(a) Intent and purpose. It is the primary purpose of this district to provide opportunities for business establishments that address the retail and service needs of both local and regional populations, including the highway traveler and uses that draw from a regional market or which uniquely benefit from close proximity to the US-127 interchanges.
(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) Boarding and rooming houses.
(11) Bed and breakfast (refer to section 94-192(7)).
(12) Residential use located above a business use that meets the minimum floor area standards of the RM multiple-family residential district.
(13) Establishments licensed for the sale of alcoholic beverages where consumption is allowed on and/or off the premises.
(14) Outdoor retail sales and service.
(15) Wholesale businesses.
(16) Plumbing, heating, retail sales and service and other similar uses.
(17) Farm machinery and implement sales.
(18) Nursery, shrubbery, and garden supply centers.
(19) 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) Community commercial centers (refer to section 94-192(5)).
(2) Public buildings including nonresidential governmental, utility, or public service use excluding storage yards, transformer stations, and substations (refer to section 94-192(8)).
(3) Public or private educational structures or uses (refer to section 94-192(8)).
(4) Vehicular drive-in service.
(5) Off-street public or private parking facilities.
(6) Communication towers and antennas (refer to section 94-173(d)).
(7) Hotels and motels.
(8) New and used motor vehicle, boat and trailer sales and service.
(9) Automobile service stations and automobile repair garages (refer section 94-192(2)).
(10) Automatic and self-serve car wash.
(11) Mini-warehouse.
(12) Adult businesses (refer to section 94-173(h)).
(13) Pub, tavern, or restaurant with outdoor entertainment including music.
(14) 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.
(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. 166, 8-4-2008)