Chapter 17.30
C-1 COMMERCIAL DISTRICT
Sections:
17.30.050 Special use standards.
17.30.060 Area, width, height, and yard requirements.
17.30.070 General requirements.
17.30.080 Signs and lighting premises.
17.30.100 Hydrologist, soil engineer, engineer, and/or geologist.
17.30.010 Purpose.
This district is designed to encourage, stabilize, improve, and protect the characteristics of the Rogue River commercial core and to promote the establishment of new and complementary commercial and service land uses. [Ord. 23-418-O § 124 (Exh. A-4)].
17.30.020 Permitted uses.
All uses are subject to Chapter 17.115 RRMC, Site Design Review.
A. Residential Uses.
1. Accessory uses and structures;
2. Residential care home;
3. Residential care facility;
B. Public and Institutional Uses.
1. Community service, includes governmental offices;
2. Clinic, outpatient only;
3. Mortuary;
4. Nonprofit member organization offices;
5. 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;
6. Utility structures and facilities, city-planned projects; i.e., utilities identified by an adopted city master plan or development review approval.
C. Commercial Uses.
1. Personal service establishments such as beauty and barber shops, laundromat, cleaning and laundry shops and business, financial and professional offices and banks;
2. Retail stores such as hardware stores, garden shops, drug stores, antique shops, clothing stores, and grocery stores;
3. Indoor restaurant, bakery, cafe, coffee shop, or other eatery, including bars and taverns;
4. Light service shops such as picture framing studio, and tailoring;
5. Technical services such as copy shops, appliance and computer repair, and makerspaces;
6. Medical clinics, including dentist, optician, outpatient, and urgent care. [Ord. 23-418-O § 124 (Exh. A-4)].
17.30.030 Accessory uses.
The following uses are permitted as accessory to an existing use in the C-1 district:
A. Public and Institutional Uses.
1. Club, lodge, fraternal organization;
2. Public parks and open space, including playgrounds, trails, nature preserves, athletic fields, courts, swim pools, boat ramps, and similar uses.
B. Industrial and Employment Uses.
1. Freight terminals, including loading docks, storage, warehousing, wholesale distribution, cold storage; except self-service storage or mini-storage warehouses.
C. Other Uses.
1. Solar panels (for incidental use).
2. Metal cargo or shipping or other such containers are allowed only with a conditional use permit. [Ord. 23-418-O § 124 (Exh. A-4)].
17.30.040 Conditional uses.
The following uses and accessory uses are permitted when authorized in accordance with Chapters 17.100 and 17.115 RRMC:
A. Public and Institutional Uses.
1. Automobile parking, public off-street parking;
2. Emergency services; includes police, fire, ambulance;
3. Hospital, including acute care center;
4. Public works utilities storage yards; includes vehicle and equipment storage, maintenance, and repair;
5. Railroad facilities;
6. Religious institutions and houses of worship;
7. School, preschool-kindergarten;
8. School, secondary;
9. School, trade, technical, or vocational;
10. Utility structures and facilities, regional projects; project is not part of an adopted city master plan or development review approval;
11. Wireless communication facilities.
B. Commercial Uses.
1. Amusement, entertainment, and commercial recreation; includes theaters, bowling alleys, miniature golf, concert venues, arcades, similar uses;
2. Artisanal and light manufacture uses in commercial zones – includes carpentry;
3. Automotive fuel stations;
4. Automotive electric vehicle charger;
5. 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.;
6. Automotive sales and rental; includes motorcycles, boats, recreational vehicles, and trucks;
7. Outdoor restaurant, bakery, cafe, coffee shop, or other eatery, including bars and taverns;
8. Drive-through service;
9. Hotels, motels, and similar overnight accommodations;
10. Lumber yard and similar sales of building or contracting supplies, or heavy equipment;
11. Marijuana dispensary, including medical, recreational, or test laboratory;
12. Recreational vehicle park;
13. Veterinary clinic.
C. Industrial and Employment Uses.
1. Artisanal and light manufacture uses;
2. Machine shop, and sales, service and repair of light machinery including lawn mowers, weed eaters, and chainsaws. (Does not include large automotive or vehicle repair);
3. Metal/shipping cargo container;
4. Special trade contracting facilities, such as floor laying, masonry, stone, plumbing, electrical, metal work, roofing, heating and air conditioning, cabinet making, and carpentry. [Ord. 23-418-O § 124 (Exh. A-4)].
17.30.050 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. Single-Family Dwelling, Attached or Detached.
a. Single-family detached dwellings are permitted within the C-1 zone so long as the dwelling’s square footage does not exceed the square footage of an accompanying nonresidential use on the same parcel;
b. The detached dwelling may not be located along the same frontage used for the nonresidential use.
c. Nothing in this chapter shall preclude the dwelling from having a form of access such as a doorway, pathway, or staircase along the commercial frontage, so long as the entrance is clearly marked or secured for resident use only.
2. Accessory Dwelling Unit.
a. Accessory dwelling units may be sited in the C-1 zone provided they adhere to all of the provisions of RRMC 17.105.120.
3. 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.
4. Home Occupations.
a. Home occupations may occur within the C-1 zone provided they adhere to all of the provisions of RRMC 17.65.140.
B. Commercial Uses.
1. Mobile vendors, subject to the same standards throughout all zones, as stated in RRMC 17.65.160;
2. Seasonal and Occasional Uses.
a. Seasonal and occasional uses when set up and removed within 45 days of the specified holiday season or event. Such use shall not last for more than 45 calendar days, shall not encroach upon any traffic maneuvering, ingress or egress ways, and shall not cover more than 50 percent of the required off-street parking area for the commercial use. [Ord. 23-418-O § 124 (Exh. A-4)].
17.30.060 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 or as a condition of approval. [Ord. 23-418-O § 124 (Exh. A-4)].
17.30.070 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, and garden shops, Christmas tree sales lots, bus stations, automobile sales, and trailer 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. [Ord. 23-418-O § 124 (Exh. A-4)].
17.30.080 Signs and lighting premises.
A. All signs located within the C-1 commercial district shall comply with Chapter 17.85 RRMC, specifically RRMC 17.85.090, Commercial and industrial regulations.
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. [Ord. 23-418-O § 124 (Exh. A-4)].
17.30.090 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)].
17.30.100 Hydrologist, soil engineer, engineer, and/or geologist.
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)].