Any use permitted in a Class “L” District;

Antique shop; aquarium; bakery, retail only; bank, office wholesales offices and/or sample room; bird and pet shop; cafeteria, cafe with or without drive-in or curb service; cleaning and pressing shop having an area less than six thousand (6,000) sq. ft.; commercial billboard or advertising sign; curtain cleaning shop having an area not more than six thousand (6,000) sq. ft.; dyeing plant having a floor area of not more than six thousand (6,000) sq. ft.; electric substation; exterminating company–retail; film developing and printing; hotel[;] ice delivery station; liquor and beer; moving picture theater; nursery or greenhouse; parking lot; private club; restaurant with or without drive-in facilities; retail stores; shop for custom work or making articles to be sold at retail on the premises; shoe repair shop; studio, art, dance, music, drama, health, massage and reducing; tailor; taxi stand, telephone exchange; mortuary;

Any other retail use, provided such use is not noxious or offensive by reason of emission of odors, filth, soot, dust, noise, gas fumes, or is unsightly or cause the property to become unsightly;

Accessory buildings and uses customarily incident to the above uses; no accessory use shall be construed to permit the keeping of articles, goods, or merchandise in the open or exposed to public view; when necessary to store or keep such articles, materials, or merchandise in the open, the lot shall be fenced with tight fences, approved by the City of Mercedes, not less than six (6) feet high or otherwise screened from view by shrubs or a hedge.

Temporary Structures used for temporary purposes.

Where all the frontage on one side of the street for a block is located in the Business “A” District, no front yard shall be required. When frontage on one side of the street for a block is located partly in Business “A” District and partly in a more restricted district, the front yard shall conform to the more restricted use district regulations.

No side yard shall be required for commercial use. For residential use there should be a side yard on each side of the lot of not less in width than seven (7) feet on south and east side and three (3) feet on the north and west side. A minimum ten-foot (10') side yard setback shall be imposed on all corner side yards of all ‘corner lot’ properties in all zoning districts.

The above does not preclude any corner side yard setbacks that may be required through the recorded plat process.

No rear yard shall be required for commercial use. For residential or apartment use, there shall be rear yard equal to twenty (20) percent of the lot depth.

For residential or apartment use the minimum area of the lot shall be seven thousand (7,000) sq. ft. For business uses or renting rooms over stores without cooking or apartment facilities, there are no area restrictions.

The minimum width of the lot for residential or apartment use shall be fifty (50) feet, for other uses the width of the lot may be less than fifty (50) feet.

One off-street parking space shall be provided for each dwelling unit, except that for efficiency apartments three-fourths (3/4) [of] a parking space shall be provided for each efficiency apartment.