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Canal Fulton City Zoning Code

CHAPTER 1171

B-2 General Retail, Office and Motorist Services Business District

1171.01 PURPOSE.

   This District is established to provide for uses in addition to those specified for the General Business District and thereby provide service and sales in support of the primary business activities in the community. This District includes activities which because of their nature, such as their tendency to encourage traffic congestion and parking problems, storage problems or certain other inherent dangers create special problems, and are, therefore, best distinguished from other commercial activity. Their location is advantageous at specified points on major thoroughfares and at outlying locations in the community.
(Ord. 22-1972. Passed 8-1-72.)

1171.02 USES.

   Within a B-2 Intensive and Motorist Services Business District, no building, structure or premises shall be used, arranged to be used or designed to be used except for one or more of the following uses:
   (a)   Permitted Uses.
      (1)   All uses permitted in the B-1 General Retail Office District.
      (2)   Food sales including supermarket.
      (3)   Filling station.
      (4)   Car wash subject to off-street parking requirements of Section 1183.02(q).
      (5)   Garden supply sales.
      (6)   Preparation and processing of food and drink to be retailed on premises including bakery, delicatessen, meat market, confectionery, restaurant, ice cream parlor, soda fountain, tavern.
      (7)   Administrative, business or finance office and organization.
      (8)   Mini storage.
      (9)   Pet care, boarding and grooming.
(Ord. 22-1972. Passed 8-1-72.)
      (10)   Amusement and recreation including social hall and drive-in theaters, but not including arcades.
(Ord. 13-07. Passed 10-2-07.)
      (11)   Professional office and clinic.
      (12)   Cultural, educational or religious facility.
      (13)   Cultural, educational, recreational or religious facility, maintained by government, religious institution or nonprofit organization.
      (14)   Display or showroom where merchandise sold is stored elsewhere.
      (15)   Hotel, motel, tourist home.
      (16)   Mortuary.
      (17)   Office or organization primarily engaged in accounting, architecture, advertising, art, correspondence, design, editing, engineering, insurance, photography, health, research and other similar uses.
      (18)   Off-street public parking lot and garage.
      (19)   Passenger-transportation agency and terminal.
      (20)   Printing, blueprinting, newspaper printing, telegraphic service.
      (21)   Club, lodge and fraternal organizations.
      (22)   Hardware, lumberyard, feed mill.
      (23)   Automobile, truck, trailer and farm implement rental, sales and services, towing and storage both new and used.
      (24)   Drive-in establishments including restaurants.
      (25)   Fuel, food and goods distribution station but excluding coal and coke.
      (26)   Monument sale and display.
      (27)   Plant greenhouse.
      (28)   Wholesale establishments.
      (29)   The following uses when conducted not closer than within fifty feet of any R District:
         A.   Carpenter, cabinet, upholstering, sheet metal, plumbing, heating, roofing, air conditioning, sign painting and other similar establishments.
         B.   Repair services for machinery and equipment including repair garages and specialty establishments such as motor, body and fender, radiator, motor tune-ups, muffler shops, tire repairing sales and service including vulcanizing.
      (30)   Retailing of other similar goods and articles than those listed and which are customarily consumed, used and stored within a dwelling.
      (31)   Accessory uses clearly incidental to the uses permitted on the same premises.
      (32)   Signs - as regulated by Chapter 1181.
   (b)   Conditionally Permitted Uses. The Planning Commission may issue Conditional Zoning Certificates for uses listed herein subject to the general requirements of Chapter 1145 and to the specific requirements of Section 1145.04, referred to below:
      (1)   Churches and other buildings for the purpose of religious worship subject to Subsection 101, 102, 103, 104, 106, 108.
      (2)   Temporary buildings for uses incidental to construction work subject to Subsection 114.
(Ord. 22-1972. Passed 8-1-72.)
      (3)   Veterinarian hospital or clinic.
(Ord. 8-1980. Passed 4-1-80.)
      (4)   Rented apartments above businesses.
(Ord. 25-05. Passed 11-15-05.)
      (5)   Bed and Breakfast Inns subject to Subsection 103 and 117.
(Ord. 23-87. Passed 5-19-87.)
      (6)   Warehouse and bulk storage subject to subsection 101, 104, 117, 121 and 130.
      (7)   Light manufacturing and assembly of components produced off premises subject to subsection 101, 103, 104, 113, 117, 121, 123, 124 and 130.
(Ord. 25-92. Passed 5-19-92.)
      (8)   Outdoor dining on public property subject to subsection 133.
(Ord. 45-94. Passed 8-16-94.)
      (9)   Arcades.
(Ord. 13-07. Passed 10-2-07.)

1171.03 LOT REQUIREMENTS.

   (a)   Minimum lot area - none.
   (b)   Minimum lot width at building line - none.
   (c)   Minimum lot frontage - none.
(Ord. 22-1972. Passed 8-1-72.)

1171.04 YARD REQUIREMENTS.

   (a)   Minimum front yard depth - fifty feet.
   (b)   Minimum rear yard depth - twenty-five feet.
   (c)   Minimum side yard width - fifty feet when adjacent to a residential district and on the side adjacent to the residential district only.
(Ord. 22-1972. Passed 8-1-72.)

1171.05 MAXIMUM BUILDING HEIGHT.

   Thirty-five feet.
(Ord. 22-1972. Passed 8-1-72.)

1171.06 PARKING AND LOADING REQUIREMENTS.

   As regulated by Chapter 1183.
(Ord. 22-1972. Passed 8-1-72.)

1171.07 OUTDOOR DISPLAY AREAS.

   Merchandise to be sold at retail on the premises may be displayed out-of-doors except that no such display area shall be within fifty feet of any residential (R) district. Display areas shall be screened from abutting residential uses by landscaping sufficient to minimize undesirable visual effects of such display area; such landscaped buffer shall be maintained in a neat and orderly fashion.
(Ord. 22-1972. Passed 8-1-72.)

1171.08 SITE PLAN REQUIREMENTS.

   (a)   Review of Site Plan. All multifamily uses permitted under Section 1165.02 shall be permitted only after the review and approval of the site plans by the Planning Commission and upon finding by the Planning Commission that:
      (1)   The site plan shows that a proper relationship does exist between thoroughfares, service roads, driveways and parking areas to encourage pedestrian and vehicular traffic safety.
      (2)   All the development features including the principal buildings, open spaces, service roads, driveways and parking areas are so located and related as to minimize the possibility of any adverse effects upon adjacent development.
      (3)   The site plan includes adequate provision for the screening of parking areas, service areas and active recreation areas from surrounding properties by landscaping and/or ornamental wall or fence.
      (4)   Grading and surface drainage provisions are reviewed and approved by the City Engineer.
      (5)   The design and construction standards of all private streets, driveways and parking areas are to be built following approval of plans by the City Engineer according to construction standards specified in the City Subdivision Regulations. The proposed development conforms to all applicable provisions of the Subdivision Regulations.
      (6)   Maximum possible privacy for each apartment shall be provided through good design and use of proper building materials and landscaping. Visual privacy should be provided through structural screening and landscaping treatment. Auditory privacy should be provided through soundproofing.
      (7)   The architectural design of apartment buildings should be developed with consideration given to the relationship of adjacent development in terms of building height, mass, texture, line and pattern, and character.
      (8)   Building, location and placement should be developed with consideration given to minimizing removal of trees and change of topography.
      (9)   T.V. antenna shall be centralized.
      (10)   On-site circulation shall be designed to make possible adequate fire and police protection.
      (11)   In large parking areas, visual relief shall be provided through the use of tree planted and landscaped dividers, islands and walkways. No parking or service areas shall be permitted between any street and the main building.
      (12)   Paved off-street parking and service areas shall be required; parking spaces shall contain at least 200 square feet and shall be provided at the rate of two spaces per dwelling unit in each apartment building; and paved vehicular access drives of at least ten feet in width shall be required for parking areas of ten vehicles or less capacity, and two-way drives of twenty feet paving width minimum shall be required for parking areas of eleven or more vehicle capacity.
   (b)   Conformance with Site Plan.
      (1)   The use, placement and dimensions of all buildings, driveways, sidewalks, parking areas, curb cuts and recreation areas, and the installation of landscaping, fences and walls shall conform to the approved site plan.
      (2)   Complete conformance to all aspects of approved site plans shall be required as soon as possible but no later than one year after initial approval except that items affecting public safety shall be completed by the time of occupancy.
(Ord. 18-86. Passed 7-1-86.)