B-2
Dimensional standards
Lot
Height & bulk
Housing
- Two-family
- by_right
Uses
Permitted by right45
- Adult day care facilities
- Art galleries
- Auto service centers
- Banks, savings and loan offices and similar financial services
- Catering businesses
- Churches and other places of worship
- Communications centers and telephone repeater stations
- Contractors' shops, offices and display rooms
- Custom printing and engraving shops
- Day nurseries
- Dry cleaning and laundering establishments
- Dwelling units contained within the same building as other permitted principal uses
- Funeral homes
- Furniture repair and upholstery shops
- Grocery stores, convenience stores and specialty food and beverage stores
- Hospitals
- Hotels and motels
- Janitorial and custodial service and supply establishments
- Laundromats and laundry and dry cleaning pick-up stations
- Libraries, museums, schools, parks and noncommercial recreational facilities
- Motor fuels dispensing in conjunction with other uses
- Nightclubs lawfully existing on effective date
- Office supply, business and office service, photocopy and custom printing establishments
- Offices
- Parking areas and parking lots
- Parking decks
- Personal service businesses
- Pet shops, veterinary clinics and animal hospitals
- Postal and package mailing services
- Private elementary and secondary schools
- Professional, business and vocational schools
- Radio and television broadcasting studios and offices
- Recreation and entertainment uses
- Restaurants, tearooms, cafes, delicatessens, ice cream parlors
- Retail stores and shops
- Rights-of-way, easements and appurtenances
- Sales lots for Christmas trees, vegetable stands and other seasonal uses
- Short-term rental
- Self-service auto washing facilities
- Service businesses
- Service stations
- Shopping centers
- Tourist homes
- Wholesale and distribution establishments
- Wireless communications facilities
Conditional / special use2
Accessory1
- Accessory uses and structures customarily incidental and clearly subordinate to uses permitted in this district, including automated teller machines accessible only from the interior of buildings, but with restrictions on outdoor uses.
Extracted standards
16 individual requirements pulled out of this section’s prose, each with the sentence it came from.
Other
- Minimum lot areaMinimum lot areaThe smallest parcel on which the district allows anything to be built. for auto service center with fuel dispensing10,000 sqftsq ftSquare feet. An acre is 43,560 sq ft; a typical suburban lot is 7,000–10,000.
The area of the lot devoted to such use shall be not less than 10,000 square feet
- Minimum street frontageFrontageThe length of a lot line that touches a public street. for auto service center with fuel dispensing100 ft
no property line coincidental with a street line shall be less than 100 feet in length
- Minimum depth of ground floor commercial area20 ft
shall be not less than 20 feet in depth along the entire length of a principal street frontage
- Minimum ground floor commercial area for dwelling unitsDwelling unitOne independent home: its own kitchen, bathroom and entrance.33.33 pct
the ground floor area devoted to other permitted principal uses shall be a minimum of one-third or 1,000 square feet, whichever is greater
- Minimum lot areaMinimum lot areaThe smallest parcel on which the district allows anything to be built. for hotel/motel25,000 sqftsq ftSquare feet. An acre is 43,560 sq ft; a typical suburban lot is 7,000–10,000.
The area of the lot devoted to such use shall be not less than 25,000 square feet
- Minimum street frontageFrontageThe length of a lot line that touches a public street. for hotel/motel100 ft
no property line coincidental with a street line shall be less than 100 feet in length
- Minimum opaque fence/wall heightMaximum heightThe tallest a building may be, given in feet, in storeys, or both — whichever binds first.4 ft
opaque structural fence or wall not less than four feet in height
- Minimum vegetative screen heightMaximum heightThe tallest a building may be, given in feet, in storeys, or both — whichever binds first.3.5 ft
continuous evergreen vegetative screen not less than 3½ feet in height at the time of installation
- Pump island setbackSetbackThe distance a building must be held back from a lot line. from street or property line20 ft
pump islands for dispensing motor fuels may be located within required yards adjacent to streets, but not within 20 feet of any street or property line
- Minimum distance of outdoor restaurant area from R districtZoning districtA mapped area with one set of rules, identified by a code like R-1 or B-2.100 ft
No deck, patio, terrace or other area outside a completely enclosed building and used for the service or accommodation of patrons shall be situated within 100 feet of any property in any R district
- Maximum storage area in retail store50 pct
not more than 50 percent of the floor area may be devoted to storage of merchandise to be sold at retail on the premises
- Screening distance from street line15 ft
not within 15 feet of any street line
- Minimum lot areaMinimum lot areaThe smallest parcel on which the district allows anything to be built. for self-service auto wash10,000 sqftsq ftSquare feet. An acre is 43,560 sq ft; a typical suburban lot is 7,000–10,000.
The area of the lot devoted to such use shall be not less than 10,000 square feet
- ProhibitedProhibitedNot allowed in the district at all, short of rezoning or a variance. operation hours for self-service auto wash
Such use shall not be operated between the hours of 11:00 p.m. and 7:00 a.m.
- Maximum number of outdoor vending machines2 count
Not more than two vending machines shall be located outside of a completely enclosed building
- Maximum storage area for wholesale/distribution5,000 sqftsq ftSquare feet. An acre is 43,560 sq ft; a typical suburban lot is 7,000–10,000.
Wholesale and distribution establishments with not more than 5,000 square feet of floor area devoted to storage of goods
From the ordinance
No building or structure in the B-2 Community Business District shall exceed 35 feet in height.