Within the "B-3" general business district, no structure or land shall be used except for one or more of the following uses set forth herein (any such listed use not confined in a building must have a conditional use permit).

(Ord. 985, 1971).

Permitted principal uses shall be as follows:

(1)

Those uses permitted in Section 23.28.002 and as regulated therein except as herein amended;

(2)

Armory, exhibit hall;

(3)

Auto and truck sales and repair;

(4)

Auto wash provided each stall for a do-it-yourself type has two parking spaces and if this type is attendant operated parking space equal to fifteen minutes capacity of the facility;

(5)

Auto body and fender repair;

(6)

Boats and marine sales;

(7)

Bottling plant provided the gross floor area does not exceed six thousand square feet;

(8)

Cabinet and carpentry shop, electrical service, heating, plumbing upholstery, air condition shop, provided the operation does not occupy more than five thousand square feet of gross floor area;

(9)

Diaper or general laundry service subject to the following requirements:

(a)

The plans for accommodating the sanitary sewer shall be approved by the city engineer,

(b)

Truck loading facilities shall be provided for at least two trucks in accordance with Chapter 23.36;

(10)

Dental laboratory;

(11)

Commercial greenhouses and nursery;

(12)

Garden and landscape supplies;

(13)

Locker plant for frozen foods;

(14)

Locksmith and fix-it-shop;

(15)

Lumber and building accessories;

(16)

Motel, motor hotel provided the site shall contain not less than six hundred square feet per rental unit and one thousand square feet for each apartment and the site shall front on a major thoroughfare;

(17)

Motor fuel station including minor auto repairs;

(18)

Newspaper office including printing;

(19)

Optical and jewelry manufacturing;

(20)

Orthopedic and medical supplies, sales, repair and manufacture;

(21)

Pawn shop and used material;

(22)

Pet shop or kennels (the keeping of three or more dogs, over four months of age on the premises shall constitute a kennel);

(23)

Picture framing;

(24)

Printing shop;

(25)

Public auction house;

(26)

Physical culture and health club;

(27)

Roller rinks, public dance hall, ice arenas;

(28)

Rental service;

(29)

Stone and monument sales;

(30)

Taxidermist;

(31)

Taxi terminal;

(32)

Tire and battery sales;

(33)

Tire recap service;

(34)

Trade school;

(35)

Veterinary animal hospital;

(36)

Wholesale office and warehouse provided the gross floor space shall not exceed fifteen thousand square feet.

(Ord. 1883 (part), 2000: Ord. 985, 1971).

Within any "B-3" business district, no structure or land shall be used for the following uses except by conditional use permit:

(1)

Limited manufacture fabrication or processing of clean products;

(2)

Off-street parking lots subject to Chapter 23.36;

(3)

Parking ramps;

(4)

Public utility structures;

(5)

Open sales lots provided:

(a)

The lot is surfaced and graded according to a plan submitted by the applicant and approved by the city engineer,

(b)

That all lots on which vehicles are to be parked abutting the required front yard shall conform to the front yard requirements with a curb separating the parking area from the front yard,

(c)

That the assembly, repair, or manufacture of goods shall not occur within an open sales lot,

(d)

That all lots abutting a lot line of an "R" district shall have a six-foot tall, not more than fifty percent open fence erected along the line except abutting required front yards and except as noted in Chapter 23.10,

(e)

That should the operation of the open sales lot be self-operated or automated in total or in part, a site plan shall be submitted indicating the location of such devices;

(6)

Open sales lots shall not exceed two square feet of surface to one square foot of floor space within a building devoted to the same use as the open sale space;

(7)

Drive-in businesses subject to the following requirements:

(a)

A fence of acceptable design not over six feet in height or less than four feet which is at least fifty percent closed shall be constructed along the property line or a planting strip not less than fifteen feet in width reserved and planted along the property line according to a planting plan approved by the building inspector when the use is abutting property in one of the "R" districts; such fence or planting shall be adequately maintained. A fence or planting shall not be required within the required front yard. Any fence installed shall meet the requirements of Chapter 23.10,

(b)

The entire area shall have a drainage system approved by the city engineer,

(c)

The entire area other than that occupied by the structure or planting shall be surfaced with a material which will control dust and drainage to the approval of the city engineer,

(d)

A box curb at least six inches above grade shall separate the public walk from the lot except at approved entrances or exits;

(8)

Accessory structures;

(9)

Wholesale office and warehousing having over sixteen thousand square feet of gross floor area;

(10)

Dwelling units subject to Chapter 23.24 regulations;

(11)

Operation of through trains, spur tracks, sidings, depots, but not L.C.L. storage tracks, switching yard or other railroad activities;

(12)

Vending machines (coin operated) whether they be for service or product shall be permitted inside of a building; when located outside of building they shall be considered as a building and conform to all applicable regulations. Should the vending machine be the principal use on the site, off-street parking shall be provided at a ratio of one space for each two vending devices.

(13)

Cannabis Establishments.

(Ord. 985 (part), 1971).

(Ord. No. 2160-23-389, 6-1-2015; Ord. No. 2226-23-404, 9-13-2021)

Within the "B-3" general business district the following uses shall be permitted accessory uses:

(1)

Any use permitted in Section 23.28.006 and as regulated therein except as herein amended;

(2)

Any incidental repair or processing necessary to conduct a permitted principal use provided the area does not exceed fifty percent of the floor area devoted to the principal use.

(Ord. 985, 1971).

Minimum height, yard and density requirements shall be as follows:

(1)

The floor area ratio within the "B-3" district shall not exceed 2.0;

(2)

No limit on height of structure;

(3)

Rear yard shall be the same as required for the yard on the lot directly across the rear lot line except when abutting a public alley the distance from the center of the alley to the first floor foundation shall be twenty feet or more;

(4)

No minimum rear yard, subject to Section 23.30.008(3);

(5)

Minimum front yard shall be twenty feet;

(6)

Every lot shall have a minimum frontage of twenty feet;

(7)

Side yard: none required except as noted in subsection (8) of this section;

(8)

Every yard adjacent to an area zoned "R" shall meet the yard zoning requirements for that residential zone; except, when abutting a public alley with commercial uses on one side of the alley and residential uses on the other side of the alley, the distance from the center of the alley to the edge of the commercial use shall be at least twenty feet. For the purposes of this subsection, outside storage, signage, fencing, parking, loading dock, driveways and other similar uses that may be located outside of the buildings on the site are considered commercial uses and must be set back from an adjacent "R" zone as noted here;

(9)

In no case may any structure except for fences be constructed in utility easement areas along front, side or rear property lines. Owner understands that any fence installed in a utility easement area may be removed by a public or private utility provider and the owner may be responsible to pay for the removal and the owner will have to reinstall the fence or pay to have the fence reinstalled at no cost to the city or the utility provider;

(10)

If a detached accessory building is constructed three feet (or less by variance) from the property line, the roof overhang on the building will be limited to one foot including stormwater gutters.

(Ord. 2025 (part) 2007; Ord. 1883 (part), 2000; Ord. 1409, 1980; Ord. 985 (part), 1971).

(Ord. No. 2086, 9-27-2010; Ord. No. 2160-23-389, 6-1-2015)