1278.02 PRINCIPAL PERMITTED USES.
In the Municipal Business District (MBD), no use shall be permitted, unless otherwise provided in this Zoning Code, except the following:
   (a)   All uses permitted in the Neighborhood Business District (NBD), subject to the terms and conditions therein, excluding apartments.
(Res. 99-417A. Passed 9-7-99.).
   (b)   Adult day care and foster care facilities, subject to the site design standards of Section 1296.02, Site Design Standards for Uses Permitted After Special Approval.
   (c)   Any service establishment of an office, showroom or workshop nature, such as a decorator, upholsterer, caterer, exterminator or building contractor, and similar establishments that require retail outlets, except that no outdoor storage of equipment or materials shall be permitted.
   (d)   Assembly halls.
   (e)   Automobile, truck, motorcycle, trailer, recreational vehicle or boat showrooms, excluding the outdoor storage or display of sales products.
   (f)   Bus or railroad passenger stations.
   (g)   Business recreation uses, subject to the site design standards of Section 1296.02, Site Design Standards for Uses Permitted After Special Approval, including the following:
      (1)   Indoor theaters.
      (2)   Bowling alleys.
      (3)   Dance halls.
      (4)   Skating rinks.
   (h)   Business schools or private schools operated for a profit, subject to the site design standards of Section 1296.02, Site Design Standards for Uses Permitted After Special Approval.
   (i)   Business service establishments, such as office machine and typewriter repair, printing, and blueprinting.
   (j)   Commercial outdoor and indoor recreational establishments, subject to the site design standards of Section 1296.02, Site Design Standards for Uses Permitted After Special Approval.
   (k)   Commercial schools and training centers, including art and dance studios, music and voice schools, and business schools, subject to the site design standards of Section 1296.02, Site Design Standards for Uses Permitted After Special Approval.
   (l)   Churches, temples, and similar places of worship, subject to the site design standards of Section 1296.02, Site Design Standards for Uses Permitted After Special Approval.
   (m)   Commercial greenhouses, nurseries, and garden centers less than one-thousand (1,000) square feet, subject to the site design standards of Section 1296.02, Site Design Standards for Uses Permitted After Special Approval.
   (n)   Drive-through service establishments, subject to the site design standards of Section 1296.02, Site Design Standards for Uses Permitted After Special Approval.
   (o)   Funeral homes, undertaking establishments or mortuaries, subject to the site design standards of Section 1296.02, Site Design Standards for Uses Permitted After Special Approval.
   (p)   Government buildings and uses.
   (q)   Hotels, motels, and bed and breakfast inns.
   (r)   Physical culture facilities, such as gymnasiums, reducing salons and beauty schools.
   (s)   Printing and publishing establishments, including newspaper offices and publishers.
   (t)   Private clubs, lodge halls, and similar assembly buildings.
   (u)   Public utility offices, telephone exchanges and public utility substations within a completely enclosed building (not necessarily roofed), subject to the site design standards of Section 1296.02, Site Design Standards for Uses Permitted After Special Approval.
   (v)   Retail businesses whose principal activity is the sale or rental of merchandise within a completely enclosed building of less than sixty-thousand (60,000) square feet of gross floor area.
   (w)   Shopping centers with less than sixty-thousand (60,000) square feet of gross floor area, containing uses permitted in this chapter.
   (x)   Supermarkets with less than sixty-thousand (60,000) square feet of gross floor area.
   (y)   Theaters and cinemas.
   (z)   Veterinary hospitals and clinics (excluding the outdoor use of property for pens, boarding, or other similar uses), subject to the site design standards of Section 1296.02, Site Design Standards for Uses Permitted After Special Approval.
   (aa)   Accessory buildings and uses customarily incidental to the principal permitted uses set forth in this section, including:
      (1)   Signage that conforms with Chapter 1476, Sign Code. (Res. 2020-299A. Passed 10-5-20, Eff. 10-19-20.)
      (2)   Garages to be used exclusively for the storage of commercial and/or passenger motor vehicles which are to be used in connection with a business permitted and located in a Municipal Business District (MBD).
      (3)   Drive-through service windows.
   (bb)   Off-street parking and loading facilities in accordance with Chapter 1290, Off-Street Parking and Loading.
   (cc)   Antique mall less than twenty thousand (20,000) square feet in area; subject to the site design standards of Section 1296.02, Site Design Standards for Uses Permitted after Special Approval.
   (dd)   E-Commerce establishments with less than ten thousand (10,000) square feet of gross floor area. (Res. 2022-146A. Passed 5-16-22, Eff. 6-1-22.)
(Res. 98-340A. Passed 9-21-98; Res. 2012-223A. Passed 7-16-12, effective 8-1-12.)