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Zoning File #2327 January 12, 1998 Page 2 The permitted ust in the B-5 District include both service and retail businesses, the majority of which are typically low traffic volume and typically not 24 hour uses. (See Exhibit E) The current list of conditional uses in B-5 was last amended in October 1996 with the deletion of "home and garden equipment rental", which was concurrently made a permitted use in the B-1 District. The B-5 conditional uses include some which may involve higher traffic volumes, or somewhat more intensive use than the permitted uses. For instance, a "candy, ice cream, popcorn, nuts, frozen desserts, soft drinks store" such as the Dairy Queen, has a more intense use of the parking lot and drive thru, and has perhaps more lighting than most of the other allowed retail uses. B-5 also lists "kennels" as a conditional use, which has the poiential for disrupting a neighborhood due to noise levels and possibly odors. The "home and garden equipment rental" use was moved out of the B-5 District on the basis that such use could be noisy or create noxious odors, involving the operation of engines, as well as tending toward fenced storage areas which could be visually disruptive. % The B-5 District was primarily created in 1975 to accommodate existing businesses adjacent to existing single family residential areas. The intent was to limit the intensity of uses in the B-5 District to those which would not only be good neighbors, but provide a valuable service to the surrounding neighborhood. Consequently, the number of properties zoned B-5 is extremely limited, comprising approximately 5.9 acres in total, all of which is in Navarre (see Exhibit C). Nature of Proposed Uses The proposed uses appear to be primarily restaurant type uses. The zoning code defines two types of restaurants: 1. "Restaurants (Class 1)" - Food is served to the customer md consumed by him while seated at a counter or table and the restaurant does not serve intoxicating liquor or provide live entertainment. Food is selected by a customer while going through a serving line and taken to a table for consumption. : for 2. "Restaurants (Class 11)" - Fast food convenience, drive-in and liquor service restaurants, A restaurant where a majority of customers order and are served their food at a counter in packages prepared to leave the premises, or to be taken to a table, counter, automobile or off the premises to be consumed; or a drive-in where most customers consume their food in an automobile regardless of how it is served; or restaurants which serv e intoxicating liquor or have live entertainment. It is unclear whether the uses proposed by applicant fall strictly into a Class I or Class II category. This is partly due to the nature of the definiti'^n': and to ronie degree a function of the nature of res;aurants in today ’s world. Staff envisions a bagel shop or coffee shop to be of a Class II nature.