(A) Principal permitted uses. Any retail business or service establishment; a planned commercial development.
(B) Conditionally permitted uses requiring board of adjustment authorization.
(1) The following uses are special exceptions in a B-2 district and requiring written approval of the board of adjustment: apartments, multi-family dwellings, townhouses, and single-family dwellings, churches and other places of worship, parish houses, day care centers and nurseries, funeral homes and cemeteries, hospitals and clinics for human care, industry, public parks and noncommercial recreational facilities, schools, and philanthropic institutions and clubs (except those whose principal activities are carried on as a business).
(2) The board of adjustment may attach such conditions to its approval as are deemed necessary to protect and preserve the character of the district.
(C) Accessory buildings and uses. Any accessory buildings or uses customarily incidental to the permitted uses may be permitted.
(D) 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 (6) 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 § 80.042 of this chapter.
(E) Lot area, frontage and yard requirements.
(1) Minimum dimensional requirements:
Lot area | No set dimensions |
Frontage | No set dimensions |
Front depth | 25 feet |
(a) In commercial districts along federal aid highways, buildings may be no closer to the highway right-of-way than fifty (50) feet.
Side yard widths | No set dimensions |
(b) 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.
Rear yard depth | No set dimensions |
(c) 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.
(2) All buildings on corner lots adjoining a residential district shall be located as to conform with corner lot side yard requirements of said residential district.
(F) Sign and/or billboard regulations. Governed by § 80.202 of this chapter.
(Ord. 88-12 Art. 4 (4.071-4.076), 1988)