In the C-3 Commercial Zone, no building, structure or premises shall be used and no building or structure shall be erected or structurally altered, except for the following uses:
A. 
Banks, financial and insurance offices.
B. 
Business services.
C. 
Club, social or fraternal.
D. 
Commercial recreation facility.
E. 
Convenience stores.
F. 
Farm market.
G. 
Funeral home.
H. 
Furniture and home furnishings.
I. 
Garden center.
J. 
Home center.
K. 
Medical offices and facilities, including but not limited to doctor, dentist and veterinary offices, chiropractors and psychiatrists.
L. 
Offices, office building and office complex.
M. 
Personal services, including but not limited to barbershops, hairdressers, dry-cleaning establishments, photographers, funeral homes, shoe repairs, tailors, laundromats, and travel agencies.
N. 
Professional and private offices, including but not limited to real estate, accounting, insurance, architects, psychologists and lawyers.
O. 
Restaurants, including sit-down, carry-out, and drive-through.
P. 
Retail food establishments.
Q. 
Retail sales, outdoor.
R. 
Retail stores, including but not limited to the sale of antiques, art, dry goods, variety and general merchandise, clothing, fabrics, floor covering, furniture and home furnishings, food, books, hardware, hobby and art supplies, garden supplies, flowers, drugs, handicraft art, household supplies or furnishings, pets, sale or repair of jewelry, sporting goods, watches and clocks, optical goods, musical, professional and office supplies and packed goods when sold only on the premises.
S. 
Shopping centers.
T. 
Tavern or bar.
U. 
Buildings, structures, and other uses owned and operated by the City of Camden for municipal purposes.
V. 
Parks, playgrounds or recreation areas, community center building, and libraries.
W. 
Public, private or parochial educational institutions.
The following accessory uses shall be permitted in this zone:
A. 
Off-street parking, subject to the requirements of §§ 870-214 and 870-230 through 870-241.
B. 
Multilevel parking structure, subject to the requirements of § 870-232.
C. 
Fences and walls, subject to the requirements of § 870-197.
D. 
Signs, subject to the requirements of § 870-253.
E. 
Sidewalk cafe, subject to the requirements of § 870-217.
Any use not listed above shall be prohibited in the C-3 Commercial Zone, and specifically the following:
A. 
Signs in any form except as permitted in this chapter.
B. 
Lodging houses, boardinghouses, rooming houses, group homes, multifamily dwellings or any combination thereof.
C. 
Lumber and building supply sales and storage.
D. 
Junkyards and automobile graveyards.
E. 
Wholesale, storage, and warehouse facilities.
The following conditional uses shall be permitted in this zone:
A. 
Child-care centers, subject to the requirements of § 870-203.
B. 
Parabolic dish antennas, subject to the requirements of § 870-210.
C. 
Public utility facilities, subject to the requirements of § 870-191.
D. 
Wireless telecommunications facilities, subject to the requirements of §§ 870-210 and 870-211.
E. 
Residential health care facilities for the elderly.
F. 
Age-restricted housing.
G. 
Long-term care facility.
H. 
Nursing home.
I. 
Congregate care facility.
J. 
Assisted living facility.
K. 
Continuing care retirement community.
L. 
Auto body shop.
M. 
Automobile service station, gasoline station, or motor vehicle service station.
N. 
Car wash.
Table 6
Area Regulations for the C-3 Commercial Zone
Bulk Standards
Type of Development
Requirements
Nonresidential
Minimum lot area (square feet)
20,000
Minimum lot width (feet)
100
Minimum height
2 stories or 30 feet
Maximum height
3 stories or 45 feet
Minimum depth of front yard (feet)
25
Minimum aggregate width of side yards (feet)
50
Minimum width of each side yard (feet)
20
Minimum depth of rear yard (feet)
30
Maximum lot building coverage
70%
Maximum lot impervious coverage
90%