(A) Intent. The C-CBD: Central Business District Commercial District is designed to provide space for a wide variety of retail stores, offices and related activities which serve the entire city or may even have regional impact. This district is characterized by high intensity and large bulk development. It is intended that this district not be mapped outside the downtown area.
(B) Permitted uses. The following uses are permitted in the C-CBD District:
(1) Uses permitted in the C-A District;
(2) One- through multiple-family dwellings;
(3) Printing or publishing companies;
(4) Accessory uses incidental to and on the same zoning lot as a permitted principal use;
(5) Bed and breakfast inn, subject to site plan approved;
(6) Educational and religious facilities; and
(7) Tea room or tea house.
(C) Conditional uses. The following uses may be permitted in the C-CBD District on a conditional basis, following approval in the manner prescribed in this chapter: warehousing.
(D) Bulk regulations.
(1) Height: the maximum height of buildings shall not exceed 100 feet;
(2) Yard setbacks:
(a) Front yard: none required;
(b) Side yard: none required, except as required as a transitional yard;
(c) Rear yard: none required;
(d) Corner side yard: none required; and
(e) Transitional yard: where the side or rear lot line of a lot in the C-CBD District coincides with a side or rear lot line in an adjacent residential district, a yard shall be provided not less in width than 1.25 times the height of the wall of the building on said C-CBD zoned lot. Such side yard in the C-CBD District shall not be less than ten feet in width. Where a side or rear lot line in the C-CBD District coincides with a side or rear lot line in an adjacent residential district, the yard provided shall contain a wall, screening fence or densely-planted compact hedge not less than five feet, nor more than ten feet in height, which wall, fence or hedge shall be well maintained.
(3) Lot area: no minimum. Also, no minimum lot area per dwelling unit for multiple-family residential uses.
(E) Establishment of Downtown Square Area.
(1) The Downtown Square Area is a defined geographic location located within the C-CBD: Central Business District. The Downtown Square Area is bounded by:
(a) The centerline of East Second Street North and South;
(b) The centerline of South Second Avenue East and West;
(c) The eastern boundary of the north-south alley right-of-way in the 200 blocks between North Third Avenue West and South Second Avenue West; and
(d) The centerline of North Third Avenue East and West.
(2) Residential, single, duplex and multiple-family dwellings with the following exception: residential use is permitted only within upper stories or in the rear of the ground floor for properties located within the Downtown Square Area. Properties in the Downtown Square Area shall maintain a commercial use within storefronts along public streets on the first floor of the building. The Commercial use shall occupy at least 40% of the depth of the building and the entire width.
(2011 Code, § 34.04031) (Ord. 2242, passed 2-2-2015; Ord. 2435, passed 8-21-2023)