151. PLANNING AND ZONING (B-1, B-2, and B-3 Commercial Districts 151.150 - 151.152)

B-1 Neighborhood/Historic Central Business District, B-2 Highway Business District, and B-3 Pedestrian-Oriented Restricted Commercial District

 

151.150       B-1 Neighborhood/Historic Central Business District

151.151       B-2 Highway Business District

151.152       B-3 Pedestrian-Oriented Restricted Commercial District

 

 

 

B-1 NEIGHBORHOOD/HISTORIC CENTRAL BUSINESS DISTRICT, B-2 HIGHWAY BUSINESS DISTRICT, AND B-3 PEDESTRIAN-ORIENTED RESTRICTED COMMERCIAL DISTRICT

 

 

§ 151.150  B-1 NEIGHBORHOOD/HISTORIC CENTRAL BUSINESS DISTRICT.

 

(A)  Intent.

 

(1)   This district is intended to maintain and provide for a mix of low- to mid-intensity business and residential uses, specifically in the downtown area of the city and along the main street to encourage customer traffic through the center of the city.

 

(2)   This district contributes to the vitality and health of the community by providing walking, biking, and transit access to major employment centers and supporting pedestrian-friendly uses and design.

 

(B)  Uses permitted. The following uses are permitted:

 

(1)   Business services including banks, offices, and postal stations;

 

(2)   Clothing services including dry cleaning and laundry establishments, laundromats, dressmaking, millinery, and tailor shops, and shoe repair shops;

 

(3)   Food services including grocery stores, fruit, vegetable, and meat markets, supermarkets, restaurants, delicatessens, candy shops, and bakeries whose products are sold only at retail on the premises;

 

(4)   Personal services, including barber and beauty shops, reducing salons, photographic shops, and funeral homes;

 

(5)   Retail services including drug stores, hardware stores, haberdashery, stationery, and book stores, news shops, apparel shops, showroom for articles to be sold at retail, flower shops;

 

(6)   Buildings and uses customarily necessary to any of the above uses which may include the repair, alteration, finishing, assembly, fabrication, or storage of goods, the use shall not be detrimental either by reason of odor, smoke, noise, dust, or vibration to the surrounding neighborhood; and

 

(7)   Home occupations as defined in § 151.062.

(Prior Code, § 607.01)

 

 

§ 151.151  B‑2 HIGHWAY BUSINESS DISTRICT.

 

(A)  Intent.

 

(1)   This district is intended to provide for areas of concentrated commercial development outside the Neighborhood/Historic Central Business District, oriented towards main highway locations because of the access and visibility those locations provide, and consistent with the locational criteria for the uses in the Land Use Plan.

 

(2)   Uses in the district are generally of a type providing service to the residents of the entire region or community, as well as neighborhood retail and neighborhood food sales/service uses.

 

(3)   This district will be developed in a manner which requires a buffer to the adjacent residential area from the effects of the commercial activities.

 

(B)  Uses permitted. The following uses are permitted:

 

(1)   Business services including banks, offices, medical clinics, government buildings and services, and postal stations;

 

(2)   Clothing services including dry cleaning and laundry establishments, laundromats, dressmaking, millinery, and tailor shops, and shoe repair shops;

 

(3)   Food services including grocery stores, fruit, vegetable, and meat markets, supermarkets, restaurants, delicatessens, candy shops, and bakeries whose products are sold only at retail on the premises, including drive-through/drive‑in capabilities;

 

(4)   Personal services including barber and beauty shops, reducing salons, photographic shops, and funeral homes;

 

(5)   Retail services including drug stores, hardware stores, haberdashery, stationery, and book stores, news shops, apparel shops, showroom for articles to be sold at retail, flower shops, and commercial greenhouses;

 

(6)   Daycare facilities, auto maintenance services and sales, and veterinary care/clinics;

 

(7)   Communication services, convenience retail, data centers and emergency services;

 

(8)   Indoor and outdoor athletic facilities, bowling alleys, and education facilities;

 

(9)   Transportation services, hotels, gas stations with or without an attached car wash, or personal care services;

 

(10)   Agricultural services, retail agricultural, agricultural support, sale of nursery stock, and agricultural production;

 

(11)   Outdoor entertainment, as well as drinking and entertainment, liquor stores, bars, and taverns;

 

(12)   Buildings and uses customarily necessary to any of the above uses which may include the repair, alteration, finishing, assembly, fabrication, or storage of goods; the use shall not be detrimental either by reason of odor, smoke, noise, dust, or vibration to the surrounding neighborhood;

 

(13)   Home occupations as defined in § 151.062; and

 

(14)   Growing crop on undeveloped property of at least ten acres that was previously farmed; except in B‑1 Neighborhood/Historic.

(Prior Code, § 607.02)

 

 

§ 151.152  B‑3 PEDESTRIAN-ORIENTED RESTRICTED COMMERCIAL DISTRICT.

 

(A)  Intent.

 

(1)   This district is intended to maintain and provide for a mix of low- to mid-intensity business and residential uses in areas adjacent to more traditional residential districts, but along major thoroughfares so as not to encourage customer traffic through the adjacent residential areas.

 

(2)   This district contributes to the vitality and health of the community by providing walking, biking, and transit access to major employment centers and supporting pedestrian-friendly uses and design.

 

(B)  Uses permitted. The following uses are permitted:

 

(1)   Business services including banks, offices, medical clinics, government buildings and services, and postal stations;

 

(2)   Clothing services including dry cleaning and laundry establishments, laundromats, dressmaking, millinery, and tailor shops, and shoe repair shops;

 

(3)   Food services including grocery stores, fruit, vegetable, and meat markets, supermarkets, restaurants, delicatessens, candy shops, coffee shops and bakeries whose products are sold only at retail on the premises;

 

(4)   Personal services including barber and beauty shops, reducing salons, photographic shops, and funeral homes;

 

(5)   Retail services including drug stores, hardware stores, haberdashery, stationery, and book stores, news shops, apparel shops, showroom for articles to be sold at retail, flower shops, and commercial greenhouses;

 

(6)   Daycare facilities, auto maintenance services, and veterinary care/clinics;

 

(7)   Communication services, convenience retail, and emergency services;

 

(8)   Indoor and outdoor athletic facilities, education facilities;

 

(9)   Transportation services, gas stations with or without an attached car wash, or personal care services;

 

(10)   Buildings and uses customarily necessary to any of the above uses which may include the repair, alteration, finishing, assembly, fabrication, or storage of goods; the use shall not be detrimental either by reason of odor, smoke, noise, dust, or vibration to the surrounding neighborhood;

 

(11)   Home occupations as defined in § 151.062; and

 

(12)   Growing crop on undeveloped property of at least ten acres that was previously farmed; except in B‑1 Neighborhood/Historic.

(Prior Code, § 607.03)