This district is designed to provide for automotive, service, and freestanding commercial activities which require limited comparison shopping. Customers usually arrive by automobile, making a separate stop for each errand. Uses permitted in this district usually require larger sites and buildings and often provide services which are not compatible with other commercial or residential districts. These commercial areas are usually located along major arterials or adjacent to limited access highway interchanges.

      a.   Uses permitted in the B-2 Community Business District.

      b.   Automobile accessory stores.

      c.   Bath and kitchen stores, retail, sales, displays and design services.

      d.   Blueprinting and photo-copying establishments.

      e.   Caskets and casket suppliers.

      f.   Catering establishments.

      g.   Clothing and costume rental shops.

      h.   Dry-cleaning establishments, retail, where not more than two thousand five hundred (2,500) square feet of floor area is devoted to processing, exclusive of office and storage space.

      i.   Employment agencies.

      j.   Exterminating shops.

      k.   Feed stores.

      l.   Frozen food lockers.

      m.   Greenhouses, provided operation of heating plants conforms with applicable performances standards for the Manufacturing District.

      n.   Job printing using presses having beds of not more than fourteen (14) inches by twenty (20) inches.

      o.   Laboratories, small, medical, dental, or optical.

      p.   Laundries, retail, where not more than two thousand five hundred (2,500) square feet of floor space is devoted processing, exclusive of office and storage spaces.

      q.   Libraries.

      r.   Meat markets, including the sale of meat and meat products to restaurants, hotels, clubs and other similar establishments when conducted as part of the retail business on the premises.

      s.   Orthopedic and medical appliance stores, not including the assembly or manufacture of such articles.

      t.   Parking lots for passenger motor vehicles only.

      u.   Pet shops, grooming, but not including animal hospitals or kennels.

      v.   Radio and television service and repair shops.

      w.   Recording studios.

      x.   Restaurants, including live entertainment and dancing.

      y.   Schools, commercial or trade, provided that operations do not involve danger of fire, explosion, or objectionable standards of noise, vibration, dust, odor, glare, heat or other nuisances.

      z.   Signs (Allowable). (See Section 13.00).

      aa.   Taxidermists.

      bb.   Typewriter and adding machine sales and service establishments.

      cc.   Accessory uses to the above permitted uses.

      a.   Special Uses allowed in the B-2 District.

      b.   Amusement establishments including bowling alleys, pool halls, dance halls, game rooms, game arcades, gymnasiums, health clubs, commercial swimming pools, skating rinks and other similar places of recreation.

      c.   Animal hospitals.

      d.   Automotive laundries.

      e.   Automotive service stations.

      f.   Building material sales, not including outside storage.

      g.   Contractors and construction offices.

      h.   Dog kennels.

      i.   Hotels.

      j.   Motels.

      k.   Motor vehicles, snowmobile, watercraft, and accessories and equipment sales, repairs, and/or storage in an enclosed building.

      l.   Offices, Professional and General (See Definition, Section 3.02).

      m.   Open sales lot.

      n.   Planned development.

      o.   Plumbing showrooms and shops.

      p.   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 and wells.

         (5)   Telephone exchanges, radio, and microwave antenna and relay towers, and telephone transmission equipment buildings.

         (6)   Water filtration plants, pumping stations, reservoirs, and sewage treatment plants, public.

         (7)   Other public or private utility service uses.

         (8)   Sign sales and fabrication of pre-finished sign components.

      q.   Recreation buildings and centers, community centers, and meeting halls.

      r.   Teen recreation and dance centers.

      s.   Temporary Buildings (See Section 4.14).

      t.   Undertaking establishments and funeral parlors.

      u.   Other business uses when found to be similar and compatible with adjoining property.

      v.   Video Gaming Café, uses not to exceed more than one every thousand (1,000) feet.

      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 4.04.4.) and approved by the Village Board.

      b.   There shall be no manufacturing, processing, or treatment of products other than those which are clearly indicated 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.

      d.   Dwelling units are not permitted below the second (2nd) story.

(Ord. 963-97, passed 4-8-97; Am. Ord. 1020-99, passed 3-16-99; Am. Ord. 1253-05, passed 5-03-05; Am. Ord. 1314-06, passed 5-02-06; Am. Ord. 1355-06, passed 12-05-06; Am. Ord. 1916-19, passed 6-18-19)