• §157.040 Central Commercial Zone (C1)
• §157.041 Outlying Commercial Zone (C2)

§157.040 Central Commercial Zone (C1)

(A) Uses permitted outright. In a C1, only the following uses and their accessory uses are permitted outright:

(1) Automobile, boat or trailer sales show room;

(2) Bakery;

(3) Bank, loan company or similar financial institution;

(4) Barber shop;

(5) Beauty shop;

(6) Bicycle shop;

(7) Blueprinting, photostating or other reproduction;

(8) Book or stationery store or newsstand;

(9) Bookbinding;

(10) Building supply with no outside storage;

(11) Bus station;

(12) Business machines, retail and service;

(13) Catering establishment;

(14) Church;

(15) Clinic;

(16) Clothes, cleaning or laundry agency;

(17) Clothing store or tailor shop;

(18) Club, lodge, union or fraternal organization;

(19) Cocktail lounge or tavern;

(20) Confectionery store, including soda fountain;

(21) Curtain or drapery store;

(22) Dancing school, music studio or instructional classes;

(23) Delicatessen;

(24) Drug store, pharmacy;

(25) Dry cleaning, or pressing, except those using highly volatile or combustible materials or using high pressure steam tanks or boilers;

(26) Dry goods, millinery or dress shop;

(27) Electrical supply store;

(28) Feed and seed store;

(29) Floor covering sales and service;

(30) Florist shop;

(31) Food store;

(32) Frozen food lockers, retail only;

(33) Furniture store;

(34) Garden store;

(35) Gift, hobby or art shop;

(36) Grocery store, includes convenience store, minimarket;

(37) Hardware store;

(38) Health studio, physical therapist, reducing salon;

(39) Hotel;

(40) Jewelry store, including repairing;

(41) Leather goods sales, including harness and saddle shop;

(42) Locksmith;

(43) Magazine or newspaper distribution agency;

(44) Meat market, retail only;

(45) Newspaper publishing;

(46) Notions or variety store;

(47) Office, business or professional;

(48) Office supplies;

(49) Paint store, including related contractor shop;

(50) Parking lot or garage;

(51) Pawn shop;

(52) Pet shop, includes animal grooming but not overnight boarding or kennel;

(53) Printing plant;

(54) Radio or television sales and service;

(55) Restaurant or hotel supply;

(56) Restaurant or tea room;

(57) Retail store;

(58) Scientific or professional instrument sale or repair;

(59) Secondhand store;

(60) Selfservice laundry;

(61) Shoe store or shoe repair shop;

(62) Storage building for household goods in conjunction with retail sales;

(63) Studioart, music and photography;

(64) Telephone or telegraph building;

(65) Theater, except drivein theater;

(66) Upholstery shop, but excluding operations in mattress and upholstery refinishing where cyanide or other highly toxic material is used; and

(67) Wholesale office or show room with merchandise on the premises limited to small items and samples.

(B) Conditional uses permitted. In a C1 zone, the following uses and their accessory uses are permitted when authorized in accordance with the requirements of 157.205 through 157.210 of this chapter:

(1) Auditorium, exhibition hall or other public assembly room;

(2) Automobile service station including minor automobile repairs but excluding body and fender work, or painting;

(3) Community building;

(4) Day care home or nursery;

(5) Drivein establishment offering goods or services to customers waiting in parked motor vehicles, except drivein theater;

(6) Government structure or land use including but not limited to a public park, playground, recreational building, fire station, library or museum;

(7) Hospital or nursing home;

(8) Mortuary;

(9) Motel;

(10) Multiplefamily dwelling;

(11) Planned unit development;

(12) Private utilities including electric power substations, telephone exchanges, television, radio or microwave transmission facilities;

(13) Public utilities including wells, water storage tanks and sanitary sewer pump stations; and

(14) Schools: Preschool, primary, elementary, junior or senior high, college.

(C) Setback requirements. Except as provided in 157.140, in a C1 zone no yard or vision clearance area shall be required except as follows:

(1) The front yard shall be a minimum of 20 feet measured from the foundation where abutting a residential zone;

(2) The side yard shall be minimum of 20 feet measured from the foundation where abutting a residential zone;

(3) The rear yard shall be a minimum of 25 feet measured from the foundation where abutting a residential zone; and

(4) All properties facing E. Main street from 3rd street to 7th street shall have a twofoot building setback from their front property line.

(D) Height of buildings. In a C1 zone within 150 feet of a residential zone, no building shall exceed 35 feet in height.

(E) Restrictions on use. In a C1 zone, the following conditions and restrictions shall apply:

(1) All business, service, repair, processing, storage or merchandise display shall be conducted wholly within an enclosed building, except for offstreet parking and loading, drivein windows, island service for motor vehicles and display of merchandise along the outside wall of the building not extending more than three feet from the wall, unless conducted as part of a special event and authorized by the City Council;

(2) All items produced or wares and merchandise handled shall be sold at retail on the premises except in the case of 157.040 (A);

(3) Where there are existing residential dwellings, they and their accessory uses may be maintained, expanded or reconstructed in conformance with the development standards of the R3 zone; and

(4) Residential uses shall not be allowed on the ground floor of commercial buildings in the C1 zone.

(Ord. 1840, passed 22894) Penalty, see 157.999

§157.041 Outlying Commercial Zone (C2)

(A) Uses permitted outright. In a C2 zone, only the following uses and their accessory uses are permitted outright:

(1) A use permitted outright in a C1 zone;

(2) Amusement enterprise, including pool hall, bowling, dancing hall, skating rink, when enclosed in a building;

(3) Auditorium, exhibition hall or other public assembly room;

(4) Automobile, boat or trailer sales, rental, service and repair;

(5) Automobile service station;

(6) Automobile laundry;

(7) Day care home or nursery;

(8) Mortuary, undertaking or funeral parlor;

(9) Motel;

(10) Recreational vehicle park subject to requirements of 157.147;

(11) Taxidermy shop; and

(12) Tire shop, including tire recapping.

(B) Conditional uses permitted. In a C2 zone, the following uses and their accessory uses are permitted when authorized in accordance with the requirements of 157.205 through 157.210 of this chapter:

(1) Amusement enterprise not enclosed in a building including, but not limited to, “pitch and putt” golf course, driving range, archery range, automobile race track and drivein theater;

(2) Caretaker's residence subject to the following conditions:

(a) Residence shall be a manufactured dwelling complying with the 1976 HUD codes and shall be skirted;

(b) The residence shall be furnished with all utilities including telephone;

(c) The facility shall be set back from all streets as far as practical and still be in conformance with the setback requirements as established in the Uniform Building Code;

(d) The caretaker's residence shall be allowed only in conjunction with a business which requires the outside storage or display of wares and shall be removed within 30 days following the discontinuance of the business enterprise; and

(e) All uses shall be subject to annual review by the commission and may be removed upon direction of the Commission for violation of these conditions.

(3) Community building;

(4) Drivein establishment offering goods or services to customers waiting in parked motor vehicles, except drivein theater;

(5) Government structure or land use including but not limited to a public park, playgrounds recreational building, fire station, library or museum;

(6) Hospital or nursing home;

(7) Planned unit development;

(8) Preschool, primary, elementary, junior or senior high, college;

(9) Private utilities including electric power substations, telephone exchanges, television, radio or microwave transmission facilities; and

(10) Public utilities including wells, water storage tanks and sanitary sewer pump stations.

(C) Restrictions on use. In a C2 zone, the following conditions and restrictions shall apply:

(1) Where there are existing residential dwellings, they and their accessory uses may be maintained, expanded or reconstructed in conformance with the development standards as established in the R3 zone.

(2) The outside storage of junk shall be contained entirely within a sightobscuring fence when adjacent to a residential use of property.

(D) Setback requirements. Except as provided in 157.140, in a C2 zone the yards shall be as follows:

(1) The setback from any street shall be 20 feet. However, if solid ground cover landscaping is provided and maintained, the setback from a street may be reduced to ten feet;

(2) The side yard shall be a minimum of 20 feet measured from the foundation where abutting a residential zone; and

(3) The rear yard shall be a minimum of 25 feet measured from the foundation where abutting a residential zone.

(E) Height of buildings. In a C2 zone, no building shall exceed a height of 35 feet.

(Ord. 1840, passed 22894) Penalty, see 157.999