The general commercial district is intended primarily to serve as the central trading area of the city. The district accommodates and enhances several of the existing dominant features of the central area and provides the permanent shopping goods, financial and business, as well as the entertainment center of the community. In the C-2 district no building or land shall be used and no building shall be erected or structurally altered, unless otherwise provided herein except for one or more of the uses set forth in Section
17.22.020.
(Ord. 700 § 5 (Exh. A),
2003)
A. The
principal permitted general commercial use in the C-2 district includes:
1. Retail
and wholesale sales located inside a building, such as: large or small
shops, stores, centers, and outlets.
2. Services
located inside a building, such as: offices, financial institutions
and personal service shops, including laundromats, small item repairs
and printing services.
3. Indoor
and outdoor recreational or travel activities and services, such as:
all eating and drinking places (including drive-thru services), hotels
and motels, theaters, entertainment centers, and bus stations.
4. Medical
centers and services including convalescent homes.
5. Accessory
structures, such as: parking lots and secondary storage buildings.
6. Improvements
to existing residential uses which can be demonstrated to have been
legally established before the year 2001.
B. Other
C-2 uses for which a use permit must first be secured:
1. Outdoor
service or accessory storage areas, such as: auto sales, communications
facilities, automobile service storage, and uncovered lumber yard
or nursery areas.
2. Medical
facilities for animals such as veterinary clinics and animal hospitals.
3. One
residential unit for occupancy by the manager/caretaker of an existing
commercial facility.
4. Residential
units up to thirty units per acre density, as either a mixed-use activity
which is secondary to an existing or proposed commercial use, or as
a residential-only development.
5. Assisted
care residential facilities.
6. Non-profit
organization offices.
7. Stores
in which more than fifty percent of the merchandise is second-hand.
9. Car,
boat or other vehicle washing facilities.
10. Local and regional public utility and community service facilities.
11. Gas stations and light-commercial automobile service uses.
12. Cannabis uses conducted pursuant to Chapter
17.95 (Commercial Cannabis Regulations), including: storefront retail, non-storefront retail (delivery only), cultivation (indoor only), non-volatile manufacturing, processing facilities, distribution, microbusinesses, and testing laboratories.
(Ord. 700 § 5 (Exh. A),
2003; Ord. 715 § 2, 2006; Ord. 819 § 3, 2020)
Uses prohibited in the C-2 district include:
A. Truck
and heavy equipment repair shops;
B. Any
manufacturing use not specifically defined herein; and
C. Outdoor
recreation or entertainment facilities which generate excessive noise,
dust or glare.
(Ord. 700 § 5 (Exh. A),
2003)
In the C-2 district the height of buildings and the maximum
dimensions of yards and lots shall be as follows:
A. Height.
The maximum building height shall be forty-five feet.
B. Yard
and Areas.
1. Front
Yard. None required except where adjacent properties abutting upon
the C-2 use are in a zone of greater requirements, then the front
yard shall conform to the more restrictive zone;
2. Side
Yards. None required except where the side yard of the C-2 use abuts
upon the side yard of a residential or an RP use, and the side yard
shall be five feet;
3. Rear
Yard. Minimum ten feet;
4. Lot
Area. No minimum; and
5. Lot
Coverage. The maximum total building square footage shall be fifty
percent of the size of the lot. Parking areas shall not be counted
as building square footage. Residential units which are on the ground
floor shall be counted, however residential units above the ground
floor shall not be counted in the square footage.
(Ord. 700 § 5 (Exh. A),
2003)
Whenever property classified for a C-2 use is separated from
adjacent residential property by a permanent open space or landscaped
parking area of no less than twenty-five feet in width, the required
front yard or side yard setback shall not be required.
(Ord. 700 § 5 (Exh. A),
2003)
A. Parking. See Chapter
17.42 for parking requirements.
B. Fencing. See Chapter
17.40 for fencing requirements.
C. Signs.
See Chapter 17.38 for sign requirements.
(Ord. 700 § 5 (Exh. A),
2003)
All uses permitted in the C-2 district except those requiring a use permit shall be subject to and approval of a site plan and architectural review. Architectural review for use permit uses shall be conducted by the planning commission as part of the use permit process. Procedure for such submittal and approval will be found under Chapter
17.46.
(Ord. 700 § 5 (Exh. A),
2003)
A. Outdoor
uses shall be subject to the provision of landscaping and/or solid
screen fencing relative to the type of use. Material and equipment
storage and automobiles awaiting service overnight or longer shall
be confined behind a six-foot solid wall or fence.
B. There
shall be no manufacture compounding, processing, or treatment of products
other than that which is clearly incidental and essential to a retail
store or business and where such completed products are sold at retail
on the premises.
C. There
shall be no display of goods outside of the structure except for those
uses customarily conducted in the open such as automobile sales.
D. Accessory
uses shall be permitted only to the extent necessary to the limited
uses permitted under this part.
E. The
above general commercial uses shall not be objectionable due to odor,
dust, smoke, noise, vibration, or other similar causes beyond the
level of the ordinary neighborhood retail establishment.
(Ord. 700 § 5 (Exh. A),
2003)