This district is designed to provide a concentrated central core of retailing and services including administrative, business, financial, general and professional offices and related services. The district regulations are designed to promote convenient pedestrian shopping and the stability of retail development by encouraging continuous retail frontage in a concentrated area. Within the G-B General Business District, no structure or land shall be used, and no structure shall be hereafter erected, relocated, reconstructed or structurally altered unless otherwise provided in this chapter, except for one or more of the following purposes:
(A) Permitted uses:
(1) Retail businesses or services conducted within an enclosed building, provided such uses are consistent with an applicable federal, state or local laws or regulations. Permitted businesses and services shall include financial institutions; small repair and sales shops such as for watches, bicycles, shoes, etc.; mortuaries and funeral parlors; laundries and dry cleaners; barber and beauty shops; hardware stores; clothing and department stores; convenience stores; indoor food preparation and sales including restaurants and health food stores; automobile parking lots, service stations for fuel and routine maintenance (with outdoor service areas); flower, gift and garden shops; pet shops; indoor theaters and places of entertainment excluding game rooms, pool halls and billiard parlors;
(2) Public transportation facilities for buses and taxicabs;
(3) Hospitals and clinics, except those for animals;
(4) Small retail manufacturing businesses, provided such use is consistent with all applicable federal, state or local laws or regulations. Permitted businesses making products shall include print shops and arts and crafts shops having motor-driven tools not to exceed two horsepower;
(5) Professional offices or studios, including those of accountants, architects, land surveyors, artists, attorneys, contractors, dentists, engineers, insurance agents, musicians, photographers, physicians, real estate brokers, consultants, medical laboratories and opticians;
(6) Government and public utility facilities;
(7) Non-profit organizations including offices, meeting halls, lodges, museums;
(8) Churches;
(11) Trade schools and similar instructional or educational facilities;
(12) Customary accessory buildings, consistent with the requirements set forth in § 153.029;
(13) Temporary use structures, consistent with the requirements set forth in § 153.020; and
(14) Residential apartments as a secondary use.
(B) Special uses:
(1) Group developments; and
(2) Manufactured home placed on an existing residential lot.
(C) Use restrictions:
(2) Buffer strips as required in § 153.028;
(3) Vending machines, other than those for newspapers, shall not be allowed on public sidewalks;
(4) No sidewalk vendor shall display and/or sell goods, wares, or merchandise of any kind on that portion of a sidewalk adjacent to a building occupied by a seller who displays and/or sells the same kind or nature of goods, wares, and/or merchandise. (For example, no sidewalk vendor shall display and/or sell jewelry on that portion of a sidewalk adjacent to a building occupied by a seller who displays and/or sells jewelry; no sidewalk vendor shall display and/or sell wood carvings on that portion of a sidewalk adjacent to a building occupied by a seller who displays and/or sells wood carvings; etc.); and
(5) Tattoo parlors, other tattoo businesses and body piercing businesses (except ear piercing which is permitted) are prohibited in the G-B District.
(Ord. passed 4-1993; Am. Ord. passed 4-2-2018; Am. Ord. passed 6-7-2021)