Hiram City Zoning Code
CHAPTER 1126
Mixed Use Commercial District
1126.01 PURPOSE.
The purpose and intent of the Mixed-Use Commercial District is to provide suitable areas for a mixed use, visually integrated neighborhood with a moderate concentration of various types of compatible businesses to service neighborhood needs, and residences while providing neighborhood and Village enhancing features, such as adequate parking, appropriate landscaping, screening, desirable aesthetics, and site design intended to eliminate adverse effects of traffic congestion. The Mixed-Use District is intended to provide increased tax revenues to both the local schools and the Village, while minimizing costs to the Village for infrastructure acquisition and maintenance, and with preservation or enhancement of, rather than harm to neighborhood and Village quality of life and property values.
(Ord. 2024-27. Passed 1-14-25.)
1126.02 USES.
Within the Mixed-Use District, only the following uses shall be permitted or conditionally
permitted:
(a) Permitted Uses.
(1) Retail outlets: Clothing, furniture, hardware, and variety stores.
(2) Retail food preparation: markets, bakeries, specialty food shops, ice cream stores, delicatessens, coffee shops, and other similar facilities.
(3) Specialty shops: Antique shops, gift shops, bookstores, florist shops, arts and crafts supplies stores, health food stores, music stores, bicycle stores, toy stores, technology stores, houseware stores, picture frame stores, and sporting goods outlets.
(4) Service, and places of assembly: Restaurants, barber and beauty shops, physical fitness centers, shoe repair and tailor shops, print shops, copy shops, and civic structures, religious structures and other places of assembly.
(5) Business and professional offices: Medical and dental offices and clinics, law offices, insurance offices, real estate offices, advertising agency offices, answering service offices, architects' offices, certified public accountants' offices, engineers' offices, interior decorators' offices, and financial services offices including financial planner offices, and stock brokerage offices.
(6) Mobile food trucks.
(7) Single family, two-family residential units and single family short term rentals.
(b) Conditional Uses.
(1) Mortuaries and funeral homes.
(2) Gas stations and all other traffic oriented commercial establishments.
(3) Banks, finance and utility company offices.
(4) Grocery stores, hotels, motels and inns.
(5) Laundromat, dry-cleaning and laundry pick-up stations
(6) Retirement community, nursing homes, assisted living structures and childcare/preschool facilities.
(7) Drive-ins, drive-ups, or drive-through areas in conjunction with a permitted, or approved conditional use, except, that drive-up, drive through, or drive-in facilities shall not be permitted in or at any fast food enterprise, or any enterprise involving the sale of beverages (for the purposes of this section, a fast food enterprise is a business engaged in the sale of pre-prepared or quickly prepared food and beverages, usually in disposable containers and wrappers, for consumption either on or off premises, in a facility in which a major portion of the food and beverage sales to patrons are at stand-up type counters or drive-in, drive-up, or drive-through arrangements)
(8) Garden center.
(9) Multifamily residential units.
(Ord. 2024-27. Passed 1-14-25.)