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Madison City Zoning Code

B-1 NEIGHBORHOOD

BUSINESS DISTRICT

§ 155.100 GENERAL.

   (A)   The Neighborhood Business District of the municipality is intended to provide for certain limited sales and service facilities located in residential areas to constitute a convenience to the residents of the immediate neighborhood. The district is limited to size and facilities to preserve and protect the general character of the residential areas surrounding these particular districts.
   (B)   The establishment and/or expansion of any Neighborhood Business Districts shall conform to the following additional locational, design, area and bulk, and use requirements:
      (1)   Design Standards. The lot on which the neighborhood shopping unit is situated shall be landscaped and maintained in conformity with the general character of the surrounding area. There shall be provided and maintained along rear lines and side lines of the lot a planting or other appropriate screen of at least ten feet in depth and of a density adequate to provide visual screening from adjacent properties. Yard requirements for a lot on which a neighborhood shopping unit is located shall not be less than the yard requirements of the most restrictive abutting zoning district.
      (2)   Access Ways. Any access way to any off-street parking lot or loading berth shall be located at least ten feet from any lot line.
      (3)   Refuse Containers. All garbage or other refuse shall be in removable, visually screened, covered containers.
(Ord. 887, § 2.8, passed - -)

§ 155.101 PERMITTED USES.

   (A)   Barber, beauty, bakery shops.
   (B)   Candy, ice cream, drug, food, fruit, hobby, meat, self-service, and similar retail stores.
   (C)   Churches and similar uses.
   (D)   Service offices such as realtors, optometrists.
   (E)   Postal substations.
   (F)   Public utility collection offices.
   (G)   Physicians, dentists and similar professions.
   (H)   Retail clothing, hardware, jewel and similar uses.
   (I)   Restaurants but not drive-in kinds.
   (J)   Telephone booths.
(Ord. 887, § 2.801, passed - -)

§ 155.102 PERMITTED ACCESSORY USES.

   (A)   Accessory uses that are clearly associated with and supplementary to the principal use of the lot or tract of land.
   (B)   Storage of merchandise or inventory usually carried in stock, provided that such storage shall be located on the same lot with the business and shall be within a completely enclosed building.
   (C)   Telephone booths.
(Ord. 887, § 2.802, passed - -)

§ 155.103 SPECIAL USES.

   (A)   Dwelling units and lodging rooms provided a business occupies the ground floor.
   (B)   Automotive service stations.
   (C)   Drive-in banking.
   (E)   Eating and drinking establishments such as taverns.
   (F)   Utilities: Electrical substations, gas regulator stations, other public utility distribution facilities.
   (G)   Governmental uses other than the municipality.
   (H)   Mineral and soil extraction development.
(Ord. 887, § 2.803, passed - -; Am. Ord. 1339, passed 11-19-1996)