The B-3 Highway Service Business District is established and designed to provide for uses other than those specified in the Neighborhood and Central Business Districts. This District is designed to provide for highway service-type facilities primarily aimed at servicing the traveling public. The District will also permit uses which, due to their individual characteristics, would be better located outside the primary retail center of the community.

(Ord. 1-91, passed 3-4-1991)

   The following uses shall be permitted in the B-3 Highway Service Business District, provided a six-foot high obscuring fence is provided on those side and rear yards abutting an R-Residential District and provided, further, that no more than one directional advertisement oriented to each abutting road will be permitted:

   (a)   Gasoline service stations;

   (b)   Eating and drinking establishments;

   (c)   New and used car salesrooms or offices, service and repair shops;

   (d)   Restaurants or other places serving food or beverages and having the characteristics of a "drive-in";

   (e)   Passenger transportation agencies and terminals;

   (f)   Indoor and outdoor recreational activities:

      (1)   Motion picture theaters;

      (2)   Swimming pools;

      (3)   Bowling, billiards and pool;

      (4)   Skating rinks; and

      (5)   Other similar activities.

   (g)   Car washes, completely enclosed;

   (h)   Other highway service business uses similar in character to the above permitted uses; and

   (i)   All uses permitted in the B-2 Central Business District.

(Ord. 7-99, passed 6-7-1999; Ord. 40-2013, passed 12-16-2013)

   The following uses shall be permitted, subject to the provisions of § 1262.05 and the review and approval by the City Planning Commission:

   (a)   Outdoor sales space for the exclusive sale of new or secondhand automobiles, house trailers, campers, manufactured homes or boats, or the rental of any of the above, provided that the lighting thereof shall in no way impair the safe movement of traffic or shine directly onto adjacent properties. The lot or area shall be provided with a permanent, durable and dustless surface and shall be graded and drained so as to dispose of all surface water. No major repair shall be done on the lot.

   (b)   Motels, provided that each sleeping unit shall contain not less than 200 square feet of floor area and that no guest shall establish a residence for more than 60 consecutive days within any calendar year.

   (c)   Retail sales of plant material not grown on the site and sales of lawn furniture, playground equipment and garden supplies, provided that a four- foot high obscuring fence shall be required on any side abutting an R-Residential District.

   (d)   Sexually oriented businesses as defined in § 1260.09, provided that the parcel of land upon which said business is located shall be a minimum of 750 feet from a religious institution, a public or private school, a public park or recreation area, a public building or hospital, the property line of a residence or a lot included within a residential district as defined in § 838.02(a)(34), a boundary of a residential or historic district as defined in § 838.02(a)(18), or 500 feet from another sexually oriented business.

(Ord. 21-95, passed 12-4-1995; Ord. 29-2010, passed 12-6-2010)

   See § 1266.13 for provisions limiting the height and bulk of buildings, the minimum lot size and the maximum density permitted, and establishing minimum yard setback requirements.

(Ord. 1-91, passed 3-4-1991)