§ 4.6

Commercial Uses

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1. Business services and offices, including design salons operated under the authority of an approved A.I. license, excepting those listed below which are permitted as shown:

a. Barber, hairdresser, cosmetician, manicurist or esthetician licensed in accordance with title 5, chapter of the General Laws of Rhode Island [Chapter 6260 6/13/96].

b. Building, electrical plumbing, and similar contractor storage with or without office use.

c. Car wash

d. Catering business

e. Commercial parking garage or lot

f. Corporate Office

g. Funeral home

h. Health club facility

i. Prepared food sales

j. Heating oil sales, service and storage

k. Incidental home occupation

l. Office Co-ops

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l. Motor fuel station

m. Motor vehicle repair garage

n. Motor vehicle specialty shop

o. On-premises dry cleaning facility

p. Self-service laundry

q. Trade school

r. For-profit educational institutions serving young children including nursery schools, pre-schools, kindergartens, elementary schools and middle schools

s. For-profit educational institutions serving older children and adults, including high schools, vocational schools, colleges and universities

t. Trucking terminal

2. Retail sales, excepting those listed below which are permitted as shown:

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a. Adult book store

b. Auction house

c. Flea market

d. Lumber yard

e. Motor vehicle or vehicle sales, lease or rental

f. Supermarket

3. Wholesale commercial uses, including sale to the public when secondary to primary wholesale commercial use

4. Restaurant, cafe, diner, snack bar or other establishment where the sale of food and/or beverage is a principal use; alcoholic beverages may be sold under the authority of a BL or BV license.

5. Tavern, bar, lounge, pub or other establishment where alcoholic beverages are sold under the authority of a Brewpub/Manufacturer (BM) BL, BV or C license

6. Entertainment facility or amusement enterprise, excepting those listed below which are permitted as shown:

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a. Adult cabaret

b. Adult motion picture theater

c. Cinema, theater or cultural arts center

d. Night club or similar establishment where entertainment is provided

7. Storage or warehouse uses, excepting those listed below which are permitted as shown:

a. Junkyard, vehicle wrecking or salvage facility

b. Recycling, facility

c. Self-service storage facility

d. Trailer box or similar article used for storage

e. Pallet exchange facility

8. Solar Energy System-Small Residential

9. Solar Energy System-Large Residential

10. Solar Energy System-Large Com./Industrial

11. Wind Energy Conversion Facilities

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(Ord. Ch. 8146 11-4-2019; Ord. Ch. 8484 3-18-2024)