A. Description Of District: The B-2 general commercial district provides for the location of most services and businesses especially those requiring direct access to major arterial streets. Structures located in this district vary from freestanding buildings to neighborhood or community shopping centers. Diverse commercial activities, business, service and office uses, are permitted in this district. This district is located along the frontage of major arterial thoroughfares.
B. Permitted Uses: The following retail and service uses are permitted provided they are operated entirely within a building, except for off street parking, loading facilities, or outdoor storage which is adequately buffered:
Any business use permitted in the B-1 retail business district.
Animal hospital.
Antique shops.
Blueprinting and photocopying establishments.
Bowling alleys.
Credit unions.
Dancing schools or studios.
Department stores.
Financial institutions.
Frozen food stores.
Home supply centers.
Hotels.
Ice machine sales.
Investment companies.
Linoleum and tile stores.
Medical laboratories.
Motels.
Newspaper distribution agencies.
Pet shops.
Recording studios.
Schools, dance.
Taxidermists.
Theaters (indoor).
Tire, battery and accessory dealers.
Vending machines.
Veterinary clinics.
Other permitted uses:
Accessory uses as defined in chapter 3 of this title.
Fences, in accordance with the provisions of chapter 3 of this title.
Off street parking and loading facilities, in accordance with the provisions of chapter 8 of this title.
Signs, in accordance with the provisions of chapter 9 of this title.
C. Special Uses: The following uses may be allowed by special use permit in accordance with the provisions of chapter 10 of this title:
The same special uses as are allowed by special use permit in the B-1 retail business district.
Adult-use cannabis dispensing organization.
Artificial lakes, private recreation.
Automobile laundries and car washes.
Automobile repair garages.
Automobile sales.
Automobile undercoating service.
Banks (drive-in facilities).
Bars and cocktail lounges (including live entertainment and dancing).
Billiard and pool halls.
Boat and marine showroom and sales.
Bus terminals, turnarounds and lots.
Business colleges, commercial schools.
Catering establishments.
Dance halls.
Equipment rental and leasing service.
Funeral parlors.
Health clubs.
Motorcycle sales.
Parcel delivery and pick up service.
Recreational vehicle sales and rentals.
Restaurants (drive-in).
Roadside stands.
Savings and loan associations (drive-in facilities).
Taverns.
Tattoo parlors.
Trade schools.
Trailer sales and rentals.
Truck sales and rentals.
Undertaking establishments.
Used car lots.
Vocational schools.
D. Prohibited Uses: All uses not expressly authorized in subsections B and C of this section are expressly prohibited.
E. Lot Size: A minimum lot area is not required, except that each residential use shall have a separate ground area designated, provided for, and continuously maintained in accord with the following:
1. There shall be provided not less than seven hundred fifty (750) square feet of lot area per room in an apartment hotel and five hundred (500) square feet of lot area per suite for hotels and/or motels.
2. A minimum lot width of one hundred feet (100') is required.
F. Required Yards:
1. Front Yard: All structures shall be set back from the front lot line at least thirty feet (30'). Except for driveways, no portion of a parking lot or parking area shall be located within the first ten feet (10') of the required front yard.
2. Interior Side Yard (Adjacent To A Zoning Lot): An interior side yard is not required.
3. Corner Side Yard (Adjacent To A Street): All structures shall be set in from the side lot line adjacent to the street right of way a distance of not less than thirty feet (30').
4. Rear Yard: A rear yard is required sufficient to allow access for regular and emergency services.
5. Transitional Yard: The minimum transitional yard requirements for all structures shall be not less than those specified below:
a. Where a side lot line coincides with a side or rear lot line in an adjacent residential district, a yard shall be provided along such side lot line. Such yard shall be equal in dimension to the minimum side yard which would be required under this title for a residential use on the adjacent residential lot.
b. Where a rear lot line coincides with a side lot line in an adjacent residential district, a yard shall be provided along such rear lot line. Such yard shall be equal in dimension to the minimum side yard which would be required under this title for a residential use on the adjacent residential lot.
c. Where a rear lot line coincides with a rear lot line in an adjacent residential district, a yard shall be provided along such rear lot line. Such yard shall be twenty feet (20') in depth and shall be kept free of parking and unscreened outdoor storage.
d. Where the extension of a front or side lot line coincides with the front lot line of an adjacent lot located in a residential district, a yard equal in depth to the minimum front yard required by this title on such adjacent residential lot shall be provided along such front or side lot line for a distance of at least fifty feet (50'), including the width of any intervening alley from such residential lot.
G. Height: The maximum height of buildings or structures shall not exceed thirty five feet (35').
H. Floor Area Ratio (FAR): The maximum floor area ratio shall be 1.2.
I. Special Provisions:
1. Trucks: The parking of trucks as an accessory use, when used in the conduct of a permitted business, shall be limited to vehicles of not over one and one-half (11/2) tons capacity when located within one hundred fifty feet (150') of a residential district boundary line.
2. Sewer And Water: All dwellings and uses requiring sanitary facilities shall be served by a municipal or a private community sewer and a utility water system or a private individual water supply system approved by the appropriate governmental agency. Hotels and/or motels must be served by either a municipal or a private community sewer system, not by a private individual sewage disposal system.
3. Temporary Uses: Temporary uses may be permitted in accordance with the provisions of chapter 3 of this title.
4. Business Requirements:
a. All goods produced on the premises shall be sold at retail on the premises where produced. All business, servicing or processing, except for off street parking, loading, and adequately screened outdoor storage shall be conducted within a completely enclosed building.
b. Establishments of the "drive-in" type offering goods or services directly to customers waiting in parked motor vehicles are not permitted, except in the case of automobile service stations and drive-in dry cleaners, restaurants, banks, and savings and loans for which special uses have been granted.
c. All outdoor storage facilities for fuel, raw materials and products shall be enclosed by a fence, wall or plant materials adequate to conceal such facilities from adjacent properties and the public right of way.
d. All activities involving the production, processing, cleaning, servicing, testing, or repair of materials, goods, or products shall conform with the performance standards established for the B-3 commercial, wholesale and general service district, provided that performance standards shall in every case be applied at the boundaries of the zoning lot on which such activities take place.
5. Landscaping Of Required Yards: Required yards of developed lots shall be landscaped and unpaved except for necessary drives, parking areas and walks.
J. Existing Special Uses: Where a use is classified as a special use and exists as a permitted or special use at the date of the adoption of this section, it shall be considered a legal special use, without further action of the city council, the zoning administrator, or the plan/zoning board of appeals.
A special use permit issued in accordance with procedures herein set forth shall be required only for any expansion or major alteration of such existing legal special use. (Ord. 0-77-27, 7-18-1977; amd. Ord. 0-03-35, 9-15-2003; Ord. O-19-33, 11-11-2019; Ord. O-19-42, 12-9-2019; Ord. O-22-15, 5-9-2022)