(A) Permitted Uses. The intent of this district is to encourage commercial areas for commercial sales and service, wholesale business, and businesses that deal with equipment, machinery, or products that require large truck traffic or noise. The B-3 districts should be located on or next to a major thoroughfare, highway, or interstate.
(1) The following principle uses and structures shall be permitted in Heavy Commercial District.
(a) All uses permitted in a B-2 District, except residential.
(b) Retail sales of lumber and other building materials, farm equipment, motor vehicles, boat sales, aircraft, mobile homes, trailers, and garden supplies, fuel, and ice.
(c) Wholesale or discount sales of motor vehicles and automobile equipment; drugs and allied products'; dry goods and apparel; groceries and related products; electrical goods; hardware, plumbing, heating equipment, and supplies; machinery equipment, and supplies, beer, wine, and distilled alcoholic beverages; paper and paper products; furniture and home furnishings, lumber and construction materials.
(d) Farm products warehousing and storage, excluding stockyards.
(e) Refrigerated warehousing.
(f) Food lockers, provided any slaughtering, killing, eviscerating, skinning, or plucking be done indoors.
(g) Household goods' warehousing and storage.
(h) General warehousing and storage (excluding liquid and flammable material - see industrial uses).
(i) Automobile repair and services.
(j) Contract construction services.
(k) Bus garaging and equipment maintenance.
(l) Motor freight terminals.
(m) Motor freight garaging and equipment maintenance.
(n) Long-term parking for autos and trucks.
(o) Amphitheater, stadiums, drive-in movies, arenas and field house, race tracks, fairgrounds, parks, amusement parks, golf driving ranges, go-cart tracks, golf courses, and country clubs, riding stables, playfields and athletic fields.
(p) Communication and utility use.
(q) Public transient transportation.
(r) Greenhouses.
(s) Auction Barns (excluding livestock exchanges)
(B) Permitted Special Exceptions. The Board of Zoning Appeals as a permanent or temporary use may grant the following special exceptions.
(2) Other trade and service uses which are similar to the permitted principal uses and which conform to the intent of this district.
(3) Accessory uses and structures are permitted in the Heavy Commercial District.
(4) All other uses and structures that are not specifically allowed or not permissible as special exceptions shad be prohibited from the Heavy Commercial District.
(Ord. 1999-15, passed 12-6-99; Am. Ord. 2022-10, passed 5-10-22)