Le Roy City Zoning Code
CHAPTER 10
9 B-O-I Business/Office/Industrial District
§ 10-9-1 Purpose And General Character.
[Ord. 268, 3-3-1986]
The purpose of the B-O-I business/office/industrial district is to provide an area for business sites, office locations, and low nuisance industrial uses (that are environmentally compatible with a primarily residential community) that are a compatible mix of such business, office and industrial uses, and that can all be located in proximity to residential areas. The compatibility of all such uses is deemed to be that combination of such uses which will not have a detrimental effect on adjacent residential and business areas, and that will not have a detrimental effect on the other business, office and industrial uses made of sites located within the same district.
§ 10-9-2 Permitted Uses.
[Ord. 268, 3-3-1986]
The following uses are permitted in the B-O-I business/office/industrial district:
Air conditioning and heating sales and service |
Animal hospitals and veterinarian offices |
Antique shops, art shops or galleries |
Automated teller machines |
Automobile parts and accessories stores |
Automobile sales and service shops conducted wholly within a completely enclosed building and as 1 integrated business operation |
Banks and financial institutions |
Beverage distributors, but not including bottling plants |
Bicycle sales, repair and rental shops |
Blueprinting, photostating and copying establishments |
Boat sales, rentals, storage and repair, including sales and service of marine motors, boat parts and accessories |
Book binderies |
Bowling alleys |
Box and carton manufacturing |
Business machine sales, rental and service, including computer stores |
Camera and photographic supply stores |
Camping equipment sales |
Carpet and rug stores (retail sales) |
Catering establishments |
Child day-care centers |
Churches and synagogues |
Clothing manufacturing |
Clubs and lodges, private |
Commercial advertising and business sign shops |
Commercial schools for music, dance, business or trade |
Community centers |
Dentists' and doctors' offices |
Department, furniture and home appliance stores |
Electrical showrooms in shops |
Employment agencies |
Equipment rental establishments |
Farm implement sales and service |
Fire stations |
Funeral homes and mortuaries |
Furniture manufacturing |
Garden supplies, tools and seed stores, including lawn mower, snow blower, and snowmobile sales and service |
Graphics and drafting services |
Greenhouses and nurseries |
Grocery stores |
Gunsmiths |
Hardware stores |
Hobby shops, for retail sale of items to be assembled or used away from the premises |
Hospitals, clinics, nursing homes, group homes and mental health centers, and retirement institutions |
Hotels and motels |
Insurance offices |
Jewelry and watch sales and repair shops |
Laboratories, medical, dental, research and testing |
Laundry and dry cleaning establishments, coin operated, self-service only; or hand laundry and dry cleaning establishments, employing not more than 6 persons in addition to 1 owner or manager |
Libraries |
Mail order houses |
Meeting and union offices and halls |
Mini-warehouses |
Monument establishments, including accessory open sales lots |
Museums and art galleries |
Musical instrument sales and repairs |
Newspaper distribution agencies for home delivery and retail trade |
Off street parking lots, public garages or storage garages |
Office supply stores |
Offices - business, professional, governmental, political and institutional |
Outdoor amusement establishments, including archery ranges, miniature golf and similar facilities |
Packing and crating establishments |
Paint, tile and wallpaper stores |
Parks, playgrounds and other noncommercial public open space |
Phonographic, record, tape, sheet music, video stores |
Picture framing shops |
Police stations |
Post office |
Printing and publishing establishments |
Radio and TV stations and studios |
Radio and TV towers |
Real estate sales offices |
Recording studios |
Restaurants, eat in or carry out |
Roller skating and ice skating rinks - entirely indoor |
Schools - public, private or parochial |
Sporting goods stores |
Studios for artists, musicians and photographers |
Swimming pool sales |
Telephone exchanges, telephone transmission equipment buildings |
Theaters, indoor |
Toy manufacturing |
Toy stores |
Transportation ticket offices |
Travel bureaus |
Variety stores |
Warehouse and storage operations |
Water softener service |
Yard goods and sewing materials stores |
Other manufacturing of light nature, free from any excessive odors, fumes, dirt, vibration or noise detectable at the lot line |
§ 10-9-3 Special Permitted Uses.
[Ord. 268, 3-3-1986; amended by Ord. 04-10-02-51, 10-18-2004]
Other uses of the same general character and compatible with those listed in Section 10-9-2 of this chapter may be permitted upon review by the zoning board of appeals in accordance with the provisions of Section 10-2-4 of this title, and in accordance with the other requirements for businesses located in this district as set forth in this chapter.
§ 10-9-4 Contained Operations; Exceptions.
[Ord. 268, 3-3-1986]
A.
The conduct of business, service or processing shall be within completely enclosed buildings, except for off street parking or loading, or other open air facilities or storage as may be permitted within the district, or by variance granted in accordance with this title.
B.
Storage which is an auxiliary use to the principal use is permitted in the open if it occupies not more than 20% of the gross lot area for the business establishment. Storage of merchandise on display for sale to the public is unrestricted so long as it is kept in a neat and orderly manner.
§ 10-9-5 Bulk Requirements.
[Ord. 268, 3-3-1986; amended by 2003 Code]
A.
Building Height: No building or structure shall exceed three stories or 35 feet in height.
B.
Lot Area, Frontage And Yard Requirements:
1.
Lot area: No minimum lot width.
2.
Yards:
a.
Front. 60 feet from center of right of way or 25 feet from the property line, whichever is greater (however front yard area may be utilized for off street parking as required by this title).
b.
Rear: 10 feet.
c.
Side: 10 feet on one side only, except where adjoining a residential district, then the side adjoining the residential district must, at a minimum, have the same side yard as is required in the R-1 residential district (10 feet).
§ 10-9-6 Signs.
[Ord. 268, 3-3-1986; amended by 2003 Code]
Business signs and advertising devices are permitted subject to the following conditions:
A.
Location:
1.
No sign shall be permitted within 20 feet of any residential district boundary line.
2.
No freestanding business or advertising sign shall be erected or relocated within 15 feet of any street or highway right of way, within three feet of any driveway or parking area, or within 25 feet of the intersection right of way of two or more streets.
3.
Signs on awnings shall be exempt from the limitations imposed by this title on the projection of signs from the face of the wall of any building or structure; provided, that any sign located on an awning shall be affixed flat to the surface thereof and shall indicate only the name and/or address of the establishment. No such sign shall extend vertically or horizontally beyond the limits of said awning.
B.
Illumination: Signs may have constant or flashing illumination; provided, that any such signs that are located in direct line of vision of any traffic control signal shall not have contrasting or flashing intermittent illumination of red, green, or amber color. Where a sign is illuminated by light reflected upon it, direct rays of light shall not beam upon any part of any building, nor into a residential district or into any street.
C.
Area: The gross surface area in square feet of all signs on a lot shall not exceed three times the lineal feet of frontage on such lot. Each side of the lot that abuts upon a street may be included as separate frontage.
D.
Projections: No sign shall project more than four feet from the face of the wall of any building or structure, nor project higher than the building height.