(A) All permitted uses shall be as listed in the official Schedule of Uses in § 156.170 of this chapter.
(B) The following additional restrictions shall be applicable in the GB District:
(1) Gasoline service station, tire and auto service center shall be limited to indoor service bays only; provided, however, that, the service station and center functions, services, operation and sales shall not include the following:
(a) Outdoor operations other than the dispensing of gasoline, oil, antifreeze and other similar products and the performing of minor services for customers;
(b) The sale, rental, display or storage of new or used motor vehicles, trailers, tractors, machinery or other similar equipment; or merchandise not related to the minor servicing of motor vehicles or for the immediate convenience of customers;
(c) Commercial parking of motor vehicles;
(d) Major exterior displays of merchandise; or any exterior displays which restrict traffic visibility in any way or which impede the movement of vehicles on the service or center driveways or public rights-of-way, or located in or in any way conflicting or interfering with pedestrian walks, off-street parking areas or required landscaped yards. Any exterior display shall be maintained in an orderly manner;
(e) Major servicing or motor or body repair such as, but not limited to, body, fender work, motor overhaul, major transmission repair, auto glass work, tire recapping;
(f) Dismantling or wrecking of motor or other vehicles, or the storage of inoperable, damaged or wrecked vehicles; and
(g) A driveway so located and constructed that it permits traffic movement completely around or behind the service station or service center structure (except where necessary to provide adequate access to the off-street parking area, building, storage tanks, trash containers and the like, or to adjacent commercial property, or in the case of a station or service center structure designed to provide service on all sides).
(2) Automobile sales, new or used, service and repair, are a permitted use; provided:
(a) Any major repair and service is conducted within enclosed buildings;
(b) Auto storage is incidental to the primary function;
(c) Not more than 50% of the developed area of the premises is used for outdoor display, storage and/or sales;
(d) Outdoor storage shall be screened by a solid decorative fence or wall not less than six feet in height, and to a distance from the front lot line not less than the front building line of the primary structure;
(e) Outdoor display of automobiles shall be located not less then 20 feet from the front lot line; provided, a 20-foot wide strip of the required front yard, paralleling and measured from the front lot line, and extending the full length thereof (except for walks, access cuts and driveways) shall be landscaped in grass and shrubbery, trees and/or hedge; and
(f) Any lighting used to illuminate an outdoor display area or an outdoor area where any service or activity is conducted shall comply with the following requirements.
1. When parking areas are illuminated, the lighting equipment shall provide good visibility with a minimum of direct glare.
2. In applying exterior floodlighting, equipment shall be of those types or distribution that are appropriate to lighting within the property line. The lighting equipment shall be so located, shielded and directed that the lighting distribution is confined to the area to be lighted.
3. Objectionable spill light onto adjacent properties or streets shall be avoided to prevent direct glare or disability glare.
(3) Further, it shall be prohibited to:
(a) Light an area by the use of stringers or unshielded incandescent lamps in which the entire lamp envelope is designed to function as a light emitter; and
(b) Make use of attention attracting lighting from apparatus of a type used by emergency vehicles.
(4) Rental of cars, trucks and trailers shall be permitted subject to the provisions of this section.
(2004 Code, § 6-402) (Ord. 2056, passed 8-7-2007)