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Section 8 . 3 . 4

Office and Business Districts

Jonathan Watson

The “O: Office District” is intended for use as a transitional district between residential and commercial / industrial districts. Therefore, the maximum size of buildings in the “O” district is limited to 8,000 square feet. Primary uses in this district include offices for professional, business, governmental and quasi-governmental uses, banks and financial institutions, barber and beauty shops, child care centers, funeral homes, medical and dental clinics, photography studios; police or fire stations, and religious uses.[1]

The “B: Business District” is “established to provide for businesses which provide for the full range of convenience uses necessary to meet the daily needs of residential neighborhoods.[2] There are more than seventy primary uses in this district, of which a few examples are: antique shops, barber shops, beauty parlors, bookstores, drug stores, dry goods stores, fire stations, grocery stores, funeral homes, haberdasheries[3], medical and dental clinics, phonograph record and sheet music stores, and shoe stores.

[1] St. Joseph County Zoning Ordinance, § 154.150.

[2] St. Joseph County Zoning Ordinance, § 154.165.

[3] Yes, really. The zoning codes are updated occasionally to include new uses, but older ones still stick around.

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