B-2 Community Business Districts are intended to provide locations for a diversified range of businesses that primarily serve the comparison shopping and service needs of adjacent and surrounding neighborhoods. Goods and services offered in the B-2 district are typically purchased after careful consideration of price, quality, brand, and personal preference. Convenience shopping and service uses permitted in the B-2 district are intended as a complement to the comparison uses.

B-2 uses are generally developed as part of a planned cluster of businesses, such as a shopping center, where the businesses are served by a common parking area and a common means of ingress and egress. Typically, B-2 uses generate large volumes of pedestrian and vehicular traffic. Therefore, B-2 uses are generally not compatible adjacent to residential uses unless there are sufficient setbacks, screening, and buffering. The City of St. Clair Shores enforces the following business hours: 6:00 a.m. to 12:00 a.m., which can be modified with City Council approval.

The following regulations shall apply in all B-2 Districts and no building, structure or premises, except as otherwise provided in this ordinance shall be erected, altered, or used except for one or more of the following specified uses.

(Comp. Ords. 1988, § 15.291(35.40); chap. 35 eff. Mar. 7, 1986; amended by ord. eff. Aug. 20, 1996; further amend. eff. Apr. 9, 2009)

(1)

Any principal uses permitted in B-1 Districts, subject to the provisions of article XIX, General Provisions.

(2)

All retail business, service establishments or processing uses as follows:

(a)

Any retail business whose principal activity is the sale of merchandise in an enclosed building.

(b)

Any service establishment of an office, showroom, or workshop nature of an electrician, decorator, dressmaker, tailor, baker, painter, upholsterer; or an establishment doing radio or home appliance repair, photographic reproduction, and similar service establishments that require a retail adjunct.

(c)

Private clubs, fraternal organizations, and lodge halls.

(d)

Restaurants, or other places serving food or beverage, provided that all food and beverage is purchased and consumed within the interior.

(e)

Business schools and colleges or private schools operated for profit.

(f)

Other uses similar to the above uses.

(Comp. Ords. 1988, § 15.292(35.41); chap. 35 eff. March 7, 1986; amended by ord. eff. Aug. 20, 1996; further amend. eff. Apr. 9, 2009)

(1)

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

(2)

All business, servicing or processing, except for off-street parking, loading and those open air uses indicated as being subject to special conditions in section 48-338 below, shall be conducted within completely enclosed buildings.

(Comp. Ords. 1988, § 15.293(35.42); chap. 35 eff. March 7, 1986; amended by ord. eff. Aug. 20, 1996; further amend. eff. April 9, 2009)

The following uses shall be permitted as special land uses in the B-2 Community Business District, subject to the standards and requirements set forth herein, and subject to the standards and approval requirements set forth in section 48-558:

(1)

Any and all uses and conditions set forth in the CR Commercial Recreation District.

(2)

Automobile service centers, when developed as part of a larger planned shopping center designed so as to integrate the automobile service center within the site plan and architecture of the total shopping center; and provided further that a building permit shall not be issued separately for the construction of any automobile service center within the B-2 District.

(3)

Fitness centers.

(Comp. Ords. 1988, § 15.294(35.43); chap. 35 eff. Mar. 7, 1986; amended by ord. eff. Aug. 20, 1996; further amend. eff. Apr. 9, 2009)

See article XVIII, Schedule of Regulations, limiting the height and bulk of buildings, the minimum size of lot by permitted land use, and providing minimum yard setback requirements.

Uses permitted in this district shall also be subject to the requirements for site plan review (section 48-560), parking (section 48-551), loading (section 48-553), and signs (section 48-555), and Harper Avenue Overlay Zoning District (section 48-939).

(Comp. Ords. 1988, § 15.295(35.44); chap. 35 eff. March 7, 1986; amended by ord. eff. Aug. 20, 1996; further amend. eff. Apr. 9, 2009)