11-3-03; Ord. No. 07-2010, § 14, 6-21-2010; Ord. No. 19-2011, § 1(Exh. A), 11-7-2011; Ord. No. 06-2013, § 1(Exh. A), 6-17-2013; Ord. No. 18-2013, § 1(Exh. A), 2-3-2014; Ord. No. 04-2016, § 1(Exh. A), 4-4-2016)