Dimensional standards
Height & bulk
Housing
Uses
Permitted by right161
- Clothing and wearing apparel
- Coffee shops
- Coins and collectible stores
- Computer stores/sales and service
- Construction yards with tools, goods, equipment and/or supplies in a permanent enclosed structure
- Convenience stores
- Courier offices
- Credit unions
- Crematories
- Dairy products
- Dental offices
- Department stores with tools, goods, equipment and/or supplies in a permanent enclosed structure
- Discount shops with tools, goods, equipment and/or supplies in a permanent enclosed structure
- Drive thru businesses
- Dry cleaning shops
- Dry goods
- Dyeing shops
- Electrical supply and contracting with tools, goods, equipment and/or supplies in a permanent enclosed structure
- Electronic audio/visual devices and their accessories
- Express mail
- Fast food establishments
- Feed, grain and seeds with tools, goods, equipment and/or supplies in a permanent enclosed structure
- Fire stations
- Flowers and plants shops
- Food products
- Fruit and vegetables stands as long as the product is grown by the seller
- Furniture and household furnishings stores
- Funeral homes
- Gas stations with tools, goods, repairs, equipment and/or supplies in a permanent enclosed structure
- Glass blowing shop with tools, goods, equipment and/or supplies in a permanent enclosed structure
- Greenhouses
- Grocery stores
- Gunsmith
- Hardware stores with tools, goods, equipment and/or supplies in a permanent enclosed structure
- Hat cleaning, tailoring, dressmaking
- Healthcare facilities
- Heating supplies and/or contractor with tools, goods, equipment and/or supplies in a permanent enclosed structure
- Home occupation (approved application required)
- Horse and tack stores with tools, goods, equipment and/or supplies in a permanent enclosed structure
- Hospitals
- Hotels
- Hunting supply stores
- Inns
- Insurance offices
- Ice cream and soft drinks
- Jewelry, watches and clocks
- Kitchenware and crockery
- Lawn mowing equipment repair with tools, goods, repairs, equipment and/or supplies in a permanent enclosed structure
- Laundries and dry cleaning shops, and clothes dyeing establishments
- Leather, leather goods and luggage
- Libraries
- Lithographing
- Lumber and building supply with tools, goods, equipment and/or supplies in a permanent enclosed structure
- Masonry contracting with tools, goods, equipment and/or supplies in a permanent enclosed structure
- Meat and fish stores
- Medical offices
- Movie theatres (indoor)
- Mortuaries
- Motels
- Moving company offices
- Museum
- Music and musical instruments
- Newspaper and magazine offices
- Novelties and variety goods
- Nursing homes
- Optical goods
- Paint, wallpaper and painter's and decorator's supplies with tools, goods, equipment and/or supplies in a permanent enclosed structure
- Pet stores, such as dogs, cats and birds and pet supplies with tools, goods, animals, equipment and/or supplies in a permanent enclosed structure
- Picture frame manufacturing, supplies and assembling with tools, goods, equipment and/or supplies in a permanent enclosed structure
- Pharmaceutical supplies including drugs and medicines
- Plumbing contractors with tools, goods, equipment and/or supplies in a permanent enclosed structure
- Police stations
- Post offices
- Printing shops
- Professional offices
- Public garages
- Publishing, printing and lithographing
- Public or private educational services
- Public parks
- Public playgrounds
- Public and private field and recreational facilities
- Public service organizations
- Real estate offices and other professional services
- Rescue squad stations
- Retail shops with tools, goods, repairs, equipment and/or supplies in a permanent enclosed structure
- Rental shops with tools, goods, repairs, equipment and/or supplies in a permanent enclosed structure
- Shoe stores
- Small engine repair with tools, goods, repairs, equipment and/or supplies in a permanent enclosed structure
- Specialty shops with tools, goods, repairs, services, equipment and/or supplies in a permanent enclosed structure
- Special care homes
- Specialty schools
- Sporting goods
- Stationary and greeting cards
- Theaters of the performing arts
- Therapeutic offices (therapy, psychology, mental health, etc.)
- Towing
- Trailer rental stores
- Upholstering shops with tools, goods, repairs, services, equipment and/or supplies in a permanent enclosed structure
- Variety stores
- Veterans organizations
- Watch repair
- Wine shops
- Administrative functions
- Software development
- Computer sales and service
- Internet commerce and services
- Civic/institutional
- Activity halls
- Assembly halls
- Business, private, public and vocational schools and classrooms, academic facilities, administrative offices and associated support structures
- Business and professional offices, including, but not limited to, tax preparation, engineers, and architects
- Child care
- Child day care (group) (preschool)
- Churches and other places of worship and church school buildings
- Clubs and lodges, fraternities, and meeting places of other organizations
- Community center
- Cultural buildings
- Curbs
- Dancehall or auditorium used primarily for entertainment or recreation
- Day care facility (adult)
- Dinner theatre
- Gutters
- Hospitals
- Family day care
- Fraternal organization (private)
- Funeral home and/or mortuary
- Gym, dance, karate, art, pottery or similar schools or studios
- Libraries
- Lodges
- Manholes
- Municipal building
- Museums
- Newspaper offices and printing shops
- Parking lots
- Playhouses
- Police, fire, and rescue squad stations
- Post offices
- Professional services
- Public buildings and properties of a cultural, administrative, or service type
- Public service and storage buildings
- Public utilities (water facilities, sewer facilities, pumping station facilities, cable facilities, communication cables and facilities, wastewater inlets, etc.)
- Radio and television broadcasting studios exclusive of transmitter facilities (upper levels only)
- Social organizations (private)
- Trade schools
- Bed and breakfast home stays and inns in accordance with article 14
- Boarding houses
- Child care centers and family day care homes
- Hotels/motels
- Single-family detached dwellings
- Townhouses
- Tourist homes
- Multifamily homes, apartments, or efficiencies located on a story of a mixed-use building other than the story closest to street level
- Bakeries
- Restaurants, cafes, cafeterias, dairy product stores, lunch rooms, soda fountains, drive-in and retail sale of any goods normally associated with such establishments
- Bus/railroad stations and taxi stands
- Parking garages and parking lots
- Off-street parking as required by this ordinance
- Commercial indoor recreation facilities
- Indoor and outdoor concert facilities
- Any public uses or use by a semi-public agency whose activities are primarily nonprofit in nature
- Makerspaces
Conditional / special use9
- Athletic fields, stadiums, and arenas
- Beverage or food processing plants
- Dormitories
- Multifamily homes, apartments, or efficiencies located on the story of a building closest to the street level, when the building is mixed-use; or located in a single-use building
- Public billiard parlors and pool rooms, bowling alleys, dance halls, and similar forms of public amusement
- Public utilities limited to public service structures such as power plants or substations or such similar operations publicly or privately owned furnishing electricity, gas, rail transport, communications, or related services to the general public
- Radio and television broadcasting studios
- Swimming pools, skating rinks, miniature golf courses, or similar recreational use or facility if located at least 100 feet from any residential lot
- Small-scale production establishments, with tools, goods, repairs, services, equipment, and supplies in a permanent enclosed structure
Accessory4
- Accessory buildings and facilities such as garage, carport, tool shed, noncommercial greenhouse, workshop (private), tennis court, shed and portable structure
- Parking as provided for in article 7
- Private parking garage
- Signs as provided for in article 7
Prohibited2
Extracted standards
4 individual requirements pulled out of this section’s prose, each with the sentence it came from.
Other
- Design guidelines
Land uses, buildings, and structures shall follow the Buena Vista Design Guidelines found in Appendices A through F of the Land Development Regulations.
Any single dwelling unit, whether as part of a multiunit residential structure or as a single-family residence, within this district in which both residential use and nonresidential use exists, shall be governed as a home occupation use with tools, goods, repairs, services, equipment and/or supplies in a permanent enclosed structure.
- Small-scale alcohol production
Small-scale alcohol production establishment, provided that production is accessory to another permitted primary use and that the majority of production is sold or consumed on premises; and that tools, goods, services, equipment, and supplies are within a permanent enclosed structure.
- Travel trailer storage
Travel trailers, which may be stored within the minimum yard requirements and shall be prohibited from occupancy.
From the ordinance
Buildings shall be limited to three stories in height or one story greater than contiguous buildings, up to a maximum height of 40 feet
Use details
{
"dropped_conditions": {
"accessory_uses": [
"Existing structures to include towers, power towers, water tanks, telephone poles, commercial buildings and rooftops, may be used to affix commercial radio, television, and communication antennas provided the requirements of article 13 are met",
"Small-scale production establishments producing goods primarily for sale or consumption on premises through a permitted retail or restaurant operation. No less than 50 percent of the square footage of the first floor shall be dedicated to retail sale or food or beverage service of goods produced on premises. Tools, goods, repairs, services, equipment, and supplies shall be within a permanent enclosed structure",
"Temporary office or storage building for use during construction, which shall be removed upon completion or abandonment of the construction work",
"Travel trailers, which may be stored within the minimum yard requirements and shall be prohibited from occupancy",
"Small-scale alcohol production establishment, provided that production is accessory to another permitted primary use and that the majority of production is sold or consumed on premises; and that tools, goods, services, equipment, and supplies are within a permanent enclosed structure"
],
"permitted_uses": [
"Tattoo parlors, shall follow all state regulations",
"Family care homes, foster homes or group homes serving the mentally retarded developmentally disabled or others, rest homes, homes for adults, or nursing homes, provided that licensing requirements are met"
],
"prohibited_uses": [
"Any use of land, building, structure, or equipment which would be injurious noxious or offensive by way of the creation of adverse traffic impacts or conditions, odors, fumes, smoke, dust, vibration, noise or other objectionable features, or hazardous to the community on account of fire or explosion or any other cause"
],
"conditional_uses": [
"Commercial radio, television, and communication towers along with related buildings and equipment provided the requirements of article 13 are met",
"Drive-in theaters provided all parts of such drive-in shall be distant at least 200 feet from any residential district and provided that the screen shall be located as not to be visible from adjacent streets or highways and it shall be set back not less than 200 feet from the established right-of-way of said street or highway",
"Kennels and animal hospitals provided that any structure or premises used for such purposes shall be located at least 200 feet from any residential lot with tools, goods, animals, services, equipment and/or supplies in a permanent enclosed structure (animal enclosures shall be soundproof)",
"Wholesale business, storage or warehouse provided that any such use shall be distant at least 50 feet from any residential district"
]
}
}