Minerva City Zoning Code
CHAPTER 1149
B-1 Retail Business District
1149.01 PERMITTED AND ACCESSORY USES.
The following regulations and the regulations contained in Chapter 1137
shall apply in the B-1 Retail Business District:
(a) Principal Permitted Uses.
(1) Any use permitted and as regulated in the R-3 District, with the exception of any structure that shall be used for residential purposes.
(2) Any retail business or service establishment such as a grocery, fruit or vegetable store, meat market, drug store, shoe repair, hardware store, barber and beauty shop, clothes cleaning and laundry pick-up station.
(3) Business or professional offices and office buildings.
(4) Restaurant, cafe, bar and soda fountain, not including dancing.
(Ord. 11-71. Passed 5-25-71.)
(5) Automobile service stations, minor repair and storage garages and commercial parking lots for passenger vehicles as provided in Chapter 1156.
(Ord. 32-72. Passed 9-26-72.)
(6) Provided that the principal building shall be located at least fifty feet from any lot in any R District, any retail business or service establishment such as an electrical appliance shop, plumbing and heating shop, printing ship, interior decorating and upholstering shop, theater (not including drive-in theaters), hotel, funeral home or mortuary; garage for general automobile repair, but not including major body and fender work, overall painting or upholstering and steam cleaning; and other uses of the same general character.
(b) Accessory Uses.
(1) Accessory uses and structures as permitted in the R-3 District with the exception of any structure that shall be used for residential purposes.
(2) Other accessory uses and structures not otherwise prohibited, customarily accessory and incidental to any permitted principal use.
(3) Any exterior sign shall pertain only to the use conducted within the building. No sign may project over any street line or otherwise impair the safety of pedestrians or motorists. Signs attached to a building shall not extend more than four feet over any building line nor exceed one and one-half square feet in area for every foot occupied by the front of the building displaying the sign or signs. No sign shall project more than three feet above the roof line of the building. Where the lot adjoins an R District, any exterior sign, whether free standing or attached to the building, shall not face the side of the adjacent lot located in the R District and all lights used to illuminate signs or the premises in general shall be shielded so as not to cast any rays directly toward the adjacent lot located in the R District.
(4) Directional and other incidental signs, not exceeding four square feet in area, required in connection with the operation of any automobile service station, parking lot, or similar establishment, provided such signs do not extend over street right-of-way lines nor otherwise obstruct or impair the safety of pedestrians or motorists.
(Ord. 11-71. Passed 5-25-71.)
1149.02 PERFORMANCE STANDARDS.
(a) The above permitted business, services and processing shall be conducted wholly within a completely enclosed building except for the sale of automotive fuel, lubricants and fluids at service stations, and outdoor furniture and furnishings, nursery stock, garden supplies and other similar merchandise customarily kept or displayed in the open, and except for off-street automobile parking and loading.
(b) In any B-1 District fronting directly across the street from any R-1 or R-2 District, the parking and loading facilities shall be distant at least twenty-five feet from the established right-of-way line, and the buildings or the structures at least seventy-five feet from the established right-of-way line.
(c) Processes and equipment employed and goods processed or sold shall be limited to those which are not objectionable by reason of odor, dust, smoke, cinders, gas, fumes, noise, vibration, refuse matter or water-carried waste.
(Ord. 11-71. Passed 5-25-71.)
1149.03 HEIGHT RESTRICTIONS.
In a B-1 District the maximum height shall be three stories not to exceed forty feet, except as provided in Section 1157.03(a).
(Ord. 11-71. Passed 5-25-71.)
1149.04 LOT AREA, FRONTAGE AND YARD REQUIREMENTS.
The following minimum requirements shall be observed, subject to the modified requirements contained in Section 1157.03:
SCHEDULE OF MINIMUM LOT, FRONTAGE AND YARD SIZES | |||||
Use | Lot Area (Sq.Ft.) | Minimum Required Front Yard Depth (Ft.) | Side Yard Width Each Side (Ft.) | Rear Yard Depths (Ft.) | Maximum Lot Coverage (Percentage) |
Permitted Uses | No minimum | 40 | 10, except when adjacent to any R District, in which case not less than 20 on that side | 45 | 25 |
(Ord. 11-71. Passed 5-25-71.)