§ 153.140 PURPOSE.

   The purpose of the C-I Commercial District is to provide an area for a wide range of retail facilities

and services of such a nature as to be fully compatible in the close proximity they must enjoy in a centralized commercial district. In a C-I Commercial District, no building or premises shall be used and no building shall be erected which is arranged, intended or designed to be used for other than one or more of the following described uses.

(Ord. 16-79, passed 10- -1979)

§ 153.141 USES PERMITTED IN THE C-I COMMERCIAL DISTRICT.

   (A)   Any use permitted in the R-III District except residences (refer to § 153.142 for conditional uses);

   (B)   Major retail outlets: furniture; hardware; department; appliance; clothing; jewelry; shoe; paint; and wallpaper stores dealing entirely in the retail sales of any product not restricted by the provisions of this section;

   (C)   Food, drug and beverage: grocery stores; supermarkets; meat markets; fish market; bakery (in conjunction with retail sales); frozen food locker facility; delicatessen; enclosed restaurant, ice cream parlor; and bars; provided, however, that no establishment selling or serving alcoholic beverages shall be located within 500 feet of a public school, playground, church or private school, college or library measured from the nearest entrance and along street lines;

   (D)   Specialty shops: gift shops; book, magazine and stationery outlets; florist shops; camera shops; photography studios; sporting goods and drive-in stores dealing entirely in the retail sale of any product and/or the servicing in conjunction with the sale of any product or service not restricted by the provisions of this section;

   (E)   Service and recreation: barber shops; beauty shops or any school engaged in the teaching of or instruction in any trade; shoe repair and tailor shop; appliance repair shop; laundromats using self-operating automatic washers, dryers and appliances and non-inflammable fluids; dry cleaning establishments using non-inflammable cleaning agents; printing shops with not more than ten full-time regular employees; a funeral home or mortuary; hospital; radio or television studio; bowling alley; poolroom; assembly hall; enclosed theater; or any recreation facility;

   (F)   Business and professional offices: banks; savings and loan institutions; public utilities offices; insurance and real estate offices; office buildings; medical and dental office clinics; law and other professional offices;

   (G)   Automotive and related uses: automobile sales room; farm implement sales and related repair garage; automobile repair garage; customer parking lots associated with a business establishment; motorcycle and bicycle sales and repair shops; motor bus and cab terminals; gasoline service stations; provided all volatile products are stored underground;

   (H)   Motels and hotels: hotel; motel; motor lodge;

   (I)   Rest homes, nursing homes and children’s nurseries; and

   (J)   Accessory uses or buildings.

(Ord. 16-79, passed 10- -1979)

§ 153.142 CONDITIONAL USES WITH APPROVAL BY THE VILLAGE BOARD OF ZONING AND BUILDING APPEALS AFTER A PUBLIC HEARING.

   (A)   Single-, two-, three- and multi-family residential structures;

   (B)   Commercial storage facilities including garages;

   (C)   Commercial parking lots;

   (D)   Any wholesale distributing business;

   (E)   Any retail or wholesale industrial product distributing business;

   (F)   Laundry and dry cleaning plants;

   (G)   Building trades or equipment including building concrete, electrical, masonry, sheet metal,

and heating and cooling shops, building material establishments and lumber yards;

   (H)   Drive-in theaters, drive-in restaurants and refreshment stands; and

   (I)   Accessory uses or buildings.

(Ord. 16-79, passed 10- -1979)

§ 153.143 REQUIRED LOT AREA AND LOT WIDTH IN THE C-I DISTRICT.

   (A)   Residential uses. Each residential use to be accommodated in the C-I District shall meet the minimum lot area and minimum lot width requirements of the R-II Residential District.

   (B)   Commercial uses. No minimum lot area or minimum lot width is required for commercial uses.

(Ord. 16-79, passed 10- -1979)

§ 153.144 BUILDING HEIGHT REGULATION IN THE C-I DISTRICT.

   No building shall exceed four stories or 50 feet in height, except as provided in §§ 153.375 through 153.377.

(Ord. 16-79, passed 10- -1979)

§ 153.145 REQUIRED YARDS IN THE C-I DISTRICT.

   (A)   Residential uses. Each residential use to be accommodated in the C-I Commercial District shall meet the minimum yard requirements of the R-III Residential District.

   (B)   Commercial uses.

 

Front yard	25 ft.*
Rear yard	25 ft.; where a lot line abuts any alley, one-half of the width of such alley may be considered in meeting a part of the rear yard requirements
Side yard	No minimum yard required, except lots adjoining a residential district shall provide a side yard on that adjoining side equal to that required in the adjoining residential district
* Or 55 feet from the center of the road if no right-of-way has been established

 

(Ord. 16-79, passed 10- -1979)

§ 153.146 LANDSCAPING OR SCREENING PROVISIONS.

   For nonresidential uses abutting an R-District, the minimum yards may be reduced to 50% of the minimum side or rear yard requirements, if acceptable landscaping or screening, approved by the Board is provided. Such screening shall be six feet in height, maintained in good condition and free of all advertising or other signs. Landscaping provided in lieu of such wall or fence shall consist of a strip of land not less than 15 feet in width planted with evergreen hedge, or dense planting of evergreen shrubs not less than four feet in height at the time of planting.

(Ord. 16-79, passed 10- -1979)