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Taylor City Zoning Code

ARTICLE 06

BUSINESS AND OFFICE DISTRICTS

Sec. 6.01.- Intent.

(a)

The B-1 Local Business District is intended to meet the day-to-day convenience shopping and service needs of persons residing in adjacent residential areas. B-1 district designations are located within close proximity to areas planned for large residential populations, and are intended to serve the immediate vicinity so as not to create unnecessary additional traffic. In order to promote business development compatible with nearby residential, uses are prohibited that would create hazards, offensive and loud noises, vibration, smoke, glare, heavy truck traffic, or late hours of operation.

(b)

The B-2 Regional Business District is intended to serve a larger population than is serviced by a B-1 district. The district is general characterized by an integrated or planned cluster of establishments serviced by a common parking area and generating a large volume of vehicular and pedestrian traffic. The intent of this district is also to encourage the concentration of regional business areas to the mutual advantage of both the consumers and merchants and thereby to promote the best use of land at certain strategic locations and to avoid encouraging marginal strip, business development along arterial streets. Special attention must be focused on site layout, building design, vehicular and pedestrian circulation and coordination of site features between adjoining sites.

(c)

The B-3 General Business District is intended to provide for retail commercial services dependent on major street traffic. The uses in the B-3 district will be more automotive oriented and serve a market that includes city residents and residents from surrounding communities. The permitted uses would be located at the juncture of principal streets and are generally not appropriate immediately adjacent to residential zoning districts. Special attention must be focused on site layout, building design, vehicular circulation and buffering from other nearby uses.

(d)

The O-1 Office District is intended to accommodate uses such as offices for professional and business services, planned office developments, as well as appropriately located related and ancillary services and uses. The O-1 district is intended to permit those office and personal service uses which will establish an appropriate district for uses which do not generate large volumes of traffic, traffic congestion, and parking problems, and which will promote the most desirable use of land in accordance with the master plan. The O-1 district is further intended to provide a buffer or zone of transition between residential and commercial districts and between residential districts and arterial streets.

(e)

The O-2 Regional Office District is designed and intended to accommodate large office buildings and restricted related retail and service establishments which service large numbers of people. The O-2 district is intended to permit those office and personal service uses which will provide office buildings in landscaped settings to create office parks or landmark office buildings.

(Ord. No. 09-434, § 6.01, 1-20-2009)

Sec. 6.02. - Schedule of uses.

Buildings or land shall be not used and buildings shall not be erected except for one or more of the following specified uses, unless otherwise provided for in this ordinance. Land and/or buildings in the districts indicated at the top of Table 6.02 may be used for the purposes denoted by the following abbreviations:

(a)

Permitted use (P). Land and/or buildings in this district may be used for the purposes listed by right.

(b)

Special land use (SLU). The following uses may be permitted by obtaining special land use approval when all applicable requirements in article 13, use requirements, and the standards of section 21.04, review standards, are met.

(c)

Not permitted (—). The use is not permitted in the district.

(d)

Additional requirements. Indicates requirements or conditions applicable to the use.

TABLE 6.02. BUSINESS AND OFFICE DISTRICTS
SCHEDULE OF USES

UseO-1O-2B-1B-2B-3Additional
Requirements
Animal and agricultural uses
Commercial kennels — — — — SLU Section 13.02(a)
Pet daycare — — SLU SLU SLU Section 13.02(c)
Pet grooming and obedience training with no boarding — — P P P —
Veterinary clinics and hospitals, not including outdoor kennels and runs P P — — P Section 13.02(d)
Public and institutional uses
Business or technical colleges — P — SLU SLU —
Colleges, universities, and other institutions of higher learning, offering courses in general, technical, or religious education and not operated for profit SLU P — SLU SLU Section 13.03(b)
Large-scale institutional uses, places of public assembly and places of worship with a seating capacity of 1,500 people or more or parking for 500 vehicles or more SLU SLU SLU SLU SLU section 13.03(d)
Public buildings and uses but not including storage yards P P P p P —
Union halls — — — P P
Retail uses
Antique and collectible shop — — — SLU — —
Firearms dealers, distributors and repair shops — — — SLU
and
RLU 		SLU
and
RLU 		article 20
Liquor stores with more than 30 percent of floor area dedicated to the sales of alcoholic beverages — — SLU SLU SLU —
Lumber and building material sales and storage yards and/or nonindustrial rental equipment centers — — — — SLU section 13.04(a)
Nurseries and similar outdoor retail sale of trees, fruits, vegetables, shrubbery, plants, seed, topsoil, humus, fertilizer, trellises, lawn furniture, other home garden supplies, and equipment and similar uses — — — SLU SLU section 13.04(b)
Outdoor display, sales, storage — — — — SLU —
Pawn shops, excluding automobile pawn facilities — — — SLU
and
RLU 		SLU
and
RLU 		article 20
Precious metal and gem dealers purchasing from the general public — — — SLU
and
RLU 		SLU section 13.04(c)
Replacement parts sales (new or eeconditioned only) — — — — P —
Resale shops — — — SLU
and
RLU 		SLU —
Retail and personal service uses on the first floor of a multiple story building. not exceeding 10,000 sq. ft. in O-2 — SLU P P P —
Retail businesses whose principal activity is the sale or rental of merchandise within a completely enclosed building
Uses up to 12,000 sq. ft. net floor area — — P P P —
Uses between 12,000 and 60,000 sq. ft. net floor area — — P P P section 13.04(d)
Uses 60,000 sq. ft. of net floor area or more — — SLU SLU SLU section 13.04(d)
Retail business offering a drive-through service — — — SLU SLU section 13.04(e)
Tobacco retailer, tobacco store — — — SLU
and
RLU 		SLU
and
RLU 		—
Motor vehicle uses
Automobile filing stations — — — SLU SLU section 13.05(a)
Automobile rental establishments — — — — SLU —
Bus passenger stations — — — P P —
Motor vehicle maintenance and minor repair — — — — SLU section 13.05(d)
Motor vehicle wash and detail establishments — — — — SLU section 13.05(f)
Moving van, small truck and trailer rental — — — — SLU —
New and used automobile, boat, mobile home, recreation vehicle sales, including outdoor display areas — — — — SLU section 13.05(g)
Lodging and food service
Banquet halls — — P P P —
Carryout restaurants — — P P P section 13.06(a)
Cocktail lounge/nightclub/bar (not including adult regulated) — — — SLU SLU section 13.06(c)
Drive-in restaurants — — — SLU SLU section 13.06(a)
Drive-through restaurants — — — SLU SLU section 13.06(a)
Food/beverage service with accessory outdoor seating — SLU SLU P P section 13.06(b)
Hotels and motels — P — P P —
Restaurants designed exclusively for consumption of food or beverages without a liquor license — SLU P P P —
Taverns/pubs/microbrewery (restaurants with liquor license but less than 30 percent bar area) — SLU SLU SLU SLU section 13.06(c)
Restaurants with open front windows — — SLU P P —
Other services
Barber shops, beauty parlors, health spas and therapeutic massage SLU — P P P —
Laundry or dry cleaning establishments, coin-operated laundromats, and self-serve dry cleaning establishments, dealing directly with the consumer — — P P P —
Photographic studios P P P P P —
Service establishment of an office, showroom, or workshop nature of an taxidermist, decorator, dressmaker, tailor, baker, painter, upholsterer, or an establishment doing radio or home appliance repair, photographic reproduction or similar service establishments which require a retail adjunct, providing such use is within a completely enclosed building and excludes outside storage yards SLU — P P P —
Tattoo parlor — — — SLU
and
RLU 		SLU
and
RLU 		article 20
Tool and equipment rental, nonindustrial, which may include outdoor storage — — — — SLU section 13.07(a)
Finance, insurance, real estate, professional
Business service establishments, such as typing services, employment services, photocopying services, quick-print establishments, or office supply store P P P P P —
Conference centers, convention facilities, corporate education and training facilities — P — P P —
Data processing and computer centers, including sales, service, and maintenance of electronic data processing equipment P P P P P —
Financial establishments such as banks, credit unions, savings and loan associations
With up to three drive-through teller lanes P P P P P section 13.08(a)
With more than three drive-through teller lanes SLU SLU — SLU SLU section 13.08(a)
Freestanding automated teller machine kiosks not located on a bank site — — — SLU SLU —
Insurance offices, brokerage houses and real estate offices P P P P P —
Newspaper offices P P — P P —
Freestanding automated teller machine kiosks not located on a bank site P P P P P —
Health care and social assistance
Adult day care centers P P P P P —
Child care centers and day care centers SLU SLU P P P section 13.09(c)
Funeral homes or mortuary establishments P P — SLU P section 13.09(e)
Health care facilities such as hospitals, 24-hour urgent care centers and rehabilitation centers P P — — P section 13.09(g)
Medical and dental offices, including clinics P P P P P —
Entertainment and recreation uses
Adult regulated uses including: adult personal service establishment, adult supply (book) store, adult theater, adult physical culture establishment and group A cabarets — — — — SLU
and
RLU 		article 20
Arcades, excluding adult arcades — — — SLU SLU —
Assembly halls and concert halls when conducted completely within enclosed buildings — — — SLU SLU —
Bowling alleys — — — P P —
Indoor recreation uses such as gymnasiums, ice skating rinks, tennis clubs, roller skating rinks, court sports facilities, rock climbing facilities, and similar recreational uses — — — P P —
Outdoor recreation uses, such as golf driving range, or court sports facilities, miniature golf, tennis and similar recreation uses, excluding gun ranges — — — SLU SLU section 13.10(c)
Pool and billiard halls — — — SLU SLU —
Private club, fraternal organizations, and lodge halls — — P P P section 13.10(d)
Public parks and recreational facilities P P P P P —
Recreational, health services and related uses including health clubs or gyms; dance schools, martial arts instruction, saunas, tanning salons or businesses providing whirlpool baths, or mineral baths SLU — — P P —
Shooting ranges when totally enclosed in a building — — — SLU
and
RLU 		SLU
and
RLU 		article 20
Television and radio stations — — — P P —
Theaters (indoor, motion picture or live performance, but not adult regulated) — — — P P —
Transportation and warehousing uses
Bus and railroad passenger stations — — — P P —
Utilities and waste disposal uses
Essential services and uses not requiring outdoor storage of materials or vehicles SLU SLU SLU SLU SLU section 13.12(c)
Public utility buildings, telephone exchange buildings; electric transformer stations and substations; gas regulator stations, but without storage yards, water and sewage pumping stations — — SLU SLU P —
Wireless communication facilities and services

Attached or collocated on existing structures 		P P P P P section 13.12(k)

New wireless communication support structure 		SLU SLU SLU SLU SLU section 13.12(k)
Construction uses
Service establishments of an office, showroom or workshop nature within a completely enclosed building of a contractor, including carpentry, electrical, glazing, heating, painting, paper hanging, plastering, plumbing, roofing, and ventilating, exterminator and similar establishments that require a retail adjunct; but excluding outside storage yards — — — — P —
Accessory uses
Accessory buildings and uses customarily incidental to any of the principal permitted uses P P P P P section 15.01
Accessory buildings and uses customarily incidental to any of the principal special land uses SLU SLU SLU SLU SLU section 15.01

 

(Ord. No. 09-434, § 6.02, 1-20-2009; Ord. No. 13-474, § 1, 2-19-2013; Ord. No. 25-520, § 1, 5-6-2025)

Sec. 6.03. - Area, height and placement requirements.

All lots and buildings shall meet the following dimensional requirements:

TABLE 6.03. BUSINESS AND OFFICE DISTRICTS
AREA, HEIGHT AND PLACEMENT REQUIREMENTS

Zoning District Maximum Height of Buildings Minimum Yard Setbacks (ft.) (b, c, d, e) Maximum Percent of Lot Area Covered (k) (percent)
Stories Feet (a) Front (f, g) Side Rear (j) All
Buildings 		All
Impermeable
Surface
Building Parking Building (h) Parking Building (i) Parking
O-1 2 25 35 10 10 5 25 5 35 70
O-2 5 65 40 10 20(j) 5 40(j) 5 35 70
B-1 2 25 20 10 10 5 20 5 40 70
B-2 3 35 40 10 10 5 20 5 40 70
B-3 3 35 40 10 10 5 25 5 35 70

 

(a)

Building height. Exceptions to building height shall be allowed as provided for in section 14.08, height limit.

(b)

Yards maintained as landscaped open space. All buildings, parking, loading driveways, circulation aisles, and storage areas shall meet the setback requirement. Setback areas shall be provided with landscape greenbelts and buffer zones as required in section 16.02, landscaping.

(c)

Outdoor storage. Outdoor storage shall be screened in accordance with section 16.02, landscaping. Storage areas shall meet the applicable building setback requirements from each lot line.

(d)

Projections into yards. Structures in section 14.11, projections into required yards, shall be permitted to project into required yard setbacks.

(e)

Natural features setback. All structures shall be set back at least 25 feet from all natural features such as drains, regulated wetlands, natural ponds, lakes and streams.

(f)

Front yard setback. The front yard setback shall apply to all yards that adjoin a street including public streets, private streets and interstate highways. Corner lots and double frontage lots shall be considered to have two front yards. All buildings, parking, loading and storage areas shall meet the front yards setback requirement. Detention/retention ponds shall be prohibited in the required front yard setback, unless the city engineer determines there is no reasonable alternative due to existing topography and natural drainage problems. This restriction shall not apply to rain gardens, bio-retention swales, irrigation trench planters and other similar stormwater management alternatives to retention or detention ponds.

(g)

Front yard setback on small lots. For lots that are less than 150 feet in depth, the front yard setback of a new building may match the front yard setback of the majority of existing buildings within the block.

(h)

Building side yard setback. No side yards are required along the interior side lot lines of the district adjoining another nonresidential lot where all requirements of the state construction code are met. If walls of structures facing interior side of lot lines contain windows, or other openings, side yard setbacks shall be provided in accordance with table 6.02. Where a lot borders on a residential district, there shall be provided a setback of not less than 20 feet on the side bordering the residential district.

(i)

Parking side yard setback. The parking setback shall not be required adjoining another nonresidential lot where the lots have shared driveway access, shared parking or other cross access circulation between the sites without the need to access a public street. Where a parking lot of loading area borders on a residential district, there shall be provided a buffer and screening from the residential district as required by section 16.02, landscaping.

(j)

Loading areas. Loading space shall be provided in the rear yard. Where an alley exists or is provided at the rear of buildings, the rear building setback and loading requirements may be computed from the center of said alley. All loading and unloading shall be provided off-street in the rear yard or interior side yard, and shall in no instance be permitted in a front yard. Loading and unloading areas located in a side yard shall be fully screened from view from a public street. No overhead doors shall be permitted in the front elevation of the building. All residential districts and uses must be screened from truck loading and unloading activities.

(k)

Lot coverage. Maximum lot coverage shall be regulated by two measures:

(1)

The maximum percent of the lot area that can be covered by buildings.

(2)

The maximum percent of the lot area that can be covered by buildings plus other impermeable surfaces, such as pavement, decks and pools.

(l)

Regional office setback from residential. Where a O-2 district site abuts a residential district and is not separated by a street or railroad right-of-way, the building shall be setback from the residential district a minimum of 40 feet for the first 30 feet of building height plus an additional three feet for each additional one foot of building height in excess of 30 feet.

(Ord. No. 09-434, § 6.03, 1-20-2009)