The Neighborhood Business District is intended to permit the development of retail sales and personal services required to meet the day-to-day needs of a fully developed neighborhood. Stores, businesses and offices in this zone should be useful to the majority of the neighborhood residents. The convenience nature of the various business uses located in this District requires them to be in close proximity to residences and is intended to include a narrow range of retail services and convenience goods.

18.2a All uses within this zone must be confined to two thousand five hundred (2,500) internal square feet of the principal structure

18.2b Antique or custom furniture shop with incidental upholstery.

18.2c Bakery limited to goods for retail on the premises.

18.2d Banks or similar financial enterprise.

18.2e Barber or beauty shop.

18.2f Bicycle sales and service.

18.2g Business or professional office such as attorney, architect, engineer, dentist, physician etc.

18.2h Camera or photographic supply store.

18.2i Clinics, private, for human care.

18.2j Costume rental.

18.2k Day care center meeting state and local permits with fenced play area.

18.2l Delicatessen.

18.2m Dry cleaning pick-up station.

18.2n Dwelling, above ground floor.

18.2o Health/recreational and physical training club.

18.2p Hobby shop.

18.2q Interior decorating shop including upholstery and drape making.

18.2r Laundromat.

18.2s Locksmith.

18.2t Music studio.

18.2u Restaurant, not drive-in or drive-thru.

18.2v Retail uses such as drugstore, florist, grocery, ice cream shop, meat market, appliance, shoe, variety, stationary, book, clothing, packaged liquor sales and candy stores with all activities, except for automobile off-street parking, outdoor café seating and loading facilities as permitted or required in this district, shall be conducted wholly within an enclosed building.

18.2w Religious institutions.

18.2x Short-term rentals which must make available a minimum of one off-street parking spot for use by the occupant of each short-term rental unit at the property, which the operator shall reside within the City of Rock Island or within ten (10) miles of its periphery and shall not have signage exceeding one (1) square foot in area.

18.2y Cannabis packaged dispensing businesses, but must be located one hundred (100) feet from any residential zoned property.

18.2z Any other similar uses deemed to be consistent.

18.4a Auto accessory store.

18.4b Club or lodge.

18.4c Bus transfer station.

18.4d Convenience store.

18.4e Nursing home.

18.4f Any other similar uses deemed to be consistent.

 

 

(Ord. 070-2020, 12-21-2020)