The General Business District is established to provide a District of concentrated retail commercial and service uses that are intended to service the needs of the local trade area. The B-1 District is intended to be located only in the downtown area of the City and to be expanded out from that central area in an orderly and progressive manner as demand for additional commercial land is generated.

1.   Permitted Uses. The following uses and structures, and no others, are permitted in the B-l District.

      Amusement places

      Antique shops and stores, providing all merchandise is enclosed in a building

      Apparel and accessory stores

      Artist studios and art shops

      Apartments above ground floor level

      Automatic car wash (not to include facilities designed for the washing of semi-tractors and trailers)

      Automobile supply accessory stores

      Auditorium

      Bakery and pastry shops (retail only)

      Banks and other savings and lending institutions

      Barber and beauty shops, chiropody, or similar personal service shops

      Bicycle shops (sales and repair)

      Boarding and lodging houses

      Books and stationary stores or shops

      Business or commercial schools, including dancing and music academies

      Business machine repair, sales, and services

      Candy and ice-cream stores

      Cigar and tobacco stores

      Clothing and costume rental shops

      Commercial recreation uses

      Custom dressmaking, millinery, tailoring, and similar trades

      Delicatessens and catering establishments

      Department stores

      Drug stores

      Dry goods and notion shops

      Dry cleaning and laundry establishments

      Electric repair shops

      Fire stations, police stations, and other public buildings

      Fix-it or television repair shops

      Florist and gift shops

      Furniture and home furnishing shops and stores

      Garages and auto repair shops

      Garages for storage and motor vehicles

      Government administration buildings, shops

      Grocery, fruit, and vegetable stores

      Hardware stores and shops

      Hobby shops

      Hotels and motels

      Household appliance stores

      Interior decorator’s shops

      Jewelry and metal craft stores and shops

      Laundries and launderettes

      Leather goods and luggage stores

      Libraries and museums

      Lock and key shops

      Mail order catalogue stores

      Medical and dental clinics

      Medical and orthopedic equipment stores

      Meeting halls and auditoriums

      Mental Health Access Center

      Messenger or telegraph service stations

      Milk and soft drink distribution stations

      Music and musical instrument stores and studios

      Multiple family residential

      Newspaper offices

      Newsstands

      Newsprint, job printing, and printing supplies stores

      Offices and office buildings

      Office supply and equipment stores

      Pet shops

      Photographic equipment and supply stores

      Photographic studios

      Picture frame shops

      Post offices and court buildings

      Package liquor stores

      Parking lots and garages (commercial, public and private)

      Paint stores

      Pawn shops

      Plumbing, heating and air conditioning shops, when the entire operation is conducted entirely within the building

      Prescription shops

      Private clubs, fraternities, sororities and lodges

      Public and private parking lots for temporary storage of automobiles

      Radio and TV stores

      Radio and television studios

      Railway, taxi, and bus passenger stations

      Restaurants and tea rooms

      Service stations (oil, gas, vehicle repair)

      Shoe stores and repair shops

      Single-family residential

      Sporting goods

      Tailor shops

      Tattoo studio (800 feet between like stores, conformity to State licensing and regulatory requirements)

      Two-family residential dwelling

      Taverns

      Theaters

      Toy shops

      Travel bureaus

      Utility company offices

      Stores and shops, for the conduct of retail business, similar to the uses enumerated herein

2.   Conditional Uses. The following uses and structures shall be permitted when authorized by the Board of Adjustment.

   A.   Public utility and service uses, including but not limited to electric sub-stations, gas regulator stations, radio and television transmitting towers.

   B.   Telephone transmission equipment buildings.

   C.   Railroad rights-of-way.

   D.   Day care centers and nursery schools.

   E.   Light manufacturing; assembly or treatment of articles or merchandise from the following previously prepared material: canvas, cellophane, cloth, fiber, glass, leather, paper, plastic, precious or semiprecious metals, textiles and yarn provided that the entire operation is conducted within a building and that no raw materials or manufactured products are stored outside the building other than for loading and unloading operations and further providing that such use is not noxious or offensive by reason of vibration or noise beyond the confines of the building or emission of dust, fumes, gas, odor, or smoke and that no part of the building is located within 100 feet of an R District.

   F.   Automobile repair garage doing major repair.

   G.   Lumberyard, provided that the operation is conducted within the building or screened area.

   H.   Railroad freight stations, trucking or motor freight terminals provided that service yards or docks are at least 100 feet from an R District.

   I.   Motor vehicle display, repair and sales.

   J.   Mini storage facilities.

   K.   Modular can and bottle recycling.

   L.   All other uses of a similar character as may be determined by the Board of Adjustment.

3.   Accessory Uses. Accessory uses incidental to and on the same zoning lot as the principal use.

   A.   Home occupations - See Section 167.06.

4.   Lot Size. There is no minimum lot size requirement.

5.   Lot Coverage. There is no minimum lot coverage requirement.

6.   Yard Requirements. There is no minimum front, side and rear yard requirement.

7.   Height Regulations. Except as otherwise provided in Section 167.07 of this Ordinance, no building shall exceed 45 feet in height.

8.   Parking Requirements. There is no minimum required number of off-street parking stalls. Off-street parking provided shall conform to provisions of Section 167.04.

9.   Sign Regulations. See Section 167.03.

10.   Site Plan Requirements. See Section 167.01.

11.   Supplemental Development Standards. See Section 167.05.

12.   Exceptions and Modifications. See Section 167.07.