City of Barnum Minnesota

ARTICLE X: "C-1" GENERAL BUSINESS DISTRICT

10.10   Purpose:  It is the purpose of the C-1 District to permit and to encourage the establishment of commercial shopping areas which offer a wide variety of consumer goods and services.

10.20   Principal Permitted Uses:  Including, but not limited to, the following types of activities:
A.         Retail and Services:  Retail business or service establishment supplying commodities or performing services including, but not limited to, grocery stores, pharmacies, delicatessen stores, barber shops, beauty parlors, clothes cleaning and laundry establishments, specialty shops such as jewelry stores, shoe stores, hardware stores, florist shops, dry goods shops, and other similar stores and shops for the conduct of a retail business or personal services.
            B.         Gasoline Service Stations:  Gasoline service stations including repair garages.
            C.         Eating and Drinking Places:  Soda fountains, ice cream parlors, tea rooms, restaurants, and cafes.
            D.         Offices:  Business and professional offices, real estate, insurance and similar businesses.
            E.         Business Services:  Post offices, financial institutions, real estate, insurance and similar businesses.
            F.         Processing and Printing:  Bakery, catering establishment, laundry or dyeing and cleaning works, publishing, job printing and blue printing, employing not more than five (5) persons on the premises.
            G.        Removed
            H.         Minor Fabricating and Repair:  Appliance and television repair shop, plumbing shop, painting and decorating shop, tinsmithing shop, motor vehicle service stations including auto repairing, and tire repair shop.
            I.          Dwelling Units:  Being a part of retail and services structures and occupied by the proprietor of said retail and/or service business.
J.         Recreation Services:  Recreation services including theaters, bowling alleys, pool and billiard rooms, dancing academies and roller and ice skating rinks.
            K.         Hotels, motels, private clubs and lodges:  wholesale establishments, taverns, and night clubs, commercial parking garages, public utility building and transformer stations without storage garages.

10.30   Conditional Uses:  Uses authorized upon issuance of a Conditional Use Permit include, but not limited to, the following:
            A.         Drive-Through Businesses:  Drive-through or drive-in financial institutions, businesses or restuarants, provided that the premises shall be enclosed by a solid wall or fence at least six (6) feet high where it adjoins in the rear or on the sides of any Residence District, public park, school or church.
            B.         Self-Service Establishments:  Self-service laundries, dry cleaners, car washes and similar uses.
            C.         Outdoor Commercial Recreation:  Any type of commercial recreation, including baseball fields, swimming pools, skating rinks, and similar open air facilities, provided such establishments shall be located not less than one hundred (100) feet from any residential district.
            D.         Animal Hospitals, Veterinary Clinics:  Kennels for display, boarding, or treatment of pets and other domestic animals;  provided that any structure or area used for such purposes, including pens, and exercise yards, shall be located at least one hundred (100) feet from any residential district and that such pens or exercise runs shall be enclosed on four sides by a sight obscuring, unpierced fence or wall at least six (6) feet in height.
            E.         Motor Vehicle Services, Farm Implements:  Motor vehicles, trucks, trailers, farm implements, for sale or display, trailer lots, repair garages, body and fender shops, paint shops, provided that there shall be a minimum distance of fifty (50) feet between the use and any residential district and that the premises shall be enclosed by a solid wall or fence at least six (6) feet in height where it adjoins in the rear or on the sides of any residential district.

10.40   Requirements:  The following requirements shall be observed:
A.         Business in Enclosed Buildings:  All business, services or processing shall be conducted wholly within a completely enclosed building; except for the sale of automotive fuel, lubricants and fluids at service stations, and such outdoor display or storage of vehicles, materials and equipment as heretofore specifically authorized or as may be authorized by the Board of Adjustment.
            B.         Maximum Building Height:  No principal structure shall exceed three (3) stories or thirty-five (35) feet in height.
            C.         Yard Setbacks:  Front, rear and side yard setbacks shall be:
            Front Yard                    Rear Yard                    Side Yard
                                    None                            None                            None except when adjoining a                                                                                                                                     residential district in which case there                                                                                                                      shall be a side yard of not less than ten                                                                                                                       (10) feet.  If an unrequired yard is                                                                                                                    provided, it shall not be less than five                                                                                                               (5) feet.

            D.         Buffer Required:  Where a C-1 District is located adjacent to a Residential District and not separated therefrom by a street or alley, a buffer strip of trees and shrubs of not less than eight (8) feet in width, shall be provided and maintained along the property line.  The planning commission may vary these requirements where conditions are such that a buffer strip will not serve a useful purpose.
            E.         Storage:  All outside storage materials must be in rear of lot and screened by a privacy fence of not less than six (6) feet in height    

            F.         Off-Street Parking:  As stated in Article XVI.



 

 

 

 

 

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