These business and industrial zoning districts are established to provide commercial areas that are in harmony with the character of Canton and provide for the economic needs of Canton businesses and residents, both present and future.
B-1 - Business Office District: The B-1 District is established to accommodate various office uses which can serve as transitional areas between residential and commercial districts and to provide a transition between major thoroughfares and residential districts.
B-2 - Neighborhood Business District: The purpose of the B-2 District is to encourage the establishment of areas for businesses which tend to meet the daily needs of the residents of an immediate neighborhood while still protecting the adjoining residential area. Marginal strip development shall be prohibited.
B-3 - General Business District: The purpose of the B-3 District is to encourage the establishment of areas for general business uses to meet the needs of a regional market area.
B-4 - Special Business District: The B-4 District is created to provide for the establishment of businesses that require special criteria such as more distant setbacks because of a more intense usage, heavy truck traffic, noise or other nuisance.
B-5 - Central Business District: The purpose of the Central Business District is to accommodate and encourage further expansion and renewal in the historical core business area of the community. A variety of business, institutional, public, quasi-public, cultural, residential and other related uses are encouraged in an effort to provide the mix of activities necessary to establish a truly urban character.
B-6 - Shopping Center District: The purpose of the B-6 Shopping Center District is to permit a concentrated grouping of stores and services located on six or more acres in one or more structures planned as an integrated unit.
I-1 - Light Industrial District: The purpose of the I-1 District is to encourage the development of manufacturing and wholesale business establishments which are clean, quiet and free of hazardous or objectionable elements such as noise, odor, dust, smoke or glare; operate entirely within enclosed structures, and generate little industrial traffic. Research and technological activities are encouraged. This district is further designed to act as a transitional use between heavy industrial uses and other less intense business and residential uses.
I-2 - Heavy Industrial District: The purpose of the I-2 District is to encourage the development of major manufacturing, processing, warehousing and major research and testing operations. These activities require extensive community facilities and reasonable access to arterial highways; they may have extensive open storage and service areas.
(Ord. 147-2018. Passed 7-2-18.)