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Itasca City Zoning Code

§ 8.03

B-1 LOCAL BUSINESS DISTRICT.

   The B-1 Local Commercial District is intended for small-scale commercial uses, designed to meet the day-to-day convenience shopping and service needs of nearby residents. All business establishments shall be retail or service establishments dealing directly with consumers. All goods produced on the premises shall be sold at retail on premises where produced.
   1.   Permitted Uses: The following uses are permitted:
      a.   Barber shops.
      b.   Beauty parlors.
      c.   Bicycles stores; sales, rental and repair.
      d.   Candy and ice cream stores.
      e.   Clothing store.
      f.   Clothes-pressing establishments.
      g.   Drug stores.
      h.   Dry-cleaning and laundry-receiving establishments, provided that processing shall be done elsewhere.
      i.   Food stores, grocery stores, meat markets and delicatessens not exceeding one thousand (1,000) gross square feet.
      j.   Health clubs.
      k.   Libraries - branch.
      l.   Shoe stores.
      m.   Shoe and hat repair stores.
      n.   Signs (Allowable). (Section 13.00).
      o.   Variety stores.
   2.   Special Uses: The following uses may be allowed by Special Use Permit in accordance with the provisions of the Administrative Section 14.00.
      a.   Other business uses when found to be similar and compatible with adjoining property.
      b.   Planned developments.
      c.   Hardware stores.
      d.   Laundries, automatic self-service type or hand, provided that laundry machines shall not exceed the commercial coin-operated type and not more than two (2) employees and one (1) owner or manager are on the premises at one time.
      e.   Offices, Professional and General (See Definition, Section 3.02).
      f.   Public utility and/or service uses.
         (1)   Essential services, including fully automated gas regulating stations and telephone exchanges; private or public utility substations or transmission corridors with a capacity no greater than 34 kilovolts.
         (2)   Railroad passenger stations when not located on railroad property.
         (3)   Sewage treatment plants.
         (4)   Waterworks, reservoirs, pumping stations, filtration plants, public.
         (5)   Other public or private utility service uses or buildings.
         (6)   Small wireless facilities and associated wireless support structures for small wireless facilities, when located outside of the right-of-way. Small wireless facilities and associated wireless support structures for small wireless facilities, as defined in § 57.03 (Definitions), are permitted uses in the right-of-way in all zoning districts within the Village, as required by the Small Wireless Facility Deployment Act (P.A. 100-585), so long as the requirements of Chapter 57 of the Village Code and other applicable codes, regulations and design standards are met.
      g.   Temporary Buildings (See Section 4.14).
      h.   Video Gaming Café, uses not to exceed more than one every thousand (1,000) feet.
   3.   Required Conditions:
      a.   The sale of foodstuffs, beverages or articles intended for human consumption shall be conducted wholly within an enclosed building unless otherwise recommended by the Plan Commission (See Section 4.04.5.) and approved by the Village Board.
      b.   There shall be no manufacture, processing, or treatment of products other than that which is clearly incidental and essential to the retail business conducted on the same premises.
      c.   Such uses, operations or products shall not be objectionable due to odor, dust, smoke, noise, vibration, or other similar causes.
   4.   Floor Area Ratio: The floor area ratio shall not exceed zero point four (0.4).
   5.   Yard requirements: Yards shall be provided in accordance with the following regulations:
      a.   Front Yard: Not less than twenty-five (25) feet in depth shall be provided.
      b.   Side Yards: Not less than five (5) feet in width shall be required except, if recommended by the Plan Commission (See Section 4.04.5.) and approved by the Village Board, a side yard may not be required. A side yard adjoining a street shall be provided and such yard shall not be less than twenty-five (25) feet in width. Where a side lot line coincides with a side lot line in an adjacent residence district, a side yard shall be provided along such lot line. Such side yard shall be equal in dimension to the side yard required under this ordinance for the applicable residence district.
      c.   Rear Yard: Not less than twenty (20) feet in depth shall be provided.
      d.   Yard Setbacks: Each front, side, and rear setback or required yard shall be increased by two (2) feet for each additional one (1) foot of building height over thirty (30) feet.
   6.   Off-Street Parking and Loading: Off-street parking and loading facilities shall be provided as required or permitted in Section 12.00.
   7.   Building Height: The height of any building or structure shall not exceed two (2) stories or thirty (30) feet whichever is lower. (See Definitions - Section 3.02).
(Ord. 963-97, passed 4-8-97; Am. Ord. 1314-06, passed 5-02-06; Am. Ord. 1355-06, passed 12-05-06; Am. Ord. 1548-10, passed 10-19-10; Am. Ord. 1912-19, passed 4-2-19; Am. Ord. 1916-19, passed 6-18-19)
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