Chapter 17.26
MIXED COMMERCIAL DISTRICT (C-3)
Sections:
17.26.050 Development standards.
17.26.010 Purpose.
The purpose of this district is to implement the comprehensive plan by providing for mixed-use commercial zoning classifications suitable for limited retail service but with additional activities including the display, fabrication, assembly, and service of goods and machinery which serve the greater Goldendale community. Permitted uses in this zoning classification are heavier in type than those uses permitted in the more restrictive general commercial classification. (Ord. 1438 §2(part), 2014)
17.26.020 Principal uses.
Principal uses permitted outright in mixed commercial districts shall include:
A. Office buildings, banks, and professional services;
B. Retail food, merchandise, and apparel stores;
C. Specialty, grocery, convenience, and drug stores;
D. Photographic shops, barbershops and beauty shops;
E. Self service laundries, and commercial dry cleaning;
F. Restaurants, taverns, bars, and night clubs;
G. Microbreweries and brew pubs;
H. Bakeries;
I. Radio, television, and electrical repair shops;
J. Public and private parking lots;
K. Public and commercial recreational uses and facilities;
L. Fuel service stations and convenience store with fuel sales;
M. Cellular communications facilities;
N. Manufactured home sales lot;
O. Mini storage facility as defined in Section 17.04.556;
P. Frozen food and cold storage lockers;
Q. Carwash;
R. Automotive, motorized vehicle, farm, and machinery sales and rentals;
S. Automotive, motorized vehicle, farm, and machinery repair and storage;
T. Hardware and building materials stores;
U. Light manufacturing, fabrication, and repair;
V. Minor and major utility facilities;
W. Public facilities;
X. Tire sales, service and repair; and
Y. Other uses may be permitted by the board of adjustment, 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. (Ord. 1530 §5, 2024)
17.26.030 Accessory uses.
Accessory buildings shall not be permitted on a parcel prior to the existence of a principal use. Accessory uses permitted in mixed commercial districts shall include:
A. Accessory uses in mixed commercial districts which are customarily incidental and subordinate to the principal use. All such accessory uses must conform to all requirements for the principal use;
B. Business signs in compliance with Chapter 17.42;
C. Processes and equipment and goods processed or sold shall be limited to those which are not objectionable by reason of odor, dust, smoke, cinders, gas, noise, vibration, refuse matter, or water-carried waste;
D. Outdoor storage must be maintained in an orderly manner at all times;
E. No on-site hazardous substance processing and handling, or hazardous waste treatment and storage facilities shall be permitted, unless clearly incidental and secondary to a permitted use, subject to the requirements of the International Fire Code. (Ord. 1438 §2(part), 2014)
17.26.040 Conditional uses.
Conditional uses permitted in mixed commercial districts shall include:
A. Residential uses; provided, that all residential dwellings permitted in the multifamily residential district (R-3) meet the development standards of Section 17.12.050;
B. Private clubs, lodges, union and social halls;
C. Bed and breakfasts, motels and hotels;
D. Veterinary clinics when located not closer than one hundred fifty feet to any residential district and four hundred feet or more of any hospital, nursing home, or institution for the care of the infirm; providing that all animals are housed indoors; and
E. Other uses deemed by the board of adjustment as similar to and consistent with the intent and purpose of the general commercial zoning district;
F. Recreational vehicle parks. (Ord. 1530 §6, 2024)
17.26.050 Development standards.
The following provisions shall apply in the mixed commercial district, subject to other provisions of this title, except that where conflicts in regulation occur, the regulations specified in this section or on a development plan approved pursuant to this chapter shall apply:
A. Minimum lot area: not applicable;
B. Minimum lot width: twenty feet;
C. Minimum lot depth: twenty feet;
D. Maximum building height: three stories but not to exceed forty feet;
E. Maximum lot coverage: not applicable;
F. Minimum front yard depth: not applicable;
G. Minimum rear yard depth: zero feet (twenty when abutting a residential district);
H. Minimum side yard width: zero feet (five when abutting a residential district);
I. Minimum side yard width on corner lot: not applicable. (Ord. 1438 §2(part), 2014)
17.26.060 Parking.
Parking standards shall be provided in accordance with the terms of Chapter 17.52. (Ord. 1438 §2(part), 2014)
17.26.070 Landscaping.
Landscaping shall be provided with the terms of Chapter 17.54. (Ord. 1438 §2(part), 2014)
17.26.080 Site plan.
A site plan shall be approved in accordance with the terms of Chapter 17.46. (Ord. 1438 §2(part), 2014)
17.26.090 Prohibited uses.
Uses prohibited in the mixed commercial district shall include:
A. Junkyards; and
B. Automobile wrecking yards. (Ord. 1438 §2(part), 2014)