The purpose of the Central Business District is to protect and encourage renewal while maintaining the existing character and overall appearance of the core residential and business area of the community. A variety of business, institutional, public, quasi-public, cultural, residential, and other related uses are encouraged in an effort to provide the mix of activities necessary to maintain the historical and cultural significance inherent in the area. Compatibility with the existing structures and uses is the primary goal of the district, while enhancing the overall appearance and function as an actively used district.
(A) Permitted Primary Uses
(1) Beauty shops, barber shops.
(2) Gift shops and antique shops.
(3) Establishments for the retail sale of food products, such as supermarkets, no greater than 4,500 square feet in building area.
(4) Schools for academic instruction and associated facilities.
(5) Community centers.
(6) Nursing and rest homes.
(7) Banks, credit agencies, security and commodity brokers and exchanges, savings and loan companies, and holding and investment companies; provided, however, building is no greater than 3,000 square feet.
(8) Offices for business, professional, governmental, civic, social, fraternal, political, religious and charitable organizations.
(9) Libraries, museums, art galleries, and reading rooms.
(10) Medical and dental offices, clinics and laboratories.
(11) Studios for working and teaching the fine arts.
(12) Churches, Sunday schools and Childcare centers.
(13) Computer and data processing centers.
(14) Ticket and travel agencies.
(15) Business colleges or technical schools.
(16) Restaurants with no drive-in or drive-through facilities are provided.
(17) Bed and breakfast establishments.
(18) Indoor amusements such as billiard or poolhalls, skating rinks, or bowling alleys.
(19) Indoor theaters.
(20) Establishments for the retail sale of merchandise.
(B) Permitted accessory uses.
(1) Parking areas.
(2) One (1) dwelling unit for owners, operators or employees of a permitted use provided that such dwelling unit shall be a part of the building and shall have a separate entrance.
(C) Permitted conditional uses. The following uses are permitted only with Board of Adjustment approval after consideration of the intent and purpose of these regulations and the comprehensive plan.
(1) Multiple-family dwellings.
(2) Mixed use developments that combine residential and permitted primary commercial uses where the residential uses retain separate building entrances.
(3) Short-term rentals.
(D) B-2 yard area minimum requirements.
(1) Lot area is seven thousand, five hundred (7,500) square feet.
(2) Lot width is eighty (80) feet.
(3) Front yard setback is zero (0) feet.
(4) Rear yard setback is ten (10) feet.
(5) Side yard setback is ten (10) feet on both sides of each lot.
(6) On a corner lot or a lot fronting on two streets, the required front yard setback shall be required on the side yard facing the street.
(E) B-2 - maximum requirements.
(1) Lot coverage is 60 percent (60%).
(2) Building height is two (2) stories or thirty-four (34) feet.
(F) Private sewage systems. Where private sewage systems or on-site septic treatment facilities are used, if the minimum lot area required by the health department is greater than the minimum listed within the chapter, then the health department required lot size shall be the required size.
(Ord. 99-6, passed 7-19-99; Am. Ord. 2003-3, passed 4-7-03; Am. Ord. 2021-20, passed 12-20-21)