The COB (commercial office/business) zone is a mixed use zone permitting a limited amount of retail or personal service uses not normally allowed in professional/administrative office zones. This zone is intended to allow ground floor commercial with upper floor offices in the downtown or to allow small scale commercial to serve workers in major office complexes.
(Ord. 408, 1987)
The following office and commercial uses are permitted in the COB zone:
A. 
Those permitted uses within the CO zone (Section 17.210.002);
B. 
Commercial uses or services such as beauty shop, barber shop, photo studio, convenience retail uses or services such as a bakery, pastry shop, book store, candy or ice cream store, stationery store, drug store or pharmacy, shoe store and shoe repair, apparel and accessory store, and similar small shops or boutiques;
C. 
Similar uses subject to the approval of the zoning administrator.
(Ord. 408, 1987)
The following uses are permitted only on the granting of a conditional use permit pursuant to Chapter 17.830:
A. 
Funeral services, mortuary, crematorium, medical or dental laboratory, outpatient care facility, health club, reducing studio, recreational club or similar uses;
B. 
Restaurant, on-sale or off-sale liquor, laundromat, laundry or dry cleaning facility, drive-in or drive-through establishment associated with a permitted use in the zone (subject to Chapter 17.655);
C. 
Churches as temporary uses to be located in existing buildings;
D. 
Other uses that the zoning administrator determines, because of type of operation, material stored or sold, or other special circumstances require special consideration and regulations through the conditional use permit procedure.
(Ord. 408, 1987; Ord. 468 § 6, 1990; Ord. 515, 1992; Ord. 728, 2002; Ord. 878 § 3, 2010; Ord. 1089, 10/14/2025)
The following regulations shall apply to the COB zone:
A. 
Minimum lot area: ten thousand square feet;
B. 
Minimum street frontage yard: five feet;
C. 
Minimum nonstreet frontage yard: none;
D. 
Maximum Building Height.
1. 
The maximum building height shall be three stories not to exceed forty feet,
2. 
Structures greater than three stories or forty feet may be permitted subject to conditional use permit approval.
(Ord. 408, 1987)