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• 280 SECTION XI: COMMERCIAL DISTRICT A. Permitted Uses • Retail stores ; business and professional offices; banks , and savings and loans; restaurants ; taverns ; repair stores ; taxi, bus and airline offices ; hotels and motels; craft shops; rental stores ; grocers; taylors and dressmakers; gas stations , auto service and repair; welding; lumber yards ; upholsterers; amuse ment centers (bowling, skating, theaters) ; radio stations; :fu-• neral homes; moving companies ; veterinarians; building contracter ors ; parks ; Planned Unit Developments ; living quarters for guards , custodians or caretakers when such facilities are acces111 - sory to the primary use . • B . Special Exception Uses • 1 . Flea Markets 2. Utility and Public Structures C. Lot Requirements 1 . All buildings shall have frontage on a dedicated public street. • 2. Minimum lot dimensions: 20 feet wide 3. Minimum landscaped area: 10% 4. Firelanes determined to be adequate by the Fire Chief shall be provided. 5. Curb cuts shall not be made in excess of those determined to be.,adequate by the Police , Fire, and Planning Depts . D. Building Requirements 1. All buildings must be in compliance with the Southern Standard Building Code . 2. Minimum setbacks: • front, 20 ft. when the frontage road easement is 60 ft. or less 0 required if frontage road easement exceeds 60 feet. side, 0 on interior sides ; 10 ft . when side abuts street rear, 10 feet . Maximum height: 2 story E. Off-Street Parking 1 . Off-street parking spaces shall be within 300 feet of the building they serve . 2. Retail stores and other places for trade or business. shall . provide 1 space .for every 200 sq. ft. of floor area for public use . . 3. Furniture , appliance , decorating, hardware , plumbing and electric, and other "showroom" centers shall provide 1 space for every 800 sq. ft. of floor area for public use . 4. Office buildings shall provide 1 space for every 200 sq. ft. of floor area. 5. Restaurants and taverns shall provide 1 space for every 50 sgaft. _"of floor area for public 6. Theaters , auditoriums , and other places of assembly shall provide 1 space for every 5 seats provided for assembly. 7. Food markets and grocery stores shall provide 1 space for every 100 sq. ft. of floor .area for public use .. 8 . Dance halls , roller rinks , clubs , lodges , and other similar places shall provide 1 space for every. '200 sq. ft. of floor area. 9 . Bowling alleys shall provide ' 5 spaces for each alley. F. Buffers 1. Buffers shall be provided by commercial establishments where said businesses abut residential zones . 2. All outdoor storage within the view of adjoining properties shall be obscured by buffers. 3. Buffers shall be in the form of opaque walls, fences , or sscreen-oplalattng,aand shall be a minimum of 6 feet tall .. -Landscape -buffers shall bedesigned to be 75% or more opaque within 1 year after start of construction. G. Site Review 1 . Commercial building permits shall be subject to site and building review and approval by all pertinent Department Heads . ouia t I gum (. PAGE f '-t .