(A) Purpose. The CBD Central Business District has been established to encourage the continuation of a viable downtown by allowing prime retail sales and service uses, office, entertainment facilities, and public and semi-public uses. The purpose of this district is to provide specifically for regulation of the high intensity commercial uses located within the core of the city.
(Prior Code, § 510.010)
(B) Permitted uses.
(1) The following are permitted uses in the CBD Central Business District:
(a) Barber shops and beauty parlors;
(b) Convenience grocery stores\with motor fuel facilities;
(c) Essential services;
(d) Funeral homes and mortuaries;
(e) Governmental and public related utility buildings and structures;
(f) Laundromat/dry cleaning;
(g) Municipal buildings/offices, libraries, postal service offices; and
(h) Professional and commercial leased offices.
(2) Other retail and service uses, like the following examples:
(a) Antique shops;
(b) Apparel or clothing stores, tailor shops;
(c) Appliance stores;
(d) Art gallery or arts supply store;
(e) Auto accessory stores;
(f) Bakeries;
(g) Bank or saving institutions;
(h) Bars;
(i) Bicycle sales and repair;
(j) Book stores and newsstands;
(k) Bus terminal;
(l) Candy shop;
(m) Dance hall, nightclub, or tavern;
(n) Department store;
(o) Drug stores;
(p) Florists;
(q) Furniture stores;
(r) Gift stores, novelty, or souvenir shops;
(s) Grocery stores;
(t) Hardware stores;
(u) Health club and gymnasium;
(v) Interior decorating stores;
(w) Jewelry stores;
(x) Luggage and leather goods;
(y) Motels and hotels;
(z) Music studio;
(aa) Newspaper and magazine sales;
(bb) Novelty stores;
(cc) Optical stores;
(dd) Off-site advertising sign;
(ee) Pet stores;
(ff) Photography studios;
(gg) Pottery stores;
(hh) Printing shops;
(ii) Private clubs or lodges serving food and beverages;
(jj) Repair shops;
(kk) Restaurants, not of the drive-in, convenience, or drive-through type;
(ll) Shoe and footwear sales and repair;
(mm) Specialty stores;
(nn) Sporting goods stores;
(oo) Theatres;
(pp) Travel bureau;
(qq) Variety stores; and
(rr) Uses determined by Planning Commission to be similar to those listed in this division (B).
(Prior Code, § 510.020)
(C) Accessory uses. The following are permitted accessory uses in the CBD Central Business District:
(1) Commercial or business buildings and structures for a use accessory to the principal use; and
(Prior Code, § 510.030)
(D) Conditional uses. The following are conditional uses in the CBD Central Business District (requires a conditional use permit based upon procedures set forth in and regulated by § 150.169(A)):
(b) Buildings combining residential and nonresidential uses allowed in this district; provided, that:
1. Residential uses shall be confined to the second or third floor of the building, or the rear portion of the main level if confined to less than 60% of the floor area;
2. The residential and nonresidential uses shall not conflict in any manner;
3. Automotive repair shops; and
4. Restaurants with drive-through (convenience variety).
(Prior Code, § 510.040)
(E) Performance standards.
(1) Minimum lot size. No minimum lot size for permitted or accessory uses. Lot size may be established by Planning Commission for conditional use;
(2) Minimum lot width. None;
(3) Setbacks (measured from lot lines).
(a) Front yard. None;
(b) Side yard. None, 20 feet if abutting a residential district; and
(c) Rear yard. None, 20 feet if abutting a residential district.
(4) Maximum building height. Forty-five feet or three stories;
(5) Maximum site coverage. No maximum; and
(6) Additional requirements. Additional requirements, including, but not limited to, parking, surface water drainage, signs, planned unit developments, and sewage disposal as regulated by appropriate sections of this chapter, as may be amended.
(Prior Code, § 510.050)
(Ord. passed 10-8-2003) Penalty, see § 10.99