B-1
Dimensional standards
Uses
Permitted by right28
- any use permitted in R-2 Single-Family Residential District
- Bakeries occupying not more than 2,500 sq ft of floor area
- Banks, drive-in or otherwise
- Barber shops or beauty parlors
- Bicycle sales and repair shops
- Catering or delicatessen business
- Clinics
- Dry-cleaning or pressing pickup stations (≤2,500 sq ft, no petroleum-based cleaning fluid)
- Flower shops and greenhouses incidental thereto
- Frozen food lockers for individual or family use
- Hospital or clinic for small animals (enclosed soundproof building)
- Ice distribution stations, automatic vending machines
- Laundromats or self-service dry-cleaning establishments
- Laundries occupying not more than 2,500 sq ft
- Laundry and dry-cleaning combined (≤5,000 sq ft, no petroleum-based cleaning fluid)
- Nurseries for growing plants, trees and shrubs
- Offices, general business or professional
- Pet shop or dog beauty parlor (enclosed soundproof building)
- Parking lots, parking spaces and parking areas (not auto sales/storage)
- Private club, lodge, or meeting hall
- Restaurants, but not drive-in restaurants
- Shoe repairing shops (≤2,500 sq ft)
- Shops for sale/service/repair of home appliances, office machines, electrical, TV/radio (≤2,500 sq ft)
- Stores or shops for retail business (excluding alcoholic beverages)
- Studios for artists, photographers, teachers, sculptors or musicians
- Telephone station or booth
- Undertaking businesses or funeral homes
- Bed and breakfast
Conditional / special use7
- any special use permitted in R-1 Single-Family Residential District
- drive-in restaurant
- filling station
- hotel, motel or motor lodge
- theatre
- signs in excess of 25 feet in height
- any special exception permitted in R-1 Single-Family Residential District
Accessory1
- any accessory use permitted in R-2 Single-Family Residential District
Extracted standards
13 individual requirements pulled out of this section’s prose, each with the sentence it came from.
Other
- Commercial buildings may be built on lot line if not corner lot
Commercial and office building may be built on lot line if area is not a corner lot, then setbacks apply on lot adjacent to a Residential District.
- Front yardYardThe open space left between a building and its lot line — the space a setback creates. when street less than 50 feet wide75 ft
if street is less than 50 feet in width, front yard shall be at least 75 feet measured from center line.
- Side and rear yards required only if adjacent to Residential DistrictZoning districtA mapped area with one set of rules, identified by a code like R-1 or B-2.
Side and rear yards required only if adjacent to a Residential District.
Signage
- Maximum combined detached sign area for shopping center150 sqftsq ftSquare feet. An acre is 43,560 sq ft; a typical suburban lot is 7,000–10,000.
A group of three (3) or more contiguous stores such as form a shopping center, may combine permitted detached sign area to provide a single detached sign advertising the group if there are no other detached signs and if the combined sign area does not exceed one hundred fifty (150) feet.
- Maximum detached sign area50 sqftsq ftSquare feet. An acre is 43,560 sq ft; a typical suburban lot is 7,000–10,000.
Detached signs, if there are no projecting signs, limited in area to fifty (50) square feet and limited in height to twenty (20) feet, one (1) for each business on the premises.
- Maximum detached sign heightMaximum heightThe tallest a building may be, given in feet, in storeys, or both — whichever binds first.20 ft
limited in height to twenty (20) feet
- Maximum directional sign area2 sqftsq ftSquare feet. An acre is 43,560 sq ft; a typical suburban lot is 7,000–10,000.
Directional signs limited in area to two (2) square feet, giving directions to motorists regarding the location of parking areas and access drives, shall be permitted as accessory signs and not included in any computation of sign area.
- Maximum flat sign area as percentage of wall area10 pct
Flat signs, with total aggregate sign area not more than ten (10) percent of the area of walls fronting on a street and no one (1) sign with sign area of more than one hundred (100) square feet.
- Maximum individual flat sign area100 sqftsq ftSquare feet. An acre is 43,560 sq ft; a typical suburban lot is 7,000–10,000.
no one (1) sign with sign area of more than one hundred (100) square feet.
- Maximum marquee sign area3 sqftsq ftSquare feet. An acre is 43,560 sq ft; a typical suburban lot is 7,000–10,000.
Marquee signs, if there are no projecting signs, two (2) for each business on the premises, with sign area for each sign limited to three (3) square feet.
- Maximum projecting sign area20 sqftsq ftSquare feet. An acre is 43,560 sq ft; a typical suburban lot is 7,000–10,000.
Projecting signs, if there are no marquee or detached signs, one (1) for each business on the premises, with sign area limited to twenty (20) square feet.
- Maximum temporary window sign area as percentage of glass20 pct
Temporary, non-illuminated paper signs in show windows, limited to twenty (20) percent of the total glass area of the window in which they are placed.
- Minimum clearance for projecting sign10 ft
The sign shall be ten (10) or more feet from ground level to the bottom of the sign.
From the ordinance
Height: 2½ stories but not to exceed 35 feet.