§ 4.2.21. Heavy Business (B-5) classification.

A.

Intent of Classification. The Heavy Business classification is intended to provide for those uses such as retail or wholesale, repair and service, which may require larger parcels for the outside storage of materials or equipment in inventory or waiting repair. Businesses are intended to serve clients and customers from a regional area providing access for large delivery trucks.

B.

Permitted Uses (including all the permitted uses in B-1, B-2, B-3, & B-4):

Agricultural gypsum, lime, ground limestone, sulfur

Airport, general aviation

Amusement Park

Assembly, fabrication of goods using components manufactured elsewhere, brought to the site

Automobile parts, new, used

Awning, canvas, repair

Bakery, industrial, commercial

Boat yard

Bookbinding

Carpet, rug cleaning

Cold storage plant, locker

Construction equipment sales

Construction or contractor yard

Dry cleaning plant

Dude Ranch, riding academy

Farm irrigation, equipment sales, installation, and repair

Farm produce, sales, packing, crating, shipping, retail, wholesale

Farm supply store including seed, feed, fertilizer, fencing posts, tack

Flea market, new and used merchandise, inside, outside

Fuel oil, sales and storage, retail, wholesale

Gas, bottled, sales and storage, retail, wholesale

Grain elevator

Hatchery, fish, or fowl, wholesale

Heliports

Ice storage house

Industrial equipment, sales, lease, new, used

Laundry, commercial plant

Lumberyards, building materials

Machine shop

Manufacturer representative offices, warehouses

Milk distributing station

Monuments, memorials

Motor freight terminal, truck stop facilities including gas station, restaurants, convenience stores

Moving, storage firms, truck terminals

Newspaper printing plant

Produce sales, outside

Racetrack, any kind

Redemption, recycle center for used aluminum, glass, plastic, or steel

Research, testing lab

Restaurant

Shooting facility, outdoor

Shops performing custom work such as, air conditioning, cabinet, carpentry, concrete, electrical, heating, grinding, irrigation, metals, painting, pipes, plumbing, pumps, septic tanks, sheet metal, sharpening, swimming pools, ventilating, welding, tire recapping, varnishing, vulcanizing including maintenance, repair

Sports arena

Storage warehouses, including farm products

Theater, drive-in

Trailers, manufacturing

Utility company service yards

Wholesale businesses, warehouses

Worm farm

C.

Special Uses (requiring permit):

Adult entertainment

Cemetery, crematory, mausoleum

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)

Kennel

Pallet repair

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

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: None

Maximum Building Height: 50 feet

Maximum Floor Ratio: 0.70

E.

Setbacks:

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

Minimum Rear Setback: 25 feet

Minimum Side Setback: 10 feet (65 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 will 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 items allowed within this zoning classification that are for sale or lease, may be displayed within the front setback. The front setback will be increased to a minimum of 85 feet for structures or buildings.

(a)

Sales, rentals and display of motor vehicles, farm equipment, manufactured homes, motorcycles, landscape contractor's yard supplies, farm tractors, trailers, utility/storage sheds, restaurant service, garden center items, lawn mowers, bicycles, boats, golf carts, and plant nursery are permitted outside in this classification. 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.

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 ft. 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 ft. in 3 yrs.

 

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