Centralia City Zoning Code
ARTICLE V
"B-1" Central Business District
Section 31-25 Use regulations. [1]
[Ord. No. 738 § 9, 1-9-1961; Ord. No. 1423 §§ 4-5, 3-21-1988; Ord. No. 1603 §§ 16-20, 3-18-1991; Ord. No. 1736 § 1, 4-19-1993; Ord. No. 1788 § 1, 3-30-1994; Ord. No. 2351 §§ 1 — 2, 6-20-2005; Ord. No. 2365 § 1, 8-15-2005; Ord. No. 2382 §§ 4 — 5, 12-19-2005; Ord. No. 2394 § 3, 2-21-2006; Ord. No. 2704 § 1, 10-15-2012]
A.
Permitted Uses. In District "B-1", no building, structure, land or premises shall be used, and no building or structure shall be hereafter erected, constructed, reconstructed or altered, except for one (1) or more of the following uses; which shall concern retail or service establishments exclusively without curb service:
1.
Any use permitted in District "R-3"; and any conditional use allowed in District "R-3", it being the intent to provide that any conditional use in District "R-3" is a permitted use in District "B-1" without need to meet the provisions of Section 31-65.
2.
Identification or advertising signs, subject to the following conditions:
[Ord. No. 2862 § 1, 7-18-2016]
a.
Advertising signs shall advertise only services, articles, or products which are offered within the building for which such signs are displayed.
c.
An attached sign shall not extend above any of the outside walls of the building to which it is attached; provided, however, that if the building has a mansard-style roof, the sign shall not extend above the top of the most vertical portion of the roof.
d.
A detached sign shall not extend higher than twenty-five (25) feet.
e.
An attached sign shall not extend more than one (1) foot from the face of the wall to which it is attached; except that a business can print or paint an identifying sign or logo on a canopy or awning which otherwise extends beyond the wall of the building. With the exception of such canopy or awning identification signs, any sign which projects above a sidewalk shall have a clearance of at least eight (8) feet between the lowest portion of the sign and the sidewalk.
3.
Assembly halls.
4.
Bakeries, not employing more than five (5) persons each.
5.
Banks.
6.
Barber and beauty shops.
7.
Business licensed by the State and City to sell malt liquor (intoxicating beer), non-intoxicating beer, intoxicating liquor and/or light wine by the package or by the drink, provided, no businesses shall sell malt liquor, non-intoxicating beer, intoxicating liquor and/or light wine by the package or by the drink within one hundred (100) feet of any school, church or other building regularly used as a place of religious worship, except the one hundred (100) foot restriction shall not apply:
(a)
When such school, church or place of religious worship shall be established within one hundred (100) feet of the premises of any existing business already licensed to sell malt liquor, non-intoxicating beer, intoxicating liquor and/or light wine by the package or by the drink, or
(b)
When the applicant for any of the above said alcoholic beverage licenses obtains the written consent of the Board of Aldermen by ordinance to waive the distance restriction for the applicant's license and licensed premises, provided that at least ten (10) days' written notice concerning the requested waiver of the distance restriction has been provided by the City to all owners of real property within one hundred (100) feet of the proposed licensed premises.
The one hundred (100) foot distance referred to above shall be measured from the closest point in a straight line between the building of the school, church or place regularly used as a place of religious worship and the building of the licensed premises of the business with the said alcoholic beverage license, disregarding any building, structure or other obstacle in between the two (2) buildings being measured. If there is more than one (1) building being used by the school, church or other such place of religious worship for those purposes or if there is more than one (1) building being used by the alcoholic beverage licensee as the licensed premises, then the measurement shall be made from the building closest to the other building being measured.[2] |
8.
Bowling alleys.
9.
Cleaning, pressing and dyeing establishments; provided, that only nonexplosive cleaning fluids shall be used.
10.
Billiard halls and game arcades.
11.
Bus passenger stations.
12.
Clinics (medical or dental).
13.
Dance halls.
14.
Filling stations; provided, all storage tanks for gasoline shall be below the surface of the ground and no opening for the filling or emptying of such gasoline storage tanks shall be within one hundred (100) feet of any use permitted in District "R-1", "R-2" or "R-3".
15.
Frozen food lockers for individual or family use.
16.
Garages, public, provided that storage or parking of motor vehicles in unenclosed motor vehicle storage or parking areas shall be for fully operable passenger automobiles and light trucks only. The City Administrator or his designated representative shall have the right to require the owner or operator of any such unenclosed parking or storage areas to demonstrate that any motor vehicle not in an enclosed area is fully operable.
17.
Ice delivery stations for storage and sale of ice at retail only.
18.
Lodge halls.
19.
Mortuaries.
20.
Newspaper publishing plants.
21.
Offices, business or professional.
22.
Photographic service shops.
23.
Plumbing shops; provided, no material or equipment is stored in the front or side yards.
24.
Printing, photocopying, and/or blue-printing shops.
25.
Radio and television shops or studios.
26.
Restaurants, cafes, cafeterias and nightclubs, including restaurants, cafes and cafeterias selling and/or serving food and/or non-alcoholic beverages to customers seated at chairs and tables belonging to the business, for consumption there, on the premises outside the building within the required front yard or upon a public sidewalk in front of the restaurant, cafe or cafeteria, provided that such customers, tables and chairs be located on the outside premises or public sidewalk so as to provide at all times a minimum four (4) feet wide unobstructed pathway for pedestrians and provided that such customers, tables, chairs, food and non-alcoholic beverages are permitted on the outside premises or public sidewalks of such restaurants, cafes and cafeterias only during the hours of any day that such restaurants, cafes and cafeterias are open for business to the public and further provided that no cooking of food shall be permitted upon a public sidewalk.
27.
Shoe repair shops.
28.
Shops for custom work or the manufacture of articles, to be sold at retail only, on the premises; provided, that in such manufacture the total mechanical power shall not exceed five (5) horsepower for the operation of any one shop, and provided, that the space occupied by the manufacturing use permitted herein shall not exceed fifty (50) percent of the total floor area of the entire building or the equivalent of the ground floor area thereof, and provided, further, that such manufacturing use is not noxious or offensive by reason of vibration, noise, odor, dust, smoke or gas.
29.
Stores, shops and markets for retail trades, including the following allowed at such businesses on the premises outside the building within the required front yard or upon a public sidewalk in front of such businesses, except that no unprotected, unsupervised or open flame cooking of food shall be permitted upon a public sidewalk:
(a)
Sale and/or service of food and/or non-alcoholic beverages to customers seated at chairs and tables belonging to the business, for consumption there.
(b)
Merchandise and other goods displayed and offered for sale,
(c)
Temporary signs or sandwich boards, and
(d)
Decorations for a single specific holiday or season of the year, all upon satisfaction of the requirements that such food and beverage customers, such chairs and tables, such merchandise and goods, such temporary signs and sandwich boards and such decorations:
30.
Telephone exchanges.
31.
Theatres.
32.
Wholesale sales offices and sample rooms.
33.
Ambulance services.
34.
Accessory uses customarily incident to any of the above uses, including air conditioning, ice and refrigerating plants purely incidental to a main activity permitted on the premises, when operated by electricity or gas.
35.
Sexually-oriented business, provided the following provisions are complied with:
(a)
A sexually-oriented business (beginning at a property boundary line of such business) shall not be located within three hundred (300) feet of the property boundary line of any of the following: school (including public school, private school, nursery school, play school and pre-school), church or other building regularly used as a place of religious worship, public park, licensed child day care facility (including day care home, day-care center, child playcare center, child education center and child development institution) or another sexually-oriented business.
(b)
A sexually-oriented business (beginning at a property boundary line of such business) shall not be located within three hundred (300) feet of the property boundary line of any property zoned in District "R-1", District "R-2", District "R-3", District "B-T" or District "M-H".
(c)
The three hundred (300) foot distances referred to above in this paragraph shall be measured in a straight line from the closest point on a property boundary line of the sexually-oriented business to the closest point on a property boundary line of the other property being measured, disregarding any building, structure or other obstruction in between the two (2) property boundary line locations being measured.
B.
Conditional Use. The following uses shall be permitted in District "B-1" only after the issuance of a conditional use permit pursuant to the provisions of Section 31-65: [Ord. No. 2934, 1-22-2018]
1.
Light Manufacturing. In addition to other information required to be submitted as a part of the application for issuance of a conditional use permit as provided in Section 31-65, an applicant for a conditional use in District "B-1" shall submit plans or information concerning the operation of the proposed use, including:
a.
Number of employees,
b.
Sufficiency of and site location of parking, fencing, storage, and handling of materials and products,
c.
Method and frequency of shipping operations,
d.
Generation and emission of noise, vibrations, odors, dust, smoke, gases or other effects of operations which may be noxious, unwholesome, unhealthy or offensive, and
e.
Exterior appearances of all structures, fences and the site.
Limitations relating to the above listed items may be made a part of any stipulated conditions, if a conditional use permit is granted. |
2.
Self-Service Storage Facilities. In addition to other information required to be submitted as a part of the application for issuance of a conditional use permit as provided in Section 31-65, an applicant for a conditional use in District “B-1” shall submit plans or information concerning the operation of the proposed use, including:
a.
Sufficiency of and site location of parking, fencing, storage and handling of materials and products as it relates to traffic generated,
b.
Exterior appearance of all structures, fences and the site, in particular no exterior overhead doors may be allowed except by express permission of the Planning and Zoning Commission or by appeal as allowed in the Centralia City Code 31-65(C)(5).
c.
Lighting.
Limitations relating to the above listed items may be made a part of any stipulated conditions, if a conditional use permit is granted. |
Section 31-26 Height, yard and area regulations. [1]
[Ord. No. 738 § 9, 1-9-1961]
In District "B-1", the height of buildings, the minimum dimensions of lots and yards, and the minimum lot area per family permitted upon any lot shall be as follows; provided, that buildings erected exclusively for dwelling purposes shall comply with the front, side and rear yard requirements of District "R-3":
A.
Height. Buildings or structures shall not exceed one hundred (100) feet and shall not exceed eight (8) stories; except, that where a District "B-1" joins a District "R-3" within the same block, the height shall be decreased to forty-five (45) feet or three (3) stories within that block.
B.
Rear Yards. The depth of the rear yard shall be at least twenty (20) percent of the depth of the lot, but such depth need not be more than twenty (20) feet; except, that on a corner lot no rear yard is required within fifty (50) feet of a side street, unless the rear line adjoins a District "R-1" to "R-3" inclusive.
C.
Front Yards. Same as District "R-1"; provided, that where established buildings in this district within the same block have front yards of less depth, the depth shall be such as will conform to the established front building line.
D.
Side Yards. No side yard required; except, that in the case of a corner lot, there shall be a side yard adjacent to the side street of not less than fifteen (15) feet, and where a side line of a lot in this district abuts upon the side line of a lot in Districts "R-1" to "R-3", inclusive, a side yard of not less than five (5) feet shall be provided.[2]
E.
Width of Lot. The minimum width of a lot shall be fifty (50) feet at the building line, if used exclusively for uses enumerated in Districts "R-1" to "R-3", inclusive; except, as otherwise provided in District "R-1". For other uses the width may be less.
F.
Lot Area Per Family. Same as District "R-3".