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Hobart City Zoning Code

ARTICLE XX

B-1 Community Business District

§ 295-222 Purpose.

The Community Business District is intended to serve the retail and service needs of nearby residential areas with a wide range of products and services for both daily and occasional shopping. The following regulations shall apply in the B-1 Districts:

§ 295-223 Permitted uses.

[Amended 4-15-2025 by Ord. No. 2025-06]
The following uses are permitted in the B-1 District:
Antique shops
Art and school supply stores
Automobile accessory stores
Automobile sales - indoors
Bakeries - retail
Banks and financial institutions
Barber shops
Beauty parlors
Bicycle sales, rental, and repair stores
Blueprinting and photostating
Boat showrooms and sales
Book and stationery stores
Business machine sales and service
Camera and photographic supply stores
Candy and ice cream stores
Carpet, rug, and drapery stores - retail sales only
Catering establishments
Child day-care centers
China and glassware stores
Clinics - doctor and dentist offices
Clothing and costume rental stores
Coin and stamp stores
Computer and data processing services
Custom dressmaking
Department stores
Drugstores and pharmacies
Dry-cleaning establishments - not engaged in wholesale processing
Dry goods stores
Eating and drinking places - excluding drive-ins and establishments primarily engaged in carry- out service
Electrical and household appliance stores - including radio and television sales
Electrical showrooms and shops
Electrical sales
Electronics shops
Employment agencies
Florist shops
Food stores, grocery stores, meat markets, bakeries, and delicatessens - retail sales only
Frozen food stores - including locker rental in conjunction therewith
Furniture stores - including upholstering when conducted as part of the retail operations and secondary to the principal use
Furrier shops, including the incidental storage and conditioning of furs
Garden supply, tool, and seed stores
Gift shops
Hardware stores
Hobby shops for retail of items to be assembled or used away from the premises
Household appliances, office equipment, and other small machine sales and service
Interior decorating shops, including upholstering and making of draperies, slip covers, and other similar articles, when conducted as part of the retail operations and secondary to the principal use
Insurance agencies
Jewelry stores, including watch and clock repair
Launderettes
Leather goods and luggage stores
Liquor stores, packaged goods
Locksmith shops
Mail order houses
Millinery shops
Miscellaneous personal services
Miscellaneous repair services
Miscellaneous shopping goods stores
Motor vehicle and automotive parts and supplies
Musical instrument sales and repair
Newspaper distribution agencies for home delivery and retail trade
Nursing and personal care facilities
Office machine sales and servicing
Offices, business and professional
Office supply stores
Optician sales, retail
Orthopedic and medical appliance stores
Paint and wallpaper stores
Pet shops
Phonograph record and sheet music stores
Photography studios, including the development of film and pictures, when conducted as part of the retail business on the premises
Picture framing, when conducted for retail trade on the premises only
Plumbing showrooms and shops
Post offices
Publishing and printing
Radio and television sales, servicing and repair shops
Radio and television stations and studios
Real estate offices
Recording studios
Residential care group homes
Restaurants, including the serving of alcoholic beverages
Retail fuel sales associated with convenience store or other similar permitted uses
Security brokers
Sewing machine sales and service, household appliances only
Shoe, clothing, and hat repair stores
Shoe stores
Sporting goods stores
Studios, photography, dance, design, and artist-illustrator
Tailor shops
Taverns
Taxidermists
Telegraph offices
Telephone booths and coin telephones
Ticket agencies, amusement
Tobacco shops
Tool rental shops
Toy shops
Travel bureaus and transportation ticket offices
Used merchandise stores
Variety stores
Video sales and rental
Wearing apparel shops and accessories

§ 295-224 Permitted accessory uses.

The following are permitted accessory uses in the B-1 District:
A. 
Uses incidental to and on the same zoning lot as the principal use.
B. 
Satellite dish antennas less than 38 inches in diameter.
C. 
Telephone and public utility installations, and cable television installations.

§ 295-225 Conditional uses.

[Amended 1-6-2015 by Ord. No. 01-2015; 4-15-2025 by Ord. No. 2025-06
The following are conditional uses in the B-1 District:
Agricultural implement dealers
Amusement establishments, archery ranges, bowling alleys, shooting galleries, game room, swimming pools, skating rinks, and other similar amusement facilities
Animal hospital, veterinary services
Art shops or galleries, but not including auction rooms
Auction rooms
Automobile service stations
Automobile sales - outdoors
Automobile repair shops
Automobile rental and leasing
Automobile services
Bowling alleys
Building material product sales
Business schools
Car wash
Commercial parking lots, open and other than accessory
Contractor or construction offices
Dry-cleaning establishments employing more than four persons
Dwelling units and rooming units above the ground level
Eating and drinking establishments, primarily engaged in drive-in and carry-out service
Express office and delivery stations
Greenhouses, commercial
Hotels, motels
Kennels
Mail-order houses
Manufactured home sales
Meeting halls
Museums, auditoriums and arenas
Monument shops
Motor vehicle sales
Nurseries, lawn and garden supply stores
Parking garages or structures, other than accessory for the storage of private passenger automobiles only
Recreational and utility trailer dealers
Religious institutions in the form of convents, seminaries, monasteries, churches, chapels, temples, synagogues, rectories, parsonages, and parish houses
Schools, commercial, and trade
Shopping centers
Stadiums, auditoriums, and arenas
Theaters
Undertaking establishments and funeral parlors
Wholesale establishments
Wood cabinetmaking
Public utility and service uses, and civic buildings as follows:
Substations
Fire stations
Gas regulator stations
Police stations, public works facilities
Railroad right-of-way but not including railroad yards and shops, other than for passenger purposes
Telephone exchanges, transmission equipment buildings and microwave relay towers
Other retail uses similar in character and the manufacture or treatment of products clearly incidental to the conduct of a retail business on the premises when approved by the Planning and Zoning Commission

§ 295-226 Lot requirements per use.

A. 
With public sewer:
(1) 
Area: 15,000 square feet minimum.
(2) 
Zoning lot frontage: 100 feet minimum.
B. 
Without public sewer:
(1) 
Area: 40,000 square feet minimum.
(2) 
Zoning lot frontage: 100 feet minimum.

§ 295-227 Height regulations.

All structures 35 feet maximum; except as provided by § 295-13, Height regulations.

§ 295-228 Building setbacks.

Principal Structure
Accessory Building
Driveways
Front yard
40 feet minimum from right-of-way
40 feet minimum from right-of-way
10 feet from property line
Side yard
10 feet minimum
10 feet minimum
10 feet from property line
Rear yard
15 feet minimum
15 feet minimum
10 feet from property line
Corner lot
40 feet minimum from right-of-way
40 feet minimum from right-of-way
75 feet from center of intersection

§ 295-229 Building size.

Building size minimum of 725 square feet.

§ 295-230 Accessory building.

All accessory buildings hereinafter constructed in the B-1 District shall meet the district requirements and those identified in § 295-11, Building and uses.

§ 295-231 Parking.

Parking shall conform to the requirements as set forth in Article XXVIII, Off-Street Parking Requirements.

§ 295-232 Signs.

Signs shall be regulated as set forth in § 295-361, Regulation of signs.

§ 295-233 Other requirements.

A. 
Structures and buildings allowed in the B-1 Community Business District shall meet the regulations of this district and the other articles of this chapter, as determined by the Village Zoning Administrator/Building Inspector and approved by the Site Review Committee.
B. 
All business, services, and storage (except for motor vehicles in operable condition) shall be conducted within a completely enclosed structure.
C. 
The parking or storage of operable motor vehicles, if not within an enclosed building structure, shall be effectively screened by shrubbery, or solid wall or fence if not less than six feet. Walls and fences shall not exceed eight feet in height.
D. 
Any use found and determined by the Village Planning and Zoning Commission to be incompatible with the purpose of the B-1 District may be prohibited by the Village Board, including but not limited to outdoor wood burners/solid-fuel heating devices.[1]
[1]
Editor's Note: Amended at time of adoption of Code (see Ch. 1, General Provisions, Art. III).
E. 
A detailed landscaping plan, showing placement of shrubbery, trees and other vegetative plantings shall be submitted to the Village Board for approval prior to the issuance of a building permit, to insure appropriateness and compatibility with adjoining development.
F. 
Absent a permit for a special occasion, businesses may not be open to the public between the hours of 2:30 a.m. and 6:00 a.m. This provision does not apply to emergency type facilities.