The Highway Business District is intended to provide adequate space for various types of general business uses that serve residents on a community level rather than neighborhood level, including the retailing of major goods and services of large scale, automotive and other types of more intensive commercial activities and establishments that rely on highway-oriented, passer-by traffic.

1.

Any use permitted in the BD, Business District as enumerated in section 1002 of these regulations, but not subject to any specified square footage limitations.

2.

Accessory uses and structures normally incidental to permitted principal uses.

3.

Agricultural implement and equipment sales, service, rental and repair.

4.

Amphitheaters and stadiums.

5.

Animal hospitals and veterinary clinics.

6.

Auction facilities.

7.

Assembly halls, auditoriums and meeting halls.

8.

Automobile, boat, truck, motorcycle, bicycle and other vehicle rental, repair, service and sales.

9.

Automobile, boat, truck, motorcycle, bicycle and other vehicle parts sales.

10.

Automobile car washes, including automated, full-service or self-service.

11.

Billiard halls, poolrooms and amusement/video arcades.

12.

Blueprinting establishments.

13.

Bowling alleys.

14.

Building materials sales and lumber yards.

15.

Cabinet shops.

16.

Camper and recreational vehicle sales, service and repair, but not including campgrounds or recreational vehicle parks.

17.

Christmas tree sales.

18.

Circuses and carnivals.

19.

Contractor's establishments, building, electrical and plumbing.

20.

Convalescent homes, nursing homes, group homes, rehabilitation centers, sanitariums and similar institutionalized residential facilities involving professional care and treatment.

21.

Department stores.

22.

Dry cleaning establishments, laundromats and laundries.

23.

Equipment rental, sales and service.

24.

Exterminators and pest control businesses.

25.

Firearms sales and service, including gun clubs and indoor shooting ranges.

26.

Firewood sales.

27.

Flea markets.

28.

Floor covering stores.

29.

Funeral homes, mortuaries and mausoleums.

30.

Furniture, fixtures and home furnishing stores, including rental, finishing, repair and sales but not manufacturing.

31.

Garden supply centers, greenhouses and landscaping services.

32.

Golf courses, golf driving ranges, miniature golf courses, and baseball batting cages.

33.

Hardware stores, including outside sales and storage.

34.

Health clubs and spas.

35.

Heliports and helistops.

36.

Hospitals and clinics.

37.

Kennels.

38.

Lawn mower rental, repair and sales and service shops.

39.

Machine shops.

40.

Mini-warehouses and mini-storage facilities, where no individual storage stall or compartment exceeds 500 square feet of total floor area.

41.

Mobile/manufactured home and mobile/manufactured building sales, but not including residential occupancy of mobile homes.

42.

Monument sales establishments.

43.

Open air business uses.

44.

Palm reading and fortune telling establishments.

45.

Pawn shops.

46.

Pet stores and grooming establishments.

47.

Printing establishments.

48.

Race tracks for animals or motor-driven vehicles, provided the site contains a minimum of fifteen (15) acres.

49.

Radio and television studios, and cable television stations, including broadcasting towers and satellite receiving antennas as accessory uses.

50.

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

51.

Repair of household appliances.

52.

Research and scientific laboratories.

53.

Residences for a caretaker or night watchman.

54.

Restaurants, including drive-in and drive-through facilities.

55.

Sign fabrication and painting shops, occupying not more than 2,500 square feet of floor area.

56.

Skating rinks.

57.

Taxicab and limousine services.

58.

Taxidermist shops.

59.

Theaters, indoor and outdoor.

60.

Welding shops.

1.

Campgrounds and recreational vehicle parks, subject to the requirements of the Tallulah Falls subdivision regulations and campground standards.

2.

Warehousing and inside storage uses which occupy no more than 10,000 square feet of floor area.

3.

Wholesale establishments which occupy no more than 10,000 square feet of floor area.

Any permitted use in an HB district shall be located at least fifty (50) feet from a residential district and separated from residential property lines by an opaque fence at least six (6) feet high or a densely-planted buffer strip at least ten (10) feet wide.

In accordance with article XV of this ordinance.