§ 14-186. Location.

No gasoline and oil filling station and no service station shall be erected within seven hundred fifty (750) feet of any church, hospital, school or other such institution where large numbers of pedestrians congregate, or within seven hundred fifty (750) feet of the location of another gasoline and oil filling station or service station. The method of measurement that shall apply in such cases shall be by measurement of airline distance made or taken from the nearest boundary of the lot or premises whereon such existing station is located to such building or structure used as a church, hospital, school or other institution or to the boundary of the lot or premises whereon such other station is to be erected; provided, however, nothing herein shall prohibit:

(a)

The operation of existing gasoline and oil filling stations or service stations; or

(b)

The improvement, alteration or reconstruction of any presently existing gasoline and oil filling stations or service stations; and

(c)

This article shall not apply to those present record owners of property or properties who apply for and receive a building permit for a gasoline and oil filling station from the city building inspector within ninety (90) days from the effective date of this article, providing the construction called for by such permit is completed within the life of such permit or any extension thereof.

(Code 1958, § 19-1)

Editor's note

For the purpose of determining the applicability of subsections (a)—(c), note that the provisions of the 1956 Code from which this article is derived were enacted by Ord. No. 62-1, adopted August 6, 1962.

Cross reference

Zoning generally, Ch. 23.