§ 5.9. Highway-oriented business district, B-2.

The B-2 zone is established to protect and promote a suitable environment for those commercial facilities which are especially useful in close proximity to residential areas and for those uses which serve the traveling public, without interfering with the free flow of traffic and minimizing the undesirable impact of such uses on the surrounding neighborhood. This district is required to protect the future development of land in accordance with comprehensive development plans of the city.

5.9.1. Uses permitted.

(a)

Any use permitted in the B-1 and P zones, unless further restricted herein.

(b)

Automobile service stations, provided that pumps of similar devices are located at least twenty-five (25) feet from any public right-of-way, that all buildings and appurtenances are located at least one hundred (100) feet from any residential district line and that all fuel is stored underground at least thirty-five (35) feet from any lot line. Curb cuts shall be placed not closer than twenty (20) feet to the intersecting lines of two (2) rights-of-way.

(c)

Hotels, motels and tourist courts must have a minimum of twenty (20) dwelling units.

(d)

Plant nurseries and outdoor flower shops.

(e)

Mortuaries.

(f)

Buildings in the B-2 (highway-oriented business district), may be constructed with four-hour party walls.

5.9.2. Conditional uses permitted.

(a)

Bars, lounges, restaurants and similar establishments serving alcoholic beverages.

(Amend. No. 50, 8-4-75; Ord. No. 87-22, 8-20-87; Ord. No. 91-2, 1-17-91; Ord. No. 03-25, 8-21-2003; Ord. No. 05-17, 11-17-2005)