The GB General Business District as established in this article
is intended to permit a wider range of business and entertainment
activities than those permitted in the LB Local Business District.
This GB District is designed to provide sites for more diversified
business types and is located so as to serve passerby, highway-oriented
traffic. These uses would generate larger volumes of vehicular traffic,
would need more off-street parking and loading, and would require
more planning to integrate such districts with adjacent residential
areas. This would also provide suitable locations for those commercial
activities which function relatively independent of pedestrian traffic
and proximity of other firms.
The following regulations shall apply to all GB Districts, and
no building, structure, or premises, except as otherwise provided
in this chapter, shall be erected, altered, or used except for one
or more of the following specified uses:
A. Any retail business or service establishment permitted in LB Districts
as principal uses permitted and uses permitted subject to conditions.
B. Mortuary establishments, when adequate assembly area is provided
off-street for vehicles to be used in funeral processions; provided
further that:
(1) Such assembly area shall be provided in addition to any required
off-street parking area.
(2) A caretaker's residence may be provided within the main building
of mortuary establishments.
C. Fraternities, clubs, lodges, social or recreational buildings or
properties not operated for profit.
D. Automobile service stations, subject to the requirements of §
480-36 of this chapter.
E. Auto laundries (car wash) when completely enclosed in a building.
G. New- and used-car salesroom, showroom, or office.
H. Governmental office or other governmental use; public utility offices,
exchanges, transformer stations, pump stations and service yards,
but not including outdoor storage.
I. Theaters, assembly halls, concert halls or similar places of assembly
when conducted completely within enclosed buildings.
J. Business schools and colleges or private schools operated for profit.
K. Restaurants, or other places serving food or beverage, except those
having the character of a drive-in or drive-through.
L. Other uses similar to those listed above.
M. Accessory structures and uses customarily incident to any of the
above uses.
The following uses shall be permitted subject
to the conditions hereinafter imposed for each use:
A. Outdoor sales space for exclusive sale of new or secondhand
automobiles, house trailers, or rental of trailers and/or automobiles,
subject to the following:
(1) The lot or area shall be provided with a permanent,
durable, and dustless surface, and shall be graded and drained as
to dispose of all surface water accumulated within the area.
(2) Ingress and egress to the outdoor sales area shall
be at least 60 feet from the intersection of any two streets.
(3) Display of vehicles is, for the purposes of this chapter,
an accessory use. Such use may be permitted within a front yard except
that a twenty-foot landscaped open space shall be provided between
any street and the display area.
B. Motels or hotels, subject to the following conditions:
(1) Ingress and egress shall be provided so as not to
conflict with the adjacent business uses or adversely affect traffic
flow on a major thoroughfare.
(2) Each unit shall contain no less than 200 square feet
of floor area.
(3) No guest shall establish permanent residence at a
motel for more than 30 days within any calendar year.
C. Business in the character of a drive-in, or so-called
open storefront, subject to the following conditions:
(1) A setback of at least 60 feet from the right-of-way
line of any existing or proposed street must be maintained.
(2) Ingress and egress points shall be located at least
60 feet from the intersection of any two streets.
(3) A minimum of five vehicle stacking spaces shall be
provided per drive-through lane with a minimum of three following
the location that orders are taken. Stacking lanes shall have a minimum
width of eight feet and shall not conflict with parking or ingress
and egress drives. The length of one stacking space is 20 feet. Stacking
shall not be permitted within a required front yard.
D. Veterinary hospitals or clinics, subject to the following
conditions:
(1) All activities shall be conducted within a totally enclosed building
unless an outdoor exercise location is designated on the plan and
approved by the Planning Commission. Such area shall be enclosed with
a fence and shall be screened from neighboring properties.
(2) Abutting or adjacent property is zoned LB, GB, OS-1, IRO, I-1, or
I-2 District.
E. General automotive repair when the following conditions
are met:
(1) All activities shall be conducted within a completely
enclosed building.
(2) Outside storage of vehicles or parts must be completely screened in accordance with §
480-64, Obscuring walls and landscaped berms.
(3) No outside storage of discarded or salvaged materials,
junk vehicles or junk parts shall be permitted on the premises.
F. Mini storage buildings, with limited access to the building from
outside, when the following conditions are met:
(1) Doors providing access to individual storage units shall not be permitted
on the front yard side of the building, nor on any side abutting a
public street, a residential district or the residential portion of
a PND.
(2) Building facades adjacent to a residential district, the residential
portion of a PND or a public street shall be of the same finish material
and be similar in appearance to the facade of the building abutting
the front yard.
(3) Vehicular aisles providing access to units on both sides of the aisles,
whether interior or exterior, shall be not less than 30 feet wide.
(4) Aisles providing access to units on only one side of the aisle shall
be not less than 20 feet wide, provided that there is more than one
aisle available for circulation around a building. If there is only
one aisle, the aisle shall be not less than 30 feet wide.
(5) All aisles and surfaces available to vehicles shall be provided with
asphaltic or concrete surfacing in accordance with specifications
approved by the Township.
(6) There shall be no outdoor storage and no storage of hazardous, toxic
or volatile substances.
(7) The maximum percentage of the zoning lot area covered by buildings
shall be 50%.
(8) For any building facade that exceeds 200 feet in length, the setback
of that portion of the building shall be increased by an additional
one foot for each 10 feet of length, provided that, if greater setbacks
are required by other sections of this chapter, the greater setback
shall be provided.
G. Bowling alley, billiard hall, indoor archery range, indoor tennis
courts, indoor skating rink, or similar forms of indoor commercial
recreation when located at least 100 feet from any front, rear, or
side yard of any residential lot in an adjacent residential district.