This District is designed to encourage well-planned business uses, particularly with respect to unified design, safe ingress and egress, adequate and properly located parking, and service facilities and convenient and safe pedestrian accessibility.
(A) General provisions. The uses set forth in division (B) below shall be permitted by the Executive Director without a hearing or consideration by the Board of Zoning Appeals, if he or she ascertains that the application for an improvement location permit for the proposed use in the PB Planned Business District meets all of the requirements herein, and the basic requirements of § 153.014(B)(1) and all other requirements set forth in this chapter pertaining to the proposed use; provided, a public notice and notice to interested property owners of filing the improvement location permit, describing the location and nature of the proposed use, shall be published in accordance with the rules of the Board of Zoning Appeals at least ten days prior to any action being taken thereon by the Executive Director. If the Executive Director determines that the proposed use is not in accordance with the requirements, he or she shall deny the application for an improvement location permit, and the applicant may make application for a special exception, which shall be processed in accordance with the requirements set forth in § 153.014 for a planned business use in the PB District. Or, if objections from property owners are elicited by the required notices, the Executive Director shall require that the application be processed as a special exception in accordance with the requirements set forth in § 153.014 for a planned business use in the PB District, and additional notice shall be required. All applications for any use in the PB Planned Business District shall include a development plan, and the following additional requirements shall be adhered to.
(1) A greenbelt or lawn area at least 20 feet in width and abutting the property line on the lot which is proposed in the PB District shall be provided on the particular side or rear of a lot where a PB District use adjoins an A-1, A-2, FR, R-I, or R-2 District or land used for residential purposes. A planting screen consisting of suitable shrubbery shall be provided and maintained within the greenbelt or lawn area so as to provide a tight screen, effective at all times of the year. The locations and names of the shrubbery planting shall be indicated on the development plan or on a separate landscape plan which shall become a part of the application. The shrubbery may be planted informally or in a row and may include several varieties and sizes; provided, that the Board shall be satisfied that the shrubbery will screen any parking areas and expected ground activity from the view of the abutting property, and also that vision clearance at access points shall be provided for safety purposes.
(2) Off-street parking spaces and accessory uses such as filling stations pumps and islands, signs, and light standards, and access drives may be located in the required front yard, but not within 20 feet of the front lot line; provided, that the access drives may connect with the frontal street, and provided also that the described 20-foot strip of land shall be maintained as a lawn area with occasional tree and shrub plantings.
(3) On properties fronting on state highways or on any other “arterial streets” (see definitions of “street, arterial” and “comprehensive plan” in § 153.004) as shown on the thoroughfare plan map, the front yard shall have a depth of at least 80 feet. Furthermore, a greenbelt or lawn area of at least 20 feet in depth and abutting the front lot line of such properties shall be maintained as lawn, except for prescribed accessways. (See divisions (A)(1) and (A)(2) above.) On through lots, building lines, and greenbelts or lawn areas shall be provided as herein described. On all other types of streets, the building line for uses proposed in the PB Planned Business District shall be established at least 25 feet from the front lot line, and the side yard dimension on the side street side of a corner lot shall be at least 25 feet measured from the side lot line which either exists or is proposed to exist as the line of a future street; provided, that greenbelts or lawn areas are not required for those streets.
(4) Entrances and exists shall be located so as to minimize any adverse effect on adjacent properties. Access driveways shall not be wider than 40 feet at their point of intersection with a street. The requirements of § 153.022(B) apply to traffic access points and service roads.
(5) No structure or building, driveway, or accessory use shall be located closer than ten feet to any side or rear lot tine.
(6) Locations of easements and proposed utility lines and structures for storm drainage, sanitary sewers, electric power, water mains, and so on, including a statement or indications concerning the approximate size or capacity and the proposed operation of utilities to be installed, shall be included in the application.
(7) The minimum number of off-street parking spaces and loading berths required for planned business uses shall be determined in accordance with the requirements set forth in § 153.024. The requirements for off-street parking spaces and loading berths for other types of uses shall be the same as the requirements set forth in this chapter for the particular type of use.
(8) Buildings may be erected to a height of 45 feet.
(9) Except for the sales of gasoline or oil or other related products at filling stations, displays outside of buildings shall require the approval of the Executive Director or Board, as the case may be.
(10) Outside storage, including continued storage of automobile, trucks, or trailers for hauling purposes, is not a permitted use in the PB District.
(11) Except for dwellings, more than one principal building and its accessory building(s) or use(s) shall be permitted on one lot in the PB District.
(12) Any other authority required when applicable, such as State Board of Health and State Highway Department, shall accompany the application for any use in the PB District.
(B) Permitted uses.
(1) Local business uses;
(2) General business uses, (A)(8)(b), (e), (f), (g), (h), and (i);
(3) Single-family dwelling;
(4) Two-family dwelling;
(5) Manufactured home;
(6) Applicable special exceptions set forth in § 153.014;
(7) Applicable contingent uses set forth in § 153.065;
(8) Accessory uses set forth in § 153.066; and
(9) Temporary uses set forth in § 153.067.
(C) Other Requirements for the PB District.
(1) For planned business uses, each lot shall have at least 100 feet of frontage on a street. See § 153.015 for front yard or setback and additional yard requirements for planned business uses.
(2) For residential uses the lot area, ground floor area, height, lot width, lot coverage, and front, side and rear yard requirements are set forth in Figure 1. (The requirements for residential uses in the PB District are the same as those in the R-1 District.) See § 153.015 for front yard or setback and additional requirements for residential uses.
(3) Height requirements are set forth in § 153.021.
(4) Off-street parking space requirements are set forth in § 153.024.
(5) See § 153.016 for fence requirements.
(7) See § 153.022 for supplementary business standards.
(8) See Figure 1 for additional business use requirements.
(Ord. passed - -1996)