The B1 General Business District is intended to accommodate a broad range of retail and service uses of moderate intensity. The development found in this classifications may range from single use sites to multi-tenant commercial centers.

No building, structure or parcel of land shall be used and no building, or structure shall be erected, altered, or enlarged which is arranged, intended, or designed for other than one of the following uses:

1.

Antique shops.

2.

Appliance stores, sales, rental and repair.

3.

Auto parts and auto accessories stores.

4.

Bakeries.

5.

Banks and financial institutions without drive-through lanes.

6.

Barber Shops.

7.

Beauty Shops.

8.

Bicycle shop; sales, rental and repair.

9.

Blue printing, photo copying, engineering and drafting supply sales.

10.

Book and stationary stores.

11.

Candy, ice cream and yogurt stores.

12.

Carpet stores.

13.

Catering establishments.

14.

China and glassware store.

15.

Civic Buildings

16.

Clothing and apparel stores.

17.

Day care centers.

18.

Drugstores.

19.

Dry cleaning drop-off and pick-up only, without on-site processing.

20.

Dry cleaning, using non-flammable non-explosive fluids, not to exceed four thousand (4,000) square feet.

21.

Employment agency.

22.

Food stores, meat markets, delicatessens, and convenience stores.

23.

Furniture stores, upholstery service as a secondary use.

24.

Furrier shops.

25.

Garden supply and seed stores.

26.

Gift and hobby shops.

27.

Hardware

28.

Interior decorating shop.

29.

Laundromat.

30.

Leather goods and luggage shops.

31.

Liquor stores, retail sales of packaged goods.

32.

Locksmith shop.

33.

Millinery stores.

34.

Music stores, sheet music sales, album sales, musical instrument, sales and repair.

35.

Meeting halls.

36.

Medical appliance store.

37.

Offices- business or professional; medical and dental (serving the local area rather the region).

38.

Office supply store.

39.

Paint and wallpaper stores.

40.

Parking lots.

41.

Pet shops.

42.

Photography or artists studios.

43.

Picture framing.

44.

Publishing, newspaper operations, not to exceed four thousand (4,000) square feet.

45.

Radio and television studio, recording studio.

46.

Restaurants, cafes not including drive-in or drive-through services.

47.

Sewing machine sales, service and repairs.

48.

Shoe stores, sales and repair.

49.

Tailor shop, dressmaking shop.

50.

Taxidermists.

51.

Tobacco shops.

52.

Toy store.

53.

Variety store.

54.

Video rentals and sales.

55.

Wearing apparel shops.

56.

Other uses which are of the same general character as the above permitted uses as determined by the City Zoning Administrator.

The following special uses may be permitted in specific situations in accordance with the procedures outlined in Article 3 of this Ordinance.

1.

Automobile sales, truck sales including service, but not including body rebuilding and painting.

2.

Automobile service, automobile machining, automotive washing, including mechanical conveyors and blowers.

3.

Cocktail lounge, tavern.

4.

Commercial satellite earth stations.

5.

Drive-through banking lanes.

6.

Farmstands.

7.

Indoor amusement and recreation establishments including billiard parlors, bowling alleys, gymnasiums, swimming pools, skating rinks and movie theaters.

8.

Meat market/butcher shops.

9.

Package wine and beer as an accessory use to a permitted use.

10.

Planned unit developments.

11.

Proprietary residence.

12.

Public and private utility facilities not including vehicle, or maintenance storage.

13.

Trailer or boat sales establishments not including manufactured home sales or semi-truck trailers.

1.

All business, servicing or processing, except for off-street parking or loading shall be conducted within completely enclosed buildings. The normal services and sales offered at automobile fuel stations, auto sales, trailer sales are excluded from this provision. The City Council may waive this provision by designating certain days on which business may be conducted outside of the building for special promotions.

2.

All outside storage shall be prohibited. Trash containers shall be enclosed with fences or landscaping of at least one hundred percent (100%) opacity. Lighting of the facility shall be directed away from surrounding properties.

1.

The minimum lot area shall be fifteen thousand (15,000) square feet.

2.

The minimum District Area shall be two (2) acres (comprised of one (1) or more contiguous parcels).

1.

The minimum lot width shall be one hundred (100) feet.

The minimum yards required in the B1 District shall be as follows:

*A setback from all residential districts, of forty feet (40') shall be maintained. A minimum of twenty feet (20') of landscaped area shall be provided along such District boundary or property line separating the specified Districts. The required landscaped area shall be grass covered and densely planted with shrubs and trees to buffer adjacent residential land uses to provide a year-round visual screen in accordance with the Site Plan Review Ordinance. A fence shall be required in cases where the City Council finds landscaping alone is insufficient to protect the health, safety and welfare of adjacent land owners or occupants. Designated parking areas shall be prohibited within the buffer area.

The maximum floor area ratio for all buildings and structures in the B1 District shall be 0.6. The maximum height of all structures shall not exceed three (3) stories or thirty-five feet (35').