Intent: The Community Business District (B-2) is intended for general business uses and other uses which are properly and necessarily located near residential areas and which cater to the everyday needs of surrounding residential neighborhoods.
1. Permitted uses:
a. Uses permitted by right:
(1) Bed and breakfast inns.
(2) Boarding or rooming houses for up to six (6) boarders.
(3) Churches.
(4) Civic, fraternal, cultural, community, or club facilities.
(5) Small-scale retail services (five thousand (5,000) square feet or less), excluding automobile, boat, camper, or any other retail service requiring outdoor storage of goods.
(6) Financial services.
(7) Government and other institutional uses.
(8) Offices.
(9) Professional services.
b. Uses permitted with conditions (See Article F):
(1) Cemeteries.
(2) Day care center.
(3) Essential Services 1 and 2.
(4) Neighborhood gasoline stations, excluding major service and repair of motor vehicles.
(5) Parking lot as a principal use.
(6) Parks.
(7) Temporary sales of seasonal agricultural products and customary accessory products (example: farmers’ markets, Christmas tree/pumpkin sales).
(8) Automotive repair, small-scale.
c. Uses permitted with a special use permit:
(1) Single-family homes.
(2) Multi-family homes.
(3) Elementary and secondary schools.
(4) Planned Unit Development - Business.
(5) Essential Services 3.
d. Permitted building and lot types (See Article E):
(1) Apartment building.
(2) Attached house.
(3) Civic building.
(4) Detached house.
(5) Mixed use up to fifteen thousand (15,000) square feet of first floor area.
(6) The mixed-use building duplicates the shopfront building type and has at least two (2) occupiable stories; at least fifty percent (50%) of the habitable area of the building shall be in residential use, the remainder shall be in commercial use.
(7) Shopfront up to fifteen thousand (15,000) square feet of first floor area.
(8) Workplace up to fifteen thousand (15,000) square feet of first floor area.
e. Permitted accessory structures and uses:
(1) Accessory dwellings.
(2) Day care home (small).
(3) Drive through windows, excluding those associated with restaurants.
(4) Home occupations.
(5) Stalls or merchandise stands for outdoor sale of goods at street front (encroachment onto sidewalk may be permitted by agreement with city); outdoor storage is expressly prohibited.
(6) Items for outdoor sales are returned to inside the building at the end of each business day; goods not brought in at the close of business each day are considered outdoor storage.
(7) Accessory uses permitted in all districts.
f. General requirements:
(1) Along existing streets, new buildings shall respect the general spacing of structures, building mass and scale, and street frontage relationships of existing buildings.
(2) New buildings, which exceed the scale and volume of existing buildings, may demonstrate compatibility by varying the massing of buildings to reduce perceived scale and volume. Building massing illustrates the application of design techniques to reduce the visual perception of size and integrate larger buildings with pre-existing smaller buildings.
(3) On new streets, allowable building and lot types will establish the development pattern.
(4) New construction should favor retail on first floor, office and/or residential on upper floors.
(5) Every building lot shall have frontage upon a public street or square.
2. Off-street parking and loading requirements. Off-street parking and loading requirements shall be provided for all uses as required by Article H of this chapter.
3. Sign requirements. See Article I of this chapter.
4. Dimensional requirements. See Article E (Lot and Building Types) and M (Watershed) of this chapter.
(Ord. of 12-7-04, No. 37-02; Ord. of 5-1-17, No. 5-17; Ord. of 6-21-21, No. 41-21)