The general business district is intended to permit a wider range of business and entertainment activities that are permitted in the neighborhood business district. The permitted uses would serve not only nearby residential areas, but also people further away for types of business and services usually found in major shopping centers and central business districts at the juncture of principal streets. These uses would generate larger volumes of vehicular traffic, would need more off-street parking and loading, and would require more planning to integrate such districts with adjacent residential areas.

(Ord. No. 23-14, Exh. A, 7-8-14)

In all GB districts, no building or land except as otherwise provided in this ordinance, shall be erected or used except for the following specified uses:

(a)

Any use permitted in the NB, neighborhood business district.

(b)

Places of amusement and assembly, offices, hotel, motel, used car lot, public garages and other motor vehicles service.

(c)

Automobile, motorcycle, trailer or boat showrooms; new car sales room; outdoor space for the sale of new and used automobiles, house trailers, or boats provided that there may be sales for used articles only if carried on in conjunction with a regularly authorized new automobile, house trailer or boat sales and service agency which is housed in a permanent building on the same parcel of land or on contiguous parcels of land.

(d)

Car wash establishments, including self-service facilities.

(e)

Automobile service stations/convenient stores.

(f)

Banks.

(g)

Blueprinting.

(h)

Business schools, and colleges, or private schools operated for profit.

(i)

Carpet, rug, linoleum, or other floor covering stores.

(j)

Catering establishments.

(k)

Clothing or costume rental establishments.

(l)

Department stores.

(m)

Eating or drinking establishments, with entertainment, except those having the principal character of a drive-in facility wherein food is served to a customer in his vehicle.

(n)

Electrical, glazing, heating, painting, paperhanging, plumbing, roofing or ventilation contractors' establishments, excluding outside storage yards.

(o)

Exterminators.

(p)

Furniture stores.

(q)

Grocery stores.

(r)

Hotels and motels.

(s)

Interior decorating establishments.

(t)

Medical or dental laboratories for research or testing, not involving any danger of fire or explosion, nor of offensive noise, vibration, smoke, odorous matter, heat, humidity, glare, or other objectionable effects.

(u)

Monument sales establishments, with incidental processing to order, but not including the shaping of headstones.

(v)

Funeral homes except crematoriums.

(w)

Moving or storage offices.

(x)

Musical instrument repair shops.

(y)

Office or business machine stores, sales or rental.

(z)

Photographic developing or printing establishments and studios.

(aa)

Printing establishments.

(bb)

Public auction rooms.

(cc)

Publicly owned buildings, public utility buildings and service yards but not including storage yards.

(dd)

Radio and television studios.

(ee)

Sign painting shops, limited to two thousand five hundred (2,500) square feet of floor area per establishment.

(ff)

Studios for music, dancing, or theatrical instruction.

(gg)

Taxidermist shops.

(hh)

Television, radio or household appliance repair shops.

(ii)

Theatre, dance halls or similar places of assembly.

(jj)

Small business machine repair shops.

(kk)

Automotive and equipment repair.

(ll)

Upholstering shops dealing directly with consumers.

(mm)

Venetian blind, window shades, or awning shops, custom shops, including repairs, limited to two thousand five hundred (2,500) square feet of floor area per establishment.

(nn)

Wedding chapels or banquet halls.

(oo)

Any retail business or retail service, including the making of articles to be sold at retail on the premises. Any such manufacturing, or processing shall be incidental to a retail business or service and not more than five (5) persons shall be employed in such manufacture.

(pp)

Accessory uses permitted. Any accessory use of building customarily incidental to the above permitted use.

(qq)

Consumer fireworks, retail sales, storage and related supplies, in accordance with the National Fire Protection Association (NFPA 1124).

(rr)

Principal use parking lots and garages as defined in section 2.01—Definitions.

(Ord. No. 23-14, Exh. A, 7-8-14; Ord. No. 11-24, Exh. B, 3-19-24)

(a)

Any uses not allowed above, which are of the same general character as the above permitted uses, which will not be detrimental to the district in which they are located, and which will not be objectionable by reason of odors, dust, smoke, cinders, gas fumes, noise, vibrations and refuse matter are eligible for a conditional use permit. The procedure in Section 4.03 shall be followed.

(b)

Shopping centers, in accordance with Section 4.39.

(c)

Private clubs.

(d)

The owner-operator of a permitted general business district commercial use may be allowed to establish one (1) dwelling unit for his use only as an accessory conditional use to the commercial use. Said residential use shall follow the procedure for obtaining a conditional use permit as outlined in Section 4.03 of Article IV. All provisions of Section 4.03 shall apply to this section. Additionally, the residential use shall be required to have one off-street parking space in addition to the required spaces for the commercial use. The proposal shall be submitted to the board of zoning adjustment which may alter, deny or grant any request in accordance with Section 4.03.

(e)

Allow multiple uses (businesses), but no more than three (3), may be allowed in the same structure (building) with a conditional use permit.

(f)

Animal cafés.

(g)

Shipping container commercial facilities.

(Ord. No. 23-14, Exh. A, 7-8-14; Ord. No. 16-16, Exh. A, 4-26-16; Ord. No. 19-20, 8-25-20; Ord. No. 01-24, Exh. C, 1-23-24)

(a)

There shall be no outdoor storage of merchandise or materials and no outdoor processing in any commercial district unless authorized as a conditional use. All aboveground structures accessory to any outdoor use shall be located a minimum of twenty-five (25) feet from any front lot lines.

(b)

All commercial districts located on lots adjacent to a residential district shall maintain a minimum setback of twenty-five (25) feet on the side adjacent to the residential district.

(c)

All signs and outdoor advertising displays are subject to the provisions established in Article X.

(Ord. No. 23-14, Exh. A, 7-8-14)

(See attached schedule of regulations, Article XXVII.)

(Ord. No. 23-14, Exh. A, 7-8-14)