Steenson Enterprises

2,700 SF Total - Which includes 400 SF upstairs.

The C-1 - Village Commercial District is primarily intended to permit retail business and service

uses which provide for the convenient shopping needs of Village residents. Furthermore, the

intent is to encourage mixed uses with a Village scale and character. Uses permitted in this

district are intended to be compatible with residential structures and surrounding neighborhoods,

and are intended to be oriented to pedestrians. In order to promote such development, so far as is

possible and appropriate, uses are prohibited which would create hazards, offensive and loud

noises, offensive and/or obscene printed language visible from street and/or residential

properties, vibration, smoke, glare, heavy truck traffic, or late hours of operation. The intent of

this Zoning District is also to encourage the concentration of local businesses to the mutual

advantage of both the consumers and merchants and thereby promote the best use of land at

certain strategic locations and discourage marginal strip business development along major

streets.

It is further the intent of this Zoning District to encourage the retention of existing residential

structures, either in residential use or converted to other permitted uses, and to ensure that

remodeled or new structures will have a character similar to the existing small town character of

the Village.

Section 14.02 – Permitted Principal Uses

In the Village Commercial District, the following uses shall be permitted:

a. Retail food establishments, which supply: groceries, fresh produce, meats, dairy products,

baked goods, confections, or similar commodities for consumption off the premises.

Food stuffs may be prepared on the premises as an accessory use if sold at retail prices on

premise.

b. Restaurants, delicatessens and other establishments serving food and/or beverages on the

premises, which may include seasonal outdoor seating, but without drive-through or

drive-in services.

c. Banks, savings and loan, credit unions and other financial institutions without drivethrough

facilities.

d. Stand-alone automatic teller banking machines.

e. Retail businesses conducted entirely within an enclosed building such as: drug stores, dry

good, clothing, furniture, hardware, music, book stores, antique stores, and gift shops.

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f. Personal service establishments such as but not limited to: small electronics repair shops,

shoe repair, tailors, hair styling salons, photographers studios, art studios, film processing

outlets, copy centers, interior decorators, postal centers and dry cleaners.

g. Professional offices such as medical, dental, chiropractors, osteopaths, insurance, real

estate, attorney, financial and similar or allied professionals.

h. Places of Worship.

1. Unless established prior to the enactment of this Ordinance, a Place of Worship

site shall contain an area of at least two (2) acres.

2. The site shall be so located as to have at least one (1) property line abutting a

major thoroughfare. All ingress and egress to the site shall be directly onto said

major thoroughfare.

3. Wherever the off-street parking area is adjacent to land zoned for residential

purposes, a continuous and obscuring wall not less than five (5) feet in height or a

landscape buffer strip shall be provided along the side of the parking area adjacent

to the residentially zoned land in accordance with Article IV – General

Provisions.

i. Public parks and municipal buildings such as a library, community center, fire station,

Village offices and museums.

j. Post offices.

k. Newspaper offices.

l. Accessory uses, buildings, structures customarily incidental to any of the above Permitted

Uses.

m. Uses similar to the above and subject to the following restrictions:

1. All business establishments shall be retail or service establishments dealing

directly with consumers. All goods produced on the premises shall be sold at

retail on the premises where produced.

2. All business, servicing or processing, except off-street parking or loading, shall be

conducted within a completely enclosed building.