26886 Cook Rd, Olmsted Twp, OH 44138

Retail Business District

Business and Industrial Districts (R-B, L-I and L-OI) and their regulations are established in order to achieve, among others, the following purposes: (a) To provide in appropriate and convenient locations, sufficient areas for business activities, the exchange of goods and services.; (b) To protect residential neighborhoods adjacent to business and industrial uses by restricting the types of establishments, particularly at the common boundaries, which would create congestion, noise or other objectionable influences.; (c) To protect and stabilize both residential and nonresidential developments from congestion by requiring off-street parking facilities.; (d) To provide Retail Business Districts (R-B) for certain retail and personal service establishments in areas adjacent to residential neighborhoods and to ensure that these areas are developed in a manner appropriate for locations abutting residential areas.; (e) To provide Light Industrial Districts (L-I) for establishments that utilize processes in which dust, smoke, fumes, glare, odors or other objectionable influences can be controlled, and which normally generate only limited outdoor activities in association with a principal activity that is conducted primarily indoors.; (f) To provide Limited Office/Industrial Districts (L-OI) for limited office and light industrial activities in locations that are adequately served by major streets and other facilities. This district is established to encourage the grouping of large-scale offices and limited industrial establishments that have a clean and non-intrusive character and which normally generate only limited outdoor activities.; (g) To promote the most desirable and beneficial use of the land in conformity with the Comprehensive Plan, officially adopted by the Township Trustees.