B-3
Dimensional standards
Uses
Permitted by right7
- Accessory uses and structures
- Barber shops, beauty parlors, and tanning salons
- Churches, schools, libraries, parks, playgrounds and athletic fields
- Class A and Class B home occupations
- Living quarters for one family included as a part of a single office building housing a single permitted business use and occupied by the owner, manager, or caretaker of the permitted business
- Single-family dwellings
- Small scale solar energy facilities
Conditional / special use7
- Bed and breakfast inns, guest houses, and rooming and boarding houses
- Clubhouses
- Homeless shelters or transitional living facilities, community correctional facilities, and halfway houses
- Nursery schools, day care facilities, and family day care homes
- Multiple-family (apartments) and single-family attached (duplexes and townhouses) dwellings
- Radio stations
- Rest homes
Prohibited3
- Manufactured or mobile homes as accessory uses
- Storage of unused manufactured or mobile homes
- Buses, trailer sections of tractor-trailer combinations or any other vehicle or portion thereof designed to transport people or goods on highways as accessory uses (unless defined as temporary use)
Extracted standards
10 individual requirements pulled out of this section’s prose, each with the sentence it came from.
Other
- AccessoryAccessory useA secondary activity customarily incidental to the main use of the lot — a garage, a home office. structure floor area limit50 pct
The total floor area of all accessory structures shall be less than fifty (50) percent of that of the principal structure.
- AccessoryAccessory useA secondary activity customarily incidental to the main use of the lot — a garage, a home office. structure front setbackSetbackThe distance a building must be held back from a lot line.
The front setback of all accessory structures shall equal or exceed that of the main structure.
- AccessoryAccessory useA secondary activity customarily incidental to the main use of the lot — a garage, a home office. building heightMaximum heightThe tallest a building may be, given in feet, in storeys, or both — whichever binds first. relative to main building
All accessory buildings shall not exceed the main building in height.
- AccessoryAccessory useA secondary activity customarily incidental to the main use of the lot — a garage, a home office. building heightMaximum heightThe tallest a building may be, given in feet, in storeys, or both — whichever binds first. near party lot line1 story
Accessory buildings which are situated within ten (10) feet of any party lot line shall not be more than one story in height.
- AccessoryAccessory useA secondary activity customarily incidental to the main use of the lot — a garage, a home office. structure minimum distance to property line3 ft
No accessory building may be closer than three (3) feet to any property line.
- Corner lot side yardYardThe open space left between a building and its lot line — the space a setback creates. facing side street25 ft
The minimum side yard facing the direction of the side street shall be twenty-five (25) feet or more for both main and accessory buildings.
- Dwelling unitDwelling unitOne independent home: its own kitchen, bathroom and entrance. heightMaximum heightThe tallest a building may be, given in feet, in storeys, or both — whichever binds first. exception45 ft
Dwelling units may be increased to a height of forty-five (45) feet and up to three (3) stories provided each side yard is ten (10) feet plus an additional one foot for each additional foot of building height exceeding thirty-five (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 (4) feet above the height of the building on which the walls rest.
- Public and semi-public building heightMaximum heightThe tallest a building may be, given in feet, in storeys, or both — whichever binds first. exception60 ft
Public and semi-public buildings may be erected to a height of sixty (60) feet from grade provided that required front, side, and rear yards be increased by one foot for each additional foot of height exceeding thirty-five (35) feet.
Private, noncommercial towers for personal use may be erected no closer to any exterior property line than the total height of the tower structure above grade.
From the ordinance
Office and Professional District B-3: permitted uses, special use permits, setbacks, height, and corner lot provisions.
Use details
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"dropped_conditions": {
"permitted_uses": [
"Professional office buildings for architects, engineers, surveyors, insurance agents, doctors, bankers and financial advisors, attorneys, real estate brokers and agents, and similar uses provided that less than 2,000 square feet of floor area is used, there is no commercial display of goods or drive-in window facilities"
]
}
}