(a) Intent. This district is intended to provide for the development of regional and community scale integrated retail, office, business services, personal services and services to the traveling public near freeway interchanges. The provisions of this district are intended to:
(1) Promote and properly manage high-intensity development;
(2) Allow for the provision of other services related to principal uses;
(3) Promote an integrated site and building design framework;
(4) To avoid traffic hazard and congestion by careful location of accesses to public streets;
(5) Protect future roadway improvements; and
(6) Create a visual identity for the district while allowing reasonable identity for individual uses in scale with the size of use.
(b) Permitted principal uses.
(1) Retail shopping uses;
(2) Office buildings;
(3) Banks and financial institutions;
(4) Medical and dental offices;
(5) Theaters and cinemas, except drive-in theaters;
(6) Hotels and motels;
(7) Public uses;
(8) Automobile rental agencies with an on-site inventory of ten or fewer rental vehicles, subject to performance standards set forth in § 19.63.07 of this code;
(9) Transient merchant sales as an accessory use in hotel interiors only;
(10) Entertainment and recreation special events;
(11) Firearm sales, incidental, subject to standards set forth in § 21.302.11;
(12) Farmers market subject to standards set forth in Chapter 14, Article IX;
(13) Arts and crafts festival subject to standards set forth in Chapter 14, Article X;
(14) Restaurant, without drive through and without outdoor or rooftop seating; and
(15) Mobile food units pursuant to standards set forth in Chapter 14, Article V and § 21.302.18.
(c) Provisional uses. The uses described below are permitted uses, provided that:
(1) The following uses are located in a structure containing a permitted principle use, or are located in a structure meeting the minimum floor area requirement of the CR-1 District:
(A) Catering businesses, major and minor;
(B) Personal service establishments, including licensed therapeutic massage enterprises, beauty and barber shops, exercise and health facilities, dry cleaning drop-off and pick-up stations, laundering, repair of household items and similar personal services;
(C) Business services, including copying and printing businesses and similar services;
(D) Commercial recreation facilities;
(E) Licensed day care facilities;
(F) Instructional center; and
(G) Licensed body art establishments.
(2) The following uses are adjacent to and integrated by means of orientation, parking, pedestrian and vehicular circulation, access and design with a permitted principal use:
(A) Class I motor vehicle sales;
(B) Convenience facility with fuel sales; and
(C) Automobile repair businesses.
(3) Accessory uses which are customarily incidental and are clearly subordinate to permitted principal uses;
(4) Class II motor vehicle sales accessory to Class I motor vehicle sales;
(5) Repair of motor vehicles accessory to Class I motor vehicle sales;
(6) Vehicle rental accessory to Class I motor vehicle sales subject to the regulations set forth in § 19.63.07(e);
(7) Beekeeping; and
(8) Hotel manager dwelling unit which is customarily incidental and clearly subordinate to the permitted principal use of a hotel.
(d) Conditional uses.
(1) New motor vehicle sales;
(2) Restaurants, with drive through (including drive-in), with outdoor or rooftop seating, or both;
(3) Reserved;
(4) Public utility uses;
(5) Hotel airport parking;
(7) Automobile rental agencies with an on-site inventory more than ten but no more than 35 rental vehicles, subject to performance standards set forth in § 19.63.07 of this code;
(8) Vehicle rental accessory to Class I motor vehicle sales subject to the regulations set forth in § 19.63.07(e);
(9) Medical marijuana distribution facility;
(10) Major commercial golf facility;
(11) Brewpub;
(12) Taproom/cocktail room; and
(13) Craft and micro-brewery/distillery/winery.
(e) Interim uses.
(1) Temporary Pandemic, Epidemic, or Emergency Service Facility.
(f) Minimum floor area requirements. The minimum floor area of any building within the CR-1 District must be 6,000 square feet for restaurants and 20,000 square feet for all other uses, except that there shall be no minimum floor area where the proposed use is listed as a provisional use in subsection (c)(2) above.
(g) Maximum floor area ratio. The maximum floor area ratio within the CR-1 District shall be one square foot of gross floor area for each one square foot of net lot area.
(h) Dimensional requirements.
Minimum district area | 10 acres |
Minimum lot size | 2 acres |
Minimum lot width | 120 feet |
Setback requirements | |
Front yard | 65 feet |
Side yard | 25 feet |
Rear yard | 25 feet |
Side or rear adjacent to a public street | 65 feet |
Maximum structure lot coverage | 30% |
(i) Special provisions.
(1) Reserved.
(2) The City Council may waive the minimum lot size required for any use, provided that the use and building is integrated, or, where adjacent property is undeveloped may be shown to be reasonably integrated, by means of orientation, parking, access, circulation and design with other adjacent conforming development in the CR-1 District.
(3) Reserved.
(4) A parking structure or the portion of any structure used for parking shall not be counted as building floor area or structure coverage for the purpose of calculating building floor area and percentage of site coverage by structures.
(5) No loading docks may be on any street frontage or facing a residential district, unless completely screened by a wall constructed of materials equivalent to that of the structure.
(6) Exterior materials. The exterior materials and finish of all buildings erected on lands within Regional Commercial CR-1 Zoning Districts shall be in conformance with the applicable requirements of § 19.63.08 of this code.
(7) All refuse storage must comply with the requirements of § 21.301.17 of this code.
(8) In instances where second-level pedestrian connections are made across public streets or to adjacent properties, setbacks may be reduced to 20 feet for a width not to exceed 100 feet.
(9) Reserved.
(10) Structure height shall be regulated pursuant to § 21.301.10 of this code.
(11) Reserved.
(j) Sign regulations. Refer to Chapter 21, Article III, Division D, the sign code.
(Ord. 85-60, passed 12-9-1985; Ord. 88-35, passed 5-9-1988; Ord. 90-42, passed 9-10-1990; Ord. 91-59, passed 9-23-1991; Ord. 91-73, passed 11-18-1991; Ord. 92-38, passed 7-27-1992; Ord. 93-48, passed 11-15-1993; Ord. 94-56, passed 10-17-1994; Ord. 96-25, passed 7-1-1996; Ord. 96-40, passed 8-19-1996; Ord. 97-27, passed 6-16-1997; Ord. 97-36, passed 8-18-1997; Ord. 2001-6, passed 2-5-2001; Ord. 2002-3, passed 2-19-2002; Ord. 2004-27, passed 5-3-2004; Ord. 2006-54, passed 12-18-2006; Ord. 2008-1, passed 1-14-2008; Ord. 2009-1, passed 1-26-2009; Ord. 2009-19, passed 7-6-2009; Ord. 2009-33, passed 11-2-2009; Ord. 2009-34, passed 11-2-2009; Ord. 2010-29, passed 11-1-2010; Ord. 2013-7, passed 4-1-2013; Ord. 2013-29, passed 11-18-2013; Ord. 2015-5, passed 1-26-2015; Ord. 2015-18, passed 6-22-2015; Ord. 2015-27, passed 10-19-2015; Ord. 2016-3, passed 2-22-2016; Ord. 2016-6, passed 4-18-2016; Ord. 2016-28, passed 11-21-2016; Ord. 2017-17, passed 6-5-2017; Ord. 2019-2, passed 1-7-2019; Ord. 2019-4, passed 1-7-2019; Ord. 2019-47, passed 12-2-2019; Ord. 2019-63, passed 12-16-2019; Ord. 2020-1, passed 2-24-2020; Ord. 2020-13, passed 5-4-2020; Ord. 2022-1, passed 1-10-2022; Ord. 2022-12, passed 4-25-2022; Ord. 2024-4, passed 2-26-2024)