Chapter 17.40
T&R TRAVEL AND RECREATION BUSINESS DISTRICT
Sections:
17.40.040 Special use standards.
17.40.060 Area, width, height, and yard requirements.
17.40.070 General requirements.
17.40.080 Signs and lighting premises.
17.40.010 Purpose.
This district is designed to provide for the location and grouping of businesses which serve the traveling and recreating public. By concentrating such uses the city intends to increase public convenience when utilizing such services and to allow such activities to render the maximum service. [Ord. 23-418-O § 124 (Exh. A-4)].
17.40.020 Permitted uses.
The following uses are permitted outright:
A. Public and Institutional Uses.
1. Community service; includes governmental offices;
2. Public parks and open space, including playgrounds, trails, nature preserves, athletic fields, courts, swim pools, and similar uses;
3. Transportation facilities; includes construction, operation, and maintenance of facilities located within right-of-way controlled by a public agency, consistent with the transportation system plan;
4. Utility structures and facilities, city-planned projects; i.e., utilities identified by an adopted city master plan or development review approval.
B. Commercial Uses.
1. Amusement, entertainment, and commercial recreation; includes theaters, bowling alleys, miniature golf, concert venues, arcades, similar uses;
2. Automotive repair and service; includes fueling station, car wash, tire sales and repair or replacement, painting, and other repair for automobiles, motorcycles, aircraft, boats, RVs, trucks, etc.;
3. Personal service establishments such as beauty and barber shops, laundromat, cleaning and laundry shops and services, and dyeing establishments;
4. Retail stores such as hardware stores, garden shops, drug stores, antique shops, clothing stores, and grocery stores;
5. Indoor restaurant, bakery, cafe, coffee shop, or other eatery, including bars and taverns;
6. Light service shops such as picture framing studio, and tailoring;
7. Hotels, motels, and similar overnight accommodations. [Ord. 23-418-O § 124 (Exh. A-4)].
17.40.030 Conditional uses.
The following uses and accessory uses are permitted when authorized in accordance with Chapter 17.100 RRMC:
A. Public and Institutional Uses.
1. Automobile parking, public off-street parking;
2. Emergency services; includes police, fire, ambulance;
3. Marinas, boat ramps;
4. Public works utilities storage yards; includes vehicle and equipment storage, maintenance, and repair;
5. Religious institutions and houses of worship;
6. Utility structures and facilities, regional projects; project is not part of an adopted city master plan or development review approval;
7. Wireless communication facilities.
B. Commercial Uses.
1. Automotive fuel stations;
2. Automotive sales and rental; includes motorcycles, boats, recreational vehicles, and trucks;
3. Bed and breakfast inn;
4. Outdoor restaurant, bakery, cafe, coffee shop, or other eatery, including bars and taverns;
5. Drive-through service;
6. Golf course;
7. Recreational vehicle park.
C. Industrial and Employment Uses.
1. Beverage and bottling facility, except as allowed for commercial uses;
2. Metal/shipping cargo container. [Ord. 23-418-O § 124 (Exh. A-4)].
17.40.040 Special use standards.
The following uses are permitted when found to be in compliance with their relevant special standards criteria, contained in Chapter 17.105 RRMC, and/or their specific standards within this chapter:
A. Residential Uses.
1. Multifamily Dwelling.
a. New multifamily dwellings shall not be located on the ground floor of a nonresidential use;
b. Nothing in this chapter shall preclude multifamily units from having a form of access to the ground floor such as a staircase or elevator, so long as the entrance is clearly marked or secured for resident use only.
2. Vacation rental dwelling.
B. Commercial Uses.
1. Mobile vendors, subject to the same standards throughout all zones, as stated in RRMC 17.65.160. [Ord. 23-418-O § 124 (Exh. A-4)].
17.40.050 Accessory uses.
The following uses are permitted as accessory to an existing use in the travel and recreation district:
A. Public and Institutional Uses.
1. Child daycare center.
B. Commercial Uses.
1. Offices, such as banks, financial, and professional offices.
C. Industrial Uses and Employment Uses.
1. Freight terminals, including loading docks, storage, warehousing, wholesale distribution, cold storage; except self-service storage or mini-storage warehouses.
D. Other Uses.
1. Solar panels (for incidental use). [Ord. 23-418-O § 124 (Exh. A-4)].
17.40.060 Area, width, height, and yard requirements.
A. The maximum building height is 40 feet.
B. Each new parcel must front on and have access to a publicly owned and maintained road for a minimum of 40 feet, except when the parcel is served by a flagpole approved under RRMC 16.20.030, or a private road created and approved through a partition, subdivision or planned unit development.
C. There are no requirements for lot area or width, or for yard setbacks except as necessary to meet the off-street parking and loading requirements of Chapter 17.70 RRMC, or as a condition of approval. [Ord. 23-418-O § 124 (Exh. A-4)].
17.40.070 General requirements.
A. No use shall be permitted and no process, equipment or materials shall be used which are found by the planning commission to be harmful to persons living or working in the vicinity or by reason of odor, fumes, dust, smoke, cinders, dirt, refuse, water-carried waste, noise, vibrations, illumination, glare, or unsightliness or to involve any hazard of fire or explosions.
B. All business, services and processes shall be conducted entirely within a completely enclosed structure, or in an area immediately adjacent thereto, provided the area of such outside use is paved and does not exceed 10 percent of the area of the enclosed commercial use and is entirely on privately owned property. Off-street parking and loading areas, gasoline stations, outdoor dining, entertainment or recreation areas, automobile, boat, recreational vehicle and truck sales or rentals need not be within an enclosed structure.
C. Open storage of materials attendant to a permitted use or conditional use shall be permitted only within a paved area surrounded or screened by an approved solid wall or an approved site screening fence six feet in height; provided, that no materials or equipment, except vehicles, shall be stored to a height greater than that of the wall or fence.
D. Where a site adjoins or is located across an alley from a residential district, a solid wall or fence, six feet in height, shall be located on the property line common to such districts, except in a required front yard, where it must be inside the property line.
E. All new development shall be required to provide half street improvements along all frontage roads, including curbs, gutters, sidewalks and storm drain facilities, and pavement to the center line of the road(s).
F. Any developer working in any public right-of-way within the city limits shall provide the city with a certificate of insurance in the amount of $1,000,000 naming the city as an additional insured. Public utilities are exempt from this subsection.
G. Any developer developing in the city limits may be required to pay for a state of Oregon licensed hydrologist, soil engineer, engineer, and/or geologist who is hired by the city to review the development plans to ensure that all requirements and specifications of the city are met. [Ord. 23-418-O § 124 (Exh. A-4)].
17.40.080 Signs and lighting premises.
A. All signs located within the T&R or travel and recreation business district shall comply with Chapter 17.85 RRMC.
B. Outdoor lighting standards and fixtures for illumination of premises shall be so designed and installed that direct rays are not toward or parallel with a public street or highway or directed toward any residential uses located in the R-E, R-1, and R-2 districts. [Ord. 23-418-O § 124 (Exh. A-4)].
17.40.090 Off-street parking.
All uses shall provide off-street parking facilities as required in Chapter 17.70 RRMC except when located within a special district organized to provide common public parking areas. [Ord. 23-418-O § 124 (Exh. A-4)].