Chapter 17.28
C-1 General Commercial District
Sections:
17.28.050 Lot and yard requirements.
17.28.060 Height and density requirements.
17.28.080 Parking requirements.
17.28.010 Purpose.
The purpose of the general commercial or C-1 district is to provide suitable area for those commercial uses commonly existing in shopping centers which supply convenience goods and services needed to serve the local community and tourists. (Ord. 1366 (part), 1995).
17.28.020 Permitted uses.
Permitted uses in the C-1 district are as follows:
(1) Personal and professional services;
(2) Business offices;
(3) Financial services;
(4) Commercial banks;
(5) Wholesale or retail sales in a building;
(6) Secondhand sales;
(7) Restaurants;
(8) Taverns or cocktail lounges;
(9) Indoor amusements and entertainment;
(10) Small appliance repair;
(11) Cabinet or craft shops;
(12) Laundry or dry cleaners;
(13) Printers or data processing centers;
(14) Libraries, police stations and fire stations;
(15) Hospitals or clinics;
(16) Hotels or motels and boardinghouses;
(17) Clubs (private), community centers and churches;
(18) Child care centers;
(19) Service stations;
(20) Public parking areas and public garages;
(21) Transmission lines and utility substations;
(22) On-site hazardous waste treatment and storage facilities as an accessory use to any activity generating hazardous waste and lawfully allowed as a permitted or conditional use in this zone; provided, that the hazardous waste treatment and storage facilities meet the state siting criteria adopted pursuant to the requirements of RCW 70.105.070 as they now exist or are hereafter amended; or
(23) Public agency offices. (Ord. 1366 (part), 1995).
17.28.030 Conditional uses.
Conditional uses in the C-1 district are as follows:
(1) Single-family dwellings; provided, that the lot, yard, height, density, sign and parking requirements established by Sections 17.22.050 through 17.22.080, as well as the special conditions established by Section 17.22.040 shall apply to such dwellings;
(2) Dwelling units, when contained within commercial buildings;
(3) Guesthouse and caretaker's single-family dwelling, incidental to a permitted use;
(4) Mobile/manufactured housing in conformity with Section 17.08.375(2);
(5) New and used automobile sales, repair and rental;
(6) Automotive and truck cleaning;
(7) Publicly owned facilities;
(8) Off-site hazardous waste treatment and storage facilities as an accessory use to any activity generating hazardous waste and lawfully allowed as a permitted or conditional use in this district; provided, that the hazardous wastes are generated by a similar business owned by the same owner and located in the same zone; and provided, that the hazardous waste treatment and storage facilities meet the state siting criteria adopted pursuant to the requirements of RCW 70.105.210 as they now exist or are hereafter ended;
(9) Privately owned schools; or
(10) Mortuary or funeral home. (Ord. 1366 (part), 1995).
17.28.040 Special conditions.
Special conditions in the C-1 district are as follows:
(1) Temporary amusements and public assembly: Section 17.44.022;
(2) Fences, walls or hedges shall not exceed eight feet in height and shall not obstruct visibility at points of ingress and egress;
(3) Exceptions to height restrictions: Section 17.44.028;
(4) Storage of vehicles and other materials: Section 17.44.029;
(5) For buildings or uses exceeding five thousand square feet in gross floor area, space shall be provided either inside or outside a building for loading and unloading goods and materials. Such space shall not be less than ten feet wide, twenty-five feet long, or fifteen feet in height if covered, and shall have access to an alley or street. (Ord. 1366 (part), 1995).
17.28.050 Lot and yard requirements.
Lot and yard requirements in the C-1 district are as follows:
(1) Minimum lot size: two thousand five hundred square feet;
(2) Minimum lot width: twenty-five feet;
(3) Minimum yards: as required in the building code, except that where side or rear yards are adjacent to a residential district, the required minimum side yard shall be ten feet and the required minimum rear yard shall be twenty-five feet. (Ord. 1366 (part), 1995).
17.28.060 Height and density requirements.
Height and density requirements in the C-1 district are as follows:
(1) Maximum building height: three stories and not more than forty-five feet. Greater building height may be allowed through a conditional use permit; provided, that the minimum front, side and rear yard setbacks are increased by one foot for each one foot by which the building exceeds forty-five feet.
(2) Distance between buildings:
(A) Commercial buildings, as required in the building code;
(B) Residential buildings, at least ten feet from any other buildings. (Ord. 1366 (part), 1995).
17.28.070 Sign limitations.
Sign limitations in the C-1 district for residential purposes are as indicated in the district where such residential use is permitted. Other permitted signs in the C-1 district are as follows:
(1) Not more than two unlighted signs that pertain to the sale or lease of commercially zoned land and that do not exceed thirty-two square feet in total area;
(2) Public service signs, subject to obtaining a conditional use permit. Such signs will not be subtracted from the property's allowable advertising area;
(3) Appurtenant signs with:
(A) A maximum area of two hundred square feet plus one-half square foot for each foot that the lot width or length (whichever is lesser) exceeds fifty feet,
(B) A maximum height of fifty feet, and
(C) Lighting provided only by a unit or group of units having an intensity no greater than 1.25 times the intensity of other lighting units within the same advertising area. On-and-off units shall be on at least for one second and off for one second. One-point and two-point flashers are not permitted;
(4) Signs projecting over public rights-of-way, provided they:
(A) Do not exceed one hundred square feet in total area,
(B) Are nonrotating,
(C) Are no closer than fourteen feet to the ground unless attached to the underside of a projecting canopy, in which case the sign shall neither exceed six square feet in area nor be closer than nine feet to the ground, and
(D) Do not extend more than ten feet over the public way nor come closer than two feet to the edge of the motor-travelled way; and
(5) Plans for any projecting signs or freestanding signs higher than twenty feet shall be approved by a registered engineer. (Ord. 1366 (part), 1995).
17.28.080 Parking requirements.
Minimum off-street parking in the C-1 district shall be four parking spaces on site for all uses. See Section 17.44.033 for the area exempted from parking requirements. Other parking requirements are as follows:
(1) Personal, professional and financial services, business offices, or public offices: one space per three hundred fifty square feet of gross floor area. Three spaces may be deducted for each drive-in window in a bank;
(2) Retail sales of small items (groceries, drugs, department store items) in a building: one space per three hundred square feet of gross floor area;
(3) Retail sales of bulky items, (furniture, appliances, feeds) in a building: one space per seven hundred fifty square feet of gross floor area;
(4) Taverns, cocktail lounges, restaurants and indoor amusements and entertainment:
(A) One space per one hundred seventy-five square feet of gross floor area, or
(B) One space for every three persons of legal occupancy, or practical occupancy if legal standard does not exist, plus one space per employee;
(5) Service stations and car washes; furniture, small appliance, automotive, and heavy equipment repair; automobile sales; professional dry cleaners; printers or data processing centers; builders, plumbers or other trades; wholesale or secondhand sales; cabinetmakers or other craft shops; warehousing and food or property storage facilities; outdoor sales or rental of big and bulky items; animal hospitals or kennels; bottlers and distributors; truck terminals; machine shops; and fabricators: one space per employee;
(6) Hotels, motels or boardinghouses: one space per guest room plus one space for each two employees;
(7) Hospitals, convalescent centers, residential care facilities, and clinics: one space per three patient beds or tables plus one space for every three employees;
(8) Churches, mortuaries, places of public assembly, or exhibition halls:
(A) With fixed seats: one space for every five seats in the main auditorium,
(B) Without fixed seats: one space for every one hundred seventy-five square feet of gross floor area in the main assembly area;
(9) Dwelling units, when contained within commercial buildings: one and one-half parking spaces per dwelling unit in structures occupied by the general public and one space per two dwelling units in one-bedroom or efficiency apartments to be continually occupied by those sixty-two years of age or older; and
(10) Self-service laundries: one space for every one hundred seventy-five square feet of gross floor area. (Ord. 1366 (part), 1995).