The Neighborhood Business District (B-1) is designed to provide for the day-to-day convenience shopping and service needs of persons residing in adjacent residential areas. The district will generally be used as a transitional district between more intensive uses of land such as major thoroughfares and other business districts and less intensive uses of land such as office and residential. It will normally be located only on property which fronts on a major or secondary thoroughfare.

No building, structure, or land shall be erected or used in a B-1, Neighborhood Business, District unless a site plan therefor has been approved per the provisions of section 5.22.

(Ord. No. 1047, 1-5-81; Ord. No. 1793, § 12, 8-19-24)

In a neighborhood business district (B-1) no building, structure, or land shall be erected or used except for the following uses unless otherwise provided in this chapter:

(1)

Medical offices and clinics.

(2)

Banks and similar financial institutions.

(3)

Libraries and government office buildings and public utility offices, but not including storage yards.

(4)

Private clubs or lodges.

(5)

Photographic studios and interior decorating studios.

(6)

Veterinary clinics and veterinary hospitals provided all activities are conducted within a permanently enclosed building.

(7)

Personal services.

(8)

Stores of a generally recognized retail nature which supply commodities on the premises such as, but not limited to: groceries, meats, dairy products, baked goods or other foods, drugs, dry goods, clothing, notions and hardware.

(9)

Free-standing restaurants and carry-out restaurants, and restaurants and carry out restaurants when attached to, and located within, a shopping center building complex. Excluding drive-in, fast food restaurants, any restaurant with a drive-thru, any restaurant with a bar/lounge, and any restaurant open twenty-four (24) hours.

(10)

Accessory uses customarily incidental to any of the above permitted uses.

(Ord. No. 1280, 5-22-89; Ord. No. 1425, 9-24-98; Ord. No. 1699, § 12, 12-27-18; Ord. No. 1745, § 8, 11-4-21)

The following uses may be permitted upon the review and approval of the city council after a recommendation from the planning commission. The use or uses shall only be approved when the following general standards have been satisfied and subject to the conditions hereinafter imposed.

(1)

Standards.

(a)

The proposed use or uses must be of such size and character that it will be in harmony with the appropriate and orderly development of the neighborhood business district.

(b)

The location, size, intensity, and periods of operation of any such proposed use must be designed to eliminate any possible nuisance likely to emanate therefrom which might be adverse to occupants of any other nearby permitted uses.

(c)

The proposed use must be in accord with the spirit and purpose of this chapter and not be inconsistent with, or contrary to, the objectives sought to be accomplished by this chapter and principles of sound planning.

(d)

The proposed use is of such character that the vehicular traffic generated will not have an adverse effect, or be detrimental, to the surrounding land uses or the adjacent thoroughfares.

(e)

The proposed use is of such character and intensity and arranged on the site so as to eliminate any adverse effects resulting from noise, dust, dirt, glare, odor, or fumes.

(f)

The proposed use, or change in use, will not be adverse to the promotion of the health, safety, and welfare of the community.

(2)

Uses.

(a)

Any restaurant with a drive-thru, any restaurant with a bar/lounge, and any restaurant open twenty-four (24) hours.

(b)

Small box retail subject to the following conditions:

1.

Cannot be located any nearer that one (1) mile (5,280 linear feet) as measured from property line to property line to any other small box retail location.

2.

Hours of operation are limited to 8:00 a.m. to 10:00 p.m.

3.

Any small box retail location approved prior to the effective date of this section shall be considered a legal nonconforming use.

(Ord. No. 1058, 6-8-81; Ord. No. 1280, 5-22-89; Ord. No. 1425, 9-24-98; Ord. No. 1699, § 12, 12-27-18; Ord. No. 1734, § 6, 4-22-21)

(1)

All business establishments shall be retail or service establishments dealing directly with consumers. All goods produced on the premises shall be sold at retail on the premises where produced.

(2)

The outdoor storage, display, or servicing of goods or materials shall be prohibited irrespective of whether or not they are for sale.

(3)

Warehousing or indoor storage of goods or material in quantity greater than normally incidental to the above permitted uses shall be prohibited.

(4)

At least fifty (50) percent of any required front yard shall be landscaped. Along any side or rear lot line abutting a street, there shall be a continuous landscaped area with a minimum width equal to one-half (½) the width of the required yard. The landscaped strip need not be provided at points of approved vehicular access and may incorporate vegetated stormwater management measures. This landscaping requirement is necessary to maintain the transitional character of the area that this district is intended to preserve.

(5)

Landscape plans and green infrastructure/low impact development methods required per article 4section 5.31(21)(b).

(Ord. No. 1678, § 11, 7-6-17)

(1)

Necessary directional or regulatory traffic signs which conform to the Michigan Manual of Uniform Traffic Control Devices shall be permitted.

(2)

No moving or flashing parts or lights or devices shall be permitted. All light sources shall be shielded from view from residentially zoned property. No lighting fixture shall be so located and directed as to be a hazard to traffic safety.

(Ord. No. 1343, 6-8-92)

See article 22, schedule of regulations, which limits the height and bulk of buildings, determines the permitted development area and provides minimum yard setback requirements.

Editor's note— Ord. No. 1793, § 12, adopted Aug. 19, 2024, repealed § 5.154, which pertained to provision for a one-year grace period for approved site plans and derived from Ord. No. 1047, adopted Jan. 5, 1981.