Appendix C. Business Districts

C. BUSINESS DISTRICTS

1. B-1 districts: Transition business districts.

These districts are composed of land and structures occupied by or suitable for such uses as offices, studios and public parking lots. Although usually located between residential areas and business areas these districts are in some instances freestanding in residential areas or they may include hospital or college groups and related uses. The district regulations are designed to protect and encourage the transitional character of the districts by limiting the permitted uses to those of a semi-commercial nature and to protect the abutting and surrounding residential areas by requiring certain minimum yard and area standards to be met, standards that are comparable to those called for in the residence districts.

a. Permitted uses. In the B-1 districts only the following uses are permitted:

(1) Uses by right. The uses listed below are permitted subject to the conditions specified:

Accessory use

Antique store

Apothecary (limited to the sale of pharmaceuticals and medical supplies)

Art gallery or museum

Bed and breakfast

Church; including parish house, community house and educational building

Clinic, dental and medical

Club or lodge, private, not including one the chief activity of which is a service customarily carried on as a business

College fraternity or sorority house

Convalescent home

Correctional, detention or penal institution, electric substation; need not be enclosed within structure but must be enclosed within a wall or fence at least ten (10) feet high

Fire station

Floral shop

Gift shop

Greenhouse

Hospital or sanitarium

Institution for children or the aged

Interior decorating shop

Library or reading room

Name plate or sign, not exceeding three (3) square feet in area, need not be enclosed within a structure

Nursery, day care or kindergarten

Office

Off-premise outdoor advertising

On-premise advertisement

Pipe line or electric transmission line

Radio and television broadcasting studio, but not including transmitter

Railroad right-of-way, but not including shops, yards, and team tracks; need not be enclosed within structure

Studio for professional work or teaching of any form of fine arts, photography, music, drama, dance, but not including commercial gymnasium

Telephone exchange, but not including administrative offices, shops or garages

University or college, nonprofit

Water storage; need not be enclosed within structure

Water or sewage pumping station

YMCA, YWCA, and similar institutions

b. Building site area. Except as provided in Section III, the minimum building site area shall be seven thousand two hundred (7,200) square feet.

c. Building height limit. Except as provided in Section III, no structure shall be designed, erected, or altered to exceed thirty-five (35) feet.

d. Yards required. Except as provided in Section III, the minimum dimensions of yards shall be:

Front yard .....25 ft.

Side yard .....5 ft.

Rear yard .....25 ft.

e. Density restrictions. Except as provided in Section III, the maximum gross density, defined as the floor area ratio (the ratio of building square feet to lot size), on any parcel of land or development zoned B-1 is not to exceed 0.50.

2. B-2 districts: Neighborhood business districts.

These districts are composed of land and structures occupied by or suitable for furnishing the retail goods, such as groceries and drugs, and the services, such as barbering and shoe repairing, to satisfy the daily household needs of the surrounding residential neighborhoods. Often located on one (1) or more thoroughfares, these districts are small and are within convenient walking distance of most of the areas they will serve. The district regulations are designed to permit the development of the districts for their purpose and to protect the abutting and surrounding residential areas by requiring certain minimum yard and area standards to be met, standards that are comparable to those called for in residence districts. It is intended that additional neighborhood business districts will be created, in accordance with the amendment procedure set forth herein, as they are needed to serve new residential areas. To ensure that such new districts are actually developed to supply the business needs of the neighborhoods, the amendment creating the district may set a time limit for its development.

a. Permitted uses. In B-2 districts only the following uses are permitted:

(1) Uses by right. The uses listed below are permitted subject to the conditions specified:

Accessory use

Altering and repairing of wearing apparel

Antique store

Apothecary

Apparel and accessory store

Appliance store

Art gallery or museum

Automobile filling station, where the primary function is the retail sale of gasoline, oil, grease, tires, batteries and accessories, and where services are limited to installation of items sold, washing, polishing, and greasing; fuel pumps need not be enclosed within structure

Bakery, retail

Bank

Barber shop or beauty shop

Bed and breakfast

Book store

Camera and photographic supplies store

Candy, nut and confectionery [store]

Catering shop

Church

Clinic, dental or medical

Club or lodge, private

College

Convalescent home

Correctional, detention or penal institution

Dairy products sales

Delicatessen

Drug store

Electric substation; need not be enclosed within structure but must be enclosed within a wall or fence at least ten (10) feet high

Fire station

Fix-it shop

Floral shop

Fruit store

Furniture store, retail

Garden supplies store, handling packaged fertilizer and no other types of fertilizer

Gift shop

Greenhouse

Grocery store, retail

Hardware store, retail

Hobby supply store

Hospital

Hotel, motel, and tourist courts

Institution for children or the aged

Interior decorating shop

Jewelry store, including repairing of jewelry, watches and clocks

Landscape garden sales; need not be enclosed within structure

Laundry, and/or dry cleaning pickup station

Laundry, self-service only

Library or reading room

Liquor store, package sale only (no consumption on premises)

Music store

Name plate

Nursery, day care, or kindergarten

Office

Off-premise outdoor advertising

On-premise advertisement

Optician

Pipe line or electric transmission line

Post office

Radio and television broadcasting studio and transmitter

Railroad right-of-way, but not including shops, yards and team tracks; need not be enclosed within structure

Restaurant (liquor sales for consumption on premises permitted only as subordinate use to the principal use of food service)

Rooming house or boarding house

Shoe store, retail

Studio for professional work or teaching of any form of fine arts, photography, music, drama, dance, but not including commercial gymnasium

Telephone exchange, but not including administrative offices, shops or garages

Theater

Toy store

University

Variety store (limited to the sale of items which may be sold by any other use in this district)

Water storage; need not be enclosed within structure

Water or sewage pumping station

YMCA, YWCA, and similar institutions

(2) Special exception uses. These uses are declared to possess such characteristics of unique or special form that each specific use shall be considered an individual case and shall be subject to approval of the police jury after a public hearing and recommendation by the planning commission:

Automobile and truck sales room and/or repair where the primary function is the retail sale of new automobiles and the retail sale of used automobiles, accessories, tires and batteries is a secondary function only; may not conduct dismantling

Farm equipment and supplies store

b. Building site area. There is no minimum required building site area.

c. Building height limits. Except as provided in Section III, no structure shall be designed, erected, or altered to exceed thirty-five (35) feet.

d. Yards required. Except as provided in Section III, the minimum dimensions of yards shall be:

Front yard .....25 ft.

Side yard .....none

Rear yard .....25 ft.

e. Density restriction. Except as provided in Section III, the maximum gross density, defined as the floor area ratio (the ratio of building square feet to lot size), on any parcel of land or development zoned B-2 is not to exceed 0.70.

3. B-3 districts: Community and central business districts.

These districts are composed of land and structures used to furnish, in addition to the retail goods and services found in neighborhood business districts, the wider range of retail goods and services to satisfy all of the household and personal needs of the residents of the parish and its trade area. In addition to the main central business section of the parish, other large areas may be established as districts of this type to serve groups or communities of neighborhoods. The district regulations are designed to permit the development of the districts for their purpose in an open, spacious arrangement by requiring certain minimum yard and area standards to be met. To protect the abutting and surrounding residential areas certain restrictions are placed on uses. Although new districts of this type will not often be called for, such districts can be created in accordance with the amendment procedure set forth herein, if they are needed. To ensure that such districts are actually developed to supply the business needs of the groups of neighborhoods, the amendment creating the district may set a time limit for its development.

a. Permitted uses. In the B-3 districts only the following uses are permitted:

(1) [Uses by right. The uses listed below are permitted subject to the conditions specified:]

Accessory use

Air conditioning sales and service

Ambulance service

Amusement, commercial; miniature golf course and golf driving range; need not be enclosed within structure

Antique store

Apothecary

Apparel and accessory store

Appliance store

Armory

Art gallery or museum

Artificial limb manufacture

Auditorium

Automobile and truck maintenance shops and garages

Automobile and truck sales and/or repair, but not including commercial wrecking, dismantling, or auto salvage yard; need not be enclosed within structure provided the unenclosed part shall comply with the requirements for maintenance of off-street parking facilities

Automobile laundry, where the primary function is washing automobiles, but not including trucks or trailers, and the retail sale of accessories, tires, and batteries is a secondary function only, and where services are limited to installation of items sold; operations shall be conducted only within a completely enclosed structure, and all wastes shall be discharged directly into the storm sewers

Automobile storage (commercial); need not be enclosed within structure

Bait store and sales (live bait); need not be enclosed within structure

Bakery, retail

Bakery, wholesale

Bank

Barber and beauty supplies and equipment sales

Barber shop and beauty shop

Bed and breakfast

Beverage manufacture (not including alcoholic)

Bicycle and/or lawnmower sales and repair

Blueprinting and photostating

Book store

Brooms and brushes manufacture

Building specialties store

Business college

Business machines store

Cabinet or carpenter shop

Camera and photographic supplies store

Candy, nut and confectionery store

Canvas products manufacture

Catering shop

City hall, police station, court house, federal building

Clinic, dental or medical

Club or lodge, private

Coffee roasting

Convalescent home

Correctional, detention, or penal institution

Cosmetics (compounding only)

Creamery

Dairy equipment sales

Dairy products sales

Delicatessen

Department store (limited to sale of items which may be sold by any other use permitted in this district)

Drug store

Dry cleaning

Dry goods store

Dry goods store, wholesale

Electric repair shop

Electric substation; need not be enclosed within structure but must be enclosed within a wall or fence at least ten (10) feet high

Exterminators

Farm equipment and supplies sales

Feed store

Fire station

Fix-it shop

Fixture sales

Floor covering sales

Floral shop

Food locker plant, renting only individual lockers for home customers storage of food; cutting and packaging of meats and game permitted, but not including any slaughtering or eviscerating thereof

Food products, wholesale storage and sales

Fruit and produce, wholesale

Fruit store

Funeral home, mortuary, or undertaking establishment

Furniture repair and upholstering

Furniture store, retail

Fur dyeing, finishing and storage (no tanning)

Garden supplies store, handling packaged fertilizer and no other types of fertilizer

Gas regulator station

Gift shop

Glass store

Grocery store, retail

Gymnasium, commercial

Hardware store, retail

Hardware, wholesale storage and sales

Hatchery

Hobby supply store

Hotel, motel, rooming house, tourist home, all for transient occupancy except that not more than one-third of the gross floor area may be used for apartments for permanent occupancy

Ice cream manufacture

Ice cream store

Institution for children or the aged, but not including correctional, detention, or penal institution

Interior decorating shop

Jewelry store, including repairing or jewelry, watches and clocks

Laboratory

Laboratory, dental or medical

Landscape garden sales; need not be enclosed within structure

Laundry, linen supply, or diaper service

Leather or luggage store

Library or reading room

Liquor sales

Loan office

Locksmith

Machinery, tools, and construction equipment, sales and service

Mail order house

Marine store

Millinery manufacture

Mobile/manufactured homes

Motorcycle sales and service

Music store

News stand

Novelty and souvenir manufacture

Nursery, day care or kindergarten

Office

Office equipment and supplies, retail

Off-premise outdoor advertising

On-premise advertisement

Optical goods

Optician

Paint and wallpaper store

Painting and decorating contractor

Paper supplies, wholesale

Passenger depot, railway or bus

Pet store

Photographic studio and/or processing

Picture framing and/or mirror silvering

Pipeline or electric transmission line

Plumbing shop

Police station

Post office

Poultry (live) storage and/or dressing

Printing, publishing, and allied industries

Radio and television broadcasting, transmitter and studio

Radio and television store and repair shop

Railroad facilities, except shops; need not be enclosed within structure

Restaurant

Restaurant, drive-in

Restaurant supplies sales

Riding academy; need not be enclosed within structure

Rooming house and board house

Rug cleaning

Seafood store, retail

Seed store

Shoe repair shop

Shoe store, retail

Shoe store, wholesale

Sign shop

Small animal clinic and kennels

Sporting goods store, retail

Sporting goods store, wholesale

Stone monument sales, retail; need not be enclosed within structure

Studio for professional work or teaching of any of the fine arts, photography, music, drama, dance, but not including commercial gymnasium

Surgical or dental supplies store

Tailor shop

Taxidermist

Telephone exchange, but not including shops and garages

Theater

Tile shop

Tire shop

Tobacco store

Toy store

Trailer sales; need not be enclosed within structure

Variety store (limited to the sale of items which may be sold by any other use in this district)

Vegetable store

Venetian blind and metal awning fabrication and cleaning

Vulcanizing shop

Water distillation

Water or sewage pumping station

Water storage; need not be enclosed within structure

Wholesale and warehouse

YMCA, YWCA, and similar institutions

(2) Uses requiring planning commission approval. The uses listed below are permitted upon approval of the location and site plan thereof by the planning commission as being appropriate with regard to transportation and access, water supply, waste disposal, fire and police protection, and other public facilities, as not causing undue traffic congestion or creating a traffic hazard, and as being in harmony with the orderly and appropriate development of the district in which the use is located:

Theater, outdoor; need not be enclosed within structure

Trailer court; must meet the following requirements: Water, sewerage and electric power connections for each trailer unit; a site providing a minimum of three thousand five hundred (3,500) square feet per trailer site; and adequate plan for traffic circulation on the site. Yard requirements for each trailer unit as follows:

Front yard .....20 feet

Side yard .....5 feet

Rear yard .....25 feet

(3) Special exception uses. These uses are declared to possess such characteristics of unique or special form that each specific use shall be considered an individual case and shall be subject to approval of the policy jury after a public hearing and recommendation by the planning commission.

Automobile body shop and/or salvage yard

Contractor's storage yard, for vehicles, equipment, material and supplies; need not be enclosed within structure

Lumber yard and building materials; need not be enclosed within structure

Metal products fabrication

Welding shop

b. Building site area. There is no minimum required building site area.

c. Building height limit. Except as provided in Section III, no structure shall be designed, erected, or altered to exceed forty-five (45) feet.

d. Yards required. Except as provided in Section III, the minimum dimensions of yards shall be:

Front yard .....25 feet

Side yard .....none

Rear yard .....25 feet

Building sites in the central business district area, as shown on the zoning map, are excepted from the front yard requirements for this district.

e. Density restriction. Except as provided in Section III, the maximum gross density, defined as the floor area ratio (the ratio of building square feet to lot size), on any parcel of land or development zoned B-3 is not to exceed 1.0.

Building sites located within a central business district area, as shown on the zoning map, will have a density restriction as defined by the floor area ratio of 5.0.

4. B-I districts: Interstate interchange business districts.

The interstate interchange business districts comprise land that is directly adjacent to an interstate highway access point and the local roadway that it intersects. The businesses located at these roads are intended to accommodate interstate travelers and local residents by providing retail sales and services in the automotive, food, lodging and convenience sales industries to those that utilize the interstate highway system. The district regulations are designed to encourage the development of the interchange areas in a manner that minimizes vehicular traffic conflicts and complements the existing character of the area. To protect the surrounding areas certain restrictions are placed on uses and building placement. Although new districts of this type will not often be called for, such districts can be created in accordance with the amendment procedure set forth herein, if they are needed. To ensure that such districts are actually developed to supply the business needs of the intended users, the amendment creating the district may impose a time limit for project development.

a. Permitted uses. In the B-I districts only the following uses are permitted:

(1) Uses by right. The uses listed below are permitted subject to the conditions specified:

Accessory use

Automobile filling station, where the primary function is the retail sale of gasoline, diesel, oil, grease, tires, batteries and accessories, and where services are limited to installation of items sold, washing, polishing, and greasing; fuel pumps need not be enclosed within a structure (may include grocery store, convenience store, retail)

Bed and breakfast

Grocery store, convenience store, retail

Hotel, motel, and tourist courts

Off-premise outdoor advertising

On-premise advertisement

Restaurant (liquor sales for consumption on premises permitted only as subordinate use to the principal use of food service)

b. Building site area. Except as provided in Section III, the minimum building site area shall be ten thousand (10,000) square feet.

c. Building height limit. Except as provided in Section III, no structure shall be designed, erected, or altered to exceed thirty-five (35) feet.

d. Yard required. Except as provided in Section III, the minimum dimensions of yards shall be:

Front yard .....30 ft.

Side yard .....10 ft.

Rear yard .....35 ft.

e. Density restriction. Except as provided in Section III, the maximum gross density, defined as the floor area ratio (the ratio of building square feet to lot size), on any parcel of land or development zoned B-I is not to exceed 0.70.

(Ord. of 9-17-97)

(Ord. of 9-17-97)

(Ord. of 9-17-97)

(Ord. of 9-17-97)