Chapter 17.20
C-3—GENERAL COMMERCIAL DISTRICT
Sections:
17.20.020 Uses allowed outright.
17.20.030 Residential accessory uses.
17.20.040 Conditional uses allowed.
17.20.050 Dimensional standards.
17.20.060 Exceptions in case of large scale development.
17.20.010 Purpose.
The purpose of a C-3 district is to implement the comprehensive plan and to provide for general types of business and service establishments which would not likely be compatible with the uses permitted in C-1 and C-2, local and community commercial districts, and which would likely be detrimental to the adjoining residential areas unless effectively controlled.
Statutory Reference: ORS Ch. 197, Ch. 227
History: Ord. 1131 §2, 1990.
17.20.020 Uses allowed outright.
In a C-3 zoning district, the following uses and their accessory uses are allowed outright. Outside or open storage shall be an allowed accessory use.
(1) Automobile service station, car wash or repair garage, body and fender paint shop, sales of new and used vehicles.
(2) Business, governmental or professional office.
(3) Community service facility such as a fire station, library, community center, park, utility facility, meeting hall or transit facility.
(4) Eating or drinking establishment.
(5) Financial institutions.
(6) Funeral home.
(7) Hotel or motel.
(8) Medical clinic.
(9) Personal and business service establishment such as a barber shop, tailoring shop, printing shop, laundry and dry cleaning, sales agency or photography studio.
(10) Recreation vehicles sales, services, rental.
(11) Recycling center.
(12) Retail trade.
(13) Roller rink, bowling alley, motion picture theater or similar extensive commercial amusement or recreational facility.
(14) School and associated buildings, structures and facilities.
(15) Small appliance repair including radio, television and electronics repair.
(16) Small parts wholesaling or retailing.
(17) Veterinary clinic or small animal hospital, but not including a kennel or a cattery.
Statutory Reference: ORS Ch. 197, Ch. 227
History: Ord. 1131 §2, 1990; Ord. 1270 §1, 1998; Ord. 1323 §1, 2002.
17.20.030 Residential accessory uses.
(1) Accessory uses allowed in a residential zoning district shall be allowed in connection with single-family, two-family and multi-family dwellings in this zoning district.
(2) Such accessory uses shall comply with the standards applicable to accessory uses allowed in the MR zoning district.
Statutory Reference: ORS Ch. 197, Ch. 227
History: Ord. 1131 §2 (Part), 1990; Ord. 1323 §1, 2002.
17.20.040 Conditional uses allowed.
In a C-3 zoning district, the following uses and their accessory uses are allowed subject to GMC Chapter 17.70 (conditional uses):
(1) Planned unit development (PUD).
(2) Wholesale distribution outlet, including warehousing.
(3) Dwellings, subject to GMC Subsections 17.14.050(1) through (5).
(4) Foster homes.
(5) Day care center.
(6) Off-street parking and storage of truck tractors and/or semi-trailers, subject to GMC Chapter 17.48 (off-street parking and loading) and Section 17.62.120 (off-street parking and storage of truck tractors and / or trailers).
(7) Light manufacturing as an accessory use to a use allowed outright, subject to GMC Section 17.62.130 (light manufacturing).
(8) Recreation vehicle park, subject to GMC Section 17.62.100 (recreation vehicle park).
(9) Indoor mini-storage.
(10) Uses operating between 12:00 a.m. and 5:00 a.m.
Statutory Reference: ORS Ch. 197, Ch. 227
History: Ord. 1131 §2, 1990;Ord. 1198§1(D), 1994;Ord.l257 §1, 1998; Ord.1289 §1, 2000; Ord. 1291 §1 (Part), 2000; Ord. 1323 §1, 2002; Ord. 1341, 2003.
17.20.045 Screening.
The following screening standards shall apply:
(1) Off-street parking and loading areas and business activities, such as service, repair, processing, storage and merchandise display, that are conducted outside of a wholly enclosed building, shall be screened from abutting properties where such properties are in a residential zoning district and from abutting unimproved public street rights-of-way where property on the opposite side of the unimproved right-of-way is in a residential zoning district.
(2) Business activities, such as service, repair, processing, storage and merchandise display, that are conducted outside of a wholly enclosed building, shall be screened from abutting properties where such properties are in a C-1 or C-2 zoning district and from abutting unimproved public street rights-of-way where property on the opposite side of the unimproved right-of-way is in a C-1 or C-2 zoning district.
(3) Storage, with the exception of merchandise display, outside of a wholly enclosed building shall be screened from abutting improved public street rights-of-way. Off-street parking and loading areas for customer vehicles, employee vehicles and vehicles for sale are not required to be screened from improved public street rights-of-way. However, off-street parking and loading areas for other types of vehicle storage (e.g. towed vehicles, recreational vehicles being stored as a service) shall be screened from abutting improved public street rights-of-way.
(4) Required screening shall be accomplished by building placement, a landscaped earth berm or a sight-obscuring fence or hedge.
(5) Required screening shall be reviewed pursuant to GMC Chapter 17.80 (design review). When design review is not required, screening shall be reviewed by the City Administrator or designee.
(6) Required screening shall be a minimum of six feet (6’) high. With the exception of equipment and vehicles, stored merchandise and materials shall not exceed the height of required screening. Stored equipment and vehicles may exceed the height of the required screening provided such equipment and vehicles are not stacked on top of one another.
(7) Required screening shall be sited so that it does not conflict with GMC Chapter 17.54 (clear vision). In locations where perimeter landscaping adjacent to a street is required as a condition of land use approval, required screening shall be located behind such landscaping.
Statutory Reference: ORS Ch. 197, Ch. 227
History: Ord. 1270 §2, 1998; Ord. 1323 §1, 2002; Ord. 1323 §1, 2002.
17.20.050 Dimensional standards.
Except as provided in GMC Chapters 17.38 (planned unit development), Chapter 17.72 (variances) and Chapter 17.76 (exceptions), the following dimensional standards shall apply in a C-3 zoning district:
(1) Front Setbacks. There shall be no minimum front setback requirement except when a front lot line abuts a residential zoning district or abuts a street where property on the opposite side of the street is in a residential zoning district, in which cases the minimum front setback shall be twenty feet (20’).
(2) Street Side Setbacks. There shall be no minimum street side setback requirement except when a street side lot line abuts a residential zoning district or abuts a street where property on the opposite side of the street is in a residential zoning district, in which cases the minimum street side setback shall be twenty feet (20’).
(3) Side and Rear Setbacks. There shall be no minimum side or rear setback requirements.
(4) Off-Street Parking. The boundary of any area developed or intended for off-street parking shall be located a minimum of five feet (5’) from all property lines.
(5) Architectural Features. Architectural features such as cornices, eaves, gutters, chimneys and flues may project a maximum of two feet (2’) into a required setback area.
(6) Building Height. The maximum building height shall be thirty-five feet (35’). This restriction may be varied as follows:
(a) Maximum building height may be increased by one (1) story if the building is provided with an approved automatic sprinkler system throughout as provided in Section 506 of the Oregon Structural Specialty Code or its successor; vertical projections such as chimneys, spires, domes, elevator shaft housings, towers, aerials, flagpoles and similar objects not used for human occupancy are exempt from the maximum building height standard;
(b) Maximum building height may be increased if the city fire department reports that it possesses sufficient fire-fighting capability to provide emergency response to a structure of the height proposed.
(7) Equipment Setbacks. There shall be no minimum setback requirements for central air conditioners, heat pumps and similar equipment except when a lot line abuts a residential zoning district, in which case the minimum setback requirement from the lot line abutting the residential zoning district shall be ten feet (10’).
(8) Hotels and Motels:
(a) The minimum lot area shall be five hundred (500) square feet per dwelling unit;
(b) The minimum frontage shall be one hundred feet (100’).
(9) Portable Storage Container Setbacks. When a lot line abuts a residential district, a setback does not apply to Portable Storage Containers as defined in Chapter 5.22.
Statutory Reference: ORS Ch. 197, Ch. 227
History: Ord. 1131 §2, 1990;Ord. 1140§2, 1991;Ord. 1323 §1, 2002; Ord. 1392 § 7, 2007.
[Ed. Note: The publication(s) referred to or incorporated by reference in this ordinance are available from the office of the City Recorder.]
17.20.060 Exceptions in case of large scale development.
The standards and requirements of the regulations of this section may be modified by the Planning Commission in the case of a plan and program for a planned unit development, or a large scale shopping center, providing the modifications are not detrimental to the public health, safety and welfare and providing the Planning Commission determines there is provision for adequate public spaces and improvements for the circulation, recreation, light, air and service needs of the developed tract and its relation to adjacent areas and for such covenants or other legal provisions as will assure conformity to and achievement of the plan.
Statutory Reference: ORS Ch. 197, Ch. 227