Any use permitted in a Class “A” Business District;

Auto and truck sales, service, repair, washing, upholstering; bakery–wholesale; book printing; bottling works; syrup mfg.; bowling alley; candy mfg.; canvas awning mfg.; car barns; carting; hauling or storage; commercial amusement; commercial college; cleaning and dry cleaning, having an area of floor space over six thousand (6,000) sq. ft.; dance hall; driving range; dyeing plant having an area of floor space over six thousand (6,000) sq. ft.; electrical repair, electric plating; farm implements, sales and service; florist–wholesale; gasoline service station, car washing, laundry; tourist courts; mattress renovating, if dust-proof rooms and equipment are installed; miniature golf course; mirror resilvering; motion picture studio, motorcycle repair; newspaper printing; nightclub; photo engraving plant; publishing company; printing and engraving; public storage; schools all types; secondhand furniture; seed company; skating rink; stone monuments, retail only; streetcar barns; used car lot, no wrecking and keeping wrecked or discarded cars or bodies; lumber yards;

Gasoline filling station; battery shop; tire repair and recapping; public garage; provided however, that in no event shall a permit for a gasoline filling station, public garage, battery shop or tire repair shop be granted within one hundred (100) feet of the property line of any college, school, church, hospital, public park or public playground, said distance to be measured in a straight line from the nearest point of each property line segregated and used for the stipulated purposes, except that this prohibition shall not obtain within Class “A” Industrial District or Class “B” Industrial District.

Any retail or wholesale use, provided such use is not noxious or offensive by reason of emission of odors, soot, dust, fumes or vibration, but excluding such uses as are enumerated in Business “C”, Industrial “A” and Industrial “B”.

Accessory buildings customary uses incident to the above uses, no accessory use shall be construed to permit the keeping of articles, goods or materials in the open exposed to the public view excepting transportation or farm equipment. When necessary and permitted by the building inspector of the City of Mercedes to store or keep such materials in open, the lot area shall be screened from public view in a manner ordered by the building inspector of the City of Mercedes.

Where all the frontage on one side of the street for a block is located in the Class “B” Business District no front yard shall be required, but if part of same area is in a more restricted use district, then the more restricted district regulations shall apply.

No side yard shall be required on commercial use. For residential or apartment use there shall be a side yard on the east and south side seven (7) feet wide and on the north and west side three (3) feet wide. 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, but for residential or apartment use, there shall be a rear yard equal to twenty (20) percent of the lot depth.

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

The minimum width of the lot for residential or apartment use shall be fifty (50) feet, for commercial building use there is no lot width restriction.

One off-street parking space shall be provided for each dwelling unit, except that for efficiency apartments only three-fourths (3/4) of a parking space shall be provided for each apartment. Any business buildings shall provided off-street facilities for the loading and unloading of merchandise and goods within building or adjacent to a public alley to facilitate movement of traffic on the streets.