(A) Permitted Uses. The following uses are permitted in a C-2 General Commercial District:
(1) Stores, services and other use classifications permitted in the Local Retail Commercial District, provided that the maximum permissible area (square footage dimension) for grocery stores and retail stores shall be increased from 7,500 square feet to 20,000 square feet, excepting that vape shop and vape sales are specifically prohibited;
(2) Department and variety stores;
(3) Amusement and recreational services, such as assembly and meeting halls, billiard halls, bowling alleys, dance halls, indoor theaters, ice and roller skating rinks and other social, athletic, fraternal, sport or recreational establishments, provided they are conducted within an enclosed building and sufficiently sound insulated to confine the noise to the premises;
(4) Miniature golf courses;
(5) Office buildings;
(6) Veterinary clinics; and
(7) Any other general business store, shop or service, excepting that vape shop and vape sales are specifically prohibited, not listed in divisions (A)(1) to (A)(6) hereof or in any subsequent use classification and determined as similar by the Planning Commission and Council in accordance with § 1262.06.
(1) Sales, service and storage of bicycles, outdoor garden equipment, boats, campers and trailers, provided such sales, service and storage are conducted wholly within enclosed buildings;
(2) Sales, service and storage of new automobiles and other new motor vehicles, and sales, service and storage of used motor vehicles, but only if sold in conjunction with a new motor vehicle sales, service and storage facility, provided the following conditions are met:
(a) Firms must certify that they are an authorized franchised car dealer for an auto manufacturer and must have filed with the Bureau of Motor Vehicles a manufacture statement;
(b) The front yard is landscaped and maintained attractively;
(c) All vehicles and advertising are located behind the minimum front yard setback; and
(d) All service work is conducted wholly within enclosed buildings.
(3) Nursery stock sales;
(4) Drive-through and fast food restaurants, provided that they are located at least 350 feet away from an abutting residential dwelling or a school, church, synagogue, other place of worship, hospital, nursing home or another fast food establishment, and provided further, that indoor eating facilities must be provided;
(5) All changes of occupancies that involves a change in use of the previously run business except those that are permitted; and
(6) All massage parlors.
(Ord. 88-137, passed 9-6-1988; Ord. 91-94, passed 8-22-1994; Ord. 195-12, passed 1-22-2013; Ord. 15-2024, passed 10-21-2024)