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Levelland City Zoning Code

§ 9.511

B-1 Local Business District.

(a) 
Purpose.
The purpose of this district is to provide local neighborhood residential areas with limited convenience services and small retail type items.
(b) 
General Provisions.
(1) 
No use shall be permitted which is or would reasonably be injurious the neighborhood residents or which would interfere with the safety or the reasonable use and enjoyment of their property by reason of the emission of dust, smoke, odor, glare, noise, vibration, trash, junk, water spray, or by reason of any condition which would amount to a public nuisance at common law.
(2) 
When proposed development in this district is adjacent to any residentially zoned district, on either site or to the rear, even if separated by an alley, a six (6) feet solid screening fence or an equivalent landscape screen shall be installed and permanently maintained on the development lot along the adjacent property line. A solid wall of a building, when permitted to be located on the property line, shall constitute adequate screening.
(c) 
Permitted Uses.
(1) 
Any uses conditionally or unconditionally permitted in any of the Residential Districts, except those listed conditionally in this section.
(2) 
Grocery store.
(3) 
Television or household appliance repair shop.
(4) 
Restaurants where dining room facilities are provided inside the building and at which no outside drive-up or walk-up service is offered.
(5) 
Gasoline pumps as an accessory use to another use permitted in this District
(6) 
Offices and Clinics.
(7) 
Self-service laundry.
(d) 
Conditional Uses.
The following uses may be permitted when approved by the Zoning Board of Adjustment.
Small stores and small shops where goods and merchandise are solid at retail.
(e) 
Yard Requirements.
(1) 
Front Yard.
The minimum front yard shall be twenty (20) feet.
(2) 
Side Yard.
There shall be no side yard requirement except when the property is adjacent to any Residential Districts, in which case the minimum side yard requirement shall be five (5) feet.
(f) 
Lot Width.
(1) 
The minimum width of any lot used for a single family dwelling, two-family dwelling and low density multi-family dwellings shall be fifty (50) feet.
(2) 
The minimum width of any lot used for high density, multifamily dwelling units shall be one hundred (100) feet.
(3) 
There shall be no minimum lot width for any other type of use in this district other than those described above for residential uses.
(g) 
Lot Area.
(1) 
The minimum width for any lot with a single family dwelling shall be five thousand (5,000) square feet.
(2) 
The minimum area for any lot with duplexes, two-family dwelling units or multi-family units shall be 6,000 square feet.
(3) 
The minimum lot area for multi-family dwelling units using the high density residential district floor area ratio shall be 10,000 square feet.
(4) 
There shall be no minimum lot area requirement for any other type of use in this district other than those described above for residential uses.
(h) 
Off-Street Parking.
(1) 
Commercial Uses.
One parking space required for each two hundred (200) square feet of display area.
(2) 
All Other Uses.
the same as required for that use or a similar type use found elsewhere in this article.
(i) 
Alley Screening.
As described in General Provision, subsection (b).
(j) 
Signs.
The following signs shall be permitted:
(1) 
Permanent signs not exceeding the maximum sign message area for businesses.
(2) 
Sign as permitted for that use or a similar type use found in the residential districts of this article.
(3) 
Temporary signs as permitted in Section 9.309 of the city code.
(k) 
Site Plan and Review.
No building permit shall be issued until the City Manager or Building Inspector has reviewed a site plan for a building site and has approved the same as to off-street parking spaces, the location of private driveways, and the availability of ingress and egress of off-street parking sites.
(Ordinance 635, sec. 11, adopted 11/17/81; Ordinance 1043 adopted 9/9/19)