For the purpose of this chapter the general use classification system established in this section shall be used to classify those uses that will be permitted, conditionally permitted, regulated, prohibited either specifically or by omission, and in making a determination that a use not listed is substantially similar.
USE DESCRIPTION
CLASSIFICATION OF USE
CATEGORY CLASSIFICATION
CATEGORY
1. Residential uses are places where persons live or reside and are associated with dwelling units as defined in this chapter.
2. Public uses are owned or operated by governmental agencies for administrative, educational, cultural, recreational, and similar activities that benefit or provide services to the public.
3. Quasi-public uses are activities of a religious, educational, charitable, social, philanthropic, and health nature, and non-profit membership organizations that have more limited public purposes than public uses, but which are not organized for profit.
4. Administrative and business office uses are primarily engaged in general administration, management, supervision, purchasing, and accounting. They involve no retail sales and stock no goods for distribution or sale.
5. Professional office uses deliver professional tangible and intangible services to the general public and are associated with normally recognized professions most of which are regulated, licensed, or certified by the State of Ohio.
6. Retail store uses include uses primarily engaged in selling merchandise for personal and house hold consumption and rendering services clearly incidental to the sale of such goods.
7. Personal service uses generally are concerned with the care and maintenance of tangible property or the provision of intangible services.
8. Consumer service uses generally involve the care and maintenance of tangible property or the provision of intangible services for personal consumption.
9. Trade services uses generally include establishments engaged in the general construction, maintenance, or the repair of real or other tangible property.
10. Automotive uses include sales and services directly associated with motor vehicles and other types of transportation.
11. Food, lodging, and beverage services include commercial establishments and non profit institutions engaged in furnishing food, beverages, or lodging for a fee or on a membership fee basis.
12. Research and development uses involve research related to product development in conjunction with testing, laboratory, and minor fabricating and assembly operations.
13. Wholesaling and storage uses are associated with transporting, storing, handling or selling merchandise primarily to retailers, industrial, institutional, or professional uses, or to other wholesalers, or acting as agents in buying merchandise for such persons or organizations.
14. Recreation uses include activities uses by persons during leisure time for entertainment for a fee or on a membership fee basis.
15. Manufacturing uses includes all uses involving processing, fabrication, packaging, assembly and related functions whether using machinery or labor and associated with the industrial operations of producing goods, components, and other related items.
16. Other uses shall include all other activities not otherwise classified.
(Ord. 6-1993, passed 3-8-93)