Special Use Regulations

10-2.1600 Bars and cocktail lounges, arcades, billiard parlors, thrift shops, liquor stores, and check cashing and firearms businesses.

(a) Purpose. In order to prevent a blighting impact on the character of commercial zones, help insure the compatibility of these particularly sensitive land uses with surrounding land uses, and maintain a healthy and balanced mix of commercial uses, the following criteria shall be met in addition to all other applicable land use and development standards in this chapter.
(b) Criteria.

(1) The proposed use is a sufficient distance from residential uses and has been designed with adequate physical buffers to reduce potential noise impacts related to operation of the use, parking by employees and patrons, and pedestrian activities.
(2) The proposed hours of operation for the use are complimentary to the business district in which the use is located, and will not negatively impact residential uses.
(3) The addition of the proposed use to the mix of commercial uses in its vicinity will not create a blighting influence.
(4) Thrift shops. In addition to the criteria listed above, the following criteria shall be met for thrift shops:

a. Minimum separation. The minimum separation between site boundaries of properties containing thrift shops shall be 1,000 feet, except that this standard may be waived by the decision-making body upon a finding that the thrift shop is primarily engaged in the sale of unique specialty merchandise which will not contribute to or create a blighting influence in its vicinity.
b. Display windows. The store frontage shall include an interior window display box at least thirty (30) inches in depth, attractively designed to enhance the appearance of the commercial corridor.

(5) Firearms businesses. In addition to the criteria listed above, no firearms business shall be located within 500 feet of any lot upon which there is legally located a school, public park, or religious institution.

(c) Conditional Use Permit required. No bar or cocktail lounge, arcade, billiard parlor, thrift shop, liquor store, check cashing business or business engaged in the sale of firearms shall be established unless a Conditional Use Permit is obtained pursuant to Section 10-2.2506.

(Ord. 2756 c.s., eff. January 18, 1996)