The purpose of the highway service business district, B-3, is to provide appropriate locations for uses which offer sleeping accommodations, food, auto services and truck services to the traveling public, local, commercial and tourist, generally near intersections and interchanges on arterial thoroughfares. While some retail and general service uses are permitted, it is the intention of the district to achieve a more orderly and attractive environment by reducing land use contrasts and conflicts which would be expected with a more general mixture of commercial and service uses.

(Ord. of 6-18-90, § 19-9.1)

In business district B-3, structures to be erected or land to be used shall be for one (1) or more of the following uses:

(1)

Automobile service stations and self-service stations, as herein defined, so long as bulk storage of inflammable liquids is underground.

(2)

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.

(3)

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

(4)

Banks or savings and loan offices.

(5)

Barber shops or beauty parlors.

(6)

Bicycle sales and repair shops.

(7)

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.

(8)

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.

(8.1)

Farmers market.

(8.2)

Garden center.

(9)

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

(10)

Hotel, motel, motor lodge or tourist home.

(11)

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

(12)

Motorcycle or off-road vehicle sales and service.

(13)

Muffler sales and installation.

(14)

Offices, general business or professional.

(15)

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.

(16)

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

(17)

Restaurants, drive-in or otherwise.

(17.1)

Convenience stores.

(18)

Retail sales of accessories, beverages (alcoholic or otherwise), drugs, food, jewelry, souvenirs, sporting goods and similar products in conjunction with other travel-related businesses such as service stations, motels, hotels or truck stops; convenience stores.

(19)

Telephone station or booth, including drive-in or talk-from-car stations.

(19.1)

Theaters, community rooms, museums and galleries and other places for assembly for the purpose of entertainment or education. In addition, customary recreational and leisure-time activities which are compatible with surrounding uses are permitted.

(20)

Temporary stands, or outdoor areas or temporary truck parking, for sale of produce, Christmas trees, wreaths, holly and the like.

(21)

Tire sales and installation.

(22)

Truck stop, but not a truck terminal for loading, unloading, and storage of truck cargo.

(23)

Winery.

(24)

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

(Ord. of 6-18-90, § 19-9.2; Ord. of 12-21-92, § 4; Ord. of 9-23-02(2); Ord. of 12-16-02(1))

Accessory uses permitted in the B-3 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 18-254 hereunder.

(3)

Greenhouses.

(Ord. of 6-18-90, § 19-9.3; Ord. of 12-16-02(1))

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, with total aggregate sign area not more than ten (10) percent of the area of walls fronting on a street and no one sign with sign area of more than two hundred (200) square feet.

(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. 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, § 19-9.4; 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-3 general business district.

(Ord. of 6-18-90, § 19-9.5)

All structures:

(Ord. of 6-18-90, § 19-9.6)

Buildings in a B-3 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, § 19-9.7; Ord. of 12-19-05(2))

(a)

No exterior storage. Permitted stores, shops, offices or businesses shall in general be conducted wholly within a completely enclosed building and except for temporary display items as limited by these regulations there shall be no exterior storage of merchandise or materials unless these are enclosed within a masonry wall, screening fence, hedge or landscape screen not less than six (6) feet in height.

(b)

Warehousing not permitted. No commercial warehousing, wholesaling or jobbing or killing of animals or poultry shall be carried on and no merchandise shall be stored other than to be sold at retail on the premises, and provided further, that no more than fifty (50) percent of the floor area of any building shall be used for the storage of merchandise.

(c)

Landscaping. Any part of the lot or project area not used for buildings or other structures, parking, loading and accessways, shall be maintained in a neat and orderly condition landscaped with grass, trees, shrubs or pedestrian walks or maintained as crops or natural forest, or as a lake or pond.

(d)

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.

(e)

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.

(Ord. of 6-18-90, § 19-9.8; Ord. of 12-16-02(1))

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

(Ord. of 6-18-90, § 19-9.9; Ord. of 12-19-05(2))