Retail business districts, hereinafter designated as C-1 districts, are established to provide areas for comparison retail shopping and office uses, and to enhance their usefulness by protecting them from incompatible types of commercial uses which can be provided for more effectively in the general commercial districts.

(Prior gen. code § 8-48.0)

The following principal uses are permitted in a C-1 district, subject to the limitations of Section 17.38.150:

A.

Retail store, except bookstore;

B.

Office, bank;

C.

Barber shop, beauty parlor, dressmaking or knitting shop, tailor shop, cleaning or laundry agency, handicraft shop;

D.

Repair shop for cameras, shoes, watches, and household appliances;

E.

Self-service laundry;

F.

Restaurant;

G.

Parking lot as regulated by Section 17.38.050.

(Ord. 2006-33 § 3 (part): Prior gen. code § 8-48.1)

The following are conditional uses and shall be permitted in a C-1 district only if approved by the planning commission, sitting as a board of zoning adjustments, as provided in Sections 17.54.135 and 17.38.010:

A.

Hospital;

B.

Adult entertainment activity provided, however, that no adult entertainment activity shall be located closer than one thousand (1,000) feet to the boundary of any residential zone or closer than one thousand (1,000) feet to any other adult entertainment activity.

C.

Superstore.

(Ord. 2006-18 § 2 (part); Ord. 2000-53 § 1 (part))

(Ord. No. 2010-71, § 57, 12-21-10)

The following are conditional uses in C-1 districts and shall be permitted only if approved by the board of zoning adjustments as provided in Section 17.54.130:

A.

Community facility;

B.

Animal hospital, kennel;

C.

Clubhouse, or rooms used by members of an organized club, lodge, union or society;

D.

Mortuary;

E.

Commercial recreation facility other than a theater, if within a building;

F.

Storage garage, and storage lots for recreational vehicles and boats;

G.

Theater, drive-in theater;

H.

Drive-in business;

I.

Hotel, motel, boarding house;

J.

Automobile sales lot;

K.

Service station, Type A; or a facility retailing automotive parts and supplies which are installed and serviced on the site but does not include, engine, transmission or differential rebuilding or body repair;

L.

Plant nursery including the sale of landscaping materials, excluding wet-mix concrete sales providing all equipment, supplies, and merchandise other than plant materials are kept within a completely enclosed building;

M.

Tavern;

N.

Massage establishment in possession of a valid permit issued pursuant to Chapter 3.24 of this code;

O.

Recycling centers, when operated in conjunction with a permitted use on the same premises;

P.

Advertising signs, provided that no single sign shall be flashing or intermittent, contain moving parts or be located so as to be directed towards lands in any adjacent R district, except pursuant to Section 17.52.515(A)(3) and in conformance with Section 17.54.226;

Q.

In-patient and out-patient health facilities as licensed by the State Department of Health Services;

R.

Tattoo studio;

S.

Alcohol outlet;

T.

Firearms sales;

U.

Beauty school or business school;

V.

Unattended collection box(es) placed in conjunction with an approved community facility as defined in Section 17.04.010;

W.

Cannabis retailer, subject to and in compliance with Chapter 6.108 of this code;

X.

Combined cannabis operation, subject to and in compliance with Chapter 6.109 of this code.

(Ord. 2006-33 § 4 (part): Ord. 2002-60 (part); Ord. 2000-53 § 1 (part); Ord. 98-53 § 1 (part); Ord. 96-15 § 1 (part): Ord. 94-41 § 1 (part): prior gen. code § 8-48.2)

(Ord. No. 2010-49, § 7, 9-14-10; Ord. No. 2010-71, § 58, 12-21-10; Ord. No. 2013-26, § 9, 7-16-13; Ord. No. 2017-35, § 2, 9-12-17; Ord. No. 2018-18, § 2, 5-8-18; Ord. No. 2018-23, § 2, 5-8-18; Ord. No. 2019-23, § 2, 6-18-19)

No use shall be permitted as an accessory use which involves the production of goods not intended for retail sale on the premises, or the cleaning or repair of articles of clothing not directly received from and delivered to the customer on the premises where such cleaning or repairing is done.

(Prior gen. code § 8-48.3)

Any structure one thousand (1,000) square feet or more or any construction aggregating one thousand (1,000) square feet or more placed since July 9, 1977, shall be subject to site development review pursuant to Section 17.54.210; unless zoning approval is granted upon the determination that the construction constitutes a minor project and that the building permit plans are in accord with the intent and objectives of the site development review procedure.

(Prior gen. code § 8-48.4)

(Ord. No. 2010-71, § 59, 12-21-10)

No yards are required in a C-1 district except as specified in Sections 17.38.070 and 17.38.080, or in connection with the approval of a conditional use, or a variance.

(Prior gen. code § 8-48.5)

Wherever a C-1 district terminates at the boundary of an R district or of any other C district except a C-2 district in the same block, the depth of front yard in that block shall be not less than is required in such abutting district. Wherever the use of a building site is for a motel, hotel or boarding house, the depth of front yard shall be not less than twenty (20) feet.

(Prior gen. code § 8-48.6)

On the street side of a corner lot in a C-1 district which abuts a key lot in any R district or in any other C district, except a C-2 district, the width of the side yard shall be not less than one-half the depth of the front yard required on such key lot. Where the side lot line of a lot in a C-1 district abuts a lot in any R district there shall be provided a side yard along that line having a width not less than that required on such abutting lot.

Where the rear lot line of a lot in a C-1 district abuts a lot in any R district, there shall be provided a rear yard having a depth not less than six feet. Wherever the use of a building site is for a motel, hotel or boarding house, there shall be side yards not less than ten feet in width, and a rear yard not less than ten feet in depth.

(Prior gen. code § 8-48.7)

Except as otherwise provided in Section 17.52.090, no building or structure in a C-1 district shall have a height in excess of forty-five (45) feet, or in excess of thirty-five (35) feet if the building or structure is situated within fifty (50) feet of the boundary line of an R-1, R-2 or R-3 or R-S district.

(Prior gen. code § 8-48.8)

Business signs are permitted according to either of the following two options provided that if one option is used, the right to the use of the other is waived:

A.

Option I—Wall Signs and Projecting Signs.

1.

Size. Area of all signs shall not exceed two square feet for each one lineal foot of primary building frontage for the first one hundred (100) feet of primary building frontage and one square foot for each one lineal foot of primary building frontage thereafter; plus one square foot for each one lineal foot of secondary building frontage; provided, however, that twenty-five (25) square feet is guaranteed each frontage by this provision.

2.

Type and Location. Wall signs are permitted. Only one projecting sign shall be permitted for each business subject to the conditions (a) that said projecting sign shall not extend from the front wall to which it is attached a distance greater than seven percent of the business building frontage or five feet, or whichever is less; and (b) that said projecting sign shall be located within the middle one-third of the front wall of the business building to which it is attached.

B.

Option II—Wall Signs and Freestanding Signs.

1.

Size. Area of all signs shall not exceed one and one-half square feet for each one lineal foot of lot frontage on an approved street at the front lot line. The total sign area of any one sign shall not exceed three hundred (300) square feet and no wall sign(s) shall be utilized so as to exceed frontage ratios contained in this section. No business sign shall be limited by this section to less than twenty-five (25) square feet.

2.

Type and Location. Wall signs are permitted. Only one freestanding sign shall be permitted for each lot subject to the conditions that: (a) said freestanding sign shall be located in a planter of appropriate dimension; (b) said freestanding sign shall be located within the middle one-third of the street frontage when said freestanding sign is within twenty (20) feet of said street frontage; (c) said freestanding sign shall be a maximum of ten feet high and have a maximum area of thirty (30) square feet, provided that for each one foot that said freestanding sign is set back from the nearest street frontage the maximum height may be increased by one-half foot and the area may be increased five square feet; (d) said freestanding sign shall not in any case exceed thirty-five (35) feet in height. A sign for a service station may be combined with a service station price sign as permitted by Section 17.52.520(P), and the area of the combined sign may exceed these height-area-setback regulations by thirty-two (32) square feet.

3.

Character. No sign shall be flashing or intermittent, contain moving parts, or be located so as to be directed towards lands in any adjacent R district.

(Prior gen. code § 8-48.8.1)

(Ord. No. 2010-49, § 8, 9-14-10; Ord. No. 2010-71, § 60, 12-21-10)

Subject to Section 17.52.520, one low profile sign, twenty-four (24) square feet maximum area, six feet maximum height, may be constructed on a lot with no less than one hundred (100) lineal feet of lot frontage on an approved street at the front lot line. The sign area shall be included as part of the aggregate sign area permitted on the property. The supporting members and design elements shall not be included in the computation of the sign area and the sign may be located within a required yard. Every such sign shall be subject to site development review pursuant to Section 17.54.210.

(Prior gen. code § 8-48.8.2)

In addition to those signs permitted by Section 17.38.120, each shopping center, subject to Section 17.52.520; and as qualified below, may be permitted shopping center master identification sign(s) subject to site development review, pursuant to Section 17.54.210 to assure conformance to established or proposed design theme of the shopping center signing program. The shopping center master identification sign shall be located at one or more main entrances to the shopping center, shall not exceed one hundred (100) square feet in area, shall not exceed twenty-five (25) feet in height, and shall be permitted for shopping centers which contain no less than twenty (20) separate tenants. The shopping center master identification sign shall not advertise or identify any tenant of the shopping center and shall be located in a planter of appropriate dimension.

(Prior gen. code § 8-48.8.3)

In addition to those signs permitted by Section 17.38.100, each office building, subject to Section 17.52.520 and as qualified below, may be permitted an office building master identification sign, subject to site development review pursuant to Section 17.54.210. The office building master identification sign shall be in architectural harmony with the design of the buildings intended to be identified, if wall-mounted by its design as an integral part of the wall of the building to which it is attached, and if freestanding then limited to a low-profile sign not exceeding eight feet with its means of support concealed and located within a planter of appropriate dimension. The office building master identification sign shall not exceed fifty (50) square feet in area, shall be permitted for office building which contains no less than four tenants or any institutional use, and the copy shall include only the name of the office building or institutional use.

(Prior gen. code § 8-48.8.4)

A service station display structure is permitted in accordance with Section 17.36.080 of this title on a service station site in lieu of the low profile sign otherwise permitted.

(Prior gen. code § 8-48.8.5)

A.

All principal uses in C-1 districts and all fabricating, processing or repair uses accessory thereto shall be conducted within a building, except an advertising sign, an automobile sales lot, a parking lot, recreational vehicle and boat storage, drive-in theater, drive-in business, kennel, service station, plant material storage as authorized by Section 17.38.030(M), or a community facility or recreation facility.

B.

All uses in C-1 districts shall conform to the performance standards of this title for M-P districts as set forth in Section 17.42.020.

C.

The term "shop" as used in Section 17.38.020 shall be deemed to include only the establishment of artisans dealing at retail directly with the consumer, and concerned primarily with custom trade, as distinguished from quantity production. Except as a temporary use regulated by Section 17.52.480, use of a mobilehome is not permitted.

(Prior gen. code § 8-48.9)

(Ord. No. 2010-71, § 61, 12-21-10)