The B-1, local business district is designed primarily for the convenience shopping of persons residing in adjacent residential areas, to permit only such uses as are necessary to satisfy those limited basic shopping and/or service needs which by their very nature are not related to the shopping pattern of the central business district or general business district and, where appropriate, allow residential uses as a mixed use.

(Ord. of 10-6-03; Ord. No. 2012-04, § 7, 11-5-12)

In a B-1, local 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 and dental office, including clinics.

(3)

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

(4)

Private clubs and lodge halls.

(5)

Off-street parking lots.

(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: convenience grocery stores, groceries, meats, dairy products, baked goods or other foods, drugs, dry goods and notions or hardware.

(8)

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 (5) persons shall be employed at any time in the fabrication, repair and other processing of goods.

(9)

Restaurants not serving alcoholic beverages, sit-down restaurants, carry-out restaurants or other places serving food except those having the character of a drive-in, or having a drive-through component.

(10)

Video rental establishments.

(11)

Veterinary clinic.

(12)

Neighborhood retail plaza containing multi-tenant spaces totaling less than 50,000 square feet.

(13)

Professional offices of physicians, lawyers, dentists, chiropractors, architects, engineers, and similar or allied professions.

(14)

Other uses similar to the above and subject to the following restrictions:

a.

All business establishments shall be retail or service establishments dealing directly with consumers. All goods produced on the premises shall be sold at retail on the premises where produced.

b.

All business, servicing, or processing, except off-street parking or loading, shall be conducted within completely enclosed buildings.

(15)

Accessory structures, uses and signs customarily incident to the above permitted uses and subject to all requirements of this chapter.

(16)

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, § 2, 10-7-13; Ord. No. 2013-06, § 2, 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)

Publicly-owned buildings, public utility buildings, telephone exchange buildings, electric transformer stations and substations, and gas regulator stations (excluding outdoor storage yards).

(2)

Accessory buildings and uses customarily incident to any of the above uses.

(3)

One-family detached dwellings, two-family dwellings, multi-family dwellings.

(4)

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 this report in their evaluation of the request for special land use approval.

(Ord. of 10-6-03; Ord. No. 2012-04, § 7, 11-5-12; Ord. No. 2013-04, § 2, 10-7-13)

Since this local business district is primarily for the convenience shopping of persons residing in adjacent residential areas as well as residential mixed uses, permitted uses shall not include business in the character of a drive-in or open-front store.

(Ord. of 10-6-03; Ord. No. 2012-04, § , 11-5-12)

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

(Ord. of 10-6-03)