B-1
Dimensional standards
Height & bulk
- Minimum landscaping
- 3%
Housing
Uses
Permitted by right32
- Automobile service stations and self-service stations
- Banks or savings and loan offices
- Bakeries (retail on premises)
- Barber shops or beauty parlors
- Bicycle sales and repair shops
- Catering or delicatessen business
- Clinics
- Convenience store (max 24 fuel nozzles)
- Dry-cleaning or pressing pickup stations (max 2,500 sq ft)
- Facilities and structures for public utility service (excluding buildings, treatment plants, etc.)
- Flower shops and greenhouses
- Frozen food lockers
- Funeral home or undertaking establishment
- Hospital or clinic for small animals (enclosed, soundproof)
- Ice distribution stations
- Laundromats or self-service dry-cleaning
- Laundries (max 2,500 sq ft)
- Laundry and dry-cleaning combined (max 5,000 sq ft)
- Nurseries for growing plants
- Nursery schools, kindergartens, child care centers, adult day care
- Offices, general business or professional
- Pet shop or dog beauty parlor (enclosed, soundproof)
- Parking lots, parking spaces, parking areas
- Private club, lodge, meeting hall or fraternal organization
- Restaurants, drive-in or otherwise
- Shoe repairing shops (max 2,500 sq ft)
- Shops for sale, service, repair of home appliances, etc. (max 2,500 sq ft)
- Stores or shops for retail business
- Studios or shops for artists, photographers, etc.
- Telephone station or booth
- Temporary stands for produce, Christmas trees, etc.
- Wireless communication facilities (per section 18-427)
Conditional / special use5
- Adult establishments (with conditional use permit, 2,640 ft from church, school, residence)
- Billiard parlor, pool hall, card room, electronic game center
- Institutions, educational or philanthropic (museums, art galleries, libraries)
- Public or governmental buildings and uses
- Public utility buildings, treatment plants, water storage tanks, pumping or regulator stations, major transmission lines, storage yards and substations
Extracted standards
20 individual requirements pulled out of this section’s prose, each with the sentence it came from.
Height
- Maximum heightMaximum heightThe tallest a building may be, given in feet, in storeys, or both — whichever binds first. for exempt structures125 ft
Church spires, belfries, cupolas, monuments, water towers, chimneys, flues, flag poles, television antennae and radio aerials less than one hundred twenty-five (125) feet in height are exempt.
- Maximum heightMaximum heightThe tallest a building may be, given in feet, in storeys, or both — whichever binds first. with increase45 ft
The height limit for buildings may be increased ten (10) feet and up to three (3) stories; provided, that where a use is adjacent to a residential district there is a side yard which is fifty (50) feet or more plus one (1) foot or more of side yard for each additional foot of building height over thirty-five (35) feet.
- Maximum heightMaximum heightThe tallest a building may be, given in feet, in storeys, or both — whichever binds first. for public or semi-public buildings60 ft
A public or semi-public building such as a school or library may be erected to a height of sixty (60) feet from grade; provided, that required front, side and rear yards shall be increased one (1) foot for each foot in height over thirty-five (35) feet.
- Maximum parapet wall heightMaximum heightThe tallest a building may be, given in feet, in storeys, or both — whichever binds first. above building4 ft
Parapet walls may be up to four (4) feet above the height of the building on which the walls rest.
Other
- Minimum distance from churchReligious facilityA building used for organised worship, often with halls and schools attached., school, or residence for adult establishments2,640 ft
provided that such uses shall not be located within two thousand six hundred forty (2,640) lineal feet of any church, school or residence.
- Storm water drainage requirement
Provision shall be made for proper storm water drainage from parking and loading areas. Water shall not be permitted to drain from such areas onto adjacent property except into a natural watercourse or a drainage easement. Provision shall be made for protection against erosion and sedimentation in accord with applicable county ordinances.
- Landscaping requirement
Any part of the lot or project area not used for buildings or other structures, parking, loading and accessways, shall be maintained in a neat and orderly condition landscaped with grass, trees, shrubs or pedestrian walks or maintained as crops or natural forest, or as a lake or pond.
- Maximum heightMaximum heightThe tallest a building may be, given in feet, in storeys, or both — whichever binds first. of landscaping features on corner lots3 ft
Landscaping of corner lots shall be limited to plantings, fences or other landscaping features of no more than three (3) feet in height within the space between the setback line and the property line on the street side of the lot.
- Maximum percentage of floor area for storage50 pct
no more than fifty (50) percent of the floor area of any building shall be used for the storage of merchandise.
- Minimum screening fence heightMaximum heightThe tallest a building may be, given in feet, in storeys, or both — whichever binds first. for exterior storage6 ft
there shall be no exterior storage of merchandise or materials unless these are enclosed within a masonry wall, screening fence, hedge or landscape screen not less than six (6) feet in height.
- Side yardYardThe open space left between a building and its lot line — the space a setback creates. requirement
Side yards are required only if adjacent to a residential district.
Signage
- Maximum combined detached sign area for shopping center100 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 (100) 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, if there are no projecting signs, limited in area to fifty (50) square feet and limited in height to thirty (30) 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.30 ft
limited in height to thirty (30) feet
- Maximum directional sign area8 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 eight (8) 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 two hundred (200) 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 off-premises directional sign area32 sqftsq ftSquare feet. An acre is 43,560 sq ft; a typical suburban lot is 7,000–10,000.
Signs at appropriate locations, on or off the premises, for direction of the traveling public, truck deliveries and employees to an activity or event, a church, school, historic place, subdivision or community, a construction site or excavation, airport or other center of employment or visitor center or recreation facility in an isolated area of the county, limited in area to thirty-two (32) square feet and subject to approval of location, design and wording by the administrator.
- Maximum projecting sign area32 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 thirty-two (32) square feet.
- Maximum single 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.
From the ordinance
The purpose of the local business district, B-1, is to provide sufficient space in appropriate locations for a variety of retail shopping, office uses, and miscellaneous service activities...