(A) Purpose. The B-2 Central Business District comprises the downtown section of the city, which is called the Central Business District. The use of land is intensive, and this is one of the main determinants of the vitality of the Central Business District. It is the purpose of these regulations to encourage the intensity of use and to exclude activities, which have a negative effect upon the proper functioning of the Central Business District.
(B) Permitted uses. The following uses shall be permitted in the B-2 Central Business District:
(1) Retail stores primarily engaged in selling new or used merchandise for personal or household consumption and rendering services incidental to the sale of the merchandise, including:
(a) Any grocery store, meat market, supermarket, fruit market and bakery, or other store selling food or beverages;
(b) Any drug store, apparel shop or store, hardware store, bookstore, stationary store, flower shop or home furnishings store; and
(c) Any automotive service station.
(2) Personal services generally involving the care of the person or his or her personal effects:
(a) Any cleaning or laundry establishment, self-service laundry including any pressing, cleaning or garment repair;
(b) Any dressmaking, millinery, tailor shop or shoe repair shop;
(c) Any beauty shop or barber shop;
(d) Any photographic studio; and
(e) Any eating or drinking establishment.
(3) Administrative, business or professional offices:
(a) Any bank, savings and loan institution or credit union;
(b) Any insurance or real estate agent or broker;
(c) Any municipal or government building;
(d) Any professional office including any physician, dentist, chiropractor, engineer, architect, lawyer, financial planner, accountant or other recognized profession; and
(e) Any veterinary clinic where there are no runs or kennels.
(4) Entertainment and recreation establishment: any theater, dance hall, bowling alley or pool or billiard hall, those businesses not regulated under I-2;
(5) Repair services:
(a) Any electrical repair shops;
(b) Any watch, clock or jewelry repair;
(c) Any reupholstery and furniture repair;
(d) Any miscellaneous repair shops; and
(e) Any repair service carried on in conjunction with any permitted use.
(6) Business services: any duplicating, printing, addressing, blueprinting, photocopying, mailing or stenographic shops; and
(7) Miscellaneous uses:
(a) Any utility facility necessary for local service;
(b) Any multi-family dwelling structure;
(c) Any residence provided that the residence shall be located above the ground floor;
(d) Any motel or hotel;
(e) Any parking facilities; need not be enclosed; and
(f) Any water supply building, reservoir, well, elevated tank or similar essential public utility or service structure.
(C) Conditional uses. The following uses may be allowed in the B-2 Central Business District subject to obtaining a conditional use permit in accordance with the provisions of § 156.64:
(1) Any railroad rights-of-way, but not including any railroad yard or shop; and
(2) Any radio or television transmitting or receiving apparatus.
(D) Permitted accessory uses. The following shall be permitted accessory uses in the B-2 Central Business District: any accessory use customarily incident to the uses permitted in divisions (B) and (C) above.
(E) Height, yard, area and lot width and depth regulations. Every lot in the B-2 Central Business District on which any permitted or conditionally permitted use is erected shall meet the following minimum standards.
(1) Height regulations. No building shall hereafter be erected or structurally altered to exceed 45 feet in height.
(2) Front yard regulations. No front yard shall be required, except as follows: no building shall be located within 25 feet of any front lot line located across the street from any of the classes of residence districts.
(3) Side yard regulations. No side yard shall be required, except as follows: no building shall be located within ten feet of any side lot line abutting a lot in any of the classes of residence districts.
(4) Rear yard regulations. No rear yard shall be required, except as follows: no building shall be located within 25 feet of any rear lot line of any lot, not abutting on an alley, in any of the classes of residence districts.
(5) Lot area, width and depth regulations. No minimum lot area, width or depth shall be required, however, the lot size shall be adequate to meet the setback, yard and other requirements of this chapter.
(Ord. 266, passed 5- -2008)