(A) Purpose. The Central Business District is designed to provide a compact shopping area for the location of offices and retail stores necessary for servicing the community and surrounding areas and is closely aligned with the Comprehensive Plan and which maintains a mutually compatible relationship among the various types of uses.
(B) Permitted principal uses. The following uses shall be permitted:
(1) Adult use/accessory businesses;
(2) Amusement and recreation establishments such as indoor theaters, swimming pools, skating rinks, billiard halls, bowling alleys and similar commercial recreation facilities;
(3) Antique shops;
(4) Appliance stores;
(5) Art and school supply stores;
(6) Art studios, art galleries, art sales and supplies stores;
(7) Bakeries, provided the room or rooms containing the preparation and baking process shall not have a gross floor area in excess of 2,400 square feet;
(8) Banks, savings institutions;
(9) Barber shops;
(10) Beauty parlors;
(11) Book and stationery stores;
(12) Camera and photo stores;
(13) Candy and ice cream stores;
(14) Car dealers of new or used cars provided cars in enclosed showrooms only;
(15) Carpet and rug stores;
(16) Clinics, for treating persons and animals, excluding training runs, stables or kennels;
(17) Clothes pressing and tailoring shops;
(18) Clothing stores;
(19) Club and lodge halls;
(20) Decorating studios;
(21) Department stores;
(22) Drug stores;
(23) Dry cleaning and laundry receiving and pick-up stations, excluding laundering and dry cleaning processing and self-service laundromats;
(24) Dry goods or notions stores;
(25) Electrical appliance sales and service;
(26) Florist shops;
(27) Food, meat, fish, bakery and delicatessen stores;
(28) Furniture stores;
(29) Gift shops;
(30) Grocery, fruit or vegetable stores;
(31) Hardware stores;
(32) Hobby and toy stores;
(33) Jewelry stores;
(34) Libraries;
(35) Liquor stores or taverns;
(36) Loan offices and finance companies;
(37) Locksmith shops;
(38) Medical and dental clinics and complexes;
(39) Marine or boat sales and display; trailer sales; farm implement sales, provided sales and displays are in enclosed structures only;
(40) Mixed Use Downtown, subject to the following:
(a) Exclusive of required entrances, the residential use may occupy no portion of the front 50% of the first story floor area along the front building line. For corner lots or lots that abut an alley, the standard shall be applied to one street frontage as determined by the Zoning Administrator.
(b) Residential uses shall be provided separate entrances and separately identified parking stalls.
(41) Mortuary or undertaking establishments;
(42) Motels and hotels;
(43) Newsstands and tobacco shops;
(44) Offices, professional;
(45) Optical stores;
(46) Paint and wallpaper stores;
(47) Parking lots, ramps and garages other than those accessory to a principal use for the parking and storage of private passenger vehicles only;
(48) Pet shops;
(49) Phonographs, record and sheet music stores;
(50) Photography studios;
(51) Physical culture and health services, reducing salons and masseurs;
(52) Public parks, pedestrian malls and recreation areas and structures;
(53) Post offices;
(54) Plumbing sales stores;
(55) Public safety and utility buildings and structures, community centers;
(56) Radio and television sales and repair stores;
(57) Restaurants, excluding drive-in restaurants;
(58) Schools: music, business, technical and vocational;
(59) Sewing machine sales and service shops;
(60) Shoe sales and repair shops;
(61) Sporting goods stores;
(62) Souvenir and rock shops;
(63) Stock and brokerage firms;
(64) Tourist information center and displays;
(65) Telephone and telegraph offices, telephone booths;
(66) Theater, excluding drive-in theaters;
(67) Ticket agencies;
(68) Travel bureaus and transportation ticket offices;
(69) Variety, gift, notion and soft good stores; and
(70) Vending machines which are coin or car operated, only when incorporated into a structure.
(C) Permitted accessory uses. The following shall be permitted accessory uses:
(1) Accessory uses customarily incidental to the uses listed in divisions (B) and (D) of this section.
(2) Off-street parking and loading as regulated by § 152.41(L); and
(3) Signs as regulated by § 152.41(K).
(D) Conditional uses. The following uses may be permitted subject to the issuance of a conditional use permit as provided in § 152.43:
(1) Any business activity of the same general character as those listed in division (B) above;
(2) Drive-in restaurant, provided sufficient off-street parking is provided; lighting and any resultant glare shall be directed away from residential districts, and the surface of the parking area shall be dust-free and well drained; and
(3) New and used car display lots, providing the surface of the parking and display area is dust-free and well drained, and a decorative screen at least 6 feet in height and of at least 90% opacity shall be placed on all sides abutting any residential district boundary. This requirement may be modified only where the screen would interfere with visibility for traffic movement. In all cases, artificial lighting and glare shall be directed away from any public right of way and any residential district.
(E) Height, yard setbacks and lot coverage requirements. The height, yard setbacks and lot coverage requirements shall be those stated in § 152.40.
(F) Additional district regulations.
(1) Lighting (glare) shall be directed away from public rights-of-way and residential districts.
(2) An awning, canopy or marquee suspended from a building may extend over the public right-of-way 10 feet but not within 2 feet of the curb line. Structures shall be not less than 8 feet above the sidewalk or ground grade line, and the owner of the structure shall be responsible for the awning’s, canopy’s or marquee’s structural safety.
(3) All uses within the C-1 District shall be subject to the performance standards as stated in § 152.23(F).
(G) Sidewalks within district.
(1) Use of sidewalks. Businesses located within the C-1 Central Business District, in order to utilize the sidewalk area immediately adjacent to their business premises for purpose of the temporary display or sale of ancillary items, must operate in accordance with the terms of this division (G).
(2) Restrictions.
(a) Each business will be limited in area immediately adjacent and contiguous to the business premise and not extending beyond the line of the building in which the business is located. The display of merchandise shall be limited to the business frontage allowing for 5 feet for pedestrian traffic, giving due consideration to the location of any benches, planters, utility/light poles, or other streetscape or fixtures.
(b) No authorization will be given permitting for any permanent installation to be placed on or in the way, or permit the leaving on the sidewalk of furnishings, goods, displays or other equipment or personal property outside of business hours.
(c) All merchandise shall be removed from the sidewalk at or before the daily close of business.
(d) The ownership, operation and maintenance of a sidewalk will be subject to all applicable laws, ordinances and regulations.
(e) No items will be placed along the curb so as to obstruct the flow of pedestrian traffic and will be compliant with all state and federal laws for setbacks, fire codes, as well as be compliant with any regulations related to the Americans with Disabilities Act.
(1987 Code, § 702.08) (Am. Ord. 543, passed 4-29-2011; Am. Ord. 2022-645, passed 12-27-2022)