Use regulations

• A. The following uses are permitted by right:

  • 1. Churches and places of worship;

  • 2. Schools of limited instruction;

  • 3. Parks, playgrounds and playing fields;

  • 4. Transient guest facilities;

  • 5. Standard restaurants;

  • 6. Bus terminals on a lot having a minimum area of twenty-five thousand (25,000) square feet;

  • 7. Automobile repair shops;

  • 8. Automobile washing and cleaning establishments;

  • 9. Professional and business offices;

  • 10. Banks and other financial institutions;

  • 11. Stores where goods are sold or service is rendered primarily at retail;

  • 12. Radio and television broadcasting studios, excluding transmitting and receiving towers;

  • 13. Commercial indoor recreation facilities;

  • 14. Commercial outdoor recreation facilities;

  • 15. Printing and publishing establishments;

  • 16. Research laboratories;

  • 17. The manufacture, processing, assembly or storage of goods;

  • 18. Boat building and repair;

  • 19. Warehousing, wholesale business; and wholesale business warehousing;

  • 20. Contractor's warehouse and storage yards;

  • 21. Business and storage yards for lumber and building materials;

  • 22. Freight and materials trucking business and terminals;

  • 23. Earth removal and paving contractor's business and storage yards;

  • 24. Laundry, cleaning, and dyeing plants;

  • 25. Plants for the processing and distribution of milk and edible dairy products; plants for the packaging and distribution of beverages;

  • 26. Commercial storage and sale of fuel and bottled gas;

  • 27. Painting and woodworking shops;

  • 28. Sheet metal, blacksmith, welding; tire recapping; machine shops and the like;

  • 29. Bulk storage of cement and petroleum products; concrete mixing plants; bituminous paving mixing plants;

  • 30. Commercial transmitting and receiving antennas, with enclosures for associated equipment;

  • 31. A building for the inside storage of motor vehicles, wherein only light maintenance of the vehicles stored is allowed;

  • 32. Commercial parking lots;

  • 33. Taverns;

  • 34. Theaters;

  • 35. Vacation guest facilities;

  • 36. Municipal and public service corporation buildings and facilities; community water supply reservoirs; community well houses; water towers, water and sewage treatment facilities, water and sewage pumping stations;

  • 37. Accessory uses with respect to the foregoing.

• B. The following uses require a special use permit from the zoning board of review:

  • 1. Schools, colleges and universities including fraternity or sorority houses or dormitories for faculty or students;

  • 2. Libraries;

  • 3. Museums;

  • 4. Cemeteries;

  • 5. Religious, philanthropic, scientific, literary, historical, fraternal, and charitable institutions;

  • 6. Agricultural and horticultural societies;

  • 7. Fast-food restaurants;

  • 8. Drive-in restaurants in a shopping center;

  • 9. Convention or conference centers;

  • 10. Gasoline filling stations (with minor repairing);

  • 11. Shopping centers;

  • 12. Arcades;

  • 13. Federal and state buildings, excluding correctional institutions and hospitals for the mentally ill;

  • 14. Commercial scale energy system.

  • 15. Public utilities — Private electrical services.

(Ord. 2000-4 (part), 2000: Ord. 65-94 (part), 1994: prior code § 1260.06.132)

(Ord. No. 2012-019, § 7, 12-12-2012; Ord. No. 2013-016, § 2, 10-9-2013; Ord. No. 2014-019, § 2, 8-27-2014; Ord. No. 2021-05, § 1, 1-13-2021; Ord. No. 2022-04, § 1, 1-12-2022)