The following are uses permitted in the C-2, Office Commercial District; however these are not meant to be exhaustive nor an exclusive listing. The Director has the authority to decide if an unnamed use is of similar enough character and nature to warrant inclusion into the C-2 district.

The North American Industry Classification System, or its successor document, is the reference document used to provide use families for this chapter. The Director may use the current NAICS or its successor, as one document in making decisions as to the appropriateness of any future use permitted to be in the C-2, district.

A.

Offices for administrative and support services, examples include:

Administrative and Support Services

Business Service Centers and Support Services

Collection Agencies

Convention and Visitors Bureaus

Court Reporting and Stenotype Services

Credit Bureaus

Document Preparation Services

Employment Services and Placement Agencies

Facilities Support Services

Professional Employer Organizations

Repossession Services

Telephone Answering Services

Telemarketing Bureaus

Telephone Call Centers

Temporary Help Services

Tour Operators

Travel Agencies, Travel Arrangement and Reservation Services

B.

Offices and/or Clinics for Health Care and Social Assistance, examples include:

Ambulatory Health Care Services

Chiropractors, Dentists, Optometrists, Physicians and Podiatrists

Diagnostic Imaging Centers

Family Planning Centers

Freestanding Ambulatory Surgical and Emergency Centers

HMO Medical Centers (Urgent Care)

Home Health Care Services

Kidney Dialysis Centers

Medical and Diagnostic Laboratories

Mental Health Practitioners

Miscellaneous Health Practitioners

Outpatient Care Centers

Outpatient Mental Health Centers

Physical, Occupational and Speech Therapists and Audiologists

Social Services

C.

Offices for Finance and Insurance, examples include:

Banking, Commercial and Personal

Brokerage, Commodity and Securities Exchanges

Claims Adjusting Offices

Commodity Contracts Brokerage and Dealing

Consumer Lending

Credit Unions

Direct Casualty, Health, Life, Medical, Property and Title Insurance Carriers

Financial Transactions Processing, Reserve and Clearinghouse Activities

Funds, Trusts, and Other Financial Vehicles

Insurance Agencies, Brokerages, Carriers and Employee Benefit Funds

International Trade Financing

Investment Advice and Banking and Securities Dealing

Mortgage and Non-mortgage Loan Brokers

Pension Funds

Savings Institutions

Trusts, Estates, Fiduciary and Agency Accounts

D.

Offices for Public and Miscellaneous Purposes, examples include:

Business, Professional, Labor, Political and Similar Organizations

Conservation, Environment and Wildlife Organizations

Civic and Social Organizations

Human Rights Organizations

Libraries

Local, County, State and Federal Government

Public Fire Stations

Religious, Grant making, Civic, Professional and Similar Organizations

Social Advocacy Organizations

Voluntary Health Organizations

E.

Offices for Professional, Scientific and Technical Services examples include:

Accounting and Bookkeeping Services

Advertising Services

Administrative and General Management Consulting Services

Architectural, Drafting, Engineering, Graphic and Landscape Design Services

Bank Holding Companies

Certified Public Accountants

Contractors

Computer Centers, Programming and Systems Design Services

Corporate, Subsidiary and Regional Managing

Display Advertising

Human Resources and Executive Search Consulting Services

Interior Design Services

Industrial Design Services

Lawyers and Legal Services

Management, Companies and Enterprises and Consulting Services

Marketing Consulting, Public Opinion Polling and Research Services

Notaries

Payroll Services

Process, Physical Distribution and Logistics Consulting Services

Public Relations Agencies

Real Estate Agents and Brokers

Surveying and Mapping Services

Tax Preparation Services

Title Abstract and Settlement

Translation and Interpretation Services

F.

Non-Office Commercial Facilities including:

Art Studios (No retail sales)

Electronic and Telephone Mail Order Processing Centers

Educational Facility, Business, Computer, Management and Training Facilities

Educational Facility, Professional, Secretarial, Technical and Trade

Internet Providers, Web Search Portals and Data Processing Services

Libraries and Museums

Music Publishers

Ohio Division of Cannabis Control Testing Laboratory

Photography Studios, Commercial and Portrait

Post Offices

Public Park and Recreation Centers

Radio and Television Broadcasting Stations and Studios

Recording Studios

Religious Facilities

Schools (as defined in C.C. 3303)

G.

Non-Office Commercial Uses, subject to the additional provisions of C.C. 3353, including:

Adult and Child Day Care Centers

Monopole Telecommunication Antennas

Veterinarians (Limited practice)

H.

Dwelling units, as allowed under C.C. 3353.05.

(Ord. 236-03 § 2; Ord. No. 3023-2018, § 2, 12-3-2018; Ord. No. 1501-2022, § 27, 6-13-2022; Ord. No. 0162-2025, § 4, 2-10-2025)

C-2 Office Commercial Development Standards