The Municipal Business District (MBD) is intended to permit a wider range of business and entertainment activities than those permitted in the Neighborhood Business District (NBD). The permitted uses are intended to provide businesses and services usually found in major business areas along major streets or regional thoroughfares or near freeway access ramps. These uses generate large volumes of vehicular traffic, require substantial access for off-street parking and loading and require detailed planning, particularly as to relationships with adjacent residential areas. The intended potential customer base for these uses is the entire Municipality, and not just the immediate residential neighborhoods.

(Res. 98-340A. Passed 9-21-98.)

In the Municipal Business District (MBD), no use shall be permitted, unless otherwise provided in this Zoning Code, except the following:

   (a)   All uses permitted in the Neighborhood Business District (NBD), subject to the terms and conditions therein, excluding apartments.

(Res. 99-417A. Passed 9-7-99.).

   (b)   Adult day care and foster care facilities, subject to the site design standards of Section 1296.02, Site Design Standards for Uses Permitted After Special Approval.

   (c)   Any service establishment of an office, showroom or workshop nature, such as a decorator, upholsterer, caterer, exterminator or building contractor, and similar establishments that require retail outlets, except that no outdoor storage of equipment or materials shall be permitted.

   (d)   Assembly halls.

   (e)   Automobile, truck, motorcycle, trailer, recreational vehicle or boat showrooms, excluding the outdoor storage or display of sales products.

   (f)   Bus or railroad passenger stations.

   (g)   Business recreation uses, subject to the site design standards of Section 1296.02, Site Design Standards for Uses Permitted After Special Approval, including the following:

      (1)   Indoor theaters.

      (2)   Bowling alleys.

      (3)   Dance halls.

      (4)   Skating rinks.

   (h)   Business schools or private schools operated for a profit, subject to the site design standards of Section 1296.02, Site Design Standards for Uses Permitted After Special Approval.

   (i)   Business service establishments, such as office machine and typewriter repair, printing, and blueprinting.

   (j)   Commercial outdoor and indoor recreational establishments, subject to the site design standards of Section 1296.02, Site Design Standards for Uses Permitted After Special Approval.

   (k)   Commercial schools and training centers, including art and dance studios, music and voice schools, and business schools, subject to the site design standards of Section 1296.02, Site Design Standards for Uses Permitted After Special Approval.

   (l)   Churches, temples, and similar places of worship, subject to the site design standards of Section 1296.02, Site Design Standards for Uses Permitted After Special Approval.

   (m)   Commercial greenhouses, nurseries, and garden centers less than one-thousand (1,000) square feet, subject to the site design standards of Section 1296.02, Site Design Standards for Uses Permitted After Special Approval.

   (n)   Drive-through service establishments, subject to the site design standards of Section 1296.02, Site Design Standards for Uses Permitted After Special Approval.

   (o)   Funeral homes, undertaking establishments or mortuaries, subject to the site design standards of Section 1296.02, Site Design Standards for Uses Permitted After Special Approval.

   (p)   Government buildings and uses.

   (q)   Hotels, motels, and bed and breakfast inns.

   (r)   Physical culture facilities, such as gymnasiums, reducing salons and beauty schools.

   (s)   Printing and publishing establishments, including newspaper offices and publishers.

   (t)   Private clubs, lodge halls, and similar assembly buildings.

   (u)   Public utility offices, telephone exchanges and public utility substations within a completely enclosed building (not necessarily roofed), subject to the site design standards of Section 1296.02, Site Design Standards for Uses Permitted After Special Approval.

   (v)   Retail businesses whose principal activity is the sale or rental of merchandise within a completely enclosed building of less than sixty-thousand (60,000) square feet of gross floor area.

   (w)   Shopping centers with less than sixty-thousand (60,000) square feet of gross floor area, containing uses permitted in this chapter.

   (x)   Supermarkets with less than sixty-thousand (60,000) square feet of gross floor area.

   (y)   Theaters and cinemas.

   (z)   Veterinary hospitals and clinics (excluding the outdoor use of property for pens, boarding, or other similar uses), subject to the site design standards of Section 1296.02, Site Design Standards for Uses Permitted After Special Approval.

   (aa)   Accessory buildings and uses customarily incidental to the principal permitted uses set forth in this section, including:

      (1)   Signage that conforms with Chapter 1476, Sign Code. (Res. 2020-299A. Passed 10-5-20, Eff. 10-19-20.)

      (2)   Garages to be used exclusively for the storage of commercial and/or passenger motor vehicles which are to be used in connection with a business permitted and located in a Municipal Business District (MBD).

      (3)   Drive-through service windows.

   (bb)   Off-street parking and loading facilities in accordance with Chapter 1290, Off-Street Parking and Loading.

   (cc)   Antique mall less than twenty thousand (20,000) square feet in area; subject to the site design standards of Section 1296.02, Site Design Standards for Uses Permitted after Special Approval.

   (dd)   E-Commerce establishments with less than ten thousand (10,000) square feet of gross floor area. (Res. 2022-146A. Passed 5-16-22, Eff. 6-1-22.)

(Res. 98-340A. Passed 9-21-98; Res. 2012-223A. Passed 7-16-12, effective 8-1-12.)

In a Municipal Business District (MBD), the following uses may be permitted, subject to the applicable site design standards of Section 1296.02, Site Design Standards for Uses Permitted After Special Approval, and subject, further, to the approval of Council after recommendation from the Planning Commission in accordance with the processing procedures in Section 1262.08, Powers of Council Re Special Approvals:

   (a)   All principal uses after special approval in a Neighborhood Business District (NBD), as set forth in Section 1276.03, Uses Permitted After Special Approval.

   (b)   Automobile and other vehicle wash establishments.

(Res. 98-340A. Passed 9-21-98.)

   (c)   Automotive fueling stations with or without the following accessory uses:

      (1)   Convenience stores and/or restaurant with or without drive through service of no more than two thousand, five hundred (2,500) square feet each; or

      (2)   An automobile service center or repair station.

      An automotive fueling station with a convenience store and/or a restaurant with or without drive-through service shall not have as an accessory use an automobile service center or repair station.

(Res. 99-416A. Passed 9-7-99; Res. 08-40. Passed 1-28-08.)

   (d)   Automotive repair stations, provided any outdoor storage of vehicles is screened in accordance with the standards of Section 1294.28, Screening.

   (e)   Building and lumber supply or contracting firms, including landscape construction services, with incidental outside storage of equipment and materials on the same lot.

   (f)   Cocktail lounges and nightclubs, including those with more than four (4) billiard tables or other amusement devises.

   (g)   Colleges or universities.

   (h)   Commercial greenhouses, nurseries, and garden centers exceeding one-thousand (1,000) square feet of floor area.

   (i)   Drive-in restaurants or other drive-in establishments serving food and/or beverages.

   (j)   Mechanical amusement device arcades, pinball parlors and pool or billiard halls.

   (k)   New or used mobile home, excavation equipment, machinery or farm implement sales; new or used motor vehicle or recreational vehicle sales or rentals, including boats, snowmobiles, travel trailers, campers, motor homes, tents and accessory equipment, wherein motor vehicles or recreational vehicles are stored or displayed outside of completely enclosed buildings.

   (l)   Open air business uses.

   (m)   Party stores.

   (n)   Storage garages.

   (o)   Veterinary hospitals and clinics with outdoor pens, boarding, or other similar uses.

   (p)   Uses similar to the principal permitted uses of Section 1278.02, Principal Permitted Uses, and not listed elsewhere in this Zoning Code as a principal permitted use or a special approval use.

   (q)   Wholesale stores.

   (r)   Antique malls at least twenty thousand (20,000) square feet in area.

For all uses in a Municipal Business District (MBD), a site plan shall be submitted for review and approval in accordance with Section 1296.01, Site Plan Review. Where a new or expanded use occurs in a Municipal Business District (MBD), after the effective date of this Zoning Code, which new or expanded use abuts directly upon a residentially zoned district, protective screening shall be provided in accordance with Section 1294.28, Screening.

(Res. 98-340A. Passed 9-21-98.)

For a Municipal Business District (MBD), area, height, bulk and placement requirements and performance standards, unless otherwise specified, are as provided in Sections 1294.31, Performance Standards, and 1294.32, Schedule of Regulations.

(Res. 98-340A. Passed 9-21-98.)