The purpose of the Neighborhood Business District is to allow for the continuance of and encourage the establishment of relatively small areas for businesses that minimally impact surrounding residences, and which tend to meet the daily needs of the residents in an immediate neighborhood or as characterized by low volume daily customers. Such districts shall be strategically located with access to a collector street. The primary intent of this district is to insure compatibility with adjoining residential neighborhoods, while satisfying some of their daily commercial and service business needs.
(A) Permitted Primary Uses
(1) Beauty shops, barber shops.
(2) Gift shops and antique shops.
(3) Establishments for the retail sale of food products, such as supermarkets, no greater than 3,000 square feet in building area, and provided that no drive through facilities are provided.
(4) Schools for academic instruction and associated facilities.
(5) Community Centers.
(6) Nursing and rest homes.
(7) Restaurants, no greater than 3,000 square feet in building area and no drive-in or drive-through service facilities are provided.
(8) Bed and breakfast establishments.
(9) Banks, credit agencies, security and commodity brokers and exchanges, savings and loan companies, and holding and investment companies.
(10) Day care facilities.
(11) Professional offices.
(12) Personal services.
(B) Permitted accessory uses.
(1) Parking areas.
(2) One (1) dwelling unit for owners, operators or employees of a permitted use provided that such dwelling unit shall be a part of the building and shall have a separate entrance.
(C) Permitted conditional uses. The following uses are permitted only with Board of Adjustment approval after consideration of the intent and purpose of these regulations and the comprehensive plan: short-term rentals.
(D) B-1 Yard Area Minimum Requirements:
(1) Lot area is 7,500 square feet.
(2) Lot width is 80 feet.
(3) Front yard setback is 20 feet.
(4) Rear yard setback is 25 feet.
(5) Side yard setback is ten (10) feet on both sides of each lot.
(6) On a corner lot or a lot fronting on two (2) streets, the required front yard setback shall be required on the side yard facing the street.
(E) B-1 - maximum requirements.
(1) Lot coverage is 40 percent (40%).
(2) Building height is two (2) stories or thirty-four (34) feet.
(F) Private sewage systems. Where private sewage systems or on-site septic treatment facilities are used, if the minimum lot area required by the health department is greater than the minimum listed within the chapter, then the health department required lot size shall be the required size.
(Ord, 99-6, passed 7-19-99; Am. Ord. 2018-05, passed 4-2-18; Am. Ord. 2021-20, passed 12-20-21)