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SECTION 32- B-1 CENTRAL BUSINESS ZONE
32.00- DESCRIPTION OF ZONE- This zone is
composed and limited to the downtown retail area. It is recognized that within
this zone there are two unique classes of structures:
CLASS A structures are those located along Main Street and
CLASS B structures are located to the rear of Main Street buildings.
The zone provides for the
central retail, cultural and governmental activities of the community.
Accordingly, these regulations are
designed to permit retail development in the core of the community where there
is a concentration of pedestrian activity. To these ends the regulations
establish standards retaining such intensity of use and concentration of
pedestrian and vehicular as is compatible with the function of this zone.
32.01-
USES- No land shall be used or occupied and no structure shall be erected,
constructed, reconstructed, altered or used, except for any use which is
indicated in the B-1 column of the Use Schedule, Section 61 of this Zoning Code
and shall be subject of such provisions as referred to in that column. Further, the
front fifty percent (50%) of the ground floor space of buildings fronting on Main
Street shall be restricted to the following permitted uses: Eating and Drinking Places,
Entertainment, Restaurants, Retail Business, Retail Sales, Retail Services, and Theaters.
Any other use allowed in the B-1 zone in Section 61 proposed for the front fifty percent
(50%) of the ground floor space of buildings fronting on Main Street shall be a Special
Exception Use. Cafeterias are not permitted as accessory uses in this zone.
(Section amended effective 11/15/99)
32.02- HEIGHT- The maximum permitted stories shall be twelve (12) stories (168 ft.) except that any building fronting on Main Street shall have a height of six (6) stories (84 ft.) and a minimum height of two (2) stories (28 ft.).
32.03- LOT AREA, WIDTH AND YARD REQUIREMENTS- No minimum lot area or frontage required. Yard requirement is that any building shall have yards sufficient to insure proper design and placement of buildings as determined in the site plan review process. The maximum setback from Main Street shall be five (5) feet with the front line of the building located within the maximum setback area for a minimum of eighty percent (80%) of the lot frontage on Main Street and there shall be no driveway access of parking lot fronting on Main Street.
32.04- OFF-STREET PARKING AND OFF-STREET LOADING
REQUIREMENTS- Off-street parking and off-street loading shall be provided in
connection with any use in this zone in accordance with the provisions of
Section 40. In addition, requirements for the provision of parking facilities
may be satisfied by the permanent allocation of the required number of spaces
for each use in a common parking facility, cooperatively established and
operated. The total number of spaces so provided may be reduced provided that
such reduction is approved by the
Commission upon a finding by them that such reduction is justified on the basis
of common patrons, overlapping peak needs, and existing public parking facilities.
(Section amended effective 9/1/95)