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Lawerence Town City Zoning Code

ARTICLE XII

B-1 Business/Commercial District

§ 300-101 Permitted uses.

Uses permitted in the B-1 Business/Commercial District are subject to the following conditions:
A. 
All business, servicing, storage or processing shall be conducted within completely enclosed buildings.
B. 
No structure or land shall be used and no structure shall hereafter be erected or structurally altered, unless arranged, intended or designed exclusively for one or more of the following:
(1) 
Specified uses.
Antique shops
Art and school supply stores
Art shops or galleries
Automobile accessory stores (not including repair)
Bakeries, retail
Banks and financial institutions
Barbershops
Beauty parlors
Bicycle sales, rental and repair stores
Blueprinting and photostating
Boat showrooms and sales
Book and stationary 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
Clubs and lodges, nonprofit and fraternal
Coin and stamp stores
Computer and data processing services
Custom dressmaking
Department stores
Drugstores and pharmacies
Dry-cleaning establishments
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 sales
Electrical showrooms and shops
Electronics shops
Employment agencies
Fire station or public safety building
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
Greenhouse, retail only
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
Insurance agencies
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
Jewelry stores, including watch and clock repair
Launderettes
Leather goods and luggage stores
Libraries
Liquor stores, packaged goods
Locksmith shops
Mail order houses
Meeting halls
Millinery shops, retail only
Motor vehicle and automotive parts and supplies, not including repair
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, professional, and governmental
Office supply stores
Optician sales, retail
Orthopedic and medical appliance stores
Paint and wallpaper stores
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
Real estate offices
Recording studios
Residential care group homes
Restaurants, including the serving of alcoholic beverages
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
Telephone booths and coin telephones
Theater, indoor
Ticket agencies, amusement
Tobacco shops
Toy shops
Travel bureaus and transportation ticket offices
Undertaking establishments and funeral parlors
Used merchandise stores
Variety stores
Video sales and rental
Wearing apparel shops and accessories
C. 
The above classification shall not be interpreted to include any of the following uses:
(1) 
Amusement park or carnival.
(2) 
Barbecue stand or open air food preparations or sale.
(3) 
Bottling works.
(4) 
Building materials yard or warehouse.
(5) 
Cold storage plant, except locker plant for family rentals.
(6) 
Contractor's or construction storage yard or plant.
(7) 
Dance hall or roller skating rink.
(8) 
Electric power plant or substation.
(9) 
Feed store or warehouse.
(10) 
Milk handling station, except for retail trade.
(11) 
Shooting gallery or range or trap shooting.
(12) 
Tobacco manufacturer.
(13) 
Any other kind of manufacture or treatment, other than personal service shops or the manufacture or treatment of products purely incidental to the conduct of a retail business conducted on the premises.

§ 300-102 Conditional uses.

[Amended May 2014; 4-25-2016; 9-25-2023 by Ord. No. 2023-004]
Adult establishments to include: adult bathhouses, adult body painting studios, adult bookstores, adult cabarets, adult mini motion-picture theaters, adult modeling studios, adult motels, adult motion-picture theaters, adult motion-picture theaters (outdoor) and adult novelty shops
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 and kennels
Auction rooms
Automobile sales lot
Automobile service stations
Automotive rental and leasing
Automotive repair shops
Automotive services
Building material product sales
Business schools
Campgrounds
Car wash
Commercial parking lots, open and other than accessory
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
Filling stations or any building used for the sale of petroleum and allied products
Fish market
Greenhouses, commercial
Hotels; motels
Kennels
Mini warehouse facility
Miscellaneous personal services
Miscellaneous repair services
Miscellaneous shopping goods stores
Monument shops
Motor vehicle sales
Museums, stadiums, auditoriums and arenas
Nurseries; lawn and garden supply stores
Parking garages or structures, other than accessory for the storage of private passenger automobiles only
Pet shops
Printing shop, machine shop, tin shop, sheet metal shop, welding shop, pattern shop, sign shop, monument works or similar business or industry employing more than 3 persons on the premises
Radio and television stations and studios
Recreational utility trailer dealers
Schools, commercial and trade
Secondhand store or business dealing in secondhand goods or antiques
Shopping centers
Sports or recreation-related businesses
Theaters (outdoor)
Tools/equipment rental shops
Wholesale establishments
Wood cabinetmaking
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 Town Board

§ 300-103 Building requirements.

No building or any improvements shall be erected, placed or altered on any building site until the plans for such building or improvement, including site plan, landscape plan, building plan, lighting plan, stormwater management plan and specifications, have been approved by the Town Board of the Town of Lawrence or its designated agent or representative. The Town Board or its designated agent or representative shall approve or disapprove such plans with respect to conformity with restrictions and other applicable enactments of the Town of Lawrence and with respect to harmony of external design and land use as it affects surrounding properties.

§ 300-104 Lot requirements.

A. 
Any lot serviced by public sanitary sewer system in this district shall have an area of not less than 12,000 square feet and a street frontage of no less than 100 feet; however, such minimum lot width may be measured at the building setback line if said lot is located on the outer radius of a curved street, such as a cul-de-sac.[1]
[1]
Editor's Note: Amended at time of adoption of Code (see Ch. 1, General Provisions, Art. II).
B. 
Any lot not served by public sanitary sewer in this district shall have an area of not less than 1.5 acres and a street frontage of not less than 200 feet; however, such minimum lot width may be measured at the building setback line if said lot is located on the outer radius of a curved street, such as a cul-de-sac.[2]
[2]
Editor's Note: Amended at time of adoption of Code (see Ch. 1, General Provisions, Art. II).
C. 
A minimum of 25% green space required.

§ 300-105 Height regulations.

All structures: 45 feet maximum, except as provided by Article III, § 300-12, Height regulations, and § 300-9, Buildings and uses.

§ 300-106 Building setbacks.

Lots in Sewer Service Area and Nonsewered Service Area
Principal Structure
Accessory Buildings and Structures
Front yard
At least 30 feet from right-of-way
Not allowed
Side yard
15 feet minimum from property line
10 feet minimum from property line
Rear yard
15 feet minimum from property line
10 feet minimum from property line
Corner side
30 feet minimum from right-of-way
30 feet minimum from right-of-way

§ 300-107 Accessory buildings.

All accessory buildings hereafter constructed in the B-1 District shall meet the district requirements and other applicable requirements.

§ 300-108 Parking.

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

§ 300-109 Signs.

Signs shall be regulated as set forth in Article XVII of this chapter.

§ 300-110 Off-street loading.

Loading areas shall be provided so that any and all vehicles loading or unloading are completely off the public ways.

§ 300-111 Other requirements.

Structures and buildings allowed in the B-1 District shall meet the regulations of this district and other sections of this chapter, as determined by the Planning and Zoning Board, Town Building Inspector and/or Town Board.