Chapter 17.27
COMMUNITY COMMERCIAL DISTRICT (CC)1
Sections:
17.27.010 Purposes and intent.
17.27.025 Administrative conditional use permit.
17.27.040 Site development standards.
17.27.010 Purposes and intent.
The community commercial (CC) district is intended to implement the city general plan’s community commercial (CC) land use designation. The purposes and intent of the district are:
To provide a broad range of light-to-moderate intensity commercial uses for residents and visitors, with an emphasis on resident-serving. Typical resident-serving uses include grocery and specialty stores, schools, public facilities, multifamily housing in association with commercial uses; professional offices including real estate offices, medical offices, consulting services; small businesses; community recreational facilities. Typical visitor-serving uses include hotels, motels, restaurants, visitor centers, museums, theaters, visitor-serving recreational facilities. The zone is also intended to provide live-work opportunities by allowing upper-level residential uses above commercial establishments (e.g., mixed use).
Consistent with the general plan, the CC zoning district is generally expected to extend along major thoroughfares from (but not including) the city’s historical commercial (HC) zoning district northward to the intersection of SR 4 and SR 49 (i.e., the central portion of the city’s commercial districts). (Ord. 516 §1 (Att. A), 2022)
17.27.015 Existing uses.
Any changes in the use of an existing structure in the CC zone shall comply with existing city standards including the requirements of Section 17.27.020 unless otherwise specifically exempted. (Ord. 516 §1 (Att. A), 2022)
17.27.020 Permitted uses.
All permitted uses in the CC district are subject to either an administrative site plan review pursuant to Chapter 17.73 or a site plan review pursuant to Chapter 17.74 unless otherwise exempted pursuant to those chapters. Permitted uses include:
A. Retail sales and/or services, indoors unless otherwise provided in Section 17.27.030;
B. Banks, and other financial institutions;
C. Hotels, motels, inns, bed and breakfasts, vacation rentals;
D. Professional office(s);
E. Schools, churches, libraries, museums, art galleries, tourist information facilities;
F. Restaurants, banquet halls, delis, fast food, take-out;
G. Outdoor dining in conjunction with a restaurant when proposed in conjunction with the restaurant. Alcohol service is subject to Section 17.27.025;
H. Health clubs, recreational facilities, indoor;
I. Theaters, indoor;
J. Private clubs, lodges, social clubs, cultural centers;
K. Residential use, single-family where the home was pre-existing prior to January 1, 2021;
L. Transitional and supportive housing within a permitted single-family residence;
M. Emergency shelters subject to the standards established in Section 17.52.030;
N. Special needs housing regardless of size;
O. Mixed Use--Residential/Commercial. This section is intended to allow second-floor housing units in ground-floor commercial buildings. Housing units located at the rear of commercial buildings also are permitted;
P. Medical clinics;
Q. Animal hospitals, indoors;
R. Kennels, animal spa, groomers indoors--ten animals or less;
S. Plant nurseries (retail);
T. Certified farmer’s market, community gardens;
U. Self-service laundry;
V. Exterminator services, without on-site storage of vehicles or chemicals;
W. Public services and facilities including police stations, fire stations, administration, public parks;
X. Minor public facilities and infrastructure (e.g., water distribution, wastewater distribution, drainage facilities, pumps, lighting, light transit facilities);
Y. Recycling facilities, small (less than five hundred square feet);
Z. TV, radio, broadcast studios without towers;
AA. Nonresidential rooftop solar energy systems (accessory use for private/single building)--See also Chapter 15.28;
BB. Accessory uses and structures appurtenant to permitted uses. (Ord. 516 §1 (Att. A), 2022)
17.27.025 Administrative conditional use permit.
In the CC district, the following uses are subject to the issuance of an administrative conditional use permit in accordance with Chapter 17.78.027:
A. Sale of alcoholic beverages with food;
B. Sale of alcoholic beverages requiring an ABC license or change in the type of ABC license other than a change of ownership of an existing license;
C. Salons (e.g., nail, hair) and spas;
D. Child day care centers;
E. Temporary buildings (e.g., construction buildings, sales offices) unless otherwise approved in conjunction with a site development permit or administrative site plan review;
F. Seasonal sales outside the public right-of-way (e.g., candy sales) involving a semi-permanent or permanent structure remaining on site (in use or vacant) more than thirty days in a calendar year;
G. Vehicle food vendor, food and drink stands not in conjunction with a special event, or proposed for use more than three days in a calendar year. (Ord. 516 §1 (Att. A), 2022)
17.27.030 Conditional uses.
In the CC district, the following uses are subject to the issuance of a conditional use permit in accordance with Chapter 17.78:
A. Tavern, nightclub, bar and/or cocktail lounge;
B. Smoke shop;
C. Firearms, weapons, ammunition sales;
D. Gas stations including those with automobile service and repair;
E. Mini-marts;
F. Places of assembly, meeting halls, conference centers;
G. Winery, brewery;
H. Limited outdoor storage and displays associated with retail sales and/or services in compliance with Sections 17.37.080 and 17.37.090. The outdoor display and sales areas shall be directly related to the business occupying a primary structure on the subject parcel and shall not exceed more than twenty percent of the primary structure’s gross floor area;
I. New residential use, single-family (i.e., home not pre-existing prior to January 1, 2021);
J. Residential use, multifamily;
K. Residential hotels;
L. Mobilehome parks;
M. Hospitals;
N. Ambulance service, taxi service;
O. Animal hospitals, outdoors;
P. Kennels, more than ten animals;
Q. Feed store including animals and fowl in conjunction with a feed store;
R. Recreation facility, outdoor; campgrounds, recreational vehicle parks, outdoor theaters;
S. Flea markets;
T. Funeral homes;
U. Depots--bus, freight, rail--major facilities (excludes bus stops, small light transit facilities);
V. Self-storage facilities;
W. Recycling facilities, large (five hundred square feet or more);
X. Car washes;
Y. Distribution, freight facilities; package delivery services;
Z. Warehousing, wholesaling;
AA. Exterminator services, with on-site storage of vehicles or chemicals;
BB. Research or testing laboratory;
CC. Laundromats, dry cleaners, pick-up;
DD. Heliport--emergency use;
EE. Broadcasting studios (radio or television) with tower(s), telecommunications, internet facilities with tower(s);
FF. Nonresidential freestanding solar energy systems (accessory use, private-single building); solar energy facilities, substations, solar farms--See also Chapter 15.28;
GG. Off-street garage or lot, public or private;
HH. Businesses that involve limited small scale manufacturing, processing or treatment of goods or products which are clearly incidental to the retail business conducted on the premises and that are not objectionable due to noise, odor, dust, smoke, vibration or other similar causes and which do not contain more than three thousand square feet of floor area or that employ more than five persons at any one time such as bakeries, print or photocopy shops, dry cleaners, electronic appliance repair shops, cobbler shops, flower shops, upholstery shops, cabinet shops and other uses considered to be similar in the opinion of the planning commission;
II. Accessory uses and structures appurtenant to conditional use permits for which a conditional use permit has been issued. (Ord. 516 §1 (Att. A), 2022)
17.27.040 Site development standards.
Site development standards in the CC district are as follows:
A. Minimum lot area for new lots, five thousand square feet;
B. Maximum impervious surfaces, eighty percent;
C. Landscaping, minimum fifteen percent. Landscaping may be reduced to ten percent with the provision of housing for low or very low income households in accordance with the general plan;
D. Maximum building height, fifty feet;
E. Lot width, forty feet, minimum;
F. Lot depth, eighty feet, minimum;
G. Minimum building setbacks:
1. Front, zero feet;
2. Side, zero feet;
3. Exterior side of a corner lot, same as front;
4. Rear:
a. Principal building, zero feet;
b. Accessory building, zero feet;
5. Between buildings, zero feet;
6. Vision clearance, fifteen feet;
H. For parcels adjoining or visible from highways, project design shall accommodate the provision of street trees when identified in adopted city plans. (Ord. 516 §1 (Att. A), 2022)
Prior ordinance history: Ords. 270, 275, 323 and 469.