This commercial district is intended for a unified grouping in one or more buildings of retail shops and stores and personal services that provide for the regular needs and are for the convenience of the people residing in the adjacent residential neighborhoods. It is intended that the convenience center be developed with a unit with adequate off-street parking space for customers and employees, and with appropriate landscaping and screening. See sections 14.04.011 to 14.04.015.
(1977 Code, sec. 12-80; 2004 Code, sec. 14.241)
(a) 
Within the C-C [district] the following uses are permitted:
(1) 
Artists’ supplies and hobby shop.
(2) 
Bakery shop.
(3) 
Barber and beauty shops.
(4) 
Book store.
(5) 
Clothing or wearing apparel shops.
(6) 
Drugstore.
(7) 
Dairy products store.
(8) 
Delicatessen.
(9) 
Financial institutions.
(10) 
Florist shop.
(11) 
Gift shop.
(12) 
Grocery store.
(13) 
Hardware store.
(14) 
Jewelry shop.
(15) 
Laundry and dry cleaning pickup stations.
(16) 
Medical facility.
(17) 
Office, professional and/or general.
(18) 
Pharmacy.
(19) 
Self-service laundries.
(20) 
Shoe repair shop.
(21) 
Sporting goods store.
(22) 
Tailor shop.
(23) 
Theater.
(24) 
Toy store.
(25) 
Variety store.
(b) 
Any of the uses permitted in section 14.06.062, subsections (2) through (9), subject to additional requirements as provided.
(c) 
Accessory buildings and uses customarily incidental to the above uses, provided that there shall be no manufacturing of products, other than such as are customarily incidental to retail establishments.
(d) 
Any other commercial use deemed by the city council to be of a similar nature to those listed above.
(1977 Code, sec. 12-81; Ordinance 523, sec. 5, adopted 1/27/00; 2004 Code, sec. 14.242)
Minimum Lot Area
Minimum Lot Frontage
Maximum Percent Coverage
Maximum Height
Minimum Front Yard Setback
Minimum Side Yard Setback
Minimum Rear Yard Setback
12,000
100'
30%
35'
30'
2'/1' adj. to residential district
5'
(a) 
The parcel of land on which a convenience commercial center is located shall not be less than twelve thousand (12,000) square feet.
(b) 
Each lot shall have a frontage of not less than one hundred (100) feet.
(c) 
Not more than thirty percent (30%) of the lot area shall be covered with improvements. Paved areas are not considered improvements within the meaning of this provision.
(d) 
No improvement or structure shall exceed thirty-five (35) feet in height above the mean elevation of the lot.
(e) 
It is intended that the grouping of buildings and parking areas be designed to protect, insofar as possible, adjacent residential areas. In no case shall the design of the shopping center provide less than the following standards:
(1) 
All buildings shall be set back from all street right-of-way lines not less than thirty (30) feet.
(2) 
On the side of a lot adjoining a residential district, there shall be a side yard setback of two (2) feet for each one (1) foot of height.
(3) 
All buildings shall be set back from the rear lot line not less than five (5) feet.
(1977 Code, sec. 12-82; 2004 Code, sec. 14.243)
Business signs, poster boards, bulletin boards, or other similar display in the C-C district shall conform to the following requirements:
(1) 
In the C-C district, one business sign not exceeding thirty-two (32) square feet in surface area and identifying the business or activity conducted on the premises may be erected on each street frontage of the parcel. In the case of a shopping center containing a group of businesses and/or activities on one lot, one (1) accessory building sign may be erected on the lot identifying the shopping center. Such accessory signs shall not exceed fifty (50) square feet in area. Ground signs shall not exceed the height of the building in which the principal use is located or twenty (20) feet, whichever is higher. No business sign shall be located within fifty (50) feet of a residential district if visible from such district. Illumination, if any, shall be by constant light.
(2) 
A real estate sign advertising the sale, rent or lease of the premises may be erected on each street frontage of the development. The sign shall not exceed sixteen (16) feet in surface area nor fifteen (15) feet in height, and illumination, if any, shall be by constant light.
(3) 
All signs in the C-C district shall be erected upon private property and shall not encroach at ground level upon any public street or walk except as provided by the applicable codes of the city and they shall not overhang at a height of less than twelve (12) feet and shall not have a maximum overhang projection greater than seventy-two (72) inches.
(1977 Code, sec. 12-83; 2004 Code, sec. 14.244)