§ 4.2.19. Specialty Business (B-3) classification.

A.

Intent of Classification. The Specialty Business classification is intended to provide areas for the development of special commercial facilities requiring large parcels of land, which require access, by motor vehicles of all types including tractor-trailer units.

B.

Permitted Uses:

Agricultural farm equipment, tools, implements, machinery, including lease, repair, new, used

Agricultural uses as an interim use, excluding livestock

Bus terminal

Construction or contractor yard

Heavy machinery, equipment sales, new, used, leasing, rental, repair

Repair, detailing of motor vehicles, recreational vehicles, trailers

Shops performing custom work, electrical, plumbing, sheet metal, heating, ventilating, air conditioning, and motor vehicle custom body work

Truck stop facilities

C.

Special Uses (requiring permit):

Automobile paint and body shop

Bakery, industrial, commercial

Cemetery, crematory, mausoleum

Church, Place of Worship

Flea market, new and used merchandise, inside, outside

Garbage transfer station

Gas meter facility and supply lines, high pressure (except where such permits are pre-empted by state or federal regulations)

Horses or cattle, not a sales operation (See special lot area and number requirements in Sec. 4.2.6.F)

Monuments or memorials, retail

Produce sales, outside

Redemption, recycle center

Research, testing lab

Sewage treatment plants with an inflow exceeding 5,000 gallons per day

Sports arena

Sprayfields or other type of effluent disposal area when application rate exceeds 5,000 gallons per day, if allowed by law

Water wellfields

D.

Development Standards:

Maximum Density: 1 dwelling unit per shop or store

Minimum Lot Area: None

Minimum Lot Width: 200 feet

Maximum Building Height: 50 feet

Maximum Floor Ratio: 1.0

E.

Setbacks:

Minimum Front Setback: 40 feet (65 feet w/gas pump)

Minimum Rear Setback: 20 feet

Minimum Side Setback: 20 feet (40 feet w/gas pump)

Accessory Structures: gas pumps or islands require a 25 feet setback; gas pump canopies may protrude 10 feet into a required setback.

F.

Special Requirement:

(1)

All setbacks shall be measured from the outside wall of buildings or structures and from the concrete curb surrounding gas pumps; however, eaves, roof overhangs, or pilasters may protrude two feet into a required setback.

(2)

The display of motor vehicles, recreational vehicles and trailers, farm tractors and equipment, and heavy construction equipment, which are for sale or lease, may be exhibited in the front setback; however, the front setback shall be increased to a minimum of 85 feet.

(3)

All uses allowed in this zoning classification shall be located within an enclosed structure with the following exceptions:

(a)

All outdoor activities and outdoor storage of materials, components, and finished goods shall be located in side or rear yard areas and shall be fenced and buffered from view from surrounding properties

(b)

Temporary storage or parking of motor vehicles, recreational vehicles, trailers, farm tractors and equipment, which are for, inventory or in for repair shall be located in side or rear yard areas where they are buffered from view from adjacent properties.

(c)

The temporary parking of commercial vehicles in truck stop facilities or public parking lots or facilities

(4)

Within commercially zoned districts, unless otherwise noted the listed uses shall mean the sale of finished products or units.

G.

Buffering Requirements. The table below is a modified version of Tables 6.8-2 of the Land Development Code and provides the type of buffer required between a proposed use and an existing use, or in the absence of an existing use. Refer to Section 6.8.6 for additional requirements.

Land Use Buffer Requirements		Existing or Permitted Land Use
		AG	SFR	MF	COM	IND	PUB	ROW
Proposed Use	COM	D	B	B	-	E	C	C
	PUB	E	B	C	C	C	-	C
	IND	B	B	B	B	-	B	C/D*
	AG	-	-	-	-	-	-	-

 

*D Type Buffer if residential adjacent to ROW

Screening/Landscape Buffer Requirements for every 100 Lineal Feet
Buffer Type	Required Landscape Width	Number of Trees	Shrubs & Ground Coverage	Wall Required	Additional Requirement/Notes
B	20'	2 shade/3 understory	50%	yes
C	15'	2 shade/3 understory	50%	no	Shrubs and groundcover excludes turfgrass and must have a min. height of 3 feet within 1 yr. of planting
D	15'	2 shade/3 understory	25%	yes
E	5'	4 shade trees	shrubs only	no	Shrubs shall be planted in a double-staggered row and reach a maintained height of 6 feet in 3 yrs.

 

(Ord. No. 17-08, § 2(Exh. A), 4-11-2017)