(a) Purpose and Scope. It is the purpose of the B-2 District to provide for commercial opportunities to accommodate primarily automobile oriented establishments where located along thoroughfares, arterials and highways.
(b) Principal Permitted Uses.
(1) Residential.
A. Single, two-family, multi-family dwellings and rooming houses.
B. Planned unit developments.
(2) Institutional.
A. Civic, fraternal clubs, and lodges.
B. Churches.
C. Educational institutions, day care and nurseries.
D. Hospitals.
E. Libraries, museums, art galleries.
F. Public buildings.
G. Nursing homes and senior citizen centers.
(Ord. 0-290. Passed 6-26-84.)
H. Residential care communities pursuant to West Virginia State Code, Chapter 16, Article 15N.
(Ord. 0-1064. Passed 2-11-03.)
(3) Public utility services and substations. Other than those in the public right of way, including buildings.
(Ord. 0-290. Passed 6-26-84.)
(4) Commercial.
A. Automotive services, major and minor repair excluding junk yards and towing services.
(Ord. 0-892. Passed 8-25-98.)
B. Business, professional and medical offices.
C. Financial services, banks, savings and loan companies and similar institutions. (Ord. 0-290. Passed 6-26-84.)
D. Personal and business services. All personal and business services are permitted, including but not limited to, barbershops, beauty parlors, dry cleaning and laundry, pick-up stations, or self-service establishments, equipment rental, repair shops, tailoring and dressmaking, eating and drinking establishments (restaurants - drive-ins not excluded), and taverns, in conformity with West Virginia Code Chapters 11 and 60, entertainment establishments, communication services, and business services (establishments providing services to other businesses).
(Ord. 0-774. Passed 6-13-95.)
E. Recreation, including baseball fields, swimming pools, skating rinks, golf driving ranges and bowling alleys, etc.
F. Retail sales. All general retail activities are permitted, including, but not limited to, single use sites, shopping centers and plazas.
G. Transient lodging, hotels, motels, rooming houses, etc.
H. Other business uses determined by the Zoning Administrator to be of the same general character as these principal permitted uses.
I. Parking lots.
(c) Principal Conditional Uses. When authorized by the Board of Zoning Appeals in accordance with Section 1329.05(b).
(1) Wholesale establishments.
(2) Warehousing.
(3) Other business uses determined by the Board of Zoning Appeals to be of the same general character as the permitted uses listed in subsection (b) hereof.
(d) Accessory Permitted Uses. Any accessory use customarily incidental to a principal permitted use, including the following:
(1) Signs, including off-premise signs.
(2) Off-street parking and loading facilities. (See Article 1363)
(e) Requirements. The following requirements shall be observed, except as modified hereinbefore in accordance with the provisions of Article 1361.
(1) Maximum height. None.
(2) Minimum business lot area. None.
Minimum residential lot area. 5,000 square feet.
(Ord. 0-988. Passed 5-22-01.)
(3) Minimum residential density. None. (Ord. 0-290. Passed 6-26-84.)
(4) Minimum setbacks.
A. Minimum front yard: twenty feet.
Minimum front yard for gasoline service station canopy: ten feet.
B. Minimum side yards:
1. Residential:
Stories | Least Width (Feet) | Sum of Least Width (Feet) |
1 | 5 | 12 |
2 and over | 6 | 14 |
2. Nonresidential occupancy:
Stories | Least Width (feet) | Sum of Least Width (feet) |
1 & 2 | 5 | 10 |
3 | 8 | 16 |
over 3 | 10 | 20 |
3. Side yard corner lot: A side yard along side street line of a corner lot shall have a width of not less than one-half the depth of the required minimum front yard.
4. Front and side yard increase for length of building: The front yard shall be increased above the minimum by one foot for each ten feet by which the length of the building wall abutting such front yard exceeds sixty feet. The side yard shall be increased above the minimum by one foot for each ten feet by which the length of the building wall abutting such side yard exceeds sixty feet.
(Ord. 0-988. Passed 5-22-01.)
5. Gasoline service station canopy. Corner lot side yard: ten feet.
C. Minimum rear yard:
l. Residential:
a. Under three stories: twenty-five feet.
b. Three stories and over: thirty feet plus an additional five feet per story or fraction thereof.
2. Nonresidential occupancy: Under two stories: ten feet. Two stories or more: twenty feet plus an additional five feet per story or fraction thereof.
(Ord. 0-546. Passed 9-27-88.)
(f) Performance Standards.
(1) Nonobjectionable uses. No processes and equipment shall be employed or goods sold which are objectionable by reason of odor, dust, smoke, cinders, gas, fumes, noise, vibration, radiation, refuse matter or water- carried waste, as defined by City, State and Federal laws.
(2) Outside storage. In any automobile service station involved in major or minor repairs to automobiles or similar establishments involved in major or minor repair work, there shall be no storage of wrecked or dismantled vehicles, parts or accessories outside of the principal building or adjoining visually screened areas. Any such visually screened areas must meet the setback requirements of the B-2 District regulations.
(Ord. 0-290. Passed 6-26-84.)