(A) Intent. The intent of this section in establishing a Downtown Commerce District is in recognition of the existing downtown commercial development and the need for its future expansion, rehabilitation and redevelopment.
(B) Uses permitted.
(1) Commercial establishments including, but not limited to, the following:
(a) Retail establishments such as grocery, hardware, drug, clothing and furniture stores; eating and drinking places; auto dealers; and automobile service stations;
(b) Personal services such as laundry, barber, shoe repair and photography studio;
(c) Professional services such as medical and dental clinic and attorney’s offices;
(d) Repair services such as automobile, jewelry and radio and television repair shops;
(e) Entertainment and amusement services such as motion picture theater and bowling alley;
(f) Lodging services such as hotel and motel;
(g) Finance, insurance and real estate services;
(h) Manufacturing of clothing apparel and other fabrics, manufacturing of wood furniture and fixtures, and machining of small parts for operation of general machine shop; and
(i) Brew or tap rooms, known as “brew pubs” pursuant to M.S. § 340A.301(b), and small brewer establishments, also known as “craft brew”, and also known as brew on premises stores, pursuant to M.S. § 340A.301(6)(d); and
(j) Retail establishments that sell THC edibles pursuant to Chapter 117.
(2) Public and semi-public buildings such as post office, fire station and City Hall;
(3) Private clubs;
(4) Apartments provided they are located above the first floor level;
(5) Automobile parking lots; and
(6) Accessory uses incidental to the foregoing principal uses such as off-street parking and loading and unloading areas, signs, storage of merchandise and wholesaling and manufacturing when incidental to a permitted use.
(C) Uses by special permit. None.
(2003 Code, § 9.21) (Ord. passed 2-16-1953; Ord. 86-9, passed 11-14-1986; Ord. 168, passed 6-5-2014; Ord. 21, passed 11-7-2022)