(A) Purpose. The B-1, Limited Business District, is intended to provide a district which is related to and may reasonably adjoin high density or other residential districts for the location and development of administrative office buildings and related office uses which are subject to more restrictive controls. The office uses allowed in this district are those in which there is limited contact with the public and no manufacture, exterior display or selling of merchandise to the general public.
(B) Permitted uses. Within a B-1, Limited Business District, no building or land shall be used, except for one or more of the following uses:
(1) Multiple dwellings, apartment buildings, townhouses, group or row houses and high-rise apartment buildings;
(2) Boarding and lodging houses, convalescent and nursing homes;
(3) Hospitals;
(4) Institutions of a religious, educational, eleemosynary or philanthropic nature;
(5) Private club and lodges, except those the chief activity of which is a service customarily carried on as a business;
(6) Medical offices and clinics; and
(7) Offices for administrative, executive professional, research or similar organization, and laboratories having only limited contact with the general public; provided that, no merchandise or merchandising services are sold on the premises, except such as are incidental or accessory to the principal permissible use.
(C) Uses by conditional use permit. Within a B-1, Limited Business District, no building or land shall be used for one or more of the following uses, except by conditional use permit:
(1) Automobile sales, used car lots, car washing establishments, service stations and repair shops subject to the following.
(a) The outside display and storage area shall be surfaced with a dust-free material, and the arrangement of entrances, exits and parking stalls shall be subject to the approval of the City Engineer. Off-street parking and loading areas shall be surfaced as required by §§ 154.190 through 154.204 of this chapter.
(b) The lighting, whether direct or reflected, such as from floodlights or spotlights, and as differentiated from general illumination, shall not be directed into any adjacent property.
(2) Banks and savings and loan institutions;
(3) Hotels;
(4) Mortuaries;
(5) Music studios;
(6) Photographic studios;
(7) Interior decorating studios;
(8) Laundries and dry cleaning establishments in which only non-explosive and non-flammable solvents are used;
(9) Day nurseries provided that not less than 50 square feet of outside play space per pupil be provided and when completely enclosed within a chain link or approved equal fence at least five feet in height;
(10) Other business activities of the same general character as listed in division (B) above; and
(11) Elderly tenant multiple housing project.
(D) Permitted accessory uses. Within a B-1, Limited Business District, the following uses shall be permitted accessory uses:
(1) Accessory uses customarily incident to the uses permitted in divisions (B) and (C) above;
(E) Height, yard and lot coverage regulations.
(1) Height. No building shall hereafter be erected or structurally altered to exceed four stories or 45 feet in height; provided further that, any building exceeding three stories in height shall set back from all yard line required in this section an additional distance of one foot for every one foot that the building exceeds the height of 30 feet.
(2) Front yard regulations.
(a) There shall be a front yard having a depth of not less than 20 feet.
(b) There shall be a front yard having a depth of at least 35 feet on a lot or plot that abuts a thoroughfare, as shown on the adopted city thoroughfare plan.
(c) Where a lot is located at the intersection of two or more streets, there shall be a front yard on each street side of each corner lot. No accessory buildings shall project into the front yard bordering either street.
(d) Except that, any B-1, Limited Business District, which is located adjacent to or adjoining any B-2 or B-3, Business District, in which a front yard of less than 20 feet is allowed, the front yard of that district may be used.
(3) Side yard regulations.
(a) There shall be a side yard, on each side of a building, having a width of not less than ten feet.
(b) Except that, no building shall be located within 15 feet of any side lot line abutting a lot in any R-A, R-1, R-2, R-3, R-4 or R-5 Districts.
(c) Except that, any B-1, Limited Business District, which is located adjoining any B-2 or B-3, Business District, in which a side yard of less than ten feet is allowed, the side yard of that district may be used.
(4) Rear yard regulations.
(a) There shall be a rear yard having a depth of not less than 20 feet.
(b) Except that, any B-1, Limited Business District, which is located adjoining any B-2 or B-3, Business District, in which a rear yard of less than 20 feet is allowed, the rear yard of that district may be used.
(5) Lot coverage regulations.
(a) Not more than 50% of a lot or plot shall be occupied by buildings.
(b) Except that any B-1, Limited Business District, which is located adjoining any B-2 or B-3, Business District, in which a lot coverage greater than 50% is allowed, the lot coverage of that district may be used.
(2002 Code, § 7.20) (Ord. 324, effective 11-20-1965; Ord. 6, Third Series, effective 7-1-1970; Ord. 181, Third Series, effective 1-15-1989; Ord. 24, Eighth Series, effective 4-10-2022)