The CBD Central Business District is characterized by the following:

1. It is essentially the geographic center of Pine City;
2. It contains the City’s main public buildings;
3. It has the greatest concentration and number of pedestrians, and traffic in general;
4. It contains the greatest proportion of the City’s offices;
5. It contains the greatest proportion of the City’s taller buildings to maximize land use; and
6. It attracts people from outside its sphere of influence to work and spend money inside.

(Prior Code, § 10.200.1010)

The central business district is designed and intended as a specialized district directed to serve the pedestrian in a compact central area for the City. The CBD district shall provide for a high-density shopping and business environment, especially stressing the pedestrian function and interaction of people and businesses, rather than being heavily oriented toward the use of automobiles.

(Prior Code, § 10.200.1015)

Enclosure of uses. Every use, unless expressly exempted in this section or allowed by a Conditional Use Permit, shall operate in its entirety within a completely enclosed structure; a Conditional Use Permit, subject to the conditions in the conditional use section, may grant the exemption of a use from the requirement of enclosure. This requirement shall not apply to the temporary display of merchandise during regular business hours. Such sidewalk sales/displays are not to exceed three days in a 30-day period; also, they are to be at least 40 inches from the curb to allow for an adequate walkway. Liquor shall not be permitted as an outdoor display/sale.

(Prior Code, § 10.200.1020)

1. Minimum lot size: 5,000 square feet (0.11 acre).
2. Minimum lot width: 50 feet.
3. Minimum front yard: Zero feet.
4. Minimum side yard: Zero feet.
5. Minimum rear yard: Zero feet.
6. Maximum building height: Six stories or 90 feet.

The front and side yards are to be at least 50 feet in depth when abutting a railroad right-of-way.

(Prior Code, § 10.200.1030)

1. Body art establishment.
2. Commercial indoor lodging.
3. Family day care home.
4. Financial institution.
5. Indoor commercial entertainment.
6. Indoor sales and service.
7. Indoor institutional.
8. Office.
9. Personal or professional service.
10. Public service and utilities.
11. Transit stop.
12. Brewery or brew pub.
13. Cannabis Retail Business

(Prior Code, § 10.200.1040; Ord. No. 20-04, 8-5-2020)

1. Bed and breakfast establishment.
2. High technology.
3. Outdoor commercial entertainment.
4. Permanent outdoor display and sales as a primary or principal use.
5. Communications tower.
6. Institutional residential.
7. Passive outdoor recreational.
8. Distribution center.
9. Off-site parking lot.
10. Indoor storage or wholesaling.
11. Commercial apartment.
12. Group/multiple-family day care center.
13. Light industrial incidental to indoor sales.
14. In-vehicle sales and service.
15. Vehicle sales and service repair.
16. Outdoor storage or wholesale.
17. Single-family residential.
18. Duplex.
19. Triplex/quadplex.
20. Multifamily apartment.

(Prior Code, § 10.200.1050)

State law reference—Conditional uses, Minn. Stats. § 462.3595.

See PCC 13.100.010.

(Prior Code, § 10.200.1060)

1. In any case where the lot line for a parcel in the central business district is adjacent to a residential district, the lot line shall be surveyed and a sight proof fence shall be erected along that property line. At the discretion of the Planning Commission, other buffers may be requested and/or required.
2. See PCC 13.76, Art. IV.

(Prior Code, § 10.200.1070)