(A) Permitted uses. The Commercial District is intended to provide space for those retail business, service business, and office uses serving the village area. Within the Commercial District, the following uses are permitted:
(1) Retail stores and shops;
(2) Banks, post office, medical or dental clinics, and business or professional offices;
(3) Service-type business, such as barber shop, beauty parlor, laundromat, music, dancing, art or photography studio, servicing or repair of home appliances or farm equipment, and similar uses;
(4) Automobile service stations and public garages, new or used car sales areas, new or used farm equipment sales areas, but not including the storage of wrecked vehicles or farm equipment;
(5) Hotel, motel, boarding or lodging houses, and dwelling units located on the same lot with such a permitted use;
(6) Clubs, lodges, public meeting halls, theaters, bowling alleys, and similar places of assembly or recreation;
(7) Customary accessory uses located on the same or adjacent lot with a permitted use. Signs advertising a business, service, or product available on the premises shall be permitted; provided the total area of such signs shall not exceed two times the lineal feet of frontage of the zoning lot; and
(8) Agricultural uses as permitted in § 152.048(A).
(B) Regulations and standards.
(1) Minimum lot size. None specified.
(2) Maximum coverage. The amount of the total lot area which may be covered by all principal and accessory buildings shall not exceed 50%.
(3) Required yards. On every lot in the Commercial District, yards shall be required as follows:
(a) Interior lot. A front yard and rear yard; and
(b) Corner lot. A front yard for each lot side abutting a street and a side yard. Yard dimensions shall be equal to or greater than the following:
1. Front yard depth where a lot abuts a major street, as designated on the zoning map, shall be 70 feet from the centerline of such right-of-way, but not less than 30 feet from the right-of-way line. Where a lot abuts a collector or a minor street as designated on the zoning map, the minimum depth of a front yard shall be 55 feet from the centerline, but not less than 25 feet from the right-of-way line. If the building is to be constructed in an established block where there are existing buildings, the yard depth shall be the average of the yard depths of two buildings, one on either side;
2. Side yard where required, ten feet; and
3. Rear yard depth shall not be less than 20 feet.
(4) Maximum building height. Except as provided in § 152.029, no principal building shall exceed 30 feet in height, and no accessory building shall exceed 15 feet in height.
(5) Off-street parking space. Off-street parking spaces shall be provided as follows:
(a) One off-street parking space shall be provided per dwelling unit or lodging unit on the same lot or tract of land of such dwelling unit or lodging unit served; and
(b) One off-street parking space per person, normally employed on the lot or tract of land.
(1977 Code, § 5-5) (Ord. passed 9-12-1966)