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.