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Ashland City Zoning Code

ARTICLE XII

NEIGHBORHOOD COMMERCIAL DISTRICT B-4

Sec 21-111 Statement Of Intent

This district provides retail shopping and personal service uses to serve the needs of nearby residential neighborhoods and not characterized by frequent delivery or automobile activity. The location of this district may also serve as a transition from residential to other commercial or more intensive uses. The regulations for this district, through elements such as lighting, landscaping, signage, building design and layout, are designed to preserve the residential character of these areas and to guide transition by permitting limited additional uses in appropriate existing or new structures.

HISTORY
Amended by Ord. 2015-01 on 4/21/2015

Sec 21-112 Use Regulations

The following uses and structures shall be permitted in the Neighborhood Commercial District B-4:

  1. Accessory uses as defined.
  2. Adult day care with a conditional use permit.
  3. Apartment, accessory with a conditional use permit.
  4. Assisted living facilities with a conditional use permit.
  5. Assisted care facility with a conditional use permit.
  6. Bed and breakfast with a conditional use permit, per Section 21-262.
  7. Churches and places of worship.
  8. Community center with a conditional use permit.
  9. Community garden.
  10. Day care or day nursery with a conditional use permit.
  11. Electronic charging station as an accessory to off-street parking.
  12. Farmers market with a conditional use permit.
  13. Funeral home with a conditional use permit.
  14. Garage, public parking.
  15. Home occupation.
  16. Lodge, with a conditional use permit.
  17. Offices. If an individual use occupies more than two thousand five hundred (2,500) square feet of floor area, then with a conditional use permit.
  18. Parks and playgrounds with a conditional use permit.
  19. Public facilities with a conditional use permit.
  20. Retail stores. If an individual use occupies more than two thousand five hundred (2,500) square feet of floor area,
  21. then with a conditional use permit.
  22. Schools with a conditional use permit.
  23. Single-family home, detached.
  24. Taxicab stand with a conditional use permit.
  25. Utilities, major with a conditional use permit.
  26. Utilities, minor.

    The following uses shall be permitted, provided that no individual use shall occupy more than two thousand five hundred (2,500) square feet of floor area.

  27. Art gallery.
  28. Artist studio.
  29. Bakery, with a retail or restaurant component.
  30. Educational facilities.
  31. Grocery store.
  32. Laundromat or self-service dry cleaning.
  33. Media or production studio.
  34. Museum.
  35. Personal service establishment.
  36. Pet shop, excluding boarding kennels.
  37. Repair services.
  38. Restaurants.

HISTORY
Adopted by Ord. 95-04 § 9 on 4/25/1995
Amended by Ord. 95-04 § 1 on 4/25/1995
Amended by Ord. 96-32 § 10 on 12/10/1996
Amended by Ord. 98-8 § 1 on 6/23/1998
Amended by Ord. 98-23 § 1 on 12/15/1998
Amended by Ord. 99-4 on 4/27/1999
Amended by Ord. 2003-16 § A1 on 2/17/2004
Amended by Ord. 2009-08 on 10/6/2009
Amended by Ord. 2015-01 on 4/21/2015
Amended by Ord. 2017-02 on 2/20/2018

Sec 21-113 Area Regulations

There shall be no minimum lot area requirement in this district, except that the minimum lot area for single-family dwellings shall be ten thousand (10,000) square feet and the minimum lot area for convalescent centers shall be twenty thousand (20,000) square feet.

HISTORY
Adopted by Ord. 1-26-93 Paper Archive § 2 on 1/26/1993
Amended by Ord. 99-4 § 1 on 4/27/1999

Sec 21-114 Setback Regulations

The minimum front setback for structures shall be twenty-five (25) feet.

HISTORY
Adopted by Ord. 1-26-93 Paper Archive § 2 on 1/26/1993
Amended by Ord. 98-23 § 1 on 12/15/1998
Amended by Ord. 2003-16 § A10 on 2/17/2004
Amended by Ord. 2015-01 on 4/21/2015

Sec 21-114.1 Frontage Regulations

The minimum width of any lot at the setback line shall be one hundred (100) feet.

HISTORY
Adopted by Ord. 1-26-93 Paper Archive § 2 on 1/26/1993

Sec 21-114.2 Yard Regulations

  1. Side. The minimum width of each side yard shall be twenty (20) feet, and if adjacent to a residential zoned property, then a fifteen (15) foot vegetative buffer shall be provided per standards established in Section 21-236. The minimum street side yard for all buildings and structures shall be twenty (20) feet.
  2. Rear. The minimum rear yard for each main structure shall be twenty-five (25) feet with a twenty (20) foot vegetative buffer per standards established in Section 21-236.

HISTORY
Adopted by Ord. 1-26-93 Paper Archive § 2 on 1/26/1993
Amended by Ord. 98-23 § 1 on 12/15/1998
Amended by Ord. 2015-01 on 4/21/2015

Sec 21-115 Height Regulations

No building or structure shall exceed a height of thirty-five (35) feet from grade. See ATC chapter 21, article XXV for supplemental height regulations.

HISTORY
Adopted by Ord. 98-23 § 1 on 12/15/1998

Sec 21-116 Parking Lot Connectivity

Parking areas shall be designed to connect to similar adjoining parcel(s) via a stub-out to the property line(s) with the objective of providing internal vehicular and pedestrian access between neighboring commercial parcels. The Zoning Administrator may waive the connection requirement upon finding that such connection is found to be impractical due to the existence of security concerns of business operation, or sensitive environmental features such as wetlands, floodplain, or forested area, that would be encumbered by the required connection of parking areas.

Editors Note: An ordinance adopted on Dec. 15, 1998, repealed and reserved § 21-30, which pertained to special provisions for corner lots.

HISTORY
Amended by Ord. 2015-01 on 4/21/2015

Sec 21-117 Landscape Plan: Landscaping, Trees, Buffers And Screening

A landscape plan shall be required and landscaping, trees, buffers and screening shall be provided in accordance with the applicable provisions of ATC article XXIII of this chapter.

HISTORY
Adopted by Ord. 2003-16 § A3 on 2/17/2004

Sec 21-117.1 Site Plan Required

A site plan shall be required as set forth in ATC article XVII of this chapter.

HISTORY
Adopted by Ord. 8-11-87 Paper Archive on 8/11/1987
Amended by Ord. 2003-16 § A5 on 2/17/2004

Sec 21-117.2 Reserved

Editors Note: An ordinance adopted February 17, 2004, § A6 repealed § 21-117.2 which pertained to buffer and screening adjacent to residential districts and derived from ordinances dated November 24, 1987, § 3 and December 15, 1998, § 1.

2015-01

95-04

96-32

98-8

98-23

99-4

2003-16

2009-08

2017-02