Approved Uses by Zoning — General Business (B-2)
Uses permitted by right under the municipality’s zoning for this district. The property may carry additional restrictions (deed, association or lease), so tenants are responsible for confirming their intended use with the municipality and landlord before committing.
Allowed by right
Air conditioning and heating equipment—retail, Alcoholic beverages, sales—off-premises consumption, Animal daycare—no overnight boarding [note 1], Animal clinics, pet hospitals [note 1], Animal grooming [note 1], Apartments [note 2], Artists' studios, photography studios, Athletic club, health clubs, gymnasiums, personal training, fitness studio—10,000 square feet or less, Auto tag agency, Awning stores, Bakery distribution point and production, Boat rental, boat slips, Bowling alleys, Brewpub, (restaurant area cannot exceed 20% of the gross floor area of the establishment), Building supplies, retail (from bldgs. only)*, Business services, Carpet, rug. or rag cleaning establishment (off-premises)*, Community residences (up to ten residents) [note 19], Conservatories (art and music), soundproofed for music, Consignment shop, Day nurseries, child care centers, adult day care, Dry cleaning or laundry drop-off establishments [note 3], Employment agencies (except day labor) (Also see "Day Labor"), Engravers (as accessory to a permitted use)*, Federal, state and municipal buildings, parks, playgrounds. recreation, and their associated parking lots, Food caterers, Funeral homes in stand-alone building, accessory embalming permitted (no crematory)*, Garden supplies [note 5], Guns—retail (as accessory use)*, Hospitals, House cleaners/janitorial (office only)*, Import/export (office only)*, Kitchen incubator, Knife & scissor sharpening (as accessory to permitted)*, Laboratories, medical, dental, diagnostic, educational, Laundries, coin-operated, Library, Liquor store [note 16], Mail order and internet sales establishment (office only)*, Maintenance, building, lawn, pool, Massage and health spa, state licensed [note 15], Medical clinic, Membership discount stores/clubs, 40,000 square feet or less, Museum, Office, Office equipment/computers (accessory reconditioned preowned equipment sales)*, Parking lots and garages, commercial, Personal services, Pest control (office only)*, Places of worship, Plant nursery and sales, retail, (with fencing and screening around outdoor sales areas)* [note 5], Plumbing fixtures, retail (CRA only)*, Post office, Radio, television studios, Recording and practice studios, soundproofed for music, Recovery communities [note 20], Rehabilitation—physical therapy, Rent to own, Rental, small articles, Repair shops (small articles)* [note 1], Residences [note 2], Restaurant with dining room or accessory outdoor seating [note 18], Restaurant, drive-in (minimum distance of 100 feet airline distance from residentially zoned property), Retail sales—stores 40,000 square feet or less of sales area, Schools, driving, Schools, collegiate only (public or private), Schools, public or private trade, vocational and industrial, Secondhand stores, Sexually oriented businesses (See also section 24-73 ) and Chapter 7 , Article X, Shipping and packaging stores, 10,000 square feet or less, Shopping centers, neighborhood under ten (10) acres, Swimming pools & water treatment: supplies, chemicals, and accessories (no manufacturing), Taxi service establishment, Theater and motion picture houses, Truck and trailer rental (as accessory to permitted use)*, Urban farm—Indoor operation (retail component required onsite)*, Utilities, service dispatch, Wholesale sales and distribution (as accessory to a permitted use)*, Yacht and boat brokers (office only)*
With special approval
Air mobility station including vertiports or drone ports—electric transport vehicles only, Ambulance service, Amusement enterprises: coin or credit-operated games (as accessory use)* [note 1], Animal boarding/kennel [note 1], Assembly hall, halls for hire, civic clubs, fraternal, noncommercial, lodge halls, union halls, associations (civic, professional), Athletic club—over 10,000 square feet, Auction houses, Auto rental/leasing (office only)* [note 17], Auto repair minor [note 12], Auto tires, new—retail and mounting [note 12], Auto wash and detailing [note 11], Automobile sales, used [note 22], Automobile sales, new car and truck (with appurtenant repair shop and used vehicle sales lot), Bar [note 9], Beverage manufacturing, alcoholic and non-alcoholic, with tasting room (tasting room not to exceed 20% of the gross floor area and use approval required)*, Billiard rooms—pool rooms, Building supplies, retail (accessory outside storage, and/or over 40,000 square feet gross floor, conditional use only), Commissary, Convenience store with or without a vehicle fueling station, Dollar store, Electric vehicle charging, accessory use when total number of units, not within a parking structure, exceed 10% of required parking, Electric vehicle charging station, principal use, [note 6], Funeral homes in multi- tenant building, no on-site embalming or crematory, Golf courses (miniature), Golf driving range, Head shop [note 15], Hotels (except hotels in PCC-1 and PCC-2 districts from the conditional use requirement)*, Membership discount stores/clubs greater than 40,000 square feet, Motorcycle shops (sales, new or used), Oil filling station,, Pain management clinic (see Chapter 7 , section 7-151 of the Code of Ordinances for definition and additional regulations), Pet shops, Pharmacy [note 14], Propane or liquefied petroleum gas sales and storage (filling station as accessory to permitted use)* [note 13], Psychic consulting (see Chapter 7 of this Code for additional requirements), Rehabilitation—drug addiction treatment, mental health therapy, and counseling, Restaurant, drive-thru (accessory outside seating), Retail sales—stores over 40,000 square feet of sales area, Shopping centers, community or regional over ten (10) acres, Skating rinks, skateboard parks, water slide, and other outdoor amusements, Tattoo & body piercing studio, Teen center, Vehicle fueling station [note 23]
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