B-2
Dimensional standards
Height & bulk
Housing
Servicing
- Applies near
- urban development area
- Geographic extent
- Urban development area designated in the comprehensive planComprehensive planThe long-range policy document zoning is meant to implement; it is not itself binding law.
Uses
Permitted by right31
- Retail food stores
- Bakeries
- Dry cleaners
- Laundries
- Wearing apparel stores
- Drugstores
- Barbershops and beauty shops
- Auto and home appliance services
- Theaters, assembly halls
- Hotels, motels
- Office buildings
- Churches
- Libraries
- Hospitals, general
- Funeral homes
- Service stations, with major repair under cover
- Clubs and lodges
- Auto sales and service
- Lumber and building supply, with storage under cover
- Plumbing and electrical supply, with storage under cover
- Machinery sales and services
- Public utilities
- Off-street parking as required by this chapter
- Business signs
- General advertising signs
- Location signs
- Farming and agricultural
- Apartments (including residential units located above other uses) and townhouses, in an urban development area designated in the comprehensive plan
- Self-service storage facilities
- Short term rental
- Golf courses, golf driving ranges
Conditional / special use15
- Wholesale and processing not objectionable because of dust, noise or odors
- Public billiard parlors and pool rooms, bowling alleys, dance halls and similar forms of public amusement
- Facilities, activities and operations that are provided by a duly constituted unit of government
- Outdoor amusement/entertainment areas
- Tobacco warehouses
- Trailer and semitrailer storage area
- Boat storage or repair facilities
- Driver training schools
- Housing for the elderly
- Residential human care facility
- Special care facility
- Commercial firing range, indoor
- Community centers
- Campground
- Short term rental with shared amenities or if hunting is allowed
Extracted standards
10 individual requirements pulled out of this section’s prose, each with the sentence it came from.
Height
Church spires, belfries, cupolas, monuments, water towers, chimneys, flues, flagpoles, television antennas and radio aerials are exempt.
- Maximum 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.1 storiesStoreysHabitable floor levels. Whether a basement or attic counts is defined by the local code.
No accessory building shall be more than one story high. All accessory buildings shall be less than the main building in height.
- Maximum heightMaximum heightThe tallest a building may be, given in feet, in storeys, or both — whichever binds first. for public/semipublic buildings60 ft
A public or semipublic building such as a school or church may be erected to a height of 60 feet from grade; provided, that required front, side and rear yards be increased one foot in height over 35 feet.
- Maximum heightMaximum heightThe tallest a building may be, given in feet, in storeys, or both — whichever binds first. in urban development area45 ft
Structures in an urban development area designated in the comprehensive plan may be erected up to 45 feet in height from grade.
- Maximum 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 buildings on which the walls rest.
Other
- Minimum area for individual water supply/sewage disposal
minimum area for uses utilizing individual water supply or sewage disposal systems shall be determined by the zoning administrator in consultation with the department of health.
- Minimum floor areaMinimum floor areaThe smallest dwelling the district permits, in square feet of living space. ratio in urban development area0.4 FARFloor area ratio (FAR)Total floor area divided by lot area — an FAR of 2.0 permits 20,000 sq ft of floor on a 10,000 sq ft lot.
Where mixed use or nonresidential development is located in an urban development area designated in the comprehensive plan, the minimum intensity shall be 0.4 FAR.
- Side yardYardThe open space left between a building and its lot line — the space a setback creates. when adjoining residential/agriculturalAgricultureRaising crops or livestock, generally including the structures that serve them.25 ft
minimum side yard adjoining or adjacent to a residential or agricultural district or parcel shall be 25 feet.
Structures shall be located ten feet or more from any street right-of-way which is 50 feet or greater in width or 35 feet or more from the centerline of any street right-of-way less than 50 feet in width.
Parking
- Parking location in urban development area
In an urban development area designated in the comprehensive plan, no parking is allowed between the building and the street (parking shall be located to the side or rear of the building).
From the ordinance
Generally the business, general, district B-2 covers that portion of the community intended for the conduct of general business...