The B-3, general business districts are designed to furnish areas for services and goods incompatible with the pedestrian movement in the central business district. The general business districts are characterized by more diversified business types and are often located so as to serve the passerby traffic.

(Ord. of 10-6-03)

In a B-3, general business district, no building or land shall be used and no building shall be erected except for one or more of the following specified uses unless otherwise provided in this chapter.

Permitted uses:

(1)

Office buildings for any of the following occupations: governmental, executive, administrative, professional, accounting, writing, clerical, stenographic, drafting, sales, post offices and public utility offices.

(2)

Medical office, dental office, physical therapy and chiropractic office; including clinics. Professional offices of lawyers, architects, engineers, and similar or allied professions.

(3)

Child care centers and nursery schools.

(4)

Private clubs and lodge halls.

(5)

Off-street parking lots and parking facilities.

(6)

Meeting halls and related services.

(7)

Any generally recognized retail business which supplies commodities on the premises, for persons residing in adjacent residential areas such as: groceries, meats, dairy products, baked goods or other foods, drugs, dry goods and notions or hardware.

(8)

Restaurants not serving alcoholic beverages, including carry-out restaurants and sit-down restaurants.

(9)

Any personal service establishment which performs services on the premises for persons residing in adjacent residential areas, such as: shoe repair, dry cleaning shops, tailor shops, beauty parlors, barbershops. Any service establishment of an office-showroom or workshop nature of an electrician, decorator, dressmaker, tailor, shoemaker, baker, commercial printing/copying, upholsterer, or an establishment doing radio, television or home appliance repair, photographic reproduction, and similar establishments that require a retail adjunct and of no more objectionable character than the aforementioned subject to the following provision: No more than five persons shall be employed at any time in the fabrication, repair and other processing of goods.

(10)

Large box retail uses (over 70,000 square feet).

(11)

Home improvement centers.

(12)

Restaurants and taverns where the patrons are served while seated within a building occupied by such establishment, and wherein such establishment does not extend as an integral part of, or accessory thereto, any service of a drive-in, or open-front store.

(13)

Regional shopping centers containing multi-tenant spaces totaling greater than 50,000 square feet.

(14)

Theaters or assembly halls when completely enclosed.

(15)

Banks, credit unions, savings and loan associations, and other financial institutions including drive-through facilities, drive-through branches, 24-hour automatic tellers.

(16)

Municipal buildings and governmental offices.

(17)

Offices and showrooms of plumbers, electricians, decorator or similar trades, in connection with which not more than 25 percent of the floor area of the building or part of the building occupied by the establishment is used for making, assembling, remodeling, repairing, altering, finishing, or refinishing its products or merchandise; and provided that the ground floor premises facing upon, and visible from any abutting street shall be used only for entrances, offices, or display. All storage of material on any land shall be within the confines of the building or part thereof occupied by the establishment.

(18)

Newspaper offices and printing shops.

(19)

Funeral homes.

(20)

Storage facilities when incident to and physically connected with any principal use permitted, provided that such facility is within the confines of the building or part thereof occupied by such establishment.

(21)

Bus passenger stations.

(22)

Governmental offices or other governmental uses; public utility offices, exchanges, transformer stations, pump stations, and service yards, but not including outdoor storage.

(23)

Self-service laundry and dry cleaning establishments.

(24)

Bowling alleys, indoor archery range, indoor tennis courts or similar forms of indoor commercial recreation.

(25)

Pool or billiard parlor or club.

(26)

Video rental establishments.

(27)

Storage of materials or goods to be sold at retail provided such storage is within a building or is enclosed as not to be visible to the public from any abutting non-industrial district or public street.

(28)

Other uses which are similar to the above uses.

(29)

Accessory structures customarily incident to the above permitted uses.

(30)

Residential uses shall be permitted provided such living units are located on the second floor or above.

(Ord. of 10-6-03; Ord. No. 2013-04, § 4, 10-7-13; Ord. No. 2013-06, § 3, 10-21-13)

The following uses may be permitted by the planning commission subject to article XXIII, the review and approval of the site plan by the planning commission, and the imposition of special conditions which, in the opinion of the commission, are necessary to ensure that the land use or activity authorized is compatible with adjacent uses of land, the natural environment and the capacities of public services and facilities affected by the land use, and subject further to a public hearing held in accord with section 78-281:

(1)

New and used automobile sales including outdoor auto sales, paint and bump shops, and auto service subject to the provisions of sections78-288 and 78-290.

(2)

Motels, and extended stay motels subject to the provisions of section 78-291.

(3)

Drive-in restaurants, or drive-through restaurant or open front restaurants subject to section 78-286.

(4)

Commercial outdoor recreation for children's amusement parks, miniature golf courses, and other similar uses.

(5)

Nursery for the retail sale of plant materials not grown on the site, and sales of lawn furniture, playground equipment and garden supplies subject to the provisions of section 78-289.

(6)

Building and lumber supply stores having outdoor storage and sales.

(7)

Automobile car wash establishments subject to the provisions of section 78-294.

(8)

Gasoline service station and associated sale of convenience goods, subject to the provisions of section 78-288.

(9)

Automobile convenience mart, subject to the provisions of section 78-288.

(10)

Auto repair (minor and major) and servicing and auto body repair.

(11)

Adult-oriented commercial enterprises and specific services subject to section 78-282.

(12)

Bars and lounges or restaurants serving alcohol subject to the following:

a.

The bar, lounge, or restaurant serving alcohol shall be restricted to a specific size and square footage. Any increase in square footage or expansion of restaurant operations which serve alcoholic beverages shall be subject to a new or amended special use permit.

b.

The community development director shall request a report from the city's director of public safety regarding the possible impacts of the establishment serving alcoholic beverages. The planning commission shall consider their report in their evaluation of the request for special land use approval.

(Ord. of 10-6-03; Ord. No. 2013-04, § 4, 10-7-13)

See article XVII of this chapter for the schedule of regulations limiting height and bulk of buildings and minimum size of lot by permitted land use.

(Ord. of 10-6-03)