A. General Purpose: The zoning regulations for this zoning district shall recognize the historic significance, spatial layout, and yard and parking limitations of the original Central Business District and immediately surrounding adjacent areas in the Village of Hampshire. (1985 Code)
B. Permitted Uses: In a B-1 Business District, the following permitted uses shall be allowed:
Art galleries, museums and other semipublic, indoor exhibition uses; but not including auction rooms.
Automobile service stations.
Building-mounted and building-integrated Solar Energy Systems, as defined in and subject to the restrictions set forth in chapter 5, article XVIII of this Code.
Catering establishments.
Dwelling units or lodging rooms may be permitted above the ground floor (i.e., on the 2nd or higher floor) on any parcel on which is located a permitted or allowed special use.
Said dwelling unit shall be on the second floor of the building, or higher floor.
Yards shall be provided in accordance with the requirements for the B-1 Central Business District.
Dwelling units or lodging rooms shall not otherwise be permitted.
Establishments for educational services, including trade schools, dancing, music and singing schools, and daycare centers.
Establishments for machinery and appliance repair.
Establishments for personal services, including hairstyling, clothes cleaning, and shoe repair.
Facilities for indoor entertainment and recreation, including theater, bowling alley, pool hall, rollerskating rinks, and private clubs, including game rooms or amusement centers.
Frozen food shops, including locker rental in conjunction therewith.
Meat markets, including markets for the sale of meat and meat products to restaurants, hotels, clubs and other similar establishments when conducted as part of the retail business on the premises.
Microbreweries (for retail sales only, no wholesale sales).
Nursery schools.
Offices for commercial services, including advertising, radio, TV, newspapers, interior decorating, and printing.
Offices for professional use, including doctor, attorney, insurance, financial establishments and real estate, but expressly excluding massage therapy establishments.
Parks and playgrounds which are publicly owned and operated.
Public garages.
Restaurants and taverns, including brew pubs.
Stores for retail sales of household goods, garden supplies, sporting goods, and personal products, including food, drugs, alcoholic beverages, clothing, furniture, appliances, hardware, gifts, specialty and hobby items and books; and of office supplies.
Accessory uses to the above permitted uses.
C. Special Uses: In the B-1 Central Business District, the following special uses shall be allowed:
Firearm and gun stores.
Massage therapy establishments.
Messenger services.
Planned developments on a tract of land not more than five (5) acres, nor less than two and one-half (21/2) acres in the area.
Public utility and public service uses, including fire stations, police stations, electric substations, telephone exchanges, and transit and transportation facilities.
Senior citizen housing and retirement homes.
Wind energy systems, as defined in and subject to the restrictions set forth in chapter 5, article XVII of this Code.
D. Requirements: In a B-1 Business District, the following requirements shall apply:
1. Floor area ratio shall not exceed 1.0.
2. Front yards shall not be required, unless any adjacent lot has a front yard established, in which case the front yard shall be not less than the average depth of the front yards of such adjacent lots.
3. Side yards shall not be required, unless any adjacent lot has a side yard established, in which case the side yard shall be not less than the average depth of the side yards of such adjacent lots.
4. Rear yard shall be not less than twenty feet (20') in depth.
5. Building height shall be not more than forty feet (40') or three (3) levels, not including a basement, whichever is less.
E. Off Street Parking: In a B-1 Central Business District, off street parking shall be governed by the following regulations:
1. For any use in said district except residential uses, one parking space shall be required for each two hundred (200) square feet of floor area, subject to the following exemptions:
a. For each use, there shall be an exemption for the first ten (10) parking spaces otherwise required under this section.
b. For retail stores and facilities providing personal and commercial services, the first two thousand five hundred (2,500) square feet of floor area on the first floor, and the first three thousand five hundred (3,500) square feet of floor area on any other floor of an existing building, shall be excluded from the floor area of such use in calculating the parking requirement under this section.
c. For business and professional offices, the first one thousand five hundred (1,500) square feet of floor area on the first floor, and the first three thousand (3,000) square feet of floor area on any other floor of an existing building, shall be excluded from the floor area of such use in calculating the parking requirement under this section.
d. For any establishment providing for the sale and consumption on the premises of food and refreshment, the first two thousand (2,000) square feet of floor area on the first floor, and the first two thousand five hundred (2,500) square feet of floor area on any other floor of an existing building, shall be excluded from the floor area of such use in calculating the parking requirement under this section.
e. For educational services, the first two thousand (2,000) square feet of floor area on the first floor, and the first two thousand five hundred (2,500) square feet of floor area on any other floor of an existing building, shall be excluded from the floor area of such use in calculating the parking requirement under this section.
2. For any residential use, one and one-half (11/2) parking spaces shall be required per single-family unit, and shall be provided on the property.
3. Upon the construction or erection of any new building, or a substantial alteration, remodeling, or addition to an existing building, or any change in the permitted use of an existing building, or any change in an existing off street parking space, there shall be provided such off street parking space as is required by the regulations set forth in this section.
4. All uses shall provide parking in accordance with the terms of this chapter; however, in the event any use cannot provide the required parking spaces on site, or (except for residential uses) within three hundred feet (300') from said use, the owners of such use shall contribute two thousand dollars ($2,000.00) for each required parking space not provided, to a special fund created by the Village for the purpose of maintaining and improving existing public parking, and of acquiring and constructing new parking facilities, in the B-1 Central Business District. (1985 Code; amd. Ord. 10-24, 10-21-2010; Ord. 11-21, 9-1-2011; Ord. 14-22, 5-1-2014; Ord. 18-38, 11-1-2018; Ord. 20-20, 6-4-2020; Ord. 23-09, 9-7-2023)