The following regulations shall apply to all
Business B Districts.
The following uses are permitted:
A.
All uses permitted in Residence AA, Residence A, Business
AA and Business A Districts (except residential).
[Amended 11-28-1966]
B.
Stores and shops for the conducting of any retail
business; subject, however, to the following conditions:
(1)
Manufacturing may be carried on or products may be
processed when such activities are incidental to the conduct of the
retail business on the same premises and when the goods made or the
services rendered are dispensed on the same premises.
(2)
Not more than 10 persons shall be employed at any
one time in manufacturing or processing activities and the horsepower
of industrial motors used in connection with such manufacturing or
processing, exclusive of such horsepower as may be required for refrigeration
and in air conditioning, shall not be greater than two horsepower
per motor, and the aggregate horsepower of motors so used shall not
be more than eight horsepower.
(3)
The frontage of any individual store or shop shall
be no less than 20 linear feet. Also, the minimum floor area of any
individual store or shop shall be no less than 1,200 square feet.
[Added 4-28-1980 by L.L. No. 3-1980]
C.
Funeral parlors.
D.
Buying, selling and dealing in new or used automobiles,
motortrucks, motorless trailers or other vehicles if such business
is carried on within an enclosed building having a floor area sufficient
in size to house and display at least five average-size automobiles.
E.
Public garages operated as such for hire or for the storage of trucks, buses or motorless trailers, upon compliance with the provisions of § 210-176 hereof.
F.
Central telephone exchange.
G.
Ice cream and confectionery, restaurants.
[Added 12-18-1967]
A.
The following uses are prohibited:
(1)
Any use which may be obnoxious or offensive by reason
of the emission of odor, gas, smoke or dust, or because of its nature,
such as refuse or garbage, or because of noise or other reason inimical
to the comfort, peace, health, welfare or safety of the community,
or that tends to create public disturbance or annoyance.
(2)
Open-air parking lots operated as such for more than five motor vehicles, unless a permit therefor shall be granted by the Board of Appeals as provided in Article II hereof.
(3)
Motor vehicle repair shop, motor vehicle service shop, gasoline or diesel motor oil filling station; except that a motor vehicle repair shop and a motor vehicle service shop may be maintained as an accessory use to businesses permitted under § 210-80D.
[Amended 11-18-1968]
(4)
Stores and shops for conducting any of the following
retail and service businesses: shooting galleries, penny or picture
arcades wherein coin-operated machines such as pool tables, pong machines,
pinball machines or other similar coin-operated and amusement game
machines are maintained, except that two of the above-described machines
may be permitted in any established business as permitted in the district,
and, further, that if there are presently more than two of these machines,
the number must be reduced to two machines within one year of the
adoption of this section.
[Added 6-27-1977 by L.L. No. 12-1977]
(5)
Tattoo parlors.
[Added 5-23-1983 by L.L. No. 11-1983]
C.
All other uses not herein specifically permitted are
prohibited.
A.
All buildings and structures shall be limited to a
height of 50 feet, except that one foot may be added in addition to
said limit of 50 feet for every foot any portion of the building in
excess of 50 feet in height sets back from the front line or rear
line of the building lot in addition to the required front or rear,
and except that no dwelling house shall have a height of more than
35 feet nor have more than three stories.
B.
These provisions shall not apply to restrict the height
of a church spire, tower or belfry or of a monument, flagpole, water
tank, elevator, bulkhead or stage tower or a non commercial broadcasting
radio or television aerial.
No one-family dwelling shall be erected on a
lot whose area is less than 5,000 square feet.
The entire lot may be covered by buildings,
except within the mandatory open spaces hereinafter specified, and
with the further exception that no one-family dwelling shall occupy
more than 35% of the lot area, together with an additional 10% for
the erection of a garage, as provided for in the Residence A District.
There shall be a minimum average floor area
of 800 square feet per family in one-family houses.
A.
Front yards. Every building shall have a minimum front
yard depth of five feet, except along streets where greater setbacks
have been established.
B.
Side and rear yards. The side and rear yards for one-family
dwellings shall be the same as those required for such structures
in Residence A District.
For all nonresidential uses of plots that abut
directly on a Residence Apartment District or more highly restricted
district, there shall be provided a yard of at least 10 feet in depth
along the line where it abuts on such more highly restricted district.
Such yard shall not be used for vehicular access, vehicle storage
or parking and shall remain open, unobstructed and unencumbered.
Every nonresidential building erected on a lot
whose area exceeds 5,000 square feet must provide vehicular access
to the rear, the side or into the building for loading and unloading
purposes.
