North College Hill City Zoning Code
CHAPTER 1153
B-1 Local Business District LBD
1153.01 PURPOSE.
(a) Nurture, protect, and encourage small and local businesses through regulation of land use.
(b) Provide opportunities for mixed-use and multi-use arrangements.
(c) Offer an environment where residents can socialize and have access to commodities that satisfy their day-to-day needs.
(d) Provide consistent setbacks and massing for infill development.
(e) Create a harmonious design that is a unified, organized, arrangement of buildings.
(f) Provide diversified types of goods and services that are typically accessed by customers by foot.
(g) Minimize vehicular traffic across the front of the lot.
(Ord. 2-2013. Passed 7-1-13.)
1153.02 PERMITTED PRINCIPAL USES.
No building, structure or land shall be erected, altered, enlarged or used which is arranged or designed for any other than one of the following uses except as provided herein and in Chapter 1153.
(a) Residential: Two-family and multi-family dwellings may occupy, be built upon, or altered above another principal permitted business use at grade level in the local business district.
(c) Recreational: Indoor and outdoor recreation facilities. Swimming pools shall be subject to the provisions of Chapter 1183.
(d) Office: Business and/or professional offices
(e) School and studio: Trade or business schools provided machinery which is used for instruction purposes is not objectionable due to noise, fumes, smoke, odor or vibration; photographic studios, dancing studios, radio and telecasting studios and the like.
(f) Eating and Drinking Establishments: Local restaurants, cafes, bakeries, bistros, diners, taverns, pubs, cafes, coffee houses, and other establishments of the like.
(g) Public Utility: Public utility buildings and structures necessary for providing service to the area, but not including warehouses, storage yards or garages.
(h) Convenience Retail and Service. Any local retail business or service establishment supplying commodities or performing services primarily for residents of the neighborhood on a day-to-day basis including groceries, supermarkets, fruit and vegetable stores, garden supply stores, drug stores, barber shops, beauty parlors, clothes cleaning and laundry pick-up stores, but not including motor vehicle service stations. Such buildings and uses shall be limited to 5,000 square feet in size.
(Ord. 2-2013. Passed 7-1-13.)
1153.03 PERMITTED CONDITIONAL USES.
The following uses shall be permitted only if authorized by the Board of Zoning Appeals:
(a) Residential: Boarding and lodging houses when located on and having access from a major street.
(b) Public Utility: Public utility buildings necessary to provide adequate service to the area but not including general offices, garages, warehouses or outdoor storage yards.
(c) Institutional: Nursing homes, Convalescent Care Facilities and Independent Living Facilities and related uses.
(d) Hospitals, but not including hospitals primarily or exclusively for the care of epileptics, drug addicts, the mentally challenged or insane, or for contagious diseases, and nonprofit institutions for the training and rehabilitation of handicapped persons, provided any principal or accessory buildings for such uses are located not less than fifty feet from any other lot in any R-District.
(e) And Religious Places of Worship.
(f) Funeral Homes: Funeral parlor or undertaking establishment, provided that any principal or accessory building for such uses shall be located not less than twenty-five feet from any other lot in any R-District, and provided fully adequate facilities for the storage and parking of vehicles of the establishment, patrons and visitors are provided on the premises.
(h) Retail and Service: Any retail business or service establishment, other than convenience retail, that is not a principal permitted use and is determined by the Board to be of the same general character as one of the principal permitted uses.
(j) Museums, art galleries, and similar cultural facilities.
(k) Temporary food carts and food stands.
(Ord. 7-2015. Passed 6-1-15.)
1153.04 PERMITTED ACCESSORY USES.
Accessory uses, buildings or structures customarily incidental to any above-mentioned principal permitted or conditional use shall be permitted in conjunction with such use including the following.
(a) Gardening: Gardening and the raising of vegetables or fruits for the use and personal enjoyment of the owners and tenants of the principal buildings and not for commercial purposes.
(d) Home Occupation: As defined in Section 1121.31 provided that not more than one-fourth the area of one floor of the dwelling is devoted to such use.
(f) Temporary Buildings: For uses related to construction
(g) Shed, Garage or Carport.
(Ord. 2-2013. Passed 7-1-13.)
1153.05 BUSINESS CONDUCT STANDARDS.
(a) Business in Enclosed Buildings. All businesses, services or processing shall be conducted wholly within a completely enclosed building except for off-street parking and such outdoor display or storage of vehicles, materials and equipment as may be authorized by the Board of Zoning Appeals.
(b) Production for Sale at Retail. All products produced on the premises, whether primary or incidental, shall be sold at retail primarily on the premises where produced.
(c) Uses Must be Non-objectionable. Processes and equipment employed and goods processed or sold shall be limited to those which are not objectionable by any reason of odor, dust, smoke, cinders, gas, fumes, noise, vibration, refuse matter or water-carried waste as measured at the subject property line.
(d) No drive through access shall occur from the front of the lot.
(Ord. 2-2013. Passed 7-1-13.)
1153.06 LOT DEVELOPMENT STANDARDS.
(a) Height Regulations: Any Multi-Use building or other principal structures shall not exceed a height of forty feet or four stories; and accessory structures shall not exceed one story or fifteen feet, except as provided in this Zoning Ordinance.
(b) Lot Area, Frontage, and Yards: The following minimum requirements shall be observed, except as provided in this Zoning Ordinance. A group of principal buildings may be constructed on one lot, provided however that no conveyance shall be made which reduces the minimum lot area, frontage or yard requirements of the parcel conveyed or the parcel remaining.
Lot Area (sq. ft.) | Lot Width (ft.) | Front Setbacks (ft.) | Side Yard Width (ft.) | Rear Yard Depth (ft.) | |
Two-Family dwellings, multi- family dwellings, and Nonresidential uses | None | None | 0 with a maximum of 10 feet from right-of-way | None; except when adjoining an R-District, then no less than ten feet | None; except when adjoining an R-District, than no less than ten feet |
(c) Maximum Lot Coverage: Up to 90% of the lot may be covered by an impervious surface.
(Ord. 2-2013. Passed 7-1-13.)