The B-1 Central Business District is designated to serve as the major shopping center for the trade area of Marine City in addition to serving as a shopping center for tourist trade. This district is typified by uses which are compatible one to another and are not interrupted by automotive uses or facilities creating a break in the continuity of stores which would be caused by driveway cuts for self service types of stores or services. It is the intent of this chapter to provide for such uses which cause interruption of the continuity of the B-1 District in other districts.

(Prior Code, App., § 600)

   (A)   Office buildings and uses including medial offices and hospitals;

   (B)   Any generally recognized retail business which supplies commodities on the premises, such as but not limited to: groceries, meats, dairy products, baked goods or other foods, drugs, dry goods and notions, hardware, furniture and clothing;

   (C)   Any personal service establishment which perform services, on the premises, such as: shoe repair, tailor shops, beauty parlors, or barbershops or any service establishments of an office showroom or workshop nature of an electrician, decorator, dressmaker, baker, printer, upholsterer, dry cleaners or establishments doing radio, television or home appliance repair, photographic reproduction and similar establishments that require a retail adjunct;

   (D)   Hotels, motels, restaurants and taverns wherein such establishment does not extend as an integral part of, or accessory thereto, any service of a drive-in nature;

   (E)   Theaters, auditoriums, assembly halls, concert halls or similar places of assembly when conducted completely within enclosed buildings;

   (F)   Banks, with drive-in facilities permitted when the drive-in facilities are incidental to the principal function;

   (G)   Publicly owned and operated parks and recreational facilities; municipal or governmental office buildings and post office;

   (H)   Newspaper office;

   (I)   Churches and other facilities normally incidental thereto on the same property, including secular counseling services, such as family and individual counseling (not including dormitory use), whether provided directly or under lease with other charitable or governmental organizations. Buildings of greater than the maximum height allowed herein, may be allowed.

   (J)   Other uses similar to the above uses;

   (K)   Public or private parking lots;

   (L)   Accessory structures, uses and accessory signs customarily incidental to the above permitted uses, subject to the following restrictions:

      (1)   Accessory signs as permitted herein and only when pertaining to the sale, rental or use of the premise on which it is located or to goods sold or activities conducted thereon.

      (2)   All lighting for parking areas or for the external illumination of buildings shall be directed away from and shall be shielded from adjacent residential districts; and

   (M)   Residential units on upper floors above permitted uses on the ground floor.

(Prior Code, App., § 601) (Am. Ord. 2019-002, passed 2-21-2019; Am. Ord. passed 10-21-2021)

   Under such conditions as the Planning Commission, after hearing, finds the use as not being injurious to the B-1 District and environs and not contrary to the spirit and purpose of this chapter and subject further to the conditions hereinafter imposed for each use, the following uses may be permitted:

   (A)   Publicly owned buildings, public utility buildings, telephone exchange buildings, electric transformer stations and substations, gas regulator stations with service yards, but without storage yards; water and sewage pumping stations;

   (B)   Business schools or private schools operated for profit including, but not limited to: dance studios, music and voice schools and art schools;

   (C)   Arcades, as defined and as licensed pursuant to this code of ordinances, provided that, so as to prevent an undue concentration of such facilities, another licensed arcade is not located within 350 feet. Curfew requirements for persons under 16 years of age, as set forth in this code of ordinances, shall apply to the operation of any arcade approved under this section.

(Prior Code, App., § 602) (Ord. passed 5-16-1974; Am. Ord. 87-15, passed 8-20-1987; Am. Ord. 99-2, passed 2-4-1999; Am. Ord. 2018-006, passed 11-1-2018; Am. Ord. 2019-002, passed 2-21-2019)

   (A)   (1)   All business establishments shall be retail or service establishments dealing directly with consumers.

      (2)   All goods produced on the premises shall be sold at retail on premises where produced.

   (B)   All business, servicing or processing, except for off-street parking or loading, shall be conducted within a completely enclosed building, except that approved by the Planning Commission, per § 160.082(D).

   (C)   The outdoor storage of goods or materials shall be prohibited.

   (D)   All business establishments shall close for business between the hours of 2:30 a.m. and 6:00 a.m. 7 days per week excepting those days where the Michigan Liquor Control laws allow for service to be extended beyond 2:30 a.m.

(Prior Code, App., § 603) (Ord. 87-15, passed 8-20-1987; Am. Ord. 90-10, passed 8-2-1990)

   See § 160.195 limiting height and bulk of buildings and minimum size of lot by permitted land use.

(Prior Code, App., § 604)