(A) Specifications. Commercial uses primarily of a retail or service nature.
(B) Interpretation. The following named uses shall be deemed to include those uses or buildings in general keeping with and appropriate to the uses hereinafter specified.
(C) Location permitted. The following classifications of business uses specifically stated or implied are permitted in the “LB,” “GB,” “LI,” and “HI” Districts.
(1) Automobile service:
(a) Filling station;
(b) Commercial garage;
(c) Commercial parking lot;
(d) Sales room; and
(e) Automobile repair, entirely within enclosed buildings.
(2) Business service:
(a) Bank;
(b) Office;
(c) Postal station; and
(d) Telegraph office.
(3) Clothing service:
(a) Laundry agency using cleaning fluids which are non-explosive and non-flammable;
(b) Self-service laundry;
(c) Laundry and dry cleaning establishment using not more than two clothes cleaning units, neither of which shall have a rated capacity of more than 40 pounds;
(d) Dressmaking;
(e) Millinery;
(f) Tailor and pressing shop; and
(g) Shoe repair shop.
(4) Equipment service:
(a) Radio shop;
(b) Electric appliance shop;
(c) Record shop;
(d) Locksmith shop; and
(e) Upholstery shop.
(5) Food service:
(a) Grocery;
(b) Meat market;
(c) Supermarket;
(d) Restaurant;
(e) Delicatessen;
(f) Cold storage lockers, for individual use;
(g) Roadside sales stands; and
(h) Catering establishments.
(6) Personal service:
(a) Barbershop;
(b) Beauty shop;
(c) Reducing salon; and
(d) Photographic studio.
(7) Retail service, retail stores generally:
(a) Drugstore;
(b) Hardware;
(c) Stationer;
(d) Newsdealer;
(e) Show room, for articles;
(f) Commercial greenhouse not exceeding 1,000 square feet in area;
(g) Apparel shop;
(h) Flower shop;
(i) Painting and decorating shop;
(j) Printing shop;
(k) Department stores; and
(l) Furniture stores.
(8) Commercial recreational uses (conducted only within buildings so constructed that no noise of any kind produced therein shall be audible beyond the confines of the building):
(a) Theater;
(b) Bowling alley;
(c) Billiard room; and
(d) Dancing academy.
(9) Hotel.
(10) Private club or lodge.
(11) Advertising sign or billboard.
(12) Veterinary hospitals (excluding kennels).
Height of Building District | Normal Maximum Height |
“GB” and “HI” | 60 feet or five stories |
“LB” and “LI” | 45 feet or four stories |
(D) Front yard. Fifteen feet.
(E) Side yard.
(1) Along the side street line of a corner lot in an “LB” District, where the block is adjoined by a residential block, the minimum dimension shall be five feet.
(2) Where an “LB” District adjoins an “S,” “A,” or “B” District within the block, there shall be a side yard of at least five feet.
(3) In blocks included entirely in “LB,” “GB,” “LI,” or “HI” Districts, no side yards are required. However, if a side yard is provided, the minimum dimension shall be five feet.
(F) Rear yard. Ten percent of the depth of the lot with a minimum depth of 15 feet, and need not exceed 25 feet in depth.
(G) Lot coverage. Ninety percent, but this shall not waive provisions of yards where required.
(Prior Code, § 8.5.1)