(A) General. The CB Central Business District is established as the centrally located trade and commercial service area of the community. The regulations of this district are designed to encourage the continued use of land for community trade and commercial service uses and to permit a concentrated development of permitted uses while maintaining a substantial relationship between the intensity of land uses and the capacity of utilities and streets.
(B) Permitted uses. The following uses are permitted:
(1) Alcoholic beverage control stores;
(2) Automobile parking lots and structures;
(3) Automobile parts and supplies, new;
(4) Bakeries, retail;
(5) Banks and other financial institutions, including loan and finance companies;
(6) Barber and beauty shops;
(7) Billiard and pool halls;
(8) Brewpub, subject to the following:
(a) Storage of materials used in the manufacturing, processing, and for distribution shall be located entirely within the building.
(b) Owner must demonstrate that operation will not violate requirements of the wastewater discharge and pollution abatement section of the Town of Sparta Municipal Code.
(9) Bus stations;
(10) Business colleges, barber and beauty colleges, art schools, music and dance studios and similar uses, but excluding industrial trade schools;
(11) Drug stores, with or without fountains;
(12) Dry cleaning, laundry pick-up stations and dry cleaning plants having not more than 2,000 square feet;
(13) Electric repair shops;
(14) Fire and police stations;
(15) Floral and gift shops;
(16) Food stores and meat markets, retail only, but excluding the killing or dressing of any flesh or fowl;
(17) Funeral homes and mortuaries;
(18) Hotels and inns;
(19) Jewelry repair shops and opticians;
(20) Launderettes and laundromats;
(21) Locksmiths and gunsmiths;
(22) Medical and dental clinics and laboratories;
(23) Microbrewery, subject to the following:
(a) Shall include one or more accessory uses such as a tasting room, tap room, restaurant, retail, or other uses incidental to the brewery and open and accessible to the public.
(b) Storage of materials used in the manufacturing, processing, and for distribution shall be located entirely within the building.
(c) Owner must demonstrate that operation will not violate requirements of the Wastewater Discharge and Pollution Abatement section of the Town of Sparta Municipal Code.
(24) Newspaper offices and printing plants incidental to the offices;
(25) Offices, business, professional and public;
(26) Office supplies and equipment, sales and service;
(27) Pawn shops;
(28) Pet animal veterinary clinic/hospital, without outdoor kennels or outdoor boarding of animals. Any accessory building used for boarding of animals must be enclosed.
(29) Photographic studios and camera supply stores;
(30) Printing, publishing and reproduction establishments;
(31) Public works and utility facilities, but excluding service and storage yards;
(32) Radio and TV repair shops;
(33) Restaurants, including drive-in restaurants; provided, the drive-in restaurants are fenced on all sides which abut residential districts. The fences shall be solid from the ground to a height of six feet and shall be planted with a buffer strip as specified by § 156.056;
(34) Retail establishments such as department, clothing, fabric, shoe, variety, notion, drug, hardware, furniture, appliance, floor covering, paint, antique, art goods, jewelry, gift, music, toy, sporting goods, book and stationery, magazine, candy, tobacco, pet and hobby and craft stores, but not excluding similar retail outlets;
(35) Service stations; provided that, all gasoline pumps and other stationary equipment shall be located at least 12 feet behind the property line; provided further that, on all sides where the stations abut residential districts, a six-foot high fence and landscaping as specified in § 156.056;
(36) Shoe repair and shine shops;
(37) Tailor and dressmaking shops;
(38) Taxicab stands;
(39) Telephone and telegraph offices;
(40) Theaters, indoor;
(41) Customary accessory uses and structures when located on the same block as the principal structures, excluding, however, open storage; and
(42) Signs: all signs shall comply with the general requirements in § 156.056. In addition, the Zoning Enforcement Officer shall issue a zoning permit for the following signs.
(a) Business signs shall be permitted. Any projecting sign shall be at right angles from the building and suspended from a canopy; provided, the sign is at least eight feet above the sidewalk. Any other business signs shall be mounted flat with the building walls and must not project more than 18 inches from the wall. No flashing portable signs are permitted.
(b) Signs, directing the public to off-street parking areas are permitted; provided, not more than two signs shall be permitted per lot; provided further, the aggregate size of the signs shall not exceed eight square feet in area.
(C) Conditional uses. The following conditional uses are permitted when authorized by the Board of Adjustment after the Board holds a public hearing. Each request shall be reviewed by the Planning and Zoning Board for their comments prior to the submission to the Board of Adjustment:
(1) Mixed uses (i.e., buildings erected for both dwelling and business purposes, and renovation of older buildings for the same purpose; provided that, not more than one-half of the useable floor area shall be devoted to residential purposes) and off-street parking for residential units is provided as required by § 156.055.
(2) Electronic gaming operations.
(D) Dimensional requirements. Within the CB Central Business District as shown on the zoning map, the following dimensional requirements shall be complied with:
(2) Off-street parking and loading shall be provided as required in § 156.055; and
(3) Buffer strips as required by § 156.056.
(Ord. passed 9-10-1984; Ord. passed - -; Ord. passed 5-2-2017; Ord. passed 11-7-2017)