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Pittsfield City Zoning Code

B-2 CENTRAL

BUSINESS DISTRICT

§ 156.075 USES.

   Permitted uses are:
   (A)    Agricultural implement sales and service conducted wholly within a completely enclosed building;
   (B)   Air conditioning and heating sales and service;
   (C)   Auction rooms;
   (D)   Auditoriums;
   (E)   Automobile sales and service shops conducted within a completely enclosed building and as one integrated business operation, but not including automobile painting, upholstering, rebuilding or body and fender work;
   (F)   Battery and tire service stations;
   (G)   Beverage distributors, but not including bottling plants;
   (H)   Billiard and pool rooms;
   (I)   Bowling alleys;
   (J)   Book binding;
   (K)   Catering establishments;
   (L)   Dance halls;
   (M)   Department, furniture and home appliance stores;
   (N)   Dressmaking establishments;
   (O)   Employment agencies;
   (P)   Expressing, baggage and transfer delivery service;
   (Q)   Public garages for storage of private passenger automobiles, but not including repair service;
   (R)   Hand laundries;
   (S)   Hotels;
   (T)   Laboratories;
   (U)   Laundries employing facilities for not more than 1,000 pounds of dry goods per day;
   (V)   Painting and decorating shops;
   (W)   Plumbing, heating and roofing supply and workshop;
   (X)   Printing, publishing and issuing of newspapers, periodicals, books and other reading matter;
   (Y)   Printing shops;
   (Z)   Radio broadcasting station;
   (AA)   Recreation places;
   (BB)   Signs, outdoor advertising;
   (CC)   Tailor shops;
   (DD)   Taverns or retail sale of alcoholic liquors, subject to the regulations of other adopted ordinances of the city;
   (EE)   Taxi service stations;
   (FF)   Telegraph service stations;
   (GG)   Theaters (indoor only);
   (HH)   Trailer sales when conducted within a building;
   (II)   Wholesale establishments, excluding a building the principal use of which is for a storage warehouse;
   (JJ)   Manufacturing or processing which is clearly incidental to retail use if permitted. The manufacturing or processing is limited to that which employs not more than ten persons in the manufacturing or processing;
   (KK)   Taxidermy; operation of taxidermy business, taxidermy being the art of preparing, preserving, and mounting the skins of fish, birds, or mammals to make them appear lifelike;
   (LL)   Petroleum station.
('74 Code, Appendix A, § 8) (Am. Ord. 1450, passed 3-6-12; Am. Ord. 1463, passed 7-3-12) Penalty, see § 156.999

§ 156.076 CONDITIONAL USES.

   Automobiles or trailers (new or used) offered for sale may be stored in the open on the rear half of the lot(s), the front portion of which is occupied by a structure containing automobile or trailer showrooms and where no part of the open storage area is within 50 feet of any street line. Used car sales lots, independent of automobile salesrooms and service conducted within a building, are not permitted.
('74 Code, Appendix A, § 8) Penalty, see § 156.999

§ 156.077 HEIGHT.

   No building or structure shall be erected or structurally altered to exceed a height of three stories, nor shall it exceed 45 feet in height.
('74 Code, Appendix A, § 8) Penalty, see § 156.999

§ 156.078 AREAS.

   (A)   No front or side yards shall be required except when a building or group of buildings abuts a residential district, a yard shall be provided on the side of the lot abutting the residential district, the yard having a width of not less than ten feet.
   (B)   There shall be a rear yard with a depth of not less than 15 feet when abutting upon a publicly dedicated alley or public way and not less than 20 feet when no dedicated alley or public way exists at the rear of the lot. The rear yard may be used for off- street parking and loading, as provided in §§ 156.055 through 156.062.
('74 Code, Appendix A, § 8) Penalty, see § 156.999