15.12.135 SHC stateline highway commercial district.
A. This zoning district is intended to provide a limited range of commercial locations for highway related retail and tourist services within the Verdi Specific Plan area. Standards will require that locations and areas indicated as “Visitor-Stateline Highway Commercial District” on the Verdi Specific Plan shall conform with the provisions of this district.
B. Permitted Uses. One single-family residence.
C. Conditional Uses. The following uses shall be subject to a special use permit and include restaurants, food and beverage sales, tourist and souvenir retail sales, visitor information centers, tourist specialty shops, parking areas, directional signs, and one caretaker’s residence as an appurtenant and secondary use of property, animal and veterinary clinics, medical offices.
D. Site Development Standards.
1. Maximum building height is one story not exceeding 25 feet. Maximum sign height is 15 feet.
2. Setbacks shall be as follows: Front shall be 25 feet from property line as measured from the frontage access to the retail use; side shall be 15 feet from property line; rear shall be 30 feet from property line; and if public roads exist adjacent to rear or side lines, setbacks for these areas shall be increased by 10 feet from property line.
3. All sales, displays and storage shall be conducted within an enclosed building.
4. Building areas or lot coverage shall be limited to 40 percent for lots of 10 acres or less and 20 percent for lots exceeding 10 acres.
5. Maximum building coverage is 10,000 square feet.
6. Signs are limited to identification of products, sales or service provided on the premises on which the sign is located. Signs shall be limited to a cumulative total of 80 square feet, with the maximum single sign square footage being 32 square feet.
7. Off-street parking, loading, lighting, walls/fences, points of ingress and egress, internal circulation, site landscaping, residential and street screening, architectural design, and other conditions to use and occupancy shall be approved as part of a site plan which is required prior to commencement of any use and prior to issuance of any building permit. This site plan shall be submitted to the Planning Department for review and approval. (Ord. 855, eff. 9/4/97)