Commercial uses include the sale, rental, service and distribution of goods and the provision of services other than those classified under other use types.
(A) Agricultural sales and service. Establishments or places of business engaged in sale from the premises of feed, grain, fertilizers, farm equipment, pesticides and similar goods or in the provision of agriculturally-related services with incidental storage on lots other than where the service is rendered. Typical uses include garden or tree nurseries, farm implement dealerships, feed and grain stores and tree service firms.
(B) Automotive and equipment services. Establishments or places of business primarily engaged in sale and/or service of automobiles, trucks or heavy equipment. The following are considered automotive and equipment use types:
(1) Automotive rental and sales. Sale or rental of automobiles, non-commercial trucks, motorcycles, motor homes, recreational vehicles or boats, including incidental storage, maintenance and servicing. Typical uses include new and used car dealerships, motorcycle dealerships and boat, trailer and recreational vehicle dealerships.
(2) Auto services. Provision of fuel, lubricants, parts and accessories, and incidental services to motor vehicles; and washing and cleaning and/or repair of automobiles, non-commercial trucks, motorcycles, motor homes, recreational vehicles or boats, including the sale, installation and servicing of equipment and parts. Typical uses include service stations, car washes, muffler shops, auto repair garages, tire sales and installation, wheel and brake shops, and similar repair and service activities, but exclude dismantling, salvage or body and fender repair services.
(3) Body repair. Repair, painting or refinishing of the body, fender or frame of automobiles, trucks, motorcycles, motor homes, recreational vehicles, boats, tractors, construction equipment, agricultural implements and similar vehicles or equipment. Typical uses include body and fender shops, painting shops and other similar repair or refinishing garages.
(4) Equipment rental and sales. Sale or rental of trucks, tractors, construction equipment, agricultural implements, mobile homes and similar heavy equipment, including incidental storage, maintenance and servicing. Typical uses include truck dealerships, construction equipment dealerships and mobile home sales establishments.
(5) Equipment repair services. Repair of trucks, tractors, construction equipment, agricultural implements and similar heavy equipment. Typical uses include truck repair garages, tractor and farm implement repair services and machine shops, but exclude dismantling, salvage or body and fender repair services.
(6) Vehicle storage. Long-term storage of operating or non-operating vehicles. Typical uses include storage of private parking towaways or impound yards but exclude dismantling or salvage.
(C) Bed and breakfast. A lodging service that provides overnight or short-term accommodations to guests or visitors, usually including provision of breakfast. Bed and breakfasts are usually located in large residential structures that have been adapted for this use. For the purpose of this definition, bed and breakfasts are always owned and operated by the resident owner or resident manager of the structure, include no more than eight units, and accommodate each guest or visitor for no more than seven consecutive days during any one month. (Exception: Short term rental of residential property in compliance with LB57 approved by the Governor on March 7, 2019.) (See Appendix B (“bed and breakfast”).)
(D) Business support services. Establishments or places of business primarily engaged in the sale, rental or repair of equipment, supplies and materials or the provision of services used by office, professional and service establishments to the firms themselves but excluding automotive, construction and farm equipment; or engaged in the provision of maintenance or custodial services to businesses. Typical uses include office equipment and supply firms, small business machine repair shops or hotel equipment and supply firms, janitorial services, photography studios and convenience printing and copying.
(E) Business or trade schools. A use providing education or training in business, commerce, language or other similar activity or occupational pursuit, and not otherwise defined as a home occupation, college or university or public or private educational facility.
(F) Campground. Facilities providing camping or parking areas and incidental services for recreational use for travelers in recreational vehicles or tents for 30 consecutive days or less. No permanent features, such as skirting, permanent hookup and the like are allowed.
(G) Cocktail lounge. A use engaged in the preparation and retail sale of alcoholic beverages for consumption on the premises, including taverns, bars, cocktail lounges and similar uses other than a restaurant.
(H) Commercial recreation. Private businesses or organizations, which may or may not be commercial in nature, primarily engaged in the provision of sports, entertainment or recreation for participants and/or spectators. Typical uses include sports and recreation facilities, driving ranges, theaters, private dance halls or private skating facilities.
(I) Communications services. Establishments primarily engaged in the provision of broadcasting and other services necessary to relay information, accomplished through the use of electronic and telephonic mechanisms, but excludes those classified as utilities. Typical uses include television studios, telecommunication service centers or film, broadcasting and sound recording facilities.
(J) Construction sales and service. Establishments or places of business primarily engaged in the retail or wholesale sale, from the premises, of materials or services used in the construction of buildings. This use type excludes those uses classified under automotive and equipment services. Typical uses include building materials sales, tool and equipment rental or sales and electrical, plumbing and mechanical contractors.
(K) Convenience storage. Storage services for goods within enclosed storage areas having individual access, but excluding use of such areas as workshops, hobby shops, manufacturing or commercial activity. Typical uses include mini-warehousing.
(L) Crematory. A building or portion of a building which contains a cremation chamber and holding facility pursuant to the Cremation of Human Remains Act, Neb. Rev. Stat. §§ 71-1355 to 71-1385 along with cremation services as authorized thereunder.
(M) Food sales. Establishments or places of business primarily engaged in the retail sale of food or household products. Typical uses include groceries, delicatessens, meat markets, retail bakeries and candy shops.
(1) Limited food sales. Establishments occupying facilities of 10,000 square feet or less; and characterized by sales of specialty foods or a limited variety of general items. Typical uses include convenience stores, delicatessens, meat markets, retail bakeries, candy shops and small grocery stores.
(2) General food sales. Establishments selling a wide variety of food commodities, using facilities larger than 10,000 square feet or food sales uses of any size that include the accessory sale of fuel for motor vehicles. Typical uses include supermarkets and convenience stores.
(N) Funeral services. Establishments engaged in undertaking services such as preparing the human dead for burial (excluding crematory services), arranging and managing funerals. Typical uses include funeral homes or mortuaries.
(O) Gaming facilities. Establishments engaged in the lawful, on-site operation of games of chance that involve the risk of money for financial gain by patrons. Gaming facilities may include the accessory sale of liquor and food, pursuant to licensing regulations of the city and the state.
(P) General retail services.
(1) Sale and rental. Sale or rental with incidental service of commonly-used goods and merchandise for personal or household use, but excludes those classified more specifically by these use type classifications.
(2) Typical uses. Typical uses include department stores, apparel stores, furniture stores or establishments providing the following products or services:
(a) Automated banking machines, appliance repair shops, watch or jewelry repair shops or musical instrument repair shops;
(b) Household cleaning and maintenance products; drugs, cards, stationery, notions, books, tobacco products, cosmetics and specialty items;
(c) Flowers, plants, hobby materials, toys, handcrafted items, apparel, jewelry, fabrics and like items;
(d) Cameras, photography services, household electronic equipment, records, sporting equipment, kitchen utensils, home furnishing and appliances, art supplies and framing, arts and antiques, paint and wallpaper, hardware, carpeting and floor covering;
(e) Interior decorating services;
(f) Office supplies;
(g) Mail order or catalog sales;
(h) Bicycles; and
(i) Automotive parts and accessories (excluding service and installation).
(Q) Kennels. Boarding and care services for dogs, cats and similar small mammals or small birds used as pets; or any premises on which four or more animals included under this definition over six months of age are kept and maintained. Typical uses include boarding kennels, pet motels or dog training centers.
(R) Laundry services. Establishments primarily engaged in the provision of laundering, cleaning or dyeing services other than those classified as personal services. Typical uses include bulk laundry, cleaning and linen supply services.
(S) Liquor sales. Establishments or places of business engaged in retail sale for off-premises consumption of alcoholic beverages. Typical uses include liquor stores, bottle shops or any licensed sales of liquor, beer or wine for off-site consumption.
(T) Lodging. Lodging services involving the provision of room and/or board. Typical uses include hotels and motels. Also includes other rental housing such as commercial air bed and breakfast, rental by owner and other similar uses.
(U) Personal improvement services. Establishments primarily engaged in the provision of informational, instructional, personal improvements and similar services of a non-professional nature. Typical uses include driving schools, health or physical fitness studios, reducing salons, dance studios, handicraft and hobby instruction.
(V) Personal services. Establishments or places of business primarily engaged in the provision of services of a personal nature. Typical uses include beauty and barber shops, seamstress, tailor, or shoe repair shops, photography studios, or dry-cleaning stations serving individuals and households, driving schools, health or physical fitness studios, reducing salons, dance studios, handicraft and hobby instruction.
(W) Pet services. Retail sales, incidental pet health services, and grooming and boarding, when confined within a building, of dogs, cats, birds, fish and similar small animals customarily used as household pets. Typical uses include pet stores, small animal clinics, dog bathing and clipping salons, and pet grooming shops, but exclude uses for livestock and large animals.
(X) Research services. Establishments primarily engaged in research of an industrial or scientific nature. Typical uses include electronics research laboratories, space research and development firms, testing laboratories or pharmaceutical research labs.
(Y) Restaurants. A use engaged in the preparation and retail sale of food and beverages, including the sale of alcoholic beverages when conducted as a secondary feature of the use, producing less than 50% of the establishment’s gross income.
(1) Restaurant (drive-in or fast food). An establishment which principally supplies food and beverages in disposable containers and is characterized by high automobile accessibility and on-site accommodations, self-service and short stays by customers.
(2) Restaurant (general). An establishment characterized by table service to customers and/or accommodation to walk-in clientele. Typical uses include cafes, coffee shops and restaurants.
(AA) Stables. Boarding, breeding or raising of horses, llamas or other hooved animals which are not owned by the occupants of the premises; or for the purpose of riding animals included in this definition by members of the public other than the occupants of the premises or their non-paying guests. Typical uses include boarding stables and public stables.
(BB) Surplus sales. Businesses engaged in the sale of used or new items, involving regular, periodic outdoor display of merchandise for sale. Typical uses include flea markets, factory outlets and discount businesses with outdoor display.
(CC) Vehicle storage. The use of a site for the medium- to long-term storage of vehicles which are either operable or may be made operable with reasonable repairs. Typical uses include auto storage lots, impound lots or repair yards. Private parking towaways or impound yards, but exclude dismantling or salvage.
(DD) Veterinary services. Veterinary services and hospitals for animals. Typical uses include pet clinics, pet cemeteries and crematories and veterinary hospitals for all animals.
(Ord. 23-09, passed 8-21-2023)