Within the B-1 Central Business District, the regulations set forth in this section shall apply.
(A) Permitted uses. No building or premises shall be used and no building shall be hereafter erected or altered within any B-1 Central Business District unless otherwise provided in this chapter, except for the following uses:
(1) Any use permitted in R-2 One-Family Dwelling District, except one-family dwellings;
(2) Apartment houses or one-family dwelling units located on the second floor of any two-story building;
(3) Amusement establishments: bowling alleys, dance halls and other places of recreation when conducted wholly within a completely enclosed building;
(4) Art, book, school supply, stationery stores and newsstands;
(5) Automobile display, sales and service; auto accessory store; used car lots; battery and tire stores;
(6) Bakery shop, including the baking and processing of food products when prepared for retail use on the premises only;
(7) Barbershop, beauty parlor, massage or similar personal service shops;
(8) Banks, financial institutions, savings and loan associations;
(9) Bus passenger terminal;
(10) Camera and photographic supply shops for retail sales, photography studio, art gallery or studio, including the developing of film and pictures when conducted as part of the retail business on the premises;
(11) Clubs and fraternal organizations, catering establishments;
(12) Drugstores, candy and ice cream store;
(13) Department stores, gift shops, dry good store, haberdashery, shoe stores, variety stores and wearing apparel stores;
(14) Dyeing and dry-cleaning and pressing establishments, when employing facilities for the cleaning and pressing of dry goods, and when using carbon tetrachloride, perchloroethylene or other similar non-flammable solvents approved by the Fire Department;
(15) Electrical appliance store and repair, but not including appliance assembly or manufacturing;
(16) Farm implement display and sales room, feed and seed store;
(17) Florist shop and conservatory for retail trade on premises only;
(18) Food and fruit stores; meat markets;
(19) Frozen food lockers;
(20) Funeral homes and mortuaries;
(21) Furniture store and interior decorating shops, including upholstery and making of draperies, slip covers and other similar articles, when conducted as part of the retail operations and secondary to the main use;
(22) Launderette, laundromat or similar self-service laundry or self-service dry-cleaning establishments;
(23) Hardware stores and plumbing showrooms without shop;
(24) Hobby stores and sporting goods store;
(25) Hotels, including dining and meeting rooms;
(26) Household appliance store and repair shops;
(27) Jewelry and leather goods store, and watch repair;
(28) Liquor store, package goods only;
(29) Medical clinics and laboratories;
(30) Messenger or telegraph service station;
(31) Newspaper publishing and general offices;
(32) Offices, business and professional, insurance, real estate, office equipment sales and service, blueprinting and photostating establishments;
(33) Off-street parking facilities in an open lot or a covered building;
(34) Paint and wallpaper store;
(35) Printing shops not employing more than five persons;
(36) Post office;
(37) Public utility collection offices; telephone business office and telephone exchange building;
(38) Restaurant, tea room, café when establishment is not of the drive-in type where food is served to occupants remaining in a motor vehicle;
(39) Service stations, public garages and other motor vehicle services provided no major repair work is performed out of doors; provided, all pumps, underground storage tanks, lubricating and other devices are located at least 20 feet from any street right-of-way; provided, all fuel, oil or similar substances are stored inside or underground; and, provided, all automobile parts, dismantled vehicles and similar articles are stored within a building;
(40) Signs advertising merchandise or services;
(41) Taverns subject to local municipal ordinances and other applicable county ordinances and state laws;
(42) Tailor shops, custom dressmaking, millinery or shoe repair when conducted for retail sales on the premises only;
(43) Theaters, indoor;
(44) Any accessory use or building customarily incidental to the above permitted uses and as regulated by subsequent sections of this chapter; and
(45) Any other similar type retail stores not specifically permitted herein when authorized by the Board of Appeals.
(B) Height of building. The height of all buildings or structures shall be no more than five stories or 55 feet in height.
(C) Yard areas. No building or structure shall be constructed or enlarged unless the following yards are provided and maintained in connection with the building.
(1) Front yard.
(a) No front yard shall be required when all frontage between two intersecting streets lies within this district.
(b) However, when lots within this district are adjacent to and adjoining lots in an R district, all of which front upon the same street between two intersecting streets, there shall be established the same front yard setback for all of the frontage as has been established in the abutting R district.
(c) Exception: when existing buildings located in this district have already established a building line at the street line at a depth less than required above, then all new buildings may conform to the same building line, except for the first 50 feet of the B-1 District frontage adjacent to the R district, whereupon there shall be provided a front setback of not less than ten feet.
(2) Side yard. No side yard is required except for a corner lot which abuts upon an R district. There shall then be provided a side yard equal to one-half the front yard required in the abutting R district, but in no case less than ten feet. The same setback shall apply also if business buildings front the intersecting street, commonly referred to as the side streets.
(3) Rear yard. There shall be a rear yard of not less than 20 feet; provided, however, that, not more than one, one-story accessory building may be relocated thereon, except for the five feet adjacent and parallel to the rear lot line for the following uses:
(a) Storage of motor vehicles;
(c) Storage of equipment or merchandise normally carried in stock on the same lot with any retail service or business use.
(1994 Code, § 155.055) (Ord. 200, passed 4-28-1969; Ord. 234, passed 7-10-1972; Ord. 01-01, passed 1-22-2001; Ord. 05-02, passed 1-24-2005; Ord. 14-04, passed 5-12-2014)