(a) Under the authorization granted in Ohio R.C. Chapter 713 to hear and decide special exceptions to the terms of this Zoning Code, the Board shall have the power to decide applications for conditional uses in those cases specified in Chapter 1170. In considering such application, the Board shall give due regard to the nature and condition of all adjacent uses and structures and may impose such requirements and conditions as the Board may deem necessary for the protection of adjacent properties and the public interest, including specific limitations as to future expansion.
(b) The following basic standards shall apply to conditional uses in any “S” or “R” District:
(1) The location and size of the use, the nature and intensity of the operations involved in or conducted in connection with it, its site layout, and its relation to streets giving access to it, shall be such that both pedestrian and vehicular traffic to and from the use and the assembly of persons in connection with it will not be hazardous, inconvenient or conflict with the normal traffic on residential streets, both at the time and as the same may be expected to increase with any prospective increase in the population of the area, taking into account convenient routes of pedestrian traffic, particularly of children, the relation of the use to main traffic thoroughfares and to street intersections and the general character and intensity of development of the area.
(2) The location and height of buildings, the location, nature and height of walls and fences and the nature and extent of landscaping on the site shall be such that the use will not hinder or discourage the appropriate development and use of adjacent land and buildings.
(c) The following basic standards shall apply to conditional uses in any “B” or “M” District:
(1) The location and size of the use, the nature and intensity of the operations involved in or conducted in connection with it, its site layout, and its relation to streets giving access to it, shall be such that vehicular traffic to and from the use will not be more hazardous than the normal traffic of the district, both at the time and as the same may be expected to increase with increasing development of the Municipality, taking into account vehicular turning movements in relation to routes of traffic flow, street intersections, sight distances and pedestrian traffic.
(2) The nature, location, size and site layout of the use shall be such that it will be a harmonious part of the “B” or “M” District in which it is situated, taking into account prevailing shopping habits, convenience of access by prospective patrons, the physical and economic relationships of one type of use to another and characteristic groupings of uses in a “B” or “M” District.
(Ord. 1466. Passed 4-11-94; Am. Ord. 1905. Passed 12-13-11.)