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B-1 Limited Business
ARTICLE X - B-1 LIMITED BUSINESS DISTRICTS
PREAMBLE
The B-1 Limited Business Districts are designed primarily for the convenience of persons
residing in adjacent residential areas or neighborhoods, and to permit only such uses as are
necessary to satisfy those limited basic, daily shopping and/or service needs, which by their very
nature are not similar to the shopping patterns of the B-2 convenience and Comparison, B-3
Central Business District, and B-4 General Business Districts. B-1 Districts are also intended to
be utilized at planned locations in the City as zones of transition between major thoroughfares
and residential areas, and between intensive nonresidential areas and residential areas. In the B-1
District all business establishments shall be retail and/or service establishments dealing directly
with consumers. All goods produced on the premises shall be sold at retail on the premises
where produced. All business, servicing or processing, except off-street parking or loading, shall
be conducted within a completely enclosed building, or in an area specifically approved by the
City.
SECTION 1000: PRINCIPAL USES PERMITTED
In a B-1 Limited Business District no building or land shall be used and no building shall be
erected, structurally altered, or occupied except for one (1) or more of the following specified
uses, unless otherwise provided for in this Ordinance:
1. Any generally recognized retail business which supplies new commodities on the
premises for persons residing in adjacent residential areas such as: groceries, meats,
dairy products, baked goods or other foods, drugs, drygoods, and notions or hardware.
No individual uses, either freestanding or in a group of uses, shall exceed two thousand
five hundred (2,500) square feet in area.
2. Any personal service establishment which performs services on the premises for persons
residing in adjacent residential areas, such as: Shoe repair, dry cleaning shops, tailor
shops, beauty parlors, barber shops, dressmaker, tailor, pharmacist, or an establishment
doing radio, television, or home appliance repair, and similar establishments that require
a retail character no more objectionable than the aforementioned, subject to the provision
that no more than five (5) persons shall be employed at any time in the sale, repair, or
other processing of goods.
3. Professional offices of doctors, lawyers, dentists, chiropractors, osteopaths, architects,
engineers, accountants, and similar or allied professions. No individual use shall exceed
two thousand five hundred (2,500) square feet in area.
4. Office buildings for any of the following types of occupations: executive, administrative
and professional. No individual use shall exceed two thousand five hundred (2,500)
square feet in area.
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5. Residential uses as part of a building in this zone shall be allowed upon issuance of a
Certificate of Occupancy from the Department of Inspections, provided that the minimum
lot area requirements of the RM-1 District are met.
6. Accessory buildings and accessory uses customarily incidental to any of the above
Principal Uses Permitted.
7. Uses similar to the above Principal Uses Permitted.
SECTION 1001: SPECIAL LAND USES PERMITTED
The following area, and their accessory buildings and accessory uses, shall be permitted under
the purview of Section 2332 after review and approval of the use ( and a site plan, if required) by
the Planning Commission, after Public Hearing, subject to the applicable conditions and any
other reasonable conditions imposed by the Planning Commission. A site plan shall not be
required when there are no external changes made to the buildings or properties.
1. Restaurants, or other places serving food, except drive-in or drive-through restaurants.
2. Churches and other facilities normally incidental thereto subject to the following
conditions:
a. The site shall be so located as to provide for ingress and egress from said site
directly onto a major or secondary thoroughfare.
b. The principal buildings on the site shall be set back from abutting properties
zoned for residential use not less than thirty (30) feet.
c. Buildings of greater than the maximum height allowed in Section 2100 may be
allowed provided front, side, and rear yards are increased above the minimum
requirements by one (1) foot for each foot of building that exceeds the maximum
height allowed.
3. Accessory buildings and accessory uses customarily incidental to the above Special Land
Uses Permitted.
4. Uses similar to the above Special Land Uses Permitted.
SECTION 1002: PLANNED UNIT DEVELOPMENTS
Planned developments may be allowed by the Planning Commission under the procedural
guidelines of Section 2101. The intent of Planned Unit Developments in the B-1 Limited
Business Districts is to allow mixed land uses which are compatible to each other, while
prohibiting nonresidential uses which would not be compatible or harmonious with residential
dwellings.
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SECTION 1003: AREA AND BULK REQUIREMENTS [amended 4/00]
1. Minimum lot size: 4,000 sq. feet.
2. Maximum lot coverage:
Buildings: 50%
Pavement: 25%
3. Lot width: 40 feet (shall be measured at road frontage unless a cul-de-sac, then measured
from setback).
4. Width to depth ratios: The depth of any lot(s) or parcel(s) shall not be more than three
(3) times longer its width.
5. Height limit: 2 stories or 35 feet.
Height measurement: In the case of a principal building, the vertical distance measured
from the average finished grade to the highest point of the roof surface where the
building line abuts the front yard, except as follows: to the deck line of mansard roofs,
and the average height between eaves and the ridge of gable, hip, and gambrel roofs (see
Figure 2-2). If the ground is not entirely level, the grade shall be determined by
averaging the elevation of the ground for each face of the building (see Figure 2-4).
6. Front Setbacks: [amended 1/05]
Minimum:
Expressway or Arterial Street: 30 feet
Collector or Major Street: 20 feet
Minor Street: 10 feet
Maximum:
Expressway, Arterial Street or Major Street: 50 feet
Collector Street: 40 feet
Minor Street: 30 feet
7. Rear setback: 10 feet
8. Setback from the ordinary high water mark or wetland: 75 feet (principal structures
only).
9. Side setbacks:
1-story: 8 feet and 12 feet
2-story: 10 feet and 14 feet
Note, setback measurement: All required setbacks shall be measured from the right-of-
way line to the nearest point of the determined drip line of buildings. [amended 10/02]
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10. Zero lot line option: New principal buildings may be erected on the rear lot line and/or
one side lot line provided: [amended 10/02]
a. The building has an approved fire rating for zero-lot line development under the
building code.
b. The building has adequate fire access preserved pursuant to fire code
requirements.
c. The zero lot line side is not adjacent to a street.
d. A maintenance access easement is granted by the adjacent property owner and
recorded with the County Register of Deeds and provided to the zoning
administrator with the site plan or plot plan.
e. It is not adjacent to wetlands, or waterfront.
11. All required side and rear setbacks shall be landscaped, greenbelt buffers, unless zero-lot-
line is employed for a structure or fire access. At least fifty percent of all required front
setbacks shall be landscaped and adjacent to the road right-of-way. An average minimum
greenbelt of 10 feet shall be maintained along each street frontage. [amended 12/01,
amended 10/02]
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