Village of Hobart, WI B-1 Community Business District

§ 295-222 Purpose.

The Community Business District is intended to serve the retail and service needs of nearby residential areas with a wide range of products and services for both daily and occasional shopping. The following regulations shall apply in the B-1 Districts:

§ 295-223 Permitted uses.

The following uses are permitted in the B-1 District:

Antique shops

Art and school supply stores

Automobile accessory stores

Bakeries - retail

Banks and financial institutions

Barber shops

Beauty parlors

Bicycle sales, rental, and repair stores

Blueprinting and photostating

Boat showrooms and sales

Book and stationery stores

Business machine sales and service

Camera and photographic supply stores

Candy and ice cream stores

Carpet, rug, and drapery stores - retail sales only

Catering establishments

Child day-care centers

China and glassware stores

Clinics - doctor and dentist offices

Clothing and costume rental stores

Coin and stamp stores

Computer and data processing services

Custom dressmaking

Department stores

Drugstores and pharmacies

Dry-cleaning establishments - not engaged in wholesale processing

Dry goods stores

Eating and drinking places - excluding drive-ins and establishments primarily engaged in carry-out service

Electrical and household appliance stores - including radio and television sales

Electrical showrooms and shops

Electrical sales

Electronics shops

Employment agencies

Florist shops

Food stores, grocery stores, meat markets, bakeries, and delicatessens - retail sales only

Frozen food stores - including locker rental in conjunction therewith

Furniture stores - including upholstering when conducted as part of the retail operations and secondary to the principal use

Furrier shops, including the incidental storage and conditioning of furs

Garden supply, tool, and seed stores

Gift shops

Hardware stores

Hobby shops for retail of items to be assembled or used away from the premises

Household appliances, office equipment, and other small machine sales and service

Interior decorating shops, including upholstering and making of draperies, slip covers, and other similar articles, when conducted as part of the retail operations and secondary to the principal use

Insurance agencies

Jewelry stores, including watch and clock repair

Launderettes

Leather goods and luggage stores

Liquor stores, packaged goods

Locksmith shops

Mail order houses

Millinery shops

Miscellaneous personal services

Miscellaneous repair services

Miscellaneous shopping goods stores

Motor vehicle and automotive parts and supplies

Musical instrument sales and repair

Newspaper distribution agencies for home delivery and retail trade

Nursing and personal care facilities

Office machine sales and servicing

Offices, business and professional

Office supply stores

Optician sales, retail

Orthopedic and medical appliance stores

Paint and wallpaper stores

Pet shops

Phonograph record and sheet music stores

Photography studios, including the development of film and pictures, when conducted as part of the retail business on the premises

Picture framing, when conducted for retail trade on the premises only

Plumbing showrooms and shops

Post offices

Publishing and printing

Radio and television sales, servicing and repair shops

Radio and television stations and studios

Real estate offices

Recording studios

Residential care group homes

Restaurants, including the serving of alcoholic beverages

Retail fuel sales associated with convenience store or other similar permitted uses

Security brokers

Sewing machine sales and service, household appliances only

Shoe, clothing, and hat repair stores

Shoe stores

Sporting goods stores

Studios, photography, dance, design, and artist-illustrator

Tailor shops

Taverns

Taxidermists

Telegraph offices

Telephone booths and coin telephones

Ticket agencies, amusement

Tobacco shops

Tool rental shops

Toy shops

Travel bureaus and transportation ticket offices

Used merchandise stores

Variety stores

Video sales and rental

Wearing apparel shops and accessories

§ 295-224 Permitted accessory uses.

The following are permitted accessory uses in the B-1 District:

Uses incidental to and on the same zoning lot as the principal use.

Satellite dish antennas less than 38 inches in diameter.

Telephone and public utility installations, and cable television installations.

§ 295-225 Conditional uses. [1]

The following are conditional uses in the B-1 District:

Agricultural implement dealers
Amusement establishments, archery ranges, bowling alleys, shooting galleries, game room, swimming pools, skating rinks, and other similar amusement facilities
Animal hospital, veterinary services
Art shops or galleries, but not including auction rooms
Auction rooms
Automobile service stations
Automotive repair shops
Automotive rental and leasing
Automotive services
Bowling alleys
Building material product sales
Business schools
Car wash
Commercial parking lots, open and other than accessory
Contractor or construction offices
Dry-cleaning establishments employing more than four persons
Dwelling units and rooming units above the ground level
Eating and drinking establishments, primarily engaged in drive-in and carry-out service
Express office and delivery stations
Greenhouses, commercial
Hotels, motels
Kennels
Mail-order houses
Manufactured home sales
Meeting halls
Museums, auditoriums and arenas
Monument shops
Motor vehicle sales
Nurseries, lawn and garden supply stores
Parking garages or structures, other than accessory for the storage of private passenger automobiles only
Recreational and utility trailer dealers
Religious institutions in the form of convents, seminaries, monasteries, churches, chapels, temples, synagogues, rectories, parsonages, and parish houses
Schools, commercial, and trade
Shopping centers
Stadiums, auditoriums, and arenas
Theaters
Undertaking establishments and funeral parlors
Wholesale establishments
Wood cabinetmaking
Public utility and service uses, and civic buildings as follows:
	Substations
	Fire stations
	Gas regulator stations
	Police stations, public works facilities
	Railroad right-of-way but not including railroad yards and shops, other than for passenger purposes
	Telephone exchanges, transmission equipment buildings and microwave relay towers
Other retail uses similar in character and the manufacture or treatment of products clearly incidental to the conduct of a retail business on the premises when approved by the Planning and Zoning Commission

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Editor's Note: Amended at time of adoption of Code (see Ch. 1, General Provisions, Art. III).

§ 295-226 Lot requirements per use.

With public sewer:

(1)

Area: 15,000 square feet minimum.

(2)

Zoning lot frontage: 100 feet minimum.

Without public sewer:

(1)

Area: 40,000 square feet minimum.

(2)

Zoning lot frontage: 100 feet minimum.

§ 295-227 Height regulations.

All structures 35 feet maximum; except as provided by § 295-13, Height regulations.

§ 295-228 Building setbacks.

	Principal Structure	Accessory Building	Driveways
Front yard	40 feet minimum from right-of-way	40 feet minimum from right-of-way	10 feet from property line
Side yard	10 feet minimum	10 feet minimum	10 feet from property line
Rear yard	15 feet minimum	15 feet minimum	10 feet from property line
Corner lot	40 feet minimum from right-of-way	40 feet minimum from right-of-way	75 feet from center of intersection

§ 295-229 Building size.

Building size minimum of 725 square feet.

§ 295-230 Accessory building.

All accessory buildings hereinafter constructed in the B-1 District shall meet the district requirements and those identified in § 295-11, Building and uses.

§ 295-231 Parking.

Parking shall conform to the requirements as set forth in Article XXVIII, Off-Street Parking Requirements.

§ 295-232 Signs.

Signs shall be regulated as set forth in § 295-361, Regulation of signs.

§ 295-233 Other requirements.

Structures and buildings allowed in the B-1 Community Business District shall meet the regulations of this district and the other articles of this chapter, as determined by the Village Zoning Administrator/Building Inspector and approved by the Site Review Committee.

All business, services, and storage (except for motor vehicles in operable condition) shall be conducted within a completely enclosed structure.

The parking or storage of operable motor vehicles, if not within an enclosed building structure, shall be effectively screened by shrubbery, or solid wall or fence if not less than six feet. Walls and fences shall not exceed eight feet in height.

Any use found and determined by the Village Planning and Zoning Commission to be incompatible with the purpose of the B-1 District may be prohibited by the Village Board, including but not limited to outdoor wood burners/solid-fuel heating devices.[1]

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Editor's Note: Amended at time of adoption of Code (see Ch. 1, General Provisions, Art. III).

A detailed landscaping plan, showing placement of shrubbery, trees and other vegetative plantings shall be submitted to the Village Board for approval prior to the issuance of a building permit, to insure appropriateness and compatibility with adjoining development.

Absent a permit for a special occasion, businesses may not be open to the public between the hours of 2:30 a.m. and 6:00 a.m. This provision does not apply to emergency type facilities.