This commercial district is established as a district in which the principal use of land is for establishments offering accommodations, supplies of [or] services to motorists, and for certain specialized uses such as retail outlets, extensive commercial amusement and service establishments which serve the entire community but do not and should not necessarily locate in the central business district or the convenience commercial district.
(1977 Code, sec. 12-85; 2004 Code, sec. 14.251)
Within the C-A/R, automotive commercial and commercial recreation district, the following uses are permitted:
(1) 
Any use permitted in the C- C, convenience commercial district.
(2) 
Other uses, including:
(A) 
Amusement enterprises.
(B) 
New and used automobile sales and service, new and used machinery sales and service, and public garage.
(C) 
Ambulance service office or garage.
(D) 
Automobile service station.
(E) 
Billboards as permitted in section 14.06.164.
(F) 
Boat sales.
(G) 
Bowling alleys.
(H) 
Bus terminal.
(I) 
Dance hall.
(J) 
Drive-in theater or restaurant.
(K) 
Electric transmission station.
(L) 
Feed and fuel store.
(M) 
Funeral parlor.
(N) 
Garden stores.
(O) 
Golf course, miniature, or practice range.
(P) 
Heating and plumbing sales and service.
(Q) 
Animal hospitals.
(R) 
Ice plant.
(S) 
Key shop.
(T) 
Tobacco, smoke or vape shop.
(U) 
Laundry.
(V) 
Mini self-storage buildings.
(W) 
Motels.
(X) 
Music, radio, and television shop and repair.
(Y) 
Nightclub.
(Z) 
Novelty.
(AA) 
Pawnshop.
(BB) 
Pet shop.
(CC) 
Pharmacies.
(DD) 
Printing plant.
(EE) 
Public uses.
(FF) 
Recreation center, private.
(GG) 
Roller skating rink.
(HH) 
Sign painting shop.
(II) 
Tavern.
(JJ) 
Travel trailer park and sales.
(KK) 
Wholesale distributing center.
(3) 
Any other store or shop for retail trade or for providing personal, professional, or business service other than those provided for in section 14.06.222.
(4) 
Buildings, structures, and accessory uses customarily incidental to any of the above uses, provided that there shall be no manufacturing of products other than such as are customarily incidental to retail establishments.
(1977 Code, sec. 12-86; Ordinance 498 adopted 9/18/95; Ordinance 566 adopted 4/19/04; 2004 Code, sec. 14.252; Ordinance 773 adopted 4/21/2025)
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 sf
100'
30%
35'
30'
2'/1' adj. to residential district
5'
(a) 
The parcel of land on which any commercial use is located shall not be less than twelve thousand (12,000) square feet.
(b) 
Each lot shall have 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 section.
(d) 
No improvements or structure shall exceed thirty-five (35) feet in height above the mean elevation of the lot.
(e) 
It is intended that the commercial uses and parking areas within a C-A/R district be designed to protect, insofar as possible, adjacent residential areas. In no case shall the development have 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 ten (10) [five (5)] feet.
(1977 Code, sec. 12-87; 2004 Code, sec. 14.253)
Business signs, poster boards, bulletin boards, or other similar display in the C-A/R district shall conform to the following requirements:
(1) 
In the C-A/R district, business signs not exceeding in the aggregate one (1) square foot of display surface area per one (1) lineal foot of street frontage may be erected on each street frontage of the parcel. Ground signs and billboards shall not exceed thirty feet (30') in height. No sign or billboard 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, rental or lease of the premises may be erected on each street frontage of the development. The sign shall not exceed fifty (50) square 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-A/R 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. 12-88; Ordinance adopting 2004 Code; 2004 Code, sec. 14.254)