Glasgow City Zoning Code
B-3, HIGHWAY
SERVICE BUSINESS DISTRICT
§ 158.195 PURPOSE.
(A) The B-3 zoning district is intended to encourage the establishment of intensive commercial uses area designed to meet the needs of a community or regional market area and typically oriented to customers who travel by motor vehicle.
(B) These zones will have large space uses, such as department stores, fast food restaurants, service stations and specialty stores as examples. They will have direct access to arterial or collector roads.
(1989 Code, § 154.114) (Ord. 2124, passed 8-28-1995; Am. Ord. 2018-2916, passed 4-9-2018)
§ 158.196 PERMITTED USES AND STRUCTURES.
The following uses and structures are permitted in the B-3 district:
(A) Motels and eating and drinking establishments, bars or lounges;
(B) Commercial recreational establishments, such as golf driving ranges, miniature golf courses, swimming pools, roller rinks, bowling alleys, drive-in theaters and racquetball clubs;
(C) Automobile garages for major or minor repairs;
(D) New or used car lots and house trailer sales lots;
(E) Retail stores, sales and display rooms, provided that incidental manufacturing is permitted only for products of goods for sale at retail on the premises;
(F) Offices, studios and financial or lending institutions;
(G) Farm implement establishments;
(H) Churches, parish houses, Sunday school buildings, club and lodge buildings;
(I) Wholesale, supply and distribution, with or without warehousing and transfer and storage establishments;
(J) Personal and business service establishments, including those with processing on the premises, such as laundry and dry cleaning plant, rug cleaning plants and printing establishments primarily for the general public and not for the trade;
(K) Transportation and communication buildings and uses and telephone exchanges and utility substations;
(L) Animal hospitals, veterinary clinics or kennels;
(M) Shops of general trade and supply house of these trades, such as, carpenter, electrical, plumbing and heating, sheet metal, upholstering, sign painting and plant and decorating shops;
(N) Hospitals, medical clinics and laboratories;
(O) Parking lots and garages;
(P) Residential dwelling units of a variety of types including, but not limited to single-family, duplex- and multi-family provided they take the R-4 development standards;
(Q) Mortuaries;
(R) Business schools, middle schools, high schools and colleges or universities;
(S) Assisted living facilities, residential care facilities, juvenile detention centers;
(U) Medical cannabis safety compliance facility;
(V) Medical cannabis dispensary;
(W) Medical cannabis processor and producer facilties;
(X) Halfway house and residential treatment programs; and
(Y) The above uses are subject to the following conditions.
(1) Development within the B-3 Zoning District shall comply with the landscaping requirements and landscape buffer area (LBA) requirements as set forth in § 158.028.
(2) Uses provided in divisions (I), (L) and (M) above shall be entirely within enclosed buildings.
(1989 Code, § 154.115) (Ord. 2124, passed 8-28-1995; Am. Ord. 2319, passed 11-8-99; Am. Ord. 2542, passed 10-24-2005; Am. Ord. 2774, passed - -; Am. Ord. 2018-2916, passed 4-9-2018; Am. Ord. 2024-3055, passed 9-23-2024)
§ 158.197 CONDITIONAL USES PERMITTED BY BOARD OF ADJUSTMENT.
The following uses may be permitted with the approval of the Board of Adjustment:
(A) Manufactured home parks with a minimum of 20 manufactured home spaces, provided they meet the requirements of § 158.296; and
(B) Commercial greenhouses, plant sales facilities and nursery.
(1989 Code, § 154.116) (Ord. 2124, passed 8-28-1995; Am. Ord. 2774, passed - -; Am. Ord. 2018-2916, passed 4-9-2018)
§ 158.198 PROHIBITED USES AND STRUCTURES.
The following uses and structures are prohibited in the B-3 District:
(A) Manufacturing, except as provided under retaining;
(B) Warehousing, distribution centers, truck terminals, storage warehouses, wrecking or junk establishments or yards, used building materials and similar uses;
(C) Townhomes;
(D) Medical cannabis cultivating facilities; and
(E) All uses and structures not of a nature specifically or provisionally permitted herein.
(1989 Code, § 154.117) (Ord. 2124, passed 8-28-1995; Am. Ord. 2018-2916, passed 4-9-2018; Am. Ord. 2024-3055, passed 9-23-2024)
§ 158.199 MINIMUM LOT REQUIREMENTS.
The minimum lot area for the B-3 Zoning District is 7,500 square feet. Single and multiple-family dwellings shall have the same minimum lot requirements as the R-4, Medium Density Multi-Family Residential District.
(1989 Code, § 154.118) (Ord. 2124, passed 8-28-1995; Am. Ord. 2542, passed 10-24-2005; Am. Ord. 2018-2916, passed 4-9-2018)
§ 158.200 MINIMUM YARD REQUIREMENTS.
The following minimum yard requirements apply in the B-3 Zoning District:
(A) For single family and multiple family dwellings, the requirements shall be the same as the R-4, Medium Density Multi-Family Residential District.
(B) All other buildings and structures:
(1) Front yard, as required by § 158.023; and
(2) Rear yard:
(a) One story: 20 feet; and
(b) Two through three stories: 25 feet.
(C) All buildings on lots adjacent to a residential zone shall be located so as to conform on the adjacent side with the yard requirements for the adjacent residential district. No building, structure, or vehicle use area (VUA) shall be placed within a landscape buffer area (LBA) as set forth in § 158.028.
(1989 Code, § 154.119) (Ord. 2124, passed 8-28-1995; Am. Ord. 2542, passed 10-24-2005; Am. Ord. 2774, passed - -; Am. Ord. 2018-2916, passed 4-9-2018)
§ 158.201 HEIGHT OF STRUCTURES.
No building shall exceed three stories or 40 feet in height.
(1989 Code, § 154.120) (Ord. 2124, passed 8-28-1995; Am. Ord. 2018-2916, passed 4-9-2018)
§ 158.202 OFF-STREET PARKING AND LOADING.
(1989 Code, § 154.121) (Ord. 2124, passed 8-28-1995; Am. Ord. 2774, passed - -; Am. Ord. 2018-2916, passed 4-9-2018)
§ 158.203 PERMITTED SIGNS.
(A) Free standing business signs and advertising structures are permitted and with written approval by the administrative official.
(B) The signs must not be a traffic hazard, and obstruct vision, nor a public nuisance.
(C) Signs may not be placed in the obstruction of visibility triangle as provided for in § 158.022.
(D) Signs shall not exceed maximum building height established in § 158.201.
(1989 Code, § 154.122) (Ord. 2124, passed 8-28-1995; Am. Ord. 2774, passed - -; Am. Ord. 2018-2916, passed 4-9-2018)
§ 158.204 FENCING.
Fencing for privacy or security purposes within the B-3 zoning district shall adhere to the following:
(A) Materials for fencing shall be restricted to materials whose intended original use is for providing privacy and/or security. No used materials are to be utilized or re-purposed as fencing including, but not limited to, pallets, metal roofing, tires, barrels, etc.
(B) (1) A fence can be placed directly on a property line(s), with the exception of the front yard property line, which must be a minimum of ten feet from the property line/right-of-way.
(2) A fence may be permitted to be located on the front yard property line provided it is no more than three feet in height and does not intrude into the visibility triangle found in § 158.022.
(Ord. 2023-3038, passed 11-13-2023)