§ 152.083 B-3 HIGHWAY BUSINESS DISTRICT.

   The B-3 District is for the conduct of retail sales and personal business oriented to vehicles and vehicular travel primarily on major streets, roads, and arterials. Characteristically, the District is centering about major road intersections and along arterial routes. Travel within the District is mainly by way of private automobile.

   (A)   Permitted uses. Permitted uses include:

      (1)   Any uses in the B-2 Neighborhood Business District; and

      (2)   New or used car sales, farm implement sales, trailer, mobile, or manufactured home sales, drive-in theaters, drive-in restaurants, motels, or any other similar uses generally requiring large amounts of parking or catering to automobile traffic.

   (B)   Conditional uses. Uses which require special exceptions and require written approval of the Board of Adjustment include churches and other places of worship, public libraries, public parks and commercial public recreational facilities, public utilities, funeral homes, cemeteries, roadside stands and clubs, including a club of which the chief activity is customarily carried on as a business, dwelling units occupying the same building as the principal commercial use and being for the use of the owner and/or operator of the permitted commercial use, mobile home park, mobile home subdivision, and 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.

   (D)   Special use. A planned unit development for highway business shall be permitted as a special use in conformance with §§ 152.235 through 152.239.

   (E)   Required conditions. Same as the required conditions for the B-1 District.

   (F)   Development standards. Development standards include the following.

Maximum building height	36 feet or 3 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	same as side yard
Minimum side yard	If adjacent to Residential District, must comply with adjacent District’s requirements; or minimum of 8 feet
Parking	As set forth in §§ 152.190-152.196
Sidewalks	As set forth in §§ 152.140-152.156
Signs	As set forth in §§ 152.210-152.228

 

(Prior Code, § 152.078)  (Ord. 920.27, passed 10-7-1993)  Penalty, see § 152.999