The purpose of the general business district, B-2, is to provide sufficient space in appropriate locations for a wide variety of retail, commercial, agricultural service, automotive, and miscellaneous recreational and service activities, generally serving a wide area of the county and generally located in or near development centers where a general mixture of commercial and service activity now exists or is planned, but which uses are not characterized by extensive warehousing, frequent heavy trucking activity, or the nuisance factors of dust, odor and noise, associated with manufacturing.

(Ord. of 6-18-90, § 19-8.1)

In business district B-2, structures to be erected or land to be used shall be for one (1) or more of the following uses:

(1)

Any use permitted in the B-1 local business district, but subject to the development standards of the B-2 district.

(2)

Animal hospital or kennel with any open pens at least two hundred (200) feet from any residential district.

(2.1)

Auction barn, with a conditional use permit.

(3)

Automobile service station, so long as bulk storage of inflammable liquids is underground.

(4)

Automobile or truck, truck trailer or bus sales, service and repair including body or fender repair, but not auto salvage or junk, and any major repair or storage of equipment or materials or damaged vehicles shall be inside a completely enclosed building.

(5)

Automobile or truck parts sales, wholesale or retail, but not storage or sale of junk.

(6)

Automobile storage lot, new or used cars, but not storage or sale of junk.

(7)

Automobile used car lot, or used truck sales.

(8)

Bakeries, wholesale or retail.

(9)

Boat and boat trailer sales and storage.

(10)

Bottling works, dyeing and cleaning works, linen service, or laundry, furniture refinishing, plumbing, electrical and heating shop, painting shop, upholstering shop not involving furniture manufacture, shoe repair, tinsmithing shop, tire sales and service (including vulcanizing and recapping, but no manufacturing), appliance repairs, and general service and repair establishments, similar in character to those listed in this item, no limit on floor area but provided that no outside storage of material is permitted except as provided in this section.

(11)

Car wash or automobile laundry, automatic or otherwise, providing reservoir space for not less than ten (10) vehicles for each washing lane of an employee-operated facility.

(11.1)

Convenience store, as herein defined, with more than twenty-four (24) fuel dispensing nozzles or with any one nozzle exceeding a diameter of five-eighths (⅝) of one inch, with a conditional use permit.

(12)

Exterminating establishment.

(13)

Facilities and structures necessary for rendering public utility service, including poles, wires, transformers, telephone booths and the like for electrical power distribution and communication service, and underground pipelines or conduits for electrical, gas, sewer, or water service, but not including buildings, treatment plants, water storage tanks, pumping or regulator stations, major transmission lines, storage yards and substations which are permitted with a conditional use permit.

(14)

Farm supply and service establishments, implement sales, rental and service, feed and seed store, including custom milling of grain and feed, milk depots and creameries, fertilizer storage in bags or bulk storage of liquid or dry fertilizer in tanks or in a completely enclosed building.

(15)

Firewood operation as defined, with a conditional use permit.

(16)

Fortune teller, palmist, astrologist, numerologist, clairvoyant, craniologist, phrenologist, card reader, spiritual reader or similar activity.

(17)

Garages, parking, storage or repair.

(18)

General advertising sign limited in area to two hundred (200) square feet as a special exception.

(19)

Greenhouses, commercial, wholesale or retail.

(20)

Hotel, motel, motor lodge or tourist home.

(21)

Ice storage and distributing station of not more than five (5) tons capacity.

(22)

Janitorial service establishment.

(23)

Lawnmower, yard and garden equipment, rental, sales and service.

(24)

Lumber and building materials store, wholesale or retail, but not a lumber yard.

(25)

Material storage or sales yards, in connection with a permitted use where storage is incidental to the approved occupancy of a building, provided all products and materials used or stored are enclosed by a masonry wall, screening, fence, or hedge, not less than six (6) feet in height. Storage of all materials and equipment shall not exceed the height of the wall. Storage of cars and trucks used in connection with the permitted trade or business is permitted within the walls or screen, but not including storage of heavy equipment, such as road-building or excavating equipment.

(26)

Manufactured home sales, display and storage, or sales, rental, display and storage of travel trailers, motor homes, travel vans, and campers provided that all units shall be in useable condition, none shall be placed in a required front yard, the minimum parcel area shall be one-half acre, the storage area shall be separated from the display area by a continuous visual screen with a minimum height of eight (8) feet, such screen consisting of a compact evergreen hedge or foliage screening or louvered fence or wall, and the entire area shall be similarly screened from any contiguous residential district.

(27)

Monument sales establishments with incidental processing to order, but not including the shaping of headstones.

(28)

Motorcycle or off-road vehicle sales and service.

(29)

Muffler sales and installation.

(30)

Outdoor sales area or flea market, with a conditional use permit.

(31)

Peanut buying station.

(32)

Plumbing and electrical supplies, wholesale or retail.

(33)

Printing, publishing and engraving establishments, photographic processing or blueprinting.

(34)

Private club, lodge, meeting or assembly hall or fraternal organization or sorority.

(35)

Public or governmental buildings and uses, including governmental offices, libraries, schools, fire stations (volunteer or otherwise), parks, parkways and playgrounds, with a conditional use permit.

(36)

Radio and television stations and studios or recording studios, but not towers more than one hundred twenty-five (125) feet in height except with a conditional use permit.

(37)

Recreation facilities, indoor or outdoor, including theaters, bowling alleys, dance halls subject to applicable county regulations, skating rinks (ice skating or roller skating), swimming pools, miniature golf, billiard or pool parlors, game centers, indoor or outdoor tennis, indoor model racing tracks and similar activities.

(38)

Rental of luggage trailers but not including truck trailer bodies except campers and travel trailers.

(39)

Sign fabricating and painting shop.

(40)

Taxidermists.

(41)

Tire sales and installation.

(42)

Wholesale brokerage or storage establishments with floor area devoted to storage or warehousing limited to twenty thousand (20,000) square feet.

(43)

Wireless communication facilities per section 18-427 of this chapter.

(Ord. of 6-18-90, § 19-8.2; Ord. of 12-21-92, § 3; Ord. of 10-24-94; Ord. of 9-23-02(2))

Accessory uses permitted in the B-2 district are as follows:

(1)

Storage of office supplies, merchandise or equipment normally carried in stock or used in connection with a permitted office, business, or commercial use subject to applicable district regulations.

(2)

Signs as regulated in section 18-224 hereunder.

(Ord. of 6-18-90, § 19-8.3)

Signs permitted in this district are subject to the general sign regulations of article XV, consisting of accessory illuminated or nonilluminated signs as follows:

(1)

Flat signs, no limit on number or area, provided, however, that signs painted on walls shall not exceed two hundred (200) square feet in area.

(2)

Projecting signs, if there are no marquee or detached signs, one (1) for each business on the premises, with sign area limited to fifty (50) square feet.

(3)

Detached signs, if there are no projecting signs, limited in area to one hundred fifty (150) square feet and limited in height to thirty-five (35) feet, one (1) for each business on the premises. A group of three (3) or more contiguous stores or businesses such as form a shopping center or business group may combine permitted detached sign area to provide a single detached sign advertising the group if there are no other detached signs and if the combined sign area does not exceed two hundred fifty (250) square feet. Detached signs greater in area or height require a conditional use permit.

(4)

Marquee signs, if there are no projecting signs, two (2) for each business on the premises, with sign area for each sign limited to ten (10) square feet.

(5)

Directional signs limited in area to eight (8) square feet, giving directions to motorists regarding the location of parking areas and access drives, shall be permitted as accessory signs and not included in any computation of sign area.

(6)

Signs at appropriate locations, on or off the premises, for direction of the traveling public, truck deliveries and employees to an activity or event, a church, school, historic place, subdivision or community, a construction site or excavation, airport or other center of employment or visitor center or recreation facility in an isolated area of the county, limited in area to fifty (50) square feet and subject to approval of location, design and wording by the administrator.

(Ord. of 6-18-90, § 19-8.4; Ord. of 6-22-98(2); Ord. of 12-19-05(2))

There are no minimum lot size standards for other uses in the B-2 general business district.

(Ord. of 6-18-90, § 19-8.5)

All structures:

(Ord. of 6-18-90, § 19-8.6)

Buildings in a B-2 district may be erected up to thirty-five (35) feet in height from grade; except, that:

(1)

The height limit for buildings may be increased ten (10) feet and up to three (3) stories; provided, that where a use is adjacent to a residential district there is a side yard which is fifty (50) feet or more plus one (1) foot or more of side yard for each additional foot of building height over thirty-five (35) feet.

(2)

Belfries, cupolas, monuments, water towers, chimneys, flues, flag poles, television antennae and radio aerials less than one hundred twenty-five (125) feet in height are exempt. Parapet walls may be up to four (4) feet above the height of the building on which the walls rest.

(3)

Landscaping of corner lots shall be limited to plantings, fences or other landscaping features of no more than three (3) feet in height within the space between the setback line and the property line on the street side of the lot.

(4)

The board of zoning appeals may grant a special exception to height restrictions under article XVII.

(Ord. of 6-18-90, § 19-8.7; Ord. of 12-19-05(2))

(a)

Similar uses permitted. Other retail, service, commercial and recreational uses which, in the opinion of the administrator, are of the same general character as those permitted uses listed above shall be permitted provided that these and the above specified stores, shops or businesses shall be retail and service establishments primarily selling new merchandise (except antiques) and rendering a personal service and shall be permitted only in accord with the development standards of this chapter.

(b)

Drainage. Provision shall be made for proper storm water drainage from parking and loading areas. Water shall not be permitted to drain from such areas onto adjacent property except into a natural watercourse or a drainage easement. Provision shall be made for protection against erosion and sedimentation in accord with applicable county ordinances.

(Ord. of 6-18-90, § 19-8.8)

Off-street parking and loading design standards and space requirements for particular uses are contained in article XV.

(Ord. of 6-18-90, § 19-8.9; Ord. of 12-19-05(2))