The purpose of this district is to provide for commercial activity along major thoroughfares and at other convenient points in the area. Regulations are designed to preserve the traffic carrying capacity of the streets and thoroughfares and to provide sufficient off-street parking. It is not the intent of this district to encourage extensive strip commercial development, but to provide concentrations of general commercial activities. 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) All uses permitted in the G-B and R-2 Districts;
(2) Retail businesses or services with outdoor sales and service areas allowed consistent with § 153.021 and provided such uses are consistent with all applicable federal, state or local laws or regulations. Permitted businesses and services shall include animal kennels, except for open kennels; automobile sales, parts, body, paint, tire recapping and washing establishments (not including automobile salvage yards); construction supply, service and equipment sales; storage and warehousing; farm equipment sales and repair; greenhouses and agricultural supply centers; general repair shops; manufactured housing sales; fitness centers; outdoor theaters; transportation terminals; and, monument sales;
(3) Hospitals and clinics, including those for animals, and nursing, convalescent and group care facilities;
(4) Businesses making or manufacturing products sold at wholesale or retail, provided such use is consistent with all applicable federal, state or local laws or regulations. Permitted businesses making products shall include food manufacturing and distribution; bottling plants; small fabricating shops such as those for woodworking, sheet metal and upholstery;
(5) Professional offices or studios, including those of radio and television stations;
(6) Bowling alleys, miniature golf or other recreational uses conducted for profit excluding game rooms, pool halls and billiard parlors (amended May 3, 2004);
(7) Customary accessory buildings, consistent with the provisions set forth in § 153.029; and
(8) Wholesale and warehousing establishments except for the storage of dangerous or offensive items such as uncured animal hides, explosives, oil, gasoline, etc.
(B) Special uses:
(1) Group developments;
(2) Manufactured home parks; and
(3) Manufactured home placed on an existing residential lot.
(C) Use restrictions:
(3) Buffer strips as required in § 153.028; and
(4) Travel trailers and/or recreational vehicles may be used as a temporary single family dwelling on an individual lot. However, in no case shall a travel trailer or recreational vehicle be used as a permanent single family dwelling or in conjunction with a primary residence on an individual lot.
(Ord. passed 4-1993; Am. Ord. passed 6-7-2021)