This district is created to provide for and promote the city area as a central core for retail, service, and public uses to serve the entire community. Because the central business area has a high density, off-street parking and loading facilities are not required for individual properties or uses.
Apartments located in existing or new buildings on floor levels that do not exit immediately to ground level |
Clubs, lodges, civic, fraternal, social, or similar non-profit organizations on floor levels that do not exit immediately to ground level |
Convenience stores |
Day care facilities |
Finance, insurance, and real estate offices, including banks and loan offices |
Government buildings or facilities |
Hotels |
Offices for commercial, personal, medical, legal, and other services |
Parking lots |
Public utility substations and facilities |
Retail trade involving the sale of merchandise on premises, including food stores, retail stores, automobile dealers, service stations, apparel and accessories, eating and drinking establishments primarily engaged in the retail sale of prepared food and drinks which also serve alcoholic beverages as a subordinate to meals for on-premises consumption (but excluding alcoholic drinking establishments primarily engaged in the retail sale of alcoholic drink, such as night clubs, saloons, taverns, wine bars, beer garden drinking places, beer parlor tap rooms, beer taverns, bottle club drinking places and alcoholic beverage bar drinking places primarily providing services such as beer, ale, wine, whiskey and liquor for on-premises consumption. Manufactured home sales lots, boat, and trailer lots are also hereby excluded) |
Services to individuals and businesses, including personal services, social services, business supplies and services, amusement and recreation, entertainment, health services, and repair services and rental services for household items (but excluding establishments primarily engaged in internet sweepstakes) |
Signs, in accordance with the provisions of § 5-4-58-2 |
Telephone, telegraph, radio, and television services, but excluding communication towers |
Temporary uses, in accordance with the provisions of § 5-4-58-3 |
(A) Definitions.
ALCOHOLIC DRINKING PLACE means an establishment that is primarily devoted to the serving of alcoholic beverages for consumption by guests on the premises, deriving fifty percent (50%) of their gross revenue from the sale of alcohol and in which the serving of meals is only incidental to the consumption of such beverages.
INTERNET SWEEPSTAKES ESTABLISHMENT means an establishment where customers are primarily devoted to buy time online and play video “sweepstakes” games for cash prizes or purchase internet time that allows the user to receive points or credits that are then used to play, in many instances, casino-like computer games to potentially win more points redeemable for cash and/or where customers are primarily devoted to giving donation for a product or other thing of value (i.e., phone card, internet time), which credits the customer with free points or other measurable units that may be risked by the customer for an opportunity to win money.
MEALS means an assortment of various prepared foods which shall be available to guests on the licensed premises during normal mealtimes which occur when the licensed business establishment is open to the public. Sandwiches, boiled eggs, sausages and other snacks prepared off the licensed premises but sold thereon, shall not constitute a meal. The business must have a menu or a posted listing of available meals. Hot meals must be prepared at least once each day the business is open for business.
PRIMARILY means for the most part of a business activity engaged in by a business establishment.
RESTAURANT means an establishment that is primarily devoted to the serving of food and drinks for consumption by guests on the premises, deriving fifty percent (50%) of their gross revenue from the sale of food and drinks in which the serving of alcoholic drinks is only incidental to the consumption of such meals. The business must have a Class A restaurant license from the Department of Health and Environmental Control and must have a kitchen that is used solely for the preparation, serving and disposal of solid foods that make up meals to include seating for not less than forty (40) persons simultaneously at tables for the service of meals.
(Am. Ord. 11-16, passed 12-12-2011; Am. Ord. 23-09, passed 5-8-2023)