(A) Purpose. The B-3, General Business District, is designed to accommodate the central retail and office activities which are of city-wide and/or regional significance with a wide variety of retail shopping opportunities. The retail and office uses which are allowed in this district are those which are basically retail in nature, in order that a convenient, compact regional shopping area can be provided.
(B) Permitted uses. Within a B-3, General Business District, no building or land shall be used, except for one or more of the following uses:
(1) Any use permitted in th- B 1, Limited Business District; except that, multiple dwellings and apartments must be located on the second floor or above;
(2) Animal or pet shops;
(3) Antique or gift shops;
(4) Apparel shops;
(5) Appliance shops;
(6) Art and school supply stores;
(7) Artists’ and body art;
(8) Bakery or pastry shops;
(9) Banks, savings institutions;
(10) Barber or beauty shops;
(11) Beverage stores;
(12) Bicycle sales and repair shops;
(14) Billiard or pool halls;
(15) Book and stationery stores;
(16) Bowling alleys;
(17) Bus stations;
(18) Business, commercial or trade schools;
(19) Camera or photographic supply stores;
(20) Candy, ice cream, soft drinks or confectionery stores, excluding drive-in type of service;
(21) Carpet and rug stores;
(22) Clinics for people only;
(23) Clothing or ready-to-wear stores;
(24) Commercial radio or television broadcasting stations or transmitting stations;
(25) Dancing schools;
(26) Delicatessens;
(27) Department stores;
(28) Drug stores;
(29) Dry cleaning or laundry collection stations;
(30) Dry goods or notion stores;
(31) Electrical appliance stores;
(32) Employment agencies;
(33) Florists or gift shops;
(34) Frozen food lockers for individual or family use;
(35) Furniture stores;
(36) Grocery, fruit, vegetable or meat stores;
(37) Hardware stores;
(38) Heliports;
(39) Hobby stores;
(40) Jewelry stores;
(41) Launderettes or self-service laundries;
(42) Leather goods and luggage shops;
(43) Libraries;
(44) Loan and finance companies;
(45) Medical supply stores;
(46) Music studios and musical instrument stores;
(47) Newsstands;
(48) Offices, business or professional, including ticket sales;
(49) Optical laboratories;
(50) Paint, wallpaper stores;
(51) Pet shops;
(52) Photographers’ studios;
(53) Physical culture and health clubs, gyms;
(54) Pipe and tobacco shops;
(55) Plumbing, television or radio repair when operated as an accessory use to a retail sales establishment;
(56) Postal substations and post offices;
(57) Printing, lithographing, publishing, blueprinting and photostating;
(58) Record shops;
(59) Restaurants, tea rooms, cafés, taverns, excluding drive-in types of service;
(60) Sewing machine sales and service shops;
(61) Shoe stores or shoe repair shops;
(62) Sporting goods stores;
(63) Stationery stores;
(64) Tailor shops;
(65) Telephone exchange, offices and telephone booths (outside);
(66) Theaters, excluding drive-in type of services;
(67) Toy stores;
(68) Taxi stands;
(69) Upholstering, furniture repair shops;
(70) Variety stores, five and ten cent stores;
(71) Wearing apparel stores;
(72) Adult accessory use;
(73) Auto-parts, retail and gas filling/convenience store;
(74) Museums, community centers, art galleries and similar cultural facilities;
(75) Pawn shops;
(76) Retail establishments selling THC edibles and beverages.
(C) Uses by conditional use permit. Within a B-3, General Business District, no building or land shall be used for one or more of the following uses, except by conditional use permit:
(1) Any use permitted in § 154.036(C) of this subchapter, as regulated therein, except banks, music studios, photographic studios and savings and loan institutions;
(2) Ground floor multiple dwellings;
(3) Mobile camping equipment sales and rentals;
(4) Business activity listed in division (B) above and this division (C) when operated in or on a temporary structure of any type including trailers or other vehicles. A temporary structure in this case is defined as being in place for less than six months, but more than three days;
(5) Other business activity of the same general character as listed in division (B) above;
(6) Elderly tenant multiple housing project;
(7) Hemp processing or manufacturing.
(D) Permitted accessory uses. Within a B-3, General 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 regulations. No building shall hereafter be erected or structurally altered to exceed six stories or 75 feet in height.
(2) Yard regulations and lot coverage regulations. In the B 3, General Business District, there shall be no specific yard requirements, except as necessary to provide off-street parking and loading if required.
(2002 Code, § 7.22) (Ord. 324, effective 11-20-1965; Ord. 20, Third Series, effective 10-15-1979; Ord. 181, Third Series, effective 1-15-1989; Ord. 1, Fifth Series, passed 3-18-1996; Ord. 98, Seventh Series, passed 3-16-2020; Ord. 15, Eighth Series, effective 11-21-2021; Ord. 32, Eighth Series, effective 11-11-2022)