Chapter 17.235
INDUSTRIAL-COMMERCIAL DISTRICT
Sections:
17.235.020 Land uses and permit requirements.
17.235.030 Development and lot standards.
Prior legislation: Ord. 526.
17.235.010 Purpose.
It is the city’s intent that, in accordance with the comprehensive plan, the industrial-commercial (I-C) zone district uses serve as an essential and vital economic base for the population of Coos Bay. This district provides suitable areas for a variety of industrial and commercial uses, including manufacturing, wholesale trade and distribution activities. This district also provides residential locations to support industrial and commercial uses.
The I-C zone district is intended to contain uses that will not generate excessive noise, pollution, vibration, smoke, dust, gas, fumes, odors, radiation and other violation characteristics. Conditional uses are those which may have some violation characteristics that may be mitigated and where such uses may be appropriately sited in Coos Bay. The I-C zone district is intended to be located in areas with relatively level topography, adequate water and sewerage facilities, and access to arterial streets and highways. [Ord. 590 § 1 (Att. B(G)), 2026; Ord. 544 § 10 (Att. B), 2021; Ord. 541 § 6 (Exh. 1), 2021; Ord. 503 § 1 (Exh. B), 2018; Ord. 473 § 3 (Exh. A), 2016].
17.235.020 Land uses and permit requirements.
Land uses and permit requirements are listed in Table 17.235.020. The table identifies those uses in the I-C zone district that are:
P = Permitted use;
C = Conditional use;
S = Permitted uses that are subject to special standards; or
X = Prohibited.
The applicable procedural requirements are found in Chapter 17.130 CBDC.
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Use |
I-C |
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Residential |
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Residential uses above the ground floor or story and up to 30 percent of ground floor or story |
P |
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A single dwelling for a caretaker or night watchman that is secondary to a primary use |
P |
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Dwelling, multi-unit (subject to standards at CBDC 17.335.120) |
S |
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Institutionalized residential-living facilities, such as personal-care homes, nursing homes, convalescent homes, group residential homes, continuing care retirement facilities and similar uses of five or fewer persons |
P |
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Institutionalized residential-living facilities, such as personal-care homes, nursing homes, convalescent homes, group homes, continuing care retirement facilities and similar uses of more than five persons |
C |
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Homeless shelter |
C |
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Single-room occupancy |
P |
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Family child care home |
P |
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Retail Sales – Food and Beverages |
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Retail establishment selling food and/or beverages |
P |
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Bakery |
P |
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Retail Sales – General |
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General retailer |
P |
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Yard and garden supplies, including nurseries |
P |
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Adult entertainment |
P |
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Retail Sales – Restaurants, Drinking Establishments |
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Eating and drinking establishments |
P |
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Wineries, breweries and distilleries |
P |
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Retail Sales and Services – Automotive and Equipment |
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Sales/rentals, light equipment – Sale, retail, or wholesale, and/or rental from the premises of autos, noncommercial trucks, motorcycles, motor homes, recreational vehicles, boats, and trailers with generally less than a 10,000-pound gross cargo weight, together with incidental maintenance. Typical uses include automobile dealers, car rental agencies, or recreational vehicle sales and rental agencies, and small boat sales. |
P |
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Sales/rentals, heavy equipment – Sale, retail or wholesale, and/or rental from the premises of heavy construction equipment, trucks, and aircraft, together with incidental maintenance. Typical uses include aircraft dealers, farm, logging, and heavy construction equipment dealers, or tractor trailers. |
P |
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Repairs, light equipment – Repair of automobiles and the sale, installation, and servicing of automobile equipment and parts but excluding body repairs and painting. Typical uses include muffler shops, auto or motorcycle repair garages, or auto glass shops. |
P |
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Repairs, heavy equipment – Repair of trucks, construction and logging equipment, as well as the sale, installation, or servicing of automotive equipment and parts, together with body repairs, painting, and steam cleaning. Typical uses include truck transmission shops, body shops, or motor freight maintenance groups. |
P |
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Manufactured home sales |
P |
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Cleaning – Washing and polishing of automobiles. Typical uses include auto laundries or car washes. |
P |
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Fleet Storage – Fleet storage of vehicles used regularly in business operation but not for the long-term storage of vehicles, nor for vehicles available for sale. Typical uses include taxi fleets, mobile catering truck storage, or auto storage garages. |
P |
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Commercial off-street parking facilities |
P |
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Storage, nonoperating vehicles – Storage of nonoperating motor vehicles. Typical uses include storage of private parking tow-away or impound yards. |
P |
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Tire retreading and recapping |
P |
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Junkyards, wrecked motor vehicle compounds and used auto or other vehicle parts yards |
C |
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Welding and machine shops |
P |
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Transportation Terminals |
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Freight |
P |
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People |
P |
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Distribution facilities |
P |
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Bulk gasoline storage and fuel oil distributors |
C |
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Retail Sales – Building Materials and Farm Equipment |
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Lumber and other building materials stores and yards, with only incidental cutting and planing of products sold |
P |
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Heating and plumbing equipment, including incidental fabrication (operated entirely within an enclosed building) |
P |
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Hardware, home repair and supply stores (over 100,000 square feet gross floor area) |
P |
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Hardware, home repair and supply stores (10,000 to 100,000 square feet gross floor area) |
P |
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Hardware, home repair and supply stores (under 10,000 square feet gross floor area) |
P |
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Farm equipment and implement dealer |
P |
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Hay, grain, and feed stores |
P |
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Lumber yards, sawmills |
C |
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Retail Sales – Products (finished product retailers with primary fabrication or assembly on site and within an entirely enclosed building) |
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Uses of less than 10,000 square feet gross floor area |
P |
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Services – Personal |
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Convenience sales and personal services – Establishments or places of business primarily engaged in the provision of frequently or recurrently needed small personal items or services. These include various general retail sales and personal services of an appropriate size and scale to meet the above criterion. Typical uses include neighborhood grocery, drug stores, laundromat/dry cleaners, or barbershops. |
P |
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Personal services, general – Establishments primarily engaged in the provision of informational, instructional, personal improvement, and similar services of a nonprofessional nature, but excludes services classified as “spectator sports and entertainment,” or “participant sports and recreation,” or “group care.” Typical uses include photography studios, driving schools, or reducing salons, laundromats, or dance instruction. |
P |
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Funeral and Interment Services |
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Undertaking – Undertaking services such as preparing the dead for burial and arranging and managing funerals |
P |
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Cemetery – Places primarily for the burial of human remains; may include crematory and interring services. Typical uses include mausoleums, columbariums, and crematoriums. |
P |
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Cremating/interring – Crematory services involving the purification and reduction of the human body by fire and/or the keeping of human bodies other than in cemeteries. Typical uses include crematories, crematoriums, columbariums, and mausoleums. |
P |
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Services – General |
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Business support service – Establishments primarily engaged in the provision of services of a clerical, employment, protective, or minor processing nature to firms rather than individuals and where the storage of goods other than samples is prohibited. Typical uses include secretarial services, telephone answering services, blueprint services, or printing and duplicating firms. |
P |
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Professional and administrative services – Offices or private firms or organizations which are primarily used for the provision of professional, executive, management, or administrative services. Typical uses include administrative offices, legal offices, or architectural firms. |
P |
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Building/property maintenance service – Establishments primarily engaged in the provision of maintenance and custodial services to firms rather than individuals. Typical uses include janitorial, landscape maintenance, or window cleaning services. |
P |
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Moving and storage (mini-storage)1 |
P |
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Financial, insurance, and real estate services – Establishments primarily engaged in the provision of financial, insurance, real estate, or securities brokerage services. Typical uses include banks, insurance agencies, or real estate firms. |
P |
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Event facilities (commercial recreation facilities enclosed and unenclosed and auditoriums and civic centers) |
P |
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Art galleries, libraries and museums |
P |
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RV storage |
P |
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Services – Tourist Habitation |
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Tourist habitation, except vacation rental or homestay |
P |
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Tourist habitation – Vacation rental or homestay (subject to standards at Chapter 17.370 CBDC) |
S |
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Services – Medical and Health |
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Hospitals |
P |
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Medical services – Establishments primarily engaged in the provision of personal health services ranging from prevention, diagnosis, and treatment, or rehabilitation services provided by physicians, dentists, nurses, and other health personnel as well as the provision of medical testing and analysis services |
P |
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Ambulance services |
P |
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Sanitaria, convalescent and rest homes |
P |
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Orthopedic equipment and supplies, rental, sales and services |
P |
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Research and scientific laboratories |
P |
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Services – Animal Sales and Services |
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Auction – Auctioning of livestock on a wholesale or retail basis with incidental storage of animals produced off-property not exceeding a 48-hour period. Typical uses include animal auctions or livestock auction yards. |
C |
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Animal sales and service: grooming – Grooming of dogs, cats, and similar small animals. Typical uses include dog bathing and clipping salons or pet grooming shops. |
P |
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Animal sales and service: kennel – Boarding, raising, caring, and training services for dogs, cats, and similar small animals. Typical uses include boarding kennels or dog training centers. |
P |
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Animal sales and service: pet shop – Establishment for the retail sale of household pets and pet supplies |
P |
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Animal sales and service: veterinary (small animals) – Veterinary services for small animals. Typical uses include pet clinics, dog and cat hospitals, or animal hospitals. |
P |
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Veterinary (large animals) – Veterinary services for large animals. Typical uses include animal hospitals or veterinary hospitals. |
P |
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Animal waste processing – The processing of animal waste and by-products including, but not limited to, animal manure, animal bedding waste, and similar by-products of an animal-raising agricultural operation, for use as a commercial fertilizer or soil amendment and including composting for commercial purposes |
X |
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Aquaculture – Raising, feeding, planting, harvesting fish and shellfish, and associated facilities as necessary for such use, including commercial harvest of naturally occurring clam beds |
X |
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Exterminators and pest control businesses |
P |
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Services – Amusement |
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Community recreation – Recreational, social, or multi-purpose uses typically associated with parks, playfields, golf courses, or community recreation buildings |
C |
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Theaters, indoor |
P |
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Drive-in theaters, stadium and arena facilities |
C |
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Participant sports and recreation: indoor – Those uses conducted within an enclosed building. Typical uses include bowling alleys, skating rinks (ice and/or roller), billiard/pool parlors, video arcades, swimming pools, physical fitness centers, or racquetball centers. |
P |
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Participant sports and recreation: outdoor – Those uses conducted in open facilities. Typical uses include driving ranges, miniature golf courses, or swimming pools. |
P |
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Zoos, circuses, carnivals, or amusement rides, excluding temporary civic events endorsed by the city council |
C |
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Services – Educational |
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Educational services |
P |
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Child care center |
P |
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Libraries |
P |
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Public parks, parkways, recreation facilities, trails and related facilities |
P |
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Services – Membership Organizations |
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Clubs, lodges, fraternal institutions and other places of assembly for membership groups |
P |
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Civic, social, fraternal, charitable, labor and political |
P |
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Religious assembly |
P |
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Public Services and Facilities |
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Buildings entirely dedicated to public services, such as City Hall, police and fire substations |
P |
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Sewer, water and utility transmission lines |
P |
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Wireless communications facilities |
C |
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Museums, historic and cultural exhibits and the like |
P |
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U.S. post offices |
P |
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Public transit facilities, including park and ride facilities |
P |
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Bus shelters |
P |
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Utilities and communication facilities, such as telephone exchanges, radio and television studios, electric substations and public television stations |
P |
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Radio, television and cellular phone towers and antennas |
P |
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Transportation, communication and utility facilities, not otherwise specifically permitted |
P |
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Accessory Uses and Activities |
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On-site hazardous waste treatment and storage facilities, subject to state siting criteria |
C |
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Drive-through or drive-up facilities (subject to standards at CBDC 17.335.070) |
S |
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Accessory uses and structures which are incidental to one or more permitted principal uses in this zone |
P |
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Open Air Activities |
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Open air display of plants and produce in conjunction with a permitted use |
P |
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Open air storage of materials |
P |
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Open air work activities such as restaurants, portable walk-up vendors (not including drive-through facilities) such as espresso carts, flower stands and food stands, plant nurseries and other uses generally conducted outside in conjunction with a permitted commercial use, unless otherwise prohibited by this title |
P |
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Open air storage of company vehicles, such as cars and light duty trucks, in conjunction with a permitted use |
P |
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Storage buildings and storage yards, for nonhazardous raw materials and finished products |
P |
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Sand, gravel, topsoil, clay, dirt, precious metals, gems or other natural resources |
P |
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Manufacturing |
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Manufacturing, fabrication, assembling and packaging activities, including accessory storage, for the following products and/or materials: cloth, fiber, fur and hair; electrical and communication equipment; cosmetics, drugs and pharmaceuticals; food, beverage, dairy and tobacco products; and medical, dental, optical precision and surgical instruments and equipment |
P |
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Manufacturing, fabrication, assembling, processing, canning, packaging, compounding, storage and treatment activities for the following activities and/or materials: brick, concrete, cement, clay, mortar, plaster and tile; chemicals and floor coverings; extraction or removal of sand, gravel, topsoil, clay, dirt, precious metals, gems or other natural resources; and paper |
P |
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Marijuana-related businesses (subject to standards at CBDC 17.335.080) |
P/S |
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Cold storage plants, frozen food lockers and ice manufacture |
P |
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Asphalt plants |
X |
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Fertilizer manufacture |
X |
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Explosives manufacture and storage |
X |
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Acid manufacture |
X |
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Rubber manufacture |
X |
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Other Uses |
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Dry-cleaning plants |
P |
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Solid waste handling and disposal sites |
C |
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Temporary uses which may be approved by the director |
P |
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Warehouses, wholesale and storage establishments, mail order houses and distribution facilities |
P |
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Agricultural uses indoors |
P |
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Agricultural uses outdoors |
C |
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Conical burners and incinerators, including biomedical waste |
X |
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Land fill |
X |
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Paper and pulp mills |
X |
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Recycling plants, including any processing facilities |
X |
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All uses or services not listed, unless determined to be similar to a listed use |
X |
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Other similar uses deemed by the director to be compatible with the I-C zone district and adjacent land uses |
P |
1 Refer to CBDC 17.335.170 for mini-storage restrictions.
[Ord. 595 § 1 (Att. B(C)), 2026; Ord. 590 § 1 (Att. B(G)), 2026; Ord. 544 § 10 (Att. B), 2021; Ord. 541 § 6 (Exh. 1), 2021; Ord. 532 § 2 (Att. B), 2020; Ord. 513 § 7 (Exh. 2), 2019; Ord. 511 § 6 (Exh. 2), 2019; Ord. 503 § 1 (Exh. B), 2018; Ord. 486 § 2, 2017; Ord. 473 § 3 (Exh. A), 2016].
17.235.030 Development and lot standards.
Table 17.235.030 establishes density and dimensional requirements for the I-C zone district:
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Standard |
I-C |
|---|---|
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Dwelling Units per Acre |
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Multi-unit dwellings (mixed residential/nonresidential use) |
No minimum, no maximum |
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Multi-unit dwellings (residential use only) |
Minimum 12, no maximum |
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Minimum lot size |
No requirements |
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Minimum lot frontage |
No requirements |
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Minimum lot width |
No requirements |
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Setbacks (see also CBDC 17.335.130, Setbacks – Intrusions permitted) |
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Front and street side yard building setback |
10 feet side yard setback if abutting residential zone |
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Side and rear yard building setback |
10 feet if abutting residential zone |
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Minimum distance between principal buildings |
As per CBMC Title 15 |
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Maximum building coverage |
As per CBMC Title 15 |
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Maximum building height (see also CBDC 17.335.015, Exceeding height limits) |
35' |
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Parking and loading |
See Chapter 17.330 CBDC |
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Landscaping |
See CBDC 17.335.060 |
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Supplementary |
See Chapter 17.335 CBDC |
(1) Developments in the I-C zone district shall be designed and constructed in accordance with the following special standards:
(a) Building Design.
(i) Primary building entrances shall be physically oriented to the adjacent street or to a pedestrian pathway.
(ii) Design elements such as false or display windows, artwork, green wall space, or use of other varied building materials shall be incorporated into no less than 50 percent of the total surface area of a building facade that is visible from an adjacent residential zone or public right-of-way.
(b) Access.
(i) Sufficient right-of-way shall be dedicated to ensure space necessary for freight access, as determined by the street functional classification and right-of-way standards.
(ii) New development shall provide a shared access point to adjacent property, unless doing so results in an adverse traffic safety impact as evidenced by a transportation impact analysis consistent with CBMC 18.40.010.
(iii) New development located within 250 feet of an existing or proposed transit stop, as designated in a transportation or transit plan adopted by the city or Coos County Area Transit District, shall provide an easement or dedication for a passenger stop, including shelter, bench, and/or pullout, when such an improvement is identified in the adopted plan.
(iv) A hard-surfaced pedestrian circulation system no less than five feet in width shall be provided on site to connect the public entrance(s) of each structure to the adjacent street(s). See CBDC 17.335.090.
(A) Where the pedestrian circulation system crosses driveways, parking areas, and/or loading areas, the system must be clearly identifiable using elevation changes, speed bumps, varied paving materials, or other similar methods and be ADA compliant.
(2) General Limitations.
(a) The following uses and activities are prohibited:
(i) Service roads, spur tracks, and hard stands in a required setback that is adjacent to a residential zone.
(ii) Outdoor storage in floodways, on slopes greater than 15 percent, in parking stalls, in areas where traffic or pedestrian circulation would be impeded, in fire lanes, and in a required setback that is adjacent to a residential zone.
(iii) The outdoor storage of materials that attract animals, birds, or vermin.
(3) Administration.
(a) Compliance Verification. The applicant and/or owner shall furnish information sufficient to determine the degree of compliance with the standards in this section and, as a condition of land use or other permit approval, may be required to submit continuous records of operation for periodic checks to ensure maintenance of standards, and special surveys. [Ord. 590 § 1 (Att. B(G)), 2026; Ord. 544 § 10 (Att. B), 2021; Ord. 541 § 6 (Exh. 1), 2021; Ord. 532 § 2 (Att. B), 2020; Ord. 503 § 1 (Exh. B), 2018; Ord. 473 § 3 (Exh. A), 2016].