(a)   For the purposes of this Zoning Code a "Local Retail District" means a business district so located next to a Shopping Center District and next to a residence district as to be a buffer between these types of districts, or a small business area surrounded by residential zoning and intended primarily for small stores serving the daily business needs of the immediately surrounding neighborhood.

   (b)   The following regulations shall apply to Local Retail Districts, subject however to such of the provisions of Chapters 1244, 1272, 1276 and 1280 as are pertinent to this chapter.

(1982 Code, § 1119.01) (Ord. 56-53. Passed 10-1-1956.)

   Permitted uses in Local Retail Districts are:

   (a)   Dwellings, as follows:

      (1)   Dwelling units in buildings used for business purposes.

      (2)   Planned multi-family residential areas, subject to the standards and criteria of Section 1280.07.

      (3)   Senior housing and care facilities.

(Ord. 99-45. Passed 12-20-1999.)

   (b)   Retail uses to the following limited extent, and provided there is no display of goods in front of the setback building line:

      (1)   Food stores, including groceries, fruit, vegetables, meat, dairy products, baked goods and confections; drug stores.

      (2)   Barber and beauty shops, tailor, dressmaking, pressing and shoe repair shops; dry cleaning and laundry pickup stations.

      (3)   Stores for the sale of men's and boy's furnishings, shoes, hats; women's apparel and accessories; sporting goods, dry goods and variety merchandise, but excluding department stores.

      (4)   Stores for the sale of radio and television sets and of other household appliances; electrical fixtures; hardware.

      (5)   Stores for the sale of books, magazines, newspapers, stationery, cigars, drugs, flowers, gifts, music, photographic goods.

      (6)   Real estate, insurance and other business offices; professional offices, medical and dental clinics.

      (7)   Gasoline service stations, automobile and automobile accessory salesrooms, and custom dry cleaning shops in which nonexplosive and nonflammable solvents are used, and in which no cleaning is done for other shops, outlets or receiving stations, but not including coin-operated automatic establishments and laundries in which no cleaning work is done for other shops, outlets or receiving stations, but only upon a special permit approved by the Board of Zoning Appeals upon a finding by the Board that the use in the particular area is not likely to be a hazard to the existing and anticipated vehicle and pedestrian traffic movement in the area, and is not likely to be seriously harmful to a residential area.

      (8)   Funeral homes, but only upon a special permit approved by the Board of Zoning Appeals upon a finding by the Board that adequate off-street parking is provided for the special needs of this use, and that the location and site development are such that this use is not likely to be seriously harmful to the adjacent residential or business uses.

(Ord. 69-1. Passed 2-24-1969.)

   (c)   Garages as accessory uses, for the storage of vehicles used in connection with the main activities of the premises.

      Off-street car parking as required in Section 1272.02 shall be provided for the foregoing uses.

(Ord. 56-53. Passed 10-1-1956.)

   (d)   Signs shall be prohibited unless in conformity with Chapter 1270 and any other applicable provision of the Codified Ordinances.

(Ord. 87-8. Passed 3-16-1987.)

   (e)   Variances From Sign Regulations. In a Local Retail District the Board of Zoning Appeals may permit signs of greater area or signs that do not otherwise conform to the regulations for signs in such District if, in their opinion, the Board finds that such signs will be suitable and appropriate to their proposed location, and the business or activity to which they refer cannot be properly advertised without such signs.

(1982 Code, § 1119.02) (Ord. 56-53. Passed 10-1-1956.)

   Buildings and structures may be built to a maximum height of three stories or 35 feet.

(1982 Code, § 1119.03) (Ord. 56-53 Passed 10-1-1956.)

   Any building containing dwelling units shall have a lot not less in area than 4,000 square feet per dwelling unit.

(1982 Code, § 1119.04) (Ord. 56-53. Passed 10-1-1956.)

   (a)   Front Yards. Every lot shall have a front yard not less in depth than the setback building line shown on the Building Zone Map.

   (b)   Side Yards. Any building on a lot which adjoins a dwelling, or which adjoin a vacant lot in a residence district, shall have a minimum side yard on that adjoining side of ten feet.

   (c)   Rear Yards. Each building that contains any dwelling units or that adjoins a residence district at the side or rear, shall have a rear yard not less than 20 feet in depth.

(1982 Code, § 1119.05) (Ord. 56-53. Passed 10-1-1956.)

   (a)   Establishment. In order to facilitate the operation of the Division of Fire of the Department of Public Safety, and in order to make effective the work of such Division during fires, at least twenty feet in the rear of any lot located in a Local Retail District shall remain clear and unobstructed by any main building, accessory building, structure or obstacle whatsoever, and no such building, structure or other obstacle shall be erected, placed or left, or permitted to be erected, placed or left in the 20-foot fire lane herein established, or in any fire lane fixed and established by Council through ordinance duly and regularly passed.

   (b)   Exceptions to Fire Lane Regulations. The provisions prescribing the minimum distance at which buildings or structures shall be located from any lot line or any provisions relating to open fire lanes do not apply when this section is or can be complied with by or with the use of adjoining property, and when such property affords the widths and areas as prescribed by this section and is available for the purposes intended, and when such adjoining property is owned and permanently dedicated to such use by the owners of the buildings or structures that such adjoining property becomes an accessory to, so as to preclude the erection of any building or structure or part thereof on the widths and areas so used during the existence of the building or structure.

(1982 Code, § 1119.06) (Ord. 56-53. Passed 10-1-1956.)