§ 154.124 B-2 GENERAL BUSINESS DISTRICT.

   (A)   Purpose. The B-2 General Business District is intended to serve the community by providing a district for high density retail sales, business and personal services, business and professional offices, and for specialized businesses dependent upon a high volume of pedestrian traffic.

   (B)   Permitted uses. The following uses shall be permitted within the B-2 General Business District:

      (1)   Antique stores;

      (2)   Apparel and accessory stores;

      (3)   Appliance stores, sales and service;

      (4)   Art supply stores;

      (5)   Art galleries;

      (6)   Artist studio or schools;

      (7)   Bakeries, retail;

      (8)   Banks, including drive-in banks;

      (9)   Bars, including lounges, nightclubs, on-sale liquor establishments;

      (10)   Barber and beauty shops;

      (11)   Billboards and signs (as regulated in §§ 154.210 through 154.214 of this chapter);

      (12)   Bookstores;

      (13)   Business machines stores;

      (14)   Camera and photographic supply stores;

      (15)   Candy, ice cream and confectionery stores;

      (16)   Clinics, dental or medical;

      (17)   Dairy stores;

      (18)   Delicatessen stores;

      (19)   Department stores;

      (20)   Dressmakers, seamstresses;

      (21)   Drugstores;

      (22)   Floral sales;

      (23)   Furniture stores and home furnishings;

      (24)   Garden supplies stores;

      (25)   Gas stations or garages;

      (26)   Gift stores, novelty or souvenir;

      (27)   Government or municipal buildings;

      (28)   Grocery stores;

      (29)   Hardware stores;

      (30)   Health equipment stores;

      (31)   Hobby shops;

      (32)   Interior decorators;

      (33)   Jewelry stores;

      (34)   Laboratories, dental or medical;

      (35)   Laundromats;

      (36)   Liquor stores (off-sale);

      (37)   Locksmiths;

      (38)   Luggage stores;

      (39)   Meat markets and frozen food lockers;

      (40)   Mortuaries;

      (41)   Motels, hotels or boarding houses;

      (42)   Music stores, hotels or boarding houses;

      (43)   Offices of any type;

      (44)   Opticians;

      (45)   Optical goods;

      (46)   Paint and wallpaper stores;

      (47)   Photographic studios or picture processing;

      (48)   Repair, rental and servicing of any article the sale of which is permitted in this district;

      (49)   Restaurants, cafés or taverns;

      (50)   Shoe repair shops;

      (51)   Sporting goods stores;

      (52)   Stationery stores;

      (53)   Tailors;

      (54)   Telephone exchanges;

      (55)   Theaters, not including drive-in theaters;

      (56)   Toy stores;

      (57)   Travel bureaus or agencies;

      (58)   Variety stores;

      (59)   Parking lots and garages other than those necessary to a principal use for the parking of automobiles only;

      (60)   Public utility service stores;

      (61)   Leather goods and luggage shops; and

      (62)   Libraries.

   (C)   Conditional uses. The following conditional uses may be allowed in the B-2 General Business District:

      (1)   Armories;

      (2)   Bowling alleys;

      (3)   Dance halls;

      (4)   Skating arenas;

      (5)   Bus terminals; and

      (6)   Any other business activities of the same general character as listed in division (B) above.

   (D)   Accessory uses. The following shall be accessory uses within the B-2 General Business District: accessory uses incidental to and located on the same lot as the uses permitted in divisions (B) and (C) above.

   (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. No front yard setback shall be required.

   (G)   Side yard regulations. No side yard shall be required, except where a building abuts upon a lot in a residential district, then a 15-foot yard setback shall be required.

   (H)   Rear yard regulations. No rear yard shall be required, except where a building abuts upon a lot in a residential district, then a 15-foot rear yard setback shall be required.

   (I)   Lot width. A minimum lot width of 30 feet shall be required.

   (J)   Lot depth. A lot depth of 50 feet shall be required.

   (K)   General regulations. Additional requirements applicable to the B-2 General Business District are set forth in §§ 154.140 through 154.167 of this chapter.

(2001 Code, § 11.09)