§ 156.095 B-1 GENERAL BUSINESS DISTRICT.

   The purpose of the B-1 General Business District is to accommodate a wide range of retail stores, offices and service establishments compatible to a central location within the community as the community’s primary business center.

   (A)   Permitted uses.

      (1)   Residential uses as permitted in R-2 District. Special uses permitted in the R-2 District shall only be permitted as special uses in the B-1 District;

      (2)   Retail stores and shops including florist, gift, china and glassware shops, jewelry stores, appliance, hardware, paint and wallpaper stores, furniture stores and similar uses;

      (3)   Offices of doctors, dentists, lawyers, architects, engineers and similar professions;

      (4)   Automobile parking lots;

      (5)   Banks and financial institutions;

      (6)   Barber and beauty shops;

      (7)   Candy and ice cream stores, including stores making commodities for sale only on premises;

      (8)   Drug stores;

      (9)   Governmental offices, police and fire stations;

      (10)   Hobby stores;

      (11)   Hotels;

      (12)   Libraries and reading rooms;

      (13)   Laundromats with not more than three employees;

      (14)   Medical and dental clinics;

      (15)   Motels;

      (16)   Musical instrument sales and repair;

      (17)   Pet stores, but not including outdoor runways or kennels;

      (18)   Photography studios, camera and photo supplies sales, including photo processing as part of the retail business;

      (19)   Post offices;

      (20)   Public meeting halls, clubs, lodges;

      (21)   Real estate and insurance sales offices;

      (22)   Restaurants, but not drive-in restaurants where food is provided to customers in cars;

      (23)   Supermarkets, grocery stores, meat markets, bakeries where goods produced are sold only on premises;

      (24)   Swimming pools;

      (25)   Tailor and dress making shops;

      (26)   Telephone or other utility office; and

      (27)   Video rental and sales.

   (B)      Special uses. Following are permitted as special uses subject to the public hearing and other special use procedure requirements outlined in §§ 156.205 through 156.209:

      (1)   Automobile sales, service and rental;

      (2)   Day care, commercial;

      (3)   Drive-in restaurants where food is provided to customers in cars;

      (4)   Funeral homes, mortuaries, crematories;

      (5)   Living quarters above or adjoining business;

      (6)   Outdoor amusement enterprises, such as miniature golf, golf driving ranges and similar activities;

      (7)   Radio and television broadcasting studios excluding transmitting towers;

      (8)   Service, cleaning or repair shops for personal, household or garden equipment;

      (9)   Veterinarian or animals hospitals, but not including outdoor runways or kennels; and

      (10)   Contractors or developer’s administrative offices, including offices with interior display and storage areas, but not including any related outdoor storage areas.

   (C)      Required lot area and width. No requirements are imposed on minimum lot area and lot width within the B-1 General Business District.

   (D)      Required yards. Every building erected or structurally enlarged within the B-1 General Business District shall provide or maintain the following minimum yards, except for certain lots adjoining residential districts which shall conform to § 156.036.

      (1)   Front yard. None.

      (2)   Side yards. None.

      (3)   Rear yard. Twenty feet.

   (E)      Building height. No building hereafter erected or structurally enlarged shall exceed 65 feet in height.

   (F)      Floor area ratio. No building shall be erected or structurally enlarged to provide a floor area ratio exceeding two and five-tenths.

   (G)      Required off-street parking and loading. Required off-street parking and loading shall be as provided in §§ 156.185 through 156.192.

(2009 Code, § 40-6-1) (Ord. 15-08, passed 8-31-2015)