The central business district is intended to provide for a mixture of office uses, retail stores, entertainment, public spaces, and related activities that are mutually supporting and serve the needs of both the city and surrounding communities. The intent of this district regulation is to encourage a lively social environment and economically viable downtown with a wide variety of uses in a pedestrian oriented unified setting, with shared parking. The district makes special provision for vertical zoning, allowing the upper floors to be used as residential dwellings. The district also recognizes the existence of residential areas of the city where houses can be converted to low intensity office uses.

In the central business district, land, buildings, and other structures shall be used only for one or more of the following specified uses. All such uses shall deal directly with consumers; all business, servicing or processing, except for off-street parking and loading, shall be conducted on the premises within a completely enclosed building. Outdoor storage of commodities shall be expressly prohibited.

1.

Retail food establishments which supply: groceries, fresh produce, meats, dairy products, baked goods, confections or similar commodities for consumption off the premises. Foodstuffs may be prepared on the premises as an accessory use if sold at retail prices on premises.

2.

Retail businesses conducted entirely within an enclosed building such as: drugstores, liquor, dry goods, clothing, furniture, hardware, music, bookstores, and gift shops.

3.

Personal service establishments such as but not limited to: small electronics repair shops, shoe repair, tailors, hair styling salons, photographers' studios, film processing outlets, copy centers, interior decorators, postal centers and dry cleaners.

4.

Newspaper offices and publishing, and commercial printers.

5.

Restaurants and other establishments serving food and/or beverages on premises, which may include seasonal outdoor seating, excluding drive-through or drive-ins.

6.

Essential public services.

7.

Private clubs, lodge halls, theaters, cinemas, and similar such assembly buildings when completely enclosed.

8.

Banks, savings and loans, and credit unions (not including drive-through facilities).

9.

Professional offices such as: medical and dental chiropractors, osteopaths, and similar or allied professions.

10.

Professional services such as: insurance, real estate, legal financial, and similar or allied professions.

11.

Essential public service buildings.

12.

Public and semipublic institutional buildings, structures and uses, and public parks.

13.

Funeral homes.

14.

Hotels and motels.

15.

Bed and breakfast inns.

16.

Twenty-four-hour banking centers/ready tellers which are separate from a financial institution.

17.

Video rental establishments.

18.

Residential dwellings in upper stories.

19.

Warehouse and storage on upper level, provided that no storage shall be allowed on a floor having residential dwellings and that all storage shall be related to a permitted use within the same structure.

20.

Convenience stores without gasoline service.

21.

Accessory buildings, structures and uses customarily incidental to any of the above permitted uses.

(Ord. No. 322, §§ 1, 2, 10-13-1998)

The following uses shall be considered special land uses within the central business district and may be approved by the planning commission [now planning board—see Charter § 5-201], subject to the applicable general and specific standards in article 11:

1.

Restaurants and other establishments serving food and/or beverages on premises with drive-through or drive-in facilities.

2.

Convenience stores with gasoline service.

3.

Banks, savings and loans, credit unions and other facilities, with drive-through facilities.

4.

Indoor recreational establishment.

5.

Automobile service stations.

6.

Automobile repair shops.

7.

Child care services.

8.

Housing for the elderly.

9.

Open front restaurant windows, when accessory to a principal permitted restaurant and designed for walk-up patrons only.

10.

Accessory buildings, structures, and uses customarily incidental to any of the above special land uses.

11.

Churches.

12.

Medical marihuana provisioning centers and safety compliance facilities, authorized under the Medical Marihuana Facilities Licensing Act, Act 281 of 2016, MCL 333.27101 et seq.

13.

Adult-use marihuana retailers and related marihuana establishments, including microbusinesses, temporary marihuana events, and designated consumption establishments, authorized under the Michigan Regulation and Taxation of Marihuana Act ("MRTMA"), Initiated Law 1 of 2018, MCL 333.27951 et seq.

14.

Adult-use marihuana safety compliance facilities authorized under MRTMA.

(Ord. No. 322, § 3, 10-13-1998; Ord. No. 453, § 1, 10-20-2022)

1.

Schedule of regulations - article 3.

2.

Site plan review standards - article 12.

3.

Parking and loading-unloading standards - article 13.

4.

Sign standards - article 14.

5.

Landscaping and screening standards - article 16.

In addition to all requirements of the city marihuana businesses ordinance, all medical marihuana retail sales facilities and adult-use marihuana establishments shall be at least 750 feet from any pre-existing public or private school providing education in any grades pre-K through 12.

(Ord. No. 453, § 2, 10-20-2022)

In addition to all requirements of the city marihuana businesses ordinance, all medical marihuana retail sales facilities and adult-use marihuana establishments shall be at least 1,000 feet from any pre-existing medical and adult-use marihuana retail sales facilities.

(Ord. No. 459, § 1, 8-17-2023)