(a) No building in a General Business “A” or in a General Business “B” District shall be erected closer than thirty feet to any lot in a Residential District as enumerated in Section 1109.01. This distance of thirty feet shall be increased five feet for every twelve feet or fraction thereof the building exceeds twenty-five feet in height above finished grade.
(b) For every main or accessory building or use, the following yards shall be provided where not in conflict with subsection (a) hereof:
Building or Use | Front feet | Side feet | Rear feet |
(1) For every main or accessory
building in General Business “A” and General Business “B”
| 10 | 0 | 0 |
(2) For every main or accessory building in General Business “A” and General Business “B” adjacent to a Residential District as enumerated in Section 1109.01 | N/A | 10* | 10* |
(3) Accessory open off-street parking | 4 | 0 | 6 |
(4) Accessory open off-street adjacent to a residential district as enumerated in Section 1109.01 | N/A | 10* | 10* |
*Landscape buffering and/or landscape screening shall be provided as required by subsections (c) and (e) hereof.
(c) Front yards may be used for parking but not within four feet of the front property line. A curb or other barrier shall be erected on such four-foot line, the remaining yard shall be landscaped and attractively maintained. Any such parking shall be further subject to the regulations set forth in this chapter.
(d) Front yards shall not be used to display or sell merchandise and no structure shall be erected in a required front yard, except:
(1) Gasoline pumps constructed and operated as part of a service station or garage may be erected, but not less than fifteen feet from the front lot line;
(2) Signs as permitted by Chapter 1145;
(3) The sale of gasoline and oil and the display and sale of small automotive accessories as set forth in Section 1137.04(a)(2);
(4) Vending machines and newspaper dispensing devices subject to the provisions of Chapter 735 of the Codified Ordinances and provided that the location of such machines and devices is first approved by the Division of Building;
(5) Retail sales and services as regulated by Section 1137.03(b); and
(6) The sale of motor vehicles as regulated by Section 1137.04(a)(3).
All driveways, platforms and curbs of service stations shall be designed to service vehicles standing only within the premises.
(e) Where a yard is required under conditions set forth under subsections (a) and (b)(2) hereof, or when a yard is otherwise provided and adjoining a Residential District or any other Zoning District with an existing residence thereon, the Planning and Design Commission may require landscape buffering or landscape screening in accordance with Section 1137.16 and Section 1149.05 along a side or rear lot line provided that any wall or any fencing whether incorporated as part of a landscape buffer or whether used as a landscape screen along the side lot line of the front yard of an adjacent Residential District shall not be constructed, erected or installed closer than twenty feet from the right-of-way line. Except as otherwise specifically permitted or as specifically required by the provisions of this chapter, trees, shrubs, yard structures and other landscape features shall not be constructed, erected or installed closer than twenty feet from the right-of-way line.
(Ord. 98-41. Passed 10-5-98.)