Bellefontaine Neighbors
City Zoning Code

The manufacture, compounding, processing, packaging or treatment of such products as bakery goods, candy, cosmetics, dairy products, drugs and pharmaceuticals (excluding acid manufacture), perfumes, perfumed toilet soap, toiletries and food products (excluding fish and meat products, sauerkraut, vinegar, yeast and the rendering or refining of fats and oils.)

The manufacture, compounding, assembling or treatment of articles or merchandise from the following previously prepared materials; bone, cellophane, canvas, cloth, cork, feathers, felt, fibre, fur, glass, hair, horn, leather, paper, plastics, precious or semi-precious metals or stones, shell, textiles, tobacco, wood (excluding planing mills), yarns and paint not employing a boiling process.

The manufacture of pottery and figurines or other similar ceramic products, using only previously pulverized clay, and kilns fired only by electricity or gas.

The manufacture and maintenance of electric and neon signs, billboards, commercial advertising structures, light sheet metal products, including heating and ventilating ducts and equipment, cornices, eaves and the like.

Manufacture of musical instruments, toys, novelties and rubber and metal stamps.

Automobile assembling, painting, upholstering, rebuilding, reconditioning, body and fender works, truck repairing and overhauling, tire retreading or recapping, battery manufacturing, and the like (not including automobile wrecking or junk yards).

Blacksmith shop and machine shop excluding punch presses over twenty (20) tons rated capacity, and drop hammers.

Foundry casting lightweight non-ferrous metal not causing noxious fumes or odors, and not including brass, manganese, bronze or zinc.

Laundry, cleaning and dyeing works, and carpet and rug cleaning.

Parcel delivery, ice and cold storage plant, bottling plant, and food commissary or catering establishments.

Wholesale business, storage buildings, and warehouses.

Assembly of electrical appliances, electronic instruments and devices, radios and phonographs, including the manufacture of small parts only such as coils, condensers, transformers, crystal holders and the like.

Laboratories, experimental, photo or motion pictures, film or testing.

Poultry or rabbit killing incidental to a retail and/or wholesale business on the same premises.

Medical marijuana cultivation facility.

Building material sales yard, including the sale of rock, sand, gravel and the like.

Contractor's equipment storage yard or plant, or rental of equipment commonly used by contractors.

Retail lumber yard, including only incidental mill work.

Feed and fuel yard.

(Reserved)

Public utility service yard or electrical receiving or transforming station.

Small boat building.

No adult bookstore, adult entertainment facility or establishment, bathhouse, massage shop or modeling studio shall be permitted within one thousand two hundred (1,200) feet of any religious institution, school, public park or any property zoned for residential use, or any city boundary. Such distance shall be measured in a straight line without regard to intervening properties from the closest exterior structural wall of the adult entertainment establishment to the closest point on any property line of the religious institution, school or public park, or the property zoned for residential use, or to the closest point of the city boundary.

No adult entertainment establishment shall be allowed to locate or expand within one thousand (1,000) feet of any other adult entertainment establishment or of any business licensed to sell or serve alcoholic beverages whether or not such business is also an adult entertainment establishment as defined in this chapter. The distance between any two (2) adult entertainment establishments or between an adult entertainment establishment and a business selling or serving alcoholic beverages shall be measured in a straight line without regard to intervening structures from the closest exterior structural wall of each business.

All access to and from the adult entertainment establishment shall be provided from a street classified as a public right-of-way.

The property on which such use is located shall have a minimum of one hundred (100) feet of frontage on a public right-of-way.

The facility on which the use is located and the parking for such facility shall have a front yard setback of thirty (30) feet, a side yard setback of six (6) feet and a rear yard setback of ten (10) feet.

Off-street parking shall be provided pursuant to the City Code.

All landscaping and screening requirements otherwise required by the Bellefontaine Neighbors City Code shall be observed.

The facility in which the use is located shall be designed in such a fashion that all openings, entries and windows prevent view into such facilities from any pedestrian, sidewalk, walkway, street or other public area. No adult entertainment activity shall take place partially or totally outside the adult entertainment establishment.

The facility in which such a use is located shall be limited to one (1) wall-mounted sign no greater than one (1) square foot of sign per one (1) foot of wall length, not to exceed a total of fifty (50) square feet; said sign shall not flash, blink or move by mechanical means and shall not extend above the roof line of the building. Said sign shall not exceed eight (8) feet in height from ground level. Further, no merchandise, symbol or pictures of products or entertainment on the premises shall be displayed in window areas or on any sign or any area where such merchandise or pictures can be viewed from the exterior of the building. No flashing lights and/or lighting which leaves the impression of motion or movement shall be permitted. No temporary signs shall be allowed.

Lighting of the parking area shall conform to the requirements of the City Code.