Chapter 18.44
COMMERCIAL NEIGHBORHOOD ZONE
Sections:
18.44.010 Intent.
A. The purpose of the C-N zone is to provide supplemental shopping areas detached from the C-C zone. Such shopping areas shall be located so as to provide convenient shopping centers for the various outlying areas of the community. It is the intent of the C-N zone to provide for concentrated development of such shops and stores within small areas and to limit such goods and services initially to not more than one of a kind whether contained in one building or in separate buildings such as one beauty shop, one drug store, or one grocery store; to avoid strip developments; and to prevent nuisances such as noise and traffic from accompanying such areas.
B. A development in a C-N zone shall require a minimum offering of four different classifications of goods or services, such as one drug store, one grocery store, one barber shop or one shoe repair shop, with a minimum of 5,000 square feet of usable floor area and a minimum land area of 20,000 square feet. An additional 10,000 square feet of sales area for each additional acre of land to a maximum development of 80,000 total square feet of usable floor area and a maximum of eight acres shall be permitted in any one commercial neighborhood zone. (Ord. 974 § 1, 2018: Ord. 394 § 2.26.02, 1981)
18.44.020 Permitted uses.
Permitted uses in the C-N zone shall be as follows:
A. All retail uses, except the following:
1. Heavy farm and construction equipment sales and services,
2. Hay, grain and farm supply stores,
3. Trailer sales,
4. Lumber sales,
5. Other similar uses;
B. All personal, professional, commercial recreation, household service establishments;
C. Signs;
D. Automobile parking;
E. Public uses;
F. Public utilities.
G. All open storage that does not constitute a display for retail, wholesale or rental use shall be enclosed by a fence or wall six feet in height which obscures the view of the open storage area from adjoining properties and streets. As an alternative to a fence or wall, the city may permit one of the following: planting of a solid evergreen hedge at least six feet in height (such as green arborvitae shrubs); installation of a landscaped berm with the berm being a minimum of six feet in height; or development of a combination landscaped earthen berm topped with a solid evergreen hedge having a combined total minimum height of at least six feet. No open storage shall exceed the height of its perimeter screening feature along the front property line or a property line that adjoins a residential use or zone.
All outdoor trash, garbage, and refuse storage areas shall be screened on all sides from public view and, at a minimum, shall be enclosed on three sides with a six-foot-high concrete block or masonry wall, or a solid fence, with a solid gate for access installed on the fourth side. (Ord. 974 § 1, 2018: Ord. 831 § 7, 2006; Ord. 394 § 2.26.04, 1981)
18.44.030 Conditional uses.
The following conditional uses may be permitted within the C-N zone through the granting of a conditional use permit:
A. Service stations (not including major overhaul or body work);
B. Building height in excess of the maximum established by this chapter;
C. Houses of religious worship including, but not limited to, churches, mosques, synagogues, temples, convents, and related uses;
D. Schools of either a public or private nature. (Ord. 974 § 1, 2018: Ord. 826 § 8, 2005; Ord. 722 § 99, 1998; Ord. 394 § 2.26.06, 1981)
18.44.040 Building site area.
Every building hereafter constructed or structurally altered in a C-N zone shall provide a lot area of not less than 20,000 square feet. Fifty percent of the area of all sites must be maintained as open spaces free from buildings or structures. (Ord. 974 § 1, 2018: Ord. 394 § 2.26.08, 1981)
18.44.050 Yards.
A. Front Yards. There shall be a front yard minimum depth of 15 feet which shall also apply on streets flanking the normal or original lot front.
B. Rear Yards. There shall be no rear yard requirement unless a building abuts a residential district, in which case the minimum rear yard depth shall be 10 feet.
C. Side Yards – Side Yards Abutting Interior Lot Lines. There shall be no side yard requirement unless a building abuts a residential district in which case the minimum side yard requirement shall be five feet in width. (Ord. 974 § 1, 2018: Ord. 394 § 2.26.10, 1981)
18.44.060 Height limit.
No building shall exceed a height of 35 feet. (Ord. 974 § 1, 2018: Ord. 394 § 2.26.12, 1981)
18.44.090 Off-street parking.
Parking and loading shall conform with the provisions of Chapter 18.74 DPMC. (Ord. 974 § 1, 2018: Ord. 722 § 100, 1998)