(a) Intent. These districts are intended to provide for the development of service use near freeway interchanges or in proximity to intense land uses where the development of support services is appropriate. Provision of food, lodging, automotive service, motor vehicle fuel and other goods and services is the principal use within this district; however, other uses which are interrelated to these uses are appropriate in these districts. The provisions of these districts are intended to allow for the convenient provision of services without creating unreasonable traffic congestion and hazards in areas of high volume traffic movement.
(b) Permitted principal uses.
(1) Hotels;
(2) Offices;
(3) Cinema and theaters;
(4) Transit stations;
(5) Public uses;
(6) The following
accessory uses
:
(i) Uses customarily incidental and clearly subordinate to permitted principal uses.
(ii) Beekeeping.
(7) Transient merchant sales as an accessory use in hotel interiors only;
(8) Entertainment and recreation special events;
(9) Farmers market subject to standards set forth in Chapter 14, Article IX;
(10) Arts and crafts festival subject to standards set forth Chapter 14, Article X;
(11) Restaurants, without drive through and without outdoor or rooftop seating; and
(12) Mobile food units pursuant to standards set forth in Chapter 14, Article V and § 21.302.18.
(c) Provisional uses. If the following uses are developed as a related element to a development primarily devoted to a principal use, they are permitted within the CS Districts:
(1) Retail stores for the sale of arts and crafts, gifts, flowers, plants, groceries, bakery goods, produce, dairy products, drugs, sundry items, books, newspapers, magazines, apparel and similar retail stores;
(2) Personal-service establishments including licensed therapeutic massage enterprises, barber and beauty shops, exercise and health activities, dry-cleaning drop-off and pick-up stations, laundering, repair services incidental to retail stores, and similar personal services;
(3) Financial institutions;
(4) Athletic and recreational facilities;
(5) Automotive service facilities;
(6) Catering businesses, major and minor;
(7) Class II motor vehicle sales accessory to Class I motor vehicle sales;
(8) Repair of motor vehicles accessory to Class I motor vehicle sales;
(9) Type I home businesses pursuant to standards as set forth in § 21.302.13; and
(10) Hotel manager dwelling unit.
(d) Conditional uses.
(1) Reserved;
(2) Utility uses;
(3) Hotel airport parking;
(4) Uses requiring a maximum floor area ratio of above 1.0 within the CS-1 District and above one-half within the CS-0.5 District, subject to the provisions of subsection (i) below;
(5) Class I motor vehicle sales in the CS-0.5 District, when part of a planned development, pursuant to § 19.38.01 of this code;
(6) Vehicle rental accessory to Class I motor vehicle sales subject to the regulations set forth in § 19.63.07(e);
(7) Reserved;
(8) Reserved;
(9) Reserved;
(10) Restaurants, with drive through (including drive-in), with outdoor or rooftop seating, or both;
(11) Retail sales of computers when accessory to a computer training facility in the CS-0.5 District;
(12) Manufacturing and warehousing in the CS-0.5 District;
(13) Reserved;
(14) Multi-family dwellings in the CS-0.5 District, provided they are developed in accordance with the provisions of the RO-24 District;
(15) Parking structures as principal uses when included in a planned development;
(17) Post-secondary educational institutions;
(18) Secondary educational institutions (Grade 6-12);
(19) Type II home businesses pursuant to standards as set forth in § 21.302.13;
(20) Manufactured home parks pursuant to standards as set forth in § 21.302.10;
(21) Major commercial golf facility
;
(22) Brewpub;
(23) Taproom/cocktail room; and
(24) Craft and micro-brewery/distillery/winery.
(e) Interim uses.
(1) Car rental businesses in the CS-1 District, including storage of rental cars provided that such parking does not occupy space otherwise required by ordinance for other uses on the same site;
(2) Parking for an off-site use or as a primary use;
(3) Retail or wholesale use (not to include outdoor storage) of an existing structure, provided that:
(A) The site has approved plans in place for redevelopment to a use allowed under the Comprehensive Plan and zoning ordinance;
(B) The applicant has documented that the site owner is actively working toward redevelopment of the site as approved;
(C) Redevelopment of the site as approved is not likely to occur within the period of the interim use permit;
(D) The use will be compatible with the structure, site and area in which it will be located;
(E) The use will not create a nuisance for adjacent uses or the public;
(F) The use will not negatively impact public infrastructure;
(G) The use will require only minor alterations to the existing structure; and
(H) The cost of alterations to the existing structure is commensurate with an interim use.
(4) Temporary Pandemic, Epidemic, or Emergency Service Facility; and
(5) Reserved.
(f) Maximum floor area ratio. The maximum floor area ratio within the CS-1 District shall be one square foot of floor area for each one square foot of lot area and the maximum floor area ratio within the CS-0.5 District shall be one-half square foot of floor area for each one square foot of lot area, except as these standards may be modified by the provisions of subsection (i) below.
(g) Dimensional requirements.
Minimum lot area | 120,000 square feet |
Minimum lot width | 200 feet |
Minimum setback, front | 60 feet |
Minimum setback, side | 20 feet plus 0.25 feet for each one foot of structure height in excess of 60 feet |
Minimum setback, rear | Same as side setback, but in no instance less than 30 feet |
Maximum structure height | As regulated by § 21.301.10 of this code |
Maximum structure lot coverage | 30% |
Maximum structure floor area ratio | CS-1 = 1.0 FAR, CS-0.5 = 0.5 FAR |
(h) Reserved.
(i) Special provisions.
(1) Reserved.
(2) The maximum floor area ratio in the CS-1 District may be increased to one and one-half square feet of floor area and in the CS-0.5 District to three-fourths square feet of floor area for each one square foot of lot area and maximum building coverage may be increased to 40% of lot area provided that peak period project trip generation is equal or less than trip generation from the same type of use with a 1.0 floor area ratio in the CS-1 District and 0.5 floor area ratio in the CS-0.5 District. A Tier I TDM Program in accordance with the requirements of city code § 21.301.09 and a development agreement is required for all uses exceeding the maximum floor area ratio in subsection (f) above.
(3) The minimum floor area for structures in the CS Districts must be 6,000 square feet for freestanding restaurants and 20,000 square feet for all other uses.
(4) In instances in which second-level pedestrian connections are made across public streets or to adjacent properties, setbacks may be reduced to zero feet for a width of 120 feet.
(5) Exterior materials: the exterior materials and finish of all buildings erected on lands within Commercial Service CS-0.5 and CS-1 Zoning Districts shall be in conformance with the applicable requirements of § 19.63.08 of this code.
(j) Sign regulations. Refer to Chapter 21, Article III, Division D, the sign code.
(Ord. 81-16, passed 5-4-1981; Ord. 85-35, passed 7-29-1985; Ord. 86-2, passed 1-6-1986; Ord. 86-73, passed 11-24-1986; Ord. 87-1, passed 1-12-1987; Ord. 88-39, passed 5-16-1988; Ord. 88-53, passed 9-19-1988; Ord. 89-10, passed 2-6-1989; Ord. 90-42, passed 9-10-1990; Ord. 91-35, passed 6-3-1991; Ord. 92-2, passed 1-6-1992; Ord. 92-38, passed 7-27-1992; Ord. 93-48, passed 11-15-1993; Ord. 94-31, passed 6-20-1994; Ord. 96-25, passed 7-1-1996; Ord. 96-40, passed 8-19-1996; Ord. 97-36, passed 8-18-1997; Ord. 99-3, passed 3-15-1999; Ord. 2002-38, passed 12-2-2002; Ord. 2003-12, passed 4-21-2003; Ord. 2004-24, passed 5-3-2004; Ord. 2004-27, passed 5-3-2004; Ord. 2004-35, passed 8-16-2004; Ord. 2005-11, passed 4-25-2005; Ord. 2006-54, passed 12-18-2006; Ord. 2007-7, passed 2-26-2007; Ord. 2008-1, passed 1-14-2008; Ord. 2009-1, passed 1-26-2009; Ord. 2009-16, passed 6-1-2009; Ord. 2009-30, passed 10-19-2009; Ord. 2009-33, passed 11-2-2009; Ord. 2009-34, passed 11-2-2009; Ord. 2009-40, passed 12-7-2009; Ord. 2010-29, passed 11-1-2010; Ord. 2013-7, passed 4-1-2013; Ord. 2013-29, passed 11-18-2013; Ord. 2015-18, passed 6-22-2015; Ord. 2015-33, passed 11-16-2015; Ord. 2016-3, passed 2-22-2016; Ord. 2016-6, passed 4-18-2016; Ord. 2017-17, passed 6-5-2017; Ord. 2019-4, passed 1-7-2019; 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)