(a) Principal Permitted Uses. Any use permitted and as regulated in the B-2 District, plus those hereinafter specified in this section:
(1) Laundries, clothes cleaning or dyeing establishments, using nonflammable solvents; used merchandise stores; garden supply stores.
(Ord. 1990-20. Passed 11-26-90.)
(2) Any wholesale business, storage and warehousing; commercial greenhouses, but excluding industrial greenhouses except in the Planned Industrial Development Project Overlay Zone.
(Ord. 2019-9. Passed 7-23-19.)
(3) Drive-in eating and drinking places, summer gardens and roadhouses, provided the principal building is distant not less than fifty feet from any R District.
(4) Bowling lanes, but not within 100 feet of any R District; drive-in theaters, provided the screen shall be located so as not to be visible from adjacent streets or highways and such screen shall be set back not less than 200 feet from the established right of way of any such street or highway.
(5) Automotive and marine service establishments for automobiles, trucks, trailers, farm implements and pleasure boats, for sale, display, hire or repair, including sales lots, used car lots, trailer lots, commercial moorages and boat rental establishments, uncovered and covered moorage for commercial boats; major automotive repair garages, body and fender shops, paint shops, but not within fifty feet of any R District; automatic car wash establishments 100 feet from any R District.
(6) Animal hospitals, kennels, housing or boarding of pets and other domestic animals, provided that any enclosures or buildings in which animals are kept are at least 100 feet from any R District and at least fifty feet from any B-1 District.
(7) Commercial recreation, including baseball fields, swimming pools, roller skating rinks, golf driving ranges, miniature golf courses or trampoline centers, provided such establishments are distant at least 100 feet from any R District.
(8) Electrical, plumbing, heating shops, furniture upholstering and similar enterprises, not including contractors' yards, but not within fifty feet of any R District.
(9) Publishing, lithographing, blue printing, etc., but not within 100 feet of any R District.
(10) Bottling of soft drinks and milk or distribution stations, providing a building used for such processing and distribution is at least 100 feet from any R District.
(11) Sheet metal shops, sign painting shops, but not within 100 feet of any R District.
(12) Building materials, including concrete mixing; contractors' equipment storage yard or plant and rental of equipment commonly used by contractors; trucking or motor freight stations or terminals; retail lumber yards, including incidental millwork; storage and sale of grain, livestock feed or fuel; carting, express or hauling establishments, including storage of vehicles; provided such uses are conducted either:
A. Wholly within a completely enclosed building or buildings, except for storage of vehicles, which building shall be distant at least 100 feet from any R District, unless such building has no opening other than stationary windows and required fire exits within such distance, but not within fifty feet of any R District in any case; or
B. When conducted within an area completely enclosed on all sides with acceptable screening, maintained in good condition, not less than six feet high, but not within 100 feet of any R District; provided further that all storage yards related to the uses in this subsection shall be enclosed.
(13) Display signs, billboards and other outdoor advertising signs and structures subject to the provisions of Section 1126.03 and such other applicable provisions of the Planning and Zoning Code.
(14) Any use permitted and as regulated in the residence district adjoining the B-3 District; and if there are adjoining two or more different categories of residence districts, the regulations of the least restrictive residence district shall prevail.
(Ord. 1990-20. Passed 11-26-90.)
(b) Conditionally Permitted Uses. The following uses provided any building occupied by such use shall be no less than 100 feet from any R District and as authorized by the Board of Building and Zoning Appeals, subject to such further conditions and requirements, as in the opinion of the Board are necessary to protect adjacent property and prevent conditions which may become noxious or offensive:
(1) Blacksmith, welding or other metalworking shop, machine shop, excluding punch presses over twenty tons rated capacity, drop hammers and other noise-producing machine operated tools.
(2) Planned development projects, subject to the provisions of Section 1126.05.
(3) Adult cabarets and adult oriented businesses in accordance with Section 1126.14. In addition, the following regulations shall apply:
A. The structure housing such use shall be situated on a parcel of land having an area of at least one acre and shall be the only use on such parcel.
B. The parcel of land described in subsection (b)(3)A. hereof shall be located a minimum of 500 feet from the boundaries of any parcel of real estate having situated on it a dwelling unit or units, church, school, playground or park.
(Ord. 1998-39. Passed 12-7-98.)
(c) Accessory Uses. Accessory uses and structures as permitted and as regulated in the R-3 District as related only to permitted residential developments, if any, in this district, plus those uses and structures as permitted and regulated in the B-2 District, plus any other accessory uses and structures customarily accessory and incidental to any of the foregoing permitted B-3 uses, and not otherwise prohibited.
(d) Required Conditions.
(1) Processes and equipment employed and goods processed or sold shall be limited to those which are not objectionable by reason of odor, dust, smoke, cinders, gas, fumes, noise, vibration, refuse matter or water-carried waste, and must comply with the performance standards in Section 1126.06.
(2) All businesses, services or processing shall be conducted wholly within a completely enclosed building, except for the sale of automobile fuel, lubricants and fluids at service stations, establishments of the drive-in type, loading and unloading operations, parking, the outdoor display or storage of vehicles, materials and equipment and the uses specified in connection with contractors' yards and related establishments above.
(3) No building customarily used for night operation, such as a wholesale bakery or milk bottling and distribution station, shall have any opening, other than stationary windows or required fire exits, within 100 feet of any R District, and any space used for loading or unloading commercial vehicles in connection with such an operation shall not be within 100 feet of any R District.
(e) Height Regulations. No principal or accessory structures shall exceed three stories or forty feet in height, except as provided in Section 1137.02
and subject further to review and authorization by the Board. (Ord. 1990-20. Passed 11-26-90.)
(f) Lot Area, Frontage and Yard Requirements.
Commercial uses: Minimum frontage of thirty feet; otherwise, none except for the provision of loading and unloading.
(Ord. 1998-39. Passed 12-7-98.)
Residential uses: Same as the lot area, frontage and yard requirements for the least restrictive adjoining residence district.
(Ord. 1990-20. Passed 11-26-90.)