14601 Snow Rd Brook Park, OH 44142-2462

U-3A Business District and regulations are established herein in order to achieve, among others, the following purposes: (1) To provide appropriate regulations for business and service uses along certain parts of major arterial streets; (2) To minimize the interference to the flow of traffic along major arterial streets from abutting development by requiring off-street parking and regulating access driveways, and (3) To protect adjacent residential properties by restricting the type of business use and the yards and buffer features along common boundaries. (b) Regulations. Buildings and land shall be used and buildings shall be designed, erected, altered, moved or maintained only for the uses specifically set forth as permitted in a U-3A District and not for uses enumerated in a prior or subsequent use classification of the Zoning Ordinance unless such uses are expressly permitted. (1) The main buildings or main uses as set forth and permitted shall be the only buildings and uses permitted therein by right. The accessory buildings or uses as set forth shall be permitted therein by right as a subordinate building or use, provided such use is planned and developed integrally therewith and clearly incident thereto and located on the same zoning lot as the main building or use. (2) A building designed and occupied as a residence cannot be occupied in whole or in part by another use unless the building is redesigned to express the new function and reconstructed so that it will fully accommodate the proposed use, and a lot occupied by a dwelling shall not be occupied by any other main use permitted herein or an accessory use other than accessory to the dwelling. (3) Existing dwellings within a U-3A Business District shall be construed as a legal nonconforming use and may be continued, extended, altered, enlarged, relocated, moved and maintained subject to all lot area, building area, coverage and yard regulations of the nearest adjoining residential district. (c) Permitted Uses. Buildings and land shall be used, and buildings shall be designed, erected, altered, moved or maintained in whole or in part in U-3A Business Districts only for the uses set forth in the following schedule and regulations: (1) Main buildings and uses permitted. A. Offices: professional, financial, governmental, public utility, executive and administrative; sales offices, provided only samples are displayed or stored on the lot, and no goods shall be distributed. B. Mortuaries. C. Motels, restaurants and assembly halls. D. Retail stores and services. 1. Retail sales in buildings. a.