West St Paul City Zoning Code
B-1 LIMITED
BUSINESS DISTRICT
§ 153.140 PERMITTED USES.
Within the B-1 Limited Business District, no structure or land shall be used, except for one or more of the following uses, or uses deemed similar by the City Council:
(A) Art studio;
(B) Barbershop;
(C) Hair salon;
(D) A licensed child care facility;
(E) Municipal buildings where the use conducted is customarily considered to be an office use;
(F) Offices of a general nature, other than medical or dental, where the employment within the building does not exceed 50 persons and the operations do not include retail sales or warehousing from the site;
(G)
Photographic studio;
(H) Satellite dish antennas greater than one meter (39 inches) in diameter. See § 153.396; and/or
(Ord. 99-03, passed - -; Ord. 01-10, passed - -; Ord. 07-08, passed - -; Ord. 08-09, passed - -; Ord. passed 10-11-1963; Ord. 17-14, passed 11-27-2017)
§ 153.141 CONDITIONAL USES.
Within the B-1 Limited Business District, no structure or land shall be used for the following uses, except by conditional use permit:
(A) Interior decorating studio and music studio provided no retail sales are made of products unless the products are manufactured on the site;
(B) Essential service structures, including, but not limited to, buildings such as telephone exchange station, booster or pressure stations, elevated tanks, lift stations and electric power sub-stations;
(C) Historical buildings, museums, art institutes, galleries and playhouses/theaters;
(D) Nursing homes or retirement homes, provided the site shall contain not less than 600 square feet of lot area for each person to be accommodated and that no building be located less than 30 feet from the side lot line;
(E) Off-street parking, when the principal site of the off-street parking abuts on a lot which is in another B or I District, is in the same ownership as the land in the B or I District, is subject to those conditions as set forth in §§ 153.345 through 153.351 and other conditions as found necessary by the City Council to carry out the intent of this chapter;
(F) Private garages;
(G) Radio and television stations and studios;
(H) Radio and television towers;
(I) Dental or medical office or clinic;
(J) Elderly community education center, provided that it is located in a building that contains a civic or community center or a multi-family elderly residential housing facility;
(K) A state licensed adult day care facility, provided that the lot is located at least 200 feet from Robert Street; and
(L) Solar carport, provided:
(1) The solar carport use is accessory to the principal use of the property.
(2) The solar carport does not exceed 50% of the respective parking area on which it is located.
(3) The solar carport otherwise complies with § 153.380.
(Ord. passed 10-11-1963; Ord. 23-012, passed 9-11-2023)
§ 153.142 INTERIM USES.
Within the B-1 Limited Business District, the following uses shall be interim uses: Farmers market, provided such products are sold directly to consumers by local growers and producers.
(Ord. 17-09, passed 7-10-2017)
§ 153.143 PERMITTED ACCESSORY USES.
Within the B-1 Limited Business District, the following uses shall be permitted accessory uses:
(A) Buildings temporarily located for purposes of construction on the premises for a period not to exceed time necessary to complete the construction;
(B) Decorative landscape features; and
(Ord. passed 10-11-1963)
§ 153.144 LOT AREA, HEIGHT, LOT WIDTH AND YARD REQUIREMENTS.
(A) No structure or building shall exceed 25 feet in height, except as provided in § 153.009 of this chapter.
(B) Wherever a B-1 Limited Business District abuts or is across the street from an R District, a fence or compact evergreen hedge not less than 75% opaque nor less than eight feet in height, except adjacent to a street where it shall be between three and four feet in height shall be erected and maintained in the front portion of the lot or along the side or rear property line that abuts the R District.
(Ord. passed 10-11-1963)
§ 153.145 PROHIBITED USES.
Within the B-1, Limited Business District, the following uses are prohibited: State-licensed residential care facilities.
(Ord. 21-011, passed 8-23-2021)