Carbon Hill City Zoning Code
ARTICLE V
Business District
§ 330-28 Preamble.
Business District regulations are intended to govern the locations and uses of a full range of business and commercial establishments needed to serve the citizens of the Village and its trade area.
§ 330-29 Business District provisions.
Unless otherwise provided in the regulations of this chapter, the following provisions shall apply to the Business District:
A.
Dwelling units. Dwelling units and lodging rooms are not permitted on the ground floor level except in a permitted hotel or motel; in a dwelling existing on the effective date of this chapter; or in a single-family dwelling designed as an integral part of a building, the principal use of which is a permitted or conditional permitted use, and when occupied by the proprietor of such use.
C.
Performance standards. All activities shall conform with the performance standards established for the M1 Manufacturing District, provided that performance standards shall in every case be applied at the boundaries of the lot on which any such activities take place.
D.
Parking limitations. Parking of trucks when accessory to the conduct of a permitted use shall be limited to vehicles having not over 1 1/2 tons capacity, except for pick-up or delivery services during normal business hours.
E.
Permitted uses.
Amusement establishments: bowling alleys, billiard parlors, swimming pools, clubs and recreation centers, and other recreation uses as approved by the Board of Trustees |
Art galleries and antique shops |
Art and school supply stores |
Auction rooms |
Automobile accessory stores and service stations |
Automobile and truck sales or rental establishments |
Bakeries |
Banks and financial institutions |
Barber shops and beauty parlors |
Boat sales, rentals, storage and repair |
Book, stationery, and office supply stores |
Building material sales with outdoor storage, when the area for outside storage is completely surrounded by a uniformly painted solid fence or wall not over eight feet in height and no storage shall project higher than the height of the fence or wall |
Business machine sales and service |
Camera and photographic supply stores |
Candy and ice cream stores |
Catalogue sales stores and mail order service stores |
Clothing stores |
Clubs or lodges: private, fraternal, or religious |
Coin and philatelic stores |
Currency exchange |
Department stores |
Drugstores |
Dry-cleaning and laundry establishments, including self-service coin operated equipment |
Feed, fertilizer and seed sales |
Flower and gift shops |
Frozen food stores, including locker rental |
Furniture stores, including upholstering |
Furrier shops, including the incidental storage and conditioning of furs |
Garages, including painting, body and fender work and motor rebuilding |
Greenhouses and garden supply stores |
Grocery stores, supermarkets, meat and fish markets and delicatessens |
Hardware stores; retail and wholesale |
Hobby and toy shops |
Household appliance stores, including radio and television repair |
Interior decorating shops |
Jewelry stores |
Laboratories, medical, dental or optical |
Leather goods and luggage stores |
Live bait stores |
Liquor stores, package |
Loan offices |
Locksmith shops |
Machinery and equipment sales establishments, construction and agriculture |
Machine, sheet metal, or welding shops, provided a building for such use shall contain not more than 5,000 square feet of floor area, and operations are within the enclosed building, and glare from welding operations is not visible from outside the building |
Magazine and news stores |
Millinery shops |
Mobile homes and trailer sales establishments |
Motels and hotels |
Music stores: phonographs, phonograph records, sheet music, musical instrument sales and repair |
Offices |
Paint and wallpaper stores |
Pet shops |
Photography studios, including developing and printing of photographs |
Picture framing |
Plumbing, electrical or heating, fixture and equipment: sales, service and repair establishments |
Radio and television broadcasting studios, tower |
Restaurants |
Shoe stores |
Shoe and hat repair stores and tailor shops |
Sporting goods stores |
Taverns |
Theaters |
Tobacco shops |
Travel bureaus and ticket offices |
Undertaking establishments |
Vending machines |
Accessory uses customary incidental to the above-permitted uses, including but not limited to off-street parking, off-street loading and business signs as herein regulated and a dwelling unit designed as an integral part of a building which is a permitted or conditional permitted use in this district and when occupied by the proprietor of such use |
Dwellings existing on the effective date of this chapter |
F.
Conditional permitted uses.
(1)
Other uses similar to the above-permitted uses.
(2)
Animal hospitals on a lot not less than 20,000 square feet in area.
(3)
Automobile laundries on a lot not less than 20,000 square feet in area.
(4)
Cartage, express and parcel delivery establishments, not including motor freight terminals, on a lot not less than one acre in area.
(5)
Grain elevators and grain storage facilities.
(6)
Radio and television towers, receiving or transmitting.
(7)
Accessory uses customarily incidental to the above conditional permitted uses, including but not limited to off-street parking, off-street loading and signs as herein regulated.
G.
Lot area and lot width. Minimum lot area and lot width shall be in accordance with bulk and off-street parking and loading requirements of the district or as specifically required for certain conditional permitted uses.
H.
Yards.
(1)
Front yard. No yard requirements, except where the front lot line is across the street from a Residence District, a front yard not less than 20 feet in depth shall be provided.
(2)
Side yard. No yard requirements, except where a side lot line adjoins a Residence District, a side yard not less than 10 feet in width shall be provided.
(3)
Rear yard. No yard requirements, except where the rear lot line adjoins a Residence District, a rear yard not less than 20 feet in depth shall be provided, and be maintained as landscaped area.
I.
Floor area ratio: not to exceed 1.0.
J.
Building height: no height limitations.
K.
Awnings, marquees and signs. Awnings, marquees and nonflashing illuminated business signs with no moving parts are permitted subject to applicable regulations set forth in other ordinances of the Village and the following:
(1)
A sign in direct line of vision of any traffic signal shall not have red, green or amber illumination.
(2)
The gross surface area in square feet of all signs on a lot shall be not more than three times the number of linear feet in the length of the building wall facing the front lot line. On a corner or through lot, each lot line adjoining a street shall be considered a separate front lot line.
(3)
All signs shall be affixed against the building walls and not extend therefrom more than 12 inches.
[Amended at time of adoption of Code (see Ch. 1, General Provisions, Art. IV)]
(4)
A sign affixed to a building shall not project higher than five feet above the building height.
(5)
Awnings and marquees shall have headroom of not less than eight feet.