The B-2 General Business District is designed to furnish areas served by the B-1 Central Business District with a variety of automobile services and goods incompatible with the uses in such B-1 Central Business District. The B-2 General Business District is characterized by More diversified business types and is located to serve transient traffic in addition to tourist accommodations and services.

(Prior Code, App., § 700)

   (A)   All principal and special conditions uses permitted and as regulated in the B-1 Districts except as hereinafter modified;

   (B)   Auto laundries, when completely enclosed in building;

   (C)   Bus passenger stations;

   (D)   New car sales showrooms and garages and Marine sales.

   (E)   Governmental office or other governmental use; public utility offices, exchanges, transformer stations, pump stations, and service yards but not including outdoor storage;

   (F)   Greenhouses and florist provided there shall be no outdoor growing of plant material or outdoor storage permitted;

   (G)   Private clubs or lodge halls, fraternal organizations;

   (H)   Retail cold storage establishments;

   (I)   Bowling alley, billiard hall, indoor archery range, indoor skating rink, and similar forms of indoor commercial recreation;

   (J)   Other uses similar to the above uses;

   (K)   Accessory structures, uses and accessory signs customarily incidental to the above permitted uses subject to the requirements hereof; and

   (L)   Planned shopping centers.

(Prior Code, App., § 701) (Am. Ord. 04-07, passed 8-19-2004)

   Under such conditions as the Planning Commission, after hearing, finds the use as not being injurious to the B-2 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)   Outdoor sales space for exclusive sale of automobiles, house trailers, or boats subject to the following:

      (1)   All lighting shall be shielded from adjacent residential districts.

      (2)   Ingress and egress to the outdoor sales area shall be at least 60 feet from the intersection of any 2 streets.

      (3)   A 4-foot obscuring wall or obscuring fence shall be provided when abutting districts are zoned for residential use.

      (4)   No major repair or major refinishing shall be done on the lot except in enclosed buildings provided for this purpose.

   (B)   Motel or hotel, subject to the following:

      (1)   Provided that it can be demonstrated that all points of ingress and egress do not conflict with adjacent business uses and are directly onto a major thoroughfare.

      (2)   A 4-foot obscuring wall or obscuring fence shall be provided where abutting districts are zoned for residential use.

      (3)   Each unit shall contain not less than 200 square feet of floor area.

   (C)   Business in the character of a drive-in, or open front store subject to the following:

      (1)   A setback of at least 60 feet from the right-of-way line of any existing or proposed street must be maintained.

      (2)   Ingress and egress points shall be located at least 60 feet from the intersection of any 2 streets.

      (3)   All lighting shall be shielded from adjacent residential districts.

      (4)   A 4-foot completely obscuring wall or obscuring fence shall be provided where abutting districts are zoned for residential use.

   (D)   Commercially used outdoor recreational space for children’s amusement parks, carnivals, miniature golf courses, subject to the following:

      (1)   Children’s amusement park must be fenced on all sides with a 4-foot wall or fence.

      (2)   Adequate parking shall be provided off the road right-of-way and shall be fenced with a 4 foot wall or fence where adjacent to the use.

   (E)   Mortuary establishments subject to the following:

      (1)   The minimum lot area shall be 20,000 square feet and so arranged that adequate assembly area is provided off-street for vehicles to be used in a funeral procession. This assembly area shall be provided in addition to any required off-street parking area.

      (2)   The site shall be so located as to have at least 1 property line abutting a major thoroughfare and all ingress and egress for the site shall be directly onto the major thoroughfare, or a marginal access service drive thereof.

      (3)   Points of ingress and egress for the site shall be so laid out as to minimize possible conflicts between traffic on adjacent major throughfares and funeral processions or visitors entering or leaving the site.

      (4)   No building shall be located closer than 25 feet to the outer perimeter (property line) of the district when the property line abuts any residential district.

      (5)   A caretakers residence may be provided within the main building of the mortuary establishment.

      (6)   Loading and unloading area used by ambulance, hearse, or other such service vehicles shall be obscured from all residential view with a wall or fence 6 feet in height and the wall or fence, plus any other required wall or fence shall be further subject to the requirements hereof.

   (F)   Veterinary hospitals or clinics, provided all activities are conducted within a totally enclosed main building and provided further that no abutting property be zoned in any residential classification.

   (G)   Gasoline service station for sale of gasoline, oil and minor accessories only, and where no repair work is done, other than incidental service, but not including steam cleaning and subject to the following:

      (1)   The curb cuts for ingress and egress to a service station shall not be permitted at such locations that will tend to create traffic hazards in the streets immediately adjacent thereto. Entrances shall be no less than 25 feet from a street intersection or from adjacent residential districts.

      (2)   The minimum lot area shall be 10,000 square feet, and so arranged that ample space is available for motor vehicles which are required to wait.

      (3)   There shall be provided, on those sides abutting or adjacent to a residential district, a 4 foot completely obscuring wood or masonry wall.

      (4)   All lighting shall be shielded from adjacent residential districts.

(Prior Code, App., § 702)

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

(Prior Code, App., § 703)

   (A)   A PLANNED SHOPPING CENTER is hereby defined as a grouping of retail and service uses on a single site with common parking facilities.

   (B)   The following development standards shall apply to all sites developed as planned shopping centers as defined above and are in addition to any of the applicable requirements of this section:

      (1)   Building facades greater than 100 feet in length shall incorporate recesses and projections along at least 20% of the length of the facade. Windows, awnings and arcades must total at least 60% of a facade length abutting a public street.

      (2)   Architectural interest shall be provided through the use of repeating patterns of changes of color, texture and material modules. At least 1 of these elements shall repeat horizontally. All elements should repeat at intervals of no more than 50 feet, either horizontally or vertically.

      (3)   There shall be variations in roof lines to reduce the massive scale of the structure and to add visual interest. Roofs shall have at least 2 of the following features:

         (a)   Parapets concealing flat roofs and rooftop equipment;

         (b)   Overhanging eaves;

         (c)   Sloped roofs; and

         (d)   Three or more roof surfaces.

      (4)   Each principal building with an anchor tenant shall have a clearly defined, highly visible customer entrance with features such as canopies or porticos, arcades, arches, wing walls and integral planters.

      (5)   Facade colors shall be of a low reflectance, subtle, neutral or earth tone colors. The use of high intensity colors, metallic colors, black or fluorescent colors is prohibited.

      (6)   Building trim may consist of brighter colors, but neon tubing as a building accent is prohibited.

      (7)   Loading docks, trash collection, outdoor storage and similar facilities and functions shall be incorporated into the overall design of the building and the landscaping so that the visual and acoustic impacts of these functions are fully contained and out of view from adjacent properties and public streets. Use of screening materials that are different from or inferior to the principal materials of the building and landscape is prohibited. No delivery, loading, trash removal, exterior property maintenance, or similar operations are permitted between the hours of 9:00 p.m. and 7:00 a.m., except in special circumstances and where steps are taken to reduce noise impacts.

      (8)   Each planned shopping center must contribute to the establishment or enhancement of the community and public spaces by providing at least 2 community amenities such as a patio/seating area, water feature, clock tower, pedestrian plaza with benches, public art and the like.

   (C)   Retail stores with a gross floor area of 50,000 square feet or more shall be developed in accordance herewith, as stated in this section.

(Ord. 04-07, passed 8-19-2004)