STATEMENT OF LEGISLATIVE INTENT
The C-2 Downtown Commercial District is established to preserve a central business district convenient and attractive for a wide range of retail, recreation and business uses in a setting conducive to and safe for a high volume of pedestrian traffic.
(a) Principal Permitted Uses.
(1) Business service:
A. Bank
B. Office
C. Postal station
D. Lending institutions
E. Printing or engraving
F. Accounting
G. Duplicating
H. Employment agency
I. Blueprinting
(2) Clothing service provided all materials are stored and all shop work is done within a building using only materials safe from fire and health hazards:
A. Laundromats
B. Dyeing and cleaning establishment
C. Shops for the delivery or picking up of laundry or dry cleaning and pressing
D. Dressmaking, tailoring, millinery, shoe repairing and other similar businesses
(3) Equipment service provided all materials are stored and all shop work is done within a building:
A. Radio or television repair and/or sales
B. Household appliance, bicycle and other similar use repair and/or sales
C. Upholstery shop, not involving furniture manufacturing
(4) Food service:
A. Grocery, meat market, supermarket
B. Bakery
C. Restaurant or coffee shop, without ABC or beer license
Provided that the serving of food or beverages shall not be permitted to patrons waiting in parked automobiles.
D. Delicatessen
E. Catering shop
(5) Personal service:
A. Barber shop, beauty shop, reducing salon, tanning salon
B. Photographic studios
C. Animal hospital, veterinarian, pet grooming salon, excluding kennel or pet boarding facilities
D. Automotive and small internal combustion engine service such as filling stations, repair shops, commercial garages, and/or parking lot, sales room open automobile, truck and equipment sales and/or repair.
Provided all materials are stored and all work is done within the building.
E. Painting, plumbing, carpentry or tinsmithing shops
(6) Retail service:
A. Drug stores
B. Haberdasher, stationer, news dealer, apparel shop, flower shop or similar retail service shop
Provided all materials are stored inside.
C. Automobile sales
D. Hardware
Provided all materials are stored within a building with at least three sides permanently enclosed, except for necessary fire doors. When such use is adjacent to or faces a residential area, whenever possible a permanently enclosed side of any building will face the residential area.
(7) Commercial recreational uses. Conducted only with building so constructed that no noise of any kind produced therein shall be audible beyond the confines of the building.
A. Theater
B. Bowling lanes
C. Dancing academy or music instruction schools
D. Roller Skating Rink
(8) Private club without ABC license, lodge, membership associations and corporations.
(9) Wholesale business with a total floor area not exceeding 20,000 square feet
(10) Signs and advertising billboards as long as they conform to Section 1317.04.
(b) Permitted Special or Conditional Uses. The conditional or special uses enumerated below may be permitted in C-2 Downtown Commercial District. Persons desiring to establish one of the conditional or special uses enumerated must petition or make written application to the Board of Zoning Appeals. The Board of Zoning Appeals has the authority to approve or grant a special use permit upon a finding that compliance exists with all general and specific restrictions and conditions set forth in Article 1307 and Article 1315 of the Zoning Ordinance.
(1) Joint occupancy uses
(2) Undertaking establishment
(3) Individual or mini storage facility
(Ord. 310. Passed 9-16-96.)
(4) Single family dwellings (Ord. 446. Passed 10-21-19.)
(Ord. 310. Passed 9-16-96.)