Eagle Lake City Zoning Code
§ 14.01.012
District B-2, business or commercial district.
District B-2 description.
The B-2 business or commercial district is designed to accommodate offices and retail activities associated with the major arterial highways and thoroughfare intersections located in the city. The front yard setback, site access and site design requirements associated with this district are intended to reduce the impact of the heavy vehicular traffic so often present in this district. Screening and buffering standards are incorporated to reduce the negative impact of this district’s land uses on abutting residential neighborhoods.
District B-2 use regulations.
A building or premises in district B-2 shall be used only for the following purposes:
Accessory buildings and uses customarily incident to any of the uses permitted in this section provided that such use is not objectionable because of odor, dust, noise, vibration or similar nuisance.
Automobile parking lots, not including commercial vehicle and recreational vehicle parking.
Automobile, commercial vehicle or recreational vehicle, or trailer display and sales, repair garages, tire and seat cover shops.
Banks.
Bowling alleys, drive-in restaurants, other similar places of entertainment or amusement, provided such use is located not less than 100 feet from any R district.
Boardinghouses, lodging houses, and bed and breakfasts.
Carwash for automobiles only.
Carpentry, painting, plumbing shop.
Churches and other places of worship.
Creamery, ice cream manufacturing and dairy operations.
Facilities for the processing and meat products of animals not for retail sale, excluding slaughter.
Farm equipment display, sales room and service yard.
Gasoline service stations, provided that the activities permitted do not include the storage or dismantling of old or wrecked motor vehicles, the sale of used automobile parts, or the sale of new or used motor vehicles.
Hospitals, clinics and sanitariums.
Hotels and motels.
Institutions of a religious, educational, charitable or philanthropic nature, but not a penal or mental institution.
Laundries, self-service.
Lumber yard and related storage materials.
Mixed use developments with commercial or office units and living units.
Mortuaries.
Personal service uses, including barbershops, beauty parlors, florists, photographic or artist studios, bakeries, messengers, taxicabs, newspaper or telegraphic service stations, dry cleaning and pressing, dressmaking, tailoring, shoe repairing, repair of household appliances and bicycles, catering, and other personal service uses of similar character.
Printing, engraving and newspaper plants.
Professional offices.
Public utilities substations.
Radio or television broadcasting station or studio.
Restaurants, cafes, specialty food and drink stores, tasting rooms, bars and taverns.
Retail stores.
Storage buildings.
Taxidermy.
Theater.
Upholstering shop.
Veterinarian or animal hospital provided that no such building, kennel or exercise runway shall be closer than fifty (50) feet to any R district.
Welding shop.
District B-2 area regulations.
Size of yards.
Size of yards in district B-2 shall be:
Front yard.
Where all frontage on both sides of the street between two intersecting streets is located in B-2 district, a ten (10) foot front yard is required. Where the frontage on one side of the street between two intersecting streets is located partly in district B-2 and partly in an R district, the front yard shall conform to the R district regulations for a distance of not less than three hundred (300) feet from the district boundary. Where a front yard is required along the frontage on one side of a street, the front yard requirements of the property directly opposite on the other side of the street shall be not less than twenty (20) feet, except that such yard requirement shall not apply where the property in any R district backs up to the street.
Side yards.
A five (5) foot side yard is required, except that a side yard of not less than ten (10) feet in width shall be provided on the side of the lot adjoining an R district.
Rear yards.
A five (5) foot rear yard is required, except that a rear yard of not less than ten (10) feet in width shall be provided upon that portion of a lot abutting or across a rear street from an R district, except that such yard requirement shall not apply where the property in the R district also backs up to the rear street.
District B-2 parking and loading regulations.
Off-street parking spaces shall be provided on dust-free, hard surfaces, in such numbers as necessary to accommodate regular traffic, including disabled parking spaces:
Bowling alley, four (4) parking spaces for each alley.
Business or professional office, studio, bank, medical, dental clinic, three (3) parking spaces plus one (1) additional parking space for each four hundred (400) square feet of floor area over one thousand (1,000).
Community center, library, museum or art gallery, five (5) parking spaces plus one additional space for each 800 square feet of floor area in excess of two thousand (2,000) square feet. If an auditorium is included as a part of the building, its floor area shall be deducted from the total and additional parking provided on the basis of one space for each four seats it contains.
Dance hall, assembly or exhibition hall without fixed seats, one (1) parking space for each two hundred (200) square feet of floor area used therefor.
Furniture or appliance store, hardware store, wholesale establishments, machinery or equipment sales and service, clothing or shoe repair or service shop, two (2) parking spaces plus one (1) additional parking space for each six hundred (600) square feet of floor area over one thousand (1,000).
Hospital, four (4) parking spaces plus one (1) additional parking space for each (8) eight beds.
Hotel, one (1) parking space for each sleeping room or suite plus one (1) space for each four hundred (400) square feet of commercial floor area.
Mortuary or funeral home, one (1) parking space for each fifty (50) square feet of floor space in parlors or individual funeral service rooms.
Motor vehicle sales rooms and used car lots, one (1) parking space for each eight hundred (800) square feet of sales floor or lot area.
Private club, lodge, country club or golf club, one (1) parking space for each three hundred (300) square feet of floor area or for every ten (10) members, whichever is greater.
Retail store or personal service establishment, except as otherwise specified in this section, one (1) parking space for each four hundred (400) square feet of floor area.
Restaurant, nightclub, cafe or similar recreation or amusement establishment, one (1) parking space for each two hundred (200) square feet of floor area.
Rooming house or boardinghouse, one (1) parking space for each sleeping room.
Sanitarium, convalescent home, home for the aged or similar institution, one (1) parking space for each six (6) beds.
School, elementary, one (1) parking space for two (2) classrooms, whichever is greater.
School, secondary and college, one (1) parking space for each sixteen (16) seats in the main auditorium or two (2) spaces for each classroom, whichever is greater.
Theater, auditorium (except school), sports arena, stadium, or gymnasium, one (1) parking space for each four (4) seats or bench seating spaces.
Tourist home, cabin or motel, one (1) parking space for each sleeping room or suite.
Accessible parking shall be provided in accordance with the standards of the Architectural Barriers [Act and the] Texas Accessibility Standards.
(Ordinance 2016-002 adopted 4/26/16)