The purpose of this district is to provide a commercial area for those establishments serving the general shopping needs of the trade area, with specific attention to preserving the city’s Main Street Commercial Core. The grouping of uses is intended to preserve and improve the character and economic vitality of Main Street.
(A) Permitted uses.
Permitted Use | Applicable Standards |
Permitted Use | Applicable Standards |
Retail services and trade | |
Offices, commercial, construction and industrial | |
Offices, non-commercial, non- construction and non-industrial | |
Personal services | |
Motel | |
Public utility facilities | |
Public service facility | One of the principle frontages shall abut upon an arterial or collector street as defined by the city’s major street plan map. § 155.070 |
Funeral home | |
Private club | |
Church | |
Dwelling, multiple-family | Being above or below the first floor. |
Print shop | |
Electrical substation | |
Arcade | |
Boarding house | Subject to the residence being constructed above the first floor. |
Off-sale alcoholic beverage establishment | Located at least 500 feet from a school (measured from the closest point of the outside walls of both structures). |
Motor vehicle service station | |
Day care center | Adequate and safe playground area with a fence 4 feet high (see § 155.074). A safe pickup and drop off area must be provided for the children. |
Motor vehicle repair | Subject to an adequate number of parking spots to allow temporary storage of the cars only while being repaired. |
On-sale alcoholic beverage establishment | Located at least 500 feet from a school (measured from the closest point of the outside walls of both structures). |
Theatre | |
Accessory building or use | |
Wireless communications facilities | § 155.075, not within an identified floodplain area, and if replacing facility on existing telecommunications tower the proposed facility cannot occupy a larger space than the existing facility. |
Restaurant | |
Commercial parking lot/facility | |
Law enforcement facility with the ability to house incarcerated persons | One of the principal frontages shall abut upon an arterial or collector street as defined by the city’s major street plan map. § 155.070 |
Boarding house | Subject to the residence being constructed above the first floor or in the rear half of the building’s first floor. The front of the building (front is the side that the building is addressed from) is only for commercial use. If on the first floor, no full kitchens are allowed; only a sink, microwave and small refrigerator with a total capacity no larger than 10-cubic feet. |
Brewpub | |
(B) Conditional uses.
Permitted Use | Applicable Standards |
Permitted Use | Applicable Standards |
Fuel dispensing station | |
Wireless communications facilities | |
Telecommunications tower | |
Adult oriented business | |
Farm winery | |
Microbrewery | |
Wine manufacturer | |
(C) Lot and yard regulations. All measurements shall be taken from the lot line to the building line (see definitions). Values listed are minimums, unless otherwise stated.
Lot Area | Building Line | Frontage | Front Yard | Side Yard | Rear Yard | Max. Height | |
All uses | NA | NA | NA | see #l, #2 | see #l, #2 | see #1, #2 | NA |
Exceptions: #1 A 20-foot landscaped area shall be required between an abutting residential district boundary line and any structure, access drive, parking lot, or other accessory use when not separated by a street or alley. #2 See also adjustments to yard regulations (§ 155.082) for other exceptions. |
(Ord. 1189, passed 7-7-2008; Am. Ord. 1226, passed 2-1-2010; Am. Ord. 1281, passed 6-18-2012; Am. Ord. 1343, passed 7-5-2016; Am. Ord. 1409, passed 12-2-2019; Am. Ord. 1445, passed 12-6-2021; Am. Ord. 1471, passed 9-19-2022; Am. Ord. 1477, passed 1-3-2023)