B-2
Dimensional standards
Height & bulk
- Minimum landscaping
- 3%
Housing
Uses
Permitted by right38
- Any use permitted in the B-1 local business district
- Animal hospital or kennel (with open pens at least 200 ft from residential)
- Automobile service station (with underground storage of inflammable liquids)
- Automobile or truck, truck trailer or bus sales, service and repair (excluding auto salvage or junk)
- Automobile or truck parts sales, wholesale or retail
- Automobile storage lot, new or used cars
- Automobile used car lot, or used truck sales
- Bakeries, wholesale or retail
- Boat and boat trailer sales and storage
- Bottling works, dyeing and cleaning works, linen service, laundry, furniture refinishing, plumbing, electrical and heating shop, painting shop, upholstering shop, shoe repair, tinsmithing shop, tire sales and service, appliance repairs, and general service and repair establishments
- Car wash or automobile laundry (with reservoir space for at least 10 vehicles per washing lane)
- Exterminating establishment
- Farm supply and service establishments, implement sales, rental and service, feed and seed store, milk depots and creameries, fertilizer storage
- Fortune teller, palmist, astrologist, numerologist, clairvoyant, craniologist, phrenologist, card reader, spiritual reader or similar activity
- Garages, parking, storage or repair
- Greenhouses, commercial, wholesale or retail
- Hotel, motel, motor lodge or tourist home
- Ice storage and distributing station (not more than 5 tons capacity)
- Janitorial service establishment
- Lawnmower, yard and garden equipment, rental, sales and service
- Lumber and building materials store, wholesale or retail (but not a lumber yard)
- Material storage or sales yards (in connection with a permitted use, with screening requirements)
- Manufactured home sales, display and storage, or sales, rental, display and storage of travel trailers, motor homes, travel vans, and campers (with conditions)
- Monument sales establishments
- Motorcycle or off-road vehicle sales and service
- Muffler sales and installation
- Peanut buying station
- Plumbing and electrical supplies, wholesale or retail
- Printing, publishing and engraving establishments, photographic processing or blueprinting
- Private club, lodge, meeting or assembly hall or fraternal organization or sorority
- Radio and television stations and studios or recording studios (towers up to 125 ft)
- Recreation facilities, indoor or outdoor (theaters, bowling alleys, dance halls, skating rinks, swimming pools, miniature golf, billiard parlors, game centers, tennis, model racing tracks, etc.)
- Rental of luggage trailers (but not truck trailer bodies except campers and travel trailers)
- Sign fabricating and painting shop
- Taxidermists
- Tire sales and installation
- Wholesale brokerage or storage establishments (with floor area for storage limited to 20,000 sq ft)
- Wireless communication facilities per section 18-427
Conditional / special use8
- Auction barn
- Convenience store with more than 24 fuel dispensing nozzles or any nozzle exceeding 5/8 inch diameter
- Firewood operation
- Outdoor sales area or flea market
- Public or governmental buildings and uses (offices, libraries, schools, fire stations, parks, etc.)
- Radio and television towers more than 125 feet in height
- Facilities and structures for public utility service that are buildings, treatment plants, water storage tanks, pumping or regulator stations, major transmission lines, storage yards and substations
- General advertising sign (special exception)
Accessory2
- Storage of office supplies, merchandise or equipment normally carried in stock or used in connection with a permitted use
- Signs as regulated in section 18-224
Extracted standards
18 individual requirements pulled out of this section’s prose, each with the sentence it came from.
Height
- Condition for heightMaximum heightThe tallest a building may be, given in feet, in storeys, or both — whichever binds first. increase to 45 ft and 3 storiesStoreysHabitable floor levels. Whether a basement or attic counts is defined by the local code.
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. of radio/TV towers without conditional useConditional useAllowed only after a discretionary approval — usually a public hearing and a board vote. permit125 ft
towers more than one hundred twenty-five (125) feet in height except with a conditional use permit.
Other
- Maximum heightMaximum heightThe tallest a building may be, given in feet, in storeys, or both — whichever binds first. of landscaping 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
- Maximum floor area for storage in wholesale brokerage20,000 sqftsq ftSquare feet. An acre is 43,560 sq ft; a typical suburban lot is 7,000–10,000.
floor area devoted to storage or warehousing limited to twenty thousand (20,000) square feet.
- Minimum heightMaximum heightThe tallest a building may be, given in feet, in storeys, or both — whichever binds first. of screening for material storage yards6 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 screening for manufactured homeManufactured homeA dwelling built in a factory to a federal standard and transported to the site. sales8 ft
separated from the display area by a continuous visual screen with a minimum height of eight (8) feet
- 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.
Parking
- Reservoir spaces per washing lane10 vehicles
providing reservoir space for not less than ten (10) vehicles for each washing lane
Setback
- Minimum distance of open pens from residential districtZoning districtA mapped area with one set of rules, identified by a code like R-1 or B-2.200 ft
any open pens at least two hundred (200) feet from any residential district.
- 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 area for detached sign in shopping center250 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 or businesses ... may combine permitted detached sign area ... if the combined sign area does not exceed two hundred fifty (250) square feet.
- Maximum area for detached signs150 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 heightMaximum heightThe tallest a building may be, given in feet, in storeys, or both — whichever binds first. for detached signs35 ft
limited in height to thirty-five (35) feet
- Maximum area for directional signs8 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
- Maximum area for flat signs painted on walls200 sqftsq ftSquare feet. An acre is 43,560 sq ft; a typical suburban lot is 7,000–10,000.
signs painted on walls shall not exceed two hundred (200) square feet in area.
- Maximum area for marquee signs10 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 ten (10) square feet.
- Maximum area for off-premise directional signs50 sqftsq ftSquare feet. An acre is 43,560 sq ft; a typical suburban lot is 7,000–10,000.
Signs at appropriate locations ... limited in area to fifty (50) square feet
- Maximum area for projecting signs50 sqftsq ftSquare feet. An acre is 43,560 sq ft; a typical suburban lot is 7,000–10,000.
Projecting signs ... sign area limited to fifty (50) square feet.
From the ordinance
The purpose of the general business district, B-2, is to provide sufficient space in appropriate locations for a wide variety of retail, commercial, agricultural service, automotive, and miscellaneous recreational and service activities...
Use details
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"Facilities and structures necessary for rendering public utility service (poles, wires, transformers, telephone booths, underground pipelines/conduits) but not including buildings, treatment plants, water storage tanks, pumping or regulator stations, major transmission lines, storage yards and substations"
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