This article applies to the B district.

(Code 1988, § 32-401)

In the B district, no building or land shall be used and no building shall be erected or structurally altered unless otherwise provided in this chapter for one or more of the following uses:

(1)

Any use permitted in the A district.

(2)

Multiple-family dwellings, apartments and group houses.

(3)

Boardinghouses or lodginghouses.

(4)

Clubs, lodge halls and fraternity and sorority houses.

(5)

Hospitals and clinics, provided that each hospital shall be located upon a tract of land to be occupied exclusively by the hospital and its accessory buildings and provided that no hospital or clinic which is devoted exclusively to the treatment of insane persons or persons addicted to the use of intoxicating liquor or narcotic drugs shall be established and maintained, except upon a tract of land containing at least ten acres.

(6)

Buildings that are accessory to any of the uses in subsections (1) through (5) of this section.

(7)

Parking garages.

(8)

Offices wherein no tangible personal property is produced, processed, stored, received, sold or delivered in commerce or trade.

(9)

Bed and breakfast inns.

(10)

Galleries. Place or establishment of which no less than 80 percent of the total establishment is dedicated to exhibition and sale of paintings, sculpture or artistic photographs.

(Code 1963, § 83.010; Code 1988, § 32-402; Ord. No. 4255, § 1, 6-3-2003; Ord. No. 4882 , § 1, 11-16-2021)

(a)

Front yards. Except as otherwise provided in this chapter, there shall be a front yard having a depth of not less than 20 percent of the average depth of the lot or 20 feet, whichever is smaller.

(b)

Side yards. Except as otherwise provided in this chapter, there shall be a side yard on each side having a width of not less than ten percent of the average width of the lot or five feet, whichever is smaller.

(c)

Rear yards. Except as otherwise provided in this chapter, there shall be a rear yard having a depth of not less than 25 percent of the average depth of the lot, or 25 feet, whichever is smaller.

(d)

Lot area, single-family dwellings. Every lot for single-family dwellings shall have an area of not less than 5,000 square feet, except if a lot of record has less area than herein required, and has been duly platted and recorded prior to January 1, 1952, in the county office of the recorder of deeds, such lot may be used for a single-family dwelling.

(e)

Lot area, multiple-family dwellings. Every lot for multiple-family dwellings, group houses or apartments shall have an area of not less than 5,000 square feet for the first family, plus an additional 1,000 square feet for each additional family.

(f)

Lot width. All lots platted in district B shall have an average width of not less than 50 feet and all streets shall have a width of not less than 60 feet.

(Code 1963, § 83.030; Code 1988, § 32-403)