The C-3 (thoroughfare commercial) zone is a commercial zone for retail and service businesses that are typically related to highways and major thoroughfares. Such uses generally do not lend themselves to be located in general commercial or neighborhood convenience centers, but are encouraged in orderly clusters in suitable locations adjacent to highways and major thoroughfares where special consideration will be given to on-site and off-site traffic and circulation, impact on adjacent land uses, etc.
(Ord. 408, 1987; Ord. 1013 § 2, 2020)
The following thoroughfare commercial uses are permitted in the C-3 zone:
A. 
Those uses which are permitted uses within the C-2 zone, however, supermarkets and drugstores will be discouraged within the C-3 zone unless they are part of a full-service shopping center;
B. 
Hotel, auto rental or leasing agency, auto sales, boat sales, parts and accessory store, bowling alleys and similar recreational uses, camper or recreational vehicle sales, mobile or manufactured housing sales, home improvement center with or without lumber sales, garden supply store or nursery and similar uses involving outdoor sales subject to design controls;
C. 
Similar uses subject to the approval of the zoning administrator.
(Ord. 408, 1987; Ord. 1013 § 2, 2020)
The following uses are permitted only on the granting of a conditional use permit pursuant to Chapter 17.830:
A. 
Auto service station, alternative fuel station, auto tire shop, auto repair including engine, transmission, brakes, etc., auto body repair and painting, laundry or dry cleaning plant, bakery—wholesale; all on-sale and off-sale liquor facilities; billiard hall; card or gaming room, adult entertainment; dancehall; new and used equipment rental; meeting room—lodge, fraternal hall, community facility; hospital; truck and trailer rental, campground or recreation vehicle park, vocational or trade school;
B. 
All drive-in, drive-through establishments (subject to Chapter 17.655);
C. 
Other uses that the zoning administrator determines, because of the type of operation, material stored or sold, or other special circumstances that require special consideration and conditioning through the conditional use permit procedure.
(Ord. 408, 1987; Ord. 468 § 11, 1990; Ord. 728, 2002; Ord. 1013 § 2, 2020; Ord. 1078, 12/10/2024; Ord. 1089, 10/14/2025)
A. 
Minimum parcel size: one acre except lots approved as part of an approved master development plan may be reduced to a minimum of twenty thousand square feet;
B. 
Minimum street frontage: one hundred feet;
C. 
Minimum street frontage yards: ten feet, except where there is a residentially zoned parcel fronting on the street within the same block, the minimum setback shall be seventy-five percent of the minimum setback for the residential zone, but not less than ten feet;
D. 
Minimum Non-Street Frontage Yards.
1. 
None for those properties within the C-3 zone between Chestnut and Fir Streets abutting Brentwood Blvd. except where the C-3 zone abuts a residential zone, the setback shall be fifteen feet for three story or forty-foot high structures. Additional setback may be required for structures over three stories or forty feet as a condition of conditional use permit approval;
2. 
All other C-3 properties except those described in subdivision (1) of this subsection shall have a setback of none except where the C-3 zone abuts a residential zone, the setback shall be ten feet for structures up to two stories or thirty feet and fifteen feet for three story or forty-foot high structures. Additional setback may be required for structures over three stories or forty feet as a condition of conditional use permit approval;
E. 
Maximum Building Height.
1. 
The maximum building height permitted in the C-3 zone 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; Ord. 487 § 2, 1991; Ord. 1013 § 2, 2020)