It is the purpose of the B-1 district to provide for convenience business services, sales, and related uses. It is further intended that this district will be located in such a manner that it can conveniently serve the market area for which it was designed and so that it is compatible with adjacent neighborhoods.

(Ord. 149 Art. 12 §1, 1973)

The following uses are permitted by right in the B-1 district: Limited business uses, including but not limited to the following:

(A)

Banks, savings and loan, and finance companies;

(B)

Churches and church facilities;

(C)

Medical and dental laboratories;

(D)

Offices and clinics;

(E)

Municipal buildings;

(F)

Parking lots and parking garages;

(G)

Personal service shops;

(H)

Public and private schools;

(I)

Public utility installations excluding repair, storage, and production facilities;

(J)

Commercial recreational uses and theaters, indoor;

(K)

Restaurants and other eating and drinking places where food is primarily consumed indoors or at outdoor tables. Drive-ins where food is consumed primarily in autos or off-premises are not included;

(L)

Retail stores;

(M)

Accessory buildings and uses; and

(N)

Sexually oriented businesses.

(Ord. 149 Art. 12 §2, 1973; Ord. 1219 §2, 1997; Ord. 1682 §2, 2002)

The following uses are permitted by special review in the B-1 district: Special business uses, such as the following, which might involve unusual environmental problems:

(A)

Gas stations or service station facilities;

(B)

Commercial recreational uses, outdoor;

(C)

Restaurants and other eating and drinking places, outdoor, including drive-in restaurants;

(D)

Undertaking establishments;

(E)

Planned unit developments (PUD). Commercial and multifamily residential planned unit developments where there is residential use on second or higher floors with the ground floor being a business use;

(F)

Hotels and motels;

(G)

Membership clubs;

(H)

Hospitals;

(I)

Printing and newspaper offices;

(J)

Public uses as follows:

(1)

Water facilities, including storage,

(2)

Wastewater treatment facilities, and

(3)

Related facilities;

(K)

Child day-care facilities;

(L)

Tattoo parlors;

(M)

Wireless communications towers; and

(N)

Flea markets.

(Ord. 149 Art. 12 §3, 1973; Ord. 257 Art. 1 §3(part), 1975; Ord. 968 §10, 1993; Ord. 1162 §1, 1995; Ord. 1194 §2, 1996; Ord. 1514 §3, 2000; Ord. 1682 §2, 2002)

(Ord. No. 2123, § 10, 5-12-20; Ord. No. 2198, § 2, 9-27-22)

The following lot, yard, and related requirements shall be minimum requirements in the B-1 district:

(A)

Twenty-five feet from any street right-of-way and twenty-five feet from any alley centerline;

(B)

A landscaped area of at least ten feet in width shall be provided adjacent to any street abutting the commercial site;

(C)

If across the street from a residential district, a landscaped area not less than twenty-five feet in width shall be provided paralleling the right-of-way;

(D)

Curb cuts may be permitted through the landscaped area;

(E)

When abutting a residential district, the yard between the zone district boundary and any building shall be not less than three times the height of the proposed building. In addition, a solid fence six feet high shall be constructed on the zone district boundary. The city manager or his or her designee may require an eight-foot-high solid fence if there is at least a two-foot difference in the average elevation of the lots on either side of the district boundary between the B-1 district and the residential district; and

(F)

Large parking areas in excess of fifty spaces shall, in addition to the landscaping required along the street in the setback area, also be screened by a low decorative masonry wall of three to four feet in height or earth mounds of an equal height that are landscaped. Said screening to occur between the parking area and the street, unless the parking lot is not viewable from the street. Landscaping shall also be provided within these large parking areas. This landscaped area shall represent not less than 5% of the total asphalted or paved parking area. The required setback landscaping shall not be considered as a part of the required parking area landscaping. Alternatively, for developments meeting the threshold as defined in section 17-70-020, the development shall be subject to the landscape requirements as defined in Chapter 17-70.

(Ord. 149 Art. 12 §4, 1973; Ord. 669 §1, 1986)

(Ord. No. 2215, § 3, 8-22-23)

Buildings in the B-1 district shall not exceed a height of forty feet unless approved by the city in accordance with chapter 17-30.

(Ord. 149 Art. 12 §5, 1973)

Use of land in the B-1 district shall also conform to the parking, loading, signing, landscaping and other provisions of this title.

(Ord. 149 Art. 12 §6, 1973)

(Ord. No. 2215, § 3, 8-22-23)