(a) Intent and purpose. It is the primary purpose of this district to provide opportunities for business establishments in the area generally referred to as the Downtown Center in the city master plan that address the local day-to-day office, retail, and service needs of residents of, and visitors to, the city. It is the intent of this district to prohibit uses that draw from a regional population causing excessive traffic levels or that may otherwise undermine the intended function and character of the historic business area of the city.
(b) Uses permitted by right.
(1) Offices for financial institutions, real estate offices, insurance offices, investment brokers, credit reporting agencies, business management and consulting, information technology services and consulting, and similar business offices.
(2) Photographic studios.
(3) Professional services establishments providing human health care on an outpatient basis.
(4) Medical, optical and dental offices and laboratories.
(5) Offices for non-profit organizations, professional associations, labor unions, civic-social-fraternal organizations, political organizations, and religious organizations.
(6) Music, dance, or performing arts studios.
(7) Offices for professional practitioners in the component fields of medicine, dentistry, psychiatry, and psychology including practitioners committed to ministering to individual and community health. These offices can include group or clinical practice and therapeutic paramedical services.
(8) Offices for the practice of law, professional services, business services, scientific endeavors, creative activities and similar professions, and the operation of professional associations, societies, and institutes.
(9) Retail trade, office and personal service businesses including financial institutions, hardware and appliance stores, barber and beauty shops, clothing, food, restaurants, with or without outdoor food and drink service (refer to section 94-173(j)), drug, variety, furniture, jewelry, self-service and/or drop-off laundry including dry cleaning performed off-premise, small job printing provided non-explosive fluids are used and similar uses when conducted within a building and no part of which consists of manufacturing or processing on the premises.
(10) Bed and breakfast (refer to section 94-192(7)).
(11) Residential use located above a business use that meets the minimum floor area standards of the RM multiple-family residential district.
(12) Establishments licensed for the sale of alcoholic beverages where consumption is allowed on and/or off the premises.
(13) Public assembly buildings, indoor theaters, and auditoriums.
(c) Permitted accessory uses. Accessory uses and structures as defined in this chapter.
(d) Uses authorized by special use permit.
(1) Public buildings including nonresidential governmental, utility, or public service use excluding storage yards, transformer stations, and substations (refer to section 94-192(8)).
(2) Public or private educational structures or uses (refer to section 94-192(8)).
(3) Vehicular drive-in service when associated with a principal use.
(4) Off-street public or private parking facilities (refer to section 94-192(8)).
(5) Boarding and rooming houses.
(6) Pub, tavern, or restaurant with outdoor entertainment, including music.
(7) Any use permitted in this district involving one or more structures that occupy, either individually or collectively, more than 15,000 square feet of gross floor area.
(8) Monopole telecommunication towers and antennae in accordance with the requirements of section 94-173(d)(13)(a)5.
(9) Short-term dwelling rental (refer to section 94-192(11)).
(e) Development standards. Any use of land or structures in this district shall comply with the general development standards of section 94-121(c) of this chapter.
(Ord. No. 152, 5-1-2006; Ord. No. 156, 9-5-2006; Ord. No. 161, 9-4-2007; Ord. No. 166, 8-4-2008; Ord. No. 227, 10-7-2019)