B-3
Dimensional standards
Height & bulk
- Minimum landscaping
- 3%
Servicing
- Geographic extent
- Generally near intersections and interchanges on arterial thoroughfares
Uses
Permitted by right26
- Automobile service stations and self-service stations
- Automobile or truck, truck trailer or bus sales, service and repair
- Automobile or truck parts sales
- Banks or savings and loan offices
- Barber shops or beauty parlors
- Bicycle sales and repair shops
- Car wash or automobile laundry
- Facilities and structures necessary for rendering public utility service
- Farmers market
- Garden center
- Hotel, motel, motor lodge or tourist home
- Ice storage and distributing station
- Motorcycle or off-road vehicle sales and service
- Muffler sales and installation
- Offices, general business or professional
- Rental of luggage trailers
- Restaurants, drive-in or otherwise
- Convenience stores
- Retail sales of accessories, beverages, drugs, food, jewelry, souvenirs, sporting goods and similar products in conjunction with other travel-related businesses
- Telephone station or booth
- Theaters, community rooms, museums and galleries and other places for assembly
- Temporary stands, or outdoor areas or temporary truck parking, for sale of produce, Christmas trees, wreaths, holly and the like
- Tire sales and installation
- Truck stop
- Winery
- Wireless communication facilities
Conditional / special use3
- General advertising sign (special exception)
- Public or governmental buildings and uses
- Facilities and structures necessary for rendering public utility service (buildings, treatment plants, water storage tanks, pumping or regulator stations, major transmission lines, storage yards and substations)
Accessory3
Extracted standards
18 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 condition
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 exempt structures (belfries, cupolas, etc.)125 ft
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 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
- 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 lots within setbackSetbackThe distance a building must be held back from a lot line.3 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 heightMaximum heightThe tallest a building may be, given in feet, in storeys, or both — whichever binds first. of screening fence/hedge 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.
- Stormwater 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.
Setback
- Side yards required only if adjacent to residential districtZoning districtA mapped area with one set of rules, identified by a code like R-1 or B-2.
Side yards are required only if adjacent to a residential district.
Signage
- Maximum detached sign area150 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 one hundred fifty (150) square feet and limited in height to thirty-five (35) 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.35 ft
limited in height to thirty-five (35) 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
- Maximum aggregate 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 sign with sign area of more than two hundred (200) square feet.
- Maximum individual flat sign area200 sqftsq ftSquare feet. An acre is 43,560 sq ft; a typical suburban lot is 7,000–10,000.
no one sign with sign area of more than two hundred (200) square feet.
- Maximum marquee sign area10 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 ten (10) square feet.
- Maximum off-premises directional sign area50 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 fifty (50) square feet and subject to approval of location, design and wording by the administrator.
- Maximum projecting sign area50 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 fifty (50) square feet.
Use
- Similar uses permitted
Other retail, service, commercial and recreational uses which, in the opinion of the administrator, are of the same general character as those permitted uses listed above shall be permitted provided that these and the above specified stores, shops or businesses shall be retail and service establishments primarily selling new merchandise (except antiques) and rendering a personal service and shall be permitted only in accord with the development standards of this chapter.
From the ordinance
The purpose of the highway service business district, B-3, is to provide appropriate locations for uses which offer sleeping accommodations, food, auto services and truck services to the traveling public, local, commercial and tourist, generally near intersections and interchanges on arterial thoroughfares.