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]
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Antique shops
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Appliance stores
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Bakery shops
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Banks, savings and loan institutions
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Beauty and barber shops
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Candy stores
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Clothing stores
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Dairy products stores
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Dress or millinery shops
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Drugstores
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Dry goods or variety shops
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Florist or garden shops
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Food and grocery stores
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Furniture and upholstering stores
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Gift or jewelry shops
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Hardware stores
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Hotels
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Laundromats
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Lunchrooms
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Meat markets
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Motels
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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
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Newspaper publishing establishments
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Pet shops
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Photographic studios
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Produce stands
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Radio and television studios or repair shops
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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)
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Shoe repair shops
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Specialty shops
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Sporting goods or hobby shops
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Stationery stores
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Tailor establishments
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Taxi stands
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Telephone central office or service center
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B.
Funeral establishments.
C.
Offices and clinics, professional and business, including
veterinary clinics or animal hospitals, but not including any outdoor
exercise runway.
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.
(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.
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.
