B2 Urban Commercial

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B-2 Urban Commercial.
The purpose of the B-2 district is to designate appropriate areas for high intensity commercial uses intended to serve retail sales and service and business and professional service needs, at a regional or county-wide scale. These areas should be located at strategic nodes along arterial and major collector roads where there are adequate utilities and facilities to serve intense development.

(a) Uses permitted by right:
All uses permitted by right in the B-1 district.
Adult Day Care Center
Bank and lending institution.
Barber/beauty shop.
Building material sale and storage yard and mulch sale.
Car wash.
Child care center.
Club, lodge, fraternal organization.
Convenience center.
Dance studio.
Drug store.
Dry cleaner/laundry.
Flex office.
Florist.
Funeral home.
General office use.
Gift/antique shop.
Hotel.
Indoor flea market.
Low intensity commercial retail.
Lumber/building/electrical/plumbing supply with covered storage.
Machinery sale and service.
Medical/dental office.
Medium intensity commercial retail.
Motel.
Pet store.
Place of worship.
Plant and tree nursery/greenhouse.
Printing, publishing, engraving.
Professional office.
Public facilities/utilities. *
Public Works excluding wastewater treatment facilities.
Recreational enterprise.
Restaurant.
Retail bakery.
Retail food shop.
School.
School, vocational.
Tailor shop.
Theater with fewer than 3,500 seats.
Warehousing, mini-storage.
Wholesale business.

(b) Conditional use permit:
Adult Business
Arcade.
Automobile service.
Automobile repair.
Boat sales.
Broadcasting station.
Clinic, medical/dental.
Dwelling for watchman or caretaker on premises.
Fleet parking.
Hospital.
Marina.
Motor vehicle rental.
Motor vehicle sales.
Nightclub.
Outdoor flea market.
Photo laboratory processing.
Public facility/Utility.**
Theater with 3,500 or more seats.
Vehicle fuel sales.
Warehouse, storage.

*- but not including generating facilities, substations, switching stations and wastewater treatment facilities which are permitted as a conditional use permit.

**- for generating facilities, substations, switching stations and wastewater treatment facilities (except for the expansion or modification to wastewater treatment facilities existing prior to October 17, 2006)

(c) Requirements:
(1) Intensity: Ratio
Maximum floor area ratio..........0.40
Open space ratio..........0.25
(2) Minimum yards: Feet
Front*..........40
Side**.......... 0
Back..........25
(3) Maximum building height (in feet) ..........65
*Front setback may be reduced. Specified in section 28-59(f)(10).
**Where adjoining property is other than commercial or industrial, the side yard shall be fifteen (15) feet or greater.
(Ord. No. 094-29, 8-9-94; Ord. No. 095-10, 3-7-95; Ord. No. 095-40, 5-16-95; Ord. No. 096-05, 1-2-96; Ord. No. 097-19, 2-18-97; Ord. No. 099-42, 7-13-99; Ord. No. 000-35, 6-6-00; Ord. No. 001-04, 1-2-01; Ord. No. 001-16, 4-10-01; Ord. No. 001-27, 5-1-01; Ord. No. 001-39, 8-16-01; Ord. No. 001-48, 9-13-01; Ord. No. 002-18, 4-2-02)