(A) Purpose. This district is designed and intended as a specialized district directed to serve the pedestrians in a compact central area for the city. The B-1 District will provide for a high density shopping and business environment, especially stressing the pedestrian function and interaction of people and businesses.
(B) Minimum requirements.
Requirement | Conditions | Dimension |
Requirement | Conditions | Dimension |
Building, area | No minimum | |
Building height, minimum | 3 stories or 35 ft., whichever is the lesser | |
Lot area | No minimum | |
Lot width | No minimum | |
Front yard | No minimum | |
Rear yard | Most cases | No minimum |
Abutting a residential zoned lot | 30 ft. | |
Side yar | Most cases | No minimum |
Abutting a residential zoned lot | 10 ft. | |
(C) Special requirements.
(1) Every use shall be conducted within a completely enclosed structure, except as indicated or allowed by conditional use.
(2) Marquees and canopies may project to within not more than two feet of the curb of the street, provided the base of any marquee or canopy is at least eight feet above the grade of the sidewalk.
(3) Heating, ventilation, air conditioning units (HVAC), whether roof-mounted or wall-mounted, shall be located not less than eight feet above existing grade, and shall not project more than 24 inches beyond the vertical outside wall of the structure upon which they are mounted that is adjacent to a right-of-way. Said units shall match the exterior color of the building. Each HVAC shall be equipped with a catchment basin to contain condensation, moisture, drippings or other residue of any kind, which shall drain by conduit to a disposal location within the building.
(D) Permitted principal uses.
(1) Antique store;
(2) Apparel and accessory store;
(3) Appliance store, sales, and service;
(4) Art supply store;
(5) Art gallery;
(6) Artist studio or school;
(7) Auto parts and accessory sales;
(8) Bakery retail;
(9) Bank, including drive-through;
(10) Barber shop;
(11) Bars and taverns;
(12) Beauty shop;
(13) Blueprinting and photostating;
(14) Bicycle sales and repairs;
(15) Book store;
(16) Brew Pubs;
(17) Business machines store;
(18) Café;
(19) Camera and photographic supply store;
(20) Candy, ice cream, and confectionary store, in which all manufacturing is permitted only as an accessory use and is limited to 15% of the gross floor area of this use;
(21) Catalog and mail order house;
(22) Caterer;
(23) Clinic, dental or medical, but not animal clinic or animal hospital;
(24) Clothing store;
(25) Dance studio;
(26) Delicatessen store;
(27) Department store;
(28) Dressmaking, seamstress;
(29) Drugstore;
(30) Fabric store;
(31) Fire hall;
(32) Floral sales;
(33) Food locker plant;
(34) Furniture store and home furnishings;
(35) Garden supplies store; need not be enclosed, provided all unenclosed portions of the use are located on the rear one-half of the zoning lot;
(36) Gift, novelty, or souvenir store;
(37) Grocery store;
(38) Hardware store;
(39) Health equipment store;
(40) Hotel;
(41) Interior decorator;
(42) Jewelry store;
(43) Laboratory, dental or medical;
(44) Liquor store (off-sale);
(45) Locksmith;
(46) Luggage store;
(47) Masage therapy not regulated by the Adult Use Ordinanace;
(48) Meat market and processing, including slaughtering. Allowed on one acre or more;
(49) Motel;
(50) Motorcycle shop;
(51) Mortuary;
(52) Music store, accessories, and studio;
(53) Newsstand;
(54) Office of any type;
(55) Optician;
(56) Optical goods;
(57) Paint and wallpaper store;
(58) Photographic studio or picture processing;
(59) Public buildings, city hall, library, museum;
(60) Radio and television broadcasting, excluding transmitter;
(61) Restaurants;
(62) Savings and loan association, state or federally chartered, including drive- through facilities;
(63) Secondhand shops;
(64) School (private);
(65) Shoe repair shop;
(66) Sporting goods store;
(67) Tailor;
(68) Telephone exchange;
(69) Theater, not including drive-in theater;
(70) Theatrical studio;
(71) Ticket agency;
(72) Toy store;
(73) Travel bureau or agency; and
(74) Variety store.
(E) Permitted accessory uses.
(1) Commercial or business structures for use accessory to principal use;
(2) Off-street parking and loading spaces;
(4) Fencing and screening as permitted by this chapter.
(F) Uses requiring a conditional uses permit.
(1) Residential units in conjunction with the principal structure;
(2) Multiple family dwellings;
(3) Gas stations, service stations;
(4) Supply yards;
(5) Wholesale businesses;
(6) Drive-through establishments not specifically permitted as principal use;
(7) Churches;
(8) Lumber yards;
(9) Veterinary clinics;
(10) Any use requiring outdoor storage or sales space;
(11) Public garage;
(12) The unenclosed parking of trucks as an accessory use, when used in the conduct of a permitted business;
(13) Commercial uses determined by the City Council to be of the same general character as identified permitted and conditional uses and found not to be detrimental to the general public health and welfare. Uses grandfathered in when this chapter was adopted may reasonably expand by changing or adding products if approved by the City Council; and
(14) Planned unit developments and condominiums.
(G) Minimum standards for exterior architecture.
(1) Purpose. The purpose of this division is to establish minimum standards for exterior architecture of commercial, residential, office and industrial buildings, to ensure high quality of development, redevelopment and compatibility with evolving architectural or planning themes that contribute to a community image of quality, visual aesthetics, permanence and stability that are in the best interest of the citizens of the city.
(a) These standards are intended to prevent use of materials that are unsightly, rapidly deteriorate, contribute to depreciation of area property values, or cause urban blight.
(b) These structural standards are further intended to ensure coordinated design of building exteriors, additions and accessory structure exteriors, in order to prevent visual disharmony; minimize adverse impacts on adjacent properties from buildings that are or may become unsightly, and buildings that detract from the character and appearance of the area.
(c) It is not the intent of this division to unduly restrict design freedom, when reviewing and approving project architecture in relationship to the proposed land use, site characteristics, and interior building layout.
(2) Applicability. The design standards in this division shall apply to the following:
(a) All facades of new principle buildings.
(b) All facades of new accessory buildings.
(c) Remodeling of existing buildings that result in "refacing" more than one side of the existing building, or refacing the wall oriented toward the nearest public road.
(d) Additions to buildings that increase the gross floor area by more than 15% for commercial or retail buildings. Additions not exceeding these thresholds may be constructed using exterior materials that match or are compatible with the existing building materials and colors.
(e) All subsequent additions and alterations constructed after the erection of an original building or buildings shall be of the same materials as those used in the original building, and shall be designed in a manner conforming to the original architectural concept and general appearance. These provisions shall not prevent the city from requiring upgrading of the quality of materials used in a remodeling or expansion program.
(3) Building design and construction standards.
(a) Required materials. In the B-1 zoned district, on all the walls that face a public street, at least 50% of the entire exterior wall surface shall be constructed on one of the following materials:
1. Face brick;
2. Rock face block;
3. Cementitious siding;
4. Natural stone or stone veneers;
5. Glass;
6. Masonry stucco;
7. Synthetic stucco;
8. Exterior Insulation and Finish Systems (EIFS);
9. Concrete block.
(b) Prohibited materials. Under no circumstances shall sheet plywood, sheet metal, corrugated metal, galvanized metal, unfinished metal, asbestos, iron, or plain concrete block (whether painted or color-integrated or not) be deemed acceptable as exterior wall materials on buildings.
(Ord. 134/94, passed 3-24-94; Am. Ord. passed 9-15-94; Am. Ord. 375, passed 6-12-08; Am. Ord. 390, passed 6-10-10; Am. Ord. 402, passed 6-13-13; Am. Ord. 453, passed 7-18-19; Am. Ord. 511, passed 6-20-23)