§ 1311. NSD neighborhood shopping district.

The NSD neighborhood shopping district is established as a shopping district containing less than two acres for the use primarily of the neighborhood in which it is located.

1311.01 The following uses are permitted in the NSD neighborhood shopping district:

a.

Accessory retail uses, incidental such as cafeterias, gift or variety shops, soda bars conducted solely for the convenience of employees, patients, patrons or visitors on the premises wholly within the principal building and without exterior advertising display.

b.

Accessory uses clearly incidental to a permitted use and which will not create a nuisance or hazard.

c.

Agencies and offices rendering specialized services in the professions, finance, real estate and brokerage, including service agencies not involving on-premises retail trade or on-premises services with and to the general public, nor wholesale trade on-premises, nor maintenance of a stock of goods for sale to the general public.

d.

Agriculture and horticulture including retail sales.

e.

Alcohol[ic] beverage packaged retail sales.

f.

Amusement enterprises such as billiards, pool, bowling, theater, when housed in a permanent structure.

g.

Antiques and gift retail sales.

h.

Art supply retail sales.

i.

Automobile parking operated in conjunction with permitted uses and in accordance with the requirements of article XVI.

j.

Automobile service (gas and oil stations), providing screening for any cars not in operation.

k.

Bakery shops and confectioneries operating both wholesale and retail business provided such operations are limited to 1,500 square feet of manufacturing area and to the use of nonsmoke producing types of furnaces.

l.

Banks.

m.

Barber, beauty and other personal services.

n.

Bicycle sale and repair.

o.

Book and stationery stores.

p.

Business signs, as permitted in article XIV, section 1410.

q.

Catering establishments.

r.

Churches and other places of worship, including parish houses and Sunday school buildings.

s.

Clothing sales.

t.

Curb markets.

u.

Dairy bars.

v.

Department and variety stores.

w.

Drugstores.

x.

Dry cleaning pickup stations.

y.

Dry cleaning, pressing and dyeing plants operated in conjunction with retail service counter provided that not more than 2,000 square feet is devoted to these processes.

z.

Exhibitions designed to judge or display the intrinsic excellence of the objects or properties exhibited when sponsored by civic or charitable organizations and when the net proceeds are used clearly for civic or charitable purposes.

aa.

Finance and loan companies.

bb.

Fish market, retail, including dressing.

cc.

Florist, retail.

dd.

Food stores (retail only)—grocery, delicatessen, meat and fish—but excluding the killing and dressing of any flesh or fowl.

ee.

Frozen food lockers.

ff.

Fuel oil and kerosene for heating purposes in aboveground containers provided the same comply with applicable codes.

gg.

Fuel oil, kerosene or other class III (National Board of Fire Underwriters) flammable liquids: the incidental sale at retail of same in containers provided the same comply with applicable codes.

hh.

Furniture retail sales.

ii.

Fur storage.

jj.

Furriers, retail sales.

kk.

Gasoline storage aboveground provided the same comply with applicable codes and regulations.

ll.

Gasoline storage, underground, provided the same comply with applicable codes.

mm.

Government buildings: buildings used exclusively by the federal, state, county, or city government for public purposes.

nn.

Hardware, appliances, and electrical items retail sale.

oo.

Hat cleaning and blocking.

pp.

Jewelry and watch sales.

qq.

Launderette service: where individual, family-sized laundry equipment is rented for use by the customer.

rr.

Laundries: all hand laundries and small power laundries operated in conjunction with a retail service counter on the premises where not more than 2,000 square feet of floor space is devoted to the laundering and finishing processes, provided the total operating capacity of all commercial washing machines shall not exceed 400 pounds and no coal burning or smoke producing equipment is used.

ss.

Laundry pickup stations.

tt.

Libraries, museums, and art galleries.

uu.

Lock and gunsmiths.

vv.

Lodges, fraternal and social organizations provided such facilities are operated by clubs or other organizations, no part of the net earnings of which inures to the benefit of any private person, corporation or shareholder.

ww.

Motorcycle sales and repair.

xx.

Music stores.

yy.

Musical, dramatic and other artistic programs or events.

zz.

Newsstands.

aaa.

Nonconforming uses and buildings as provided in article IV.

bbb.

Office buildings: governmental and private office buildings including professional offices.

ccc.

Office equipment and supplies sales and service.

ddd.

Opticians and optical supplies sales.

eee.

Paint retail sales.

fff.

Pawnshops or secondhand stores.

ggg.

Pet shops and bird stores.

hhh.

Photograph studios and camera supply stores.

iii.

Physical culture establishments.

jjj.

Police, fire, rescue squad and civil defense stations.

kkk.

Printing, publishing and reproduction establishments employing not more than 15 persons.

lll.

Radio and television stations.

mmm.

Radio, television, retail sales and service.

nnn.

Railroad rights-of-way.

ooo.

Repair and servicing of office and household equipment.

ppp.

Restaurants.

qqq.

Shoe repair.

rrr.

Sporting good[s] sales.

sss.

Storage, undercover of goods intended for retail sale on the premises.

ttt.

Tailors, dressmakers, milliners.

uuu.

Taxi stands.

vvv.

Theaters, housed in a permanent indoor structure.

www.

Upholstery, paper hanging and decorator shops.

xxx.

Telephone exchange operation exclusive of structures that may be entered by service personnel provided same complies with section 1403 of this ordinance.

(Ord. of 4-19-84; Ord. of 12-4-95(1))

1311.02 The following uses may be permitted upon the approval of the Halifax County board of adjustment, in accordance with article VII, section 701.03 of this ordinance. It shall be the duty of the board of adjustment to hold a public hearing in regard to any proposed conditional use in order to review the plans for the location and use of all buildings, structures, and open land. The board of adjustment shall evaluate the effect of the proposed conditional use on the surrounding property and on the traffic capacity of the existing road system.

a.

Public utility transformer substations, transmission towers, and water tanks on towers, and telephone central offices but not service or storage yards are permitted as a conditional use in all districts subject to the conditions as specified in article XIV, section 1403. Public utility distribution lines shall be permitted as a permitted use in all zoning districts.

b.

Reclamation landfills, temporary.

c.

Temporary uses subject to appeal to the board of adjustment.

d.

Clubs and other places of entertainment, either commercial or private.

e.

Telephone exchange operation whose enclosure is designed to be entered by service personnel provided same complies with section 1403 of this ordinance.

(Ord. of 12-4-95(1))

1311.03 Dimensional requirements:

a.

Maximum permissible lot size. Less than two acres.

b.

Minimum required mean lot width per structure—20 feet.

c.

Minimum required front yard—30 feet.

d.

Minimum required side yards. At least 12 feet on the street side of every principal building. Where a lot sides upon a lot zoned residential or office and institutional there shall be a side yard of at least six feet in width. In all cases where a side yard not required is provided, it shall be at least four feet in width.

e.

Minimum required rear yard. No rear yard is required except where the rear yard abuts a residential or office and institutional district there shall be a rear yard of 15 feet.

f.

Height of buildings. No building shall exceed 35 feet in height unless the depth of front and width of side yards required herein shall be increased one foot for each two feet, or fraction thereof, of building height in excess of 35 feet.

1311.04 Location of accessory buildings: No accessory building shall be erected in any required front or side yard or within 15 feet of any street line or within three feet of any lot line not a street line. An accessory building may be located in a rear yard provided it is located a distance of not less than eight feet from any principal building and three feet from the rear lot line, and provided further, that on reversed corner lots no accessory building shall extend toward the street line beyond the required front yard line of the lot to the rear or nearer than 15 feet to the street line whichever is the greater.

1311.05 Corner visibility: On a corner lot, within the triangular area formed by the centerlines of the intersecting streets and a direct line adjoining points on such centerlines at a distance of 80 feet from their intersection, there shall be no obstruction to vision between a height of two feet and a height of ten feet above the average grades of the streets, such grades being measured along the above cited 80-foot portions.

1311.06 Offstreet parking: As required in article XVI.

1311.07 Offstreet loading and unloading: As required in article XVI.

1311.08 Storage: Loading areas, parking areas, and yard areas shall not be used for outside storage areas unless screened by a solid fence or evergreen hedge five feet high or more.