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Sault Ste Marie City Zoning Code

SECTION 10

1.11. - B-3 GENERAL BUSINESS DISTRICTS

Preamble.

The B-3 General Business Districts are designed to furnish areas served typically by the Central Business District with a variety of automotive services and goods incompatible with the uses and with the pedestrian movement in such Central Business District. The General Business Districts are characterized by more diversified business types and are often located so as to serve the passer-by traffic.

1100.   Principal uses permitted.

In a General Business District, no building or land shall be used and no building shall be erected except for one or more of the following specified uses unless otherwise provided in this Ordinance:

1.

All principal uses permitted in the B-2 Central Business District subject to all requirements of the B-2 District, provided the maximum height controls of the B-3 District are complied with. All uses permitted and as regulated in T Tourist Service District.

2.

Wholesale and retail activities.

3.

New automobile sales or showroom.

4.

Auto repair garage.

5.

Funeral homes.

6.

Automobile car wash, when completely enclosed in building.

7.

Bus passenger stations.

8.

Bottling works and food packaging.

9.

Private clubs or lodge halls.

10.

Governmental offices or other governmental uses; public utility offices, exchanges, transformer stations, pump stations, and service yards, but not including outdoor storage.

11.

Clinics.

12.

Retail cold storage establishments.

13.

Self-service laundry and dry cleaning establishments.

14.

Other uses which are similar to the above uses.

15.

Accessory buildings and uses customarily incidental to any of the above permitted uses, including an accessory dwelling.

16.

Apartment complexes of four (4) or more dwelling units, subject to the Schedule of Regulations requirements of the RM-1 District as set forth in Section 1600 [10-1.16] of this Ordinance.

(Ord. No. 147, § 1 (10-1.11), 11-4-74; Ord. No. 220-81, § 1, 12-21-81; Ord. No. 314-89, § 1, 8-21-89)

1101.   Uses subject to special conditions.

The following uses shall be permitted subject to the conditions herein imposed.

1.

Outdoor sales space for sale or retail of automobiles or house trailers or camp trailers subject to the following:

a.

All lighting shall be shielded from adjacent residential districts.

b.

Ingress and egress to the outdoor sales area shall be at least twenty (20) feet from the intersection of any two (2) streets.

c.

Outdoor sale space areas shall be screened from adjacent residentially zoned properties in accordance with the provisions of Section 1709, Screening, buffering and landscaping.

d.

No major repair or major refinishing shall be done on the lot.

2.

Self-storage facilities used to provide temporary storage needs for businesses, apartment dwellers, mobile home dwellers and other individuals on a self-service basis subject to the following:

a.

The use of the premises shall be limited to storage only and shall not be used for operating any other business or activity other than the storage of personal and business items.

b.

No storage of combustible or flammable liquids, combustible fibers or explosive materials as defined in the fire codes, or toxic materials, shall be permitted within the self-storage facilities.

c.

No storage outside of the self-storage buildings shall be permitted.

d.

Maximum building height of any structure shall be twenty (20) feet.

e.

No building shall be located closer than twenty (20) feet to any property line, provided that where the property line of the site abuts a residential district, then no building shall be located closer than forty (40) feet to the contiguous residential-zoned property.

f.

The facility shall be screened from adjacent residentially zoned properties in accordance with the provisions of Section 1709, Screening, buffering and landscaping.

g.

All maneuvering and parking areas shall have a surfacing of dust-free material or shall be treated to be dust free at all times. Such areas shall be so drained so as to dispose of all surface water accumulated in the maneuvering areas.

h.

All lighting used to illuminate the site shall not exceed twenty (20) feet in height and shall be installed so as to be confined and directed on the site only.

i.

Maximum lot coverage may not exceed forty (40) percent.

3.

Adult use—principal, subject to the provisions set forth in section 1707.1, subsection 1.

4.

Other uses which are similar to the above uses.

(Ord. No. 301-89, § 1, 4-3-89; Ord. No. 450-01, § 1, 12-3-01; Ord. No. 501-08, § 1, 4-21-08; Ord. No. 519-10, 6-21-10)

1102.   Area and bulk requirements.

See [Section 10-1.16] "SCHEDULE OF REGULATIONS" limiting the height and bulk of buildings and the maximum density permitted.