The CHB district, central historic business district, is comprised of areas to provide for specialty retail sales and services in the designated Florence Central Historical Business District, which includes opportunities for a selected variety of retail sales goods, historic and art related shopper's goods, and supportive services.

(Ord. 2-2005 § 1(part), 2005).

Uses permitted in the CHB district are as follows:

Accessory buildings and uses;

Apartments and efficiency dwelling units subordinate to another permitted use in an existing building, and comprising not more than one-half (½) of the floor area of the entire structure, and limited to the rear one-half (½) of the street/ground level footprint.

Automobile parking lots;

Business support/sales/rental service shops;

Financial institutions;

Indoor eating and drinking establishments, including those with outdoor patio seating not exceeding fifty (50) percent of adjacent indoor seating floor area of same establishment;

Membership clubs;

Personal services, including but not limited to: barber and beauty shops, dry cleaning outlets, self-service laundry, shoe and leather repair, saddle repair, bicycle upholstery, drapery shops;

Plazas;

Public libraries;

Retail sales, including outdoor display and sale of merchandise, said merchandise must be similar to, or related to merchandise regularly offered for sale inside the store on the same site (parcel);

Retail sales of transient merchants and pushcart vendors as defined at Section 9.16.010;

Trade and repair shops in which all goods are stored indoors and all services and activities are performed indoors (does not include vehicle or heavy equipment sales or repair, or automotive body or paint shops);

This district does not permit "adult uses" or "sexually oriented businesses" as defined in Chapter 5.34 of the Florence Municipal Code.

(Ord. 6-2007 §§ 1, 2, 2007; Ord. 16-2005 § 2(part), 2005; Ord. 2-2005 § 1(part), 2005).

(Ord. No. 22-2008, § 3, 12-1-2008; Ord. No. 5-2012, § 2, 6-4-2012; Ord. No. 1-2016, §§ 1, 3, 3-21-2016)

Uses permitted only through special use review in the CHB district are as follows:

Automobile parking garages;

Indoor amusements and entertainment establishment, but not including "adult uses" as defined in this chapter;

Hotels, boarding houses, rooming houses;

Museums;

Oil and gas exploration and extraction operations (for additional requirements, see section 17.64.120 and chapter 15.41);

Professional offices;

Trade or repair businesses including heavy equipment and truck repair, or automobile body or paint shops, provided work is conducted indoor, and only a limited, temporary amount of storage is provided outdoors in screened areas;

This district does not permit "adult uses" or "sexually oriented businesses" as defined in Chapter 5.34 of the Florence Municipal Code.

(Ord. 2-2005 § 1(part), 2005)

(Ord. No. 12-2009, § 1.J, 7-6-2009; Ord. No. 1-2016, §§ 2, 4—6, 3-21-2016)

Yard and bulk requirements in the CHB district are as follows:

(Ord. 2-2005 § 1(part), 2005).

Any residential uses in the CHB Zone District, initiated or altered after enactment of this section must provide one (1) on-site parking space for each dwelling unit, or obtain written legal rights to use or possess equivalent suitable parking spaces. Any motel, hotel or short-term rental unit in the CHB Zone District, initiated or altered after enactment of this section must provide on-site parking spaces as required in Table 17.68.010.F, or obtain written legal rights to use or possess equivalent suitable parking spaces.

(Ord. 2-2005 § 1(part), 2005).

(Ord. No. 5-2023, Exh. A, 8-21-2023)

For screening requirements in the CHB Zone District, see Chapter 17.64.150 of this title.

(Ord. 2-2005 § 1(part), 2005).