It is the purpose of the B-2 district to contain those more intensive commercial uses which are frequently related to highway users or which, due to their nature, require outdoor operations. (Ord. 149 Art. 13 §1, 1973)

The following uses are permitted by right in the B-2 district:

(A) General business uses, including but not limited to the following:

(1) Automobile sales and services;

(2) Banks, savings and loan, and finance companies;

(3) Churches and church facilities;

(4) Hotels and motels;

(5) Membership clubs;

(6) Offices and clinics;

(7) Municipal buildings;

(8) Parking lots and parking garages;

(9) Public recreation areas and facilities;

(10) Personal service shops;

(11) Printing and newspaper offices;

(12) Private schools;

(13) Commercial recreational uses and theaters, indoor;

(14) Restaurants and other eating and drinking places;

(15) Retail and wholesale stores;

(16) Accessory buildings and uses;

(17) Pet shops;

(18) Drive-in restaurants;

(19) Bakery, when products are sold at retail on the premises; and

(20) Sexually oriented businesses. (Ord. 149 Art. 13 §2, 1973; Ord. 942 §1, 1992; Ord. 1219 §3, 1997)

The following uses are permitted by special review in the B-2 district:

(A) Multiple-family dwellings when located on second and higher floors when processed as a Planned Unit Development;

(B) Dairy processing and distribution;

(C) Laundries and dry cleaning plants;

(D) Small animal veterinary hospitals;

(E) Plumbing, electrical, and carpenter shops;

(F) Truck, trailer, mobile home, and farm equipment sales and services;

(G) Building supply yards;

(H) Retail uses requiring limited manufacturing or processing on the premises of items to be sold;

(I) Commercial Planned Unit Developments;

(J) Car wash facilities;

(K) Gas stations;

(L) Storage of oil, gasoline, and petroleum products, subject to all requirements of the Colorado Industrial Commission and limited to 20,000 gallons maximum storage;

(M) Public uses as follows:

(1) Water facilities, including storage,

(2) Wastewater treatment facilities, and

(3) Related facilities;

(N) Child day-care facilities;

(O) Commercial recreational uses, outdoor;

(P) Oil wells and gas wells;

(Q) Small animal shelters;

(R) Used car sales;

(S) Wireless communications towers; and

(T) Flea markets. (Ord. 257 Art. 1 §3, 1975; Ord. 259 Art. 13 §3, 1975; Ord. 942 §2 1992; Ord. 968 §11, 1993; Ord. 1079 §2, 1994; Ord. 1164 §1, 1995; Ord. 1194 §3, 1996; Ord. 1514 §4, 2000; Ord. 1682 §3, 2002)

The following are minimum lot, yard, and related requirements in the B-2 district:

(A) Twenty-five feet from any street right-of-way and twenty-five feet from any alley centerline;

(B) A landscaped area of at least ten feet in width shall be provided adjacent to any street abutting the commercial site;

(C) If across the street from a residential district, a landscaped area not less than twenty-five feet in width shall be provided paralleling the right-of-way;

(D) Curb cuts may be permitted through the landscaped area;

(E) When abutting a residential district, the yard between the zone district boundary and any building shall be not less than three times the height of the proposed building. In addition, a solid fence six feet high shall be constructed on the zone district boundary. The city manager or his or her designee may require an eight-foot-high solid fence if there is at least a two-foot difference in the average elevation of the lots on either side of the district boundary between the B-2 district and the residential district; and

(F) Large parking areas in excess of fifty spaces shall, in addition to the landscaping required along the street in the setback area, also be screened by a low decorative masonry wall of three to four feet in height, or earth mounds of an equal height that are landscaped. Said screening to occur between the parking area and the street, unless the parking lot is not visible from the street. Landscaping shall also be provided within these parking areas. This landscaped area shall represent not less than five percent of the total asphalted or paved parking area. The required setback landscaping shall not be considered as a part of the required parking area landscaping. (Ord. 149 Art. 13 §4, 1973; Ord. 669 §2, 1986)

Buildings in the B-2 district shall not exceed the height of forty feet unless approved by the city in accordance with chapter 17-30. (Ord. 149 Art. 13 §5, 1973)

Use of land in the B-2 district shall also conform to the parking, signing, loading, and other provisions of this title. (Ord. 149 Art. 13 §6, 1973)