§ 155.136 PERMITTED PRINCIPAL USES.
   (A)   To carry out the general purposes of this zoning code and the objectives of the Central Business District, the following principal uses are permitted within the Central Business District:
      (1)   Offices: administrative and professional offices and services including: banking, finance companies, securities sales and services, insurance sales and services, real estate sales and services, legal services, architectural services, engineering services, medical and dental services including out-patient clinics, governmental administrative offices and functions, and administrative offices of businesses, utilities and other organizations;
      (2)   Retail sales:
         (a)   The sale of food and beverages; eating and drinking places excluding those that sell for on-premises consumption of alcoholic beverages;
         (b)   The sale of general merchandise and dry goods, including drugs, gifts, antique and art goods, flowers, pets and supplies with the exclusion of kennels, periodicals, books, cameras, musical instruments and supplies, sporting and athletic goods, wearing apparel, household hardware, hand tools, paint, garden supplies, appliances, china, jewelry, furniture, floor and wall coverings, radios and other electronic equipment, televisions and bicycles; and
         (c)   Wholesale offices and showrooms, provided that storage is limited to samples.
      (3)   Services:
         (a)   Personal services such as beauty and barber shops and interior decorating;
         (b)   Custom work shops for the making of articles to be sold only at retail on the premises;
         (c)   Laundries and laundromats, tailors, pressing and dry cleaning shops in which only non-explosive and non-flammable solvents are used;
         (d)   Repair services for such items as household appliances, shoes, electronic equipment and televisions; and
         (e)   Photographic developing, blue printing, letter printing, job printing and photocopying.
      (4)   Dwelling units; provided that they are located in the same building in which at least one of the uses in divisions (A)(3)(a), (A)(3)(b), (A)(3)(c) or (A)(3)(e) above is located and that such dwelling units are located only in the second story or any story above the second story;
      (5)   Civic: churches and other places of worship, art galleries, museums, libraries, memorials, monuments, fraternal organizations and private clubs;
      (6)   Recreational: parks, indoor theaters;
      (7)   Similar principal uses: any other general commercial use not listed above or as a permitted principal use or conditional use in any other district and determined as similar by the Board of Zoning Appeals in accordance with the standards set forth in §§ 155.305 through 155.313.
   (B)   In the Central Business District, all permitted principal uses, except drive-up banking facilities and outside dining associated with a permanent eating and drinking establishment located in the Central Business District, shall be conducted wholly within enclosed buildings.
(Ord. 2052, passed 9-3-1998)