Approved Uses by Zoning — Commercial-Industrial District (B-3)
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, Air conditioning & heating equipment — wholesale, indoor storage, repair and service, Alcoholic beverages, sales — off-premises consumption, Ambulance service, Armored car service, Artists' studios, photography studios, Assembly of small articles, Athletic club, health clubs, gymnasiums, personal training, fitness studio — 10,000 sf or less, Auction houses, Auto parts, equipment, accessories new, wholesale, Auto tag agency, Automobile sales, new car and truck (with appurtenant repair shop and used vehicle sales lot), Awning stores, Bakery distribution point and production, Beverage manufacturing, alcoholic and non-alcoholic, without tasting room, Boat rental, boat slips, Bowling alleys, Brewpub (restaurant area ≤20% of gross floor area), Bus terminals, Business services, Carpet, rug, or rag cleaning establishment (off-premises), Commissary, Conservatories (art and music), soundproofed for music, Consignment shop, Dry cleaning or laundry drop-off establishments, Employment agencies (except day labor), Engravers (accessory to a permitted use), Federal, state and municipal buildings, parks, playgrounds, recreation, and associated parking lots, Feed, fertilizer, warehouse, indoor storage and sales, Food caterers, Frozen food lockers, Funeral homes in stand-alone building, accessory embalming permitted (no crematory), Garden supplies, Guns — retail (accessory use), House cleaners/janitorial (office only), Import/export (office only), Kitchen incubator, Knife & scissor sharpening (accessory to permitted), Laboratories, medical, dental, diagnostic, educational, Laboratories, research, development, industrial, scientific, Laundries, coin-operated, Library, Lighting fixtures distributors, wholesale, Mail order and internet sales (office only), Maintenance, building, lawn, pool, Medical clinic, Membership discount stores/clubs, 40,000 sf or less, Motorcycle shops (sales, new or used), Motorcycle repair shops, fabrication, Motorhome and house trailer sales, new and used, Museum, Office, Parking lots and garages, commercial, Personal services, Pest control (office only), Places of worship, Plant nursery and sales (wholesale), Plumbing fixtures, retail (CRA only), Post office, Pumps & wells, retail, wholesale, Radio, television studios, Recording and practice studios, soundproofed for music, Rehabilitation — physical therapy, Rent to own, Rental, small articles, Rental — commercial trucks and equipment (accessory to permitted retail over 40,000 sf GFA), Restaurant, drive-in (≥100 ft from residentially zoned property), Retail sales — stores 40,000 sf or less of sales area, Rugs, carpets, wholesale, Schools, driving, Schools, collegiate only (public or private), Schools, public or private trade, vocational and industrial, Secondhand stores, Screen-printing, Sexually oriented businesses (Sec. 24-73 and Ch. 7 Art. X), Shipping and packaging stores, 10,000 sf or less, Shipping and packaging establishments, greater than 10,000 sf, Shopping centers, neighborhood under 10 acres, Swimming pools & water treatment: supplies, chemicals, accessories (no manufacturing), Taxi service establishment, Theater and motion picture houses, Tile, builders supplies, Trailers of all kinds, campers, mobile homes, indoor storage & sales, Truck and trailer rental (accessory to permitted use), Transfer companies, Truck sales used, commercial, Upholstery shop (no vehicles), Urban farm — indoor operation (retail component required onsite), Urban farm — outdoor operation, Utilities, service dispatch, Warehouses: indoor storage (except self-storage facilities), Wholesale sales and distribution (accessory to a permitted use), Wholesale warehouse and indoor storage, Yacht and boat brokers (office only), Yacht and boat repairs (indoors only)
With special approval
Air mobility station incl. vertiports or drone ports — electric transport vehicles only, Assembly hall, halls for hire, civic clubs, fraternal, lodge/union halls, associations, Athletic club — over 10,000 sf, Beverage manufacturing with tasting room (tasting room ≤20% GFA; use approval required), Billiard rooms — pool rooms, Building supplies, retail (accessory outside storage and/or over 40,000 sf GFA), Canning or freezing plant, Day labor center, Funeral homes in multi-tenant building (no on-site embalming or crematory), Golf courses (miniature), Golf driving range, Membership discount stores/clubs greater than 40,000 sf, Oil filling station, Pet shops, Rehabilitation — drug addiction treatment, mental health therapy, and counseling, Restaurant, drive-thru (accessory outside seating), Retail sales — stores over 40,000 sf of sales area, Self-storage facilities, Shopping centers, community or regional over 10 acres, Skating rinks, skateboard parks, water slide, and other outdoor amusements, Tattoo & body piercing studio, Teen center, Used articles establishment — except antiques or consignment
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