(A) General purposes. The commercial districts are designed to:
(1) Achieve the commercial objectives of the Comprehensive Plan;
(2) Meet the needs for commercial goods and services for neighborhoods, communities and the region;
(3) Preserve and promote the development of efficient commercial facilities and encourage a compatible relationship between commercial facilities and other land uses and thoroughfares by:
(a) Differentiating the types and purposes of commercial activities;
(b) Establishing bulk and area controls;
(c) Requiring off-street loading and parking facilities;
(d) Controlling the number, area, location, and types of signs; and
(e) Protecting the character of commercial districts and their peculiar suitability for commercial uses;
(4) Permit the compatible mixture of residential, office and commercial uses facilitating community livability by reducing the distances between uses to reduce dependence on the automobile; and
(5) Require site development plan approval for all multiple family uses of eight or more uses, all office uses and all commercial uses. (See § 153.223.)
(B) Purposes of the B-1 Neighborhood Commercial District. The B-l or NC District is designed to accommodate convenience goods arid services in proximity to residential areas.
(C) Purposes of the B-1A or CS Shopping District. The CS District is designed to accommodate convenience, neighborhood, shopping areas providing a wide range of retail and personal service uses.
(D) Purposes of the B-2 or CG General Commercial District. The CG District is designed to:
(1) Accommodate existing development of mixed commercial uses which are well established, while providing a degree of protection to adjacent residential areas; and
(2) Accommodate auto-oriented uses.
(E) Purposes of the CH Commercial High Intensity District. The CH District is designed to:
(1) Accommodate high intensity commercial and related uses; and
(2) Accommodate the grouping of certain commercial uses, wholesaling and warehousing uses, and restricted light industrial uses (by special exception) which are compatible with one another.
(F) Purposes of the CBD Central Business District.
(1) The CBD District is designed to:
(a) Accommodate and encourage the most desirable, most productive, most intense use of land, without regard to the regulation of building height floor area, land coverage or parking space requirements within the central core area of the city; and
(b) Preserve and promote the public and private investment in the existing central core area.
(2) CBD District contained within this defined area:
(a) The Ohio River to the South;
(b) Fifth Street to the North;
(c) College Avenue to the West; and
(d) Walnut Street to the East.
(3) Before additional area, contiguous to that area presently designated CBD, is considered for inclusion within the CBD District consideration should be given to the appropriateness of the B-2 or CG, Commercial General classification. This alternate designation is intended to create a less congested district than that of the CBD.
(Ord. 12-16, passed 8-8-12)