§ 15.5. C-LI Commercial/Light Industrial Zone.
A.
The regulations set forth in this section, or set forth elsewhere in this ordinance, when referred to in this section are the regulations in the Commercial/Light Industrial Zone. The purpose of this zone is primarily for community commercial uses, light manufacturing, light fabricating, warehousing, and wholesale distribution with off-street loading and off-street parking for employees, and with ready access to arterial highways or railroads. The regulations in this zone provide for the health, safety and welfare of the residents. The Commercial/Light Industrial Zone is suitable for mapping in areas adjacent to the M-1 or M-2 zones or in areas defined as commercial, industrial or primary employment centers in adopted Sector Development or Area Plans.
B.
Use Regulations:
1.
Prohibited Uses. The following uses are prohibited in this zone: Church and any residential use, except that each individual use may provide accommodations for one security resident employed on the premises, provided that such accommodations are not used as rental property. However, mixed use development may be permitted as noted under conditional uses in this section.
2.
Permissive Uses. A building or premises shall be used only for the following purposes. All uses customarily incidental to the building or premises shall be maintained on site.
a.
Amateur Radio Antenna/Tower up to 65 feet as measured from grade.
b.
Arts and crafts objects retail sales, supplies plus their incidental creation.
c.
Automobile, motorcycle, bicycle, motorized bicycle (moped), all terrain vehicle, and small engine repairing, but no bodywork. Repairing shall be done within a completely enclosed building at least 20 feet from any residential zone. Storage of not more than five automobiles awaiting repair shall be permitted provided that the outdoor area in which such cars are stored shall be enclosed by a solid wall or fence at least six feet high.
d.
Auto parts and supply retail sales.
e.
Bakery goods shop or confectionery store wherein a majority of the products are sold on the premises and at retail costs.
f.
Banking and loaning money.
g.
Bicycle and motorized bicycle (moped) sales and rental, provided that outdoor display is permitted only 50 feet or more from any residential zone.
h.
Bottling plant.
i.
Books, magazines, newspapers, stationery for retail sales, but not an adult bookstore.
j.
Car wash.
k.
Clothing, shoes, dry goods for retail sales.
l.
Cold storage plant.
m.
Cosmetics, notions, hobby supplies for retail sales.
n.
Delivery service.
o.
Drive-thru facilities such as banks, drugstores, dry cleaners, restaurants and similar uses provided there is adequate on-site space for vehicle queuing and the vehicle movement plan is approved by the County.
p.
Drug store.
q.
Dry cleaning, laundry, clothes pressing, provided: Only nonflammable or noncombustible materials are used in the cleaning process.
r.
Feed or fruit storage or sales (wholesale), provided all outside storage is enclosed by a solid wall or fence six feet high on all sides abutting A-1, A-2, R-1, R-2, or M-H property.
s.
Foundry, casting of nonferrous metal, provided there shall be no fumes or odors discernible beyond the premises.
t.
Grocery Store.
u.
Health gymnasium.
v.
Ice plant (wholesale).
w.
Institution, including library, museum, school, day care center, but not disciplinary institutions or hospitals for human beings.
x.
Jewelry sales and supplies.
y.
Laboratory (experimental or testing).
z.
Laundry, cleaning, or dyeing works, including rug works and rug and carpet cleaning.
aa.
Nursery or greenhouse provided all outside storage other than plant material is enclosed by a six-foot high solid wall or fence on all sides.
bb.
Office.
cc.
Paint store.
dd.
Pet shop and/or pet grooming, provided there are no outside pens.
ee.
Photographic equipment sales and/or service.
ff.
Public utility structure and public building including fire and police stations.
gg.
Radio and/or television station, and/or motion picture industry activities.
hh.
Restaurant, provided there shall be no drive-in restaurant; and alcoholic drink may be sold as regulated under permissive uses within the C-1 zone. Sale of beer and wine is not limited to retail sales only.
ii.
Sales and display rooms or buildings for wholesalers, distributors.
jj.
Service station, including the sale of liquefied petroleum gas, but not for resale, provided any tube or tire repairing, minor auto repair or battery charging shall be conducted within a completely enclosed building.
kk.
Sign, on premises, as regulated in the C-1 zone, provided that freestanding signs are limited to 10 feet in height and must be designed as monument signs with an enclosed base.
ll.
Tailoring, dressmaking.
mm.
The following uses must be conducted within a completely enclosed building or within an area enclosed on all sides by a wall or fence at least six feet high, which must be solid along the sides of the site facing or abutting land zoned A-1, A-2, R-1, R-2 or M-H, and provided further that products, items or materials stored on the site are not stacked to a height above the height of the required wall or fence:
(1)
Building material storage and sales.
(2)
Contractor's equipment storage, rental, or sale.
(3)
Machine shop, blacksmith shop, ornamental iron shop, welding shop.
(4)
Manufacturing, compounding, assembling, or treatment of articles made from the following materials: Bone, shell, cellophane, cork, fibre, fur, glass, horn, leather, precious or semiprecious metals or gems, paint (not involving a boiling process), paper, plastics, textiles, yarn, tobacco, or wood.
(5)
Manufacturing, compounding, processing, packaging, treating, assembling, maintaining, repairing, overhauling, or rebuilding of the following products: bakery goods, candy, cosmetic goods, toiletries, dairy products, drugs, pharmaceutical goods, electrical appliances, mechanical devices, electronic instruments and devices, radios or phonographs, musical instruments, pottery, figurines, ceramics provided only previously pulverized clay and kilns fired by electricity or gas shall be used, signs, including electric or neon, billboards, commercial advertising structures, toys, and novelties.
(6)
Sheet metal working (light), including the making of heating or ventilating products or equipment, cornices, and eaves.
(7)
Warehouse.
(8)
Food processing.
nn.
One residence per business for a security resident employed on the premises provided that such accommodations are not used as rental property.
oo.
Wireless Telecommunications Facility, provided that it satisfies the requirements of section 22.5 of this ordinance, and as specifically allowed below:
(1)
Face-mounted wireless telecommunications facility.
(2)
Roof-mounted wireless telecommunications facility, up to 6 feet above the parapet of the building on which it is placed.
(3)
Concealed wireless telecommunications facility.
(4)
Wireless telecommunications facility for which all antennas are mounted on an existing vertical structure.
3.
Conditional Uses. The following uses may be permitted, if approved by the Zoning Administrator, in accordance with the procedures and under the conditions set out in the Administration Section of this ordinance with additional requirements
deemed necessary to safeguard the best interest of the adjoining property, neighborhood and community.
a.
Amateur Radio Antenna/Tower 65 to 100 feet as measured from grade.
b.
Mixed use development with residential and nonresidential uses combined in the same building or buildings. The nonresidential uses are limited to those allowed as permissive or conditional in the C-LI zone, plus incidental activities.
C.
Height Regulations. The same regulations apply as in the C-2 Zone except as provided in the Supplementary Height and Area Regulation Section of this ordinance.
D.
Area Regulations:
a.
Front Yard. There shall be a front yard having a depth of not less than 30 feet.
b.
Side Yard. None required except on the side of a lot abutting an A-1, A-2, R-1, R-2 or M-H zone, in which case there shall be a side yard of not less than five feet in width.
c.
Rear Yard. Except as hereinafter provided in the Supplementary Height and Area Regulation Section, there shall be a rear yard having a depth of 15 feet.
d.
Off-Street Parking and Loading and Unloading Spaces. Off-street parking spaces, and loading and unloading spaces, shall be provided in accordance with requirements for specific uses set forth in the Off-Street Parking, Loading and Unloading Regulation Section of this ordinance.
E.
Landscape and Buffer Landscaping. Nonresidential uses facing or abutting on a principal or minor arterial, as identified in the Long Range Major Street Plan, shall provide landscaping as provided and regulated in the Landscaping and Buffer Landscaping Regulations Section of this ordinance.
(Ord. No. 2006-3, § 1, 2-14-06; Ord. No. 2006-22, § 1, 9-26-06; Ord. No. 2016-13, 4-12-16)