The business districts established in this chapter are designed
to promote and protect public health, safety, comfort, convenience,
prosperity, and other aspects of the general welfare. These general
goals include, among others, the following specific purposes:
A.
To provide sufficient space, in appropriate locations in proximity
to residential areas, for local retail development catering to the
daily shopping needs of nearby residents.
B.
To protect retail and commercial development in the shopping districts
as well as nearby residential areas against fire, explosions, toxic
and noxious matter, radiation and other hazards, and against offensive
noise, vibration, smoke and other particulate matter, odorous matter,
heat, humidity, glare, and other objectionable influences.
C.
To protect retail and commercial development, as well as nearby residential
areas, against congestion by limiting the bulk of buildings in relation
to the land around them and to one another, by restricting those types
of establishments which generate heavy traffic and by providing adequate
off-street parking and off-street loading facilities.
D.
To promote the most desirable use of land in accordance with the
Comprehensive Village Plan, to promote stability of business development,
to strengthen the economic base of the Village, to conserve the value
of land and buildings and to protect the Village's tax revenues.
The B-1 General Business District is designed to provide the
wide variety of goods and services that will meet the wants and desires
of the residents of Williamsville and the surrounding area.
A.
Permitted uses. The following uses are permitted in the B-1 Business
District:
(1)
Dwelling unit and lodging rooms, above the first floor only.
(2)
Antique shops.
(3)
Art and school supply stores.
(4)
Amusement establishments: bowling alleys, pool halls, dance halls,
gymnasiums, indoor swimming pools, and skating rinks.
(5)
Art galleries, museums, auction rooms and libraries (public).
(6)
Bakeries (not more than 50% of the floor area to be devoted to processing).
(7)
Banks and financial institutions.
(8)
Barbershops.
(9)
Beauty shops.
(10)
Bicycle stores (sales, rental and repair).
(11)
Book and stationery stores.
(12)
Bowling alleys.
(13)
Building material sales without outdoor storage.
(14)
Camera and photographic supply stores.
(15)
Candy and ice cream stores.
(16)
Carpet and rug stores.
(17)
Catering establishments.
(18)
Clothes-pressing establishments.
(19)
Clubs and lodges (private, fraternal and religious).
(20)
Custom dressmaking.
(21)
Department stores.
(22)
Drugstores.
(23)
Dry-cleaning establishments, retail only, having no more than
five employees and dry-cleaning equipment not to exceed 80 pounds
capacity.
(24)
Dry-cleaning and laundry-receiving establishments without processing.
(25)
Dry goods stores.
(26)
Electrical and household appliance stores.
(27)
Feed stores.
(28)
Flower shops, conservatories, and greenhouses.
(29)
Food stores, grocery stores, meat markets, and delicatessens.
(30)
Furniture stores.
(31)
Garden supply and seed stores.
(32)
Gift shops.
(33)
Gymnasiums.
(34)
Hardware stores.
(35)
Hobby shops.
(36)
Hospitals, medical center, mental health facilities, except
animal hospitals.
(37)
Hotels.
(38)
Jewelry stores.
(39)
Job printing shops.
(40)
Laundries (automatic self-service type, retail or hand).
(41)
Medical and dental clinics.
(42)
Meeting halls.
(43)
Museums, public.
(44)
Newspaper office including printing.
(45)
Nursing homes.
(46)
Office services.
(47)
Offices (business, professional or governmental).
(48)
Offices (dental, medical or osteopathic).
(49)
Office devoted to business, professional and public activities.
(50)
Offices or group medical clinics.
(51)
Offices (wholesale with storage restricted to samples).
(52)
Optician and optometrist offices.
(53)
Paint and wallpaper stores.
(54)
Pet shops.
(55)
Photo studios.
(56)
Plumbing showrooms and shops.
(57)
Post offices.
(58)
Radio and television service and repair shops.
(59)
Recreation buildings and community centers.
(60)
Restaurants without entertainment or dancing.
(61)
Schools devoted to music or dance.
(62)
Shoe stores.
(63)
Shoe and hat repair shops.
(64)
Skating rinks.
(65)
Small repair shops.
(66)
Sporting good stores.
(67)
Swimming pools.
(68)
Tailor shops.
(69)
Telegraph offices.
(70)
Telephone booths, outdoor.
(71)
Temporary buildings for construction purposes, for a period
not to exceed the duration of the active construction.
(72)
Theaters, excluding drive-ins.
(73)
Tourist center.
(74)
Undertaking establishments and funeral parlors.
(75)
Variety stores.
(76)
Vending machines.
(77)
Wearing apparel shops.
(78)
Wholesale establishments, with storage of merchandise limited
to samples only.
B.
Conditional permitted uses. The following conditional permitted uses
are permitted in the B-1 Business District.
(1)
Animal hospital.
(2)
Car wash.
(3)
Bakeries, wholesale.
(4)
Churches and other religious institutions.
(5)
Frozen food lockers.
(6)
Mail order houses and service stores.
(7)
Mini storage.
(8)
Outdoor amusement establishments (fairgrounds, permanent carnivals,
kiddie park, golf driving ranges, and other similar amusement centers).
(9)
Parking lots and garages for automobiles.
(11)
Recreation buildings and community centers.
(12)
Theaters, drive in.
The B-2 Highway Service Business District is designed to provide
highway service facilities for the residents of Williamsville and
environs and for those who are traveling on Interstate 55.
A.
Permitted uses. The following uses are permitted in the B-2 Business
District:
(1)
All permitted uses in the B-1 General Business District are permitted
in the B-2 Highway Service Business District.
(2)
Automobile sales.
(3)
Automotive service stations and allied facilities that are normally
found with this type of operation.
(4)
Bakeries, wholesale.
(5)
Bowling alley.
(6)
Building material sales without outdoor storage.
(7)
Car wash.
(8)
Cartage and express facilities providing for storage of goods, motor
trucks and other equipment in an enclosed structure.
(9)
Churches and other religious institutions.
(10)
Contractors' and construction offices.
(11)
Frozen food lockers.
(12)
Fuel and ice sales.
(13)
Garages; public, servicing automotive vehicles, but not to include
auto body repair or painting.
(14)
Machinery sales establishments.
(15)
Miniature golf courses.
(16)
Mobile and modular home sales.
(17)
Motels and lodging houses. Dwelling units may be located on
the ground level.
(18)
Motor vehicles and motor vehicle equipment sales.
(19)
Parking lots and garages for automobiles.
(20)
Golf courses.
(21)
Restaurants.
(22)
Theaters.
(23)
Travel trailers and recreation vehicles.
(24)
Truck and trailer sales.
(25)
Weigh stations.
B.
Conditional permitted uses.
(1)
Outdoor amusement establishments, including fairgrounds, permanent
carnivals, kiddie parks, golf driving ranges, miniature golf courses,
skating rinks, swimming pools, and other similar centers.
(3)
Recreation buildings and community centers.
(4)
Skating rinks.
(5)
Swimming pools.
(6)
Theaters, drive in.
(7)
Parking lots and garages for automobiles.
A.
Floor area ratio: not to exceed 2.5.
B.
Lot area: not less than 2,500 square feet.
C.
Yard regulations.
(1)
Front yard: none.
(2)
Side yard: none.
(3)
Rear yard: not less than 20 feet in depth, except that in the case
where off-street parking and off-street loading facilities are provided
and where the building does not exceed one story in height and where
the floor area ratio does not exceed 0.25, the rear yard may be reduced
to five feet.
(4)
Transitional yard:
(a)
Where a side lot line coincides with a side or rear lot line
in an adjacent residence district, a yard shall be provided along
such a side lot line. Such yard shall be not less than 20 feet in
width.
(b)
Where a rear lot line coincides with a side lot line in an adjacent
residence district, a yard shall be provided along such a rear lot
line. Such a yard shall be not less than 25 feet in depth.
(c)
Height regulations. No structure shall exceed 65 feet in height.
(d)
Sign regulation. Business signs and advertising devices are
permitted, subject to the following conditions:
[1]
General application.
[a]
No sign shall be permitted within 20 feet of any
residential district boundary line.
[b]
No freestanding business or advertising sign shall
be erected or relocated within 15 feet of any street or highway, within
three feet of any driveway or parking area, or within 25 feet of the
intersection of two or more streets.
[c]
Signs on awnings shall be exempted from the limitations
imposed by this chapter on the projection of signs from the face of
the wall on any building or structure, provided that any sign located
on an awning shall be affixed flat to the surface thereof and shall
indicate only the name and/or address of the establishment. No such
sign shall extend vertically or horizontally beyond the limits of
the said awning.
[2]
Spacing. Advertising signs on any controlled access route must
be spaced at least 330 feet apart on either side of the road. All
advertising signs must be kept at least 500 feet away from an entrance
or exit to a controlled access route.
[3]
Illumination. Signs may have constant or flashing illumination,
provided that any such signs that are located in direct line of vision
or any traffic control signal shall not have contrasting or flashing
intermittent illumination of red, green or amber color. Where a sign
is illuminated by light reflected upon it, direct rays of light shall
not beam upon any part of any existing residential building nor into
a residential district or into a street.
[4]
Area. The gross surface area in square feet of all signs on
a lot shall not exceed 10 times the linear feet of frontage of such
lot. Each side of the lot that abuts upon a street may be included
as separate frontage.
[5]
Projection. No sign shall project more than eight feet from
the face of the wall of any building or structure nor project higher
than the building height. Freestanding sign structures shall be located
not less than 15 feet from a lot line adjoining a street.
B.
All business, service, storage, merchandise, display and, where permitted,
repair and processing shall be conducted wholly within an enclosed
building, except for the off-street automobile parking, off-street
loading, and open sales lots in districts where permitted.
