Dennison City Zoning Code
CENTRAL BUSINESS
DISTRICT
§ 155.135 CENTRAL BUSINESS DISTRICT OBJECTIVES.
District regulations are established in this section to carry out the purposes which are stated in the preamble to this zoning code and especially to achieve the following objectives:
(A) To account for a portion of the village that has unique characteristics and serves as center of business and commerce;
(B) To encourage the concentration of businesses and services that are particularly suited to walk-in traffic and are essential to the maintenance and growth of the economic health of the village; and
(C) To prohibit the development of uses which would be detrimental to or act as blighting influences on the Central Business District as presently constituted.
(Ord. 2052, passed 9-3-1998)
§ 155.136 PERMITTED PRINCIPAL USES.
(A) To carry out the general purposes of this zoning code and the objectives of the Central Business District, the following principal uses are permitted within the Central Business District:
(1) Offices: administrative and professional offices and services including: banking, finance companies, securities sales and services, insurance sales and services, real estate sales and services, legal services, architectural services, engineering services, medical and dental services including out-patient clinics, governmental administrative offices and functions, and administrative offices of businesses, utilities and other organizations;
(2) Retail sales:
(a) The sale of food and beverages; eating and drinking places excluding those that sell for on-premises consumption of alcoholic beverages;
(b) The sale of general merchandise and dry goods, including drugs, gifts, antique and art goods, flowers, pets and supplies with the exclusion of kennels, periodicals, books, cameras, musical instruments and supplies, sporting and athletic goods, wearing apparel, household hardware, hand tools, paint, garden supplies, appliances, china, jewelry, furniture, floor and wall coverings, radios and other electronic equipment, televisions and bicycles; and
(c) Wholesale offices and showrooms, provided that storage is limited to samples.
(3) Services:
(a) Personal services such as beauty and barber shops and interior decorating;
(b) Custom work shops for the making of articles to be sold only at retail on the premises;
(c) Laundries and laundromats, tailors, pressing and dry cleaning shops in which only non-explosive and non-flammable solvents are used;
(d) Repair services for such items as household appliances, shoes, electronic equipment and televisions; and
(e) Photographic developing, blue printing, letter printing, job printing and photocopying.
(4) Dwelling units; provided that they are located in the same building in which at least one of the uses in divisions (A)(3)(a), (A)(3)(b), (A)(3)(c) or (A)(3)(e) above is located and that such dwelling units are located only in the second story or any story above the second story;
(5) Civic: churches and other places of worship, art galleries, museums, libraries, memorials, monuments, fraternal organizations and private clubs;
(6) Recreational: parks, indoor theaters;
(B) In the Central Business District, all permitted principal uses, except drive-up banking facilities and outside dining associated with a permanent eating and drinking establishment located in the Central Business District, shall be conducted wholly within enclosed buildings.
(Ord. 2052, passed 9-3-1998)
§ 155.137 HEIGHT REGULATIONS FOR PERMITTED PRINCIPAL USES.
Permitted principal main and accessory buildings in the Central Business District may not exceed a height of 60 feet, with the exclusion of spires, belfries, cupolas, antennas, ventilators, chimneys or other appurtenances usually required to be placed above the roof level and not intended for human occupancy.
(Ord. 2052, passed 9-3-1998)
§ 155.138 OFF-STREET PARKING REQUIREMENT FOR PRINCIPAL USES.
In the Central Business District, off-street parking shall be provided for permitted principal uses as follows.
(A) Off-street parking spaces shall not be required to be provided in conjunction with offices, retail sales establishments, services establishments and dwelling units as enumerated in § 155.136. Off-street parking areas that are provided in conjunction with these uses, however, must be constructed in conformance with the standards set forth below in divisions (C) and (D) below.
(B) (1) Off-street parking spaces for civic and recreation uses shall be provided in quantities not less than set forth in the following schedule:
Principal Use | Required Spaces |
Art galleries, libraries, museums | 10 plus 1 additional for each 300 square of floor area in excess of 2,000 square feet |
Church or other place of worship | 1 for each 5 seats in the main assembly room |
Fraternal organizations, private clubs | 1 for each 5 seats in the main auditorium or assembly room; if eating and drinking are provided on site, then off-street parking shall be 1 for each 50 square feet of gross floor area |
Gaming and recreational facilities | 1 parking space for every 5 machines on the premises |
Indoor theaters | 1 for each 5 seats in the main auditorium |
(2) A building occupied by one use shall provide off-street parking as required for the specific use.
(3) A building or a group of buildings occupied by two or more uses shall provide spaces for not less than the sum of the spaces required for each use.
(C) Each side of a parking area in the Central Business District which is less than ten feet from a street right-of-way line shall be effectively screened with dense, evergreen hedges. Such hedges shall not be less than two feet or more than six feet in height.
(D) All required off-street parking spaces shall be provided on the same lot as the use served.
(E) Each use shall be permitted one two-way access driveway or two one-way access driveways for each 75 feet of street and alley frontage of the lot occupied by that use. Such access driveways shall be at least ten feet, but not more than 12 feet, in width for each direction, and shall not be located less than 15 feet from any other access driveway which intersects the same street or alley as the proposed access driveway.
(F) Off-street parking areas shall be so designed that all required parking spaces are accessible and that no parking or maneuvering incidental to parking shall be on any street, alley or sidewalk.
(G) Adequate area shall be provided on each lot for the accumulation of snow which is removed from the off-street parking areas located on that lot.
(H) If a lot is already built upon, then the required off-street parking spaces for any new use built upon the same lot shall be provided only within the area remaining after all applicable yard, lot coverage lot area and off-street parking requirements have been applied to the existing use.
(I) A parking garage or carport which faces a street or an alley shall be located at least 20 feet from the right-of-way line of such street or alley.
(Ord. 2052, passed 9-3-1998; Ord. 2317, passed 12-21-2006)
§ 155.139 SPECIAL REGULATIONS FOR DRIVE-IN BANKING FACILITIES.
Each drive-in banking facility shall conform to the following requirements, in addition to all other applicable regulations, before being permitted in the Central Business District.
(A) A drive-in banking facility shall only be permitted if it is an integral part of, and clearly incidental and subordinate to, a walk-in banking facility. The number of bays of a drive-in banking facility shall be less than the number of teller windows of the walk-in banking facility it is accessory to.
(B) Five vehicle waiting spaces shall be expressly designated and provided for each bay of a drive-in banking facility.
(C) Only one two-way access driveway or two one-way access driveways shall permitted for each drive-in banking facility. Such access driveways shall be at least ten feet, but no more than 12 feet, in width for each direction, and shall not be located less than 15 feet from the right-of-way line of an alley which intersects the same street or alley as the proposed access driveways, or less than 25 feet from the right-of-way line of a street which intersects the same street or alley as the proposed access driveways. No access driveway shall be located less than 15 feet from any other access driveway which intersects the same street or alley as the proposed access driveway.
(Ord. 2052, passed 9-3-1998)
§ 155.140 SPECIAL REGULATIONS FOR OUTDOOR EATING AND DRINKING ESTABLISHMENTS.
Each outdoor eating and drinking establishment shall conform to the following requirements, in addition to all other applicable regulations, before being permitted in the Central Business District.
(A) An outdoor eating and drinking establishment shall only be permitted if it is integral part of, and clearly incidental and subordinate to, a walk-in, sit-down eating and drinking establishment. The number of seats of an outdoor eating and drinking facility shall be less than the number of seats of the walk-in, sit-down eating and drinking establishment it is accessory to.
(B) The outdoor eating and drinking establishment shall not be placed upon any public streets or alleys or rights-of-way thereof.
(C) The outdoor eating and drinking establishment shall be fully contained on the same lot occupied by the permitted principal use, or upon an adjoining lot if such lot is under the legal control of the person or persons conducting such principal use.
(Ord. 2052, passed 9-3-1998; Ord. 2317, passed 12-21-2006)
§ 155.141 PERMITTED ACCESSORY USES.
(A) In the Central Business District, accessory uses, buildings or structures may be established provided such uses are customarily accessory and clearly incidental and subordinate to the permitted principal use.
(B) Accessory uses in the Central Business district may include the following:
(1) Garages or carports, storage sheds or other storage structures clearly incidental to the permitted principal uses;
(2) The placement, number and nature of signs shall be governed by the following regulations.
(a) No more than two identification signs shall be permitted for each permitted principal use provided such signs do not exceed 12 square feet in area each.
(b) A single, non-illuminated real estate sign advertising the sale, rental or lease of the premises or part of the premises on which the sign is displayed, during the period active effort to sell, rent or lease such premises shall be permitted provided such sign is removed promptly after an agreement to sell, rent or lease is entered into.
(c) Political signs shall be permitted provided they are not erected more than 30 days prior to the election for which they are intended and are removed within 48 hours after such election.
(d) A single non-illuminated construction sign shall be permitted on the site of a building under construction, remodeling or renovation provided such sign is used for identification purposes only and does not exceed 40 square feet in area.
(e) Directional signs shall be permitted provided they do not exceed four square feet in area.
(f) Temporary signs related to a specific holiday, religious event or historical observance, or to an event conducted by a church or by a public or private non-profit school or college, or to a community event, or to a porch, garage or yard sale, shall be permitted. Such signs shall not be erected more than 30 days prior to an event, holiday or observance for which they are intended and shall be removed 48 hours after such event, holiday or observance.
(g) Temporary signs related to a sale to be held on the premises shall be permitted.
(h) The maximum total area of all the on-site signs located on the premises of a permitted principal use shall not exceed 80 square feet.
(i) All on-site signs shall be attached to a building wall, marquee, canopy or other similar weather cover. No sign shall be attached to or project from the roof of a building, nor shall any sign extend beyond the top or end of the wall, marquee, canopy or weather cover to which it is attached. No portion of any sign shall project outward more than one foot from the face of the wall, marquee, canopy or weather cover to which it is attached.
(j) Illuminated signs shall be permitted unless specifically prohibited.
(Ord. 2052, passed 9-3-1998; Ord. 2317, passed 12-21-2006)