1159.01 PURPOSE .

   The B-2 Downtown Business District is established to provide and encourage further expansion and renewal in the historical core business area of the community. A variety of business, institutional, public, cultural, and other related uses are encouraged in an effort to provide the mix of activities necessary to establish urban character.

      A.   Permitted Uses

         1.   All permitted uses listed in Section 1158.01.A.

         2.   Art or antique stores, interior decorating shops, furniture and appliance stores, music stores, travel agencies, department stores, variety and discount stores, jewelry stores, dry goods and apparel stores, mail order houses.

         3.   Commercial art, photographic, music, dancing, radio and television broadcasting.

         4.   Job printing and newspaper publishing.

         5.   Theaters.

         6.   Brewpubs and microbreweries.

         7.   Off-street parking lot, deck, or garage.

         8.   Any other retail business or service establishment or use which is determined by the Board of Zoning Appeals to be of the same general character as the above permitted uses, but not including any use first permitted or which is not permitted in the B-3 District.

            (Ord. 2022.042. Passed 12-6-22.)

      B.   Conditional Uses

         1.   Billiard parlors, pool halls, bowling alleys, and similar establishments (coin operated machines, pinballs, etc.), but not including skill-based amusement machine businesses as defined in Section 1189.01(132a).

            (Ord. 10-006. Passed 3-16-10.)

         2.   Automobile service stations (not automobile repair as defined in Section 1189.01(10)).

            (Ord. 2001-59. Passed 8-7-01.)

         3.   Hotels and motels.

            (Ord. 2013-064. Passed 12-17-13.)

      C.   Development Standards

         1.   Lot Area, Frontage, and Yard Requirements: The following minimum requirements shall be observed, except as otherwise provided herein:

 

Residential Uses	As stipulated in Sections 1151.01A., 1153.01A., or 1155.01A., depending upon the dwelling unit.
Commercial Uses	None, except for the provision of loading and unloading spaces as provided in Chapter 1177.
Height:	No principal structure shall exceed a height greater than twice the distance from the center line of the street on which it abuts. In the case of a corner property abutting two (2) streets of different right-of-way widths, the greater of the two (2) widths shall govern.

(Ord. 99-45. Passed 7-13-99; Ord. 2022-043. Passed 12-6-22.)