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South River City Zoning Code

§ 350-15

B-1 Neighborhood Business District.

A. 
Permitted principal uses. No building, structure or premises shall be used and no building or structure shall be erected or structurally altered, except for the following uses:
(1) 
All uses permitted in the O-P Office Professional District.
(2) 
Professional offices, including the office of a physician, dentist, minister, architect, engineer, attorney or member of a similar profession.
(3) 
Banks, finance, real estate offices and insurance offices.
(4) 
Retail shopping facilities where goods are sold only to the local trade and where nothing is fabricated or manufactured, such as or similar to the following: grocery store, bakery, delicatessen, drugstore, packaged liquor store, garden and flower shop, apparel store, stationery store, computer store.
(5) 
Restaurants, cafes and taverns.
(6) 
Personal service establishments providing a service primarily for the surrounding neighborhood, such as or similar to the following: beauty shops or barbershops, dry-cleaning or tailoring shops, electrical repair establishments, printing shops and studios for instruction in music, singing, dancing, karate or art.
(7) 
Funeral homes.
(8) 
Mixed-use buildings. The permitted uses listed above may be permitted in conjunction with one another in the same building and on the same lot, provided that nonresidential uses occupy the ground floors and that residential uses may only occupy upper floors within a multistory building.
B. 
Permitted accessory uses and buildings.
(1) 
All uses and buildings deemed customary and incidental to the principal use thereon.
(2) 
Off-street parking areas.
C. 
Conditional uses. The following conditional uses may be permitted, provided that all of the terms and conditions specified for the particular use in § 350-25, Conditional uses, are complied with:
(1) 
Home professional offices and home occupations.
(2) 
Quasi-public clubs and organizations and public and private, nonprofit philanthropic, educational and charitable institutions.
(3) 
Houses of worship.
D. 
Bulk requirements: as specified in the schedule of regulations,[1] except as hereinafter provided:
(1) 
Freestanding residential uses in the B-1 District shall comply with the bulk regulations established for the R-75 Zone.
(2) 
Houses of worship and quasi-public clubs and organizations and public and private, nonprofit philanthropic, educational and charitable institutions shall provide:
(a) 
A minimum lot area of 0.4 acre.
(b) 
Minimum front yard, side yard and rear yard of 25 feet each.
(c) 
A minimum lot width of 150 feet.
(d) 
All other bulk standards of the zone apply.
[1]
Editor's Note: The Schedule of Area, Yard and Building Requirements is included at the end of this chapter.
E. 
Off-street parking requirements: as specified in § 350-27, Off-street parking requirements, of this chapter.
(1) 
Notwithstanding any restrictions above, commercial enterprises may park marked fleet vehicles that are an integral part of their business or industrial use on their private property but not on the street.
F. 
Signs: as specified in § 350-26, Signs, of this chapter.
G. 
Landscaping and buffers: as specified in § 350-27, Landscaping and buffering, of this chapter.
H. 
Prohibited uses and buildings.
(1) 
All adult uses, including sex clubs, juice bars, go-go bars, pole dancing clubs, nude clubs, adult book/novelty sales, and unlicensed massage parlors, are prohibited in this zone.
(2) 
All uses not specifically permitted are prohibited.