Ada City Zoning Code
CHAPTER 1153
C-I Commercial District
1153.01 PURPOSE.
The purpose of the C-I Commercial District is to provide an area for a wide range of retail facilities and services of such a nature as to be fully compatible in the close proximity they must enjoy in a centralized commercial district. In a C-I Commercial District, no building premises shall be used and no building shall be erected which is arranged, intended or designed to be used for other than one or more of the following described uses.
(Ord. 1986-06. Passed 5-27-86.)
1153.02 USES PERMITTED.
Any use permitted in the R-III District.
(a) Major Retail Outlets. Furniture, hardware, department, appliance, clothing, jewelry, shoe, paint and wallpaper stores dealing entirely in the retail sale of any product not restricted by the provisions of this section.
(b) Food, Drug and Beverage. Grocery stores, supermarkets, meat markets, fish markets, bakery (in conjunction with retail sales), frozen food locker facility, delicatessen, enclosed restaurant, ice cream parlor and bars, provided, however, that no establishment selling or serving alcoholic beverages shall be located within five hundred (500) feet of a public school, playground, church of private school, college or library measured from the nearest entrance and along street lines.
(c) Specialty Shops. Gift shops, book, magazine, and stationery outlets, floral shops, camera shops, photography studios, sporting goods and drive-in stores dealing entirely in the retail sale of any product and/or the servicing in conjunction with the sale of any product or service not restricted by the provisions of this section.
(d) Service and Recreation. Barber shops, beauty shops, or any school engaged in the teaching of or instruction in any trade, shoe repair and tailor shop, appliance repair shop, laundromats using self-operating automatic washers, dryers and appliances and non-flammable fluids, dry cleaning establishments using non-flammable cleaning agents, printing shops with not more than ten (10) full time regular employees, a funeral home or mortuary, hospital, radio or television studio, bowling alley, poolroom, assembly hall, enclosed theater or any recreation facility.
(e) Business and Professional Offices. Banks, Savings and Loan Institutions, public utilities offices, insurance and real estate offices, office buildings, medical and dental offices clinics, law and other professional offices.
(f) Automotive and Related Uses. Automobile sales room, farm implement sales and related repair garage, automobile repair garage, customer parking lots associated with a business establishment, motorcycle and bicycle sales and repair shops, motor bus and cab terminals, gasoline service station, provided all volatile products are stored underground.
(g) Motels and Hotels. Hotel, Motel, motor lodge.
(h) Rest homes, nursing homes and children’s nurseries.
(i) Plumbing, heating and cooling electricians.
(j) Accessory uses or buildings.
(Ord. 1986-06. Passed 5-27-86.)
1153.03 CONDITIONAL USES WITH APPROVAL BY THE BOARD OF ZONING AND BUILDING APPEALS AFTER A HEARING.
(a) Commercial storage facilities including garages.
(b) Commercial parking lots.
(c) Any wholesale distributing business.
(d) Any retail or wholesale industrial product distributing business.
(e) Laundry and dry-cleaning plants.
(f) Building trades or equipment including building concrete, electrical, masonry, sheet metal, plumbing and heating and cooling shops, building material establishments and lumber yards.
(g) Drive-in theaters, drive-in restaurants and refreshment stand.
(h) Accessory uses or buildings.
(Ord. 1986-06. Passed 5-27-86.)
1153.04 REQUIRED LOT AREA AND LOT WIDTH.
(a) Residential Uses. Each residential use to be accommodated in the C-I District shall meet the minimum lot area and minimum lot width requirements of the R-III Residential District.
(b) Commercial Uses. No minimum lot area or minimum lot width is required for commercial uses.
(Ord. 1986-06. Passed 5-27-86.)
1153.05 BUILDING HEIGHT REGULATION.
(Ord. 2013-05. Passed 6-4-13.)
1153.06 REQUIRED YARDS.
(a) Residential Uses. Each residential use to be accommodated in the C-I Commercial District shall meet the minimum yard requirements if the R-III Residential District.
(b) Commercial Uses.
(1) Front Yard – 25 feet, or can conform to the backsets of adjacent properties.
(2) Side Yard – No minimum yard required, except lots adjoining a residential district shall provide a side yard in that adjoining side equal to that required in the adjoining Residential District.
(3) Rear Yard – 25 feet. Where a lot line abuts any alley, one-half of the width of such alley may be considered in meeting a part of the rear yard requirements.
(Ord. 1986-06. Passed 5-27-86.)
1153.07 LANDSCAPING OR SCREENING PROVISIONS.
For nonresidential uses abutting an R-District the minimum yards may be reduced to 50 percent of the minimum side or rear yard requirements, if acceptable landscaping or screening, approved by the Board is provided. Such screening shall be six (6) feet in height, maintains in good condition and free of all advertising or other signs. Landscaping provided in lieu of such wall or fence shall consist of a strip of land not less than fifteen (15) feet in width planted with evergreen hedge, or dense planting of evergreen shrubs not less than four (4) feet in height at the time of planting.
(Ord. 1986-06. Passed 5-27-86.)