(A) Generally. This district is established as a district in which the use of the land shall be for commercial and service uses relating to an urban and rural market area. In promoting the general purpose of this chapter, the specific intent of this section is:
(1) To encourage the construction of and the continued use of the land for downtown commercial and service uses;
(2) To provide for the orderly expansion of the uses within the CB Central Business District as designated on the Zoning Map;
(3) To prohibit both heavier commercial uses and industrial uses of the land and to prohibit uses which would substantially interfere with both the continuation of the uses presently in the district or the orderly growth of the district to meet the needs of an increased population in the market area;
(4) To encourage the discontinuance of existing uses that would not be permitted as new uses under the provisions of this section; and
(5) To permit a concentrated, intensive development of the permitted uses while maintaining a substantial relationship between the intensity of land use and the capacity of utilities and streets.
(B) Permitted uses.
(1) Off-street automobile parking;
(2) Banks and financial institutions;
(3) Shopping centers;
(4) Professional and business offices;
(5) Retail sales establishments;
(6) Pool rooms and video game rooms/arcades;
(7) Parks;
(8) Child day-cares/nurseries/after-school care facilities with an adequate fenced-in outdoor play area;
(9) Dry cleaning and laundry pickup stations, and laundry and dry cleaning establishments, provided the noninflammable cleaning fluids are used, and that there is no emission of toxic or offensive odors;
(10) Publishing and printing establishments;
(11) Restaurants;
(12) Motels, hotels, guest houses, and boarding houses;
(13) Florist shops;
(14) Food stores;
(15) Video rental stores;
(16) Indoor theaters;
(17) Laboratories;
(18) Repair shops for radio, television, appliances, shoes, and the like;
(19) Automobile service stations;
(20) Artist and craftspeople studios, displays, or shops;
(21) Personal service establishments, such as barber shops, beauty shops, and styling salons;
(22) Public buildings;
(23) Antique shops;
(24) Taxi stands limited to five taxis;
(25) Civic, charitable, political, fraternal, social, and religious organizations;
(26) Churches;
(27) Radio and television broadcasting studios;
(28) Funeral homes;
(29) Upholstery shops;
(30) Display models;
(31) Accessory uses clearly incidental to a permitted use and which will not create a nuisance or hazard; and
(32) Bingo parlors.
(C) Building height limits. In the CB Central Business District, every building hereafter erected or structurally altered to exceed 50 feet in height shall be set back from the front lot line on the ratio of one foot for each two feet, or fraction thereof, of building height in excess of 50 feet, but in no case shall the required front setback exceed ten feet.
(D) Location of accessory buildings.
(1) No accessory building shall be erected in any required yard; provided, accessory buildings shall be permitted in the required side and rear yards on condition that the accessory buildings shall be at least five feet from a street right-of-way and at least five feet from any property line not located on a street right-of-way. In addition, all permitted accessory buildings shall be located at least ten feet from the principal building and shall not encroach into any required easement(s). Furthermore, accessory building(s)/use(s) shall be allowed on a contiguous lot or tract of land so long as it remains under common ownership with the principal building/use with which it is associated if the principal building/use itself would also be permitted on such lot/tract; all accessory buildings located on contiguous lots shall not encroach into any required easement(s) and shall be at least five feet from a street right-of-way and at least five feet from any property line not located on a street right-of-way.
(E) Minimum lot requirements. No lot or yard requirements exist in the CB Central Business District, except as noted in division (C) above and as stated below. Where the rear of a lot abuts a residential district, there shall be a rear yard of not less than 15 feet in width, and where the side of a lot abuts a residential district, there shall be a side yard of not less than ten feet in width. In these cases, a buffer, as described in § 154.140, shall be required in addition to the required yards.
(F) Off-street loading and unloading space. No off-street loading space is required in the CB Central Business District, except for hotels, tourist homes, and motor courts.
(Ord. passed 7-9-1985; Ord. passed 5-10-1990; Ord. passed 3-9-1999; Ord. passed 8-10-1999; Ord. passed 3-14-2000; Ord. passed 5-9-2000; Ord. passed 9-9-2003; Ord. passed 9-13-2005; Ord. passed 9-12-2006; Ord. passed 12-9-2008; Ord. passed 5-13-2014; Ord. passed 6-29-2021) Penalty, see § 154.999