[Added 8-20-1979 by Ord. No. 14-79; amended 5-16-1988 by Ord. No. 6-88]
The purpose of the East Business Zone is to provide for retail sales and services to accommodate the general public, to promote compatible land uses of attractive buildings, to ensure the compatibility of the development within the zone with adjacent residential areas and to improve and provide for the efficient and safe flow of traffic.
Within the East Business Zone, no building or land may be used in whole or in part for any use other than the following specified uses:
A. 
Any use permitted in any residential zone.
B. 
Any use permitted in the Historic Business Zone.
C. 
In addition to the above, the following retail and service uses:
(1) 
Automotive sales and services.
(2) 
Automotive gasoline station.
(3) 
Automotive service station.
(4) 
Automotive sales lot.
(5) 
Laundry (retail only).
(6) 
Dry-cleaning establishments (retail only).
(7) 
Clinics.
(8) 
Building supplies (retail only).
(9) 
Garden supplies (retail only).
D. 
Accessory uses and structures customarily incidental to permitted uses, including required off-street parking and solar panel systems subject to the standards set forth in § 215-31.1. The storage of all goods and materials shall be in the rear of any structure and shall be screened from view by a solid fence or wall enclosure. All repairs shall be done within the principal structure.
[Amended 11-18-2013 by Ord. No. 11-13]
The following development standards shall be applicable to all permitted uses and development in the East Business District:
A. 
The area, height and setback requirements as set forth in Schedule I, Schedule Limiting Height and Area of Improvements, and Schedule II, Minimum Building Setbacks, of this chapter.[1]
[1]
Editor's Note: Schedules I and II are included as attachments to this chapter.
B. 
The requirements of § 215-27, Impact on adjoining residential zones.
C. 
A thirty-foot buffer where the East Business Zone abuts any residential zone.
D. 
No more than two separate uses or business enterprises shall be conducted in any building or on any lot with or without a building. Where there is more than one use or business enterprise in any building, the following requirements shall be met:
(1) 
There shall be a minimum floor area of 700 square feet per use or business enterprise.
(2) 
Each use or business enterprise shall have its own separate entrance/exit.
(3) 
The number of off-street parking spaces to be provided shall equal the number required by § 195-45, Off-street parking requirements, plus 20% of the total.
(4) 
The number of uses or business enterprises for purposes of this subsection shall be determined by reference to all aspects of the business activity or activities. If any business activities would otherwise constitute two or more uses for the purposes of this subsection, the presence of any factor such as leasing arrangements, familial relationships or sharing of facilities shall not reconstitute such multiple uses as a single use.
[Added 8-7-1995 by Ord. No. 18-95]
E. 
Automotive sales and service uses, automotive gasoline stations and automotive service stations shall, in addition to the above development standards, be subject to the standards and regulations set forth in § 215-11.
The following uses shall be permitted as conditional uses, provided that the conditions set forth herein are met:
A. 
Planned neighborhood shopping centers, provided that the following requirements are met:
(1) 
Minimum lot area: four acres.
(2) 
Minimum frontage measured at the front setback line: 300 feet.
(3) 
Minimum building setback, front yard: 133 feet, measured from the center line of the street. In the event that a new road is required, the building setback shall be 50 feet from the new road.
(4) 
Minimum building setback, side yard: 30 feet.
(5) 
Minimum building setback, rear yard: 100 feet from the rear property line or zone line, whichever is lesser.
(6) 
Maximum impervious coverage: 75%.
(7) 
Off-street parking as set forth in § 195-45.