The intent of this district is to provide a central area for the community’s business, service, and cultural activities. Uses within this district should be appropriate to such a focal center with inappropriate uses being excluded. Room should be provided in appropriate areas for logical and planned expansion of the present district.
(Ord. 276 Exh. 1, 2024)
All permitted uses in this district shall undergo a zoning review during the building permit process. The required submittal for that can be found on the town website or at Town Hall. Permitted uses in the B-3 district are:
A. 
Accessory dwelling units subject to Chapter 17.30.
B. 
Apartments.
C. 
Bakeries.
D. 
Bars, cocktail lounges.
E. 
Boarding houses.
F. 
Casino.
G. 
Clubs, fraternal lodges.
H. 
Condominiums.
I. 
Dressmaking.
J. 
Fallout shelters.
K. 
Fourplex.
L. 
Fuel service station.
M. 
Hotels and motels.
N. 
Home occupation.
O. 
Laundry and dry cleaning.
P. 
Light manufacturing.
Q. 
Live-work units.
R. 
Meeting and lodge halls.
S. 
Mobile food vendors as defined in Chapter 5.30.
T. 
Mobile homes and mobile home parks.
U. 
Multi-unit residential.
V. 
Museums, libraries, and galleries.
W. 
Parking lots.
X. 
Personal service establishment.
Y. 
Printing offices.
Z. 
Private schools, such as dance, business, secretarial and technical but not private or public elementary or secondary schools.
AA. 
Private swimming pools.
BB. 
Professional and business offices.
CC. 
Publicly owned land used for parks, playgrounds, and open space.
DD. 
Public offices.
EE. 
Rental of automobiles, bicycles, motorcycles, snowmobiles, and other vehicles both motorized and nonmotorized.
FF. 
Repair services for clothes, dolls, small appliances, watches, glasses, and such other items.
GG. 
Restaurants and cafes.
HH. 
Retail sales of any legal finished good to the final consumer.
II. 
Signs.
JJ. 
Single-unit residential.
KK. 
Short-term rentals.
LL. 
Temporary buildings for and during construction only.
MM. 
Theaters, except drive-ins.
NN. 
Triplex.
OO. 
Uses customarily accessory to those listed.
PP. 
Wholesale establishment.
(Ord. 276 Exh. 1, 2024)
The uses that are permitted in the B-3 district if successful in acquiring a conditional use permit approval from the town of West Yellowstone are as follows:
A. 
Animal-drawn carriages.
B. 
Communications tower.
C. 
Public swimming pool.
D. 
Public water park or public splash pad.
E. 
Timeshares.
(Ord. 276 Exh. 1, 2024)
The only setback prescribed in this district is that there shall be no buildings or building development whatsoever closer than thirty feet from the center line of a street. The only exception to the previous sentence is that all lots on 191-20 (Highway Avenue) from Electric Street to Iris Street shall be treated on an individual, lot by lot basis; also, any residential use of lots shall have the following minimum yards:
A. 
Rear yard, five feet.
B. 
Side yards, five feet each side.
No accessory building shall be erected in any required yard, and no accessory building shall be erected within ten feet of any principal building unless a variance is granted by the town of West Yellowstone.
All outdoor merchandise as defined in Chapter 17.04 shall have an eighteeninch setback from all property lines.
(Ord. 276 Exh. 1, 2024)
When a lot faces more than one street and front yard setbacks have been established on both streets, corner lot setbacks shall be at least as great as the minimum front yard setback established for the district. If the lot is completely in one district then both sides of a corner lot shall conform to the front setback in that district.
(Ord. 276 Exh. 1, 2024)
Every part of a required yard or court shall be open and unobstructed by any building or structure from its lowest point upward except as follows:
A. 
Architectural features that include belfries, cornices, chimneys, canopies, eaves, balconies, steeples, or other similar features may extend into a required yard space not more than three feet.
B. 
Open, unwalled, uncovered steps and entrance landings may extend into a required yard space not more than five feet.
(Ord. 276 Exh. 1, 2024)
Maximum building height in this district shall be thirty-five feet. All elements of a structure shall be at or below the maximum height in the district, unless it is an architectural feature, as defined in Chapter 17.04, which may extend to six feet above the maximum height.
(Ord. 276 Exh. 1, 2024)
On corner lots on streets in all districts, no fence, wall, or planting in excess of four feet above the street centerline grade is permitted within the area defined as follows: beginning at the intersection of the physical roadway twenty feet along each roadway, except when traffic control signals are installed.
At the intersection of each driveway or alley with a street, no fence, wall, or planting in excess of four feet above the street centerline grade is permitted fifteen feet on each side of the physical intersection of the driveway or alley with the street.
(Ord. 276 Exh. 1, 2024)
All signs in this district shall be in conformance with the requirements of Chapter 17.40.
(Ord. 276 Exh. 1, 2024)
A. 
Fences, walls, and hedges in any district may be located on lot lines provided such fences, walls, and hedges do not exceed eight feet in height, measured from the adjacent ground elevation. Fences, walls, and hedges exceeding eight feet in height, measured from the ground elevation, shall be subject to the minimum yard requirements of the district in which they are located unless a variance is granted by the town of West Yellowstone.
B. 
No fences, walls, and hedges shall exceed four feet in any front yard as defined in this title.
C. 
No barbed wire or other sharp fencing materials and no electrically charged fence shall be erected or maintained in any district created by this title.
D. 
In case of a fence erected on top of a retaining wall, the height shall be measured from the grade of the high side of the wall.
(Ord. 276 Exh. 1, 2024)
Curb cuts for residential uses shall be a maximum of twelve feet throat width for a single-car garage and a maximum of twenty feet throat width for two or more stall garage.
(Ord. 276 Exh. 1, 2024)