Sec. 6.4.9. Personal Service

  1. Personal Service Use Category
    Facilities involved in providing personal or repair services to the general public. Personal service includes the following uses.
    1. Animal care.
    2. Beauty/hair salon.
    3. Catering establishment.
    4. Cleaning establishment, dry-cleaning or laundry drop-off facility, laundromat, washeteria.
    5. Copy center.
    6. Funeral home, funeral parlor, mortuary, undertaking establishment, crematorium, pet crematorium.
    7. Locksmith.
    8. Optometrist.
    9. Palmist, psychic, medium, fortune telling.
    10. Post office.
    11. Repair of appliance, bicycle, canvas product, clock, computer, jewelry, musical instrument, office equipment, radio, shoe, television or watch.
    12. Tailor, milliner, upholsterer.
    13. Tattoo parlor, body piercing.
    14. Taxidermist.
    15. Wedding chapel.
  2. Animal Care (Indoor)
    1. Defined
      Any building or land used, designed or arranged for the care of animals without limited outdoor activity. Includes animal grooming, animal hospital, veterinary clinic, pet clinic, animal boarding, animal shelter, cattery, kennel and doggy day care.
    2. Use Standards
      1. No overnight outdoor activity associated with the care of animals. For the purposes of this section “overnight” constitutes the hours between 11 PM and 7 AM.
      2. Outdoor activity, including but not limited to, walking and bathing of animals, is permitted during the day, provided that no more than 4 animals are engaged in outdoor activity at a time. For the purposes of this section, “during the day” constitutes the hours between 7 AM and 11 PM.
  3. Animal Care (Outdoor)
    1. Defined
      Any building or land used, designed or arranged for the care of animals that includes overnight outdoor activity. Includes animal grooming, animal hospital, veterinary clinic, pet clinic, animal boarding, animal shelter, cattery, kennel and doggy day care.
    2. Use Standards
      1. All exterior exercise areas and runs must be fenced for the safe confinement of animals.
      2. No part of any building, structure or run in which animals are housed shall be closer than 150 feet from any property line, except property owned or occupied by an owner or operator; provided, that the minimum distance referred to above shall not apply if all portions of the facility in which animals are enclosed is located wholly within a building.
      3. In the AP District, 1 unlit announcement sign not exceeding 9 square feet in area and 3½ feet in height is allowed.
  4. Beauty/Hair Salon
    1. Defined
      A facility providing beauty enhancement treatments such as hairdressing, nail, tanning, facials and therapeutic massage. Includes barber. 
    2. Use Standards
      A beauty/hair salon in an RX- District is subject to the following:
      1. Must be located on the first floor of a corner unit in an apartment building type located at the intersection of 2 public streets;
      2. The beatury/hair salon use cannot exceed 4,000 square feet in gross floor area individually or cumulatively in combination with any other allowed Limited Commercial use per lot; and
      3. Hours of operation can begin no earlier than 6 AM and end no later than 11 PM, including all deliveries.
      4. A beauty/hair salon in an -TOD overlay is not subject to parts a or b of this section; however, such a use must be within or attached to a multi-tenant building. The beauty/hair salon use cannot exceed 10,000 square feet in gross floor area individually or cumulatively in combination with any other allowed Limited Commercial use per lot.
  5. Copy Center
    1. Defined
      A facility that provides printing, publishing, photocopying, packing, shipping and quick-sign services.
    2. Use Standards
      A copy center in an RX- District is subject to the following:
      1. Must be located on the first floor of a corner unit in an apartment building type located at the intersection of 2 public streets;
      2. The copy center use cannot exceed 4,000 square feet in gross floor area individually or cumulatively in combination with any other allowed Limited Commercial use per lot; and
      3. Hours of operation can begin no earlier than 6 AM and end no later than 11 PM, including all deliveries.
      4. A copy center in an -TOD overlay is not subject to parts a or b of this section; however, such a use must be within or attached to a multi-tenant building 
  6. Optometrist
    1. Defined
      A primary eye care provider who diagnoses, manages and treats disorders of the visual system and eye diseases.
    2. Use Standards
      An optometrist in an RX- District is subject to the following:
      1. Must be located on the first floor of a corner unit in an apartment building type located at the intersection of 2 public streets;
      2. The optometrist use cannot exceed 4,000 square feet in gross floor area individually or cumulatively in combination with any other allowed Limited Commercial use per lot; and
      3. Hours of operation can begin no earlier than 6 AM and end no later than 11 PM, including all deliveries.
      4. An optometrist in an -TOD overlay is not subject to parts a or b of this section; however, such a use must be within or attached to a multi-tenant building. The optometrist use cannot exceed 10,000 square feet in gross floor area individually or cumulatively in combination with any other allowed Limited Commercial use per lot.
  7. Use Standards for All Other Personal Service Uses
    1. A personal service use in an RX- District is subject to the following:
      1. Must be located on the first floor of a corner unit in an apartment building type located at the intersection of 2 public streets.
      2. The personal service use cannot exceed 4,000 square feet in gross floor area individually or cumulatively in combination with any other allowed Limited Commercial use per lot.
      3. Hours of operation can begin no earlier than 6 AM and end no later than 11 PM, including all deliveries.
      4. Tattoo parlors, body piercing, taxidermists and wedding chapels are not permitted.
      5. A personal service use in an -TOD overlay is not subject to parts a and b of this section; however, such a use must be within or attached to a multi-tenant building. The personal service unit cannot exceed 10,000 square feet in gross floor area individually or cumulatively in combination with any other allowed Limited Commercial use per lot.
    2. A personal service use in an OX- District is subject to the following: 
      1. Must be within or attached to a multi-tenant building, cannot be located in a standalone building.
      2. The floor area of the personal service use cannot exceed 15% of the gross floor area of the entire building or 4,000 square feet, whichever is greater individually or cumulatively in combination with any other allowed Limited Commercial use per lot.
      3. House of operation can begin no earlier than 6 AM and end no later than 11 PM, including all deliveries.
      4. Tattoo parlors, body piercing, taxidermists and wedding chapels are not permitted.
      5. A personal service use in an -TOD overlay is not subject to part b of this section. The personal service unit cannot exceed 10,000 square feet in gross floor area individually or cumulatively in combination with any other allowed Limited Commercial use per lot.