Chapter 18.25
C-2 DISTRICT – GENERAL BUSINESS
Sections:
18.25.01 Description of district.
18.25.02 Uses permitted outright.
18.25.03 Conditional uses permitted.
18.25.06 Setback requirements.
18.25.01 Description of district.
This district is composed of certain land and structure used primarily to provide retailing and personal services of all kinds, including those uses permitted in the C-1 districts, plus activities not basically conducted within an enclosed structure, such as used car lots. 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 people of the area, and to prohibit activities of an industrial nature. To these ends, development is primarily limited to all types of 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 environment for the proper functioning of the district, plus certain public facilities which are needed to serve the occupants of the district. (Code 1996 § 16-229)
18.25.02 Uses permitted outright.
The following uses and their accessory uses are permitted outright in a C-2 district:
(a) Any use permitted outright in the C-1 district provided it is governed by BSMC 18.20.09.
(b) Automobile, boat or trailer sales establishment.
(c) Automobile, boat, truck or trailer storage garage, truck rental or sales.
(d) Automobile laundry.
(e) Automobile service station.
(f) Business, technical or trade school.
(g) Catering establishment.
(h) Blueprinting, photostating or other reproduction process.
(i) Bookbindery.
(j) Building materials, retail outlet only. This term does not include a building materials storage or sale yard, or contractor’s equipment storage yard or facility, or equipment sales, rental, storage or repair facility, which are prohibited in a C-2 district.
(k) Commercial amusements, if conducted wholly within an enclosed building.
(l) Custom manufacturing of goods for retail sale on the premises.
(m) Electric power generator, transformer station or substation.
(n) Fuel oil storage and distribution with underground tanks.
(o) Laboratory.
(p) Large operating or printing establishment.
(q) Public garage, including automobile repairing and incidental automobile body and fender work, painting and upholstering, if conducted completely within an enclosed building.
(r) Storage rental facility for household goods with multiple separated storage units with a lock for each separate unit accessible to the customers of such facility, and with such lock located on the exterior perimeter of the premises.
(s) Telephone exchange.
(t) Tire shop, including incidental recapping.
(u) Plumbing, sign painting, upholstering, cabinet or carpenter shop.
(v) Utility station or substation.
(w) Veterinary office or animal hospital.
(x) Sign painting shop.
(y) Bus passenger station.
(z) Other similar uses, but not including a use first listed in the M-1 district. (Ord. 751. Code 1996 § 16-230)
18.25.03 Conditional uses permitted.
The following uses are permitted in the C-2 district when authorized in accordance with the requirements governing conditional uses:
(a) Any use permitted as a conditional use in a C-1 district.
(b) New railroad tracks and facilities such as switching yards, spur or holding tracks, or freight depots.
(c) Drive-in theater.
(d) Motel.
(e) Mobile home park. (Code 1996 § 16-231)
18.25.04 Signs.
The following signs are permitted in the C-2 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 § 16-232)
18.25.05 Lot size.
The lot size in a C-2 district shall be as follows:
(a) Lots used for dwelling purposes shall be governed by the requirements as specified for R-1 district.
(b) The minimum lot area for nonresidential uses shall be 5,000 square feet.
(c) The minimum lot width at the front building line shall be 50 feet.
(d) The minimum lot depth shall be 100 feet. (Code 1996 § 16-233)
18.25.06 Setback requirements.
In a C-2 district, the yards shall be as follows:
(a) The minimum yard dimensions of the residential district shall apply on the sides of a lot abutting a residential district.
(b) The front yard shall be a minimum of 15 feet and in the case of corner lots, the minimum requirement shall be 15 feet for all yards abutting a street.
(c) Side Yard. There shall be no side yard requirements for nonresidential uses, except as provided above; provided further, that corner lots shall have a minimum yard of 15 feet for all yards abutting a street.
(d) Fences and vegetation exceeding two feet in height in any district zoned as a C-2 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 § 16-234)
18.25.07 Height of buildings.
In a C-2 district no structure shall exceed 60 feet in height. (Code 1996 § 16-235)
18.25.08 Lot coverage.
There shall be no limitations as to lot coverage. (Ord. 751. Code 1996 § 16-236)
18.25.09 Limitation on use.
In a C-2 district, the following conditions and limitations shall apply:
(a) All business, service, repair, processing, storage or merchandise display on property abutting or facing a lot in a residential district shall be conducted wholly within an enclosed building unless screened from the residential district by a sight-obscuring fence permanently maintained at least six feet in height that surrounds the area of the business premises where such business, service, repairs, processing, storage or merchandise displays occur, and except for driveways, off-street parking and loading, drive-in windows, and minor service for motor vehicles. Also, refer to subsection (d) of this section.
(b) Openings to structures on sides adjacent to or across a street from a residential district shall be prohibited if such access or openings will cause glare, excessive noise or other adverse effects on residential properties.
(c) Motor vehicle, boat or trailer rental or sales lots shall be drained and surfaced with crushed rock or pavement except in those portions of the lot maintained as landscape areas.
(d) All articles for sale, rent, display, storage, hire or otherwise, must be kept within an enclosed building, except that merchants may display such articles on the grounds of the premises between the hours of 8:00 a.m. and 5:00 p.m., providing these items do not obstruct traffic on any sidewalk. Further, any such articles located on a paved parking lot that are located at least 150 feet from the nearest road shall not be subject to the time limitations or enclosure restrictions stated in this section. (Ord. 751. Code 1996 § 16-237)