(A)   In a Class I Business District no building or premises shall be used and no building shall be erected which is arranged, intended or designed to be used for other than a use permitted in a Class I Residential, Class II Residential, Class III Residential or Office District or for one (1) or more of the following specified uses:

      (1)   A bank, office building, private school, business school, radio or television studio, photographic or art studio or telephone exchange, together with a concealed electric substation and any parking facilities necessary for such uses;

      (2)   An assembly hall, theater or moving-picture house;

      (3)   A jewelry store, shoe store, dry goods or notions store, furniture store, hardware or electrical appliance store, retail store, florist shop, tailor shop, or shoe repair shop;

      (4)   A filling station, car wash, automotive detailing, bicycle sales and repair, commercial parking lot or garage, motorbus terminal, or new car sales room;

      (5)   A delicatessen, drug store, grocery store, meat market, ice cream parlor, restaurant, bakery, frozen food locker, or fish market;

      (6)   A barber shop, beauty shop, or dancing school;

      (7)   A funeral parlor or sanitarium;

      (8)   An electric substation or ice house;

      (9)   A billboard or advertising sign;

      (10)   A commercial recreational facility;

      (11)   A dry cleaning establishment using nonflammable liquids and employing not more than ten (10) persons;

      (12)   A self-service laundry, using self-operating, automatic washers and dryers;

      (13)   A tattoo parlor; or

      (14)   A microbrewery or bar.

   (B)   Accessory buildings shall not include, whether or not modified, vehicles, trailers, box cars, water craft, or other commercial and portable storage units.

   (C)   An accessory use customarily incidental to a use authorized by this section shall be permitted in a Class I Business District.

   (D)   A use specified in Section 1256.03 as a prohibited use shall not be permitted as an accessory use.

(Ord. 210-04. Passed 11-8-04; Ord. 079-15. Passed 4-6-15; Ord. 174-15. Passed 8-24-15; Ord. 191-17. Passed 8-21-17; Ord. 242-17. Passed 10-9-17; Ord. 045-18. Passed 2-26-18; Ord. 066-22. Passed 3-14-22.)

   (A)   In a Class II Business District no building or premises shall be used and no building shall be erected which is arranged, intended or designed to be used for other than a use permitted in a Class I Residential, Class II Residential, Class III Residential, Office or Class I Business District or for one or more of the following specified uses:

      (1)   A dance hall, cabaret or night club;

      (2)   A book binding shop, upholstering shop, or laundry employing not more than three persons;

      (3)   A garage repair shop, auto body or mechanical repair, secondhand car lot, storage garage or tire repair shop;

      (4)   A bottling works, job printing shop, plumbing shop or tinsmith operation;

      (5)   A poultry establishment for killing and dressing for sale at retail on the premises or a stable for not more than five animals;

      (6)   A wholesale distributor;

      (7)   A veterinary clinic for small animals, including dogs, cats and the like, in a completely enclosed building with no outside keeping of small animals or open runs; or

      (8)   A dog kennel as defined by the Ohio Revised Code.

   (B)   However, in any part of a Class II Business District 150 feet or more from a Class I Residential, Class II Residential, Class III Residential or Office District, any building or premises may be used for any use specified in Section 1254.01(A)(1) and (2), or for any use specified in Section 1254.01(A)(3) provided that not more than a three H.P. combustion engine is employed in the operation of any machine and provided that such use is not noxious or offensive by reason of the emission of odor, dust, smoke, gas, noise or vibration, except that electric motors of not more than ten H.P. each may be used.

   (C)   A use specified in subsection (B) hereof may be located in a Class II Business District within 150 feet of a Class I Residential, Class II Residential, Class III Residential or Office District on a special permit, as provided in Section 1244.05.

   (D)   Accessory buildings shall not include, whether or not modified, vehicles, trailers, box cars, water craft, or other commercial and portable storage units.

   (E)   An accessory use customarily incidental to a use authorized by this section shall be permitted in a Class II Business District. A use specified in Section 1256.03 as a prohibited use shall not be permitted as an accessory use.

(Ord. 210-04. Passed 11-8-04; Ord. 079-15. Passed 4-6-15.)

   Each lot in a Business District shall comply with the minimum requirements established in this section, except as otherwise provided. A buffer screening area ten feet wide shall be installed in all Business Districts which abut Residential Districts and shall be constructed prior to the actual date that the property is used for its zoned purpose. The standards and specifications for buffer screening areas shall be established by the Zoning Administrator and shall be on file in his office. A detailed plot plan for all required buffer screening areas shall be submitted to the Zoning Administrator for approval prior to the issuance of a building permit.

      (1)   When the side lot line abuts a Residential District, there shall be a side yard of not less than ten feet, which yard shall be maintained as a buffer screening area, as defined in Section 1240.01.

      (2)   When the side yard abuts a street, the width of the side yard shall not be less than the depth of the front yard of the adjoining lot which faces on the side street.

(Ord. 225-18. Passed 9-24-18.)

   All buffer screening areas shall be constructed in accordance with the latest standards and specifications on file in the office of the Zoning Administrator. Such buffer screening areas shall be continuous throughout the entire length of any Business District property line abutting a Residential District property line.

(Ord. 226-18. Passed 9-24-18.)

   When a Business District abutting a Residential District is to be used for construction and occupancy by not more than four families, the buffer screening requirements shall not apply. However, all residential yard requirements shall be followed.

(Ord. 245-71. Passed 11-22-71.)