Dimensional standards
Height & bulk
Servicing
- Geographic extent
- Areas along major highway entrances to the city, with controlled access via frontageFrontageThe length of a lot line that touches a public street. roads, interchanges and channelized intersections.
Uses
Permitted by right26
- Ambulance service
- Automobile and farm equipment sales and supply stores
- Automobile sales, service and repair, including body and fender work
- Automobile washing
- Boat sales and service
- Bowling alleys
- Bus depots and transit stations hotels and motels
- Convenience stores and services for the highway traveler, only at locations close to highway intersections or freeway interchanges, including: barber and beauty shops, drug stores, food stores (under 10,000 square feet in area), gift shops, laundromats, liquor stores
- Motorcycle sales, service and repair
- Offices providing financial lending services
- Offices and retail stores incidental to and on the same site with a highway commercial establishment
- Private clubs and lodges
- Public utility structures, service and facilities, including gas and electrical distribution and transmission substations, gas regulator stations, public service pumping stations
- Recreation vehicle sales and service
- Repair garages
- Restaurants, including drive-in restaurants
- Service stations (gasoline, butane and diesel fuels only)
- Soda fountains
- Used car sales
- Utility trailer sales, service and rental
- Incidental and accessory structures and uses located on the same site as a permitted use
- Christmas tree sales lots
- Gas and electric transmission lines, in accordance with the provisions of Chapter 18.17
- Public buildings and grounds
- Incidental and accessory structures and uses located on the same site as a use permitted by administrative approval or conditional use
- Other uses which are added to this list according to the procedure in Chapter 18.15
Conditional / special use8
- Bars, cocktail lounges and nightclubs
- Drive-in theaters, golf driving ranges, pony riding rings, race tracks, riding stables, skating rinks, sports arenas and sports stadiums, and other similar, open, unenclosed commercial recreation facilities
- Mini-storage facilities
- Overnight parking for recreational vehicles
- Service stations involving the dispensing of petroleum gasoline fuels for use by the traveling public
- Sports complex, sports facilities, and other similar regional recreation facilities
- Expansion, remodeling, or additions to a conditional use that are not considered an incidental or accessory use as defined in Chapter 18.24
- Other uses which are added to this list according to the procedure in Chapter 18.15
Accessory1
- Incidental and accessory structures and uses located on the same site as a permitted use
Extracted standards
12 individual requirements pulled out of this section’s prose, each with the sentence it came from.
Other
- Administrative approval required for admin uses
Land uses listed under 'Permitted Uses—Administrative Approval' in any C district shall require administrative approval, consistent with the provisions of Chapter 18.16.
- Conditional useConditional useAllowed only after a discretionary approval — usually a public hearing and a board vote. permit required for conditionalConditional useAllowed only after a discretionary approval — usually a public hearing and a board vote. uses
Land uses listed under 'Conditional Uses—City Council Approval' in any C district shall require conditional use permit approval, consistent with the provisions of Chapter 18.17.
- Minimum distance between dwelling unitDwelling unitOne independent home: its own kitchen, bathroom and entrance. and another structure10 ft
The minimum distance between a dwelling unit and another structure shall be ten feet.
- Open storage screening7 ft
Open storage of materials and equipment attendant to a permitted use or conditional use shall be permitted only within an area surrounded or screened by a solid wall or fence seven feet minimum in height.
- Permanent sidewalk sales prohibitedProhibitedNot allowed in the district at all, short of rezoning or a variance.
Permanent use for such purposes is strictly prohibited.
- Rear setbackSetbackThe distance a building must be held back from a lot line. when abutting residential10 ft
In any commercial district, the minimum rear yard abutting an RCO, UR, RA, R, RM or PO District shall be ten feet.
- Minimum screening wall heightMaximum heightThe tallest a building may be, given in feet, in storeys, or both — whichever binds first.7 ft
All commercial site boundaries adjacent to any residential zoning district shall be visually screened with ornamental masonry walls and landscaping. Wall height shall be a minimum of seven feet.
- Side setbackSetbackThe distance a building must be held back from a lot line. when abutting residential10 ft
In any commercial district, the minimum side yard abutting an RCO, UR, RA, R, RM or PO district shall be ten feet.
- Site plan review required for permitted uses
Land uses listed under 'Permitted Uses' in any C district shall require site plan review approval, consistent with the provisions of Chapter 18.18.
- Street trees required
Street trees and frontage landscaping, with automatic irrigation, shall be provided for all commercial sites.
- Temporary sidewalk sales require approval
Temporary sidewalk sales and use of the public right-of-way for the display and sales of merchandise shall require approval by the city council. Permanent use for such purposes is strictly prohibited.
- Temporary use permit required for temporary uses
Temporary commercial or promotional use of any site in any C district shall require approval of a temporary use permit, consistent with the provisions of Section 18.17.180.
From the ordinance
The highway commercial district is intended primarily for application to areas along major highway entrances to the city in accordance with policies of the General Plan where controlled access to the highway is afforded for the convenience of patrons traveling the highway by the provision of frontage roads, interchanges and channelized intersections.
Use details
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"dropped_conditions": {
"conditional_uses": [
"Modest expansion or remodeling of an existing non-conforming use of a structure or land, up to fifty percent or less of the assessed value of the structure, or reestablishment of a nonconforming use which has been damaged, except nonconforming signs and outdoor advertising structures, nonconforming uses occupying a structure with an assessed valuation of less than one hundred dollars, and nonconforming fences, walls and hedges"
]
}
}