(A) Purpose. The historic commercial area of the village, centered along Chillicothe Street, possesses an environmental character that is different from commercial development that is found elsewhere in the village. The purpose of the Old Village Business District is to preserve this character and encourage the reuse of existing older structures, while providing for a wide variety of small-scale “home-owned” commercial and business uses.
(B) Permitted uses.
(1) One-family detached dwellings;
(2) Administrative and business offices not carrying on retail trade with the public and having no stock of goods maintained for sale to customers including:
(a) Insurance agents and brokers and associated services;
(b) Professional, legal, engineering and architectural services, not including the outside storage or equipment; and
(c) Accounting, auditing and other bookkeeping services.
(3) Professional offices engaged in providing services to the general public consisting of:
(a) Medical and medical-related activities;
(b) Other health or allied medical facilities;
(c) Professional, legal, engineering and architectural services, not including the outside storage of equipment; and
(d) Accounting, auditing and other bookkeeping services.
(4) Retail stores primarily engaged in selling merchandise for personal or household consumption including:
(a) Food and food products, consisting of grocery, meat, fish, fruit or vegetable markets, beverage sales or combinations thereof, but not including establishments with drive-through facilities;
(b) General merchandise, including limited price variety stores and other similar stores selling a variety of general merchandise;
(c) Specialty retail stores, including drug stores, florists, gift and novelty stores, magazines and newspapers, optical goods, jewelry, antique stores and similar specialty stores; and
(d) Other retail stores which conform to the purpose of the Old Village Business District.
(5) Personal services, involving the care of the person and his or her personal effects, including consumer services generally involving the care and maintenance of tangible property or the provision of tangible services for personal consumption including:
(a) Restaurants and taverns, but not including restaurants with drive-through facilities;
(b) Banks, savings and loans, and credit agencies, but not including establishments with drive-through facilities;
(c) Barber and beauty shops and similar personal care establishments, but not including tattoo and/or body piercing establishments;
(d) Self-service laundries and/or dry-cleaning establishments; and
(e) On-premises duplication facilities.
(6) Business services engaged in the providing of services to business establishments on a free or contract basis, consulting services, protective services, office equipment rental, lease or purchase, commercial research and development;
(7) Community facilities such as governmental offices, post office, libraries, museums, private schools, public parks and similar uses;
(8) Bed and breakfast inns; and
(9) Similar uses, which conform to the purpose of the Old Village Business District, as determined by the Planning and Zoning Board in accordance with the provisions of § 152.040(B)(5).
(C) Conditional uses.
(1) Two or more family residences, provided such residences are developed as an accessory to a principal permitted use, are not located on the ground floor, and that the housing density standards of the AR District are met. A development plan for the project shall be submitted and approved by the Planning and Zoning Board;
(2) Public parking areas, provided a 15 feet front setback from all property lines is maintained; and
(3) Banks, savings and loans, and credit agencies and similar financial institutions with drive-through facilities.
(D) Prohibited uses. Keeping, feeding, grazing, or sheltering of hoofed animals, poultry, fowl, or the like.
(E) Development standards.
(1) Lot area. No minimum lot area is required.
(2) Lot width. No minimum lot width is required.
(3) Front yard setback. The minimum front yard setback shall be the average of existing structures on the same side of the street and facing thereon within 100 feet from the subject property. Where there are no such structures, the front yard setback shall be not less than 15 feet measured from the street right-of-way.
(4) Side and rear yards. No minimum side or rear yard shall be required, provided that the parking requirements of this chapter are met.
(5) Additional yard and pedestrian areas. Where new development in the OVB District is located adjacent to a district where residences are a permitted use, the Planning and Zoning Board may require that those yards adjacent to such residential district be landscaped and screened so as to effectively obstruct the view of parking, loading and service areas from adjacent property
(6) Drive-through facilities prohibited. With the exception cited in division (C) above, no use within the OVB District shall be developed with drive-through facilities.
(7) Parking and loading. All parking and loading areas in the OVB District shall be located in the side or rear yards.
(8) Maximum building size. Individual uses within the OVB District shall have a usable floor area of not more than 4,000 square feet, unless the use is located in an existing building, in which case such restriction shall not apply.
(9) Residential building conversion. Existing single-family residences within the OVB District may be converted to another permitted use, provided the following requirements are followed.
(a) Structures shall maintain the appearance of a single-family residence and be compatible with surrounding residences, in size and scale.
(b) Lighting shall be limited to those types customarily found in residential neighborhoods. Any lights shall be arranged so as not to shine on adjacent properties.
(c) Exterior signage shall be limited to a single nameplate not more than two square feet in size. No signs shall be internally illuminated.
(d) Storage of materials and equipment shall be within an enclosed building.
(e) All parking shall be located in the rear yard.
(Ord. 97-5, passed 8-4-1997; Ord. 2008-6, passed 8-19-2008; Ord. 2023-6, passed 5-2-2023)