B-3
Dimensional standards
Uses
Permitted by right23
- Any use permitted in the R-3 General Residential District
- Any use permitted in the B-1 Local Business District
- Amusement places or theaters, except open-air drive-in theaters
- Automobile or truck sales, service, and repair
- Bakeries occupying not more than 5,000 square feet of floor area
- Boat and boat trailer sales and storage
- Bottling works, dyeing and cleaning works or laundry, plumbing and heating shop, painting shop, upholstering shop, tinsmithing shop, tire sales and service, appliance repairs, and general service and repair establishments
- Bus station
- Data processing center
- Garages, parking or storage
- Hotels, motels, motor lodges, or tourist homes
- Lawnmower, yard and garden equipment, rental sales and services
- Lumber and building materials store, but not a lumber yard
- Material storage yards, in connection with a permitted use
- Monument sales establishments with incidental processing to order
- Parking lots, parking space and parking areas
- Printing, publishing and engraving establishments
- Radio and television stations and studios or recording studio, but not towers more than 125 feet in height
- Service stations, so long as bulk storage of inflammable liquids is underground
- Schools for industrial training, trade, or business
- Taxi stations provided they are permanent structures
- Wholesale establishments with not more than 2,500 square feet of accessory storage per establishment
- Bed and breakfast
Conditional / special use3
- Any special use permitted in the R-1 Single-Family Residential District
- Wholesale establishment or warehouse with up to 5,000 square feet of floor area
- A business or commercial building greater in height than 5 stories or 75 feet
Accessory3
- Any accessory use permitted in the R-3 General Residential District
- Storage of office supplies or merchandise normally carried in stock
- Swimming pools for hotels, motels, motor lodges, or tourist homes
Prohibited6
- General manufacturing and warehousing
- Uses which tend to generate heavy truck traffic
- Uses which require open storage of materials
- Open-air drive-in theaters
- Auto salvage or junk
- Major repair or storage of equipment or materials or damaged vehicles outside a completely enclosed building
Extracted standards
10 individual requirements pulled out of this section’s prose, each with the sentence it came from.
Signage
- Maximum combined detached sign area150 sqftsq ftSquare feet. An acre is 43,560 sq ft; a typical suburban lot is 7,000–10,000.
combined sign area does not exceed one hundred fifty (150) square 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, limited in area to fifty (50) 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 (percent of wall)10 pct
Flat signs, general advertising or otherwise, with total aggregate sign area not more than ten (10) percent of the area walls fronting on a street
- Maximum 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, if there are no projecting signs, two (2) for each business on the premises, with sign area for each sign limited to five (5) square feet
- Maximum projecting sign area25 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 twenty-five (25) square feet
- Maximum temporary window sign area (percent of glass)20 pct
Temporary, non-illuminated paper signs in show windows, limited to twenty (20) percent of the total glass area
- Minimum projecting sign clearance10 ft
at least ten (10) feet from the bottom of sign to ground level
From the ordinance
There are no off-street parking requirements in the B-3 Central Business District.
Parking requirements
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"general": "No off-street parking requirements"
}