A. General:
1. The Commercial District (C) is intended as a broad spectrum commercial district that permits limited wholesale/retail sales and service, in addition to allowing limited manufacturing uses with a special use permit.
2. Any uses not specifically delineated as allowed, or allowed as a specified special use permit shall be considered prohibited. No buildings or other structures shall be allowed in the vision triangle. The vision triangle is a triangle of land that has an unobstructed view from a curb line of a driveway, roadway or street intersection. Intersections include all cases where two (2) streets intersect and locations where driveways intersect streets. The area needed to be clear of obstruction for safe turning movements is called the “vision triangle”.
The following standards apply:
Street to street vision triangle | 25 feet x 25 feet |
Street to edge of driveway and city paved road vision triangle | 15 feet x 20 feet |
B. Allowed Uses:
1. See section 5-3-14, “Appendix 1 Activity Groups”, of this chapter for general description and definition of each use.
Administrative offices.
Agricultural supplies and commodity sales.
Automobile and accessory sales.
Automobile renting.
Automotive fleet storage.
Automotive parking.
Banks and financial institutions.
Bars and taverns.
Building maintenance service.
Business supply retail sales.
Business support service.
Coffee and espresso stands.
Commercial film production.
Communication service.
Community assembly.
Community organization.
Construction retail sales.
Consumer repair service.
Convenience sales.
Convenience service.
Department stores.
Essential public utility service.
Farm equipment sales.
Finished goods wholesale.
Food and beverage stores.
General construction service.
Government facilities.
Group assembly.
Handicapped or minimal care facility.
Home furnishing retail sales.
Hospitals/healthcare.
Hotel/motel.
Laundry service.
Microbreweries.
Ministorage facilities.
Neighborhood recreation.
Nursery sales and landscaping services.
Nursing/convalescent/rest homes for the aged.
Personal service establishments.
Professional offices.
Public recreation.
Religious assembly.
Restaurants.
Retail gasoline sales.
Spas and health clubs.
Specialty retail sales.
Veterinary office.
Wineries.
2. Allowed Accessory Uses:
Storage for primary use, subject to the following restrictions:
a. Any outdoor storage associated with an allowed or special use shall be stored within a completely enclosed building, or behind a six-foot (6') high, one hundred percent (100%) site obscuring fence, or a six-foot (6') high landscaped berm. Such a fence or berm shall be configured so that materials within the outdoor storage area are not visible from adjacent properties, road rights of way, or from a parking area or driveway on the subject property. The following items may be stored outside, outside of the aforementioned enclosure:
(1) Vehicle sales for display.
(2) Equipment rentals for display.
(3) Limited inventory for advertising purposes, restricted to three (3) items on display; shall not impede required parking spaces and circulation patterns.
(4) Any equipment or inventory displayed shall not create a visual obstruction in the vision triangle that will interfere with the ingress or egress to a roadway or driveway.
3. Special Use Permits: See section 5-3-14, “Appendix 1 Activity Groups”, of this chapter for general description and definition of each use. A structure, site or parcel may have more than one special use permit. Each special use is considered a separate permit.
Adult entertainment sales and service.
Automobile repair and cleaning.
Car wash.
Childcare facility.
Commercial kennel.
Commercial recreation.
Community education.
Custom manufacturing.
Funeral service.
Light industrial uses.
Noncommercial kennel.
Veterinary hospital with boarding facilities.
Warehouse/storage.
Wireless communication facility.
4. Prohibited Uses: See section 5-3-14, “Appendix 1 Activity Groups”, of this chapter for general description and definition of each use.
Those uses which may have been declared nuisances in any court of record or may be deemed obnoxious or offensive by reason of emission of odor, smoke, dust, gas or noise by the City and:
Amusement park, theme park.
Auto camp.
Automobile graveyards and junkyards (defined separately).
Aviation field or landing strips.
Bulk petroleum storage stations and terminals.
Chemical plant.
Concentrated animal feeding operation.
Extensive impact uses.
Heavy industrial uses.
Manufacture or storage of explosives or gunpowder with the exception of retail sale of gunpowder for firearms.
Metal powder works.
Outdoor theaters.
Recycling plant.
Riding stable.
Slaughterhouse.
Solid waste facility or solid waste transfer station.
Tanneries.
5. Classification Of Unlisted Uses: Any activity or facility which is not expressly classified within any activity group shall be included in that group whose description most closely portrays it. In cases of uncertainty as to the classification of any use, the City shall classify the use, subject to the right of appeal from such determination pursuant to the appeal procedure of Section 1-11-1. In cases of mixed uses as defined in section 5-3-14, “Appendix 1 Activity Groups”, of this chapter, the use that occupies the majority of the floor area as determined by the City shall be considered the principal use. Such determination shall be subject to the appeal procedure of Section 1-11-1. (Ord. 221, 7-12-2012; amd. Ord. 256, 10-4-2018; Ord. 264, 3-5-2020; Ord. 272, 9-14-2021)