B-2
Dimensional standards
Uses
Permitted by right27
- Any use permitted in the R-3 General Residential District
- Any use permitted in the B-1 Local Business District
- Amusement places or theatres (except open-air drive-in theaters)
- Animal hospital or kennel (no open pens)
- Automobile or truck sales, service, and repair (no salvage/junk, major repair enclosed)
- Bakeries
- Boat and boat trailer sales and storage
- Bottling works, dyeing and cleaning works, laundry, plumbing/heating shop, painting shop, upholstering shop, tinsmithing shop, tire sales and service, appliance repairs, general service and repair establishments
- Bus station and taxi stations
- Car-wash or automobile laundry (with reservoir space for 10 vehicles per lane)
- Data processing center
- Drive-in restaurants
- Service stations (bulk storage of inflammable liquids underground)
- Garages, parking or storage
- Hotels, motels, motor lodges, or tourist homes
- Lawnmower, yard and garden equipment, rental sales and service
- Lumber and building materials store (not lumber yard)
- Material storage yards (incidental to permitted use, enclosed by 6-ft screen)
- Mobile homes sales, display and storage, or travel trailers and campers (min 0.5 acre, 8-ft screen)
- Monument sales establishments (incidental processing)
- Printing, publishing and engraving establishments
- Radio and television stations and studios (towers max 125 ft)
- Rental of luggage trailers (not truck trailer bodies except campers)
- Schools for industrial training, trade, or business
- Used car sales and storage lots
- Wholesale establishments (max 2,500 sq ft accessory storage)
- Bed and breakfast
Conditional / special use3
- Any special use permitted in the R-1 Single-Family District
- Wholesale establishment or warehouse up to 15,000 sq ft floor area
- Business or commercial building greater than 3 stories or 40 feet in height
Accessory2
- Any accessory use permitted in the R-3 General Residential District
- Storage of office supplies or merchandise normally carried in stock
Extracted standards
25 individual requirements pulled out of this section’s prose, each with the sentence it came from.
Height
- Maximum radio/TV tower heightMaximum heightThe tallest a building may be, given in feet, in storeys, or both — whichever binds first.125 ft
not towers more than one hundred twenty-five (125) feet in height
Lot
- Minimum parcel area for mobile homeManufactured homeA dwelling built in a factory to a federal standard and transported to the site. sales21,780 sqftsq ftSquare feet. An acre is 43,560 sq ft; a typical suburban lot is 7,000–10,000.
the minimum parcel area shall be one-half acre
Other
- Front yardYardThe open space left between a building and its lot line — the space a setback creates. measured from center line if 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
- Minimum heightMaximum heightThe tallest a building may be, given in feet, in storeys, or both — whichever binds first. of screening wall/fence/hedge for material storage6 ft
enclosed by a masonry wall, screening, fence, or hedge, not less than six (6) feet in height
- Minimum heightMaximum heightThe tallest a building may be, given in feet, in storeys, or both — whichever binds first. of visual screen for mobile homeManufactured homeA dwelling built in a factory to a federal standard and transported to the site. sales storage area8 ft
the storage area be separated from the display area by a continuous visual screen with a minimum height of eight (8) feet
- 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.
Parking
- Reservoir spaces per washing lane for car wash10 spaces
providing reservoir space for not less than ten (10) vehicles for each washing lane
Signage
- Maximum billboard sign area300 sqftsq ftSquare feet. An acre is 43,560 sq ft; a typical suburban lot is 7,000–10,000.
No billboard sign shall exceed three hundred (300) square feet in area
- Maximum distance from existing business for billboard500 ft
No billboard shall be located more than five hundred (500) feet from an existing business
- Maximum billboard heightMaximum heightThe tallest a building may be, given in feet, in storeys, or both — whichever binds first.35 ft
No billboard sign shall exceed a total height of thirty-five (35) feet
- Maximum combined detached sign area for shopping center300 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 ... combined sign area does not exceed three hundred (300) square feet
- Maximum detached sign area150 sqftsq ftSquare feet. An acre is 43,560 sq ft; a typical suburban lot is 7,000–10,000.
Detached signs, limited in area to one hundred fifty (150) square feet
- Maximum detached sign heightMaximum heightThe tallest a building may be, given in feet, in storeys, or both — whichever binds first.35 ft
limited in height to thirty-five (35) 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
- Maximum flat sign area as percentage of wall area10 pct
Flat signs ... total aggregate sign area not more than ten (10) percent of the area of walls fronting on a street
- Maximum individual flat sign area200 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 two hundred (200) square feet
- Maximum marquee sign area5 sqftsq ftSquare feet. An acre is 43,560 sq ft; a typical suburban lot is 7,000–10,000.
Marquee signs ... sign area for each sign limited to five (5) square feet
- Maximum projecting sign area50 sqftsq ftSquare feet. An acre is 43,560 sq ft; a typical suburban lot is 7,000–10,000.
Projecting signs with sign area limited to fifty (50) square feet
- Maximum temporary paper sign area in show windows20 pct
Temporary, non-illuminated paper signs in show windows, limited to twenty (20) percent of the total glass area
- Minimum billboard setbackSetbackThe distance a building must be held back from a lot line. from intersection or residential districtZoning districtA mapped area with one set of rules, identified by a code like R-1 or B-2.100 ft
within one hundred (100) feet of any intersection of street lines or the boundary of any Residential District
- Minimum billboard setbackSetbackThe distance a building must be held back from a lot line. from street line25 ft
No billboard shall be located within twenty-five (25) feet of any street line
- Minimum distance between billboards along same side500 ft
No two (2) billboard signs shall be located less than five hundred (500) feet apart along the same side
- Minimum clearance from bottom of projecting sign to ground10 ft
at least ten (10) feet from the bottom of sign to ground level
Use
- Maximum accessoryAccessory useA secondary activity customarily incidental to the main use of the lot — a garage, a home office. storage for wholesale establishments2,500 sqftsq ftSquare feet. An acre is 43,560 sq ft; a typical suburban lot is 7,000–10,000.
Wholesale establishments with not more than two thousand five hundred (2,500) square feet of accessory storage per establishment
- Maximum floor area for wholesale/warehouse by special use permitConditional useAllowed only after a discretionary approval — usually a public hearing and a board vote.15,000 sqftsq ftSquare feet. An acre is 43,560 sq ft; a typical suburban lot is 7,000–10,000.
Wholesale establishment or warehouse with up to fifteen thousand (15,000) square feet of floor area
From the ordinance
A building or land shall be used only for the following purposes: ... Any use permitted in the R-3 General Residential District. ... Business or commercial building greater in height than three (3) stories or forty (40) feet [requires special use permit].