B-3
Dimensional standards
Uses
Permitted by right26
- accessory structures
- adult care facilities
- barbershops
- beauty shops
- massage therapy
- churches
- libraries
- drugstores
- dry cleaners/laundries
- financial services
- fire and rescue stations
- funeral homes
- gift shops
- government offices
- post offices
- greenhouses
- nurseries
- kennel, commercial
- laundromats
- mini-storage warehouse
- professional offices
- retail farm and garden center
- retail food stores
- storage warehouse
- truck, automobile, trailer, and equipment rental
- veterinary hospital
Conditional / special use15
- cabinet-making furniture and upholstery shops
- childcare
- convenience stores with or without gas
- event facilities
- hotels
- motels
- printing businesses
- public utilities
- radio, television or communication station and/or tower
- restaurants
- restaurants, drive-in
- utility booster/relay stations
- transformer substations
- towers
- railroads
Extracted standards
10 individual requirements pulled out of this section’s prose, each with the sentence it came from.
Frontage
Minimum lot frontage shall be at least 80% of lot width determined at building setback line.
Height
- HeightMaximum heightThe tallest a building may be, given in feet, in storeys, or both — whichever binds first. exception with increased yards
Buildings may be erected to 60 ft if front, side, rear yards increased by 1 ft for each foot over 35 ft.
Church spires, belfries, cupolas, chimneys, flues, flagpoles, television antennas, radio aerials, and bona fide farm buildings are exempt from height requirements.
Other
- Area requirements
In areas served by central water and sewer, no area requirements; otherwise, minimum area as required by health official.
- Front setbackSetbackThe distance a building must be held back from a lot line. from road centerline
Front setback: 100 ft from centerline of primary highway, 60 ft from centerline of secondary road or private road right-of-way.
- KennelKennelBoarding or breeding animals above the number kept as household pets. outdoor confinement
Commercial kennels with any outdoor confinement require a conditional use permit.
- Rear setbackSetbackThe distance a building must be held back from a lot line. for accessoryAccessory useA secondary activity customarily incidental to the main use of the lot — a garage, a home office. structures
Rear yard setback for accessory structures under size requiring building permit is 5 ft; for all other accessory structures, 15 ft.
- Side setbackSetbackThe distance a building must be held back from a lot line. for accessoryAccessory useA secondary activity customarily incidental to the main use of the lot — a garage, a home office. structures
Side yard setback for accessory structures under size requiring building permit is 5 ft; for all other accessory structures, 15 ft.
- Storage container screening
Accessory structures excluding storage containers unless screened or shielded from view from any road or adjoining property.
- Veterinary hospital outdoor confinement
Veterinary hospitals with any outdoor confinement require a conditional use permit.
From the ordinance
No structures in a B-3 district shall be located closer to the centerline of any road right-of-way on any designated primary highway than one hundred (100) feet...