(B-1) Neighborhood Business


City of Ava Zoning:
Neighborhood Business

Sec. 110-147. B-1 neighborhood business district; purpose.
This B-1 business district is for the conduct of retail trade and to provide personal services to meet the regular needs and for the convenience of people of adjacent residential areas. Because these shops and stores may be an integral part of the neighborhood closely associated with residential, religious, recreational, and educational elements, more restrictive requirements for air, light, open space and off-street parking are made than are provided for in other commercial districts.
(Code 1977, § 42.310)

Sec. 110-148. Permitted uses in B-1 districts.
B-1 district permitted uses are as follows:
(1) All uses permitted in any residential district, subject to all provisions specified for such residential districts.
(2) Bakeries and confectioneries not employing more than six persons.
(3) Barber shops and beauty parlors.
(4) Banks and savings and loan companies.
(5) Custom service in the business of dressmaking, millinery or tailoring.
(6) Self-service laundries having not more than two employees in the performance of service upon the premises.
(8) Package liquor stores.
(9) Grocery and/or meat shop.
(10) Dry cleaning plants, or establishments doing dry cleaning, if such plant or business has not more than seven employees.
(11) Restaurants not including drive-in facilities.
(12) Offices.
(13) Subject to all regulations otherwise provided by ordinance, advertising signs are permissible, as regulated in section 110-223(b); billboards are prohibited.
(14) Other uses are permitted which, in the judgment of the planning commission, are of the same general character as those listed in this section, and have been approved by action of the planning commission, and which will not be detrimental to the B-1 district in which located. (See section 110-240.)
(Code 1977, § 42.320)

Sec. 110-155. Business district density requirements.

Business districts density requirements are as follows:
Density requirements B-1
Neighborhood
Business
B-2
Central
Business
B-3
General
Business
Minimum lot area (square feet):
Per building 6,000
Minimum lot width (feet):
Per building 50
Maximum height of building (feet):
Principal building 35 60 35
Accessory building 15 15 15
Minimum front yard (feet):
Principal building 30 25
Minimum side yard (feet):
Principal building 15 feet when abutting a residential district 15 feet when abutting a residential district 15 feet when abutting a residential district
Minimum rear yard (feet):
Principal building 20 15 15
Note: Residential uses located in all business districts shall have the same front, side and rear yard requirements as those in an R-3 multifamily district.
(Code 1977, § 42.390)
Secs. 110-156–110-175. Reserved.