(A) Purpose. The B-1 Highway Business District is designed and intended to promote the development of uses which require large concentrations of automobile traffic. The district is also designed to accommodate those commercial activities, which require larger amounts of land and which may be incompatible with the predominantly retail uses permitted in other business districts.
(B) Permitted uses. The following uses shall be permitted within the B-1 Highway Business District:
(1) Agriculture and agri-related uses;
(2) Armories, convention halls and exhibition halls;
(3) Automobile, truck and farm implement dealers, new and used vehicle lots, boat and boat trailer lots;
(4) Automobile service stations;
(5) Bowling alleys;
(6) Bus stations;
(7) Dance halls;
(8) Dairy stores;
(9) Dry cleaning establishments;
(10) Feed and fertilizer sales;
(11) Grocery, fruit, vegetable and meat stores;
(12) Greenhouses, nurseries and garden stores;
(13) Laundromats;
(14) Laboratories, medical and dental;
(15) Lumber yards and building materials;
(16) Marine and boat sales and servicing establishments;
(17) Miniature golf courses;
(18) Motels, hotels and camping facilities;
(19) Municipal service and utility buildings to include water treatment plants, transformers and relay stations, fire stations, highway department vehicle and equipment garages and storage;
(20) Newspaper distribution agencies;
(21) Pets and animal hospitals;
(22) Public utility structures;
(23) Restaurants;
(24) Skating rinks;
(25) Taverns;
(26) Theaters, drive-ins;
(27) Single-family residences when attached to and associated with a highway business; and
(28) Cartage and express facilities.
(C) Conditional uses. The following uses shall be conditional uses within the B-1 Highway Business District: any commercial use of the same general character as those listed as “permitted use” in this chapter.
(D) Accessory uses. The following uses shall be accessory uses within the B-1 Highway Business District:
(1) Accessory uses customarily incidental to the uses permitted in divisions (B) and (C) above; and
(E) Height regulations. No building shall be erected or structurally altered to exceed two and one-half stories or 35 feet in height.
(F) Front yard regulations.
(1) There shall be a front yard setback of not less than 65 feet from the centerline of all state and county highways and all other public rights-of-way.
(2) Where a lot is located at the intersection of two or more roads or highways, there shall be a front yard setback on each road or highway side of each corner lot. No accessory buildings shall project beyond the yard setback line of either road.
(G) Side yard regulations.
(1) There shall be a side yard having a width of not less than 15 feet on each side of a building.
(2) No building shall be located within 30 feet of any side lot line abutting a lot located in a residential district.
(H) Rear yard regulations.
(1) There shall be a rear yard having a depth of not less than 15 feet.
(2) No building shall be located within 30 feet of any rear lot line abutting a lot located in a residential district.
(I) Lot area regulations. Every lot or plot of land shall contain an area of not less than 10,000 square feet.
(J) Lot width regulations. Every lot or plot of land shall have a width of not less than 100 feet abutting a public right-of-way.
(K) Lot coverage regulations. Buildings shall occupy not more than 50% of the lot or plot of land.
(2001 Code, § 11.08)