In the B-3 General Business District, no building or land shall be used and no building shall be erected except for one or more of the following specified uses, unless otherwise provided in this Zoning Code. These uses may be subject to additional standards as specified in Chapter 1293 Use Standards:
(a) Office buildings.
(b) Medical offices, including clinics only for human care.
(c) Banks, credit unions, savings and loan associations, loan companies, insurance offices, real estate offices and similar uses.
(d) Drive-in or drive-through facilities, when accessory or incidental to the above uses.
(e) Commercial television and radio towers accessory to uses permitted in this section.
(f) Funeral homes.
(g) Child care centers.
(h) Publicly-owned buildings, public utility buildings, telephone exchange buildings and repeater stations, electric transformer stations and substations, and gas regulator stations (without storage yards).
(i) Schools, operated for profit, for the training or instruction of non-academic subjects such as, but not limited to, dance, music, martial arts and similar artistic or athletic pursuits.
(j) Business or professional schools, operated for profit.
(k) Business schools or private schools operated for profit.
(l) Catering or banquet halls.
(m) Private or public athletic clubs, health spas or figure salons.
(n) Veterinary clinics and hospitals, including facilities for overnight keeping of animals.
(o) Restaurants or other similar places serving food or beverages, excluding catering and banquet halls and drive-in/drive-through fast-food restaurants.
(p) Dry cleaning establishments or pick-up stations dealing directly with the consumer.
(q) Florists and card and gift shops.
(r) Carry-out restaurants.
(s) Publicly-owned buildings, public utility buildings, telephone exchange buildings and repeater stations, electric transfer stations and substations, gas regulator stations with service yards, but without storage yards, and water and sewer pumping stations, when operation requirements necessitate the locating of said buildings within the District in order to serve the immediate vicinity. The Planning Commission and the Township Board may require walls and landscaping in order to screen such uses where they deem the same to be necessary.
(t) All retail businesses and service establishments.
(u) An open-air business.
(v) Automotive service center.
(w) Printing and publishing establishments.
(x) Body art studios.
(y) Business schools or private schools operated for profit.
(z) Catering or banquet halls.
(aa) Home modernization sales, residential garage sales and swimming pool sales, excluding manufacturing and processing facilities and outdoor storage.
(bb) Lawn and garden supply sales, including an accessory outdoor sales area, provided such outdoor sales area is completely fenced and obscured from public view.
(cc) Accessory or ancillary oil and gas well or use structures.
(dd) Hotels or motels.
(ee) Churches.
(ff) Billiard halls, coin and/or token-operated amusement arcades, nightclubs and skating rinks.
(gg) Auto wash rack or motor vehicle laundry.
(hh) New vehicle sales showrooms and service facilities.
(ii) Bus passenger stations.
(jj) Massage parlors, subject to the following: The use shall comply with Chapter 850 of these Codified Ordinances.
(kk) Other uses similar to the above.
(ll) Accessory uses customarily associated with an above permitted principal use.
(mm) Festivals. These shall meet the conditions set forth in Chapter 1293.
(nn) Intermodal transportation facility.
(oo) Internet sales establishments.
(Ord. 260-A-58. Passed 8-22-83; Ord. 260-A-80. Passed 11-13-84; Ord. 260-A-217. Passed 5-13-91; Ord. 260-A-221. Passed 1-20-92; Ord. 260-A-277. Passed 9-30-96; Ord. 260-A-314. Passed 8-10-98; Ord. 260-A-361. Passed 1-28-02; Ord. 260-A-399. Passed 10-4-04; Ord. 260-A-454. Passed 1-11-16; Ord. 260-A-483. Passed 6-15-20; Ord. Passed 10-30-23.)