(A) Preamble. Local retail districts are designed for the convenience shopping of people residing in the adjacent neighborhood residential areas, and to permit only such uses as are necessary to satisfy these limited basic shopping needs which occur daily or frequently, thus requiring shopping facilities close to residence. The following regulations shall apply in all C-1 Districts.
(B) Uses permitted.
(1) Agriculture, but not including the disposal or feeding of garbage, and provided that no poultry or livestock shall be housed or confined within 100 feet of any building, except that of the owner or lessor of the tract;
(2) Dwelling units and lodging rooms, provided that they are not located on the ground floor of buildings; and
(3) Retail trade uses, provided they are on the ground floor buildings as follows:
(a) Accessory uses;
(b) Barber shops;
(c) Beauty parlors;
(d) Book and stationary stores;
(e) Clothes pressing establishments;
(f) Drug stores;
(g) Dry cleaning and laundry receiving stations; processing to be done elsewhere;
(h) Florist shops;
(i) Food stores, grocery stores, meat markets, bakeries, delicatessens and package liquor stores;
(j) Gift shops;
(k) Hardware stores;
(l) Laundries, automatic self-service types or hand, employing not more than two persons in addition to one owner or manager, provided that laundry machines shall not exceed ten pounds capacity each;
(m) Millinery shops;
(n) Shoe and hat repair stores;
(o) Signs as regulated by this section;
(p) Temporary buildings for construction purposes for a period not to exceed the duration of such construction; and
(q) Variety stores.
(C) Special uses. The following uses are permitted as special uses when authorized by the City Council after a public hearing and recommendation by the Planning Commission:
(1) Electric or telephone substations and other governmental and utility service uses;
(2) Other business uses; and
(3) Planned development, as set forth in § 153.025(P).
(D) Floor area ratio. The floor area ratio shall not exceed 0.8.
(E) Required area. Lot area:
(1) The net land area for each business establishment shall not be less than 2,500 square feet; and
(2) There shall be provided not less than 2,500 square feet of lot area per dwelling unit, and for lodging rooms there shall be provided not less than 1,250 square feet of lot area per room.
(F) Yards required.
(1) Front yard: there shall be provided on each lot a front yard not less than five feet in depth or a depth to coincide with adjacent buildings in the same block.
(2) Side yard: there shall be provided a side yard along any lot line which adjoins a residence district; it shall be not less than ten feet in width.
(3) Rear yard: there shall be a rear yard not less than 20 feet in depth; however, when a rear lot line abuts an alley, one-half of the width of such alley may be counted toward satisfaction of the rear yard requirement.
(G) Signs. Business and advertising signs are permitted subject to the following.
(1) Illumination of all signs shall be diffused or indirect and shall be arranged so as not to reflect direct rays of light into adjacent residential districts or into the public way.
(2) Any sign located in the direct line of vision of any traffic control signal shall not have flashing, intermittent, red, green or amber illumination.
(H) Automobile storage or parking space. Adequate off-street parking and loading in accordance with the provisions of § 153.093.
(I) Required conditions.
(1) All business, service repair or processing, storage or merchandise display shall be conducted wholly an enclosed building, except for off-street automobile parking and off-street loading.
(2) Goods sold shall consist primarily of new merchandise, and all goods produced on the premises shall be sold at retail, primarily on the premises.
(3) Not more than five persons in addition to a single owner or manager shall be engaged at any time in fabricating, repairing or other processing of goods in any establishment.
(4) Processes and equipment employed, and goods processed or sold shall be limited to those which are not objectionable by reason of odor, dust, smoke, cinders, gas, noise, vibration, refuse matter or water-carried waste.
(Ord. passed 2-25-1960)