The primary purpose of this district is to permit certain industries, which do not in any way detract from residential desirability, to locate in an area adjacent to residential uses. The limitations on (or provisions relating to) height of building, horsepower, heating, flammable liquids or explosives, controlling emission of fumes, odors, and/or noise, landscaping, and the number of persons employed are imposed to protect and foster adjacent residential desirability while permitting industries to locate near a labor supply.

(Ord. of 2-12-1979, § 8(8A))

In B-2 Business Districts, any structure to be erected or land to be used shall be for one or more of the following uses:

(1)

Uses allowable in Business District B-1.

(2)

Assembly of electrical appliances, electronic instruments and devices, radios, and phonographs. Also the manufacture of small parts such as coils, condensers, transformers, and crystal holders.

(3)

Automobile assembling, painting, upholstering, repairing, rebuilding, reconditioning, body and fender work, truck repairing or overhauling, tire retreading or recapping, or battery manufacture.

(4)

Blacksmith shop, welding or machine shop, excluding punch presses exceeding 40-ton rated capacity and drop hammers.

(5)

Laboratories—pharmaceutical and/or medical.

(6)

Manufacture, compounding, processing, packaging, or treatment of such products as bakery goods, candy, cosmetics, dairy products, drugs, perfumes, pharmaceuticals, perfumed toilet soap, toiletries, and food products.

(7)

Manufacturing, compounding, assembling, or treatment of articles of merchandise from the following previously prepared materials: bone cellophane, canvas, cloth, cork, felt, fiber, fur, glass, hair, horn, leather, paper, plastic, precious or semi-precious metals or stone, shell, straw, textiles, tobacco, wood, yarn, and paint.

(8)

Manufacture of pottery and figurines or other similar ceramic products, using only previously pulverized clay, and kilns fired only by electricity or gas.

(9)

Manufacture of musical instruments, toys, novelties, and rubber and metal stamps.

(10)

Building material sales yards, plumbing supplies storage.

(11)

Coal and wood yards, lumber yards, feed and seed stores.

(12)

Contractors' equipment storage yard or plant, or rental of equipment commonly used by contractors.

(13)

Cabinets, furniture, and upholstery shops.

(14)

Boat building.

(15)

Monumental stone works.

(16)

Veterinary or dog or cat hospitals, kennels.

(17)

Wholesale businesses, storage warehouses.

(18)

Public utility generating, booster or relay stations, transformer substations, transmission lines and towers, and other facilities for the provision and maintenance of public utilities, including railroads and facilities, and water and sewage installations.

(19)

Signs. No sign except those attached to a building or a stanchion on private property shall be erected or placed between the street line and the building line in any B-1 or B-2 Business District.

(20)

Nursing homes, assisted living facilities, and associated support services such as offices for physicians, pharmacies, radiologists, physical therapists.

(Ord. of 2-12-1979, § 8(8B); Ord. of 8-13-1990, § 8(8B); Ord. of 8-17-2005, § 3)

(a)

Submission of an application. Before a building permit shall be issued or construction commenced on any permitted use in this district, or a permit issued for a new use, the plans, in sufficient detail to show the operations and processes, shall be submitted to the zoning administrator for study. The zoning administrator must refer these plans to the planning commission for their recommendation. Modifications of the plans may be required.

(b)

Landscaping. Landscaping may be required within any established or minimum required front setback area. The plans and execution must take into consideration traffic hazards. Landscaping may be permitted up to a height of 3 feet, and to within 50 feet from the corner of any intersecting streets.

(c)

Screening and parking. Sufficient area shall be provided:

(1)

To adequately screen permitted uses from adjacent business and residential districts; and

(2)

For off-street parking of vehicles incidental to the industry, its employees, and clients.

(d)

Action on an application. The zoning administrator shall act on any application received within 30 days after receiving the application. If formal notice in writing is given to the applicant, the time for action may be extended for a 20-day period. Failure on the part of the zoning administrator to act on the application within the established time limit shall be deemed to constitute approval of the application.

(e)

Non-conforming use. Automobile graveyards and junkyards in existence at the time of the adoption of this ordinance are to be considered non-conforming uses (see Section 2B). They shall be allowed up to three years after adoption of this ordinance in which to completely screen, on any side open to view from a public road, the operation or use by a masonry wall, a uniformly painted solid board fence, or an evergreen hedge six feet in height.

(Ord. of 2-12-1979, § 8(8C); Ord. of 8-13-1990, § 8(8C))

(a)

Area regulations. For permitted uses utilizing individual sewage disposal systems, the minimum required area for any such use shall be approved by the health official The zoning administrator may require a greater area if considered necessary by the health official.

(b)

Setback regulations. Buildings shall be located ten feet or more from any street right-of-way. This shall be known as the setback line.

(c)

Frontage and yard regulations. For permitted uses, the minimum required side yard adjoining or adjacent to a residential district shall be ten feet. The side yard of corner lots shall be 20 feet or more.

(d)

Height regulations. Buildings may be erected up to a height of 35 feet. For buildings over 35 feet in height, approval shall be obtained from the zoning administrator. Chimneys, flues, cooling towers, flag poles, radio or communication towers or their accessory facilities not normally occupied by workmen are excluded from this limitation. Parapet walls and roof-mounted solar panels are permitted up to three feet above the limited height of the building on which the walls rest.

(e)

Coverage regulations. Buildings or groups of buildings with their accessory buildings may cover up to 70 percent of the area of the lot.

(Ord. of 2-12-1979, § 8(8D); Ord. of 8-13-1990, § 8(8D); Ord. No. 2023.03.14, 3-13-2023)