B-1
Dimensional standards
Uses
Permitted by right24
- Accessory uses or structures as defined
- Art galleries and museums
- Art studios
- Astrology, card reading, palm reading and fortune telling shops
- Banks/financial institutions with or without drive-up windows
- Barber/beauty shops
- Coffee shops
- Day care and child care facilities
- Church, convents, monasteries, rectories and parish houses
- Craft and artisan trade
- Employment agencies
- Farmer market
- Fingernail salons
- Loan offices
- Professional offices
- Public facilities
- Public utilities
- Temporary buildings for construction purposes (not to exceed duration of construction)
- Tourist information center
- Temporary events zoning permit as defined by section 16-19
- Food bank, food pantry, or similar uses
- Mobile food unit
- Health and fitness centers
- Rooftop and ground mounted solar
Conditional / special use8
Accessory23
- Art galleries and museums
- Art studios
- Astrology, card reading, palm reading and fortune telling shops
- Banks/financial institutions with or without drive-up windows
- Barber/beauty shops
- Coffee shops
- Day care and child care facilities
- Church, convents, monasteries, rectories and parish houses
- Craft and artisan trade
- Employment agencies
- Farmer market
- Fingernail salons
- Loan offices
- Professional offices
- Public facilities
- Public utilities
- Temporary buildings for construction purposes (not to exceed duration of construction)
- Tourist information center
- Temporary events zoning permit as defined by section 16-19 (Revised 6/26/12)
- Food bank, food pantry, or similar uses (Revised 7/8/14)
- Mobile food unit (Revised 10/14/14)
- Health and fitness centers
- Rooftop and ground mounted solar
Extracted standards
9 individual requirements pulled out of this section’s prose, each with the sentence it came from.
Height
- HeightMaximum heightThe tallest a building may be, given in feet, in storeys, or both — whichever binds first. increase to 50 ft with increased yards
The height limit for buildings may be 50 feet from grade provided that required front, side and rear yards shall be increased one foot for each foot in height over 35 feet.
- Parapet wall heightMaximum heightThe tallest a building may be, given in feet, in storeys, or both — whichever binds first.4 ft
Parapet walls may be up to four feet above the height of the building on which the walls rest.
Other
- AccessoryAccessory useA secondary activity customarily incidental to the main use of the lot — a garage, a home office. structure setbackSetbackThe distance a building must be held back from a lot line. from residential districtZoning districtA mapped area with one set of rules, identified by a code like R-1 or B-2.20 ft
Accessory structures and uses, including parking areas, shall be located 20 or more feet from side and rear lot lines adjoining or adjacent to a residential district.
- Front setbackSetbackThe distance a building must be held back from a lot line. from road right-of-way
Structures except signs shall be located 25 feet or more from the edge of the right-of-way of any road with three lanes or more, or 15 feet or more from the edge of the right-of-way of any road with two lanes or less.
- Screening requirement
Screening, including an evergreen hedge, a uniformly painted solid fence, a masonry wall, or a combination thereof, of permitted uses may be required by the administrator.
- Mandatory sewer connection
Where a permitted use involves new construction and is located within 350 feet of an available sewer collection line of a central sewer facility, such use shall be subject to a mandatory connection to that system.
- Site development plan
New uses and changes in use in the B-1 District shall submit a site development plan prior to application for a building permit according to article 19 of this ordinance.
Parking
Off-street parking shall be provided as required by article 16 of this ordinance.
Signage
- Sign regulations
Signs shall conform to article 14 of this ordinance.
From the ordinance
This district is designed primarily to serve as a transition area between general commercial activities and residential land uses, and to provide areas for businesses and services which are dependent on local neighborhood patronage.