B-2
Dimensional standards
Uses
Permitted by right27
- Automobile service station
- Billboards or poster panels
- Boat sales
- Building materials sales yard (not including concrete mixing)
- Contractors shop and storage yard
- Department stores
- Drive-in establishments
- Farm implement and machinery sales, service, rental and repair
- Feed and seed sales
- Funeral homes and mortuaries
- Health clubs
- Hotels, motels, motor courts and tourist homes
- Laboratories
- Liquor stores
- Office-warehouses (warehouse area <=10,000 sq ft, no outside storage)
- Mobile home, modular home, motor home and travel trailer sales
- Motor vehicle sales, service, rental, repair and accessory stores
- Professional offices
- Public utility service buildings
- Recreation establishments
- Supermarkets
- Theaters
- Toy stores
- Truck terminals
- Uses permitted in the convenience business district (B-1)
- Variety stores
- Veterinary hospitals, clinics and boarding kennels
Conditional / special use1
- Ground-mounted solar panels and/or solar arrays (with conditional use permit)
Accessory3
- Accessory uses as allowed in B-1
- Other accessory uses customarily accessory and incidental to permitted uses
- Roof mounted solar panels and/or solar array systems of 100 kW or less (by right)
Extracted standards
7 individual requirements pulled out of this section’s prose, each with the sentence it came from.
Other
- Front setbackSetbackThe distance a building must be held back from a lot line. exception for wide rights-of-way25 ft
except on rights-of-way of 80 feet or greater, the buildings and structures need to be back only 25 feet from the established or proposed right-of-way
- Additional yardYardThe open space left between a building and its lot line — the space a setback creates. required for building heightMaximum heightThe tallest a building may be, given in feet, in storeys, or both — whichever binds first. over 40 ft or 3 storiesStoreysHabitable floor levels. Whether a basement or attic counts is defined by the local code.
one foot shall be added to each yard for each three feet that the building height adjacent thereto exceeds 40 feet or three stories, whichever is less
- Maximum number of persons engaged in production of goods for retail sale on premises15 persons
Goods may be produced for retail sale on premises, provided not more than 15 persons are engaged in such production.
- YardYardThe open space left between a building and its lot line — the space a setback creates. exception adjacent to railroad siding
except that where the yards are adjacent to a railroad siding, no yard shall be required
- Rear yardYardThe open space left between a building and its lot line — the space a setback creates. when adjacent to residential districtZoning districtA mapped area with one set of rules, identified by a code like R-1 or B-2.30 ft
All buildings adjacent to residential districts shall observe side and rear yards of 20 and 30 feet, respectively.
- Side yardYardThe open space left between a building and its lot line — the space a setback creates. when adjacent to residential districtZoning districtA mapped area with one set of rules, identified by a code like R-1 or B-2.20 ft
All buildings adjacent to residential districts shall observe side and rear yards of 20 and 30 feet, respectively.
Parking
- Parking, driveway and loading facility setbackSetbackThe distance a building must be held back from a lot line. from right-of-way15 ft
parking, driveway and loading facilities shall be distant at least 15 feet from the established right-of-way line
From the ordinance
In any general business district (B-2), the parking, driveway and loading facilities shall be distant at least 15 feet from the established right-of-way line and the buildings and structures at least 30 feet from such line...