HomeMy WebLinkAbout1977-07INDIAN RIVER COUNTY ORDINANCE NO. 77-7
AN EMERGENCY ORDINANCE ENTITLED "AN ORDINANCE
AMENDING SECTION 20-C1 COMMERCIAL DISTRICT;
OF INDIAN RIVER COUNTY ORDINANCE NO. 71-3,
AS AMENDED; PROVIDING FOR SITE PLAN APPROVAL'
AND PROVIDING AN EFFECTIVE DATE.
BE IT ORDAINED BY THE BOARD OF COUNTY COMMISSIONERS'
OF INDIAN RIVER COUNTY, FLORIDA that Section 20, Indian
River County Ordinance No. 71-3, as amended, is hereby
amended to read as follows:
(a) Special exceptions. The following uses may be
permitted by the County Zoning Commission after site plan
approval according to Section 23.
(1) Public buildings and recreational facilities.
(2) Retail sales establishments, provided all
merchandise shall be stored and displayed
in an enclosed building. Retail sales estab-
lishments may include incidental processing,
repair and rental activities, provided they
are accessory and subordinate to the retail
sale use, and provided all storage, processing
and repair of merchandise occurs within the
principal building.
(3) Hotels, motels, bars, nightclubs and restaur-
ants but not including drive-in eating places.
(4) Banks and financial institutions.
(5) Professional, business and utilities offices
and services.
(6) Medical clinics, but not animal hospitals.
(7) Art and photograph studios and galleries.
(8) Private clubs.
(9) Barber and beauty shops.
(10) Shoe repair shops.
(11) Laundry and dry cleaning pick-up establish-
ments; no laundering or dry cleaning on the
premises.
(12) Motion picture and live theaters, but not
including drive-in theaters.
(13) Tailoring, millinery, garment alteration and
repair.
(14) Churches.
(15) Commercial and private parking lots and
parking garages.
(16) Small appliance repair business.
(17) Printing reproduction and publishing.
(18) Marinas.
(19) Bowling alleys, pool and billiard parlors.
(20) Veterinary hospitals and hoarding kennels,
provided activities are carried on within
soundproof, air-conditioned buildings and
no outside animal runs are permitted.
(21) Business schools.
(22) Funeral homes, undertaking establishments.
(23) Automobile rental business, including truck
or trailer rentals.
(24) New and used automobile sales, mobile home
and trailer sales.
(25) Libraries and museums.
(26) Amusement or recreational uses, not listed
above.
(27) Gasoline service stations.
(28) Drive-in businesses.
(29) Automobile cleaning business.
(30) Fruit and vegetable packing houses, but not
including processing plants.
(31) Commercial fisheries.
(32) Residential dwelling(s) provided that they are
not the primary use of the lot and provided
they are not located on the main street frontage
at the ground level.
(33) Accessory uses and structures customarily
associated with and subordinate to the
above uses, subject to conditions expressed
in Section 25, sub -paragraph (g).
(b) Building height limit. No building or structure
shall exceed thirty-five (35) feet in height, exclusive of
elevator shafts and/or air-conditioning condensing units
and/or cooling towers and except as provided in Section 25,
paragraphs (a) and (p) of this ordinance.
(c) Minimum lot size and floor area required.
(1) For the following specified uses every lot
or parcel of land shall provide a living quarters area and
a land area for each family unit of at least the amount
indicated:
Use
Multiple dwellings
Square feet area of Square feet of land
living quarters per area required per
(family) unit (family) unit
600 2,100
Hotel and motel units
(including closets and
bath) 300 1,200
(2) Nonresidential uses. Every lot shall have not
less than one hundred (100) feet in width and ten thousand
(10,000) square feet in area.
(d) Lot coverage. No principal building or structure
shall occupy more than forty (40) per cent of the lot.
(e) Front yard. Every yard shall have a front yard
or street yard of not less than ten (10) feet.
(f) Rear yard. Same as front yard above.
(g) Side yards.
(1) Commercial uses. No side yard is required
except when the lot is adjacent to a resi-
dential district, and in that event a ten -
foot side yard is required.
(2) Residential uses. Side yard, ten (10) feet.
(h) Explosive materials. Where an aboveground storage
of gasoline, petroleum oils or other inflammable fluids are
permitted, then as to any such facility for storage having a
capacity in excess of five hundred (500) gallons shall be in
compliance with the National Fire Protection Association re-
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gpirements.
(i) Parking regulations. Off-street parking and loading
spaces shall be provided in accordance with the requirements
of specific uses set forth in Section 24 of this ordinance.
THIS ORDINANCE shall become effective on June 24 , 1977.
This Ordinance was passed on an emergency basis after
the Board determined as emergency existed. The vote on the
Ordinance was unanimous.