(a) Intent. It is the intent of these district regulations to promote development appropriately designed and located to meet the following minimum objectives:
(1) Enhance the aesthetic and visual character of gateways into the village;
(2) Promote the grouping, clustering and compactness of buildings to encourage pedestrian access;
(3) Ensure the conformance to the overall appearance, form, scale, pattern and design of this Village Business District;
(4) Allow for a diversity and mix of uses that complement and strengthen one another;
(5) Allow residential uses to serve as a transition between commercial uses and adjacent residential areas; however, it is not the intent of these regulations to offer a residential environment protected from the effects of usual and customary business activity.
(b) Permissive Uses.
(1) Any use as permitted in the R-1 and R-2 Residential Districts.
(2) Nonresidential uses with no drive-in or drive-through service and no more than 5,000 square feet of gross ground floor area as set forth below:
A. Automotive display and sales lots;
B. Automobile service stations or car washes;
C. Dressmaking, tailoring, shoe repairing, repair of household appliances and bicycles,
dry cleaning and pressing and bakeries with the sale of bakery products on the premises, and other uses of a similar character;
D. Clubs;
E. Public garages;
F. Personal service uses, including barber shops, beauty parlors, photographic studios, artist galleries, newspapers or internet service stations, dry cleaning receiving stations, restaurants and other personal service uses of a similar character;
G. Offices or office buildings;
H. Retail stores, including florist shops and greenhouses in connection with such shops, but there shall be no slaughtering of animals or poultry on the premises of any retail store;
I. Banks, credit unions, savings associations and other financial services;
J. Museums;
K. Archival Institutions;
L. Self-service laundries or cleaning establishments;
M. Funeral homes or mortuaries;
N. Hotels, motels, boarding houses, nursing homes and shared living accommodations for the elderly;
O. Recreational facilities;
P. Museums;
Q. Medical clinics; and
R. Governmental Services Uses and public buildings, such as, but not limited to, the village hall, library, post office, ambulance and emergency rescue operations, and safety forces uses;
(c) Conditional Uses.
(1) Dwelling units located within a nonresidential building as an accessory use.
(2) Nonresidential uses as set forth in § 1246.041(b)(2) with drive-in or drive- through service.
(3) Nonresidential uses as set forth in § 1246.041(b)(2) with more than 5,000 square feet of gross ground floor area but less than 10,000 square feet of gross floor area.
(Ord. 2698, passed 5-7-07; Ord. 3102, passed - -18; Ord. 3110, passed 8-6-18)