(A) General description. This commercial district is for personal and business services and general business activity. This district is established for the accommodation of those specified retail and business services activities that typically may be located and grouped along a major street or about a major street intersection or highway.
(B) Uses permitted. The following uses shall be permitted in the Commercial District:
(1) Retail establishments, including incidental manufacturing of goods for sale at retail on the premises, provided, however, that the space devoted to manufacturing does not exceed 20% of the gross floor area of the establishment; sales and display rooms and lots, not including yards for storage of new or used building materials or yards for any scrap of new or used building materials or yards for any scrap or salvage, or secondhand materials. The storage, display, and sale of used, repossessed, or traded-in merchandise incidental to a retail operation engaged primarily in the sale of new merchandise, if permitted;
(2) Eating and drinking establishments;
(3) Service and repair establishments;
(4) Personal service establishments;
(5) Hotel, motels, rooms, and boarding houses (and travel parks) as regulated in § 155.55;
(6) Commercial recreational structures and uses, such as theaters, bowling alleys, pool rooms, amusement and recreation establishments, but not including miniature golf courses, driving ranges, and similar uses provided such structures meet all ordinances concerning public health, fire codes, morality codes, and all current building codes;
(7) Parking lots and garages;
(8) New and used car, truck, motorcycle, farm implement, and machinery sales, service, or rentals (U-Haul type);
(9) Manufactured home sales and service;
(10) Offices, studios, human health services clinics, and laboratories;
(11) Financial institutions;
(12) Private clubs and lodges;
(13) Outdoor advertising as regulated in § 155.62;
(14) Auditoriums provided such structures meet all ordinances concerning public health, fire codes, morality codes, and all current building codes;
(15) Public or municipal swimming pools as subject to § 155.67;
(16) Public buildings and grounds other than elementary or high schools;
(17) Business and vocational schools not involving operations of an industrial character;
(18) Wholesale and distributing centers not involving the use of any delivery vehicle rated at more than two and one-half ton capacity; nor a total of more than five delivery vehicles;
(19) On the same premises, and in connection with permitted principal uses and structures, other uses and structures which are customarily accessory and clearly incidental to permitted or permissible uses and structures;
(20) Any other store or shop for retail trade or for rendering personal, professional, or business service which does not produce more noise, dust, odor, vibration, blast, or traffic than those permitted uses enumerated above;
(21) Dwelling units will be allowed in multi-storied structures wherein the street or ground floor level is occupied by one of the permitted retail or business services enumerated above; and
(22) Other uses similar in character to those enumerated above and which in the opinion of the governing body will not be injurious to the district.
(C) Uses permitted on review. Uses may be permitted on review by the governing body in accordance with the provisions contained in § 155.89.
(D) Area regulations. The following requirements shall apply to all uses permitted in this district:
(1) Front yard: none;
(2) Side yard: no side yard is required except that the width of a side yard which abuts a residential district shall be not less than 25 feet;
(3) Rear yard: where a commercial building is to be serviced from the rear, there shall be provided an alleyway, service courts rear yard, or combination thereof of not less than 35 feet in depth. The depth of a rear yard, which abuts a residential district, shall be not less than 30 feet. In all other cases, no rear yard is required; and
(4) Maximum lot coverage: main and accessory buildings shall cover not more than 75% of the lot area.
(E) Height regulations. No building or structure shall exceed two and one-half stories or 35 feet in height except as provided in § 155.57.
(F) Off-street parking. For permitted retail, business, and personal services establishments, off-street parking requirements are as per § 155.59(B).
(G) Screening and landscaping. All yard areas required under this section and other yards and open spaces existing around buildings shall be landscaped and maintained in a neat condition, as per Chapter 92.
(Ord. 10.6, passed 3-17-2009)