Chapter 18.20
C-1 DISTRICT – RETAIL BUSINESS
Sections:
18.20.01 Description of district.
18.20.02 Uses permitted outright.
18.20.03 Conditional uses permitted.
18.20.06 Setback requirements.
18.20.01 Description of district.
This district is composed of certain land and structures used primarily to provide retailing and personal services, such as clothing stores and banks, and basically conducted within an enclosed structure. The regulations for this district are designed to stabilize and protect the essential characteristics of the district, to promote and encourage a suitable environment for providing service to the families of the city and to prohibit activities of an industrial nature. To these ends, development is primarily limited to retailing and personal services plus those uses permitted in any residential district. The regulations are designed to permit development of the enumerated functions limited by standards designed to retain a favorable environment for the proper functioning of the district, plus certain public facilities which are needed to serve the occupants of the district. The following uses and their accessory uses are permitted outright in all C-1 districts; provided, that:
(a) There shall be no manufacturing, compounding, processing or treatment of products other than that which is clearly incidental and essential to a retail store or business and where all such products are customarily sold at retail on premises;
(b) Such uses, operations or products are not objectionable due to odor, dust, smoke, noise, vibration or other similar causes. (Ord. 849 § 1. Code 1996 § 16-220)
18.20.02 Uses permitted outright.
(a) Data processing, telecommunications and other similar services.
(b) Auditorium, exhibit or hall or other public assembly room.
(c) Automobile or boat sales showroom.
(d) Bank, loan company or similar financial institution.
(e) Club, lodge.
(f) Small print shop, newspaper.
(g) Custom dressmaking, tailor shop.
(h) Eating or drinking establishment.
(i) Hotel, board house.
(j) Laundry, cleaning or pressings establishment using nonexplosive and noninflammable cleaning fluid.
(k) Locksmith.
(l) Medical or dental laboratory.
(m) Mortuary.
(n) Newsstand.
(o) Parking lot or parking garage.
(p) Pet shop.
(q) Professional public services.
(r) Restaurant, tavern, tearoom or cafe.
(s) Railway passenger station or express office.
(t) Retail store or business.
(u) Shoe repair shop.
(v) Studio: art, music, dance, health, photographic, radio or television broadcasting.
(w) Secondhand store or flea market.
(x) Theater, except drive-in type.
(y) Pawnshop.
(z) Watch and clock repair shop.
(aa) Wholesale office and showroom with merchandise on the premises limited to samples only.
(bb) Other similar retail commercial uses, but not including a use first listed in the C-2 district.
(cc) Dwelling, duplex or multifamily dwelling. (Code 1996 § 16-221)
18.20.03 Conditional uses permitted.
The following uses and their accessory uses are permitted in the C-1 district when authorized in accordance with the requirements governing conditional uses:
(a) Dwellings: one-family, two-family and multifamily, provided they shall be governed by the requirements of the R-1 district for single-family.
(b) Any use permitted as a conditional use in an R-1 district except as a use permitted outright.
(c) Automobile service station including minor auto repairs but excluding body and fender work, painting or upholstering.
(d) Drive-in establishment offering goods or services to customers waiting in parked motor vehicles, except drive-in theaters.
(e) Hotel. (Ord. 751. Code 1996 § 16-222)
18.20.04 Signs.
The following signs are permitted in the C-1 district:
(a) Signs permitted in the R-1 district.
(b) Signs identifying a business establishment or business area.
(c) One sign not exceeding 20 square feet in area on each side of the lot abutting a street for each business establishment. Signs shall be limited to those identifying the business establishment except that no business sign shall be located within 50 feet of a lot in the residential district, a public park or a school. (Code 1996 § 16-223)
18.20.05 Lot size.
(a) Lots used exclusively for dwelling purposes shall be governed by the requirements specified for R-1 districts.
(b) There shall be no minimum lot area.
(c) There shall be no minimum lot width.
(d) There shall be no minimum lot depth. (Code 1996 § 16-224)
18.20.06 Setback requirements.
(a) There shall be no requirements (front yard) for a building used for nonresidential purposes.
(b) There shall be no requirements (rear yard) for a building used for nonresidential purposes.
(c) There shall be no requirements (side yard) for a building used for nonresidential purposes.
(d) Fences and vegetation exceeding two feet in height in any district zoned as an C-1 district shall be set back at least 10 feet from any lot line which abuts a street or alley, unless such fence or vegetation is visually unobstructive to the extent that per square foot of such fencing or vegetation at least 80 percent of such is capable of being visually seen through. (Ord. 751. Code 1996 § 16-225)
18.20.07 Height of buildings.
In a C-1 district, building height shall not exceed 60 feet. (Code 1996 § 16-226)
18.20.08 Lot coverage.
There shall be no limitations as to lot coverage. (Code 1996 § 16-227)
18.20.09 Limitations on use.
In a C-1 district, the following conditions and limitations shall apply:
(a) All business, service, repair, processing, or storage shall be conducted wholly within an enclosed building, except for off-street parking and loading, drive-in windows, and minor service for motor vehicles.
(b) All items produced or wares and merchandise handled shall be sold at retail on the premises except in the case of BSMC 18.20.02(aa). (Ord. 751. Code 1996 § 16-228)