For the purpose of regulating and restricting the location of trades, industries, apartment houses, two-family houses and other uses of property, the number of square feet of lot area per family housed, the width of lots, the location and size of yards and the height of buildings, the Municipality is hereby divided into ten classes of use districts termed respectively:

         Class U-1 or Single-Family House Districts,

         Class U-2 or Two-Family House Districts,

         Class U-3 or Apartment House Districts,

         Class U-3AA or Restricted Multi-Story Apartment House District,

         Planned Residential Development District,

         Local Business District,

         Small Office Building District,

         Motorist Service District,

         Office Laboratory District, and

         Production-Distribution District,

and into three classes of area districts termed respectively:

         Class A-l,

         Class A-2, and

         Class A-3;

all as shown on the revised district and zone map prepared by the F.A. Pease Engineering Co., and duly approved by the Planning and Zoning Commission and by Council and dated July 19, 1948, as amended, which revised district and zone map is made a part hereof. The use and area districts designations shown on the map are hereby established. The map designations and the map designation rules which accompany the map are hereby declared to be part thereof. No building or premises shall be erected or used except in conformity with the regulations herein prescribed for the use and area districts in which such building or premises is located.

(Ord. 89-24. Approved by voters 11-7-89; Ord. 2003-02. Passed 4-21-03.)

   For the purposes of this Zoning Code, the various uses of buildings and premises are divided into groups, classes and subdivisions as set forth in the following classification of uses:

   (a)    Class U-1 Uses: (Single-family House)

      (1)    Single-family dwelling.

      (2)    Farming, nursery, truck gardening.

      (3)    Any municipal use by the Municipality.

   (b)    Class U-2 Uses: (Two-Family House)

      (1)    Two-family dwelling.

   (c)    Class U-3 Uses: (Apartment House)

      (1)    Apartment house.

      (2)    Hotel.

      (3)    Motel.

   (d)    Class U-3AA Uses: (Restricted Multi-Story Apartment House)

      (1)    Restricted multi-story apartment house.

      (2)    Accessory uses as hereinafter defined.

      (3)    Storage of scrap iron, scrap paper, rags or other junk, and operation of junk or scrap yard or auto graveyard. A junk or scrap yard shall mean land open to the sky, used as a place of storage or deposit of scrap metal, papers, rags or glass. An auto graveyard is a place containing one or more unhoused, dismantled or disabled motor vehicle without current year Ohio license plates; or a vehicle on blocks with or without current license plates. Any vehicle stored outside shall be operable and in good appearance, and if temporarily inoperable, the maximum storage of an inoperable vehicle is sixty days, providing same is not on blocks. Any dispute with the interpretation or enforcement of this section can be appealed to the Board of Zoning Appeals.

         (Ord. 92-19. Passed 6- 15-92.)

      (4)    Reduction of garbage, refuse, offal or dead animals.

      (5)    Storage of explosives, except temporary storage by contractors constructing public improvements in accordance with the ordinances of the Municipality pertaining to explosives.

      (6)    Wholesale produce market, wholesale produce sales room.

      (7)    Slaughtering of fowl and/or animals .

         (Ord. 767. Passed 5-21-62; Ord. 960. Passed 7-18-66.)

      (8)    Eating establishments with drive-thru window service.

         (Ord. 84-14. Approved by electors 11-6-84.)

      (9)    Incineration of garbage, refuse, rubbish, waste, offal or dead animals brought into the Municipality from outside the Municipality;

      (10)    Dumping or burying of garbage or refuse brought from outside the Municipality;

      (11)    Refuse or rubbish dump other than operated by the Municipality;

      (12)    Any other use which, in the determination of Council, is injurious, obnoxious, offensive, inimitable to health or a nuisance.

         (Ord. 90-47. Approved by electors 5-7-91.)