(A)   The B-l district is designed and intended to meet the day to day convenience shopping and service needs of persons residing in adjacent residential areas.

   (B)   It is the purpose of this district to accommodate commercial activities primarily offering goods or services which are required by a family at intervals of a week or less and at the same time protect adjacent residential areas from the adverse efforts of uncontrolled or unlimited commercial activity which can result in blighting influences upon residential uses. This district is intended to accommodate permitted uses typically in proximity to major shopping facilities and/or in compatible relationship with the major arterial street system and surrounding land uses.

   (C)   The nature of modern office use development provides greater compatibility for integration into a community structure; therefore, this district has been established for the purpose of encouraging office and related use development, but excluding general commercial activity with the exception of retail relating directly to the needs of employees in the office business district.

   (D)   All new development located in properties zoned Commercial B-l after March 1, 2013 must have public water and sanitary sewer available, as detailed in the current, applicable water and sanitary sewer ordinances, and be connected to the services.

(Ord. 06-14-Z, passed 10-3-2006; Ord. 06-14, passed 10-17-2006; Ord. 13-09, passed 10-9-2013; Ord. 16-05, passed 5-16-2016)

   The following are the principal uses permitted by right within a B-1 district. All the uses must be conducted wholly within a permanent, fully enclosed building.

   (A)   Personal service establishments which perform services on the premises, such as barber or beauty shops, repair shops for shoes, radio, television, jewelry, self-service laundries and photographic studios;

   (B)   Institutions for human care that are hospitals, assisted living, nursing or convalescent homes, clinics, day care or senior day care and excluding incarceration facilities;

   (C)   Drive-in businesses including banks and similar financial institutions, dry cleaning pick-up stations or similar personal services. Drive-in restaurants and auto service stations are not allowed;

   (D)   Temporary outdoor uses such as displays, Christmas tree sales lots or other quasi-civic activities may be permitted on a temporary basis without a public hearing by the Zoning Administrator; provided that, the permit shall not be issued for more than 30 days in any one year and that this use can be adequately shown not to be injurious or detrimental to properties in the immediate vicinity;

   (E)   Pet grooming establishment;

   (F)   Day nurseries;

   (G)   Office buildings for executive, administrative and professional uses and retail uses complementary to the principal use; providing, they do not exceed 20% of gross floor area or 3,000 square feet if the use is operated in a freestanding structure;

   (H)   Commercial schools, including art, business, music, dance, professional and cosmetology;

   (I)   Educational institutions;

   (J)   Funeral homes;

   (K)   Billboards, as defined in Ch. 153 of this code of ordinances;

   (L)   Retail sales in an enclosed building. The maximum gross square feet a business may occupy is 2,000 square feet. A maximum of five separate businesses may be located in one building with gross area of 10,000 square feet;

   (M)   Churches, temples, synagogues and customary accessory uses; and

   (N)   Service establishments, including printing, publishing, photographic reproduction, blue-printing and related trades or arts.

(Ord. 06-14-Z, passed 10-3-2006; Ord. 06-14, passed 10-17-2006; Ord. 08-01, passed 1-22-2008; Ord. 08-05, passed 12-16-2008; Ord. 09-02, passed 10-20-2009; Ord. 13-06, passed 10-1-2013; Ord. 16-05, passed 5-16-2016)

   The following uses of land and buildings may be permitted in the B-1 districts by the application for issuance of a special use permit when all the provisional requirements specified in this chapter together with all applicable standards cited in §§ 155.305 through 155.319 are met.

   (A)   Restaurants, clubs and other eating or drinking establishments which provide food or drink provided that the establishments shall not be drive-in facilities;

   (B)   Single-family dwelling structures in the townhome style, not to exceed a density factor of eight units per acre;

   (C)   Multiple-family residential;

   (D)   Housing for religious personnel attached to a religious institution or school;

   (E)   Planned unit development, only upon Planning Commission determination that the uses are similar enough to be compatible with each other and in harmony with the character of the existing and adjacent principal uses;

   (F)   Golf driving ranges;

   (G)   Public utility transformer stations;

   (H)   Public buildings;

   (I)   Mini-storage; and

   (J)   Animal protection shelter, as defined in § 155.005(B).

(Ord. 06-14-Z, passed 10-3-2006; Ord. 06-14, passed 10-17-2006; Ord. 08-05, passed 12-16-2008; Ord. 09-02, passed 10-20-2009; Ord. 14-07, passed 4-22-2014; Ord. 16-05, passed 5-16-2016)

   (A)   Minimum lot size. Each lot shall contain a minimum of 11,050 square feet and have frontage at the street of not less than 85 feet.

   (B)   Minimum yard requirements.

      (1)   The building setback line shall begin at the front yard setback line.

      (2)   Each lot shall have a minimum front yard of 30 feet.

      (3)   Side yards shall be a minimum of 12 feet on each side, except in the case of a corner lot, in which case the street side yard setback shall be 30 feet and the remaining side yard a minimum of 12 feet.

      (4)   Rear yards shall be a minimum of 20 feet.

   (C)   Minimum floor area per dwelling unit. Multiple family dwellings shall have a minimum floor area per dwelling unit in accord with the following schedule:

 

 

 

 

(Ord. 06-14-Z, passed 10-3-2006; Ord. 06-14, passed 10-17-2006; Ord. 16-05, passed 5-16-2016)