§ 153.073 BUSINESS AND COMMERCIAL DISTRICT (B-1).

   (A)   Principal permitted uses. Any consumer and personal service and/or retail establishment.

   (B)   Conditionally permitted uses requiring Board of Adjustment authorization.

      (1)   The following uses are special exceptions in a B-1 District and require written approval of the Board of Adjustment: apartments; townhouses; and single-family dwellings; churches and other places of worship; parish houses; schools; day care centers and nurseries; funeral homes; hospitals or clinics for human care industry; and philanthropic institutions and clubs (except those whose principal activities are carried on as a business or commercial activity suitable to the district).

      (2)   The Board of Adjustment may attach such conditions to its approval as are deemed essential to the preservation of the character of the district as an historical area.

   (C)   Accessory uses. Any accessory use or building customarily incidental to permitted uses may be permitted.

   (D)   Signs. As permitted in §§ 153.110 through 153.116 of this chapter.

   (E)   Required conditions.

      (1)   Screening. Where a commercial lot adjoins a residential lot, a well-maintained compact hedge, a solid fence or similar solid screening device at least six feet in height shall be installed to screen the business use from the adjoining lot in the residential district. The screen shall begin at the front building line and extend along the common side lot line to the rear property line.

      (2)   Access to streets and highways. As required in § 153.093 of this chapter.

   (F)   Lot area, frontage and yard requirements. All buildings on corner lots adjoining a residential district shall be located so as to conform to corner lot side yard requirements of said residential district.

 

Minimum Dimensional Requirements
Frontage	No set dimensions (In commercial districts along federal aid highways, buildings may be no closer to the highway right-of-way than 50 feet.)
Lot area	No set dimensions
Rear yard depth	No set dimensions (However, if the lot bounds on an alley, there shall be a rear depth sufficient for loading, unloading and access for emergency vehicles such as fire trucks.)
Side yard widths	No set dimensions (However, if the lot adjoins a residential district, buildings shall be so located as to comply with the requirements of the adjoining residential district as to lot coverage, width and side yards.)

 

(Ord. 20.920-1, passed 3- -2020)