(a) Public and Institutional Uses. Public and institutional uses may include a mix of community and city buildings, meeting halls, libraries, post offices, academic institutions including public and for-profit, public recreational facilities, museums, performing arts centers or other uses permitted by the City of Springboro; located within or adjacent to open spaces, parks. Where possible, they should be sited as visual anchors to key vistas down a street or centered on an open space or plaza. Such uses shall work within a shared parking analysis and any off-street parking shall be located in rear yards.
(b) Retail/Commercial. Uses shall include: non-specialty retail, small to medium format anchors, commercial businesses, personal/personal care services, business services, financial services, restaurants without drive-throughs/bars, cafes or specialty foods, educational services, entertainment facilities, hospitality/hotels potentially including attached meeting or conference facilities, automotive services, child daycare centers and other single uses usually on individual lots per functional requirements. Secondary uses may include residential, including assisted and/or independent living per the discretion of the Planning Commission.
(c) Office. Primary uses include: professional offices and services, medical offices and/or laboratories, essential services including walk-in medical and/or pet care, and educational uses. Secondary uses may include residential per the discretion of the Planning Commission.
(d) Multi-Family Residential Area. The purpose of this section is to encourage a flexible residential typology matrix that allows for unit development that is compatible with, and in proximity, and integrated into the walkable village center, and to blend with the adjacent historic and other neighborhoods. These include the following types of units and mixes. Single-family attached dwellings (town homes); multi-family dwellings (either stand alone, or potentially over retail and/or commercial uses including); apartments, condominiums, loft-style residential; assisted or independent living residences; senior housing, tight lot-line, single family homes with rear-garages along an internal site service way; accessory structures, including separate, rear yard garages with the potential for living/family spaces above (granny flats).
(Ord. O-20-2. Passed 1-2-20.)