Nine Use Classes are hereby established as shown on Schedule I. The specific uses included in each Use Class are outlined below:
(a) Principal Permitted Uses (Use Classes 1 through 6).
Use Class 1. Single-Family Residential. Single-family detached dwellings, not to include house trailers or any type of mobile homes, whether on permanent foundations or not.
Use Class 2. Two-Family Residential. Single-family semi-detached dwellings, and duplex dwellings, not to include house trailers or any type of mobile homes, whether on permanent foundations or not.
Use Class 3. General Commercial. Includes community retail and service establishments serving the entire City such as department stores, variety and specialty shops, banks and other financial institutions, hotels, motels and rooming houses, offices and office buildings, furniture and major appliance stores, liquor stores, drug, grocery and hardware stores, soda fountains, barber and beauty shops, shoe repair, small scale dry cleaning and laundry establishments directly serving the public, florist retail outlets (no greenhouse), supermarkets, radio and television studios, medical centers, automobile service stations including minor
repairs, auto supply stores, auto sales and automobile major repair shops and auto body repair shops which are completely enclosed in a building, commercial parking lots, railway and bus terminals, telegraph and express offices, commercial education including schools of business, technical trades, art, music, dancing and photography.
Also includes heavy commercial establishments such as delivery and distribution centers, wholesale business and warehousing, truck and freight terminals, printing and newspaper publishing, produce and meat markets, material and machinery storage and sales yards, sign painting, automatic car wash, animal hospitals and veterinary clinics. (Passed 5-16-67.)
Also includes commercial recreation and entertainment establishments such as theaters, movie houses, night clubs, restaurants, taverns, major entertainment facilities, bowling alleys, pool halls, skating rings, social halls, clubs and lodges, amusement parks, golf courses, field houses and arenas, stadiums and race tracks, shooting ranges, drive-in restaurants and outdoor theaters. Excluding adult entertainment establishments.
(Ord. 02-04. Passed 4-9-02.)
Use Class 3a. Restricted Commercial. Shall include all uses permissible under the Use Class 3, General Commerical, excluding, however, whether or not stated or referenced in such Use Class 3 as a permitted use, all of the following uses: liquor stores, automobile service stations, including minor or major repairs (not excluding, however, convenience retail stores selling gasoline and related automobile products as an accessory use and which do not provide minor or major repairs), auto sales and automobile major repair shops and auto body repair shops, whether or not enclosed in a building, material and machinery storage and sales yards, salvage yards, social halls, clubs and lodges, taverns, bars, pool halls, or similar businesses or establishments, large scale warehousing, trucking or freight terminals, shooting ranges, and any activity of a primarily industrial nature.
(Ord. 89-4. Passed 6-14-89.)
Use Class 4. Industrial. Includes manufacturing of small musical and precision instruments, laundering, large scale dry cleaning and dyeing plants, greenhouses, small machine woodworking, pharmaceuticals, office and research facilities.
Manufacture, assembly or packing of products from previously prepared materials not objectionable or injurious due to smoke, noise, odors, glare, dust or hazardous materials, including those made from cloth, plastic, paper, leather, wood, metal, precious or semiprecious metals or stones or synthetic materials.
When located further than 150 feet from a residential district, the manufacture or assembly of products from raw materials including bulk storage of petroleum, grain and similar products, steel mills, metal fabrications (including structural steel shops, machine shops, forges and foundries) brewing and distilling of liquor, gas manufacture and storage, the production of fish and meat products (excluding stockyards and slaughterhouses), brick pottery, stone and monument works, concrete paving material preparation plants, paint manufacturing and railroad yards and repair shops.
Any of the uses listed in this Use Class which are not conducted wholly within a completely enclosed building, except for off-street parking and loading facilities, shall be located not less than 150 feet from any residential district.
Use Class 5. Customary Accessory Uses and Essential Services. Accessory uses which are customarily subordinate to the principal use of a building located on the same lot, and which serve a purpose customarily incidental to the use of the principal building shall be permitted in each district. Such uses include home occupations, home gardening but not the raising of livestock or poultry, non-profit nurseries and greenhouses (not including outdoor storage of equipment) and professional offices of persons residing on the premises, private garages or parking areas, signs, off-street buildings and other uses customarily appurtenant to other principal permitted uses.
Essential services for public utilities that do not require enclosure in a building including the construction or maintenance, by public utilities or governmental agencies, of gas, electrical, steam, telephone or water distribution systems; including equipment such as poles, towers, wires, mains, drains, sewers, pipes, conduits, cables, fire alarm boxes, police call boxes, traffic signals, hydrants and other similar equipment which conform to the height regulations of the zoning district in which they are proposed.
Use Class 6. Multi-Family Dwellings, Conversions and Town Houses. Includes row houses, garden apartments, elevator apartments, the conversion of existing dwellings to a greater number of units and Town Houses.
(Passed 1-19-99.)
(b) Special Uses.
Use Class 7. Appropriate Public Uses. Includes public and quasi-public uses of a welfare, educational, religious, recreational and cultural nature, and dormitories and religious homes accessory to such uses; and essential public utilities that require enclosure within a building or structure; and communications and forest products including forest and agricultural products, radio and television transmission or receiving towers and facilities; and cemeteries and mausoleums. All such uses shall be appropriate to the character of the district in which they are proposed as determined by the Board of Zoning Appeals. (Ord. 2-96. Passed 4-19-96.)