The purpose of the Neighborhood Business District is to provide retail stores and personal service outlets to meet the needs of the people in adjacent or nearby residential areas for convenient services. These Districts are closely related to Residential Districts but they are also commercial areas that generate activities that can be disruptive in residential areas unless they are properly regulated. The intent of these regulations is to make the B-2 District as compatible as possible with associated Residential Districts while permitting commercial activity.
(A) Permitted uses. Any convenience-type retail business or service establishment such as groceries, delicatessens, meat markets, fruit and vegetable stores, candy stores, bakery stores, gift shops, florists, drug stores, shoe repair shops, hardware store, barber and beauty shops, clothing shops, garages for minor motor vehicle repair within an enclosed building, walk-in restaurants (including tearooms, soda fountains, and ice cream parlors; not including drive-in restaurants), self-service laundries, filling stations, places of amusement and assembly, car washes, antique shops, and business and professional offices, including drive-in banks. Any other retail business or service establishment which is determined by the Board of Adjustment to be of the same general character as the above mentioned uses.
(B) Conditional uses. Conditional uses shall include churches and other places of worship, parish houses, public libraries, schools offering general education courses, public parks, and non-commercial public recreational facilities, public utilities, funeral homes, cemeteries, nursing homes, hospitals, and clinics for human care, philanthropic institutions and clubs, including a club of which the chief activity is customarily carried on as a business, mobile home park, mobile home subdivision, recreational vehicle park. The Board of Adjustment may attach certain conditions to its approval which it feels are necessary to preserve and protect the character of the district in which the proposed use would locate.
(C) Accessory uses. Any accessory use or building customarily incidental to the above permitted uses is permitted, including dwelling units occupying the same building as the principal commercial use and being for use by the owner and/or operator of the permitted commercial use.
(D) Required conditions.
(1) Where a side lot line is shared with an adjoining residential lot, a well-maintained compact hedge, a solid fence, or similar solid screening device at least six feet in height shall be installed to screen the business use from the adjoining lot in the Residential District. The screen shall begin at the front building line and extend along the common side lot line to the rear property line.
(2) In all commercial zones, points of access to highways and streets shall be controlled by the Planning Commission and by § 152.144. Before any building permit for any structure in a B-1 District may be issued, the prospective builder or operator of the proposed B-1 activity shall submit a sketch of the layout and design of the proposed structure and/or use and its access points to the highway and/or street to the Planning Commission. The Planning Commission may require that when two or more consumer commercial establishments adjoin along one side of any street or highway that they share access points to the street. When more than four consumer commercial establishments adjoin along any highway or street, a road parallel to the highway or street may be built, at the expense of all adjoining consumer commercial establishments, to provide service to all consumer commercial establishments on the same side of the street or highway. This road shall have access to the highway or street at no more than two points for every four consumer commercial establishments. The provisions of §§ 152.140 through 152.156 shall also apply in a B-1 District. Parking and off-street loading requirements are provided in §§ 152.190 through 152.196.
(3) All businesses, services, or processing shall be conducted wholly within a completely enclosed building, except in filling stations.
(4) All products processed shall be sold primarily on the premises.
(5) Processes and equipment employed in goods processed or sold shall be limited to those which are not objectionable by reason of odor, dust, smoke, gas fumes, noise, vibration, refuse matter, or water-carried waste.
(E) Development standards. Development standards include the following.
Maximum building height | 30 feet or 2.5 stories |
Minimum front yard | 25 feet, or one-half of the street right-of-way, whichever is greater |
Minimum lot area | none |
Minimum lot frontage | 100 feet |
Minimum rear yard | 20 feet |
Minimum side yard | If adjacent to a Residential District, must comply with adjacent District’s requirements or 8-foot minimum |
Parking | |
Sidewalks | |
Signs | |
(Prior Code, § 152.077) (Ord. 920.27, passed 10-7-1993) Penalty, see § 152.999