32-60 R-B RETAIL BUSINESS DISTRICT.

a. General Provisions . All land within an R-B retail business district may be used for any of the following uses, under the following regulations set forth in this chapter.

a. Permitted Uses . Uses permitted in the R-B district shall be as follows:

1. The carrying on of a retail business as defined in subsection 32-2.1 provided all the sales, demonstrations, displays, services and other activities of the retail business are conducted within an enclosed building, except that off-street parking shall be permitted;

2. All of the uses permitted in single family and two (2) family residential districts together with the uses permitted in these districts after the granting of land use permits;

3. Hotels and motels; and

4. Accessory signs providing such signs are not rotating, flashing or animated and do not exceed fifty (50) square feet of surface area except that double face signs shall be considered as having one (1) surface, and do not exceed twenty-five (25') feet in height.

b. Uses Requiring a Land Use Permit . In the R-B district the following uses are permitted after the issuance of a land use permit:

1. Lumber yard;

2. Cabinet shop;

3. Sheet metal shop;

4. Animal hospital;

5. Commercial dog kennel;

6. Hobby dog kennel;

7. Auto garage which includes body repair and painting;

8. Building contractor's yard;

9. Structures having three (3) or more residential apartment units. Minimum off-street parking requirements for apartment units shall be as required in subsection 32-24.9;

10. Other retail businesses where the sales, demonstrations, displays, services and other activities, or some of them, are conducted other than in an enclosed building;

11. Accessory signs having more than fifty (50) square feet in area, or more than twenty-five (25') feet in height or that are rotating, flashing or animated;

12. Nonaccessory signs;

13. Where a road, having a right-of-way width of fifty-five (55') feet or less, forms the common boundary between a district of this classification and a district of any residential classification, no access to property in the district of this classification adjacent to such common boundary shall be permitted to or from such road until a land use permit therefor shall have first been obtained. Such permit shall be determined by the effects of traffic upon such a road occasioned by use within such district, the characteristics of the adjacent areas, traffic problems, pedestrian traffic, and other considerations found pertinent to the particular area concerned;

14. A manufacturing research use which is to be established in an existing fully enclosed building where no alterations, or a minimum amount of alterations, would be required to accommodate such use; and which wholly involves products of small bulk; and which meets the following standards:

• (a) No smoke of any kind shall be permitted.

• (b) No odors created by any industrial or processing operation shall be perceptible at the property site boundaries.

• (c) No discharge into the air of any dust, dirt or particular matter, created by any industrial operation or emanating from any products prior to or subsequent to processing shall be permitted.

• (d) No corrosive, obnoxious or toxic fumes or gases shall be permitted.

• (e) No heat or glare shall be perceptible at any point beyond the subject boundaries.

• (f) No manufacturing, processing or laboratory research shall be permitted which would create or establish an unusually special or dangerous fire or safety hazard to surrounding properties.

• (g) No ground vibrations shall be perceptible at the property site boundaries.

• (h) No emanation of noise exceeding seventy (70) decibels at the boundaries of the property shall be permitted.

• (i) All manufacturing, processing or research operations shall be conducted within enclosed buildings.

• (j) All open storage areas shall be screened by solid walls, fences or adequate plantings of not less than six (6') feet in height and in no case shall materials be stacked or stored higher than the screen.

15. Gasoline service station.

a. Lot Area . All buildings or parts of buildings hereafter erected or altered for use for neighborhood business shall be situated on a lot at least thirty-five hundred (3500) square feet in area, and at least thirty-five (35) feet in average width.

a. Building Height; Maximum . No building or structure or part of it hereafter erected for a neighborhood business use shall be more than fifty (50) feet high above the highest point of ground elevation where the building is erected.

• a. Side Yard . No side yards are required.

b. Setback . Every structure erected for retail business use and every structure accessory to it shall be located at least ten (10') feet from the boundary line of any existing road or highway.

a. Granting . Land use permits for the special uses enumerated in paragraph b. of subsection 32-60.2 and variance permits to modify the provisions contained in subsections 32-60.3-32-60.5 may be granted after application in accordance with Section 32-3.

a. Special District; Generally . A single parcel of land, containing at least twenty (20) acres, located in a retail business district, may be developed as a special retail business district as provided in paragraphs b. through f. of this subsection.

b. Enlarged Detailed Map . An enlarged detailed map shall be made a part of this chapter and shall state on the map that it is a special retail business district. The map shall delineate, and set forth the conditions for the placement of buildings and spaces about buildings in legend form on the face of the map and thereby becomes a part of this subsection and of the detail of the area to which it applies.

c. Land Use Permits . Land use permits for the modification of any of the details set forth on the enlarged detail map may be granted after application under Section 32-3.

d. Lot Area . In special business districts paragraph a. of subsection 32-60.5, regulating lot area, shall not apply.

e. Building Construction . The enlarged detail map shall contain precise designations for sites of buildings. Only one (1) building may be constructed within a precise building site, but land use permits to construct additional buildings on the site may be granted after application under Section 32-3.

f. Areas Not Included in Building Sites . Areas in special retail business districts not included in precise building sites may be used for the following uses and purposes: walks, drives, curbs, gutters, parking areas, accessory buildings to parking areas, and other landscaping features not including buildings or structures, but buildings or structures may be erected in these areas on the issuance of a land use permit for them.

a. Development Plans Required, Procedure . No development is lawful in an R-B district until a development plan for it has been submitted and approved.