(1) 
Permitted primary uses (P) listed in CMC § 19.15.020 are permitted subject to review by the town planner for compliance and the applicable standards of this title.
(2) 
Conditional uses (C) requiring a permit listed in CMC § 19.15.020, and all matters directly related thereto possess characteristics that warrant review to ensure:
(a) 
Consistency with the town's comprehensive plan goals, objectives, policies and development criteria;
(b) 
The intent, character and development standards appropriate to the zoning district within which it is to be located;
(c) 
Compatibility with other uses; and
(d) 
Other relevant requirements of state or town law.
(3) 
If a proposed use is to be situated on property within the jurisdictional boundaries of the town's shorelines management master program, it shall be subject to the permits and procedural requirements thereof in addition to all applicable standards of this title. If a conflict exists between the standards of the town's shoreline management master program and this title, the more restrictive provisions shall apply.
(4) 
Uses that are deemed illegal by local, state, or federal law are not permitted under any classification within the town of Concrete.
(Ord. 900 § 2 (Att. A (§ 4)), 2025)
(1) 
The land use table lists those uses which may be permitted primary uses (P) or conditional (C) uses requiring a permit in the various zoning districts defined in this title. Uses not listed are not permitted uses. Proposed uses not listed may be considered as a similar use in accordance with CMC § 19.15.030, Similar uses. Where indicated, the regulatory notes contained in the land use table and definitions in Chapter 19.06 CMC are necessary in order to determine if any specific requirements apply to the listed use.
(2) 
Land uses not specifically permitted in the land use table are not permitted uses within any zoning district within the town of Concrete unless authorized through the similar use process set forth in this chapter.
Zones
R
A
CL
TC
I
P
OS
Residential Uses
Single-family dwellings
P
 
 
 
 
 
P
Caretakers apartments/quarters, not more than one per establishment
 
 
P
P
P
 
 
Aviation-related single-unit apartment (5)
 
P
 
 
 
 
 
Accessory dwelling unit (ADU) (41)
P
 
 
 
 
 
 
Duplex
P
 
 
 
 
 
 
Triplex
P
 
 
 
 
 
 
Fourplex
P
 
 
 
 
 
 
Fiveplex
C
 
C
P
 
 
 
Sixplex
C
 
C
P
 
 
 
Townhouse
C
 
C
P
 
 
 
Stacked flats
C
 
C
P
 
 
 
Courtyard buildings
C
 
C
P
 
 
 
Cottage houses
C
 
 
 
 
 
 
Co-living housing units
C
 
C
P
 
 
 
Mixed-use
C
 
P
P
 
 
 
Planned unit developments
C
 
 
 
 
 
 
Affordable housing
P
 
P
P
 
 
 
Permanent supportive housing (PSH)
P
 
P
P
 
 
 
Transitional housing
C
 
C
C
 
 
 
Emergency housing and emergency shelters
C
 
C
C
 
 
 
Encampments on a religious property
C
 
C
C
 
C
 
Group homes
C
 
 
 
 
 
 
Nursing homes
 
 
P
P
 
 
 
Motels
 
 
P
P
C
 
 
Hotels
 
 
P
P
 
 
 
Mobile and manufactured home parks
 
 
C
 
 
 
 
Recreation vehicle park
 
 
C
 
 
C
 
Accessory uses (1)
P
 
 
 
 
 
P
Residential Related Uses
Home occupations and sole proprietor businesses (3)
P
 
 
 
 
 
 
Household pets (2)
P
 
 
 
 
 
P
Aviation Uses
Aviation hangar per lot - one each
 
P
 
 
 
 
 
Aviation-related pilot’s lounge (5)
 
P
 
 
 
 
 
Aviation-related commercial or industrial uses (6)
 
P
 
 
 
 
 
Aviation-related public uses and government facilities (6)
 
P
 
 
 
 
 
Aviation-related commercial uses (6)
 
C
 
 
 
 
 
Aviation-related manufacturing uses
 
C
 
 
 
 
 
Aviation-related service business such as restaurants
 
C
 
 
 
 
 
Airports and related uses
 
 
 
 
 
C
 
Commercial and Related Uses
Accessory buildings or multi-building development (16)
 
 
P
P
 
 
 
Administrative, educational, and related (7)
 
 
P
 
 
 
 
Arcades
 
 
C
C
 
 
 
Automobile sales and leasing (14)
 
 
P
C
 
 
 
Automobile service stations
 
 
P
C
 
 
 
Art, music, and photography studios
 
 
P
P
 
 
 
Baking bread and pastry shop products sold on premises
 
 
P
P
 
 
 
Banking and related financial institutions
 
 
P
P
C
 
 
Bingo halls
 
 
 
 
P
 
 
Club, topless
 
 
 
 
P
 
 
Convenience stores
 
 
P
P
 
 
 
Convenience grocery stores
 
 
 
 
P
 
 
Day-care including family and child centers (8)
C
 
P
C
C
 
 
Day-care adult facilities
P
 
 
 
 
 
 
Day-care on-site of a specified permitted use
 
 
 
 
P
 
 
Delicatessens
 
 
P
P
C
 
 
Drive-in facilities including banks, restaurants
 
 
 
C
 
 
 
Dry cleaning and laundry services
 
 
P
P
P
 
 
Eating establishments limited to on-site employers (21)
 
 
 
 
P
 
 
Factory outlets
 
 
P
 
 
 
 
Food banks
 
 
C
C
 
 
 
Funeral homes
 
 
P
P
 
 
 
Grocery stores
 
 
P
P
C
 
 
Health and physical fitness clubs
 
 
 
 
P
 
 
Hobby shops
 
 
P
P
 
 
 
Household goods storage (19)
 
 
P
C
 
 
 
Hospitals to include small animals (9)
 
 
P
P
 
 
 
Kennels
C
 
 
 
 
 
 
Laundry, self-service
 
 
P
P
P
 
 
Laundries, commercial
 
 
 
 
P
 
 
Liquor store
 
 
P
P
 
 
 
Manufactured/mobile home sales lots
 
 
 
 
C
 
 
News syndicate services
 
 
P
P
 
 
 
Newsstands
 
 
P
P
 
 
 
Personal service shops
 
 
P
P
C
 
 
Pharmacies
 
 
P
P
 
 
 
Printing and publishing
 
 
P
P
 
 
 
Professional offices including corporate headquarters
 
 
P
P
C
 
 
Radio and television broadcasting studios
 
 
P
P
C
 
 
Recreation commercial
 
 
 
 
C
 
 
Recreational vehicle sales lots
 
 
 
 
P
 
 
Retail sales (34)
 
 
 
 
C
 
 
Retail stores including department and variety (11)
 
 
P
P
 
 
 
Research laboratories
 
 
P
 
 
 
 
Restaurants including outdoor eating (12)
 
 
P
P
C
 
 
Secretarial services
 
 
P
P
C
 
 
Taverns, dance halls, music auditoriums
 
 
C
C
C
 
 
Theaters except drive-in
 
 
P
P
 
 
 
Theater’s drive-in
 
 
 
 
C
 
 
Vehicle repair shops within enclosed building
 
 
P
 
 
 
 
Water bottling facilities
 
 
P
 
 
 
 
Other uses by the town council or planner (15 and 18)
 
 
P
C
 
 
 
Industrial and Related Uses
Sale or repair of firearms
 
 
C
 
 
 
 
Mini-storage warehouses
 
 
C
 
 
 
 
Animal and food processing (32)
 
 
 
 
C
 
 
Auction houses, including animals
 
 
 
 
C
 
 
Automobile and truck rental
 
 
 
 
P
 
 
Automobile and truck sales, new and used
 
 
 
 
P
 
 
Automobile vehicle repair shops (within enclosed buildings)
 
 
P
 
 
 
 
Automobile repair services
 
 
 
 
P
 
 
Automobile service station
 
 
 
 
P
 
 
Automobile washes
 
 
 
 
P
 
 
Basic wood processing (20)
 
 
 
 
P
 
 
Boat building and accessory fabrication
 
 
 
 
P
 
 
Building movers
 
 
 
 
P
 
 
Bulk storage or processing (33)
 
 
 
 
C
 
 
Cold storage plants
 
 
 
 
P
 
 
Concrete mixing and batching plants, including ready-mix facilities
 
 
 
 
C
 
 
Contractor trade services including storage yards
 
 
 
 
P
 
 
Enameling, galvanizing, and electroplating
 
 
 
 
P
 
 
Equipment repair and storage, rental, leasing, sales
 
 
 
 
P
 
 
Existing logging company
 
 
P
 
P
 
 
Food locker services
 
 
 
 
P
 
 
Heavy equipment and truck repair
 
 
 
 
P
 
 
Household movers and storage
 
 
 
 
P
 
 
Janitorial services
 
 
 
 
P
 
 
Lumber yards
 
 
 
 
P
 
 
Manufacturing light (10)
 
 
P
 
 
 
 
Manufacturing natural materials (22)
 
 
 
 
P
 
 
Manufacturing electronics (23)
 
 
 
 
P
 
 
Manufacturing appliances (24)
 
 
 
 
P
 
 
Manufacturing metals (25)
 
 
 
 
P
 
 
Manufacturing soaps and clay (26)
 
 
 
 
P
 
 
Manufacturing drugs and food (27)
 
 
 
 
P
 
 
Manufacturing computers (28)
 
 
 
 
P
 
 
Mini-storage warehouses
 
 
 
 
P
 
 
Motorcycle sales and services
 
 
 
 
P
 
 
Motor freight terminals and transportation
 
 
 
 
P
 
 
Offices related to on-site permitted use (29)
 
 
 
 
P
 
 
Outside storage yards
 
 
 
 
P
 
 
Printing, publishing, and allied (30)
 
 
 
 
P
 
 
Radio and television transmitting towers
 
 
 
 
C
 
 
Research, development, and testing of permitted use
 
 
 
 
P
 
 
Retail and wholesale trade of products manufactured, processed, or assembled on site
 
 
 
 
P
 
 
Rock crushing plants
 
 
 
 
C
 
 
Small appliance repair
 
 
 
 
C
 
 
Theaters, adult
 
 
 
 
P
 
 
Upholstery and furniture repair
 
 
 
 
C
 
 
Warehouse sales, open to the public
 
 
 
 
C
 
 
Warehousing and distribution facilities, to include wholesale trade not open to general public
 
 
 
 
P
 
 
Other similar uses and accessory uses (31)
 
 
 
 
P
 
 
Other uses (38)
 
 
 
 
 
C
C
Public, Open Space, and Related Uses
Agriculture croplands (39)
 
 
 
 
 
 
P
Civic, social, and fraternal clubs
 
 
P
P
P
 
 
Conservation areas including forest, wetlands, wildlife
 
 
 
 
 
P
P
Community centers, recreational buildings, band shells, and similar
 
 
 
 
 
P
P
Clubhouses and youth centers
 
 
 
 
 
C
 
Golf courses and country clubs privately owned (4)
C
 
 
 
 
 
 
Golf courses and clubhouses publicly owned
 
 
 
 
 
C
C
Government facilities (17)
C
 
C
C
C
 
 
Government facilities, fire stations
 
 
P
 
 
 
 
Government buildings, structures, facilities (35)
 
 
 
 
 
P
 
Meeting rooms and/or reception facilities
 
 
P
P
 
 
 
Museums, libraries, and public schools
 
 
 
 
 
P
 
Parks, trails, playgrounds, playfields, recreation facilities, storage buildings, refreshment stands, related
P
 
P
 
 
P
P
Public parks, natural scenic areas, trails, walking and bicycle paths (36)
 
 
 
 
 
P
P
Reclamation areas (37)
 
 
 
 
 
P
P
Schools (13)
 
 
P
P
 
 
 
Schools, existing
P
 
 
 
 
 
 
Schools, preschools or nursery
 
 
P
C
C
 
 
Schools, job training and vocational education
 
 
 
 
P
 
 
Recreation buildings, neighborhood facilities
C
 
 
 
 
 
 
Recreation on-site facilities serving specified use
 
 
 
 
P
 
 
Religious institutions
C
 
P
C
 
C
 
Infrastructure Uses
Bus passenger terminals
 
 
 
 
P
 
 
Hydroelectric power generation facilities and related and ancillary structures and facilities
 
 
 
 
 
 
C
Organic materials management facility
 
 
 
 
P
P
 
Parking facilities
 
 
P
C
 
 
 
Parking facilities for permitted uses on site
 
 
 
 
 
P
P
Utilities substations and public utilities facilities (40)
C
 
 
C
 
C
C
Utility facilities, major
 
 
C
 
 
 
 
Utilities facilities, minor
 
 
P
 
 
 
 
Utility substations, unless incidental permitted use
 
 
 
 
C
 
 
Wireless communications facilities
 
 
C
 
 
 
 
Notes
(1)
Includes residential garages, recreation room, tool shed, noncommercial greenhouses, and swimming pool.
(2)
Not more than three household pets, which can be kept in the home not including birds, fish, or suckling young of pets.
(3)
With no significant increase in traffic.
(4)
Excluding driving ranges.
(5)
Single-unit apartment up to 500 square feet on the ground floor and/or 25 percent of the floor area on the second floor, within the individual hangar, as an accessory use for use by the lessee of the lot only. Such units must connect to public water and sanitary sewer when it becomes available, as required by Chapter 13.20 CMC. Pilot’s lounges are prohibited within private hangars.
(6)
When the location at the airport is necessary or required for operations.
(7)
Activities and facilities subordinate to a permitted use on the same premises as the principal use.
(8)
Day-care centers as defined by DSHS.
(9)
Does not allow outside runs or kennels.
(10)
Includes fabricating, processing, packing, or storage uses. Excludes any use having the primary function of storing, utilizing, or manufacturing explosive materials. Any principal use involving the rendering of fats, the slaughtering of fish or meat.
(11)
Includes antiques, art supplies, automobile parks and accessories (excluding service and machine shops), baked goods, beverages, bicycles, books and magazines, candy, nuts, and confectionery, clothing, computers, dairy products, dry goods, flowers and house plants, fruits and vegetables, furniture and home furnishings, hardware (including electrical, heating, plumbing, glass, paint, wallpaper, and related goods), home garden supplies, household appliances, household pets, housewares, jewelry and clocks, meat, fish, and poultry (preprocessed), notions, office supplies and equipment, photographic equipment (including finishing), radio, television, and stereos, shoes, sporting goods (excluding firearm sales), stationery, and toys.
(12)
Sale of alcoholic beverages is a secondary use and is limited to on-premises consumption.
(13)
Includes art, business, barber, beauty, dancing, martial arts, and music.
(14)
New and/or used including light pick-up trucks and vans, recreation vehicles or heavy trucks, provided the following requirements are met:
(a)
No repairing, painting, or body work shall be conducted outside of a building;
(b)
If adjacent to a residential zone, a sight obscuring fence or landscape screen shall be required;
(c)
A minimum of a 25-foot setback shall be required of any building from the residential zone.
(15)
If the use is determined to be reasonable and consistent with the intent of the zone and is of the same general character of the uses permitted in this section, and not to be a significant hazard to the health, welfare, and safety of the town.
(16)
With uses complimentary and related to a dominant or primary uses; provided, control of building design, location, and site development is retained by the dominant use. In such coordinated development the site area requirement shall apply to the group of buildings and the yard requirements to the site perimeter.
(17)
Excludes offices and related uses that are permitted outright.
(18)
If the use is determined to be consistent with the intent of the zone and is of the same general character as the uses permitted in this table. Other uses not listed here, upon determination based on the applicant disclosure, may require additional permitting if the town determines that such uses may pose a threat or create a hazard to the general health, welfare, and safety of the community and town.
(19)
Provided the following requirements are met:
(a)
No more than two main entrances and/or exits to the building and access to the individual storage area be from the inside of the building.
(b)
Landscaping and architectural improvements required to ensure compatibility with present and potential town center uses in the vicinity.
(20)
Includes sawmills, planning mills, veneering, laminating of wood, shake, and shingle mills, pole and piling mills, and plywood mills.
(21)
Limited to serving a permitted use on same site.
(22)
Includes assembling and packaging of articles, products or merchandise from previously prepared natural or synthetic materials, including but not limited to bristles, canvas, cellophane, and similar synthetics, chalk, clays (pulverized only, with gas or electric kilns), cloth, cork, feathers, felt, fiber, fur, glass (including glass finishing), graphite, hair, horn, leather, paper, paraffin, plastic and resins, precious or semiprecious metals or stones, putty, pumice, rubber, shell, textiles, tobacco, wire, wood, and yarn.
(23)
Includes establishments engaged in electronic, automotive, aerospace, airframe, or related manufacturing and assembly activities, including precision machine shops producing parts, accessories, assemblies, systems, engine, major components, and whole electronic or electrical devices, automobiles, aircraft, aerospace, or underwater vehicles, but specifically excluding explosive fuels and propellants.
(24)
Includes processing, assembling, and packaging of precision components and products, including precision machine shops for products such as radio and television equipment, business machine equipment, home appliances, scientific, optical, medical, dental, and drafting instruments, photographic and optical goods, phonographic records, and prerecorded audio-visual tape, measurement and control devices, sound equipment and supplies, personal accessories, and products of similar character.
(25)
Includes processing, treating, assembling, and packaging of articles, products, or merchandise from previously prepared ferrous, nonferrous, or alloyed metals.
(26)
Includes processing, blending, and packaging of products such as:
(a)
Soaps, detergents, and other basic cleaning and cleansing materials;
(b)
Mineral products such as abrasives, asbestos, chalk, pumice, etc.;
(c)
Clay and cement products such as brick, tile, pipe, etc.;
(27)
Includes processing, blending, and packaging of the following:
(a)
Drugs, pharmaceuticals, toiletries, and cosmetics;
(b)
Food and kindred products, such as confectionery products, chocolate, cereal breakfast food, bakery products, paste products, fruits and vegetables, beverages, prepared food specialties (such as coffee, dehydrated and instant food, extracts, spices, and dressings, and similar products);
(c)
Dairy products and byproducts such as milk, cream, cheese, and butter, including the processing and bottling of fluid milk, and cream, and wholesale distribution.
(28)
Includes assembling, packaging, and development of computer equipment and software, and related products.
(29)
On-site permitted use or larger than 50,000 square feet of floor area.
(30)
Including such processes as lithography, etching, and engraving, binding, blueprinting, photocopying, and film processing.
(31)
And buildings appurtenant to a principal use which the planning director finds compatible with the permitted uses described in this chapter and consistent with the purpose and intent of the industrial (I) zoning district.
(32)
Includes:
(a)
Tanning and dressing of hides;
(b)
Curing, canning, freezing, and processing of meat and seafoods;
(c)
Pickling and brine curing.
(33)
Includes oil, gas, petroleum, butane, liquid petroleum, gas, and similar products unless clearly incidental and secondary to support a principally permitted use.
(34)
Of the following and similar related products:
(a)
Automobile parts and accessories, including service and machine shops;
(b)
Bottled gas;
(c)
Bicycles;
(d)
Computers;
(e)
Farm and garden supplies;
(f)
Hardware and equipment;
(g)
Lumber and building materials;
(h)
Office supplies and equipment.
(35)
Includes police stations, fire stations, public well sites, public sewer treatment facilities.
(36)
Excludes commercial amusement devices or operations.
(37)
Limited to soil, forest, wildlife special food risk or wetland.
(38)
May be permitted by the town council if the use is determined to be consistent with the intent of the zone and is of the same general character of the uses permitted in this section.
(39)
Excludes livestock and poultry, machinery and equipment sheds or barns.
(40)
Installation into or across open space zones, and clearing of a vegetated natural area for one of the permitted uses listed above, subject to the following:
(a)
In addition to the conditional use criteria of Chapter 19.68 CMC, it shall be shown that the instruction is necessary to provide services to the open space for public benefit or safety; or for physical or technical reasons, and that no reasonable alternative is practicable.
(b)
The design and plan shall create the minimum of surface and vegetation disturbance necessary to accomplish its purpose.
(c)
Underground of utilities shall be encouraged and required where site characteristics are suitable.
(41)
Up to two accessory dwelling units (ADUs) are permitted provided:
(a)
A single-family dwelling already exists, or is proposed, on the subject property;
(b)
The minimum lot size is met for the underlying zone; and
(c)
Conformance with the applicable provisions of CMC 19.25.090 and Chapter 16.12 CMC have been met.
(Ord. 900 § 2 (Att. A (§ 4)), 2025)
(1) 
A proposed use that is not listed in the table may be permitted by the town planner as a permitted (P) or conditional (C) use if the use is determined to be consistent with the intent of the zone and is of the same general character of the uses permitted in this section.
(2) 
Town planner shall not approve a similar use determination request unless evidence is presented to demonstrate that the proposed use will comply with the purpose, intent, goals, objectives, and policies of the comprehensive plan and the zoning district in which the proposed use will be based.
(3) 
If a proposed use is not determined to be a similar use it shall not be considered an allowable use.
(Ord. 900 § 2 (Att. A (§ 4)), 2025)