The B-1 Local Business District is intended to permit retail business and service uses which are needed to serve the nearby residential areas; and to encourage the concentration of local business areas to be mutually advantageous to both the consumers and merchants and thereby to promote the best use of land at certain strategic locations and to avoid the continuance of encouraging marginal strip business development along heavily traveled roads.
(Ord. 1989-81. Passed 1-2-90.)
1125.02 PRINCIPAL PERMITTED USES.
The following provisions shall apply to all B-1 Local Business Districts. In a B-1 District no person shall hereafter use any building, structure or land, and no person shall erect any building or structure except in accordance with the provisions:
(a) Retail establishment for the sale of alcoholic beverages, baked goods, bicycles, books, confections, pharmaceuticals, flowers, groceries, hardware, hobby equipment, jewelry, music, notions, paints, periodicals, sundry small household articles, tobacco and similar establishments.
(b) Personal service establishments or repair services performing services on the premises, such as barber and beauty shops; watch, radio, television, clothing and shoe repair, tailor shops, locksmiths and similar establishments.
(c) Laundry or dry cleaning customer outlets, coin operated laundromats, self-serve dry cleaning centers. Dry cleaning or laundry plants serving more than one customer service outlet are prohibited.
(d) Restaurants when food or beverage is consumed with a completely enclosed building and provided that service is not made to parked automobiles. Drive-in or open front stores are prohibited.
(e) Public utility buildings and uses but not including storage yards, when operating requirements necessitate locating within the district to serve immediate vicinity.
(f) Professional offices of doctors, lawyers, realty agents, dentists and other similar professions. (Ord. 1989-81. Passed 1-2-90.)
(g) Funeral homes and/or other related State regulated businesses.
(Ord. 2005-7. Passed 3-21-05.)
(h) Churches in accordance with Section 1118.03(a).
(i) Accessory buildings and uses customarily incidental to the above permitted principal uses.
(j) Existing dwelling units in commercial districts shall be required to follow the area, height, bulk and placement regulation of the R-3 Single Family Residential District.
(Ord. 1989-81. Passed 1-2-90.)
1125.03 CONDITIONAL USES.
(a) Automobile Service station without repair services.
(1) The curb cuts for singles and egress to a service station shall not be permitted at such locations that will tend to create traffic hazards in the streets immediately adjacent thereto. Entrances shall be no less than twenty-five feet from a street intersection, measured from the road right-of-way, or from adjacent residential districts;
(2) The minimum frontage along the street for a service station shall be not less than one hundred forty feet and a minimum lot area of not less than fourteen thousand square feet, and so arranged that ample space is available for motor vehicles which are required to wait for services;
(3) Automobile service stations shall not be located within five hundred feet of any school or church;
(4) Preferably automobile service stations should not be situated at any intersection where the approach gradient of either street exceeds 2%;
(5) All lighting shall be shielded from adjacent residential districts.
(b) Planned shopping center in accordance with Chapter 1134 of this Zoning Code.
(1) A planting at least ten feet wide shall be provided around the entire perimeter of the site except for driveways on the public street system. A wall or barrier of suitable material not less than five feet high shall be constructed along those property lines which abut a residential district;
(2) No main or accessory building shall be situated less than fifty feet from any perimeter property line;
(c) Single and multiple family residential units, groups homes, nursing homes and day care centers. (Ord. 1989-81. Passed 1-2-90.)
(d) Publicly owned and operated libraries, parks and recreation facilities.
(Ord. 1998-17. Passed 9-8-98.)
1125.04 AREA, HEIGHT, BULK AND PLACEMENT.
Area, height, bulk and placement requirements, unless otherwise specified, are in accordance with Chapter 1132.
(Ord. 1989-81. Passed 1-2-90.)
Wauseon City Zoning Code
CHAPTER 1125
B-1 Local Business District
1125.01 PURPOSE.
The B-1 Local Business District is intended to permit retail business and service uses which are needed to serve the nearby residential areas; and to encourage the concentration of local business areas to be mutually advantageous to both the consumers and merchants and thereby to promote the best use of land at certain strategic locations and to avoid the continuance of encouraging marginal strip business development along heavily traveled roads.
(Ord. 1989-81. Passed 1-2-90.)
1125.02 PRINCIPAL PERMITTED USES.
The following provisions shall apply to all B-1 Local Business Districts. In a B-1 District no person shall hereafter use any building, structure or land, and no person shall erect any building or structure except in accordance with the provisions:
(a) Retail establishment for the sale of alcoholic beverages, baked goods, bicycles, books, confections, pharmaceuticals, flowers, groceries, hardware, hobby equipment, jewelry, music, notions, paints, periodicals, sundry small household articles, tobacco and similar establishments.
(b) Personal service establishments or repair services performing services on the premises, such as barber and beauty shops; watch, radio, television, clothing and shoe repair, tailor shops, locksmiths and similar establishments.
(c) Laundry or dry cleaning customer outlets, coin operated laundromats, self-serve dry cleaning centers. Dry cleaning or laundry plants serving more than one customer service outlet are prohibited.
(d) Restaurants when food or beverage is consumed with a completely enclosed building and provided that service is not made to parked automobiles. Drive-in or open front stores are prohibited.
(e) Public utility buildings and uses but not including storage yards, when operating requirements necessitate locating within the district to serve immediate vicinity.
(f) Professional offices of doctors, lawyers, realty agents, dentists and other similar professions. (Ord. 1989-81. Passed 1-2-90.)
(g) Funeral homes and/or other related State regulated businesses.
(Ord. 2005-7. Passed 3-21-05.)
(h) Churches in accordance with Section 1118.03(a).
(i) Accessory buildings and uses customarily incidental to the above permitted principal uses.
(j) Existing dwelling units in commercial districts shall be required to follow the area, height, bulk and placement regulation of the R-3 Single Family Residential District.
(Ord. 1989-81. Passed 1-2-90.)
1125.03 CONDITIONAL USES.
(a) Automobile Service station without repair services.
(1) The curb cuts for singles and egress to a service station shall not be permitted at such locations that will tend to create traffic hazards in the streets immediately adjacent thereto. Entrances shall be no less than twenty-five feet from a street intersection, measured from the road right-of-way, or from adjacent residential districts;
(2) The minimum frontage along the street for a service station shall be not less than one hundred forty feet and a minimum lot area of not less than fourteen thousand square feet, and so arranged that ample space is available for motor vehicles which are required to wait for services;
(3) Automobile service stations shall not be located within five hundred feet of any school or church;
(4) Preferably automobile service stations should not be situated at any intersection where the approach gradient of either street exceeds 2%;
(5) All lighting shall be shielded from adjacent residential districts.
(b) Planned shopping center in accordance with Chapter 1134 of this Zoning Code.
(1) A planting at least ten feet wide shall be provided around the entire perimeter of the site except for driveways on the public street system. A wall or barrier of suitable material not less than five feet high shall be constructed along those property lines which abut a residential district;
(2) No main or accessory building shall be situated less than fifty feet from any perimeter property line;
(c) Single and multiple family residential units, groups homes, nursing homes and day care centers. (Ord. 1989-81. Passed 1-2-90.)
(d) Publicly owned and operated libraries, parks and recreation facilities.
(Ord. 1998-17. Passed 9-8-98.)
1125.04 AREA, HEIGHT, BULK AND PLACEMENT.
Area, height, bulk and placement requirements, unless otherwise specified, are in accordance with Chapter 1132.