Chapter 18.46
“CT” (COMMERCIAL, THOROUGHFARE) DISTRICT
Sections:
18.46.040 Development standards.
18.46.010 Purpose.
The purpose of the CT district is to provide for retail, commercial and amusement uses which are appropriate to thoroughfare locations dependent upon thoroughfare travel; to permit commercial uses and activities which depend more heavily on convenient vehicular access rather than pedestrian access; to limit location to sites having safe and efficient access to major transportation routes; and to provide development standards to enhance the efficient operation of these districts by creating buffers to achieve minimum adverse impacts on the community as a whole, especially on adjacent properties having different land use characteristics. (Ord. 1917 § 1 (part), 1997).
18.46.020 Permitted uses.
The following are the only uses permitted in the CT district which is property within forty feet of, and abutting, North Wine Country Road, commencing at the Yakima River Bridge and extending northwesterly to the I-82/Gap Road Interchange, except for the Benton County Port District Airport property:
A. Professional buildings;
B. Service stations and garages (Section 18.60.210) (no outside storage of materials); convenience stores which may include gasoline sales;
C. Undertaking establishments;
D. Retail wine and wine tasting;
E. Laundry, laundromats, dry cleaning establishments;
F. Retail landscape gardening and storage area for equipment and materials;
G. Automatic car washes and detail shops (Section 18.60.030);
H. New car sales lots and service with used car lots and service as an accessory use and light truck and trailer sales lots and service with used light truck and trailer sales lots and service as an accessory use;
I. Retail stores including retail paint and supply shop (no outside storage of material) and retail lighting and appliances shop (no outside storage of material); drug stores and food stores;
J. Upholstery shop; banks; restaurants/cocktail lounges; dancing schools; sign shops; microbrewery-restaurant and/or pub;
K. Bakeries; barber and beauty shops; locksmith shops; membership clubs;
L. Photo shops; shoe repair shops; hotels and motels; indoor theaters;
M. Taverns and package liquor stores; bowling alleys; newspaper, retail printing and publishing shops;
N. Business schools, studios, and academies for the arts;
O. Residential uses; provided, commercial uses are on the street front. Such residential uses must be part of a commercial structure and conform with the Uniform Building Code;
P. Manufacture/repair incidental to retail sales on the premises; plumbing and heating shops;
Q. Veterinarian clinic (small animal);
R. Vocational and technical school;
S. Manufactured home sales and service;
T. Marine sales, service and rental;
U. Private recreational businesses;
V. Nursery schools and day care centers;
W. Tow truck companies; provided, that all storage of vehicles, tow trucks and materials must be fully enclosed within a building and there shall be no outside storage of vehicles, tow trucks or materials;
X. Farmer’s markets;
Y. Use and buildings accessory to any permitted use. (Ord. 2220 § 1, 2001: Ord. 1917 § 1 (part), 1997).
18.46.030 Additional uses.
The following uses require approval of a permit in accord with Chapter 18.75:
A. Public and quasi-public uses (Section 18.75.050);
B. On-site hazardous waste treatment and storage facilities when accessory to a permitted use, except residential, subject to state siting criteria (Section 18.75.050);
C. Similar uses (Section 18.75.070);
D. Recreational vehicle parks (Sections 18.60.250 and 18.75.050);
E. Off-street parking lots;
F. Truck sales, service and rental;
G. Trailer sales, service and rental;
H. Used auto sales, service and rental;
I. Vehicle repair; body and fender shops;
J. Radio and television stations;
K. Bed and breakfasts;
L. Wine manufacturing and/or tasting rooms;
M. Wholesale businesses;
N. Congregate living facilities. (Section 18.75.050). (Ord. 3250 § 2, 2024; Ord. 2220 § 2, 2001: Ord. 1917 § 1 (part), 1997).
18.46.040 Development standards.
Development standards in commercial, thoroughfare (CT) districts are as follows:
A. Minimum Setbacks. Street frontage: twenty-five feet; side and rear: ten feet.
B. Maximum building height: thirty-five feet. Structures in excess of thirty-five feet in height require approval of a conditional use permit in accord with Chapter 18.75.
C. Off-street parking in accord with Chapter 18.63.
D. Signs in accord with Chapter 18.72.
E. Site Review. Site review, in accord with Chapter 18.75, is required for each new use or expansion of an existing use.
F. Landscaping. A ten-foot strip, along all street frontages, must be landscaped. The landscaping must not restrict the vision of exiting traffic. Landscaped buffers must be provided in side and rear setback areas, when abutting an R district. Landscaping must be shown on the site plan.
G. Solid Waste Receptacles. All solid waste receptacles must be surrounded on at least three sides by a minimum five-foot high sight-obscuring fence or wall. Such enclosures and receptacles are not permitted within required street frontage areas.
H. Access. Access to sites will be by permit only, and limited to one driveway for each two hundred feet of frontage. Each lot shall have not more that two accessways to any one street or highway and must comply with the following requirements:
1. The width of any accessway leading to or from a highway must not be more than thirty-six feet or less than twenty-five feet in width at the right-of-way line. The alignment of accessways and curb return dimensions must be designed and constructed in accord with Chapter 12.06.
2. The location and number of an accessway must be so arranged that they will reduce the possibility of traffic hazards as much as possible. (Ord. 1917 § 1 (part), 1997).