The Neighborhood Business District (NBD) is intended to permit retail business and service uses which are needed to serve an immediate neighborhood’s nearby residential areas. In order to promote such business developments so far as is possible and appropriate in each area, uses which would create hazards, offensive and loud noises, vibration, smoke, glare, heavy truck traffic or late hours of operation, are prohibited. The intent of the District is also to encourage the concentration of neighborhood business areas that harmonize with the character of surrounding uses to the mutual advantage of both consumers and merchants and thereby to promote the best use of land at certain strategic locations and to avoid the continuance of encouraging marginal, strip, business development along major thoroughfares. The intended potential customer base for these uses are the residential neighborhoods immediately adjacent to a Neighborhood Business District (NBD).

(Res. 98-340A. Passed 9-21-98.)

In a Neighborhood Business District (NBD), no use shall be permitted, unless otherwise provided in this Zoning Code, except the following:

   (a)   Offices and business services, including the following:

      (1)   Business, professional or governmental offices.

      (2)   Financial institutions, including banks, savings and loan association offices, credit unions, automated teller machines, and loan production offices.

      (3)   Post offices or postal stations.

      (4)   Professional services, such as insurance, real estate, legal, financial, and similar or allied professions.

      (5)   Uses similar to the uses set forth in this subsection.

   (b)   Medical offices, subject to the site design standards of Section 1296.02, Site Design Standards for Uses Permitted After Special Approval, including the following:

      (1)   Offices for a doctor, physician, osteopath, optometrist, dentist, chiropractor or certified massage therapist, or for similar or allied professions.

      (2)   Immediate care medical centers and industrial health clinics that do not require separate or additional security personnel.

      (3)   Medical laboratories and testing/research establishments.

      (4)   Veterinary clinics and animal grooming, provided all activities are conducted within an enclosed building.

   (c)   Clothing services, including the following:

      (1)   Laundry agencies.

      (2)   Self-service laundry and dry cleaning establishments.

      (3)   Dry cleaning establishments using not more than two (2) clothes cleaning units, neither of which shall have a rated capacity of more than forty (40) pounds, and using cleaning fluid which is nonexplosive and nonflammable.

      (4)   Dressmaking shops.

      (5)   Millinery shops.

      (6)   Tailor, pressing, and alteration shops.

      (7)   Shoe repair shops.

   (d)   Equipment services, including the following:

      (1)   Radio or television shops.

      (2)   Electrical appliance and electronic equipment shops.

      (3)   Recorded music shops.

      (4)   Jewelry and watch repair shops.

      (5)   Uses similar to the uses set forth in this subsection.

   (e)   Food services (excluding drive-in type businesses), the business of which shall be conducted entirely within an enclosed building, including, but not limited to, the following:

      (1)   Groceries, including beer, wine and liquor, fruit, vegetables, meat, dairy products and baked goods, confections, or similar commodities for consumption off the premises, provided no more than ten percent (10%) of the gross floor area is used for the storage and/or display of beer, wine, and liquor. Such food products may be prepared on the premises as an accessory use if they are sold at retail prices on the premises.

      (2)   Restaurants, taverns and brewpubs (as defined by the Michigan Liquor Control Commission) with up to four (4) billiard tables or other amusement games or devises.

      (3)   Delicatessens.

      (4)   Coffee houses.

      (5)   Outdoor cafés, outdoor eating areas, carry-out, and open front restaurants, for all uses listed in the subsection, subject to the site design standards of Section 1296.02, Site Design Standards for Uses Permitted After Special Approval.

      (6)   Specialty wine shops.

      (7)   Uses similar to the uses set forth in this subsection.

   (f)   Personal services, including the following:

      (1)   Barber shops.

      (2)   Beauty shops and hair stylists.

      (3)   Child care centers.

      (4)   Copy centers.

      (5)   Health salons, spas, and gymnasiums.

      (6)   Tanning salons.

      (7)   Photographic studios.

      (8)   Uses similar to the uses set forth in this subsection.

   (g)   Retail services and retail stores generally with less than twenty thousand (20,000) square feet of gross floor area, including the following:

      (1)   Antique shops.

      (2)   Apparel shops.

      (3)   Automobile and other vehicle parts stores, excluding facilities for servicing automobiles or other vehicles.

      (4)   Drugstores and pharmacies.

      (5)   Flower and plant shops, excluding greenhouses.

      (6)   Gift shops.

      (7)   Hardware, paint and wallpaper stores.

      (8)   Household appliance stores.

      (9)   Newsdealers and book stores, excluding adult book stores.

      (10)   Stationery stores.

      (11)   Variety stores.

      (12)   Video rentals and sales stores.

   (h)   Essential public services, public and semi-public institutional buildings, structures, and uses, including public parks, but excluding churches, subject to the site design standards of Section 1296.02, Site Design Standards for Uses Permitted After Special Approval.

   (i)   Accessory buildings and uses customarily incidental to the principal permitted uses set forth in this section, including:

      (1)   Signage that conforms with Chapter 1476, Sign Code. (Res. 2020-299A. Passed 10-5-20, Eff. 10-19-20.)

      (2)   Garages to be used exclusively for the storage of commercial and/or passenger motor vehicles which are to be used in connection with a business permitted and located in a Neighborhood Business District (NBD).

   (j)   Off-street parking and loading facilities in accordance with Chapter 1290, Off-Street Parking and Loading.

(Res. 98-340A. Passed 9-21-98.)

   (k)   Apartments located on the second story of a building only, which existed prior to the effective date of this section, provided that all public utilities are available, and all units shall have at least one (1) living room and one (1) bedroom. Business and office uses may occupy a building used for residential uses, provided that no such business or office use may be located on the same floor as that which is used for residential purposes.

   (l)   Schools or training facilities, limited to twenty thousand (20,000) square feet of gross floor area. (Res. 2022-145A. Passed 5-16-22, Eff. 6-1-22.)

(Res. 99-417A. Passed 9-7-99.)

In a Neighborhood Business District (NBD), the following uses may be permitted, subject to the applicable site design standards of Section 1296.02, Site Design Standards for Uses Permitted After Special Approval, and subject, further, to the approval of Council after recommendation from the Planning Commission in accordance with the processing procedures in Section 1262.08, Powers of Council Re Special Approvals:

   (a)   Public utility buildings, telephone exchange buildings, electric transformer stations and substations and gas regulator stations.

   (b)   All establishments with drive-though service windows.

   (c)   Shopping centers with less than twenty thousand (20,000) square feet of gross floor area, containing uses permitted in this chapter.

   (d)   Any service establishment of an office, showroom or workshop nature, such as a decorator, upholsterer, caterer, exterminator or building contractor, and similar establishments that require retail outlets, except that no outdoor storage of equipment or materials shall be permitted.

   (e)   Automotive service centers without fueling stations, provided that no outside storage of vehicles shall exceed a period of twenty-four (24) hours.

   (f)   Temporary buildings for uses incidental to construction work.

   (g)   Uses similar to the principal permitted uses provided in Section 1276.02, Principal Permitted Uses, after the Planning Commission has determined that such uses are in harmony with the character of the District and the purpose and intent of the Comprehensive Development Plan of the City.

   (i)   E-Commerce establishments with less than five thousand (5,000) square feet of gross floor area. (Res. 2022-146A. Passed 5-16-22, effective 6-1-222.)

(Res. 98-340A. Passed 9-21-98; Res. 01-231. Passed 4-9-01; Res. 2016-13A. Passed 2-1-16, effective 3-2-16.)

For all uses in a Neighborhood Business District (NBD), a site plan shall be submitted for review and approval in accordance with Section 1296.01, Site Plan Review. Where a new or expanded use occurs in a Neighborhood Business District (NBD), after the effective date of this Zoning Code, which new or expanded use abuts directly upon a residentially zoned district, protective screening shall be provided in accordance with Section 1294.28, Screening.

(Res. 98-340A. Passed 9-21-98.)

For a Neighborhood Business District (NBD), area, height, bulk and placement requirements and performance standards, unless otherwise specified, are as provided in Sections 1294.31, Performance Standards, and 1294.32, Schedule of Area Regulations.

(Res. 98-340A. Passed 9-21-98.)

The following conditions are required for all uses in a Neighborhood Business District (NBD):

   (a)   Unless otherwise permitted in this chapter, all business, service or processing shall be conducted wholly within a completely enclosed building.

   (b)   All lighting in connection with permitted business uses shall be so arranged as to reflect away from adjoining residence buildings or residentially zoned property, and shall be no greater than ten (10) foot candles at any point upon the lot, and no greater than one (1) foot candle along any lot line.

   (c)   All business or service establishments shall be for the purpose of dealing directly with consumers. All goods produced or processed on the premises shall be sold at retail on the premises where produced and/or processed.

   (d)   Where a new or expanded land use occurs in a Neighborhood Business District (NBD), after the effective date of this Zoning Code, which new or expanded land use abuts directly upon a residentially zoned district, protective screening shall be provided in accordance with Section 1294.28, Screening.

(Res. 98-340A. Passed 9-21-98.)