The business district is intended to provide areas for limited small-scale commercial uses of a convenience nature serving nearby residential neighborhoods as opposed to a regional market. The district is not intended to accommodate automotive or other types of more intensive commercial activities that are of such magnitude or type that would result in the generation of excessive traffic, noise, odors, pollution, safety hazards, or other adverse impacts which would detract from the desirability of adjacent properties for residential use. In general, the business district includes offices and retail and service establishments but excludes those highway-oriented uses which involve use of chemicals and outside sales and storage.

1.

Accessory uses and structures normally incidental to principal permitted uses and structures.

2.

Antique shops.

3.

Art and school supply stores.

4.

Bake shops and bakeries, but not including wholesale.

5.

Banks and financial institutions, including drive-in, drive-through and automatic teller facilities as accessory uses, not to exceed 10,000 square feet of gross floor area.

6.

Barber shops and beauty shops.

7.

Book or stationary stores.

8.

Bus stations and taxicab stands.

9.

Churches, temples, synagogues and places of worship, and their customary accessory uses and structures, including cemeteries, provided principal buildings are setback at least fifty (50) feet from any residential zoning district and screened therefrom by an opaque fence or densely planted buffer strip.

10.

Clubs, lodges, fraternal institutions and other places of public assembly for membership groups, non-profit or for profit, not to exceed 10,000 square feet of gross floor area.

11.

Clothes pressing, repair, sale and rental, but not including department stores.

12.

Convenience food and retail stores with or without retail gasoline sales.

13.

Day care centers.

14.

Dressmaking, millinery, sewing and tailor shops.

15.

Drug stores.

16.

Dry cleaners and laundromats not exceeding 2,500 square feet of total floor area.

17.

Electronic equipment sales.

18.

Food and grocery stores.

19.

Food catering establishments.

20.

Florist shops.

21.

Gift shops.

22.

Hardware stores, excluding outside sales and storage.

23.

Hobby shops.

24.

Hotels, motels, tourist homes, and bed and breakfast inns.

25.

Ice cream and yogurt shops.

26.

Instructional studios, such as music, dance, gymnastics, aerobics and martial arts.

27.

Interior decorating shops.

28.

Jewelry stores.

29.

Libraries, museums and art galleries.

30.

Locksmith shops.

31.

Music stores.

32.

Offices, business, medical, professional, insurance and real estate, and general.

33.

Paint stores.

34.

Parking garages and parking lots as principal or accessory uses.

35.

Photocopying, printing and reproduction services not exceeding 2,500 square feet of total floor area.

36.

Photography shops and studios.

37.

Public and semi-public buildings and uses.

38.

Radio and television repair and sales stores.

39.

Record, tape, and video rental and sales stores.

40.

Recycling collection centers, but not including processing of recyclable materials.

41.

Residences, including single-family detached, duplexes, apartments, condominiums and townhouses (subject to article XVI), but not including mobile homes, modular homes, manufactured homes, mobile home parks, and manufactured home parks. This includes residential occupancy above the first floor of commercial buildings, subject to provision of required parking for all uses. Home occupations are permitted as accessory uses.

42.

Restaurants, but not including drive-in or drive-through facilities.

43.

Schools, public elementary, middle and secondary, and public and private colleges and universities.

44.

Schools, parochial, private vocational, technical and others, non-profit or operated for profit.

45.

Seasonal or temporary activities such as farmers' markets or produce stands, provided:

a)

Adequate off-street parking is made available.

b)

The activity will not create noise, dust, traffic hazards, or other nuisances not compatible with permanent uses in the district.

c)

At the end of the season or temporary use, the premises shall be returned to their original condition before the use was instituted or a condition considered equivalent or better than the original condition.

46.

Small appliance repair shops.

47.

Snack and sandwich shops, but not including drive-in or drive-through facilities.

48.

Sporting goods stores.

49.

Theaters, indoor only.

50.

Toy stores.

51.

Travel agencies.

52.

Watch and clock sales and repair shops.

53.

Camping, provided that such activity is limited to personal use of camping equipment, camping accessories, or both, on private property by the property owner or by others with the property owner's permission and without the exchange of any form of compensation or remuneration. Camping as a permitted use hereunder shall not exceed seven consecutive days in duration or occur more than four times per calendar year. A minimum of 14 days is required between each camping period. Property on which camping is permitted shall be maintained in a clean and sanitary manner. All other uses or activities related to camping shall comply with all other provisions of the Town of Tallulah Falls Code of Ordinances or state law.

(Ord. of 12-5-2019, § 3)

It shall be unlawful in the BD, Business District, to provide any outdoor storage, outdoor display, or outdoor sales on any portion of a subject lot.

In accordance with article XV of this ordinance.