The B-3 General Business District is characterized by more diversified business uses that are often located so as to serve the passersby, which uses would often be incompatible with pedestrian movement in the B-1 Neighborhood Business District or B-2 Community Business District.

(Ord. 260-A-58. Passed 8-22-83; Ord. Passed 10-30-23.)

   In the B-3 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 Zoning Code. These uses may be subject to additional standards as specified in Chapter 1293 Use Standards:

   (a)   Office buildings.

   (b)   Medical offices, including clinics only for human care.

   (c)   Banks, credit unions, savings and loan associations, loan companies, insurance offices, real estate offices and similar uses.

   (d)   Drive-in or drive-through facilities, when accessory or incidental to the above uses.

   (e)   Commercial television and radio towers accessory to uses permitted in this section.

   (f)   Funeral homes.

   (g)   Child care centers.

   (h)   Publicly-owned buildings, public utility buildings, telephone exchange buildings and repeater stations, electric transformer stations and substations, and gas regulator stations (without storage yards).

   (i)   Schools, operated for profit, for the training or instruction of non-academic subjects such as, but not limited to, dance, music, martial arts and similar artistic or athletic pursuits.

   (j)   Business or professional schools, operated for profit.

   (k)   Business schools or private schools operated for profit.

   (l)   Catering or banquet halls.

   (m)   Private or public athletic clubs, health spas or figure salons.

   (n)   Veterinary clinics and hospitals, including facilities for overnight keeping of animals.

   (o)   Restaurants or other similar places serving food or beverages, excluding catering and banquet halls and drive-in/drive-through fast-food restaurants.

   (p)   Dry cleaning establishments or pick-up stations dealing directly with the consumer.

   (q)   Florists and card and gift shops.

   (r)   Carry-out restaurants.

   (s)   Publicly-owned buildings, public utility buildings, telephone exchange buildings and repeater stations, electric transfer stations and substations, gas regulator stations with service yards, but without storage yards, and water and sewer pumping stations, when operation requirements necessitate the locating of said buildings within the District in order to serve the immediate vicinity. The Planning Commission and the Township Board may require walls and landscaping in order to screen such uses where they deem the same to be necessary.

   (t)   All retail businesses and service establishments.

   (u)   An open-air business.

   (v)   Automotive service center.

   (w)   Printing and publishing establishments.

   (x)   Body art studios.

   (y)   Business schools or private schools operated for profit.

   (z)   Catering or banquet halls.

   (aa)   Home modernization sales, residential garage sales and swimming pool sales, excluding manufacturing and processing facilities and outdoor storage.

   (bb)   Lawn and garden supply sales, including an accessory outdoor sales area, provided such outdoor sales area is completely fenced and obscured from public view.

   (cc)   Accessory or ancillary oil and gas well or use structures.

   (dd)   Hotels or motels.

   (ee)   Churches.

   (ff)   Billiard halls, coin and/or token-operated amusement arcades, nightclubs and skating rinks.

   (gg)   Auto wash rack or motor vehicle laundry.

   (hh)   New vehicle sales showrooms and service facilities.

   (ii)   Bus passenger stations.

   (jj)   Massage parlors, subject to the following: The use shall comply with Chapter 850 of these Codified Ordinances.

   (kk)   Other uses similar to the above.

   (ll)   Accessory uses customarily associated with an above permitted principal use.

   (mm)   Festivals. These shall meet the conditions set forth in Chapter 1293.

   (nn)   Intermodal transportation facility.

   (oo)   Internet sales establishments.

   (Ord. 260-A-58. Passed 8-22-83; Ord. 260-A-80. Passed 11-13-84; Ord. 260-A-217. Passed 5-13-91; Ord. 260-A-221. Passed 1-20-92; Ord. 260-A-277. Passed 9-30-96; Ord. 260-A-314. Passed 8-10-98; Ord. 260-A-361. Passed 1-28-02; Ord. 260-A-399. Passed 10-4-04; Ord. 260-A-454. Passed 1-11-16; Ord. 260-A-483. Passed 6-15-20; Ord. Passed 10-30-23.)

   (a)   All business establishments shall be retail or service establishments dealing solely with consumers. All goods produced on the premises shall be sold at retail on the premises where produced.

   (b)   All business, servicing or processing, except for off-street parking or loading, and those uses otherwise permitted in this chapter, shall be conducted within a completely enclosed building.

   (c)   The outdoor storage of goods or materials shall be prohibited irrespective of whether or not they are for sale, unless otherwise permitted in this District.

(Ord. 260-A-58. Passed 8-22-83; Ord. Passed 10-30-23.)

   The following uses may be permitted within the B-3 District, subject to the requirements and conditions set forth in Chapter 1293:

   (a)   Adult foster care homes, subject to the conditions in 1293.01(a)(4).

   (b)   Commercial outdoor recreation, subject to the conditions in 1293.01(a)(25).

   (c)   Automobile painting, bumping and welding shops, subject to the conditions in 1293.01(a)(10).

   (d)   Open outdoor sales which are accessory to a principal permitted use.

   (e)   Automotive service stations or other facilities dispensing gasoline on a retail basis, subject to the conditions in 1293.01(a)(11).

   (f)   Fast-food restaurants with drive-thrus, subject to the conditions in 1293.01(a)(27).

   (g)   Open-air business uses, including outdoor space for the sale or rental of automobiles, agricultural implements, boats or mobile homes, subject to the conditions in 1293.01(a)(44).

(Ord. 260-A-58. Passed 8-22-83; Ord. 260-A-217. Passed 5-13-91; Ord. 260-A-221. Passed 1-20-92; Ord. 260-A-249. Passed 8-22-94.)

   (h)   Commercial television and radio broadcasting towers and cellular telephone antennae, subject to the conditions in 1293.01(a)(71).

(Ord. 260-A-277. Passed 9-30-96.)

   (i)   Recreational vehicle storage facilities, subject to the conditions in 1293.01(a)(55).

(Ord. 260-A-361. Passed 1-28-02.)

   (j)   Private clubs and/or lodge halls, subject to the conditions in 1293.01(a)(50).

   (k)   Adult use businesses, pawnbrokers, payday advance/check-cashing businesses, resale shops, second-hand dealers, gold sell/buy businesses, precious gems and metals sell/buy businesses, used goods businesses, and other similar uses to the above, subject to the conditions in 1293.01(a)(5).

(Ord. 260-A-438. Passed 10-6-08; Ord. 260-A-440. Passed 7-13-09; Ord. Passed 10-30-23.)

   All lots and buildings shall meet the following dimensional requirements:

 

 

   FOOTNOTES TO SCHEDULE OF REGULATIONS CHART

   (a)   Modifications in height requirements above the 35 feet allowed within the district may be permitted subject to the requirements and conditions set forth in Chapter 1293.

   (b)   All required front yard setbacks shall be measured from the proposed right-of-way line of any abutting thoroughfare. In the instance of a corner lot or parcel of land abutting more than one public thoroughfare, all frontages shall require the minimum front yard setback specified in the district. Off-street parking shall be permitted to occupy a front yard setback in excess of the minimum setback of 25 feet.

   (c)   The minimum distance between any two buildings shall be 20 feet. In no instance shall a building be located closer than 25 feet to a residentially-zoned district.

   (d)   Off-street loading and unloading space shall be provided in the rear yard or an interior side yard, unless the side yard abuts a Residential District and shall, in no instance, be permitted in a front yard. In those instances where exterior side yards abut an Industrial District, loading and unloading may take place in the exterior side yard, except that in those instances where exterior side yards have a common relationship with an Industrial District across a public thoroughfare, loading and unloading may take place in the side yard when the setback is equal to at least 50 feet. Off-street loading space shall further meet the requirements of Chapter 1296. Where an alley exists or is provided at the rear of the buildings, the rear building setback and loading requirements may be computed from the centerline of such alley, but separately from the off-street parking requirements.

(Ord. 260-A-58. Passed 8-22-83; Ord. Passed 10-30-23.)