(A) Purpose. The B-1 Highway Business District is designed and intended to promote the development of uses which require large concentrations of automobile traffic. The district is also designed to accommodate those commercial activities which require larger amounts of land and which may be incompatible with the predominantly retail uses permitted in other business districts.
(B) Permitted uses. The following uses shall be permitted within the B-1 Highway Business District:
(1) Agriculture and agri-related uses;
(2) Automobile, motorcycle, truck and farm implement/equipment dealers, new and used vehicle lots, boat, trailer, and manufactured home display lots and structures;
(3) Automobile service stations (gas stations) including convenience stores selling gas, groceries, food, and the like and repair shops including body shops;
(4) Bowling alleys;
(5) Car washes;
(6) Clinics;
(7) Community or convention centers;
(8) Dance halls;
(9) Dry cleaning establishments;
(10) Drive-in retail stores and service uses;
(11) Livestock feed sales;
(12) Frozen food lockers;
(13) Grocery, fruit, vegetable, and meat stores;
(14) Greenhouses, nurseries, and garden stores;
(15) Ice vending station;
(16) Laundromats;
(17) Laboratories, medical and dental;
(18) Lumber yards and building materials;
(19) Marine and boat sales and servicing establishments;
(20) Miniature golf courses;
(21) Mortuaries and funeral homes;
(22) Motels, hotels, and camping facilities;
(23) Municipal service and utility buildings to include water treatment plants, transformers and relay stations, fire stations, highway department vehicle and equipment garages and storage;
(24) Outdoor advertising devices as regulated under sign regulations;
(25) Professional and business offices;
(26) Restaurants and cafes, including drive-in type restaurants;
(27) Sign contractor;
(28) Skating rinks;
(29) Taverns;
(30) Veterinarians, including observations kennels for households pets, provided, however, all the kennels are contained within completely enclosed structures;
(31) Warehousing;
(32) Wholesaling;
(33) Cartage and express facilities; and
(34) Adult uses, accessory.
(C) Conditional uses. The following uses shall be conditional uses within the B-1 Highway Business District:
(1) Blacksmith shop;
(2) Bulk fuel sales and storage facilities (but not including facilities associated with the collection, storage, or processing of waste, used, or recyclable petroleum products);
(3) Fertilizer and chemical sales and storage;
(4) Grain elevators; and
(5) Other business activities of the same general character as listed in division (B) above.
(D) Accessory uses. The following uses shall be accessory uses permitted within the B-1 Highway Business District:
(1) Accessory uses customarily incidental to the uses permitted in divisions (B) and (C) above; and
(2) Off-street parking and loading as regulated in § 150.12.
(E) Height regulations. No building shall hereafter be erected or structurally altered to exceed 45 feet in height.
(F) Front yard regulations.
(1) There shall be a front yard setback of not less than 65 feet from the centerline of all state and county highways and all other public rights-of-way.
(2) Where a lot is located at the intersection of 2 or more roads or highways, there shall be a front yard setback on each road or highway side of each corner lot. No accessory buildings shall project beyond the front yard setback line of either road.
(G) Side yard regulations. There shall be a side yard having a width of not less than 15 feet on each side of a building, except that no building shall be located within 50 feet of any side lot line abutting a lot located in a residential district and the side yard shall contain a solid fence or vegetative screening.
(H) Rear yard regulations. There shall be a rear yard having a depth of not less than 15 feet, except no building shall be located within 50 feet of any rear lot line abutting a lot in a residential district and shall contain a solid fence or vegetative screening. The minimum rear yard may not be used for off-street parking or loading space when abutting any residential district.
(I) Lot width. Every lot or tract shall have a width of not less than 100 feet abutting a public right-of-way.
(J) Lot area regulations. Every lot or plot of land shall contain an area of not less than 10,000 square feet.
(K) Lot coverage regulations. Not more than 50% of the lot or plot of land shall be occupied by buildings.
(L) General regulations. Additional requirements applicable to the B-1 Highway Business District are set forth in § 150.11.
(Ord. 106, passed 3-13-1995; Am. Ord. passed 5-6-2002) Penalty, see § 150.99