15.310 C-1, Commercial District.

(1) Intent. This district is intended to accommodate the heavy service industries at locations directly accessible to the City’s arterial and transportation systems where they can conveniently serve the business and industrial areas of the City. Several of the uses permitted in the “C-1” District involve outdoor display and storage of merchandise and equipment, which is not permitted in the “B-1,” “B-2,” “B-3,” and “B-4” Districts.

(2) Specific Uses Permitted. Land shall be used and buildings shall be erected, altered, enlarged, or used for only one or more of the following uses, subject to the provisions of this section and other applicable sections of the Zoning Ordinance:

(a) Any use permitted or conditionally permitted in the “B-4” Central Business District (except transitional housing; and continuing care communities, retirement housing, intergenerational housing, and other collaborative housing options developed pursuant to MMC 15.750);

(b) Automobile laundries;

(c) Awning and siding sales;

(d) Boat sales and accessories;

(e) Contractor office or shop including accessory retail establishments such as:

1. Building;

2. Carpenter;

3. Cement;

4. Electrical;

5. Heating and ventilating;

6. Marine;

7. Painting;

8. Plumbing;

9. Refrigeration;

10. Roofing and flooring;

11. Sign painting; and

12. Landscape contractor;

(f) Farm equipment and machinery sales;

(g) Feed and seed stores;

(h) Mobile and manufactured home sales;

(i) Laboratories, except a physical testing laboratory;

(j) Laundries and dry cleaning;

(k) Monument sales;

(l) Motorcycle sales and repairs;

(m) Motor vehicle sales of new or used vehicles;

(n) Motor vehicle service shops, including body repair, painting, radiator repair, and engine repair;

(o) Open sales lots;

(p) Printing, publishing and distribution;

(q) Public garages;

(r) Rental agencies for automobiles, trailers, trucks, and heavy equipment;

(s) Secondhand stores and rummage shops;

(t) Store fixtures and store equipment shops;

(u) Tire sales and repairs;

(v) Used merchandise sale with exterior storage;

(w) Water conditioning, sales and service;

(x) Wholesale sales;

(y) Other uses not specifically listed above but which are similar to the above permitted uses; and

(z) Tattoo and body piercing establishments.

Accessory buildings and uses to the specific uses permitted shall also be permitted.

(3) Conditional Uses Permitted. The following uses are permitted subject to MMC 15.370(27):

(a) Trucking, distribution and load assembly depot;

(b) Wrecker service;

(c) Repealed by Ord. 20-719;

(d) Any use authorized pursuant to MMC 15.370(29); and

(e) Transitional housing; and

(f) Continuing care communities, retirement housing, intergenerational housing, and other collaborative housing options developed pursuant to MMC 15.750.

(4) Area Regulations.

(a) Front Yard. No principal or accessory building shall be located closer to the street line as established by the Official Map than required in any adjoining Residential District within the same block. If there is no adjoining Residential District within the same block, no setback from the street line as established by the Official Map shall be required except as provided in MMC 15.390(14).

(b) Side Yard. None required, except a lot whose side property line adjoins an “R” Zone shall provide a side yard as required for the Residential Zone it abuts and shall be effectively sight screened by a wall, tight fence, evergreen hedge, or other suitable enclosure of a minimum height of four and one-half feet and a maximum height of seven feet. Street side yards, however, shall be provided as required in MMC 15.390(14).

(c) Rear Yard. No rear yard shall be required except where the rear of a lot adjoins an “R” Zone without an intervening alley. Such rear yard shall not be less than 15 feet in depth.

(5) Height Regulations. No building shall exceed 60 feet in height, subject also to airport provisions.

(6) Vision Clearance. The vision clearance of this district shall be the same as required in the “B‑2” District.

(7) Downtown Underground District. See MMC 15.370(28).

(8) Limitations on Above Permitted Uses.

(a) The volume of sound inherently or recurrently generated shall not exceed 70 decibels at the zoning district boundary line.

(b) The ground vibration inherently or recurrently generated shall not be perceptible, without instruments, at any point of any boundary line of the lot on which it is located.

(c) The use shall not emit an obnoxious, dangerous degree of heat, glare, radiation or fumes beyond any boundary line of the lot on which the use is located.

[Ord. 22-276 § 1, 2022; Ord. 21-699 § 1, 2021; Ord. 20-719 § 2, 2020; Ord. 12-529 §§ 36, 37, 2012; Ord. 08-490 §§ 10, 11, 2008. Prior code § 15.31]