(a) Purpose. This district has been established to accommodate those commercial, financial, personal, professional, public, and semipublic activities which benefit from the central location and relatively more intensive use of the land area.
(b) Principally Permitted Uses. The following list exemplifies the uses that are principally permitted in the B-3 District. Information regarding required zoning certificates can be found in Chapter 1107 et seq.
(1) Automobile sales.
(2) Automotive repair garages.
(3) Banks and financial institutions.
(4) Boarding houses and rooming houses.
(5) Business, wholesale.
(6) Clinics.
(7) Clubs and lodges
(8) Commercial, business, or technical schools.
(9) Commercial entertainment facilities.
(10) Drive-through commercial uses.
(11) Educational institutions.
(12) General businesses.
(13) Hotels and motels.
(14) Laundromats.
(15) Multiple-family structures and condominiums, provided that any structure also containing nonresidential uses provide a separate passageway from the building entrance and parking areas to dwelling units subject to the requirements of R-3 District for minimum residential floor areas and off-street parking.
(16) Parking facilities, public garages, and commercial storage.
(17) Printing and publishing activities.
(18) Professional activities, personal services, and business services.
(19) Public, semipublic, and institutional uses.
(20) Restaurants.
(21) Restricted recreational facilities.
(22) Social activities.
(23) Warehouses.
(24) Worship Centers.
(c) Conditionally Permitted Uses. The following list exemplifies the uses that are conditionally permitted in the B-3 District. Information regarding conditional use permit can be found in Chapter 1107 et seq.
(1) Mortuaries.
(2) Service stations subject to Section 1125.09(b)(2).
(d) Lot Requirements.
(1) Minimum lot area to be determined by lot, building, yard, and other requirements.
(2) Minimum lot width, none.
(e) Yard Requirements.
(1) Minimum front yard, none; however, no door shall be constructed to obstruct pedestrian traffic or project beyond the property line when opened.
(2) Minimum side yard, none required except for side yards adjoining residential districts which shall require ten feet.
(3) Minimum rear yard, 15 feet.
(f) Building Requirements.
(1) Maximum height none.
(2) Minimum floor area ratio for the building in which the activity is housed, 3.0.
(g) Other Requirements.
(1) Parking, governed by Chapter 1131.
(2) Performance standards, governed by Chapter 1135 and OBBC.
(3) Signs, governed by Chapter 1133.
(4) Fencing, governed by Section 1125.04.
(5) Swimming pools, governed by Section 1125.05 et seq.
(6) Canopy structures, governed by Section 1125.09(b)(3).