The B-1 district is established as the centrally located commercial area for Kure Beach. Its purpose is to create and maintain a town center as an attractive gathering place for both residents and visitors, while providing a small scale commercial setting that helps existing businesses expand and prosper and new businesses to invest. By encouraging street level businesses near the waterfront, with pedestrian accessibility, this commercial district is designed to be the local center for all town residents and tourist-related businesses.

(Ord. of 3-18-08(9))

The following are the permitted uses and special uses (S) in the B-1 district:

1. Accessory uses clearly incidental to a permitted use and which will not create a nuisance or hazard;
2. Banks, finance and loan companies (6021, 6022);
3. Religious institutions (8661) including parish houses, Sunday schools and religious annexes. A religious annex may be used for housing, on a temporary basis, only visiting groups from other religious institutions (hereinafter "visiting religious groups") and emergency relief workers providing services in conjunction with declared states of emergencies. A religious annex shall not be used for private benefit/inurement, lobbying, political campaign activity, or to generate unrelated business income. A religious institution shall not charge a fee for any temporary housing provided hereunder although it may receive donations to offset the cost of providing such housing. For the purposes of this subparagraph, the temporary housing of a visiting religious group shall not exceed fourteen (14) days and the housing of emergency relief workers shall not exceed thirty (30) days;
4. Dwelling when constructed in conjunction with permitted use provided such dwellings are an integral part of the main building of such a permitted use; (S)
5. Eating and drinking establishments (5812, 5813);
6. Service stations (5541); (S)
7. Food stores (5411, 5431, 5441, 5451, 5461);
8. Tourist Lodgings (7011, 7021);
9. Parking lots (7521); (S)
10. Offices for professional business activities (8011, 8021, 8031, 8041, 8042, 8043, 8049; 8111, 8711, 8712, 8721;);
11. Personal service establishments such as barber and beauty shops (7231, 7241);
12. Public buildings and facilities;
13. Retail stores not otherwise listed: (5251, 5261, 5331, 5399, 5611, 5651, 5712, 5722, 5731, 5912, 5921, 5932, 5941, 5942, 5943, 5944, 5945, 5947, 5948, 5949, 5961, 5992, 5993, 5995
14. Arcades (7993); (S)
15. Theaters when housed in a permanent structure (6512); (S)
16. Dance halls when at least five hundred (500) square feet of space is provided for dancing (7911);
17. Establishments engaged in the business of renting, purchasing, selling, managing, or appraising real property. (6531);
18. Home occupation as defined in KBC 15.02.010.
19. One-family dwelling (a) on a lot on which the most recent use can be proven to be a nonconforming residential use, and (b) which meets yard and setback minimum requirements for the RA-1A residential district, and (c) which the impervious ground-covering surface does not exceed sixty-five (65) percent of the lot
    

(Ord. of 4-15-08; Ord. of 4-19-11, § 9; Ord. of 12-18-18)

When a business in this district adjoins a residential unit or area and creates a nuisance as defined by the town zoning enforcement officer, even though separated by a street, a visual screen or sound reducing buffer strip (preferably deciduous and/or evergreen trees) shall be required as defined by "buffer strip" in KBC 15.02.010.

All areas zoned B-1 except the established fire district shall have minimum front, side, and rear yards/setbacks of three (3) feet each.

(Ord. of 2-20-18)

The regulations and requirements for signs in this district shall conform to the Sign Code, KBC 15.40.

Parking shall be provided as required in KBC 15.36.170 through KBC 15.36.220 for all tourist lodgings including any residential and related uses; otherwise no off-street parking shall be required.

(Ord. of 3-18-08(2))