10-12-3: PERMITTED USES:
   A.   The following retail business and service uses are permitted, provided they are operated entirely within a building, except for off street parking and loading facilities:
Air conditioning and heating sales and service.
Antique shops.
Art and school supply stores.
Art galleries and studios.
Bakery shops, including the baking and processing of food products, when prepared for retail use on the premises only.
Banks and financial institutions.
Barbershops, beauty parlors, chiropody, massage or similar personal service shops.
Book and stationery stores.
Camera and photographic supply shops for retail sales.
Candy and ice cream shops.
Carpet, rug and linoleum stores.
China and glassware stores.
Clubs and lodges (nonprofit), private, fraternal or religious institutions. It shall be permissible for a private club or lodge to serve food and meals on such premises provided that adequate dining room space and kitchen facilities are available. The sale of alcoholic beverages to members and their guests shall be allowed in conjunction with the operation of a dining room, for the purpose of serving food and meals, though such beverages may be served in a separate room or rooms, and provided that such sale of alcoholic beverages is in compliance with the applicable federal, state and county laws.
Coin and philatelic stores.
Coin operated amusement devices, as an accessory use.
Currency exchanges.
Custom dressmaking, millinery, tailoring or shoe repair shops, when conducted for retail sales on the premises only.
Dance studios, exercise studios, self- defense classes, tutoring and similar uses.
Department stores.
Drugstores.
Dry cleaning and laundry receiving establishments, processing to be done elsewhere.
Dry cleaning and pressing establishments, when employing facilities for the cleaning and pressing of not more than seven hundred fifty (750) pounds of dry goods per day, and when using perchlorethylene or other similar nonflammable solvents approved by the fire department.
Dry cleaning establishments, coin operated, self-service.
Dry goods stores.
Dwellings provided that no dwelling units are located on the ground floor of the structure. Dwelling units on the ground floor at the time of passage hereof shall be deemed a legal nonconforming use.
Educational facilities: public or private facility that provides teaching and learning. Uses include elementary, junior, senior high schools, college, and university where the primary activity is classroom learning for the purpose of required curriculum, exclusive of the ground floor space in the B-1 Business District, limited retail. Educational facilities do not include locations providing learning activities in connection with extra-curricular activities. Examples include but are not limited to dance studios, exercise studios, self- defense classes, tutoring.
Electrical appliance stores and repairs, but not including appliance assembly or manufacture.
Employment agencies.
Exterminating shops.
Florist shops and conservatories, for retail trade on the premises only.
Food, meat and fruit stores.
Frozen food stores and food lockers.
Furniture stores, and upholstery when conducted as a part of the retail operations and secondary to the main use.
Furrier shops, including accessory uses such as the storage and conditioning of furs.
Garages, public, for storage of private passenger automobiles and commercial vehicles under one and one- half (11/2) tons.
Garden supply and seed stores.
Gift shops.
Haberdasheries.
Hardware stores.
Hobby stores, for retailing of items to be assembled or used away from the premises.
Hotels and motels.
Household appliance stores and repair.
Interior decorating shops, including upholstery and making of draperies, slipcovers and other similar articles when conducted as a part of the retail operations and secondary to the main use.
Jewelry store, including watch repair shops.
Laboratories, medical and dental.
Laundries, automatic self-service type, or hand.
Leather goods and luggage stores.
Libraries.
Loan offices.
Locksmith shops.
Meeting halls.
Millinery shops.
Music stores, sheet music and phonograph record sales.
Musical instrument sales and repair, retail trade only.
Newspaper distribution agencies, for house delivery and retail trade.
Newsstand.
Office supply stores.
Offices, business and professional, including medical clinics and public.
Optician, optometrist.
Orthopedic and medical appliance stores, but not including assembly or manufacture of such articles.
Paint and wallpaper stores.
Parking lot, public for the storage of private passenger automobiles and commercial vehicles under one and one- half (11/2) tons.
Pet shops, but not including animal hospitals.
Photo developing and processing.
Photography studios, including development of film and pictures when done as a part of the retail business on the premises.
Physical culture and health services, gymnasiums, reducing salons, masseurs and public baths.
Picture framing, when conducted on the premises for retail trade.
Plumbing and heating, sales and shops for residential and commercial installations only.
Postal substations.
Public utility and public service uses, including: public art galleries and museums; public libraries; telephone exchanges; repeater stations; microwave relay towers and stations; mobile transmitting towers and stations, antenna towers and other outdoor equipment essential to the operation of the exchange in the interest of public convenience and necessity; bus terminal or other public transportation terminal facilities and other similar uses.
Public utility collection offices.
Publishing establishments.
Radio and television service and repair shops.
Recording studios.
Restaurants, tearooms or cafes, provided no dancing or entertainment.
Savings and loan associations.
Sewing machine sales and service, household machines only.
Shoe and hat stores, and repairing when done as a part of the retail business.
Signs, as regulated by chapter 18 of this title.
Sporting goods stores.
Telegraph offices.
Telephone booths, public.
Theaters, indoor.
Tobacco shops.
Toy stores.
Transient merchandising.
Travel bureau and transportation ticket offices.
Typewriter and adding machine sales and services.
Variety stores.
Wearing apparel shops.
Accessory uses, including off street parking and loading facilities, as permitted or required in accordance with the provisions of chapter 19 of this title.
   B.   The following uses are also permitted except in the area bordered by 6th Street on the east, 10th Street on the west, the alley between Avenues G and F on the north, and Avenue H on the south:
Churches, rectories, seminaries, convents, monasteries, and similar religious institutions, including dormitories and other accessory uses required for operation, provided the yard areas and lot coverage comply with those required in the R-4 one-family dwelling district.
Educational facilities: public or private facility that provides teaching and learning. Uses include elementary, junior, senior high schools, college, and university where the primary activity is classroom learning for the purpose of required curriculum.
Home occupations.
One-family detached dwellings, provided the yard areas and lot coverage comply with those required in the R-4 one-family dwelling district.
Two-family dwellings, provided the yard areas and lot coverage comply with those required in the R-5 two-family dwelling district.
Permitted accessory uses, provided the yard areas and lot coverage comply with those required in the R-4 one-family dwelling district. (Ord. B-39, 1969; amd. Ord. B-66, 7-21-1970; Ord. B-380, 8-17-1982; Ord. C-099, 11-19-1991; Ord. C-243, 7-5-1995; Ord. C-250, 11-21-1995; Ord. C-252, 12-5-1995; Ord. C-353, 11-5-2001; Ord. C-419, 5-17-2005; Ord. C-492, 7-20-2010; Ord. D-56, 11-4-2019; Ord. D-58, 1-7-2020)