Generally the business, general, district B-2 covers that portion of the community intended for the conduct of general business to which the public requires direct and frequent access but which is not characterized either by constant heavy trucking other than stocking and delivery of light retail goods or by any nuisance factors other than those occasioned by incidental light and noise of congregations of people and passenger vehicles. This includes such uses as retail stores, banks, theaters, business offices, newspaper offices, printing presses, restaurants and taverns, and garages and service stations.

(Code 2000, § 16.63)

In business, general, district B-2, structures to be erected or land to be used shall be for one or more of the following uses:

(1)

Retail food stores;

(2)

Bakeries;

(3)

Dry cleaners;

(4)

Laundries;

(5)

Wearing apparel stores;

(6)

Drugstores;

(7)

Barbershops and beauty shops;

(8)

Auto and home appliance services;

(9)

Theaters, assembly halls;

(10)

Hotels, motels;

(11)

Office buildings;

(12)

Churches;

(13)

Libraries;

(14)

Hospitals, general;

(15)

Funeral homes;

(16)

Service stations, with major repair under cover;

(17)

Clubs and lodges;

(18)

Auto sales and service;

(19)

Lumber and building supply, with storage under cover;

(20)

Plumbing and electrical supply, with storage under cover;

(21)

Wholesale and processing not objectionable because of dust, noise or odors, with a conditional use permit;

(22)

Machinery sales and services;

(23)

Public utilities;

(24)

Off-street parking as required by this chapter;

(25)

Public billiard parlors and pool rooms, bowling alleys, dance halls and similar forms of public amusement only after a public hearing shall have been held by the board of supervisors on an application submitted to the body for such use. The fee for such application shall be as adopted by the board of supervisors and on file in the county administrator's office. The board of supervisors may request that the planning commission submit a recommendation to them concerning such use applications. In approving any such application, the board of supervisors may establish such special requirements and regulations for the protection of adjacent property, set the hours of operation and make requirements as they may deem necessary in the public interest;

(26)

Business signs;

(27)

General advertising signs;

(28)

Location signs;

(29)

Farming and agricultural;

(30)

Apartments (including residential units located above other uses) and townhouses, in an urban development area designated in the comprehensive plan;

(31)

Facilities, activities and operations that are provided by a duly constituted unit of government with a conditional use permit issued by the board of supervisors;

(32)

Outdoor amusement/entertainment areas, if issued a conditional use permit;

(33)

Tobacco warehouses, if issued a conditional use permit;

(34)

Trailer and semitrailer storage area, if issued a conditional use permit;

(35)

Boat storage or repair facilities, if issued a conditional use permit;

(36)

Self-service storage facilities;

(37)

Driver training schools, if issued a conditional use permit;

(38)

Housing for the elderly, if issued a conditional use permit;

(39)

Residential human care facility, if issued a conditional use permit;

(40)

Special care facility, if issued a conditional use permit;

(41)

Commercial firing range, indoor, if issued a conditional use permit;

(42)

Community centers, if issued a conditional use permit;

(43)

Campground, if issued a conditional use permit;

(44)

Short term rental;

(45)

Short term rental with shared amenities or if hunting is allowed, if issued a conditional use permit;

(46)

Golf courses, golf driving ranges.

(Code 2000, § 16.64; Ord. of 3-5-2007; Ord. No. 2012-4, § 4, 2-6-2012; Ord. No. 2022-28, § 4, 10-3-2022; Ord. No. 2023-9, § 6, 9-5-2023; Ord. No. 2024-34, § 2, 12-2-2024)

Area regulations in the business, general, district B-2 are as follows: none, except that the minimum area for uses utilizing individual water supply or sewage disposal systems shall be determined by the zoning administrator in consultation with the department of health. In an urban development area designated in the comprehensive plan, no parking is allowed between the building and the street (parking shall be located to the side or rear of the building).

(Code 2000, § 16.65; Ord. No. 2012-4, § 4, 2-6-2012)

Structures in the business, general, district B-2 shall be located ten feet or more from any street right-of-way which is 50 feet or greater in width or 35 feet or more from the centerline of any street right-of-way less than 50 feet in width. This shall be known as the setback line.

(Code 2000, § 16.66)

For permitted uses in the business, general, district B-2 the minimum side yard adjoining or adjacent to a residential or agricultural district or adjoining or adjacent to a parcel that is residential or agricultural by use shall be 25 feet, and off-street parking shall be in accordance with the provisions contained herein. No minimum side yard requirements apply to parcels adjoining residential uses within an urban development area designated in the comprehensive plan.

(Code 2000, § 16.67; Ord. No. 2012-4, § 4, 2-6-2012)

Structures in the business, general, district B-2 may be erected up to 35 feet in height from grade; except, that:

(1)

A public or semipublic building such as a school or church may be erected to a height of 60 feet from grade; provided, that required front, side and rear yards be increased one foot in height over 35 feet.

(2)

Church spires, belfries, cupolas, monuments, water towers, chimneys, flues, flagpoles, television antennas and radio aerials are exempt. Parapet walls may be up to four feet above the height of the buildings on which the walls rest.

(3)

No accessory building shall be more than one story high. All accessory buildings shall be less than the main building in height.

(4)

Structures in an urban development area designated in the comprehensive plan may be erected up to 45 feet in height from grade.

(Code 2000, § 16.68; Ord. No. 2012-4, § 4, 2-6-2012)

Where residential development is located in an urban development area designated in the comprehensive plan, the minimum densities shall be as follows:

(1)

Single family—Four units per acre.

(2)

Townhouse—Six units per acre.

(3)

Apartments—12 units per acre.

Where mixed use or nonresidential development is located in an urban development area designated in the comprehensive plan, the minimum intensity shall be 0.4 FAR (the gross floor area of the building divided by the gross area of the lot).

Additional density beyond the minimum shown above is permitted, provided that all of the other requirements of this Code are met.

(Ord. No. 2012-4, § 4, 2-6-2012)