Appendix 2. Use regulations.  


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  • A building or premises shall be used only for the following purposes:

    1.

    Any use permitted in the A-1 Apartment Dwelling District but not including single family dwelling, two family dwelling, agriculture, horticulture and general farming as provided in article VII, section 2, paragraph 7, and fraternities or sororities containing sleeping accommodations.

    2.

    Apothecary shop as an accessory retail use within a building without exterior advertising display, provided that only drugs, prescription medicines, medicinal supplies and pharmaceutical products shall be sold.

    3.

    Assembly halls, gymnasiums, stadiums, and similar structures operated on a nonprofit basis.

    4.

    Automobile parking garages and lots (commercial) provided that portions of open parking lots abutting dwelling districts are separated therefrom by a planted area 25 feet or more in width measured from the property line.

    5.

    Churches and temples.

    6.

    Clinics, medical, dental, chiropractic, osteopathic and similar operations, but not including a practice of veterinary medicine.

    7.

    Colleges, universities, business colleges, music conservatories, dancing schools and similar institutions, public or private, all without students in residence.

    8.

    Community center buildings, and other similar facilities operated on a nonprofit basis.

    9.

    Financial establishments, such as banks, loan companies, insurance companies.

    10.

    Government buildings: buildings used exclusively by the federal, state, county, or city governments for public purposes but not including repair garages, repair or storage yards for material, vehicles or equipment, warehouses, buildings and other facilities having commercial or industrial characteristics, and buildings used or intended to be used as correctional or penal institutions.

    11.

    Incidental accessory retail uses such as cafeterias, gift shoos, flower shops, snack bars, barber shop, beauty shop, tailor shoo, radio-TV shop, and repair shoe shop, conducted for the convenience of the employees, patients, patrons, or visitors on the premises wholly within the principal buildings and without exterior advertising display.

    12.

    Libraries, museums, and art galleries.

    13.

    Office buildings: governmental and private office buildings, including professional offices in which no retail trade activity is carried on with the general public and no stock of goods is maintained for sale to the general public, except as permitted in an accessory use.

    14.

    Signs:

    (a)

    Professional or announcement sign, illuminated indirectly, not more than 20 square feet in area mounted flat to the wall on the main building freestanding but situated no nearer to the street line than one-half the distance between the street line and the building line on the main building on the lot;

    (b)

    A temporary, unilluminated real estate sign not over 12 square feet in area pertaining only to the sale, lease, or rent of the property upon which the sign is located, provided the sign shall be mounted or displayed behind the building set-back line of the lot;

    (c)

    A church or institutional bulletin board or sign, not more than 12 square feet in area, illuminated indirectly, used to display the name and/or activities of the church or institution, situated no nearer to the street line than one-half the distance between the street line and the building line of the main building on the lot;

    (d)

    Lettering, illuminated indirectly, attached to or built into the front wall of the main building or assembly halls, churches, colleges and universities, community centers, government buildings, hospitals, libraries, museums, office buildings and schools, for the purpose of displaying the name and/or address of the facility upon which such lettering is affixed.

    15.

    Accessory building and uses customarily incident to the above listed uses. Any building used primarily for any of the above enumerated uses may have not more than 25 percent of the floor area devoted to storage purposes incidental to such primary use.