The purpose of this article is to provide for a range of highway-oriented retail, automotive and service type business activities which ordinarily require main-highway locations and serve transient as well as regional and local customers; to provide sufficient space for automobile related merchandising, including the provision of off-street parking and safe circulation of pedestrian and motor traffic in the district and adjoining areas; to allow for office uses as well as limited conversion of residential structures; to conform to the TND-1 Overlay District: Baltimore Avenue regulations of Article
XX; to promote residential development in Gateway Area 1, and to promote residential and potentially mixed-use development in the Gateway Area 2.
In the Highway Business-Office District, land, buildings or premises shall be used by right only for one or more of the following uses listed below. For those portions of the HBO overlaid by the TND-1 Overlay District: Baltimore Avenue, the provisions of Article
XX shall also apply.
A. All uses permitted by right in the Retail-Office-Apartment District, including vertical mixed use buildings with retail use on the ground floor, subject to §
311-48D.
B. New or used automobile dealer, including sales, leasing and service
facilities, provided that no such facility shall be located within
500 feet of the property line of any other property used for such
a facility.
E. Car washing establishment.
F. Gasoline service station, provided that no gasoline service station
shall be located within 500 feet of the property line of any other
property used for a gasoline service station.
H. Drive-through restaurant, bank, camera film developing establishment
or similar drive-through use.
I. Medical, dental or similar clinic.
J. Motel, hotel and related facility, such as restaurant and banquet
room.
K. Laundromat, newspaper or printing establishment or similar use.
L. General service, repair or tradesman's shop, including furniture,
watch or clock, radio, television or household appliance repair; carpenter,
plumber, electrician or similar use.
M. Church or other place of worship, school, day care or similar use.
N. Club, lodge; nonprofit organization, as defined in Article
II of this chapter.
O. Funeral home or mortuary.
R. Bank or other financial institution.
S. Single-family semi-detached dwelling (twins) in the Gateway Area 1, subject to §
311-48C.
T. Single-family attached dwellings (townhouse) in the Gateway Area 1, subject to §
311-48C.
The following uses shall be permitted as a special exception when authorized by the Zoning Hearing Board. All special exceptions are subject to the provisions of Article
XVII of this chapter.
A. Wholesale or storage facility in conjunction with a permitted use.
B. Nursing or convalescent home.
C. Public parking lot or garage.
As noted in §
311-41, relating to the Retail-Office-Apartment District.