A community business district is intended to provide all types of goods and services for the community, with the exception of those uses more generally associated with industrial district, but at a lower intensity of use than in the central business district. (Prior code § 8-1.9(a))

Within the B-2 district, the following uses shall be permitted:

1. Any use permitted in a B-1 neighborhood business district; however, no living or sleeping quarters shall be permitted in any detached accessory building or structure on the same lot;

2. Amusement enterprises, including billiard or pool halls;

3. Antique shops;

4. Apartments;

5. Art galleries;

6. Auctioneer establishments;

7. Auditoriums and theaters;

8. Automobile parking lots and/or buildings;

9. Automobile parts stores;

10. Automobile service stations, with or without auto repairing; provided all auto repairing operations are conducted in enclosed buildings; and provided further, that tire rebuilding or battery manufacturing shall not be permitted within this district;

11. Automobile upholstery shops;

12. Awning or canvas shops;

13. Banks;

14. Baseball or football stadiums and other sport activities and amusements;

15. Bath houses, commercial (plunge);

16. Baths, Turkish and the like, including masseurs;

17. Block-printing establishments;

18. Bowling alleys;

19. Business offices and agencies;

20. Catering establishments employing not more than five persons;

21. Charity relief organizations;

22. Clinics, medical or dental;

23. Custom dressmaking or millinery shops;

24. Dancehalls;

25. Dancing and hula studios;

26. Dressmaking shops;

27. Dry goods and/or department stores;

28. Equipment rental and sales yards;

29. Feed stores;

30. Gymnasiums;

31. Haberdasheries and women’s apparel shops;

32. Hardware and garden supply stores;

33. Ice cream and milk manufacturing plants employing not more than twenty-five persons;

34. Jewelry stores or fine art shops, including interior decorating;

35. Libraries;

36. Marinas;

37. Miniature golf courses;

38. Museums;

39. Music conservatories or music studios;

40. News and magazine stands;

41. Nurseries (flower or plants); provided, that all incidental equipment and supplies, including fertilizers and empty cans, are kept within enclosed buildings;

42. Nursing and convalescent homes;

43. Parcel delivery stations;

44. Pet shops, not involving the treatment or boarding of animals;

45. Photo studios;

46. Physical culture studios;

47. Plumbing shops within wholly enclosed buildings and employing not more than five persons;

48. Printing, lithography or publishing shops;

49. Private clubs or fraternal organizations;

50. Private schools or business colleges;

51. Professional and financial buildings;

52. Public parking areas;

53. Radio and television stations;

54. Religious, benevolent, and philanthropic societies;

55. Restaurants, cafes or bars, including drive-ins;

56. Sanitariums;

57. Shoe stores;

58. Sign-painting shops within wholly enclosed buildings and employing not more than five persons;

59. Skating shops;

60. Tailor shops;

61. Trade schools;

62. Used car lots; provided all repair and maintenance is conducted within a wholly enclosed building;

63. Mortuaries, subject to the approval of the commission;

64. Warehouses and yards which are adjunct to, and part of, the operation of the permitted uses listed above may be permitted by the commission, provided such uses are determined to conform to the intent of this article, and subject to such terms and conditions as may be warranted. Such uses shall be conducted wholly within a completely enclosed building or within an area enclosed on all sides by a solid fence or wall at least six feet in height; and provided, that no goods, materials, or objects shall be stacked higher than the fence or walls so erected;

65. Bed and breakfast homes, subject to the restrictions and standards of section 19.64.030 of this title;

66. Any other retail businesses or commercial enterprises which are similar in character of rendering sales of commodities or performance of services to the community and not detrimental to the welfare of the surrounding area; provided, however, that such uses shall be approved by the commission as conforming to the intent of this article. (Ord. 2609 § 6, 1997: Ord. 1960 § 1, 1990: prior code § 8-1.9(b))

The minimum lot area shall be six thousand square feet and the minimum lot frontage shall be sixty feet. (Prior code § 8-1.9(c))

The maximum height of any building shall be limited by the total floor area which shall not exceed in square feet two hundred percent of the total lot area; and provided further, that no building be more than six stories in height. (Prior code § 8-1.9(d))

No yard spacing shall be required, except such areas that shall be required for off-street parking; with the exception that where the side or rear of a lot in a B-2 community business district abuts a lot in any residential, apartment house or hotel district, the abutting side or rear yard shall have the same yard spacing as that required in the abutting residential, apartment house or hotel district, respectively; and provided further, that any apartment shall provide yard space in accordance with the requirements of the apartment district. (Ord. 1960 § 2, 1990: prior code § 8-1.9(e))