The administrative office or C-3 districts are established to provide a suitable location for offices for professional services and those business activities which are related to professional type services and which will be compatible with professional service type uses.
(Ord. 943 § 4, 1994)
The following uses shall be permitted in the C-3 district, plus such other uses as the planning commission may deem to be similar and not detrimental to other uses permitted in this zone subject to Section 18.81.020 of this title:
A. 
Office or office building for the conduct of business, professional or administrative services;
B. 
Bank or loan agency;
C. 
Church;
D. 
Medical or dental offices;
E. 
Medical, dental and optical clinics or laboratories (not including the manufacture of pharmaceuticals or other products);
F. 
Public and quasi-public buildings and uses of an administrative, recreational, educational, religious nature, but not including corporation yards, storage or repair yards, and warehouses;
G. 
Photographic studio (excluding retail sales of equipment or supplies);
H. 
Single room occupancy units;
I. 
Transitional, supportive and group homes;
J. 
Low barrier navigation centers (in compliance with California Government Code Sections 65660-65668).
(Ord. 943 § 4, 1994; Ord. 1290 § 38, 2022)
The following are conditional uses in a C-3 district and shall be permitted only if approved by the planning commission:
A. 
Pharmacy, limited to the sale of drugs and medical supplies;
B. 
Restaurant or store needed to serve the occupants of existing buildings in the same district, or their clients or patrons;
C. 
Parking lot;
D. 
Public utility substation or facility, not including any service yard or repair shop;
E. 
Mortuary establishment;
F. 
Informational kiosks and directory boards, in compliance with the requirements of Chapter 18.75 and subject to the requirements of Section 18.51.050;
G. 
Mixed use;
H. 
Multiple dwellings.
(Ord. 943 § 4, 1994; Ord. 1007 § 23, 1998; Ord. 1143 § 11, 2009)
A. 
In a C-3 district, a dwelling unit within a business building may be qualified as an accessory use if it is for occupancy by the owner or a lessee of business premises therein, or by a caretaker or watchman, provided a minimum fifty percent of the usable floor area is being utilized for the principal permitted use;
B. 
Emergency housing, in conformance with the policies stated in the housing element of the Inyo County general plan;
C. 
Signs and advertising for permitted, accessory or conditional uses in compliance with the requirements of Chapter 18.75 and subject to the requirements of Section 18.51.050.
(Ord. 943 § 4, 1994; Ord. 1007 § 24, 1998)
The following minimum standards are established for development in the C-3 (administrative and professional offices) zone, except as otherwise provided in this title or as modified for conditional uses:
A. 
Maximum height of buildings:
1. 
Principal: three stories or forty feet;
B. 
Minimum parcel size: seven thousand five hundred square feet;
C. 
Minimum parcel width: sixty feet;
D. 
Front yard: none required;
E. 
Rear yard: none required;
F. 
Side yard: none required, except for those side yards abutting an R district, which shall be not less than that required by the abutting R zone;
G. 
Distance between buildings on the same parcel: ten feet;
H. 
One parking space shall be provided for each two hundred square feet of usable floor area, or as determined by the planning director;
I. 
Residential densities shall be 7.6 to twenty-four dwelling units per acre.
(Ord. 943 § 4, 1994; Ord. 1143 §§ 12, 13, 2009)