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Sangamon County Unincorporated
City Zoning Code

CHAPTER 17

26 B-3 General Business District

17.26.010 Permitted Uses

Permitted uses in the B-3 district are:

Uses permitted in a B-2 district

Agricultural implement sales and service, on an open lot or within a building

Ambulance service

Auction houses and rooms

Automobile accessory stores

Automobile repairs, but not including bodywork or spray painting

Automobile sales, service and repair, but not including body repair, new and used, on an open lot or within a building

Automobile service stations

Blueprinting establishments

Boat sales and service establishments

Bowling alleys

Building material sales without outdoor storage

Business machine sales and service establishments

Car washes

Cartage and express facilities providing storage goods, motor trucks and other equipment in an enclosed structure

Casket and casket supplies

Catering establishments

Community centers

Construction offices

Contractor's offices, when fabricating is done on the premises and when all storage of material and equipment is within a building (i.e., lumberyards, contractor equipment rental, cabinet shop)Crematories

Dance halls

Dental laboratories

Dry cleaning

Exterminating shops

Feed stores

Fuel sales, retail only

Funeral homes

Garages

Garages, public servicing automotive vehicles, not including body repair nor painting

Greenhouses

Hotels

Ice sales, retail only

Job printing shops with presses having not more than 14″ × 20″ beds

Laundries, commercial

Lawn mower sales and repair

Lodging houses

Machinery sales establishments

Mail order houses

Manufactured home sales

Medical appliance stores

Medical laboratories

Monument sales

Motels

Motor vehicle equipment sales

Motor vehicle sales

Newspaper distribution agencies

Orthopedic appliance stores

Paint stores

Parking lots and garages for automobiles

Pet shops

Plumbing shops, stores and showrooms

Pool halls

Radio and television sales and repair shops

Recreation buildings

Research laboratories

Restaurants, including live entertainment and dancing, and including drive-in restaurants

Self-service storage facilities (mini-warehouses)

Skating rinks, indoors

Swimming pools, indoors

Testing laboratories

Theaters, including drive-in theaters

Trade schools

Trailer sales and rental

Trucking firms

Undertaking establishments

Vending machine sales

Vending machine service establishments

Veterinary hospitals

Wallpaper stores

Wholesale establishments

Accessory uses customarily incidental to the above uses

(Res. 13 Exh. A (part), June 11, 2002; Res. 15 (part), December 3, 1990; Res. 7 §5, April 14, 1987; Res. 16a §§10 (part), 19, November 19, 1985; Res. 1-1 §5(I) (part), November 16, 1982; Res. 5, April 16, 1974)

17.26.020 Conditional Permitted Uses

Conditional permitted uses in the B-3 district are:

Adult uses subject to the limitation of Chapter 17.54

Adult-use cannabis dispensing organizations

Antennas, towers, and microwave antennas

Archery, pistol, rifle, and shotgun ranges, provided they are in completely enclosed buildings

Automobile towing service with temporary storage limited to six (6) months

Car washes

Electric generating unit

Electric substations

Establishments engaged in "adult uses"

Heliports

Liquor stores

Public and private outdoor recreation centers

Radio or television transmitting or relay stations

Taverns including live entertainment and dancing

Water substations

(Res. 12, January 14, 2020; Res. 16a §§10 (part), 23 (part), November 19, 1985; Res. 1-1 §5 (I) (part), November 16, 1982; Res. 9, February 13, 1973)