13-1. The regulations set forth in this article or set forth elsewhere in this ordinance, when referred to in this article are the regulations in the B-1 Neighborhood Shopping District.

13-2. Purpose. The purpose of this district is to provide primarily for limited shopping and personal service uses to serve the needs of a relatively small area, the nearby neighborhood.

13-3. Use regulations. A building or premises shall be used only for the following purposes:

A.

Retail store or shop, such as grocery, drugstore, meat market, florist, delicatessen, notion or stationery store and the like.

B.

Dressmaking, tailoring, shoe repairing, repair of household appliances and bicycles, catering, dry cleaning and pressing, bakery with sale of bakery products on the premises and other uses of a similar character; provided that no use permitted in this paragraph shall employ more than five (5) persons in a single shift on the premises, not including employees whose principle duties are off the premises as temporary seasonal employees.

C.

Clinic.

D.

Laundromat.

E.

Offices and office buildings.

F.

Personal service uses, including barbershops, banks, beauty parlors, photographic or artist studios, messengers, taxicabs, newspaper or telegraphic service stations, dry-cleaning receiving stations, restaurants except drive-in restaurants or walk-in-carry-out restaurants, and other personal service uses of a similar character.

G.

Private school or nursery.

H.

Off-street parking lots.

I.

Signs, provided said signs are in accordance with the requirements set forth in Article 24 of this Appendix B.

J.

Undertaking establishment.

K.

Dwellings on any floor above the first floor, provided that said Dwelling shall comply with all applicable requirements of the City of Effingham, Illinois, Building Code, Life Safety Code, Plumbing Code, and Electrical Code.

(Ord. No. 28-92, § I, 8-18-92; Ord. No. 76-2017, § 2, 9-19-2017; Ord. No. 114-2017, § 12, 12-19-2017)

13-4. Height and area regulations. The height and area regulations set forth in Articles 21 and 22 shall be observed.

13-5. Parking and loading regulations. Off-street parking and loading spaces shall be provided in accordance with the requirements for specific uses set forth in Article 25.