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Town of Sykesville, MD
Carroll County
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The purpose of the B-G General Business District is to provide logical locations for businesses of a more general nature than hereinbefore provided in the B-L Local Business District. Businesses proposed include retail, wholesale, and some light processing operations.
The following regulations and applicable regulations contained in other articles shall apply in the B-G General Business District.
The principal permitted uses in this district shall be as follows:
A. 
Retail trades, businesses and services of a general commercial nature, including the following:
Amusement parks
Automobile, trailer, or implement sales, service and repair establishments, including motorcycle shops.
Bottling of soft drink or milk or distribution stations therefor
Bowling alley
Carpentry or woodworking shops
Department stores
Drive-in eating and drinking establishments of a nonalcoholic nature
Golf driving ranges
Printing shops
Schools of a business, dancing, music, trade or other commercial nature
Sheet metal shop
Sign painting shop
Signs, outdoor advertising, subject to the provisions of § 180-89
Skating rink
Swimming pools
Tourist homes
Wholesale business, warehousing or service establishments, except as first allowed in an I-R District
B. 
Any use or structure permitted and as regulated as a principal permitted use in an R-7,500 or B-L District.
The conditional uses requiring Board authorization in this district shall be as follows:
A. 
Amusement arcade.
[Added 5-30-1982 by Ord. No. 125]
B. 
Building material sales and storage yards.
C. 
Feed and grain sales, milling and/or storage.
D. 
Any conditional use permitted and as regulated in the B-L District, except as modified in § 180-69.
E. 
Adult bookstore.
[Added 3-11-1985 by Ord. No. 141]
F. 
Adult movie theater.
[Added 3-11-1985 by Ord. No. 141]
G. 
Only communication towers, freestanding towers, guyed towers for amateur radio communications licensed by the Federal Communications Commission as defined in this chapter and as regulated as provided hereinafter.
[Added 7-9-2001 by Ord. No. 223b]
The accessory uses allowed in this district shall be as follows:
A. 
Uses and structures customarily accessory and incidental to any principal permitted use or authorized conditional use, including business signs pertaining to "use on the premises," provided that such signs are located as regulated in § 180-89C.
No structure shall exceed 50 feet in height except as provided in § 180-100.
The following minimum requirements shall be observed, subject to the modified requirements in Article XV: [1]
[1]
Editor's Note: These requirements may be found in the B-G General Business District table at the end of this chapter.