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West Frankfort City Zoning Code

CHAPTER 17

16 - B-1 COMMERCIAL DISTRICT

17.16.010 - Permitted uses.

In the B-1 commercial district no building or land shall be used and no building shall be erected, enlarged, converted or structurally altered, except for one or more of the following uses:

1.

Apartments or multiple-family dwellings;

2.

Bakery whose products are sold only at retail on the premises;

3.

Business or commercial school, or dancing music academy;

4.

Filling stations;

5.

Personal service shop, such as shoe repair shops, beauty parlors and barbershop but expressly excluding those uses listed in I-1 and 1-2 districts;

6.

Professional or service office;

7.

Restaurant, serving only within the building;

7(a).

Drive thru restaurant only upon approval of the zoning board of appeals and if traffic constraints permit use;

8.

Shop or store for conduct of retail business only, but expressly excluding uses listed in I-1 and I-2 districts;

9.

Laboratories which do not emit noxious gases, unpleasant odors, smoke, fumes or noises and which do not use combustible or explosive materials;

10.

Store for collection and distribution of laundry and dry-cleaning articles, but not for the treatment, cleaning and processing of such articles;

11.

Private garage incidental to main use and a sign or bulletin board relating only to services;

12.

Temporary building incidental only to construction of a permitted use;

13.

One-family and two-family dwellings;

14.

Multiple-family dwellings;

15.

Hotels and apartment hotels;

16.

Community buildings, museums and libraries;

17.

Advertising signs and bulletin boards;

18.

Hospitals and clinics, nursing homes;

19.

Dyeing and cleaning works, laundry;

20.

Bakery;

21.

Printing shop;

22.

Plumbing shop;

23.

Public garage, automobile sales room;

24.

Private clubs and lodges, except skeet and gun clubs;

25.

Institutions of an educational, philanthropic or eleemosynary nature;

26.

Bus or taxi terminal station, railroad station;

27.

Store for conduct of wholesale business, excluding a building the principal use of which is for a storage warehouse;

28.

Telegraph service station;

29.

Telephone exchange;

30.

Theater, except open air drive-in theater;

31.

Taverns as limited by the liquor ordinances of the city;

32.

Amusement and recreation building;

33.

Churches and chapels;

34.

Undertaking establishments;

35.

Park and playground;

36.

Boarding and rooming houses, tourist home;

37.

Home occupations;

38.

Municipal, state or federal building;

39.

Residence of watchman or guard of a permitted use;

40.

Parking lots.

(Ord. B-22 Art. 5 § 1, 1962).

(Ord. No. TA1-07, 8-1-2023)

17.16.020 - Parking regulations.

The parking regulations for multiple-family dwellings shall be required for such uses by the applicable provisions of Chapter 17.32. No parking space shall be required in the B-l district in other instances.

(Ord. B-22 Art. 5 § 2, 1962).

17.16.030 - Height regulations.

No building shall exceed six stories in height nor shall it exceed seventy-five feet in height, except as otherwise provided in Chapter 17.36.

(Ord. B-22 Art. 5 § 3, 1962).

17.16.040 - Front yard.

The front yard requirements for multiple-family dwellings are the same as in the R-1 district. In single-family and two-family dwellings, the front yard requirements are the same as in the R-1 district. In all other cases no front yard is required.

(Ord. B-22 Art. 5 § 4(1), 1962).

17.16.050 - Side yard.

The side yard regulations for multiple-family dwellings are the same as those in the R-1 district. In all other cases no side yard is required, except as necessary to permit required off-street parking.

(Ord. B-22 Art. 5 § 4(2), 1962).

17.16.060 - Rear yard.

The rear yard regulations for multiple-family dwellings are the same as in the R-1 district. In all other cases a rear yard is not required, except as necessary to provide required off-street parking.

(Ord. B-22 Art. 5 § 4(3), 1962).

17.16.070 - Intensity of use.

When a lot is improved by multiple-family dwelling, the intensity of use regulations are the same as those required in the R-1 district.

(Ord. B-22 Art. 5 § 4(4), 1962).