Zoning Ordinance

Section 1. Purpose

This district is intended to provide for a wide variety of 
retail, personal service, wholesale office, and other 
general service types of uses for the consumer population of 
the entire community and, because of their heavy traffic 
generating characteristics and potentially detrimental 
appearance and performance, are located on the periphery of 
residential areas along collector and arterial street 
facilities.

Section 2.  Use Regulations

a.	Permitted Uses.  In the C-2 district, permitted uses are 
as follows:

	1.	Any use permitted in the C-1 District

	2.	Amusement establishments

	3.	Animal hospitals, clinics, kennels, and pounds

	4.	Antique shops

	5.	Athletic clubs

	6.	Automobile accessory stores

	7.	Automobile and other motor vehicle sales

	8.	Automobile laundries

	9.	Automobile service stations

	10.	Bank and other financial institutions

	11.	Banquet halls

	12.	Bicycle stores; sales, rental, and repair

	13.	Blueprinting and photo-copying establishments

	14.	Book, stationery, and school supply stores

	15.	Building material sales and storage, retail

	16.	Building contractor's office and material storage

	17.	Business, public, and governmental offices

	18.	Camera stores, sales and repair

	19.	Candy and ice cream stores

	20.	Carpet and floor covering stores

	21.	Catering establishments

	22.	Clothing stores

	23.	Clubs and lodges; private, fraternal, religious, but 
not gun clubs

	24.	Convention, exhibition, and civic centers, and 
auditoriums

	25.	Department stores

	26.	Drive-in restaurants

	27.	Electrical and household appliance stores, sales and 
repair

	28.	Employment agencies

	29.	Food stores, grocery stores, meat markets, bakeries, 
and delicatessens

	30.	Funeral parlors

	31.	Furniture stores

	32.	Garden supply and seed stores

	33.	Gift shops

	34.	Golf courses and related buildings

	35.	Hardware stores

	36.	Health centers

	37.	Hobby shops

	38.	Hotels and motels

	39.	Interior decorating stores

	40.	Jewelry stores 

	41.	Libraries

	42.	Liquor stores 

	43.	Locksmiths

	44.	Lumberyards

	45.	Mobile home and travel trailer sales

	46.	Musical instrument stores, sales and repair

	47.	Newspaper offices

	48.	Office supply stores

	49	Outside storage and warehouses incidental and 
subordinate to the principal use of the property

	50.	Paint and wallpaper stores

	51.	Parking lots, as a principal use

	52.	Pawnshops

	53.	Pet stores

	54.	Photography supply, developing, and processing 
stores

	55.	Plumbing shops

	56.	Post offices

	57.	Printing and publishing establishments

	58.	Professional offices

	59.	Public garages

	60.	Public utility and service uses including, but not 
limited to:  electric substations, gas regulator 
stations, telephone exchanges, microwave relay 
towers and stations, antenna towers and other 
outdoor equipment essential to the operation of the 
exchange in the interest of public convenience and 
necessity, commercial radio and television towers, 
sewage treatment plants, well and water pumping 
stations, water filtration plants, water reservoirs, 
and other similar uses

	61.	Radio and television broadcasting stations

	62.	Record stores

	63.	Restaurants, lounges, and liquor establishments

	64.	Self storage establishments

	65.	Shoe stores, sales and repair

	66.	Sign shops

	67.	Sporting goods stores

	68.	Stadiums and arenas

	69.	Theaters, indoor

	70.	Tobacco shops

	71.	Toy stores

	72.	Upholstery stores

	73.	Variety and discount stores

	74.	Any other use that meets the intent and purpose of 
this Article and is similar and comparable to those 
uses listed above.

b.	Special Uses.  In the C-2 district, special uses are as 
follows:

	1.	Any special use in the C-1 District, except those 
listed as a permitted use in the C-2 District

	2.	Airports, heliports, and aircraft landing fields

	3.	Bottling works

	4.	Bus stations and terminals

	5.	Gun clubs

	6.	Outdoor theaters, drive-in

	7.	Outside storage, as a principal use

	8.	Parcel delivery and mail order services, excluding 
motor freight terminals

	9.	Penal, correctional, and other institutions 
necessitating restraint of patients

	10.	Travel trailer parks meeting the standards set forth 
in Article 20

	11.	Welding