(a) This Section classifies land uses and activities into use categories on the basis of common functional, product, or physical characteristics. Characteristics include the type and amount of activity, the type of customers or residents, how goods or services are sold or delivered, and certain other site factors. The use categories provide a systematic basis for assignment of uses to zoning districts.
(b) For the purposes of this Zoning Ordinance, use categories are classified as follows:
(1) “Adult Entertainment Businesses” Adult Entertainment Business is an adult book store, adult cabaret, adult motion picture theater, adult drive-in motion picture theater, or an adult only entertainment establishment as further defined in Chapter 707: Adult Entertainment Businesses, of the City of Fremont Codified Ordinances.
(2) “Adult Family Homes” A residence or facility, licensed by an agency of the State of Ohio, that provides accommodations from three (3) to five (5) unrelated adults and also provides supervision and personal care for at least three (3) persons.
(3) “Adult Group Homes” A residence or facility licensed by an agency of the State of Ohio, that accommodates from six (6) to sixteen (16) unrelated adults and also provides supervision and personal care for at least three (3) persons.
(4) "Agriculture" includes: animal husbandry or poultry husbandry and the production for a commercial purpose of field crops, fruits, vegetables, timber, nursery stock, ornamental shrubs, ornamental trees, flowers or sod, or any combination of such husbandry or production.
(5) "Assisted Living Center" A residential facility, which has individual housing units. The facility may offer limited housekeeping and medical services to the residents. Units may have small kitchen facilities in the individual units.
(6) "Automated Teller Machine" An automated device that performs banking or financial functions at a location remote from the controlling financial institution.
(7) "Automatic Car Wash" Any structure or part thereof used for the washing of cars either by manual or assembly line techniques, utilizing employees or the car owner or a combination of both.
(8) "Bed and Breakfast Homestay" A privately owner-occupied residence with one (1) to three (3) guest rooms. The bed and breakfast homestay shall be subordinate and incidental to the main residential use of the building. The maximum stay allowable is fourteen (14) consecutive days.
(9) "Bed and Breakfast Inn" A bed and breakfast operated as a business in which the owner may live on the premises but is not required to do so. A bed and breakfast inn shall obtain a commercial license and shall contain four (4) or more guest rooms. The maximum stay allowable is fourteen (14) consecutive days.
(10) "Boarding House" A dwelling or part thereof, other than a hotel, motel or restaurant where meals and/or lodging are provided for compensation, for three (3) or more unrelated persons where no cooking or dining facilities are provided in the individual room.
(11) "Building Maintenance Services" An establishment providing maintenance and custodial services to commercial and industrial establishments. Typical uses include janitorial and window cleaning services. Also includes exterminator services for residential, commercial or industrial applications.
(12) "Business Equipment Sales and Services" Sale, rental, or repair of office, professional, and service equipment and supplies to the firms themselves rather than to individuals. Excludes Construction Sales and Service and Vehicle Sales and Service. Typical uses include office equipment and supply firms, small business machine repair shops and hotel equipment and supply firms.
(13) "Business support services" Provision of clerical, employment, protective, or minor processing services to firms rather than individuals. Storage of goods other than samples is prohibited. Typical uses include secretarial services, telephone answering services and blueprint services. Also includes business or trade schools that do not involve any outdoor storage or manufacturing processes. Business or trades schools that involve outdoor storage or manufacturing processes are classified as Limited Manufacturing and Production.
(14) "Campground" Any tract of land upon which two (2) or more portable camping units are placed, and includes any roadway, building, structure, vehicle, or enclosure used or intended for use as a part of the facilities of such camp. A tract of land which is subdivided for lease or other contract of the individual lots is a campground if two (2) or more portable camping units are placed thereon for temporary habitation. "Campground" does not include any tract of land used solely for the storage or display for sale of portable camping units.
(15) "Carnivals" A traveling amusement show that temporarily locates in a defined area for a period of not more than fourteen (14) days. Carnivals shall meet all state and local licensing requirements. For purposes of this Zoning Ordinance, the terms circus and carnival are interchangeable.
(16) "Cemetery" Means land used or intended to be used for the burial of the human or animal dead and dedicated for cemetery purposes.
(17) "Chemical waste disposal or petroleum waste disposal" The discharge, deposit, injection, dumping, spilling, leaking, emitting, or placing of any chemical or petroleum wastes into or on any land or ground or surface water or into the air.
(18) "Clinic" A building designed and used for the diagnosis and treatment of human patients that does not include overnight care facilities.
(19) "Commercial entertainment facilities" Any activity which is generally related to the entertainment field such as motion picture theaters, nightclubs, cocktail lounges, private clubs and other similar activities.
(20) "Commercial parking lot" Facilities that provide parking that is not accessory to a specific use. A fee may or may not be charged. A facility that provides both accessory parking for a specific use and regular fee parking for people not connected to the use is also classified as a Commercial Parking use. Vehicles located on the property must have valid license plates associated with and displayed on each individual vehicle. All activities associated with vehicle sales or advertisements for vehicles sales are not permitted at the facility. A facility that provides parking or storage of vehicles without valid license plates is considered Vehicle Storage.
(21) "Communication service establishments" Means broadcasting and other information relay services accomplished through use of electronic and telephonic mechanisms. Excludes services classified as "utilities." Typical uses include recording studios, television and radio studios, telecommunication service centers, switching centers and cable transmitting stations, and telegraph service offices.
(22) "Condominium development" Means any condominium property consisting of two or more individual dwelling units contained in a single structure, together with undivided interests in the common area and facilities of the property.
(23) "Contractors, special trades" A use where the principal activity is the storage of equipment and materials related to building or landscaping contractors. Such use may also include office space for the business. Such uses are typically related to the construction industry and may include, but are not limited to, plumbing, heating, roofing, interior remodeling, excavating, and landscaping contractors.
(24) "Crematory" A facility designed for the cremation of human and/or animal remains. Includes a principal use having a crematory machine as an accessory use.
(25) "Day care center, child and adult; nursery school" A facility conducted for profit that provides day care for pre-school children or adults. Nursery school and day care centers are considered the same for purposes of this Zoning Ordinance.
(26) "Detached one family dwelling" A dwelling consisting of a single dwelling unit only, separated from other dwelling units by open space and designed for occupancy exclusively by one (1) family. Also termed a single-family dwelling.
(27) "Detention basins" An enclosure designed to detain storm water during designated flood interval storms. Detention basins are not designed to hold water permanently and are required to be designed by an engineer as part of an overall drainage plan for a residential subdivision, or commercial/industrial development.
(28) "Donation/Recycling Drop-Off Bins" A receptacle, container, box, storage unit, or other portable structure placed outdoors and intended and used for the collection of charitable or for-profit donated items by the general public of clothing, shoes, books, toys, household items or other non-perishable goods and materials.
(29) "Drive-through commercial use" A specific form of commercial use characterized by business transactions from a stopped, but not parked, vehicle within a structure or its extension.
(30) "Dumps" A lot or land or part thereof used primarily for the licensed disposal by abandonment, dumping, burial or burning or any other means and for whatever purposes, of garbage, sewage, trash, refuse, junk, discarded machinery, vehicles or parts thereof, or waste materials of any kind.
(31) "Dwelling unit(s) above business or office" Upper-story units configured as detached, attached, or multiunit dwellings, as long as they are located above a ground floor business or office.
(32) “Electric vehicle charging station” also called EV charging station, electric recharging point, charging point, charge point, electronic charging station (ECS), and electric vehicle supply equipment (EVSE), is an element in an infrastructure that supplies electric energy for the recharging of plug-in electric vehicles.
(33) "Extraction operations and soil mining" Means the extraction of minerals including: solids, such as gravel and/or sand; liquids, such as crude petroleum; and gases, such as natural gases. The term includes the functions of quarrying; well operation; milling, such as crushing, screening, washing and flotation; and other preparation customarily done at the mine with or as part of the mining activity.
(34) "Financial, insurance and real estate services" An establishment that provides financial, insurance, real estate or securities brokerage services. Typical uses include banks, insurance agencies and real estate firms. Includes payday loan and other alternative financial establishments.
(35) "Food processing" Means the preparation, storage, or processing of food products. Examples of this activity include bakeries, dairies, canneries and other similar businesses.
(36) "Funeral home " Means an establishment primarily engaged in the provision of services involving the care, preparation or disposition of human dead. Typical uses include funeral parlors, mortuaries or columbaria.
(37) "Garages, private parking area" Means a detached, fully enclosed building or portion of a principal building for the parking or temporary storage of vehicles, travel trailers and/or boats of the occupants of the premises, and where not more than two (2) spaces are rented for parking to persons not residents of the premises.
(38) "Garages, public" Means a principal or accessory building other than a private garage, used for parking or temporary storage of passenger automobiles and in which no servicing of automobiles is permitted.
(39) "Golf club or country club" Includes clubhouses with bar and restaurant, locker and shower facilities; driving ranges; "pro shops" for on-site sales of golfing equipment; and golf cart storage and sales facilities.
(40) "Government offices and safety service facilities" Services that provide administrative, clerical or public contact offices of a government agency or provide fire, life, and safety protection to a district or entity together with incidental storage and maintenance of vehicles. Typical uses include federal, state and local governmental offices, post offices, fire stations, police stations and ambulance services. fire stations, police stations and ambulance services.
(41) "Half-way house" Means residential homes licensed by an agency of the State of Ohio for adolescent or adult offenders who have been institutionalized and released or who have alcohol or drug addiction which make operation in society difficult and who require the protection of a group setting. A halfway house is not a boarding house.
(42) "Higher Educational and other Institutions" Means an institution of higher education or a semi-public institution owned or operated by a non-profit agency, private institution or foundation. Provides curricula of a general, religious, or professional nature, typically granting recognized degrees, including conference centers and academic retreats associated with such institutions. This classification includes business and computer schools, management training, technical and trade schools, but excludes personal instructional services, such as music studios, diet centers, beauty schools/reducing salons, martial arts, yoga and workout studios.
(43) "Home occupation" Means any use customarily conducted entirely within a dwelling or accessory building and carried on only by members of a family residing on the premises thereof which use is clearly incidental and secondary to the use of the dwelling for dwelling purposes and does not change the character of the dwelling exterior or accessory building.
(44) "Homeless shelter" Means a facility for the short-term housing for individuals who are homeless and who may require special services.
(45) "Hospice" Means an administrative office that provides coordinated holistic care and support for persons who are in the terminal phase of illness (6 months or less) and their families. For the purposes of this Zoning Ordinance a hospice is a home-care oriented service. The administrative office is primarily used for program coordination, training, overall administration and periodic meetings.
(46) "Hospital" means a building(s) designed and used for the treatment of human injury, illness and/or infirmity. To be classified as a hospital as determined by this Zoning Ordinance, the facility must either have around the clock twenty-four (24) hour care by physicians, house inpatients overnight for professional medical care, or have facilities that handle emergency treatment on a regular basis. A hospital includes for the provision for human health care and the normal ancillary uses associated therein.
(47) "Hotel" means a building in which lodging or boarding are provided and offered to the public for compensation and in which ingress and egress to and from all rooms is made through an inside lobby or office supervised by a person in charge at all hours. A "hotel" is open to the public in contradistinction to a boarding house.
(48) "Junk yards, scrap and salvage operations" Means any place where two (2) or more motor vehicles not in running condition, or parts thereof, are stored in the open, in a fenced area or in a partially enclosed building, and are not being restored to operation; or any land used for wrecking and not restoration to operating condition and including an open area where waste, scrap metal, used building materials, paper, rags or similar materials are brought, sold, exchanged, stored, baled, packed, disassembled or handled, but excluding such uses taking place entirely within a completely enclosed building.
(49) "Laundry or dry cleaning plant" A service establishment engaged primarily in high volume laundry and garment services, including: carpet and upholstery cleaners; diaper services; dry cleaning and garment pressing; commercial laundries; linen supply. These facilities may include accessory customer pick-up facilities. These facilities do not include coin-operated laundries or dry cleaning pickup stores without dry cleaning equipment.
(50) "Libraries or Cultural Centers" means a nonprofit institution engaged primarily in the performing arts or in the display or preservation of objects of interest in the arts or sciences that are open to the public on a regular basis. This classification includes performing arts centers for theater, dance and events, museums, historical sites, art galleries, libraries, aquariums and observatories.
(51) "Living quarter of person employed on premises" An accessory independent sleeping area or dwelling unit added to, created within, or detached from and on the same lot as the principal use.
(52) "Manufacture of explosives, fireworks, gunpowder, and ammunition" A chemical compound, mixture or device, the primary or common purpose of which is to function by explosion. The term includes, but is not limited to, dynamite, black powder, pellet powder, initiating explosives, detonators, safety fuses, squibs, detonating cord, igniter cord, igniters and display fireworks.
(53) "Manufactured home park" Means a tract of land which is used or intended to be used for the parking of two (2) or more manufactured homes.
(54) “Manufactured home" Means a nonself-propelled vehicle so designed, constructed, reconstructed or added to by means of occupancy for human habitation, when connected to utilities, whether resting on wheels, jacks, blocks or other temporary foundations and used or so constructed to permit it being used as a conveyance upon the public streets and highways; and exceeding gross weight of 4,500 pounds and an overall length of thirty (30) feet.
(55) "Manufacturing, intensive" Manufacture, fabrication, extraction, assembly and other handling of material that have nuisance conditions that are detectable from the boundaries of the subject property and/or have adverse effect on neighboring uses.
(56) "Manufacturing, light" Manufacturing involving light mechanical operations and assembling articles the operations of which are free from nuisance characteristics and have no adverse effect on neighboring uses.
(57) "Marina" Means an area having water access which is used for boat sales, service, docking, mooring and storage, and/or including boat rebuilding and repairing and other necessary marina-related accessory uses. This classification includes public docks, yacht clubs, boat clubs and boatels.
(58) "Medical marijuana dispensary" A business that sells medical marijuana as authorized by Chapter 3796 of the Ohio Revised Code.
(59) "Medical services" Means offices organized as a unified facility for more than two licensed physicians, dentists, chiropractors, or other health care professionals providing diagnosis or care of sick or injured persons but are not provided with room and board and are not kept overnight on the premises. Medical Services include medical and dental laboratories incidental to the medical office use.
(60) "Microbrewery" An establishment with a primarily use as a bar or tavern where beer, or other alcoholic beverage is manufactured on the premises in a limited quantity subordinate to the primary table service restaurant use. A microbrewery may include some off-site distribution of its alcoholic beverages consistent with state law.
(61) "Motel" Means a building or group of buildings containing individual living and sleeping accommodations for hire, each with individual exterior entrances, primarily for the use of transient automobile travelers. The term "motel" also includes every type of similar establishment designated as a hotel, auto court, tourist court, tourist cabin, motor hotel, motor lodge, etc.
(62) "Multi-family dwelling" Means a dwelling consisting of four (4) or more dwelling units with varying arrangement of entrances and party walls, and designed for occupancy by families or unrelated individuals.
(63) "Museum or art gallery" A public or semi-public facility that displays, preserves, and exhibits objects of community, cultural, or scientific interest.
(64) "Nursing home" A home used for the reception and care of individuals who by reason of illness or physical or mental impairment require skilled nursing care and personal assistance. A nursing home shall be licensed to provide personal assistance and skilled nursing care.
(65) "Office, administrative and professional" Professional, executive, management, or administrative offices of private organizations. Typical uses include administrative offices, doctors, lawyers, accountants, architects, engineers, and similar professions. Does not include, insurance, real estate, or medical services.
(66) "Outdoor advertising sign, off-premise" An outdoor advertising device whose advertising copy promotes or advertises an activity, service, event, or product located on property other than property at which such activity or service occurs or which product is sold or manufactured, or an advertising device erected for the purpose of selling or exchanging advertising messages for pecuniary benefit.
(67) "Outdoor Bulk Storage" The outdoor storage of bulk goods, raw materials, or products. Bulk goods or products shall be defined as any products, goods, junk, material, merchandise, or vehicles associated with the principal land use.
(68) "Outdoor Furnaces" Means any equipment, device, appliance or apparatus, or any part thereof, which is installed, affixed or situated outdoors for the primary purpose of combustion of fuel to produce heat or energy used as a component of a heating system providing heat for any interior space or water source. An outdoor furnace may also be referred to as an "external wood burning appliance" an "outdoor wood boiler" or an "outdoor wood-fired hydronic heater."
(69) "Outdoor Sales" The placement of products or materials for sale or lease outside of a retail or wholesale sales establishment.
(70) "Parks and open space, passive " Areas used or designed for individual sports and recreation uses of a passive nature. Typical uses include golf courses (although golf course club houses are considered an "active recreation" use); hiking, bicycle and equestrian trails; greens and commons; sitting areas; picnic areas; botanical gardens; arboretums; conservatories; and natural wildlife or plant habitat areas.
(71) "Parks and recreational facilities, active" Means recreational pursuits, usually performed with others and often requiring equipment, that require physical alteration to the area in which they are performed. Such areas are intensively used and include, but are not limited to, playgrounds, sport courts, baseball/soft ball and other field sports, and swimming pools along with facilities incidental to the operation of public recreational uses, such as refreshment stands and small concessionaire shops. May also include public and community recreation buildings, band shells and outdoor theaters.
(72) "Personal convenience sales and services" Establishments primarily engaged in retail sales and personal services involving local neighborhood-oriented businesses which meets the day-to-day needs of persons residing nearby. Such businesses may include a small grocery store, drugstore, barbershop, beauty shop, beauty salon, laundromat and similar uses.
(73) "Personal improvement services" Includes informational, instructional, and personal improvement services available in a storefront or retail setting. Typical uses include body tattoo and piercing shops health clubs, exercise or aerobic studios, yoga or dance studios, martial arts studios, music studios, driving schools, and other types of instructional studios.
(74) "Personal storage" Means a business use of buildings for rental or storage space. All storage shall be contained within buildings and no use of open land for storage is permitted.
(75) "Pharmacy" An establishment engaged in the retail sale of prescription drugs, nonprescription medicines and related supplies.
(76) "Physician's office" The use of offices and related spaces for such professional services as are provided by medical practitioners.
(77) "Ponds" Means a body of water, of which none of the excavated material has been removed from the site for commercial purposes and is used for the following purposes: to provide water for livestock, fish and wildlife, recreation, fire control or drainage retention. For purposes of this Zoning Ordinance any pond used for swimming shall be classified as a swimming pool and shall meet the requirements of Chapter 1127: Use Classification Tables, and Section 1131.15: Ponds, Water Gardens, Fish/Coy Ponds.
(78) "Public utility or public transportation use" Means the erection, construction, alteration, operation or maintenance of buildings, power plants or substations, water treatment plants or pumping stations, sewage disposal or pumping plants and other similar public service structures by a public utility, whether publicly or privately owned, or by a municipal or other governmental agency, including the furnishing of electric, gas, transportation, communication, public water and sewerage services.
(79) "Recreational vehicle (RV) parks" means any tract of land used for parking two or more self-contained recreational vehicles and includes any roadway, building, structure, vehicle, or enclosure used or intended for use as part of the park facilities and any tract of land that is subdivided for lease or other contract of the individual lots for the express or implied purpose of placing self-contained recreational vehicles for recreation, vacation, or business purposes. "Recreational vehicle park" does not include any tract of land used solely for the storage or display for sale of self-contained recreational vehicles, solely as a temporary park-camp, or solely as a manufactured home park.
(80) "Recycling collection facilities" A facility for the collection and/or processing of recyclable materials. A recycling facility does not include storage containers or processing activity located on the premises of a residential, commercial, or manufacturing use and used solely for the recycling of material generated by that residential property, business or manufacturer. Recycling facilities may include the following: a building or enclosed space used for the collection and processing of recyclable materials. Processing means the preparation of material for efficient shipment, or to an end-user's specifications, by such means as baling, briquetting, compacting, flattening, grinding, crushing, mechanical sorting, shredding, cleaning, and remanufacturing.
(81) "Religious places of worship" Religious services involving public assembly such as customarily occurs in synagogues, temples, mosques, and churches.
(82) "Research laboratories" An establishment primarily engaged in the research, development and controlled production of high technology electronic, industrial or scientific products or commodities for sale. This classification includes biotechnology firms and manufacturers of nontoxic computer components.
(83) "Restaurant" "Restaurant" means an establishment providing for the sale of prepared food products to the general public. Alcoholic beverages may be sold on the premises.
(84) "Restaurant, carry-out" means an establishment whose primary function is the offering of food and beverages which are sold only inside the building, and are usually packaged to be carried and consumed off of the premises, but may be consumed within the restaurant building or on the premises.
(85) "Restaurant, drive-in" means an establishment offering food and beverages which are sold within the building, or to persons while in motor vehicles in an area designated for drive-in service, and may be consumed on or off the premises.
(86) "Restaurant, sit down" means an establishment whose primary function is the offering of food and beverages which are sold and normally consumed within the restaurant building. Entertainment may be provided on the premises.
(87) "Retail business" Means an establishment which not only sells merchandise but provides service for the repair or replacement of that or other merchandise purchased or previously owned by consumers.
(88) "Satellite dish" Means a structure erected for the purpose of receiving satellite television signals.
(89) "Schools, Public and Parochial" Public and private schools at the primary, elementary, middle, junior high, or high school level that provide state-mandated basic education.
(90) "Self-service laundry" An establishment providing washing, drying, machines on the premises for rental use to the general public.
(91) "Small cell facilities" See Section 1135.02: Definitions.
(92) "Solar energy systems (panels)” An energy system which converts solar energy to usable thermal mechanical chemical or electrical energy to meet all or a significant part of a buildings energy requirements
(93) "Specialized animal raising and care" Means the use of land and buildings for the raising and care of four (4) or more fur bearing animals such as rabbits and domestic pets; animal kennels, pigeon raising, and the raising of any other domestic animals of similar nature.
(94) "Sports and recreation, participant" Provision of sports or recreation primarily by and for participants. Spectators would be incidental and on a nonrecurring basis. Typical uses include bowling alleys, billiard parlors, dance halls, skating rinks, physical fitness centers. driving ranges, miniature golf courses, and swimming pools.
(95) "Sweepstake terminal café" See Section 749.03: Definitions of the City of Fremont Codified Ordinances.
(96) "Swimming pool" Means a pool, pond or open tank, not otherwise herein defined and regulated, either in-ground or above ground, not completely enclosed in a building and containing at least one and five-tenth (1.5) feet of water at any point.
(97) "Swimming pool, public" means any pool, pond or open tank, either in ground or above ground, not completely enclosed in a building that is operated as a business either in and of itself or as an accessory use to an on-site business.
(98) "Temporary uses and structures buildings" A structure or use permitted for limited duration with the intent that such use will terminate or the structure will be removed automatically upon expiration of the fixed time period. A temporary structure is without a foundation or footing.
(99) "Three-family dwelling" Means a residential structure consisting of three (3) dwelling units which may be either attached side by side or one (1) above the other, and each unit having a separate or combined entrance or entrances; also known as a triplex.
(100) "Two-family dwelling" Means a residential structure consisting of two (2) dwelling units which may be either attached side by side or one (1) above the other, and each unit having a separate or combined entrance or entrances; also known as a duplex.
(101) "Type A family day care home" A permanent residence of the administrator in which child day-care is provided for four (4) to twelve (12) children at one time, if four (4) or more children are under two (2) years of age. In counting children for purposes of this definition, any children under six (6) years of age who are related to a licensee, administrator, or employee and who are on the premises shall be counted. The term "Type A Family Day Care Home" does not include a residence in which the needs of children are administered to, if all such children are siblings or the same immediate family and the residence is their home.
(102) "Type B family day care home" A permanent resident of the provider in which child day-care or child day-care services are provided for one (1) to six (6) children at one time and in which no more than three (3) children may be under two (2) years of age at any one time. In counting children for the purposes of this definition, any children under six (6) years of age that are related to the provider and are on the premises of the Type B Home shall be counted. The term "Type B Family Day-Care Home" does not include a residence in which the needs of children are administered to, if all such children are siblings or the same immediate family and the residence is their home.
(103) "Utility building" Means a detached accessory building used for the purpose of storing equipment and materials and/or for housing parts of electrical, plumbing and heating services for the main building.
(104) "Vehicle repair" Means the repair, rebuilding or reconditioning of motor vehicles or parts thereof, including collision service, painting and steam cleaning of vehicles.
(105) "Vehicle sales and service; new, used & rental" Facilities where new or vehicle, commercial trucks, mobile homes, and/ recreational vehicles, in operational condition, are sold, leased (short- or long-term), serviced, or stored.
(106) "Vehicle service station" Means a place where gasoline, kerosene or any other motor fuel or lubricating oil or grease for operating motor vehicles is offered for sale to the public and deliveries are made directly into motor vehicles. Includes the retail electric charging of vehicles Such station may include greasing and oiling on the premises and replacement or installation of minor parts and motor replacement, body and fender repair, spray painting, upholstery work, auto glasswork, welding, tire recapping, auto dismantling or major mechanical repair.
(107) "Veterinarian office, animal hospital or kennels"
A. "Veterinary office or animal hospital" Services provided by licensed veterinary practitioners primarily engaged in the practice of veterinary medicine, dentistry, animal surgery, or testing services for licensed veterinary practitioners. Examples include animal hospitals, veterinary clinics, veterinarians' offices, and veterinary testing laboratories.
B. "Kennel" means any lot or premises on which four (4) or more domesticated animals of the same species, more than four (4) months of age are housed, groomed, bred, boarded, trained or sold, and which may offer provision of minor medical treatment.
(108) "Wholesale, storage and distribution, heavy" Open-air storage, distribution, and handling of materials and equipment, or bulk storage of fuel. Typical uses include monument or stone yards, grain elevators and large-scale fuel storage.
(109) "Wholesale, storage and distribution, light" Wholesaling, storage, and warehousing services within enclosed structures. Typical uses include wholesale distributors, storage warehouses and moving and storage firms.
(111) "Wireless telecommunication facilities" Any unmanned facility established for the purpose of providing wireless transmission of voice, data, images or other information including such as cellular telephone service. A wireless telecommunication facility can consist of one or more antennas and accessory equipment or one base station.
(Ord. 2020-4053. Passed 1-7-21.)
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