(A) Permitted Uses. The intent of Central Business District is to provide a commercial area for those establishments serving the general needs of the public. The grouping of uses is intended to strengthen the central business area as the urban center of trade, service, governmental, and cultural activities.
(1) The following principal uses and structures are permitted in the Central Business District:
(a) Retail sales of general merchandise. (Excluding adult bookstore, adult novelty store, adult video store meaning a commercial establishment which has a significant or substantial portion of its stock-in-trade or earns twenty-five percent (25%) or more of its revenues to the sale, rental of any form of books, magazines, photographs, films, motion pictures, video cassettes, slides, or other similar items.
(b) Limited to multi-family residences.
(c) Banks, general office building, finance, insurance, and real estate services.
(d) Hospitals and nursing homes.
(e) Physicians, dental and medical clinics and services, and other professional services.
(f) Business services.
(g) Appliance repair.
(h) Professional services.
(i) Governmental services.
(j) Educational services.
(k) Bus passenger and taxicab transportation.
(l) Churches, synagogues, and temples; funeral and crematory services; welfare and charitable services; and other public or semi-public associations and meeting places.
(m) Restaurants, pubs, taverns and other similar establishments. (Excluding adult cabaret meaning, nightclub, bar, restaurant, or similar commercial establishment, whether or not alcoholic beverages are served which regularly features: (a) persons who appear nude, semi-nude or in a state of semi-nudity; (b) live performances which are characterized by the exposure of "specified anatomical area or by pictures, video cassettes, slides, or other photographic reproductions which are characterized by the depiction or description of "specified sexual activities" or "specified anatomical areas".)
(n) Communication and utility uses.
(o) Public buildings and grounds.
(p) Automobile service stations.
(q) Hotels and motels.
(r) Automobile parking.
(s) Parks.
(t) Warehouses and Wholesale Establishments.
(B) Permitted Special Exceptions. The Board of Zoning Appeals as a permanent or temporary use may grant the following special exceptions.
(2) Other trade and service uses which are similar to the permitted principal uses and which conform to the intent of this district.
(3) Structures containing both commercial and residential uses, provided the residential uses are not on the ground floor.
(4) Accessory uses and structures are permitted in the Central Business.
(5) All other uses and structures that are not specifically allowed or not permissible as special exceptions shall be prohibited in the Central Business District.
(Ord. 1999-15, passed 12-6-99; Am. Ord. 2022-10, passed 5-10-22)