The Local Business Zone 6 is intended to permit retail business and service uses which are needed to serve the residents of the City. In order to promote such a business development so far as is possible and appropriate in each area, uses are prohibited which would create hazards, offensive and loud noises, vibration, smoke, glare, heavy truck traffic, or late hours of operation. The intent of this Zone is also to encourage the concentration of local business areas to mutual advantage of both the consumers and merchants and thereby to promote the best use of land at certain strategic locations and to avoid the continuance of marginal strip business development along major thoroughfares.

In Zone 6 the following uses and uses incidental thereto shall be permitted:

A.

Business services, including the following:

1.

Business, professional or governmental

2.

Financial institutions, including banks, savings and loan association offices and credit unions

3.

Post office or postal stations

4.

Real estate offices

B.

Clothing service, including the following:

1.

Dressmaking shops

2.

Dry cleaning establishments occupying a total floor area not to exceed two thousand (2,000') feet and using not more than two (2) clothes-cleaning units, neither of which shall have a rated capacity of more than forty (40) pounds, using cleaning fluid which is non- explosive and non-flammable

3.

Laundry agencies

4.

Millinery shops

5.

Self-service laundry and dry cleaning establishments

6.

Tailor and pressing shops

C.

Equipment service, including the following:

1.

Electric appliance repair shops

2.

Radio and electric repair television shops

3.

Shoe repair shops

4.

Watch repair shops

D.

Food service (excluding drive-in type businesses), the business of which shall be conducted entirely within an enclosed building, including but not limited to the following:

1.

Bake shops

2.

Dairy stores

3.

Delicatessens

4.

Groceries

5.

Meat, fish and poultry markets

6.

Restaurants

7.

Taverns

E.

Medical offices, including the following:

1.

Doctor, dentist, chiropractic offices

2.

Medical centers, industrial health clinics

F.

Personal service, including the following:

1.

Barber shops

2.

Beauty shops

3.

Health salons

4.

Photographic studios

G.

Retail service and retail stores, generally, including the following:

1.

Antique shops

2.

Apparel shops

3.

Bicycle sales and service

4.

Book stores

5.

Camera shops

6.

Drugstores

7.

Flower shops

8.

Gift shops

9.

Hardware, paint, lumber and wallpaper stores

10.

Hobby shops

11.

Household appliances

12.

Jewelry stores

13.

News dealers

14.

Picture framing stores

15.

Radio, T.V. and record shops

16.

Stationers

17.

Variety stores

18.

Mini-storage

H.

Community buildings and clubs whose activities are conducted primarily for the residents of the locality, and not those the chief activity of which is a service customarily carried on with transients as a business.

I.

Public buildings and properties.

J.

Off-street parking and loading facilities in accordance with the requirements of Article VI.

The following uses may be permitted subject to applicable site design standards in Article XIV and subject further to the approval of the City Council in accordance with procedures in Section 15.08.

A.

Automobile service stations

B.

Drive-in restaurants or other drive-in establishments serving food and/or beverages.

C.

Auto wash establishments.

D.

Public utility buildings, telephone exchange building, electric utility sub-stations, gas regulator stations and similar uses, but not including storage yards. Special use approval shall be required even if such uses are considered Essential Services, as defined in Section 2.02.

E.

Adult bookstore, adult motion picture theater, cabarets, massage parlors.

Wireless Communication Facilities may be permitted as principal permitted uses or as special land uses, depending on compliance with the criteria specified in Section 4.40 (B), and subject to all applicable standards and conditions in Section 4.40.

The following conditions are required for all uses in Zone 6:

A.

All business, service or processing shall be conducted wholly within a completely enclosed building, provided further that all lighting in connection with permitted business uses shall be so arranged as to reflect the light away from all adjoining residential buildings or residentially zoned property.

B.

All business or service establishments shall be mainly for the purpose of dealing directly with consumers. All goods produced or processed on the premises shall be principally sold at retail on the premises where produced and/or processed.

C.

Where a new or expanded land use occurs in Zone 6, after the effective date of this Ordinance, which abuts directly upon a residentially zoned district, protective screening shall be provided in accordance with Section 4.30

D.

Awnings of any type, material, style, or color shall be prohibited.

For all uses in Zone 6, a site plan shall be submitted to the Planning Commission for review and approval in accordance with Section 4.33.

Area, height, bulk and placement requirements, unless otherwise specified, are as provided in Article XIII.

All tree removal, replacement, and pruning, re-landscaping and land clearing and other activities that affect trees and woodlands, are subject to the requirements of the Woodlands, Tree and Vegetation Preservation Ordinance.