The B1 Neighborhood Shopping Center District regulations are intended to provide areas and govern uses therein for a range of shopper and personal service types of establishments in order to serve the general shopping needs of a consumer population that is located in one or more of the neighborhoods adjoining or in the vicinity of the shopping district.

(Code 2012, § 17.36.010; Ord. of 9-28-1966, § 8(C)(part))

Permitted uses in the B1 Neighborhood Shopping Center District are:

(1)

Antique shops;

(2)

Appliance sales and/or service;

(3)

Art galleries and studios;

(4)

Art and school supply stores;

(5)

ATMs (walk-up);

(6)

Bakeries;

(7)

Banks and financial institutions;

(8)

Barbershops and beauty parlors;

(9)

Bookstores;

(10)

Camera and photographic supply stores;

(11)

Candy and ice cream stores;

(12)

Carpet and rug stores;

(13)

Catalogue sales offices;

(14)

Clothes pressing establishments;

(15)

Clothing stores;

(16)

Clubs or lodges, private, fraternal, or religious;

(17)

Coffee shops, tea houses;

(18)

Communications sales and service;

(19)

Convenience stores;

(20)

Dance and music studios, academies, and conservatories;

(21)

Drugstores;

(22)

Dry-cleaning and laundry receiving stations, including self-service coin-operated equipment;

(23)

Electronic sales and/or service;

(24)

Fabric and sewing supply stores;

(25)

Flower shops;

(26)

Food stores, meat and fish markets, and delicatessens;

(27)

Furniture stores;

(28)

Furrier shops;

(29)

Garden supply stores;

(30)

Gift shops;

(31)

Grocery stores or supermarkets;

(32)

Hobby shops for retailing of items to be assembled or used away from the premises;

(33)

Household appliance stores, including radio and television sales with incidental repair facilities;

(34)

Interior decorating shops, including upholstery and making of draperies, slipcovers, and other similar articles when conducted as part of the retail operations and secondary to the principal use;

(35)

Jewelry stores;

(36)

Launderettes and hand laundries;

(37)

Leather goods and luggage stores;

(38)

Libraries;

(39)

Liquor stores, package;

(40)

Loan offices;

(41)

Locksmith shops;

(42)

Medical and dental clinics, including laboratories incidental thereto;

(43)

Museums;

(44)

Music stores, phonographs, phonograph records, and sheet music;

(45)

Musical instrument sales and repair;

(46)

Newspaper offices, not including printing;

(47)

Newsstands;

(48)

Offices, professional, business, public or institutional;

(49)

Office supply stores;

(50)

Opticians;

(51)

Parks;

(52)

Photography studios, including developing and printing of photographs when conducted on the premises as part of the retail business;

(53)

Picture framing shops;

(54)

Restaurants, which may include accessory cocktail lounges when the restaurant has facilities for serving 50 or more persons at the same time;

(55)

Sewing machine sales and/or service;

(56)

Shoe and hat repair stores;

(57)

Shoe stores;

(58)

Sporting goods stores;

(59)

Stationery and card stores;

(60)

Studios for art, ceramics, dance, drama, speech etc.;

(61)

Tailor shops;

(62)

Temporary buildings for construction purposes, for a period not to exceed the duration of such construction;

(63)

Toy stores;

(64)

Vending machines.

Accessory uses to the above-permitted uses, including, but not limited to, off-street parking, off-street loading, and awnings, marquees and business signs as regulated in section 48-1005.

(Code 2012, § 17.36.020; Ord. of 9-28-1966, § 8(C)(1); Ord. No. 3976, § 12, 7-1-2013)

Conditionally permitted uses in the B1 district are:

(1)

Other business uses similar to permitted uses listed above;

(2)

Public utility and governmental service uses, the location, width, and lot area of each use shall be as recommended by the planning commission and approved by the city council;

(3)

Schools and nursery on a lot not less than 100 feet in width and not less than 15,000 square feet in area;

(4)

Theaters, indoor, provided that only the outer lobby has frontage on a street;

(5)

Undertaking establishments and funeral parlors, on a lot not less than 100 feet in width and not less than one acre in area;

(6)

Parking lots (private or public) as a principal use;

(7)

Planned developments;

(8)

Railroad rights-of-way and passenger substations;

(9)

Recreational areas or camps, private, not-for-profit;

(10)

Seminaries, convents, monasteries;

(11)

Microblading.

Accessory uses to the above-permitted uses, including, but not limited to, off-street parking, off-street loading, and awnings, marquees and business signs as regulated in section 48-1004.

(Code 2012, § 17.36.030; Ord. of 9-28-1966, § 8(C)(2); Ord. No. 3976, § 13, 7-1-2013; Ord. No. 4613, § 5, 2-5-2024)

Floor area ratio shall not exceed 0.3 for the total area under initial unified development. If the development is subsequently divided into lots, permitted floor expansion for each lot shall be specified upon the application for a zoning certificate and recorded as a restrictive covenant.

(Code 2012, § 17.36.040; Ord. of 9-28-1966, § 8(C)(3))

(a)

Exterior boundary yards. Where property located within the B1 district abuts streets, railroads, residence districts or manufacturing districts, the following shall be provided:

(1)

Along a street right-of-way, not less than 80 feet except that the area extending from the yard line to within 15 feet of the street right-of-way may be occupied by drives, vehicular parking, sidewalks, landscaping and similar facilities (all area between the street right-of-way and yard line, which is not occupied by such facilities, including the 15 feet adjoining the street right-of-way shall be appropriately landscaped);

(2)

Along railroad rights-of-way or other business districts, not less than ten feet;

(3)

Along manufacturing districts, not less than 20 feet;

(4)

Along residence district boundaries, not less than 35 feet which shall he maintained as landscaped area.

(b)

Interior yards. No other yards are required; however, if a yard is provided, it shall be not less than ten feet in width.

(Code 2012, § 17.36.050; Ord. of 9-28-1966, § 8(C)(4))

Awnings, marquees and nonflashing illuminated business signs with no moving parts are permitted subject to applicable regulations set forth in other ordinances of the city and the following:

(1)

Signs shall not be illuminated between the hours of 11:00 p.m. or the time of closing the business, whichever is later, and 7:00 a.m.

(2)

A sign in direct line of vision of any traffic signal shall not have red, green or amber illumination.

(3)

The gross surface area in square feet of all signs on a lot shall be not more than three times the number of linear feet in the length of the building wall facing the front lot line. On a corner or through lot, each lot line adjoining a street shall be considered a separate front lot line.

(4)

All signs shall be affixed against the building walls and shall not extend therefrom more than 12 inches.

(5)

In a planned development or shopping center, one ground sign facing each street which identifies the name and address of the shopping center and a bulletin area for advertising special features therein may be erected in addition to the signs affixed to the building walls. Such ground sign shall be not less than ten feet from any lot line and have a gross surface area of not more than 160 square feet which may be in addition to the maximum gross surface area as permitted in subsection (3) of this section.

(6)

A sign affixed to a building shall not project higher than five feet above building height. A ground sign shall not project higher than 30 feet above the grade below it, and when located within 50 feet of the intersection of two or more streets, it shall have its lowest level not less than eight feet above the grade below it, and when located within three feet of a driveway or parking area, it shall have the lowest level not less than 12 feet above the grade below it.

(7)

Signs may have constant illumination, provided direct rays of light shall not beam upon an existing dwelling, nor into a residence district, nor into a street. No rotating beam or beacon resembling an emergency light shall be used.

(8)

A sign whereon the time and/or temperature is indicated by intermittent lighting shall not be deemed to be a flashing sign if the lighting changes are limited to the numerals indicating the time and/or temperature and are not more frequent than every ten seconds.

(9)

Awnings and marquees shall have headroom of not less than eight feet.

(Code 2012, § 17.36.060; Ord. of 9-28-1966, § 8(C)(5))

Off-street parking and off-street loading shall be in accordance with regulations set forth in section 48-1435.

(Code 2012, § 17.36.070; Ord. of 9-28-1966, § 8(C)(6))