PURPOSE: The "LB", Limited Business District is established to accommodate individual retail stores, personal service establishments and professional or business offices which primarily meet the local neighborhood shopping and personal service needs of a limited surrounding residential area. Retail stores permitted therein are intended to include convenience goods which are normally a daily necessity for a residential neighborhood.

USES GENERALLY: In an "LB", Limited Business District no land shall be used and no building shall be erected for or converted to any use other than as hereinafter provided.

A.

Permitted uses: The following uses shall be permitted as principal uses.

1.

Retail sales in completely enclosed buildings limited to stores and shops for the following: bakery, books, confectionery, dairy products, drug, delicatessens, florist, gift, jewelry, hobby, music, pet, tobacco, newsstands, wearing apparel, toys, and camera and photo development shops.

2.

Personal service establishments including beauty, barber, dry cleaning and laundry pickup, shoe repair, self-service laundromats, and express or mailing offices.

3.

Medical offices.

4.

Restaurants excluding drive-in or drive-through restaurants.

B.

Secondary uses: The following uses shall be permitted as secondary uses in a LB Limited Business District provided that none shall be a source of income to the owner or user of the principal structure.

1.

Off-street parking in conjunction with any permitted use in this district. Provisions for the parking of automobiles provided that such provisions within 60 feet of a residentially zoned district shall be separated from said lot by a blind fence or wall at least six feet high.

2.

Signs advertising uses on the premises, in accordance with Section 60 of this ordinance.

3.

Mechanical equipment located within 120-feet of any residentially zoned district must meet the standards established for noise regulation as stated in Section 55, Performance Standards.

4.

Screened garbage storage on a concrete pad and no closer than 50 feet to any residentially zoned district and not located between the front of the building and any right-of-way.

C.

Conditional uses: The following uses may be permitted provided they meet the provisions of, and a conditional use permit is issued pursuant to, Section 48 of the ordinance.

1.

Alcoholic beverage sales provided a special permit is issued in accordance with Section 42B of this ordinance.

2.

Drive-in and drive-through restaurants.

3.

Schools and studios for art, dancing, drama, music, photography, interior decorating, or reducing.

4.

Food and convenience stores, including prepared food carryout service, that provide additional parking needed by that service.

5.

Professional and business offices.

6.

Financial institutions or banks.

7.

Any use allowed within this district with drive-in or drive-through service.

8.

Call centers.

9.

Any use allowed within this district with outdoor speakers.

D.

Limitation on uses:

1.

All activities of permitted uses except automobile parking lots, shall be conducted entirely within a completely enclosed building.

2.

No individual retail store or personal service establishment shall have a floor area open to the public, including display, service and sales, greater than 2,500 square feet.

E.

Plan requirements: No application for a building permit for construction of a principal building shall be approved unless:

1.

A plat, meeting all requirements of the City of Grapevine has been approved by the City Council and recorded in the official records of Tarrant County.

2.

A site plan, meeting the requirements of Section 47, has been approved.

3.

A landscape plan, meeting the requirements of Section 53, has been approved.

F.

Density requirements: The following bulk and intensity of use requirements shall apply:

1.

Maximum density: Floor area ratio of 0.35.

2.

Minimum lot size: 10,000 square feet

3.

Maximum lot size: 3 acres.

4.

Minimum open space: 20 percent of the total lot area shall be devoted to nonvehicular open space. (Nonvehicular open space is any area not devoted to buildings, parking, loading, storage or vehicular use.)

a.

Landscaping in excess of the required minimum open space that is located in the rear yard of the site shall not be used to meet the minimum open space requirements for the site.

5.

Maximum building coverage: 60 percent of the total lot area; the combined area occupied by all main and secondary structures.

6.

Maximum impervious surface: 80 percent of the total lot area; the combined area occupied by all main and secondary structures, parking, storage, loading and other paved areas.

G.

Area regulations: The following minimum standards shall be required:

1.

Minimum lot width: 80 feet.

2.

Minimum lot depth: 100 feet.

3.

Minimum front yard: 15 feet which shall be utilized as a landscaped setback area. Front yards shall not be used for any building, structure, fence, wall or storage area, except that signs may be permitted in this area. Front yards shall be landscaped with grass, shrubbery, vines, or trees and no part shall be paved or surfaced except for minimum access, driveways and sidewalks in accordance with Section 53 of this ordinance.

4.

Minimum side yards: 10 feet; every lot shall have two side yards.

5.

Minimum rear yard: 25 feet; every lot shall have a rear yard.

6.

Minimum distance between buildings: 20 feet between detached principal or secondary buildings on the same lot.

H.

Buffer area regulations: Whenever an "LB", Limited Business District abuts a residential district, a wall, fence or berm at least six feet in height shall be erected to effectively screen the "LB", Limited Business District from the residential area. In addition, no building or structure shall be located nearer to any residentially zoned property than a distance equal to the height of such building or structure.

I.

Maximum building height: The following maximum height regulations shall be observed.

1.

Principal structure: two (2) stories, 25 feet except buildings located adjacent to an R-20, R-12.5, or R-7.5 District, buildings shall not exceed one (1) floor level and 20 feet in height.

2.

Secondary structure: 15 feet.

J.

Landscaping requirements: Landscaping shall be required in accordance with Section 53 of this ordinance.

K.

Off-street parking: Off-street parking shall be provided in accordance with the provision of Sections 56 and 58 and shall be landscaped in accordance with Section 53 of this ordinance.

L.

Off-street loading: Off-street loading shall be provided in accordance with the provisions of Section 57 of this ordinance.

M.

Design requirements: The following design requirements shall apply in the "LB", Limited Business District:

1.

No outdoor storage, except for refuse disposal, shall be permitted. Refuse disposal areas shall be landscaped and screened from view.

2.

Mechanical and electrical equipment, including air conditioning units, shall be designed, installed and operated to minimize noise impact on surrounding property. All such equipment shall be screened from public view.

3.

Lighting shall be designed to reflect away from any adjacent residential area.

4.

The masonry requirements of Section 54 shall be met.

5.

Additional buffering, screening, fencing and landscaping—The Planning and Zoning Commission may recommend and the City Council may require additional buffering, screening, fencing and landscaping requirements on any zone change, conditional use or special use case or concept plan in addition to or in lieu of buffering, screening, fencing or landscaping requirements set out specifically in each use district when the nature and character of surrounding or adjacent property dictate a need to require such methods in order to protect such property and to further provide protection for the general health, welfare and morals of the community in general.

(Ord. No. 85-22, § 3(B), 5-21-85; Ord. No. 90-42, § 1(A), 7-17-90; Ord. No. 93-47, § 1(B), 8-16-93; Ord. No. 2000-76, § 2, 7-18-00; Ord. No. 2001-34, § 1(Exh. A), 4-17-01; Ord. No. 2001-90, § 1A, 11-20-01; Ord. No. 2002-56, § 1A, 7-16-02; Ord. No. 2007-55, § 1.K, 9-18-07; Ord. No. 2008-34, § 1.B, 6-23-08; Ord. No. 2009-04, § 1.A, 1-20-09; Ord. No. 2023-094, § 17, 11-21-23; Ord. No. 2024-111, § 23, 12-17-24)