The General Business Districts B are established
to provide districts to accommodate general retail, service, finance,
insurance and real estate and related structures and uses. It is contemplated
that under usual circumstances these districts will be established
only in areas served by public water supply and public sewage disposal
facilities.
[Amended 8-16-2004 by L.L. No. 3-2004]
In General Business Districts B, permitted uses,
buildings and other structures are as follows:
A.
All those permitted in the Residence Districts R-3.
B.
Professional offices, barbershops, beauty parlors,
drive-in banks and drive-in building and loan associations, automatic
coin laundry or dry-cleaning establishments where not more than five
persons are employed and where no flammable cleaning fluids are used,
drugstores, fruit markets, grocery stores, hardware stores, meat markets,
self-service laundries, shoe repair shops and any accessory use or
building customarily incidental to the above permitted uses.
C.
Places of amusement or assembly, theaters other than drive in, offices, restaurants, hotels, or motels subject to the provisions of § 300-42, any retail business or retail service, including the making of articles to be sold at retail on the premises, provided that any such manufacturing or processing shall be incidental to a retail business or service and not more than five persons shall be employed in such manufacturing or processing, and any accessory use or building customarily incidental to the above permitted uses.
E.
Public garages, motor vehicle sales, new and used,
and motor vehicle service stations, provided that the following special
requirements are complied with:
(1)
No major repair work is performed out-of-doors.
(2)
Pumps or lubricating or other devices are located
at least 20 feet from any street line or highway right-of-way.
(3)
All fuel, oil or similar substances are stored a distance
of at least 35 feet from any street or lot line.
(4)
All vehicle parts, dismantled vehicles and similar
articles are stored within a building.
(5)
Lot area shall not be less than 1/4 acre, and lot
width not less than 100 feet.
(6)
All buildings, including accessory buildings, shall
not cover more than 35% of the area of the lot.
[Amended 5-15-1978 by L.L. No. 3-1978; 8-16-2004 by L.L. No.
3-2004; 3-18-2019 by L.L. No. 1-2019; 7-20-2020 by L.L. No. 1-2020]
The following uses are prohibited in the General
Business Districts B:
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Animal hospitals
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Automobile graveyards or disassembly plants
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Building material sales and storage yards
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Cargo trailer or camping trailer sales and rentals
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Coal yards
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Commercial greenhouses and plant nurseries
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Commercial warehouses
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Construction equipment sales and rentals
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Contractors' equipment and storage yards
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Crude oil, gasoline or any of its volatile products
or other highly flammable liquid storage in aboveground tanks with
a unit capacity of greater than 550 gallons
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Electric welding other than that incidental
to building construction, garage repair or similar uses
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Farm machinery sales and rentals
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Junkyards, secondhand material yards and the
storage, baling or treatment of junk, old iron, rags, bottles or scrap
paper
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Laundries other than laundromats and similar
self-service establishments, and dyeing and cleaning works using power
machinery
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Live animal or poultry sales
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Lumberyards
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Lunch wagons
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Meat smoking and processing meat for animal
foods, whether or not incidental to a retail business conducted on
the premises
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Milk distribution plants
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Mobile home sales lots
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Rendering lard and other fats
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Slaughtering poultry and animals
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Wholesale businesses exceeding two stories,
maximum 5,000 square feet per story
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Any process of manufacture, assembly or treatment
which is not clearly incidental to a retail business conducted on
the premises or which normally constitutes a nuisance by reason of
odor, noise, glare, dust or smoke, even if incidental to a retail
business conducted on the premises
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All uses, buildings and other structures prohibited
in the industrial districts
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A.
Residential buildings. All buildings intended for
residential use, in whole or in part, shall comply with the area and
yard requirements of the Residence Districts R-3, except those buildings
lying between Kingston and Bridge Streets, on both sides of Main Street,
now existing, and those buildings lying between Kingston Street and
a point 375 feet south of Kingston Street, on the east side of Main
Street, now existing, and between Kingston Street and Franklin Street
in the west side of Main Street, now existing.
[Amended 5-15-1978 by L.L. No. 3-1978; 1-6-1997 by L.L. No.
1-1997]
B.
Lots abutting residential districts. All buildings
constructed on lots which abut residential districts, either at the
side or rear, shall be so located as to conform in respect to the
abutting yard with the side or rear requirements, as the case may
be, for the residential district against which the lot abuts.
C.
Corner lots. All nonresidential buildings and other structures built on corner lots shall conform to the requirements of § 300-54.
E.
Height. No building or structure shall exceed 60 feet
in height. No building or structure shall be less than the average
height of the buildings within 100 feet fronting the same side of
the street.
[Amended 5-15-1978 by L.L. No. 3-1978[1]]
[1]
Editor's Note: Former § 50-33, Fire-resistant
construction, was repealed 4-21-1997 by L.L. No. 4-1997.
