§ 152.081 B-1 CENTRAL BUSINESS DISTRICT.

   The Central Business District is intended for the conduct of retail business and for personal and business service for the city and its trade area. It is the most intensely developed district and contains stores and services for all areas of the city, requiring a high degree of internal interaction that demands close proximity and freedom of movement by pedestrians within the District.

   (A)   Permitted uses. Shall include any consumer and personal service establishment such as follows:

      (1)   Art or antique shops, paint and wallpaper stores, department stores, variety or dime stores, dry goods and apparel stores, hotels, office buildings, pool rooms, printing shops, jewelry stores, mail order houses, radio and television studios, health center, other business or service and warehouse;

      (2)   Dry cleaning establishments are permitted, provided that establishments meet all Fire Code requirements, have installed venting which assures dispersion of all obnoxious fumes and odors at least 25 feet above the street level or five feet above the roof level of the highest adjoining building, whichever is the higher, use only nonflammable solvents as specified by the Underwriters’ Laboratory, Incorporated, receive and disburse merchandise for processing on the premises, and provide at least two off-street parking spaces for customers; and

      (3)   Any office or office building. Banks, including the drive-in type; other financial establishments. Billiard parlors, pool halls, commercial studios, including art, photographic, music, dancing, radio, and television studios. Hotels, including motels and motor hotels. Any other use decided upon by the Planning Commission which falls in the same category.

   (B)   Prohibited uses. Uses strictly prohibited within the Central Business District include new or used car sales, farm implement sales, trailer sales, drive-in theaters, drive-in restaurants, or any other similar uses which the Board of Adjustment determines to be detrimental to the district as a pedestrian- oriented retail consumer-service district.

   (C)   Conditional uses. Uses which require special exceptions and require written approval of the Board of Adjustment include churches and other places of worship; parish houses; public libraries; passive recreation and/or public parks, service stations, municipal county, state, and federal buildings, public utilities; funeral homes; hospitals and clinics for human care, philanthropic institutions and clubs, including a club of which the chief activity is customarily carried on as a business; use of upper floors as residential dwellings by the owner of the business on the lower floors, the owner of the building, or as rental property. The Board of Adjustment may attach certain conditions to its approval which it feels are necessary to preserve and protect the character of the district in which the proposed use would locate.

   (D)   Accessory uses. Any accessory use or building customarily incidental to the above permitted uses is permitted.

   (E)   Required conditions. All permitted and conditional uses within the Central Business District shall be conducted wholly within an enclosed building except for off-street parking and loading facilities provided for under §§ 152.190 through 152.196.

   (F)   Development standards.

 

Maximum building height	36 feet or 3 stories
Minimum lot area	none
Minimum yard requirements	none
Parking	As set forth in §§ 152.190-152.196
Sidewalks	As set forth in §§ 152.140-152.156
Signs	As set forth in §§ 152.210-152.228

 

(Prior Code, § 152.076)  (Ord. 920.27, passed 10-7-1993)  Penalty, see § 152.999