The purpose of this district is to encompass
the retail, service, and office core of the Central Business District,
as described in the Comprehensive Plan, permitting a wide variety
of uses providing basic goods and services to the community and to
the surrounding region. In recognition of the "downtown" character
of the district, yard regulations are kept to a minimum, in order
to encourage compact and efficient commercial development.
A.
A building or land shall be used only for the following purposes and in all cases shall be subject to site plan review and approval. See § 245-116.
[Amended 11-3-2003 by Ord. No. 2003-10]
(1)
Any use permitted in the B-1 Neighborhood Business
District.
(2)
Theaters.
(3)
Bakeries occupying not more than 5,000 square feet
of floor area and providing products produced on the premises and
to be sold at retail on the premises.
(4)
Parking garages and parking lots.
(5)
Hotels, motels, and motor lodges.
(6)
Banks, drive-in or otherwise, so long as driveway
space shall be provided off the street for at least 10 vehicles waiting
for drive-in service.
(7)
Clinics, medical centers, for treatment of human beings.
(8)
Dry-cleaning, laundry, and pressing pickup stations
or shops occupying not more than 5,000 square feet of floor area.
(9)
Flower shops, and greenhouses incidental thereto.
(10)
Offices, general business and professional.
(11)
Private clubs, lodges, and meeting halls.
(12)
Restaurants, drive-in or otherwise.
(13)
Shoe repairing shops occupying not more than
2,500 square feet of floor area.
(14)
Shops for the sale, service or repair of home
appliances, office machines, electrical equipment, televisions, radios,
computers and related accessories/equipment.
(15)
Stores and shops for the conduct of retail business,
including sale of accessories, antiques, apparel, beverages, books,
carpets, drugs, fabrics, furniture, general merchandise, hardware,
garden supplies, hobby supplies, jewelry, office supplies, paint,
sporting goods, stationery, and similar stores and shops.
(16)
Undertaking businesses or establishments and
funeral homes.
(17)
Studios for artists, photographers, teachers,
sculptors, and musicians.
(18)
Monument sales establishments with incidental
processing to order, but not including the shaping of headstones.
(19)
Printing, publishing, and engraving establishments.
(20)
Radio and television stations and studios and
recording studios, but not towers.
(21)
Wholesale establishments with not more than
2,500 square feet of accessory storage per establishment. All exterior
storage shall be effectively screened from public view, subject to
the approval of the Planning and Zoning Commission.
(22)
Indoor amusement places limited to miniature
golf courses, indoor model racing tracks, billiard or pool parlors
and similar activities.
(23)
Bottling works, dyeing and cleaning works or
laundries, plumbing and heating shops, painting shops, upholstering
shops (not involving furniture manufacturing), and tinsmithing shops.
General service and repair establishments similar in character to
those listed in this subsection, provided that no outside storage
of materials permitted in this subsection shall occupy more than 5,000
square feet of ground area.
(24)
Lumber and building materials stores, retail
only.
(25)
Schools for industrial training, trade, or business.
(26)
Food stores, supermarkets.
(27)
Data processing centers.
(28)
Automatic ice distribution stations or other
drive-in automatic vending machine stations. Groups of vending machines
shall be contained in a completely enclosed building.
(29)
Barbershops and beauty parlors.
(30)
Bicycle sales and repair shops.
(31)
Catering and delicatessen businesses.
(32)
Filling stations, so long as bulk storage of
flammable liquids is underground.
(33)
Laundromats and self-service dry-cleaning establishments
occupying not more than 2,500 square feet.
A.
Storage of office supplies or merchandise normally
carried in stock in connection with a permitted office, business,
or commercial use, subject to applicable district regulations.
B.
Material storage yards, in connection with a permitted
use where storage is incidental to the approved occupancy of the building,
provided that all products and materials used or stored are in a completely
enclosed building, or enclosed by a masonry wall, screening, fence,
or hedge not less than six feet in height and subject to the approval
of the Planning and Zoning Commission. Storage of all materials and
equipment shall not exceed the height of the screening wall, fence
or hedge.
C.
Storage of cars and trucks used in connection with
the permitted trade or business is permitted within the walls or screen.
Storage of heavy equipment, such as road-building or excavating equipment,
shall not be permitted.
D.
Automobile parking lots and garages.
Requirements for minimum lot area, yards, and
open space, and maximum height are contained in the Table of District
Regulations at the end of this chapter.
Certain uses are permitted as conditional uses according to the regulations of Article XVII of this chapter.
