In addition to the overall purpose of this code. as established in Section 1101.01, the following are the purpose statements for the individual base zoning districts in the City of Sharonville. The purpose statements for overlay districts are established in Chapter 1107: Overlay Zoning Districts and the purpose statements for Planned Unit Developments (PUDs) are established in Chapter 1109: Planned Unit Developments.
(a) Residential Districts (R1-A, R1-B, R2-C, and RM-D). Residential districts and their regulations are established in order to achieve, among others, the following purposes:
(1) Provide uniform regulations for residential uses in conformance with the overall purposes of this code;
(2) Regulate the density and distribution of population in accordance with the objectives of the Comprehensive Plan to avoid congestion and to maintain adequate services;
(3) Provide for the proper location of residential dwellings in proximity to community and shopping facilities so as to increase the general convenience, safety, and amenities in the area;
(4) Provide protection from noxious fumes, odors, dust, excessive noises, invasion of abnormal vehicular traffic, and other objectionable influences from other incompatible land uses; and
(5) Protect the desirable characteristics of existing residential development to promote neighborhood stability.
(b) Commercial Districts (OB, LB, GB, CBD, and SM-D). Commercial districts and their regulations are established in order to achieve, among others, the following purposes:
(1) Provide uniform regulations for commercial uses in conformance with the overall purposes of this code;
(2) Provide appropriate and conveniently located zoning districts of sufficient size for the exchange of goods and services and other business activities;
(3) Provide Local Business Districts to serve the needs for convenience goods in proximity to the immediate neighborhood which do not generate or attract large volumes of traffic and which are easily and safely accessible by pedestrians;
(4) Provide General Business Districts which require larger land areas that may be open in the evening and that generate large volumes of traffic serving the needs for shopping and convenience goods and services of the entire community;
(5) Provide for the Central Business District and for the Support Mixed-Downtown District which encourage more compact and walkable development that can serve as both a central hub of shopping and entertainment as well as a community gathering space;
(6) Provide for districts with a focus on nonretail professional services, banking and management and professional offices of commercial, industrial, public and semi-public institutions;
(7) Provide for a mixture of residential and commercial uses in certain districts;
(8) Protect adjacent residential neighborhoods by regulating the types and spacing of business uses, particularly at the common boundaries, that would create hazards, noises, odors or other objectionable influences; and
(9) Promote the most desirable land use and traffic patterns in accordance with the objectives of the Comprehensive Plan.
(c) Industrial Districts (CS, GI, and ITC). Industrial districts and their regulations are established in order to achieve, among others, the following purposes:
(1) Provide uniform regulations for nonretail and industrial uses in conformance with the overall purposes of this code;
(2) Provide appropriate and convenient districts that allow for areas dedicated to research, providing commercial services, manufacturing, and distributing goods to serve the community;
(3) Provide appropriate and convenient areas for business, contracting, storage and distribution services, and related types of minor production processes;
(4) Provide a variety of industrial districts for those products and processes which normally require a large amount of motor vehicle trucking and rail service for the transportation of raw materials and finished products, but in which dust, smoke, fumes, glare, odors, or other objectionable influences can be controlled;
(5) Provide Industrial Truck Center Districts intended to serve large scale truck terminals and general storage and warehouse operations involving interstate and intrastate motor carriers in which activities are generally incompatible with other uses and which shall be located strategically for efficient coordination with the City's planned street and thoroughfare systems;
(6) Improve the general environment by prohibiting dwellings, institutions, and public facilities in the industrial districts, and by so doing, making land more readily available for industry;
(7) Protect adjacent residential districts by restricting the types of manufacturing uses and trucking activities in the surrounding area to only those not creating objectionable influences beyond their district boundaries and by separating and insulating them from the most intensive manufacturing and trucking activities;
(8) Protect manufacturing 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; and
(9) Promote the most desirable use of land in accordance with the objectives of the Comprehensive Plan.
(d) Public Facilities District (PF). The purpose of the Public Facilities District is to:
(1) Provide proper zoning classification for government, civic, welfare, and recreation facilities in the proper locations and extents so as to promote public health, safety, convenience, comfort, prosperity and general welfare;
(2) Protect public and semi-public facilities and institutions from the encroachment of certain other uses and make such uses compatible with adjoining residential uses; and
(3) Provide an environment for the proper functioning of public facilities in relation to the Comprehensive Plan and other plans for community facilities. (Ord. 2022-22. Passed 5-10-22.)