(A) Purpose. The C-B District is intended for retail stores and offices which are mutually compatible and can benefit from and contribute to a compact shopping area serving the city and surrounding area.
(B) Permitted uses. Within a C-B District, unless otherwise provided by this chapter, no building or land shall be used except for the following:
(1) Antique shops;
(2) Apparel shops;
(3) Appliance stores;
(4) Art and school supply;
(5) Art galleries;
(6) Art studios;
(7) Auction room;
(8) Auto accessory store;
(9) 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;
(10) Banks and other saving institutions;
(11) Barber parlors;
(12) Beauty parlors;
(13) Beverage stores;
(14) Bicycle sales, rental, and repairs;
(15) Book and stationery stores;
(16) Brewpubs;
(17) Camera and photo stores;
(18) Candy and ice cream stores;
(19) Carpet and rug stores;
(20) Catering establishments;
(21) Clothes pressing and tailoring shops;
(22) Clothing stores;
(23) Coin and philatelic stores;
(24) Decorating studios;
(25) Delicatessen;
(26) Department stores;
(27) Drug stores;
(28) Dry cleaning and laundry receiving and pick-up stations, excluding laundering and dry cleaning processing;
(29) Dry goods or notions stores;
(30) Electrical appliance sales and service;
(31) Employment agencies;
(32) Fabric shops;
(33) Florist shops;
(34) Financial institutions;
(35) Food, grocery, meat, fish, bakery, and delicatessen stores;
(36) Furniture stores;
(37) Furrier shops;
(38) Gift shops;
(39) Grocery, fruit, vegetable, or meat stores;
(40) Hardware stores;
(41) Hobby stores;
(42) Hotel;
(43) Jewelry stores;
(44) Leather goods and luggage shops;
(45) Library;
(46) Liquor stores or taverns;
(47) Loan office and finance company;
(48) Locksmith shops;
(49) Medical and dental offices;
(50) Mail order stores;
(51) Millinery shops;
(52) Music stores;
(53) Newsstand;
(54) Offices, professional;
(55) Office supply stores;
(56) Optical stores;
(57) Orthopedic and medical appliance stores;
(58) Paint and wallpaper stores;
(59) Parking and garages other than those accessory to a principal use for the parking and storage of private passenger automobiles only;
(60) Personal apparel stores;
(61) Pet shops;
(62) Phonograph, record, and sheet music stores;
(63) Photography studios;
(64) Physical culture and health services, reducing salons, and masseurs;
(65) Picture framing and picture stores;
(66) Pipe and tobacco shops;
(67) Post offices;
(68) Plumbing sales stores;
(69) Public utility service stores;
(70) Radio and television sales and repair stores;
(71) Record shops;
(72) Rental agencies for the rental of clothing, appliances, automobiles, and household fixtures, furnishing and accessories;
(73) Restaurant, excluding drive-ins;
(74) Sewing machine sales and service shops;
(75) Shoe and hat sales and repair shops;
(76) Stationery shops;
(77) Stock and brokerage firms;
(78) Taxi stand;
(79) Telephone booth;
(80) Theater, excluding drive-in;
(81) Ticket agencies;
(82) Tea, spice, and condiment specialty shops;
(83) Toy stores;
(84) Travel bureaus and transportation ticket offices;
(85) Variety, gift, notion, and soft goods stores;
(86) Vending machines which are coin or card operated;
(87) Accessory uses as follows:
(a) Any accessory uses, except signs, customarily incident to the above permitted uses; and
(b) Signs as regulated in § 152.55, “sign regulations”.
(88) Alterations may be made to a residential building containing nonconforming residential units when alterations will improve livability of the unit provided the number of dwelling units in the building are not increased.
(C) Uses by conditional use permit. Buildings or land may be used for the following, if granted a conditional use permit as provided in § 152.07:
(1) Any business activity of the same general character as those listed in division (B) above;
(2) Multiple dwellings, but only if a part of a planned concept in accordance with the Comprehensive Plan;
(3) Schools, music, dance, business, and vocational;
(4) Microbreweries and taprooms;
(5) Microdistilleries and related activities; and
(6) Retail gas stations and related convenience goods stores.
(D) Height, yard, and lot coverage regulations.
(1) Height regulations. The height regulations of the C-B District shall be those of § 152.27(D)(1).
(2) Yard regulation and lot coverage regulations. In the C-B District, there shall be no specific yard requirements or lot coverage requirements except as necessary to provide off-street parking and loading where applicable as regulated in § 152.56.
(E) Additional regulations.
(1) Lighting (glare) shall be directed away from the public right-of-way and residential districts.
(2) (a) Any awning, canopy, or marquee suspended from a building may extend over the public right-of-way ten feet, but not to within two feet of the curb line.
(b) Such structures shall be of a height not less than eight feet from the sidewalk or ground grade line, and the owner of such structure shall be responsible for its structural safety.
(2006 Code, § 11.06) (Ord. 130, passed 12-24-1971; Ord. 207, 3rd Series, passed 8-8-2016; Ord. 224, 3rd Series, passed 12-11-2018) Penalty, see §
152.99