(A) General description. This commercial district is for personal and business services and general business activity.
(B) Uses permitted. The following uses shall be permitted in the General Commercial District provided that each use have street access to a commercial, industrial or highway service zoning district street:
(1) Retail establishments including incidental manufacturing of goods for sale at retail on the premises. 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 is permitted;
(2) Eating and drinking establishments;
(3) Vehicle service and repair garages, including filling stations;
(4) Personal service establishments, including barber and beauty shops, shoe repair shops, funeral homes, cleaning, dyeing, laundry, medical and/or dental clinics or offices, pressing, dressmaking, tailoring and garment repair shops with processing on the premises;
(5) Hotels, motels, rooming, bed and breakfast and boarding houses;
(6) Commercial recreational structures and uses, such as theaters, bowling alleys, poolroom, amusement and recreational establishments, and miniature golf courses, but not including driving ranges, unless in an enclosed structure;
(7) Parking lots and public garages;
(8) Offices, studios, human health service clinics and laboratories;
(9) Financial institutions;
(10) Private clubs and lodges;
(11) Outdoor advertising as regulated in § 155.051;
(12) Auditorium and recreation establishments;
(13) Public or municipal swimming pools;
(14) Laboratories and establishments for production and repair of jewelry, eye glasses, hearing aids and prosthetic appliances;
(15) Public buildings and grounds other than elementary, middle or high schools;
(16) Churches;
(17) Business and vocational schools not involving operations of an industrial character;
(18) Public parks;
(19) Wholesale and distributing centers not involving the use of any delivery vehicle rated at more than one and one-half tons capacity; nor a total of more than five delivery vehicles;
(20) 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;
(21) 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 and traffic than those permitted uses enumerated above;
(22) Dwelling units 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
(23) Cannabis dispensary (subject to § 155.058).
(C) Uses permitted on review. The following uses may be permitted on review by the governing body in accordance with the provisions contained in § 155.073:
(1) Electrical receiving or transforming stations;
(2) Public utility substations, service yards and pumping stations subject to § 155.004(A)(3);
(3) Apartment houses;
(4) For any proposed business not having access to a commercial, industrial or highway service street as permitted under division (B) above;
(5) An accessory apartment. (See definition) The use permit will be subject to the following criteria.
(a) An accessory apartment would not be allowed as an accessory to eating or drinking establishments.
(b) The accessory apartment would be required to have its own entrance and that apartment shall have to meet all fire and life safety codes.
(c) The commercial character of the structure must be maintained (e.g., all satellite dishes be roof mounted or mounted off of the facade).
(d) The business must be opened within the first six months of the accessory apartment certificate of occupancy to meet the criteria of the use permit. The goal is to have a business in place if someone is living on the property and have commercial vacancies no longer than six months (including off-season use).
(6) 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.
(D) Non-permitted use.
(1) Under no circumstances shall manufactured homes or manufactured home parks be permitted in this district.
(2) Under no circumstance shall vehicle or equipment repair facilities, private or public, operate salvage operations of vehicles or vehicle parts except as permitted in accordance with § 155.004(A)(5).
(3) Under no circumstances shall an adult oriented business be permitted in this district.
(E) 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 court, rear yard or combination thereof of not less than 30 feet in depth. The depth of a rear yard which abuts a residential district shall be not less than 15 feet. In all other cases, no rear yard is required.
(4) Lot coverage. Main and accessory buildings shall cover not more than 80% of the lot area.
(F) Height regulations. No building or structure shall exceed five stories or 60 feet in height except as provided in § 155.047.
(G) Off-street parking. For permitted retail, business and personal service establishments, no off-street parking requirements.
(H) Landscape requirements. As regulated in § 155.045.
(Prior Code, § 27-A-04-04) (Ord. 964, passed 2- -2000; Ord. 993, passed 3- -2003; Ord. 1235, passed 10-4-2021)