(A) Purposes. The General Business District is established for the following purposes:
(1) To provide sufficient space, in appropriate locations with a variety of site choices, for development requiring a higher density of commercial establishments, general characterized by an integrated or planned cluster of establishments served by a common parking area and/or generating large volumes of vehicular and pedestrian traffic;
(2) To protect against fire, pollution and other environmental hazards;
(3) To protect, as far as possible, commercial centers against congestion;
(4) To promote the most desirable use of land and direction of building development in accord with the city’s forthcoming Comprehensive Plan; and
(5) To promote stability of commercial development; to strengthen the economic base of the city; to protect the character of the district and its uses; to conserve the value of land and buildings; and to protect the city’s tax base.
(B) Permitted uses.
(1) All uses listed as permitted uses in the C-1 and C-2 Districts where said uses must meet the minimum requirements of their use district;
(2) Any retail business, personal service or similar businesses except for lumberyards, contractor yards, farm equipment or other heavy equipment sales or service, and/or warehousing and stockyards. Household goods stored in individually rented storage units is permitted in this district;
(3) Hotel, motel and restaurants;
(4) Institutional uses;
(5) Printing, publishing and similar uses;
(6) Rail and motor vehicle transportation passenger terminals;
(7) Telephone, television, radio or similar media stations/studios, but any incidental tower(s) must first receive conditional use permit approval;
(9) Automotive repair and/or paint and body shops; provided that, all work is conducted wholly within a completely enclosed and well ventilated building. The portion of land used for open storage of vehicles or automotive parts shall be totally obscured by a fence buffer that results in total obscurity; and
(10) An accessory use customarily related to a principal use authorized in this district including temporary tents for sidewalk sales and the like.
(C) Conditional uses.
(1) Gasoline service stations or retail outlets where gasoline service products are sold;
(2) Drive-through service windows;
(3) Restaurants that serve alcoholic beverages for on-premises consumption. Also, bars, cocktail lounges, taverns, cantinas, saloons, dance halls, nightclubs or other similar operations;
(4) Amusement parks, circus or carnival grounds, commercial amusements or other similar uses;
(5) Portable buildings;
(6) Telephone, radio, television and/or other telecommunication tower;
(8) Crematorium when in association with a funeral home establishment; such must meet any prevailing local and/or state building regulations; and
(9) The complimentary (not sold) offering of alcoholic beverages for on-site consumption may be permitted within a city-owned building for a social and/or cultural event that is associated with a charitable or civic organization.
(D) Required conditions. Gasoline service stations or retail outlets where gasoline products are sole, drive-in businesses and veterinary hospitals shall be subject to the same limitations as set forth in the applicable divisions of § 156.049 of this chapter.
(E) Prohibited uses.
(1) Unless otherwise grandfathered, any building erected or land used for other than one or more of the preceding uses; and
(2) Any use of property that does not meet the required minimum area requirements; or exceeds the maximum height, or density per gross acre.
(Ord. 2016-07, passed 8-9-2016)