This zone is designed for commercial uses normally
requiring a larger area and generating a greater intensity of traffic
and usage serving the needs of the immediate community and the larger
regions in accordance with the requirements hereinafter set forth:
A.
All primary intended uses permitted in the Local Commercial
Zone.
B.
Banks and business, professional, executive and governmental
offices.
C.
Music, dancing, art and photographic studios.
D.
Funeral homes and mortuaries.
E.
Hotels and motels.
F.
Retail stores and service establishments.
G.
Restaurants and eating and drinking places, including
drive-in restaurants.
H.
Indoor theaters, bowling alleys and health and recreation
facilities.
I.
Commercial printing plants and publishing houses.
J.
Service stations and public garages.
K.
Lumber and building material yards.
The following uses are also permitted:
A.
Designed shopping complex. A building or a group of
abutting buildings designed to be utilized by more than one permitted
use where such building or group of abutting buildings is constructed
at one time. The area and yard requirements shall be applied to the
one building or group of abutting buildings as one structure.
The following uses shall be permitted as conditional uses subject to the conditions and procedures set forth in Article XVI, Conditional Uses:
Accessory uses permitted in the HC Highway Commercial
Zone shall be as follows:
A.
Garages for the storage of vehicles used in the conduct
of the principal use.
The following requirements shall be met in the
HC Highway Commercial Zone:
A.
Minimum lot area. There shall be a minimum lot area
of at least 15,000 square feet.
B.
Minimum lot width. There shall be a minimum lot width
of 100 feet at the street line.
C.
Front yard. There shall be a front yard of not less
than 25 feet.
D.
Side yard. There shall be two side yards, totaling
25 feet, provided that no side yard is less than 10 feet.
E.
Rear yard. There shall be a rear yard of not less
than 25 feet, except where a rear lot line abuts a residential district,
whereupon the rear yard shall be 50 feet.
F.
Height. The height of the principal structure shall
not exceed 35 feet or 2 1/2 stories, whichever is lesser.
G.
Minimum floor area. Every principal structure or separate
permitted use shall have a minimum heated floor area of 800 square
feet.
H.
Minimum residential floor area. Motel and hotel units
shall have a minimum gross floor area of 400 square feet.
I.
Service stations and public garages dispensing gasoline
may have gasoline pumps and/or service islands closer to the street
line than the building setback line but in no event closer than 25
feet to the street line.
J.
Floor area ratio. The maximum floor area ratio shall
not exceed 50%.
