710.240 Retail sales and service.
A. Characteristics. Retail Sales and Service firms are involved in the sale, lease or rent of new or used products to the general public. They may also provide personal services or entertainment, or provide product repair or services for consumer and business goods.
B. Accessory Uses. Accessory uses may include offices, storage of goods, manufacture or repacking of goods for on-site sale, and parking. A retail fuel service station is Accessory to a Retail Sales and Service use if it has all of the following characteristics:
(1) It is located on the same Commercially-zoned site as the retailer or, in the case of an approved commercial- or mixed-use center in a Commercial or Town Center zone, on another parcel within the same center as the retailer;
(2) The retailer provides a minimum of four charging stations for electric vehicles within the same commercial site or center;
(3) The electric charging stations and the fueling station are clearly identified (branded) as integral to the retailer;
(4) The site area devoted to the fuel service station:
(a) Is set back a minimum of 150 feet from any perimeter boundary of the site or center where the adjacent property is in a residential zone;
(b) Is set back a minimum of 150 feet from any street designated as an Arterial; and
(c) Does not exceed thirty percent (30%) of the retailer’s building floor area within the site or center (not counting electric vehicle charging stations).
(5) “Site area devoted to the fuel service station” means a contiguous portion of the site or center containing fuel station-related above-ground structures, such as:
(a) Areas under a canopy cover, e.g., pump islands and drive-through aisles;
(b) Any booth or office or other building for use by fuel station attendant(s) or customers;
(c) Equipment buildings, vaults, or cabinets; and
(d) Kiosks providing vehicular needs such as water, compressed air, or vending products such as lubricants, anti-freeze, other fluids, parts or accessories, singly or in any combination. (Ord. 9-2013)
C. Examples. Examples include uses from the four subgroups listed below:
(1) Product-oriented: Stores selling, leasing, or renting consumer, home, and business goods including art, art supplies, bicycles, clothing, dry goods, electronic equipment, fabric, furniture, garden supplies, gifts, groceries, hardware, home improvements, household products, jewelry, pets, pet food, pharmaceuticals, plants, printed material, stationary, videos, and food sales.
(2) Personal Service-oriented: Branch banks, urgency medical care, laundromats, photographic studios, photocopy and blueprint services, quick photo finishing; hair, tanning, and personal care services, business, martial arts, and other trade schools, dance or music classes, taxidermists, mortuaries, veterinarians, and animal grooming.
(3) Entertainment-oriented: Restaurants, cafes, delicatessens, taverns and bars; indoor or outdoor continuous entertainment activities such as bowling alleys, ice rinks, game arcades, pool halls, indoor firing ranges, theaters, health clubs, gyms, and membership clubs.
(4) Repair-oriented: Repair of TV’s. bicycles, clocks, watches, shoes, guns, appliances and office equipment, photo or laundry drop-off, quick printing, recycling drop-off, tailor, locksmith, and upholsterer.
D. Exceptions.
(1) Lumber yards and other building material sales that sell primarily to contractors and do not have a retail orientation are classified as Wholesale Sales.
(2) Sales of landscape materials, including bark chips and compost, is classified as Industrial Service.
(3) Sales, rental, lease, repair and service of consumer motor vehicles, motorcycles, and light and medium trucks is classified as Vehicle Repair. Repair and service of industrial vehicles and equipment, and heavy trucks is classified as Industrial Service. (Ord. 15-2010)
(4) Sales, rental, or leasing of heavy trucks and equipment is classified as Wholesale Sales.
(5) Hotels, restaurants, and other services which are part of a truck stop are considered an accessory to the truck stop which is classified as Industrial Service.