A BN neighborhood business district is intended to create, preserve and enhance areas of retail establishments serving frequently recurring needs in convenient locations, and is typically appropriate to small shopping clusters or integrated shopping centers located within residential neighborhoods.

(Ord. No. 4617, § 1(Exh. A), 10-4-2021)

No principal structure shall exceed 30 feet in height (measured from grade to the ceiling of the top floor of the structure), and no accessory structure shall exceed either 15 feet in height (measured from grade to the structure height as defined previously).

(Ord. No. 4617, § 1(Exh. A), 10-4-2021; Ord. No. 4702, § 1(Exh. A), 12-5-2022)

The following minimum requirements shall be observed:

A.

Property area. No minimum is/shall be required.

B.

Property width. No minimum is/shall be required.

C.

Minimum property structure and parking, front yard (setback). A minimum width/depth of 20 feet for structures and for parking areas is/shall be required from the property line (or future right-of-way where known or determined by the city engineer). Correspondingly, structures situated on corner properties shall observe a minimum setback of 20 feet from and along both streets for structures and parking areas.

D.

Minimum side and rear property and parking setbacks. Properties within the BN district are not/shall not be required to provide side and rear setbacks if said lots or development sites abut property lines of commercially or industrially zoned property. When interior lot lines of a property zoned BN abut property zoned residentially, side and rear property setbacks of not less than 15 feet wide/deep shall be required opposite the residential district.

E.

Access. All lots/parcels developed/"built out," or proposed to be developed/"built out," with structures thereon shall have, or be demonstrated to have, legal access to a public street, before the city may issue or approve construction of any structures on that lot/parcel (as iterated in the definition of "property" in section 10-1-2, Definitions, and subsection 10-1-7.B.1 of this title). Lots/parcels developed in this zone do not have to have direct lot/parcel frontage on a public street however, only legal access to the same.

(Ord. No. 4617, § 1(Exh. A), 10-4-2021; Ord. No. 4702, § 1(Exh. A), 12-5-2022)

None specified.

(Ord. No. 4617, § 1(Exh. A), 10-4-2021)

The following additional conditions shall apply:

A.

Outside uses. All principal uses except private or public parking areas and service station pump islands shall be in an entirely enclosed building unless otherwise specified by a conditional use permit. Temporary uses may be allowed subject to regulations cited in subsection 10-1-12.B of this title.

Accessory exterior storage affiliated with principal uses shall not be allowed in any area in front of the principal structure(s) on a property and shall be otherwise screened from view with a site obscuring fence, wall or hedge not to exceed eight feet in height. Materials so stored shall be kept below the top of the fence.

B.

Setback from residential districts. In any BN district directly across the street from any residential district or any agricultural district, the parking and loading facilities shall be distant at least 20 feet from the street and the buildings and structures at least 35 feet from the street; provided, the foregoing requirements of this subsection shall not apply where such residential district or agricultural district is separated from the BN district by a street planned to have a right-of-way 80 feet or more, and that a screen wall and/or landscaping is established and maintained on the BN property.

C.

Nuisances. All operations conducted on the premises shall not be allowed to constitute a nuisance by reason of smoke, fumes, odor, steam, gases, vibrations, noise, hazards or other causes, beyond the property boundary lines, and shall comply with the performance standards of chapter 1 of this title.

(Ord. No. 4617, § 1(Exh. A), 10-4-2021; Ord. No. 4702, § 1(Exh. A), 12-5-2022)

All uses shall conform to the façade design, parking, parking lot landscaping, signage, open space and property landscaping requirements in chapters 22, 23, 33 and 34 of this title. Additionally:

A.

Shopping centers. All shopping centers shall require groupings and/or strips of landscape materials along the length of any street bordering the center.

B.

Landscaping adjacent to residential districts. All sites having a common boundary line with a residential classified property shall have erected and maintained a view obscuring wall, fence or evergreen hedge not less than five feet nor more than six feet in height for screening purposes and controlling access. Public utility installations need only fence and screen with appropriate materials such as base planting of evergreen shrubs or trees and climbing evergreen plant materials on the fences to minimize the industrial character of such installations with the area surrounding the fenced and screened enclosure landscaped and planted to create a park-like atmosphere.

(Ord. No. 4617, § 1(Exh. A), 10-4-2021)