§14-308. Neighborhood Shopping Center District.
(1)
Use Regulations. The specific uses permitted in this
district shall be the erection, construction, alteration, or use of buildings
and/or land (subject to § 14-308(3) Required Conditions)
for:
[129] (a) The
following sales or services, separately, or in any combination: hardware, shoe
repairing, dry goods, jewelry, groceries, meat, delicatessen, bakery goods,
confections, drugs, wearing apparel, tailoring, personal services; laundries,
including self-service establishments; laundry pick-up station and dry cleaning
pick-up station; retail dry cleaning establishment not to exceed 2,500 square
feet in gross floor
area;
[130] (b) Self
service dry cleaning establishment; provided,
(.1) The Fire Marshal
shall have certified that the premises, machines, equipment and materials are in
compliance with the Fire Code as set forth in Chapter
5-800.
[131] (.2) An
attendant over 21 years of age and trained in the use of the equipment on the
premises employed by the licensee shall be present at all times when the
premises where the self-service dry cleaning establishment is located is open
for business.
(.3) No operator of any coin operated dry cleaning equipment
shall use or permit to be used any solvent other than that which has been
approved, by the manufacturer of the equipment, for use
therein.
(.4) An interlock system shall be provided on the machine to
prevent the loading door from being opened during the normal cycle. Said system
may be electrical or mechanical and so connected as to remain effective in case
of power failure.
(.5) The licensee shall permit only the front side
of the dry cleaning machines to be accessible to the customers. The working or
maintenance portion of the machines shall be constructed, located and maintained
so as to be not accessible to the customer. At no time when customers are
present shall the concentration of vapors, in the customer area from the dry
cleaning solvent exceed one hundred parts per million.
(.6) There
shall be prominently posted on the premises the name, address and telephone
number of the owner or operator of said business and there shall be a public
telephone on the premises in a conspicuous location.
(c) Business or
professional office or agency, financial institution, library, or
studio;
[132] (d) Restaurant,
cafe, bakery, or soda or ice cream fountain, including outdoor dining
areas;
(e) A use of the same general character as (a) to (d) above,
when authorized by a Zoning Board of Adjustment
Certificate;
(f) Accessory uses not otherwise prohibited, customarily
incidental to any permitted principal use.
(2)
Use Regulations - With
Certificate.
[133] The
following uses will be permitted in this district only if a Zoning Board of
Adjustment Certificate, as hereinafter provided, is obtained, and only in
completely enclosed buildings:
(a) Delicatessen;
(b) Take out
restaurant;
(c) The retail sale of malt beverages for take-out as an
accessory use;
(3)
Required
Conditions.
[134] (a) All
uses set forth in subsection (1) shall be conducted wholly within a completely
enclosed building, except for automobile parking and outdoor dining
areas;
(b) All uses set forth in subsection (1) shall be conducted at
retail only;
(c) No single store shall occupy an area exceeding 4,000
square feet;
(4)
Area
Regulations.
[135] (a)
Building
Set-back Line. No building set-back shall be required in this
district.
(5)
Height
Regulations.
[136] (a) The
maximum height of any structure shall be 35 feet above the average ground level
at the base of the structure, but in no case over three
stories.
(6)
Off-Street
Parking.
[137] (a) There
shall be provided on the same lot, at the time of erection of any building or
structure, or for the extension of any building or structure, or for the
subdivision of this district into two (2) or more parcels, off-street parking
spaces for automobiles for all new buildings or structures, for all extensions
or additions, for all subdivisions, as well as for all existing buildings
regardless of when they were erected and/or under which zoning classification
they were erected, in accordance with the following
requirements:
(.1) Off-street parking spaces in compliance with all of
the provisions of § 14-1403 of this Title;
(.2) The number of
parking spaces shall be provided according to the following
schedule:
[138]
(b) Landscaping, screening, lighting, and pedestrian walkways shall
be provided in accordance with the requirements of § 14-1403(3). Provided,
this subsection shall not apply to the construction or erection of an addition
to an existing building or structure or of a new building or structure in an
existing Neighborhood Shopping Center which contains net leasable area which is
fifteen percent (15%) or less (but in no case more than five thousand square
feet) than the net leasable area of the existing building, structure or
Neighborhood Shopping Center.
(c) Where a Neighborhood Shopping Center
District is located within the same block frontage as a Residential District,
the development of any portion of the off-street parking shall be designed so
that all parking spaces and aisles are located behind the minimum set-back
required by the most restrictive Residential
District.
(7)
Signs.
[139]
Signs accessory to uses on the premises shall be permitted in this district only
under the following conditions:
(a) The total area of signs permitted
on buildings shall not exceed five square feet for each lineal foot of
store-front width, and may be attached flat against the wall of the building or
marquee, or upon the roof of a marquee, and may project above the roof or wall
coping, but may not extend beyond the building walls;
(b) In addition
to the signs allowed in sub-section (a) above, one free-standing sign shall be
permitted under the following conditions;
(.1) Such sign is located
upon the lot where permitted uses are in existence;
(.2) The uses upon
the lot exceed a sales-floor area of 15,000 square feet; and
(.3) Such
sign shall not contain more than two sign faces with a total area of 200 square
feet, exclusive of supporting structures, nor exceed in total height 40 feet
from grade level to the top of the sign;
(c) Signs may be animated or
illuminated; provided, the illumination shall be focused upon the sign itself so
as to prevent glare upon the surrounding areas;
(d) Signs with flashing
or intermittent illumination shall not be erected within 150 feet of any
Residential District, nor facing any Residential District within 300 feet of the
sign;
(e) Signs which revolve shall be prohibited;
(f) Any
revolving device which causes intermittent flashes of light to be projected
shall be prohibited.