Office Building, Retail Business, Commercial Manufacturing "A", Commercial Manufacturing "B" and Shopping Center Districts and their regulations are established herein in order to achieve, among others, the following purposes:
(a) To provide, in appropriate and convenient districts, sufficient areas for business activities and the exchange of goods and services;
(b) To provide Office Building Districts for both local and regional offices adjacent to business and/or residential areas that will ensure compatibility with and protect adjoining Residential Districts;
(c) To provide Retail Business Districts that will:
(1) Serve the shopping needs of the community;
(2) Protect adjacent residential properties by restricting the type of business uses, particularly at the common boundaries, which would create hazards, noise, odors or other objectionable influences; and
(3) Relieve traffic congestion on the streets by requiring off-street parking and loading facilities;
(d) To provide Commercial Manufacturing "A" and "B" Districts that will:
(1) Provide sufficient areas for carrying on research, providing commercial services, manufacturing and distributing goods to serve the community, to promote employment and to strengthen the economy of the community;
(2) Provide appropriate and convenient areas for business, contracting, storage and distribution services, and related types of minor production processes, primarily for businesses which serve other businesses or those which serve infrequent shopping needs;
(3) Improve the general environment by prohibiting dwellings, institutions and public facilities in the Commercial-Manufacturing Districts, and by so doing, make land more readily available for commerce and industry;
(4) Protect adjacent Residential Districts by restricting the types of manufacturing uses in the surrounding areas to only those not creating objectionable influences beyond their district boundaries and by separating and insulating them from the most intense manufacturing activities through the provision of landscaped buffer areas; and
(5) Protect light manufacturing, commercial services and related development against congestion insofar as is possible and appropriate in each area by limiting the bulk of buildings in relation to the land and by providing off-street parking and loading facilities;
(e) To provide Shopping Center Districts that will:
(1) Provide for the development of a wide variety of business and shopping facilities within an integrated and unified arrangement of buildings and facilities in areas of sufficient dimensions to satisfy all off-street parking demands and located along major arterial streets where the traffic generated by such developments can be accommodated in a manner that the public health, welfare and safety of the surrounding area will be maintained;
(2) Establish criteria and procedures for the planning and approval of shopping center development plans so that future shopping center development will be coordinated with surrounding neighborhoods;
(3) Protect adjacent residential neighborhoods by regulating the types, spacing and setbacks of business uses, particularly at the common boundaries, which could create hazards, odors, noise, increased litter or other objectionable influences; and
(4) Promote the most desirable land use and traffic patterns in the City of Parma; and
(f) To promote the most desirable land uses in accordance with plans recommended or duly approved by the City.
(Ord. 51-93. Passed 7-19-93.)