STANFORD CODE OF ORDINANCES
TITLE XV: LAND USAGE
CHAPTER 152: ZONING
§152.078  B-3 HIGHWAY BUSINESS DISTRICT

The B-3 District is for the conduct of retail sales and personal business oriented to vehicles and vehicular travel primarily on major streets, roads and arterials. Characteristically, the district is centering about major road intersections and along arterial routes. Travel within the district is mainly by way of private automobile.

(A) Permitted uses.

(1) Any uses in the B-2 Neighborhood Business District.

(2) New or used car sales, farm implement sales, trailer, mobile, or manufactured home sales, drive-in theaters, drive-in restaurants; motels; or any other similar uses generally requiring large amounts of parking or catering to automobile traffic.

(B) Conditional uses.  Uses which require special exceptions and require written approval of the Board of Adjustment include churches and other places of worship; public libraries; public parks and commercial public recreational facilities; public utilities; funeral homes; cemeteries; roadside stands and clubs, including a club of which the chief activity is customarily carried on as a business; dwelling units occupying the same building as the principal commercial use and being for the use of the owner and/or operator of the permitted commercial use; mobile home park; mobile home subdivision; recreational vehicle park. The Board of Adjustment may attach certain conditions to its approval which it feels are necessary to preserve and protect the character of the district in which the proposed use would locate.

(C) Accessory uses.  Any accessory use or building customarily incidental to the above permitted uses is permitted.

(D) Special use.  A planned unit development for highway business shall be permitted as a special use in conformance with §§ 152.225 through 152.229 of this chapter.

(E) Required conditions.  Same as the required conditions for the B-1 District.

(F) Development standards.
 

Minimum lot area none
Minimum lot frontage 100 feet
Minimum front yard 25 feet, or one-half of the street right-of-way,
whichever is greater
Minimum side yard if adjacent to residential district, must comply with 
adjacent district's requirements; or minimum of 8 feet
Minimum rear yard same as side yard
Maximum building height 36 feet or 3 stories
Signs As set forth in §§ 152.205-152.211
Parking As set forth in §§ 152.185-152.191
Sidewalks As set forth in §§ 152.135-152.151

(Ord. 920.27, passed 10-7-93)  Penalty, see § 152.999


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