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Sangamon County Unincorporated
City Zoning Code

CHAPTER 17

24 B-2 Retail Business District

17.24.010 Permitted Uses

Permitted uses in the B-2 district are:

Uses permitted in a B-1 district

Antique shops

Art galleries

Bakers (not more than 50% of floor area to be devoted to processing)

Bicycle stores, sales, rental, and repair

Camera and photographic supply stores

Carpet and rug stores

Ceramic shops

Charitable and philanthropic institutions

China and glassware stores

Clothing stores

Clubs, private and public

Cocktail lounges

Coin and stamp stores

Costume rental shops

Currency exchanges

Custom dressmaking, millinery or tailoring

Dental clinics

Department stores

Dry cleaning, equipment not to exceed 80 pounds capacity

Dry goods stores

Electrical and household appliances

Employment agencies

Financial institutions

Frozen food lockers and shops

Furniture stores and upholstery, when conducted as a part of the retail operations and secondary to the main use

Furrier shops, including the incidental storage and conditioning of furs

Garden supply and seed stores

Gymnasiums

Haberdashery stores

Hat repair shops

Health services

Hobby shops

Household appliance stores

Interior decorating shops, including upholstery and making of draperies, slip covers, and other similar articles, when conducted as a part of retail operations and secondary to main use

Jewelry and watch shops

Laboratories, medical, dental, research, experimental and testing; provided no production or manufacturing of products takes place

Leather goods and luggage stores

Libraries

Limousine service

Loan offices

Locksmith shops Lodges, private and public

Lodging rooms above the first floor

Luggage stores

Mail order service stores

Masseur, licensed

Medical clinics

Meeting halls

Millinery shops

Museums

Musical instrument sales and repair

Newspaper offices

Office supply stores

Optician offices

Optometrist offices

Orthopedic and medical appliance store, but not including the assembly or manufacture of such articles

Paint and wallpaper stores

Pet shops

Photocopy establishments

Photography studios, including the development of film and pictures when done as part of a retail business

Physical culture and health facilities

Picture framing, when conducted for retail trade on its premises only

Post offices

Public baths

Radio and television broadcasting stations

Recording studios

Reducing salons

School supply stores

Schools - music, dance business or commercial

Secondhand stores and rummage shops

Sewing machine sales and service, household machines only

Shoe stores

Sign shops

Sporting goods stores

Stationery stores

Tailor shops

Taxidermists

Telegraph offices

Telephone booths, outdoor

Telephone exchange and equipment essential to its operation in the interest of public convenience and necessity and including business offices in conjunction herewith

Temporary buildings for construction, for a period not to exceed the duration of active construction

Theater, indoor

Toy stores

Travel bureau and transportation ticket office

Typewriter and adding machine sales and service

Variety stores

Vehicle sales and service

Vending machines

Veterinary hospitals

Wearing apparel stores

Wholesale establishments, with storage of merchandise limited to samples only Accessory uses customarily incidental to the above uses

(Res. 15 (part), December 3, 1990; Res. 16a §10 (part), November 19, 1985; Res. 1-1 §5 (H) (part), November 16, 1982; Res. 9, February 13, 1973)

17.24.020 Conditional Permitted Uses

Conditional permitted uses in the B-2 district are:

Adult-use cannabis dispensing organizations

Antennas, towers and microwave antennas

Arenas, auditoriums, convention center, and stadiums

Automobile service stations

Electric substations

Fire stations

Garages, public and private, for the storage of private passenger vehicles and small (under three-fourths ton) commercial vehicles

Golf courses, including driving ranges

Heliports

Hospitals

Independent off-street-parking areas

Law enforcement stations

Liquor stores

Pumping stations

Radio or television transmitting or relay stations

Rehabilitation centers

Rest homes

Sanitariums

Taverns

Telephone exchanges

Waterworks

(Res. 12, January 14, 2020; Res. 16a §10 (part), November 19, 1985; Res. 1-1 §5(H) (part), November 16, 1982; Res. 9, February 13, 1973)