The purpose of the B-L Local Business District is to provide for logical locations where the retail services needed by the Town population can be made available. The areas are centrally located near the locations of existing and expected population concentrations and would include portions of the "downtown business area" as well as other neighborhood business locations.
The following regulations and applicable regulations contained in other articles shall apply in the B-L Local Business District.
[Amended 2-11-1985 by Ord. No. 141; 11-14-1986 by Ord. No. 147; 10-10-2005 by Ord. No. 263]
The principal permitted uses in this district shall be as follows:
A. 
Local retail business or service shops, including:
[Amended 7-11-2016 by Ord. No. 296]
Antique shops
Appliance stores
Bakery shops
Banks, savings and loan institutions
Beauty and barber shops
Candy stores
Clothing stores
Dairy products stores
Dress or millinery shops
Drugstores
Dry goods or variety shops
Florist or garden shops
Food and grocery stores
Furniture and upholstering stores
Gift or jewelry shops
Hardware stores
Hotels
Laundromats
Lunchrooms
Meat markets
Motels
Movie theaters, except that adult movie theaters and adult bookstores shall be permitted as conditional uses only in the Business General and Industrial Restricted Zoning Districts
Newspaper publishing establishments
Pet shops
Photographic studios
Produce stands
Radio and television studios or repair shops
Restaurants (without liquor licenses or with liquor licenses, providing that the average monthly receipts from the sale of food constitute at least 41% of the average monthly receipts from the combined sale of food and alcoholic beverages as measured over a period of one year immediately preceding the date of an application for license issuance, renewal, upgrade, transfer or other modification)
Shoe repair shops
Specialty shops
Sporting goods or hobby shops
Stationery stores
Tailor establishments
Taxi stands
Telephone central office or service center
B. 
Funeral establishments.
C. 
Offices and clinics, professional and business, including veterinary clinics or animal hospitals, but not including any outdoor exercise runway.
D. 
Planned business centers, subject to the provisions of § 180-91.
E. 
Retirement, nursing or boarding homes.
F. 
Schools, art, trade, business or nursery.
G. 
Social clubs, fraternal organizations, community meeting halls.
H. 
Any other retail business or service establishment which is determined by the Board to be the same general character as the above permitted retail business or service use, but not including any use which is first permitted in the B-G District and which, in the judgment of the Board, would likely be objectionable in the B-L District. (Note: This determination is a ministerial act and is made by the Board meeting in public session, but does not require a public hearing or notice therefor.)
I. 
Any use or structure permitted and as regulated as principal permitted use in an R-7,500 District or except as may hereinafter be modified.
J. 
Conversion or alteration of a building existing at the time of the enactment of this chapter to accommodate apartments, provided the following conditions are met:
(1) 
No more than 50% of the total usable floor space on first floor shall be devoted to apartments.
(2) 
The parking requirements set forth in § 180-88 of this chapter must be met.
(3) 
All Health Department requirements must be met.
(4) 
All renovations, alterations and additions must be in compliance with the 1984 BOCA (Basic National Building Code) and the 1985 BOCA Supplement adopted in Ordinance No. 52 by the Commissioners of Carroll County.
(5) 
Any additions, supplements and amendments to Carroll County Ordinance No. 52 will be applicable to all renovations, alterations and additions.
(6) 
Apartment units must have a minimum square footage as follows:
(a) 
One-bedroom: 600 square feet.
(b) 
Two-bedroom: 800 square feet.
(c) 
Three-bedroom: 1,000 square feet.
K. 
Establishments licensed to keep for sale and to sell beer and light wines at retail for consumption on the premises or elsewhere (including pubs, taverns, microbreweries, and wine bars) that were in existence on or before May 9, 2016.
[Added 7-11-2016 by Ord. No. 296]
The conditional uses requiring Board authorization in this district shall be as follows:
A. 
Food processing and packing plants; provided, such use shall be located three times the distance requirements specified in § 180-16.
B. 
Kennels or animal hospitals with runways, provided that such use shall be subject to the distance requirements as determined reasonable and necessary by the Board.
C. 
Public utility buildings, structures or uses, including radio, television, and other communication facilities not considered essential utility equipment as enumerated in § 180-122; communication towers, freestanding towers, guyed towers, communication tower complexes, poles and transmission lines including amateur radio facilities as defined pursuant to this chapter and as regulated as provided hereinafter.
[Amended 5-28-1996 by Ord. No. 207]
D. 
Commercial swimming pools, parks, and recreational areas, provided that such use shall be subject to any distance requirements determined reasonable and necessary by the Board.
E. 
Alcoholic package good stores.
F. 
Carpentry or woodworking shops.
[Added 4-16-1984 by Ord. No. 136]
G. 
Sheet metal shops.
[Added 4-16-1984 by Ord. No. 136]
H. 
Trade shops, including artists, silversmiths and other unique crafts shops.
[Added 12-9-2003 by Ord. No. 233]
I. 
Computer and electronics repair shops.
[Added 12-9-2003 by Ord. No. 233]
J. 
Wholesale business, warehousing or service establishments.
[Added 12-9-2003 by Ord. No. 233]
K. 
Sign painting shops.
[Added 12-9-2003 by Ord. No. 233]
L. 
Automobile accessory.
[Added 10-20-2005 by Ord. No. 263]
M. 
Laundry or dry-cleaning establishments and pickup stations.
[Added 10-20-2005 by Ord. No. 263]
N. 
Service stations.
[Added 10-20-2005 by Ord. No. 263]
O. 
Commercial parking lot.
[Added 10-20-2005 by Ord. No. 263]
P. 
Microdistilleries.
[Added 9-28-2015 by Ord. No. 291]
Q. 
Establishments licensed to keep for sale and to sell beer and light wines at retail for consumption on the premises or elsewhere (including pubs, taverns, microbreweries, and wine bars), and where at least 50% of the business is comprised of selling alcohol.
[Added 7-11-2016 by Ord. No. 296]
The accessory uses allowed in this district shall be as follows:
A. 
Uses and structures customarily accessory and incidental to any permitted principal use or authorized conditional use.
A. 
All business, services or processing, including the storage of any manufacturing waste or by-product of the aforesaid business, services, or processing, shall be conducted wholly within a completely enclosed building, except for sale of automotive fuel, lubricants and fluids at service stations, off-street automobile parking and loading areas, public utility uses, taxi stands, garden shops, produce stands and, as determined by the Zoning Administrator, outdoor seating areas (in, for example, restaurants, fast-food and carry-out establishments, cafes, bistros, pubs, taverns, microbreweries, wine bars, coffeehouses, eateries, or similar establishments that serve food or beverages).
[Amended 9-28-2015 by Ord. No. 291; 7-11-2016 by Ord. No. 296]
B. 
Goods shall consist primarily of new or reconditioned merchandise or antiques.
C. 
Processes and equipment employed and goods processed or sold shall be limited to those which are not objectionable by reason of odor, dust, smoke, cinders, gas, fumes, noise, vibration, refuse matter or water-carried waste.
D. 
All business, services or processing shall be conducted such that deliveries and pickups shall not unduly burden any public way or unreasonably inhibit the regular flow of vehicular and pedestrian traffic.
[Amended 9-28-2015 by Ord. No. 291]
No structures shall exceed 2 1/2 stories or 35 feet, except as provided in § 180-100.
The following minimum requirements shall be observed, subject to the modified requirements in Articles XIV and XV.[1]
[1]
Editor's Note: These requirements may be found in the B-L Local Business District table at the end of this chapter.
[Added 1-24-2005 by Ord. No. 256]
The prohibited uses in this district shall be as follows:
A. 
Tattoo parlors;
B. 
Psychic reading establishments;
C. 
Adult video stores; and
D. 
Car wreck, automobile body repair yards, new and/or used car dealerships.
[Amended 10-20-2005 by Ord. No. 263]