06/26/2001 Ordinances 8680
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ORDINANCE NO. 8680
An ordinance to amend Chapter 36 of the Grand Island City Code; to amend
Section 36-31 pertaining to Arterial Commercial Zone; to repeal Section 36-31 as now existing,
and any ordinance or parts of ordinances in conflict herewith; and to provide for publication and
the effective date ofthis ordinance.
BE IT ORDAINED BY THE MAYOR AND COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF
GRAND ISLAND, NEBRASKA:
SECTION 1. Section 36-31 of the Grand Island City Code is hereby amended to
read as follows:
~36-31. AC - Arterial Commercial Zone
Purpose: To provide an overlay of the B2 Zone in order to require increased front setbacks, landscaping,
and the limitation of some uses within areas along entrance corridors of the city. As the name implies, the overlay
will be most commonly used along an arterial street corridor.
(A) Permitted Principal Uses:
(1) Uses as listed under permitted principal uses in the B2-General Business Zone underlying the Arterial
Commercial Zone indication with the following exceptions: animal hospital with outside pens, auction house or
retail store with outside display of used merchandise or outside storage, aviary with outside display or sales,
billboards, bottling plant (juices and soft drinks), chickens (sale of chicks), feed and grain retail sales, massage
parlor, plumbing shop with outside storage, poultry hatchery, storage yard.
(B) Permitted Accessory Uses:
(1) Buildings and uses accessory to the permitted principal uses.
(2) Automotive body repair may be accessory to new or used automotive sales or rental, provided, no outside
storage of parts shall be permitted.
(C) Permitted Conditional Uses: The following uses may be permitted, if approved by the city council, in
accordance with procedures set forth in Article VIII and X of this chapter:
(1) Billboards for a four-year time period, except for the area between Stolley Park Road and U.S. Highway 34
where billboards are a permitted use if in accordance with the Grand Island Sign Code regulations.
(2) Towers
(D) Space Limitations:
(1) Minimum lot area: 5,000 square feet
(2) Minimum lot width: 50 feet
(3) Maximum height of building: 55 feet
(4) Minimum front yard: 20 feet
(5) Minimum rear yard: None, if bounded by an alley, otherwise 10 feet
(6) Minimum side yard: None, but if provided, not less than 5 feet, or unless adjacent to a parcel whose zone
requires a side yard setback, then 5 feet. In the case of a comer lot adjacent to the side street, the setback shall
be 10 feet.
(7) Maximum ground coverage: 80%
(E) Procedure:
(1) An application for an amendment to the arterial commercial zone on the Official Zoning Map shall follow
all procedural requirements as set forth in this chapter.
(F) Miscellaneous Provisions:
(1) Supplementary regulations shall be complied with as defined herein.
Approved as to Form T fa:
June 27. 2001 ... C~Attor:
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ORDINANCE NO. 8680 (Cont.)
(2) Only one principal building shall be permitted on anyone zoning lot except as otherwise provided herein.
(3) Landscaping shall be provided and maintained within the 20 foot front yard setback. Landscaping shall
mean lawn areas and may also include trees, shrubs, and flowers. Crushed or lava rock, gravel, bark chips, etc.
shall not substitute for lawn area.
(4) All free-standing on-site ground signs shall be limited to four square feet of sign area per side of each one
foot of frontage with a maximum of 400 square feet per side. The maximum height of the sign shall be 30 feet.
A free-standing sign shall be no closer than 25% of the total frontage to the adjacent property, except at the
street side of a corner lot where they may be within that 25% of lot frontage, except in the AC zone between
Stolley Park Road and U.S. Highway 34 where all signs shall meet the Grand Island Sign Code regulations.
(5) No billboards shall be permitted to be stacked one above the other. A billboard shall not receive existing
rights status or "grandfather" rights unless structurally complete at the date of adoption of this section. A
billboard that does receive existing rights at the date of adoption of this section shall be subject to conditional
use approval for continued use four calendar years after the date of adoption of this section or shall be
considered to be fully amortized and shall be removed, except in the AC zone between Stolley Park Road and
U.S. Highway 34 where all signs shall meet the Grand Island Sign Code regulations.
(6) All improvements and uses shall be designed to direct primary vehicular and pedestrian traffic to arterial
street access and reduce such traffic on adjacent non-arterial streets and alleys.
SECTION 2. Section 36-31 as now existing, and any ordinances or parts of
ordinances in conflict herewith be, and hereby are, repealed.
SECTION 3. That this ordinance shall be in force and take effect from and after
its passage and publication, within fifteen days in one issue of the Grand Island Independent as
provided by law.
Enacted: June 26, 2001.
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Attest:
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RaN ae Edwards, City Clerk
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Approved as to Form .,
June 27. 2001 '" City Attorney