The B-2 General Business Districts are designed to provide sites for more diversified business types which would often be incompatible with the pedestrian movement in the community business district.

(Ord. No. 401, § 1100, 5-2-2005)

In a B-2 General Business District, no building or land shall be used and no building shall be erected except for one or more of the following specified uses unless otherwise provided in this article:

(1)

Any retail business or service establishment permitted in B-1 districts as principal uses permitted and uses permitted subject to special conditions, unless otherwise noted.

(2)

Farm equipment and machinery sales.

(3)

Auto wash, when completely enclosed in a building.

(4)

Bus passenger stations.

(5)

Laundry and dry cleaning establishments performing their operation on the site.

(6)

New and used car salesroom, showroom, office and repair garages.

(7)

Publicly owned buildings, telephone exchange buildings and public utility offices, but not including storage yards, transformer stations, substations, or gas regulator stations.

(8)

Other uses similar to the above uses.

(9)

Accessory structures and uses customarily incidental to the above-permitted use, as determined by the city council.

(10)

Nursing care facility for the elderly, subject to section 44-520.

(Ord. No. 401, § 1101, 5-2-2005; Ord. No. 483, 8-16-2021)

The following uses shall be permitted subject to the conditions hereinafter imposed for each use and subject to the review and approval of the planning commission:

(1)

Outdoor sales space for exclusive sale of new or used automobiles, farm equipment and machinery, house trailers or rental of trailers and/or automobiles, subject to the conditions of section 44-711(18).

(2)

Motels, subject to the conditions of section 44-711(16).

(3)

Drive-in or open front stores, subject to the conditions of section 44-711(9).

(4)

Veterinary hospitals or clinics, subject to the conditions of section 44-711(25).

(5)

Plant material nurseries for the retail sale of plant materials not grown on the site, and sales of lawn furniture, playground equipment and garden supplies, subject to the conditions of section 44-711(21).

(6)

Recreational areas, subject to the conditions of section 44-711(23).

(7)

Sexually oriented businesses, subject to the conditions of section 44-711(24).

(8)

Communication towers affixed directly to the ground, subject to the conditions of section 44-711(6).

(9)

Communication towers affixed to existing structures, subject to the conditions of section 44-711(5).

(10)

Overhead or underground lines and necessary poles and towers to be erected to service primarily those areas beyond the city. Such review shall consider abutting property and uses as they relate to easements, rights-of-way, overhead lines, poles and towers and, further, shall consider injurious effects on property abutting or adjacent thereto and on the orderly appearance of the city. Essential services primarily for residents of the city shall be subject to the provisions of section 44-538.

(11)

Provisioning centers and safety compliance facilities, as medical marihuana facilities, and subject to the conditions of article IV, chapter 8 of City of Caro Ordinances, sections 8-29 to 8-30.

(12)

Adult use marihuana retailers and marihuana safety compliance facilities subject to the conditions of chapter 8 of City of Caro Ordinances, sections 8-50 to 8-68.

(13)

Accessory buildings and uses customarily incidental to any of the above-permitted uses.

(14)

Drive-up automated teller machine (ATM) shall provide an on-site area for the stacking of six vehicles per ATM with, at a minimum, the first space shall be concrete. The drive-up automated teller machine must comply with articles XVII, XVIII, and XXIV of this chapter and section 44-711.

(15)

Ministorage facilities, subject to the condition of section 44-711(28).

(16)

Residential units within commercial structures, except on the main floor. Subject to section 44-711(26).

(Ord. No. 401, § 1102, 5-2-2005; Ord. No. 403, 6-6-2005; Ord. No. 415, § 1, 10-1-2007; Ord. No. 433, § 1102, 9-20-2010; Ord. No. 475, § 4, 12-2-2019; Ord. No. 483, 8-16-2021; Ord. No. 479, 5-17-2023)

For area and bulk requirements, see article XVII of this chapter, Schedule of Regulations, limiting the height and bulk of buildings, the minimum size of lot by permitted land use, and providing minimum yard setback requirements.

(Ord. No. 401, § 1103, 5-2-2005)