The following uses shall be permitted only when specifically authorized by the Board of Zoning Appeals in accordance with the provisions of Chapter 1125
provided such uses are located on premises abutting a major thoroughfare as shown on the official Thoroughfare Plan of the City.
(a) Drive-In Establishments. Drive-in eating and drinking places, summer gardens, road houses, including entertainment and dancing, sale and consumption of alcoholic beverages, provided the principal building in which such activities are housed is distant not less than 200 feet from any R District.
(b) Entertainment. Drive-in theaters distant at least 200 feet from any public right of way and at least 300 feet from any R District, and provided the screen shall be so located as not to be visible from an adjacent street.
(c) Automotive Services; Farm Implements. Automobile, truck, trailer, farm implement for sale, display, hire or repair, including sales lots, used car lots, repair garages' body and fender shops and paint shops, provided buildings in which such activities are housed shall be distant at least 200 feet from any R District and provided further that used car lots and outdoor displays shall be distant at least fifty feet from any R District.
(d) Animal Hospitals, Etc. Veterinary clinics, animal hospitals, kennels and catteries, display, housing or boarding of pets and other domestic animals, zoological gardens, provided that enclosures or buildings in which the animals are kept shall be distant at least 200 feet from any R District.
(e) Commercial Recreation. Any type of commercial recreation, including baseball fields, swimming pools, skating rinks, golf driving ranges and similar open-air facilities, provided such establishments shall be distant at least 200 feet from any R District.
(f) Contractor’s Yards, Storage Yards and Similar Establishments. Building material yards, not including concrete mixing; contractor’s equipment storage yard or plant and rental of equipment commonly used by contractors’ trucking or motor freight stations or terminals; retail lumber yards, including incidental mill work; storage and sale of grain, livestock feed or fuel; carting, express or hauling establishments, including storage of vehicles, provided such uses are conducted either:
(1) Wholly within completely enclosed buildings, except for storage of vehicles, which shall be distant at least 100 feet from any R District, unless such building has no openings other than stationary windows and required fire exits, within such distance, but not within fifty feet of any R District in any case; or
(2) When conducted within an area completely enclosed on all sides with a solid wall or uniformly painted solid board fence not less than six feet high, but not within 200 feet of any R District.
All storage yard related to the uses in this section shall be so enclosed.
(g) Other Uses. Any other use which is determined by the Board to be of the same general character as the above uses, but not including any use which is first permitted or which is not permitted in the B-2 District.