§ 154.101 LOCAL BUSINESS DISTRICT.

   The Local Business District (LB) is designed to meet the day-to-day convenience shopping and service needs of persons living in nearby residential areas. Uses allowed in this district will, in general, be a less intense use than those allowed in the General Business District.

   (A)   Permitted uses.

      (1)   Residential uses, including:

         (a)   Single-family dwelling;

         (b)   Two-family dwelling;

         (c)   Manufactured Home Type I, as defined in § 154.086;

         (d)   Cultural and recreational facilities including churches, parks and recreational facilities, libraries, museums, and zoos;

         (e)   Home occupations, traffic and non-traffic generating;

         (f)   Permanent utility structures for essential services;

         (g)   Public or private primary or secondary schools;

         (h)   Development disabilities residential facilities (see § 154.081(A)(8)); and

         (i)   Residential accessory uses as provided by § 154.082 and §§ 154.030 through 154.033.

      (2)   Local business uses which are primarily of a retail or service nature and specifically classified or implied in the following categories of uses:

         (a)   Business services, including bank, office building, postal station, telephone/telegraph exchange or public utility substation, and utility company business office;

         (b)   Clinic;

         (c)   Clothing service, including dry cleaning establishment, dressmaking, millinery, self-service laundry and dry cleaning, shoe repair shop, and tailor and pressing shop;

         (d)   Equipment service, including electric appliance shop and sales, radio or television shop and sales, and record shop and sales;

         (e)   Food service, including bakery, cold storage locker, for individual use, delicatessen, grocery, meat market, and restaurant (excluding drive-through windows and drive-ins);

         (f)   Funeral home;

         (g)   Personal service, including barber shop, beauty shop, physical fitness facility, and photographic studio;

         (h)   Pet shop or pet grooming (not including a kennel);

         (i)   Recreational uses, including billiard room, bowling alley, dancing academy, sport shops (including bait sales);

         (j)   Restaurant (excluding drive-through windows and drive-ins);

         (k)   Retail service/retail stores, including apparel shop, antique shop, drug store, flower and/or gift shop, hardware or paint store, jewelry store, news dealer, shoe store, show room and sales area for articles to be sold at retail, stationer, toy store, and variety store; and

         (l)   Studio business, including art shop, interior decorating,  and music shop.

   (B)   Performance standards. The following regulations shall apply in the Local Business District (LB) in addition to the general provisions in §§ 154.025 through 154.034. Commercial accessory uses are subject to the same provisions as the principal use unless otherwise noted in this chapter.

      (1)   Lot area. The lot shall contain not less than 6,000 square feet.

      (2)   Lot width. The minimum lot width shall be 60 feet, and when the depth is less than the width, the lot depth shall be 50 feet.

      (3)   Lot frontage. All lots within the LB District shall maintain a minimum of 60 feet of frontage on a publicly or privately maintained street.

      (4)   Yard and setback requirements.

         (a)   Front yard. Not less than 25 feet from the property line.

         (b)   Side yards. Least width of either side yard shall not be less than ten feet except in the case of a corner lot, where the side yard on the street side shall not be less than the required front yard setback.

         (c)   Rear yard. Not less than ten feet.

         (d)   Exception. Those properties within the downtown area as designated on the following map, shall be exempt from these setback and yard requirements as they pertain to the replacement of existing structures on their present foundations. Any building that is replaced shall be rebuilt on its existing foundation regardless of the district yard and setback requirements. If there is no existing foundation to use, the setback of the new building shall be determined by the Board of Zoning Appeals. All such other requirements of this chapter as they pertain to design standards shall apply.

      (5)   Height requirement. Except as otherwise provided, the following height requirements shall apply to all buildings, structures, and uses in this district.

      (6)   Ground floor area. The minimum ground floor area is not applicable to business districts for business uses. The minimum size of a residential structure shall be 950 square feet of living area for a single-story structure. The minimum size of a residential structure shall be one 1,200 square feet for a multiple-story structure. This number excludes all garages, porches, and basements, which do not include living area. In a multi-family dwelling, each dwelling unit shall have at least 750 square feet of living area.

      (7)   Lot coverage. The maximum lot coverage in a Local Business District is 50% of the entire lot.

   (C)   Other regulations.

      (1)   Off-street parking. For residential uses, two parking spaces per dwelling unit, excluding garages. Other off-street parking requirements as set forth in §§ 154.175 through 154.181.

      (2)   Sign requirement. Sign requirements as set forth in §§ 154.195 through 154.204.

      (3)   Operations in an enclosed building. All operations shall be conducted within a fully enclosed building. The Board of Zoning Appeals may allow for outdoor storage in conjunction with a permitted use as a special exception as set forth in §§ 154.215 through 154.220.

      (4)   Building size. The enclosed building shall be less than 3,000 square feet.

      (5)   Multi-family dwellings. Multi-family dwelling with a special exception as set forth in §§ 154.215 through 154.220.

(Ord. 01-04-01, passed 4-10-2001; Ord. 04-06-20, passed 4-24-2007)