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CODIFIED ORDINANCES OF THE CITY OF EUCLID, OHIO
CERTIFICATION
DIRECTORY OF OFFICIALS (2024)
PRELIMINARY UNIT
THE CHARTER OF THE CITY OF EUCLID, OHIO
PART ONE - ADMINISTRATION CODE
PART THREE - TRAFFIC CODE
PART FIVE - GENERAL OFFENSES CODE
PART SEVEN - BUSINESS REGULATION AND TAXATION CODE
PART NINE - STREETS, UTILITIES AND PUBLIC SERVICES CODE
PART ELEVEN - HEALTH AND SANITATION CODE
PART THIRTEEN - PLANNING AND ZONING CODE
PART FIFTEEN - FIRE PREVENTION CODE
PART SEVENTEEN - BUILDING AND HOUSING CODE
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1359.01 INTENT.
   Business and Industrial Districts and their regulations are established in order to achieve, among other things, the following purposes.
   (a)   To provide for orderly development and redevelopment of business and industrial uses in the City of Euclid.
   (b)   To provide sufficient areas, in appropriate and convenient locations, for business and industrial activities and the production, distribution and exchange of goods and services.
   (c)   To provide certainty to property owners, developers and neighbors on the limits of what is allowed in Business and Industrial Districts.
   (d)   To protect residential neighborhoods adjacent to business and industrial uses by regulating the types of establishments, particularly at the common boundaries, that would create congestion, noise or other objectionable influences and establishing performance standards.
   (e)   To protect and stabilize both residential and nonresidential developments from congestion by requiring off-street parking facilities.
   (f)   To carry out the following specific purposes:
      (1)   Neighborhood Retail and Service Districts (U-4). To provide sites for retail and service uses that typically serve a limited neighborhood area, or other retail uses that serve a more general market area but which can successfully operate in proximity to residential neighborhoods. Permitted uses are those that satisfy the types of basic shopping and service needs that occur frequently and that benefit from being located close to residential areas.
         A.   The character of these districts is intended to be compatible with that of surrounding residential neighborhoods, and hours of operation are limited.
         B.   Buildings in these districts are typically smaller in scale than those found in the general commercial districts.
         C.   Accommodation of pedestrians and multi-destination vehicle trips are encouraged.
      (2)   General Commercial Districts (U-5). To provide sites for a wide range of goods and services to a large consumer population coming from an extensive area. Permitted uses are those that service and sales in support of the primary business activities in the community. Their location is advantageous at specified points along major thoroughfares that can take advantage of the regional highway network. Outdoor storage is limited and properly screened from view from off the site.
      (3)   General Industrial Districts (U-6). To provide sites primarily for industrial uses that conduct most of their operations within completely enclosed buildings, yet also to allow as a conditional use limited accommodations for predominantly outdoor use and uses that generate heavy truck traffic.
(Ord. 201-2008. Passed 10-6-08.)
1359.02 USE REGULATIONS.
   In Class U4, U5 and U6 Districts, no building or premises shall be used, and no building shall be erected which is arranged, intended or designed to be used, except for a U4, U5 and U6 use as set forth in this chapter.
   (a)   Principal Uses Permitted by Right. A use listed in Schedule 1359.03 shall be permitted by right as a principal use in a district when denoted by the letter “P” provided that all requirements of other city ordinances and this Planning and Zoning Code have been met.
   (b)   Conditional Uses. A use listed in Schedule 1359.03 shall be permitted as a conditional use in a district when denoted by the letter “C” provided the Planning and Zoning Commission first makes the determination that the requirements of this chapter have been met according to the procedures set forth in Chapter 1368.
   (c)   Accessory Uses and Structures. A use or structure listed in Schedule 1359.03 shall be permitted as an accessory use or structure in a district when denoted by the letter “A”. Such use or structure shall be permitted as a subordinate building, structure or use when it is clearly incidental to and located on the same lot as the principal building or use. Accessory uses and structures are further regulated in subsequent sections of this Code. Additional uses that are determined to be customarily incidental to a permitted principal or conditional use may be permitted by the Zoning Commissioner.
   (d)   Compliance Required. Although a use may be indicated as a permitted principal, conditional or accessory use in a particular district, it shall not be approved on a parcel unless it can be located thereon in full compliance with all of the standards and other regulations of this Code applicable to the specific use and parcel in question.
   (e)   Uses Not Listed in Schedule. Any use not specifically listed as either a permitted principal or conditional use shall be a prohibited use in these zoning districts and shall only be permitted upon amendment of this Code and/or the Zoning Map as provided in Chapter 1343 or upon a finding that a use is substantially similar as provided in Section 1323.03.
(Ord. 201-2008. Passed 10-6-08.)
1359.03   PERMITTED USES
1359.03
PERMITTED USES
LAND USE CATEGORY
Class U4 Retail and Services
Class U5 General Commercial District
1361 Class U6 General Industrial District
1359.03
PERMITTED USES
LAND USE CATEGORY
Class U4 Retail and Services
Class U5 General Commercial District
1361 Class U6 General Industrial District
(a)   Offices
   (1)   Administrative and professional offices including but not limited to accounting, clerical, drafting executive, financial, governmental, public utility offices, and other similar types of office uses
P
P
P
   (2)   Financial institutions, banks, real estate offices and other offices that accommodate frequent walk-in customers, but not including non-charter financial establishments
P
P
   (3)   Medical, dental, and other health service offices
P
P
   (4)   Research and development laboratories or testing offices
P
P
(b)   Retail/Services
   (1)   Retail establishments in completely enclosed building except as otherwise regulated below
P
P
   (2)   Personal service establishment including barber, beauty shops except as otherwise regulated below
P
P
   (3)   Animal clinic with all operations in a completely enclosed building
P
P
   (4)   Animal clinic with outside run or kennel, see also Section 1359.06(a)
C
C
   (5)   Business equipment and supplies, including self-service printing services
P
P
   (6)   Business school
P
P
P
   (7)   Check-cashing nonchartered financial establishment, see also Section 1359.06(s)
C
C
   (8)   Crematorium, see also Section 1359.06(b)
C
C
P
   (9)   Medical marijuana dispensaries, see also Chapter 728.
C
C
C
 
1359.03
PERMITTED USES
LAND USE CATEGORY
Class U4 Retail and Services
Class U5 General Commercial District
1361 Class U6 General Industrial District
1359.03
PERMITTED USES
LAND USE CATEGORY
Class U4 Retail and Services
Class U5 General Commercial District
1361 Class U6 General Industrial District
   (10)   Drive-through facility in association with a permitted use, see also Section 1359.06(d)
C
C
   (11)    Dry cleaning counter service
P
P
   (12)   Funeral home, mortuary, see also Section 1359.06(e)
C
P
   (13)   Furniture, home furnishing, office equipment and office supplies store
P
P
   (14)   Motels, hotels, see also Section 1359.06(i)
C
P
   (15)   Outdoor dining in association with a permitted use, see also Section 1359.06(j)
C
C
   (16)   Outdoor display of items for sale, except motor vehicles, in association with a permitted use, see also Section 1359.06(k)
C
P
   (17)   Pawn shop, see also Section 1359.06(s)
C
C
   (18)   Repair shops for personal items such as shoes, watch, camera
P
P
   (19)   Restaurant in completely enclosed building (including ice cream parlor, coffee shop)
P
P
   (20)   Retail plant nursery and garden supply business, see also Section 1359.06(n)
C
P
   (21)   Self-serve laundry facility
P
P
   (22)   Studios for instruction
P
P
   (23)   Tattoo parlor, branding parlor, body piercing, see also Section 1359.06(s)
C
C
   (24)   Trade school
C
P
   (25)   Establishments engaged in sale of deadly weapons, in compliance with Chapter 785
C
   (26)   Sweepstakes Terminal Café
P
P
 
   (27)   Adult uses
As regulated in Chapter 1395
(c)   Motor Vehicle/ Transportation
   (1)   Ambulance service
P
P
   (2)   Automobile service facility, see also Section 1359.06(f)
C
P
P
   (3)   Car wash facility, see also Section 1359.06(f)
P
   (4)   Gasoline station, see also Section 1359.06(f)
C
P
 
1359.03
PERMITTED USES
LAND USE CATEGORY
Class U4 Retail and Services
Class U5 General Commercial District
1361 Class U6 General Industrial District
1359.03
PERMITTED USES
LAND USE CATEGORY
Class U4 Retail and Services
Class U5 General Commercial District
1361 Class U6 General Industrial District
   (5)   Heavy duty truck and/or boat sales, service and repair, see also Section 1359.06(g)
C
C
   (6)   Major repair facility for motor vehicles (includes painting, body shops, engine repair shops, transmission shops), see also Section 1359.06(g)
C
P
   (7)   Parking lot as principal use
C
   (8)   Parking structure as principal or accessory use
C
   (9)   Rental of automobiles and small trucks
C
P
P
   (10)   Sales or lease of new automobiles and small trucks, see also Section 1359.06(p)
C
P
P
   (11)   Sales or lease of used automobiles and small trucks, see also Section 1359.06(q)
C
P
P
   (12)   Towing/wrecker service
P
   (13)   Transit garage, see also Section 1359.06(t)
P
(d)   Entertainment, Recreation, Community Facility
   (1)   Assembly halls, lodges and membership clubs, including churches/religious assembly, provided the use is located on a lot size of one acre or more, and in a freestanding building
P
P
   (2)   Cultural institution including museum, gallery
P
P
   (3)   Dance hall/entertainment or catering establishment in association with a permitted use
C
C
C
   (4)   Day care facility, adult or child, see also Section 1359.06(c) *The conditional use approval by Planning and Zoning Commission shall be subject to affirmation by City Council
C*
C*
C*
   (5)   Health club
P
P
   (6)   Indoor recreation facility, including but not limited to roller skating, ice skating rinks, bowling alleys
P
P
   (7)    Local public safety facility, including police station and fire station
P
P
P
   (8)   Local public service facility that provides for the upkeep and maintenance of the community such as but not limited to a service garage, maintenance building, and salt dome
C
P
 
1359.03
PERMITTED USES
LAND USE CATEGORY
Class U4 Retail and Services
Class U5 General Commercial District
1361 Class U6 General Industrial District
1359.03
PERMITTED USES
LAND USE CATEGORY
Class U4 Retail and Services
Class U5 General Commercial District
1361 Class U6 General Industrial District
   (9)   Outdoor recreation involving motor vehicles, race track, see also Section 1359.06(o)
C
   (10)   Outdoor recreation, archery range, golf course, golf driving range or miniature golf course and similar outdoor commercial recreation, see also Section 1359.06(o)
C
C
C
   (11)   Public library
P
P
   (12)   Public parks and/or playgrounds
P
P
   (13)   Theater, indoor
P
P
(e)   General Commercial
   (1)   Equipment sales, rental and/or service
C
P
   (2)   Linen and uniform supply, commercial laundry
C
P
   (3)   Painting or varnishing shop, woodworking shop, vulcanizing shop
C
P
   (4)   Printing, publishing, engraving and allied industries, but not including self-service print shops, which are regulated as a retail establishment
P
P
   (5)   Repair services for household and business equipment, but not including motor vehicles
C
P
   (6)   Trade/contractor's facility including carpenter, cabinetry, upholstering, sheet metal, plumbing, heating, roofing, air conditioning, sign painting and other similar facilities
P
P
   (7)   Upholstery and furniture repair
C
P
P
   (8)   Vending machine supply and repair
P
P
   (9)   Welding shop
P
   (10)   Cultivation, processing and testing of medical marijuana
 
P
P
(f)   Storage and Distribution.
   (1)   Distribution of welding supplies and gases
P
   (2)   Distributors, warehouse and wholesale outlet (including break-bulk operations such as bottling and/or packaging, bakery) in completely enclosed building, except as otherwise listed
P
P
 
1359.03
PERMITTED USES
LAND USE CATEGORY
Class U4 Retail and Services
Class U5 General Commercial District
1361 Class U6 General Industrial District
1359.03
PERMITTED USES
LAND USE CATEGORY
Class U4 Retail and Services
Class U5 General Commercial District
1361 Class U6 General Industrial District
   (3)   Mini/ self-storage facility that involves the lease, sale, rental or other transfer of storage space to more than one user on the same site, see also Section 1359.06(r)
C
P
   (4)   Outdoor storage of materials in association with a principal use, see also Section 1359.06(l)
C
P
   (5)   Outdoor storage of fleet vehicles used in the operation of the principal use, see also Section 1359.06(m)
C
P
P
   (6)   Truck or transfer terminal; motor freight garage/depot, see also Section 1359.05(t)
P
(g)   Manufacturing and Industry.
   (1)   Assembly of building components, including manufactured home assembly
P
   (2)   Chemical manufacturing except when specifically listed in Chapter 1373 as a prohibited use or when operations would create a hazard or common-law nuisance beyond the confines of the lot, see also Section 1359.06(h)
C
   (3)   Food and beverage manufacturing and processing, including brewing and distilling of alcoholic beverages
P
   (4)   Heavy machinery and equipment manufacturing, assembly and repair
P
   (5)   Heavy manufacturing, not otherwise identified in this list except when specifically listed in Chapter 1373 as a prohibited use or when operations would create a hazard or common-law nuisance beyond the confines of the lot) see also Section 1359.06(h)
C
   (6)   Light manufacturing, not otherwise identified in this list, including compounding, processing, assembling, and packaging (except when specifically listed in Chapter 1373 as a prohibited use or when operations would create a hazard or common-law nuisance beyond the confines of the building)
P
 
1359.03
PERMITTED USES
LAND USE CATEGORY
Class U4 Retail and Services
Class U5 General Commercial District
1361 Class U6 General Industrial District
1359.03
PERMITTED USES
LAND USE CATEGORY
Class U4 Retail and Services
Class U5 General Commercial District
1361 Class U6 General Industrial District
   (7)   Lumber yard with outdoor storage
P
   (8)   Manufacturing of products from raw materials, see also Section 1359.06(h)
C
   (9)   Metal product manufacturing, fabrication, processing or finishing conducted entirely in a completely enclosed building, including metal grinding, machining, enameling and coating, but not including the recycling, processing or storage of previously used or salvaged metal products, see also Section 1359.06(h)
P
   (10)   Metals recycling within completely enclosed building, see also Section 1359.06(k)(2)
P
   (11)   Motor vehicle manufacturing
P
   (12)   Ship or boat construction
P
   (13)   Stonework, concrete or cement product manufacturing, see also Section 1359.06(h)
C
   (14)   Tool and die manufacturing
P
   (15)   Wood product manufacturing, processing or finishing conducted entirely in a completely enclosed building, but not including the recycling, processing or storage of previously used or salvaged wood products
P
(h)   Utilities.
   (1)   Utility substation
C
P
   (2)   Water treatment plant
P
(i)   Accessory Uses and Structures that are provided for the use of employees and/or incidental to the operation of the principal use.
   (1)   Internet sweepstakes area
A
A
   (2)   Fencing and screening
A
A
A
   (3)   Off-street parking and loading areas
A
A
A
   (4)   Signs
A
A
A
   (5)   Retail and service facilities located internally on-site including but not limited to: cafeterias; recreational facilities, clinics, employee credit unions
A
 
 
1359.03
PERMITTED USES
LAND USE CATEGORY
Class U4 Retail and Services
Class U5 General Commercial District
1361 Class U6 General Industrial District
   (6)   Central heating and power plants for furnishing heat and energy to structures on the site
A
   (7)   Data processing facilities
A
   (8)   Garages for storage and maintenance of company motor vehicles and for storage of gasoline and lubricating oils needed for operation of these vehicles and for the maintenance of the company's plant and machinery located therein
A
   (9)   Vehicle sales accessory to vehicle service and repair facilities in compliance with restrictions on outdoor storage of Section 1359.06(g)(1)
A
A
   (10)   Donation bins of Section 1359.06(u)
A
A
 
(Ord. 201-2008. Passed 10-6-08; Ord. 167-2012. Passed 11-5-12; Ord. 172-2011. Passed 11-21-11; Ord. 42-2017. Passed 4-17-17; Ord. 91-2017. Passed 8-21-17; Ord. 118-2017. Passed 10-16-17; Ord. 90-2018. Passed 6-18-18.)
1359.04 DEFINITIONS OF SPECIFIC USES.
   Uses listed in Section 1359.03 shall be limited by the definitions included in this section:
   (a)   "Adult family home." A facility that is licensed by the Ohio Department of Health to provide accommodations for not more than five adults and to provide personal care services to these resident adults (typically elderly). Such services may include assistance in daily living activities and self-administration of medicine, and preparation of special diets. Such facility shall present evidence that it meets the certification, licensing, and approval requirements of the appropriate State agency.
   (b)   “Automobile service facility (see also gasoline station).” A building, part of a building, structure or space that is used for the retail sale of lubricants and motor vehicle accessories, the routine maintenance and service of vehicles and the making of minor repairs to motor vehicles, which are normally completed within one business day. Repairs described under “Motor Vehicle Repair” shall not be permitted.
   (c)   “Body-piercing shop.” A building or portion thereof where piercing of human body parts is administered or from which a body-piercing business or service is operated. This shall not include establishments that limit their piercing to ears only.
   (d)   “Check cashing non-chartered financial establishment.” A financial establishment other than a State or Federally chartered bank, credit union, mortgage lender or savings and loan association that offers check cashing services and loans for payment of a percentage fee. Specifically included are businesses that charge a percentage fee for cashing a check or negotiable instrument, “payday loan” businesses that make loans upon assignments of wages received, or businesses that function as deferred presentment services.
   (e)   “Drive-through facility.” Any portion of a building from which business is transacted, or is capable of being transacted, directly with customers located in a motor vehicle during such business transactions. The term “drive-through” shall also include “drive-up” and “drive-in” but shall not include Car Wash, Gasoline Station, and Automobile Service Facility.
   (f)   “Equipment sales/rental/service.” Establishments primarily engaged in the sale or rental of tools, trucks, tractors, construction equipment, agricultural implements, and similar equipment, and the rental of recreational and commercial motor vehicles. This term includes incidental storage, maintenance, and servicing of such equipment.
   (g)   “Gasoline station (see also automobile service facility).” An establishment where motor fuels are stored and dispersed into the fuel tanks of motor vehicles by an attendant or by persons other than the station attendant and may include accessory facilities available for the sale of other retail products.
   (h)   “Major repair facility for motor vehicles.” An establishment providing the repair rebuilding or reconstruction of motor vehicles or parts thereof, including the rebuilding of motor vehicles bodies by the replacement, smoothing, sanding or painting of the exterior surfaces of such vehicles within a completely enclosed building.
   (i)   “Marijuana.” Marihuana as defined in Ohio R.C. 3719.01.
   (j)   “Medical marijuana.” Marijuana that is cultivated, processed, dispensed, tested, possessed, or used for a medical purpose as defined in Ohio R.C. 3796.01(A)(2).
   (k)   “Outdoor display/sales.” Merchandise placed in an outdoor area that is open to the general public, when the merchandise on display is removed from its shipping packaging and is representative of merchandise that is available for purchase inside the building and/or is available for purchase by the general public directly from the display area.
   (l)   “Outdoor storage.” The storage of goods, materials, merchandise or vehicles in an area outside of a building or structure except for merchandise placed in an area for outdoor display.
   (m)   “Outdoor storage of fleet vehicles.” The outdoor storage of cars, trucks, vans, and other vehicles, including motorized equipment on the same lot as a retail, commercial, industrial or other principal use and which are used as part of the operation of such principal use, but not including privately owned customer or employee vehicles.
   (n)   “Pawn shop.” A building or portion thereof where personal property is received and for which money is advanced, with the right of privilege granted to the person to whom said money is advanced to reclaim such property upon repayment of said money, together with all legal charges incident thereto.
   (o)   “Personal service establishment.” An establishment providing services that are of a recurring and personal nature to individuals. This term includes, but is not limited to, a barber shop, beauty salon, shoe repair shop, seamstress, tailor, fortune teller, tanning salon, and massage establishment. This term does not include a portrait studio, dry cleaning establishment, laundromat, photocopy center, health club or repair shop for household items.
   (p)   "Residential facility family home." A facility licensed by the Ohio Department of Mental Health to provide accommodations to not more than eight mentally retarded or developmentally disabled persons and to provide personal care, supervision, habilitation services and mental health services in a family setting.
   (q)   “Retail establishment.” An establishment engaged in the selling or renting of goods or merchandise to the general public for personal or household consumption, and rendering services incidental to the sale of such products. Such an establishment is open to the general public during regular business hours and has display areas that are designed and laid out to attract the general public. In determining a use to be a retail use, the proportion of display area vs. storage area and the proportion of the building facade devoted to display windows may be considered. This term does not include any adult entertainment uses. This term includes, but is not limited to, artist’s studios, portrait studios, and bakeries.
   (r)   “Sweepstakes terminal café.” Parking shall be provided in compliance with Section 1389.04 for the sweepstakes terminal café, in addition to the required parking for all main uses of the premises. Applicants for multi-tenant properties shall supply a parking site plan demonstrating compliance with the requirements of Chapter 1389 of the Euclid Codified Ordinances as well as a parking site plan for the sweepstakes terminal café use, except that sweepstakes terminal café accessory use premises of less than 10% of the floor area of the main use of the premises shall not require parking spaces in excess of the parking required for the main use of the premises. The exterior property of sweepstakes terminal café main use premises shall, as much as practical, be brought into compliance with applicable requirements for fencing, landscaping, and parking layout as required for a change of use.
   (s)   “Tattoo parlor” or “branding parlor.” A building or portion thereof where the tattooing or branding of human body parts is administered or from which a tattooing or branding business or service is operated.
      (Ord. 201-2008. Passed 10-6-08; Ord. 172-2011. Passed 11-21-11; Ord. 62-2014. Passed 6-2-14; Ord. 42-2017. Passed 4-17-17; Ord. 124-2021. Passed 10-18-21.)
1359.05 SUPPLEMENTAL REGULATIONS FOR ALL USES.
   (a)   Nuisances Not Permitted.
      (1)   Any use that is injurious to adjacent premises or occupants thereof by reason of the emission of dust, fumes, odors, gas, smoke, noise or vibrations, or which is dangerous to life or property shall be considered a nuisance and shall not be permitted.
      (2)   No junk, inoperative or unlicensed vehicles, except for the inventory of unlicensed new or used cars for sale, shall be permitted to remain outside on any property in a U-4, U-5 or U-6 District for more than 48 hours.
   (b)   Compliance with Other Regulations. All uses shall comply with applicable Federal, State and local regulations including any licensing requirements. Failure at any time to comply with such rules, regulations and licensing requirements shall be deemed to be a violation of this Planning and Zoning Code.
   (c)   Minimum Lot Width. For corner lots, whenever the regulations of this chapter specify a minimum lot width, such width shall be measured along the primary street frontage, as determined by the Zoning Commissioner.
   (d)   Obstructions in Sidewalks. Public sidewalks shall be kept clear of obstacles and the safe passage of pedestrians shall be maintained at all times.
   (e)   Restrictions on Business Hours, when Uses Abut Residential District.
      (1)   No use that abuts a residential district shall be open between 2:30 a.m. and 6:00 a.m. except as otherwise regulated in the Euclid Codified Ordinances or by the Planning and Zoning Commission as part of the approval of a conditional use.
      (2)   No car wash that abuts a residential district shall be permitted to operate between the hours of 11:00 p.m. and 8:00 a.m. Owners of such car washes shall implement reasonable and necessary measures to prevent access to and use of car wash facilities between the hours of 11:00 p.m. and 8:00 a.m.
   (f)   Landscaping and Buffering Requirements.
      (1)   Landscaping along the street frontage. Every lot in a U-4, U-5, or U-6 District shall provide a landscaped strip along the public street right-of-way, excluding driveway openings, in accordance with the following:
         A.   The landscaped strip shall be the area required for the front yard for the building and parking areas as set forth in Sections 1385.01 and 1385.02, but in no case shall the landscaped strip be less than 10 feet in depth, measured from the right-of-way.
         B.   The minimum landscaping shall consist of the following:
            1.   Three major shade trees shall be provided for every 100 linear feet of the landscaped strip or fraction thereof, not including drive entrances.
         Each tree, at the time of installation, shall have a clear trunk height of at least six feet and a minimum caliper of two inches.
            2.   Twenty shrubs shall be provided for every 100 linear feet of lot frontage or fraction thereof, not including drive entrances. Each shrub shall be container grown in not less than three gallon containers and shall not be less than 24 inches in height at time of planting and shall not be pruned to less than 24 inches in height.
         C.   All areas of a landscaped strip not devoted to trees and shrubs shall be planted with grass, ground cover or other live landscape treatment, excluding paving or gravel.
         D.   Any landscaped strip adjacent to a parking area shall be protected from encroachment by vehicles by a curb or other barrier system.
         E.   Trees and shrubs may be aggregated appropriately, as approved by the Architectural Board of Review.
      (2)   Buffer requirements for uses abutting Residential Districts. In locations where a use in a U-4, U-5 or U-6 District abuts a residential district, such use shall provide a buffer zone along the entire length of the common boundary between the U-4, U-5 or U-6 use and the residential district:
         A.   The buffer area shall have a minimum width of ten feet, measured from the lot line that abuts the residential district.
         B.   The buffer area shall be landscaped with grass, shrubbery and trees, as approved by the Architectural Board of Review.
         C.   The buffer area shall contain a solid fence or masonry wall three feet in height from the residential building line to the street and six feet in height from such residential building line to the rear of the residential district property line.
      (3)   General requirements for landscaping. Buffering and screening.
         A.   All screening shall be free of advertising or other signs, except for directional signs and other signs for the efficient flow of vehicles.
         B.   Trees and shrubs shall be arranged to create varied and attractive views and plant material should provide a variety of color displayed throughout the year.
         C.   All required landscaping shall be maintained in healthy condition and replaced when necessary. Replacement material shall conform to the original intent of the landscape plan.
         D.   Vehicle parking shall not be permitted in any landscaped area or area that is not paved.
      (4)   Flexibility in the arrangement and placement of landscaping and screening. The standards and criteria in this subsection (f) establish the City's levels of landscaping and buffering intensity expected. However, in applying these standards during the review of the landscaping plan the Architectural Review Board may:
         A.   Exercise discretion and flexibility with respect to the placement and arrangement of the required elements to assure that the objectives of the district and the proposed development or redevelopment are best satisfied.
         B.   Grant a waiver allowing existing conditions, trees and/or vegetation retained on site to be used to meet the landscaping and screening requirements when it can be determined that the proposed measures equal or exceed the intent and provisions of Section 1359.05(f).
      (5)   Applicability of landscaping and buffering requirements. Whenever a building, structure or parking area is proposed to be constructed, altered, or expanded, or a use established or expanded, the applicant shall submit a landscaping plan for review.
         A.   New construction. The requirements of this section shall apply to any new construction on a vacant lot or redeveloped site.
         B.   Alterations, expansions or new construction on developed site.
            1.   Whenever an existing building, structure or parking area is expanded or altered or new construction is proposed on a site with an existing building, structure or use, and the cost of the expansion, alteration or new construction exceeds 20% of the current total market value of the site as reported on the Cuyahoga County Auditor's records, the entire site shall be made to comply with the landscaping and screening requirements of this section.
            2.   Whenever the cost of expansion, alteration or new construction on a lot with an existing building, structure or use does not exceed 20% of the current total market value of the site as reported on the Cuyahoga County Auditor's records the minimum landscaping and screening required by this section shall, at a minimum, be provided on the portion of the lot where the alteration, expansion, or new construction is located.
         C.   Conditional uses. The Planning and Zoning Commission may also require compliance with the landscaping standards in its review of conditional uses.
   (g)   Metallic Door and Window Guards, Grates, Bars Shutters and Rolling Shutters. The installation or use of any type of metallic window guards or door guards, folding gates, grating or bars shutters or rolling shutters placed across doors or windows in a retail or commercial or industrial use or accessory building shall be conditioned upon the issuance of a special permit by the Planning and Zoning Commission. In reviewing the request for a special permit the business operator must demonstrate the following:
      (1)   That the business has reviewed the proposed use of any of the items listed in this section with a Crime Prevention Specialist from the Euclid Police Department and determined from that review that other options to provide the desired security are not practical due to physical limitations or cost.
      (2)   That unprotected windows and doors would be at risk to damage through crime or vandalism, to a degree which would constitute a hardship to the operation of the business. Evidence of hardship shall include but is not limited to the following:
         A.   Incidents of criminal activity or vandalism on site or in proximity to the subject property.
         B.   Incidents of criminal activity or vandalism at similar local business establishments.
         C.   Evidence of particular risk factors for crime or vandalism related to the specific location or physical features of the property, hours of operation and hours of non-operation.
         D.   Evidence of risks which may be specific to the trade or business involving the application.
      (3)   Upon finding a need for a special permit, in order to promote high standards of design and operation, the Planning and Zoning Commission shall: refer the special permit application to the Architectural Board of Review which shall review elevation drawings, and installation specifications materials construction documents and color samples based on compatibility with the following factors:
         A.   The system and installation of window or door guards, folding gates, grating or steel bars placed across doors or windows shall minimize visibility from public streets and where practical shall be entirely installed on the interior of the window and door frames.
         B.   The security system design and installation shall, as much as is practical, minimize the visibility of track and storage systems as they would be seen from the exterior of the building.
         C.   Any system to be installed within a multi tenant structure shall consider the context and impact on other tenants of the larger premises.
         D.   The design shall, to such degree as is practical, minimize the visual impact of the system in both the open and closed positions.
         E.   The design shall be visually compatible with the surrounding area and the general expectations of the specific use district and adjacent districts applicable to the subject property and its neighborhood context.
         F.   The owner or tenant shall participate in the City of Euclid “Knox Box” emergency entry program administered through the Fire Department.
(Ord. 201-2008. Passed 10-6-08; Ord. 110-2013. Passed 10-21-13.)
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