(a)

The provisions of this article shall apply in the business district B-1 and, as used in this article, the words "this district" shall mean the business district B-1.

(b)

This district is composed of offices and certain businesses. The regulations for this district are designed to promote office structures that are normally used during daylight hours and that will not attract concentrations of traffic and crowds of customers.

In this district, any building to be erected or land to be used shall be restricted to one of the following uses:

(1)

Professional offices for professional and personal services, such as physicians, engineers, lawyers, opticians, surveyors, banks and similar professions.

(2)

Public and semipublic uses, such as courthouses, churches and government office buildings.

(3)

Parking lots to be used only in connection with any permitted uses for off-street parking.

(4)

Public utilities, poles, lines (not to exceed 40 feet), distribution transformers, exchanges, pipes, meters and other facilities for the provision and maintenance of public utilities, including water and sewerage facilities.

Signs shall meet the applicable regulations of the sign ordinance.

There are no area and frontage regulations in this district, except for off-street parking which shall be in accordance with the provisions contained in this ordinance.

(a)

Setbacks in this district shall be located 35 feet or more from any street right-of-way. This shall be known as the setback line. No structure shall be located closer to the street than the setback line, except that signs which meet the requirements of the sign ordinance [appendix D] may be located in the front yard.

(b)

In the case of corner lots, the side yard shall have a setback of 20 feet or more for all buildings.

(Ord. No. 549, § 5, 7-24-1984; Ord. No. 710, § 1, 2-8-1988)

In this district, buildings may be erected up to 35 feet in height from grade.

(a)

In this district, there shall be a side yard, not less than 15 feet in width, on the side of a lot adjoining a residential district, and a rear yard, not less than 30 feet in depth, on the rear side of a lot adjoining a residential district.

(b)

Sufficient area shall be provided to adequately screen permitted uses in this district from residential districts and for off-street parking incidental to the industry and its employees and clients.

(c)

Any such buffer zone required shall be of such width and length as may be necessary to adequately screen the property involved and be planted with suitable shrubbery, evergreens or trees having a height of not less than six feet at the time of the planting thereof. The expense for any such buffer zone shall be paid by the landowner of the property upon which the buffer zone is located. Upon failure of the landowner to establish and maintain such a buffer zone by and from the time of the completion of any construction for which a permit is issued as to such property, the city may install and maintain such buffer zone and the expenses incurred by the city in so doing shall be chargeable to and paid by the owner of the property and the expenses so incurred shall constitute and be a lien upon the property to be collected by the city as taxes and levies are collected.

(d)

A required buffet zone shall utilize one of the below options and will be considered by the planning commission and city council during site plan or subdivision review: ^[4]

(1)

Suitable shrubbery, evergreens or trees.

(2)

Wood, chainlink fence, cement block, brick or other materials for a fence or wall.

(3)

Any combination of natural and manmade materials.

For purposes of safety of travel, there shall be no structures, fences, shrubbery or other obstructions to vision more than 3½ feet above the curb level within the area enclosed by the property line of corner lots and a line joining points at a distance of ten feet from their intersections.

All permanent buildings in this district must be constructed on the building site using materials of a permanent nature. All other buildings not pertaining to the nature of the intended business use must be removed. Trailers shall not be considered as permanent buildings for business use.