ARTICLE X-D - BUSINESS A GENERAL BUSINESS DISTRICTS

Section 1000-D.Intent.General Business Districts provide for the appropriate development and special requirements of the major outlying business concentrations, which serve an area larger than the immediate neighborhood.

Section 1001-D.Use Regulations.Buildings may be erected or used and a lot may be used or occupied for any of the following purposes and no other:

1. Any use permitted in Commercial A District.Undertaking establishments are permitted outright in Business A districts.

2. Retail store, including department store, variety store, furniture store, specialty shop, or any other retail store designed primarily to serve an area larger than the immediate surrounding neighborhood.These stores may NOT include, as a main use, retail motor vehicle services, such as new or used motor vehicle sales, tire, brake and muffler shops.

3. Hotel or motel.

4. Office building.

5. Club, lodge, or tavern.

6. Restaurants.Not to include a drive-in restaurant.As a special permit by the City Council, restaurants may have as an accessory convenience, a drive-through window wherein take-out food may be ordered and picked up by patrons while in their car.

8. Indoor storage building or warehouse in conjunction with a retail store or permitted use, PROVIDED the area devoted to storage shall not constitute more than forty (40) percent of the gross floor area.

9. Business, dance or similar schools, NOT to include trade schools which have training operations that create objectionable noise levels at the property line.

9A. No more than five (5) video machines will be permitted as an accessory use to any of the above without a special permit for an indoor place of amusement.

10. The following uses, when authorized as a special permit by City Council, subject to the general provisions prescribed in Section 2005:

a. Motor Vehicle Service Station (not to include a truck stop).Services to include such uses as a gas station, lubrication service, washing-buffing, installation and service of radios, burglar alarm systems, and all other electrical or electronic systems and engine tune-ups, but may not include transmission overhaul, major engine repairs, tire recapping or retreading, auto body repair, or brake or muffler shops.

b. Mechanical, public car-wash provided that (1) mechanical power used in conjunction with such use does not exceed twenty (20) rated horsepower and two (2) on-lot storage lane capacity is provided for at least ten (10) cars.

c. Indoor place of amusement or recreation operated for profit, including theater, bowling alley or pool hall containing more than two (2) pool tables.A pool or billiard table is not permitted in retail stores.

d. Mobile Home Park subject to the provisions of Article XIX.

e. Pet kennels if sound-proofed and contained within a building.

f. Wholesale in conjunction with and accessory to a permitted retail use PROVIDED that the area devoted to the retail use is no less than 60% of the gross floor area.

g. Monument engraving and sales.

h. Furniture upholstering and refinishing.

i. Wholesale florist.

j. Used automotive sales as an accessory use with no more than five (5) cars displayed for sale at any one time.

k. Automotive rentals either as an accessory use or a main use.

l. Heliport.

Section 1002-D.Area and Height Regulations.Every building used exclusively as a dwelling shall comply with the area, yard and height regulations prescribed in Residence C Districts.For buildings in whole or in part for business purposes the following regulations shall apply:

1. Building Area.Not more than seventy-five (75) percent of area of each lot may be occupied by buildings.

2. Front Yard.There shall be a setback on each street on which a lot abuts which shall not be less than ten (10) feet, EXCEPT in a case where an adjacent building on either side along the same street (and within the same block and district) is located closer to the street line, in which case the new building may conform to the lesser setback.

3. Side Yard.None required for a building used for business purposes, EXCEPT that where a lot abuts a residential district, or a street on the side lot line, a side yard shall be provided which shall not be less than ten (10) feet.

4. Rear Yard.None required EXCEPT when the lot abuts a residential district in which case paragraph 6b of this section applies.

5. Height. No building shall exceed four (4) stories or sixty (60) feet in height.

6. Special Regulations.In order to encourage sound and attractive commercial development, the following special requirements shall apply:

a. Every use, other than the parking lot, shall be completely enclosed within a building.

b. Along each side or rear property line, which directly abuts the residence district in the City, or similar districts in an adjoining municipality, a buffer planting strip not less than seven (7) feet in width, as defined in Section 201-4, shall be provided.

c. No permanent storage of merchandise shall be permitted out-side of a building.

d. Off-street parking, off-street loading, and special requirements relating to highway frontage, prescribed in Article XVII and section 1502, shall apply in Business A Districts.For each dwelling unit one (1) off-street parking space shall be provided.