The purpose of this article is to establish a district designed and intended to accommodate retail, service, office and other miscellaneous uses and use variances which are most compatible with uses typically located along minor and major arterial local roads and county, state and federal highways. Access is provided to customers arriving in vehicles.

Permitted uses in the B-3 district are subject to the following additional general limitations:

(a)

Dwelling units and lodging rooms other than those located in a transient hotel or motel are not permitted.

(b)

All businesses, services, processing or storage shall be conducted in completely enclosed buildings unless said open storage is a minimum of 150 feet from any residential district, and then only if said open storage is completely nonvisible by reason of a wall or opaque fence, or as otherwise indicated hereafter, and except when establishments of the "drive-in" type offer goods and services directly to customers waiting in parked motor vehicles.

(c)

Outdoor sales of retail items may be sold only if:

(1)

The sale takes place on the same property where a permanent retail business is located,

(2)

The items sold are among the permitted uses listed for this district;

(3)

The items are sold by the same owners of the permanent business;

(4)

Said outdoor sales shall not result in the lack of compliance with any other required provision of this chapter, such as setback, parking, etc.

The following listed uses and no others are permitted uses in a B-3 district:

(a)

Any use permitted in a B-1 or a B-2 district except dwelling units, churches, parks, and playgrounds.

(b)

Additional retail and service uses, as follows:

(1)

Ambulance services.

(2)

Amusement establishments, including miniature golf, video game parlors, pool halls, and other similar uses.

(3)

Animal hospitals, pounds and shelters; provided that all activities that take place for the care and boarding of animals, except for exercise runs, shall be conducted in completely enclosed buildings.

(4)

Auctions.

(5)

Automobile accessory stores.

(6)

Automobile service stations or filling stations; provided that no auto-mobile service station shall be hereafter erected except on a lot on the corner of an intersection of two streets, or on a lot situated on a corner where one street runs into another at a "T" intersection. In such instances the lot on which the service station is located shall have not less than 75 feet frontage on one street and not less than 100 feet frontage on the other street. Such service stations shall have entrances from each street on which such lot fronts. All repairs must be conducted completely inside a building. The minimum lot size must be 15,000 square feet.

(7)

Battery, brake and tire sales, oil change and muffler installation and repair facilities.

(8)

Bicycle stores, including rental and repair.

(9)

Blueprinting and photostatting establishments.

(10)

Caskets and casket supplies.

(11)

Clothing and costume rental shops.

(12)

Dry cleaning plants.

(13)

Exterminating shops.

(14)

Feed and seed stores.

(15)

Frozen food lockers.

(16)

Greenhouses and nurseries.

(17)

Commercial laundries.

(18)

Linen, towel, diaper and other similar services.

(19)

Live bait stores.

(20)

Machinery sales.

(21)

Monument sales.

(22)

Orthopedic, medical and surgical supply stores.

(23)

Parking lots, open and other than accessory for the storage of private passenger automobiles.

(24)

Plumbing, electric and other building material showrooms/sales.

(25)

Restaurant, hotel and bar fixture stores.

(26)

Secondhand stores and rummage shops.

(27)

Taxidermists shops.

(28)

Undertaking establishments and funeral parlors.

(c)

Public and community service uses, as follows:

(1)

Libraries.

(2)

Police stations.

(3)

Fire stations.

(4)

Other such public uses.

(d)

Residential uses, as follows:

(1)

Motels and transient hotels.

(Ord. No. 2007-37, 11-20-07)

In a B-3 district, the floor area ratio of all buildings and structures on a zoning lot shall not exceed 3.0.

In a B-3 district, regulations governing required yards in a B-1 district shall apply.

No building or structure may be changed or erected in this district so as to have a height greater than 40 feet.