(A) Restrictions for permitted uses - General Business (GB). All permitted GB uses are listed in the Official Schedule of Uses in Table A, § 152.035. The following restrictions shall be applicable to all permitted uses within the GB District:
(1) All uses and operations (except off-street loading, off-street parking, and drive-in customer service windows) shall be conducted within completely enclosed buildings.
(2) No merchandise shall be produced, stored or handled on the premises for purposes of delivery or for sale at retail, wholesale, or discount to the public or other businesses unless minor and incidental to the primary office function.
(3) Gasoline service station and tire and auto service centers, 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.
(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 are, building, storage tanks, trash containers, etc., or to adjacent commercial property, or in the case of a station or service center structure designed to provide service on all sides).
(4) Automobile sales new or used and 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) 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;
4. 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;
b. Make use of attention attracting lighting from apparatus of a type used by emergency vehicles.
(B) Property development regulations - GB.
(1) Use - GB.
(a) All uses and operations (except off-street loading and off-street parking) shall be conducted within completely enclosed buildings, except where otherwise permitted.
(b) No outdoor storage shall be permitted other than trash containers exceeding six cubic feet shall be located within a solid-walled stall behind or beside the primary structure.
(c) No vending machines shall be permitted on the exterior of any building on the premises except where contained in a shelter, stall, or other area so located as not to interfere materially with the use of adjacent properties.
(2) Required front yard, minimum front setback - GB. A front yard, having at least 35 feet width of frontage on a public street and having a minimum depth in accordance with the thoroughfare setback requirements of § 152.036 shall be provided along the street right-of-way line.
(3) Required corner side yard, double frontage lot minimum setback - GB. In any case where the side or rear lot line abuts a street right-of-way line, there shall be provided a side or rear yard in which the setback of any structure shall comply with the minimum front setback requirements of this section, unless subject to the established setback provisions of § 152.036.
(4) Required side yards, minimum side setback - GB. A side setback and landscaped side yard of not less than eight feet in depth shall be provided along each side lot line. If any portion of a side yard is used for a driveway or off-street parking area, there shall be provided and maintained along the entire length of such lot line, a three-foot landscaped strip, extending the full length thereof; provided, however, that where a dedicated alley separates a side yard form the adjacent property, the entire required side yard may be used for off-street parking and/or driveway.
(5) Required year yard, minimum rear setback - GB. A rear yard and setback of not less than ten feet in depth shall be provided along the rear lot line. The rear yard, whether abutting an adjacent property or separated therefrom by a dedicated alley, may be entirely used for off-street parking and/or driveway.
(6) Use of required yards. All required yards shall be landscaped in grass and shrubbery, trees and/or hedge, or in combination with other suitable ground cover materials, except:
(a) Required front yards may include:
1. Pedestrian walks, access cuts, driveways, flag poles and similar appurtenant uses;
2. Off-street parking, provided, however, a six 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 maintained as a landscaped portion of the front yard as required above;
(b) Required side and rear yards may include:
1. Pedestrian walks, access cuts, driveways, flag poles, and similar appurtenant uses;
2. Off-street parking, subject to the requirements of divisions (B)(4), (B)(5), (B)(6), and (B)(7) of this section;
(7) Height of buildings and structures - GB. The maximum height of buildings and structures shall be 45 feet.
(Ord. 172, §§ 6-400 - 6-402, passed 4-5-90; Am. Ord. 188, passed 2-10-92)