(A) Purpose. The GB 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 may be incompatible with the uses permitted in the CBD District and whose service is not confined to any one neighborhood or community.
(B) Special requirements.
(1) All business, servicing or processing shall be conducted within completely enclosed buildings, with the following exceptions: establish- ments of the “drive-in” type display of merchandise for sale to the public, and off-street parking and loading.
(2) The unenclosed parking of trucks as an accessory use, when used in the conduct of a permitted business listed hereafter in this section, shall be discouraged.
(C) Permitted uses. The following are permitted uses:
(1) Ambulance service;
(2) Appliance store, sales and storage;
(3) Auction rooms;
(4) Auto, glass, muffler and upholstery shop;
(5) Auto parts and accessory sales, including outdoor display of auto accessories; provided that, the outdoor display or storage is separated from abutting development by ornamental fencing or screen planting;
(6) Auto sales;
(7) Auto storage; new or used;
(8) Auto repair garage;
(9) Bank;
(10) Beauty or barber shop;
(11) Bicycle store;
(12) Blueprinting, photostatting and lithographing;
(13) Boat sales and repair, not including dismantling or wrecking;
(14) Bowling alley and billiard parlor;
(15) Bus, railway or airline depot or ticket office;
(16) Catalog service and mail order house;
(17) Club or lodge;
(18) Dairy products store;
(19) Dance hall;
(20) Diaper service;
(21) Discount store;
(22) Drugstore;
(23) Dry cleaning;
(24) Electric contractor;
(25) Exterminator;
(26) Floral sales;
(27) Food locker plant: a food locker plant renting only individual lockers for home customer storage of food, including sale of retail, delivery of individual home orders and the cutting and packaging of meats or game, but not including slaughtering or eviscerating thereof;
(28) Fruit store;
(29) Garden supplies and landscape nursery;
(30) Grocery store;
(31) Gunsmith;
(32) Hall, renting for meetings, conventions or social gatherings;
(33) Hardware store;
(34) Health equipment and supply store;
(35) Health club or gym;
(36) Hotel, motel or tourist home;
(37) Ice plant;
(38) Janitorial service;
(39) Laboratory, scientific and testing;
(40) Laundromat;
(41) Linen supply;
(42) Liquor store (off-sale);
(43) Locksmith;
(44) Medical facilities including clinics, appliances, sales and fittings;
(45) Mortuary;
(46) Motorcycle store;
(47) Newsstand;
(48) Paint and wallpaper store;
(49) Painting and decorating contractor;
(50) Parking and/or commercial storage of vehicles; need not be enclosed;
(51) Pawn shop;
(52) Pet store;
(53) Photographic studio, picture processing or equipment;
(54) Planned unit developments or shopping centers;
(55) Plumbing contractor;
(56) Printing, publishing and allied industries;
(57) Radio and television broadcasting (including transmitter and studios);
(58) Sign contractor;
(59) Second hand store;
(60) Tailor;
(61) Taxidermist;
(62) Theatrical studio;
(63) Tire recapping and supply store;
(64) Upholstery shop of any type;
(65) Variety store;
(66) Veterinarian, including observation kennels for household pets; provided, however, all such kennels are contained within completely enclosed structures;
(67) Rental store, not including outdoor storage;
(68) Lumberyard;
(69) Auto wash;
(70) Auto detailing; and
(71) All permitted uses in the CBD.
(D) Conditional uses. The following uses may be permitted:
(1) Any drive-in type establishment;
(2) Any use other than those enumerated as permitted uses intended to provide amusement on the payment of a fee;
(3) Auto laundries;
(4) Auto service stations;
(5) Community or convention centers;
(6) Landing or take-off area for rotorcraft, not including maintenance, repair, fueling or hanger facilities;
(7) Marine sales and service;
(8) Public or quasi-public development;
(9) Restaurants, cocktail lounges and other eating and drinking establishments;
(10) Shipping and storage or merchandise solely intended to be retailed by the established principal permitted use;
(11) Sports arena or stadium; and
(12) Other commercial and residential uses determined by the Planning Agency to be of the same general character as the permitted uses above and/or found not to be detrimental to the general public health and welfare.
(E) Accessory uses. Accessory uses incidental to and on the same zoning lot as the principal use are allowed.
(F) Minimum lot size. All structures shall be located on a zoning lot having a minimum area of 6,000 square feet and a minimum street frontage of 50 feet.
(G) Front, side and rear yard requirements.
(1) Front yard: except as otherwise hereinafter provided, all uses allowed in the GB Districts (permitted or conditional uses) shall provide a front yard of 15 feet which shall be devoted exclusively to landscaping, except for necessary access drives;
(2) Side yard: none; and
(3) Rear yard: none.
(H) Transitional yard requirements. In the GB District, the minimum transitional yard requirements shall not be less than those specified below.
(1) Where a side lot coincides with a side or rear lot line in an adjacent residence district, a yard shall be provided along such side lot line. The yard shall be equal in dimension to the minimum side yard which would be required under this chapter for a residential use on the adjacent residential lot.
(2) Where a rear lot line coincides with a side lot line in an adjacent residence district, a yard shall be provided along such rear lot line. The yard shall be equal in dimension to the minimum side yard which would be required under this chapter for a residential use on the adjacent residential lot.
(3) Where a rear lot line coincides with a rear lot line in an adjacent residence district, a yard shall be provided along such rear lot line. The yard shall be not less than that which would be required for a residential use on the adjacent residential lot.
(4) Where the extension of a front or side lot line coincides with a front lot line of an adjacent lot located in a residential district, a yard equal in depth to the minimum yard required by the chapter on the adjacent residential lot shall be provided along the front or side lot lines.
(I) Maximum ground coverage. The sum total of the ground area covered by all structures (permitted or conditional uses) shall not exceed 75% of the zoning lot on which the structures are located.
(J) Signs. Marquees and canopies may project to within not more than two feet of the curb of the street; provided, the base of any such marquee or canopy is at least eight feet above the grade of the sidewalk.
(K) Off-street parking.
(1) There shall be provided by the developer/owner off-street parking spaces as described on a parking plan submitted in accordance with the parking requirements and approved by the city for all uses as hereinafter specified.
(2) Off-street parking spaces are to be provided on gravel or surface lots or separated from abutting residential development in a matter required by the Planning Commission. Conditions imposed by the Planning Commission could include, but may not be limited to, ornamental fencing, screen planting, landscaping or other natural vegetative screening.
(3) All off-street parking spaces for all uses shall be located on the same zoning lot as the use for which such parking is required or within 300 feet walking distance thereof.
(Prior Code, § 155.29) (Ord. 560, passed 6-6-1978; Ord. 613, passed 3-6-2002; Ord. 618, passed 5-6-2003; Ord. 630, passed 12-7-2004)