The neighborhood commercial (NC) overlay promotes development that combines small scale commercial uses and residential uses in a single building or complex. This overlay will allow increased development on major streets while avoiding a strip commercial appearance and encourage the development of areas where residential and commercial uses mix in a harmonious manner.

The emphasis of the nonresidential uses is primarily on locally-oriented retail, service, and office uses. Development is intended to be pedestrian-oriented with buildings close to and directly accessible from pedestrian access-ways. Parking may be shared between residential and commercial uses.

The neighborhood commercial overlay is not intended to restrict uses permitted in the base zone.

(Ord. 415 § 7.84.010, 2002)

The neighborhood commercial overlay may be applied to any property fronting on Highway 99 or Ehlen Road for the first two hundred (200) feet as measured perpendicular from the Highway 99 or Ehlen Road right-of-way line, and to any property fronting on Airport Road between Ehlen Road and north property line of Tax Lot 04-1W-12C-01900 on the east side of Airport Road, and to any property fronting on Airport Road between Ehlen Road and the north property line of Tax Lot 04-1W-12C-504 on the west side of Airport Road (a distance of approximately four hundred (400) feet from the Airport/Ehlen Road intersection) for the first two hundred (200) feet as measured from the Airport Road right-of-way line.

(Ord. 415 § 7.84.020, 2002)

The neighborhood commercial overlay allows the following uses and their accessory uses in addition to the uses permitted in the base zone and subject to Chapter 16.58 when the aggregate total of required parking for all uses on a parcel or lot does not exceed twenty (20) required parking spaces:

A.

Bicycle sales or repair;

B.

Cultural exhibits and library services;

C.

Day care facility licensed by state;

D.

Residential dwelling units located in the same building as a commercial use either above or behind the commercial use where the square footage of the commercial uses exceeds the square footage of the residential uses;

E.

Eating and drinking establishments without drive-in/drive-through windows;

F.

Financial, insurance and real estate offices;

G.

General retail and convenience sales, except adult bookstores;

H.

Indoor recreation facilities;

I.

Medical or dental offices;

J.

Multifamily (four units or more) containing no more than eight units per building with fifteen-foot separations between buildings outside the historic residential overlay when the base zoning is R-2, moderate density residential, commercial or industrial;

K.

Professional and administrative offices;

L.

Public transportation passenger terminal or taxi stand;

M.

Repair services for household and personal items, excluding motorized vehicles;

N.

Studios, including art, photography, dance, and music.

(Ord. 496, § 2(Exh. A), 2022)

The following uses and their accessory uses may be permitted in the neighborhood commercial overlay when authorized by the Planning Commission in accordance with the requirements of Chapter 16.60, other relevant sections of this title and any conditions imposed by the Planning Commission:

A.

Uses permitted in the base zone or Section 16.30.030 when the aggregate total of required parking for all uses on a parcel or lot is greater than twenty (20) required parking spaces and less than forty (40) required parking spaces.

(Ord. 415 § 7.84.040, 2002)

The standards of the base zone shall apply except as follows:

A.

Structures containing commercial uses shall have no minimum front setback and a maximum ten-foot landscaped front setback. The Planning Commission may approve increases in the maximum front setback where such exception is necessary to locate a landscaped storm water retention/detention facility in the front setback.

B.

Where a parcel or lot has frontage on Highway 99 or Ehlen Road and a secondary street frontage, the setback from the secondary street frontage shall be a minimum of ten (10) feet.

C.

The rear yard setback shall be a minimum of ten (10) feet and shall be buffered and screened in accordance with Chapter 16.38.

D.

Residential garages for structures permitted under the neighborhood commercial overlay shall be oriented in a manner that does not require vehicles to back out onto Highway 99 or Ehlen Road. The setback for the garage door approach (the point where a vehicle accesses the garage) shall be a minimum of twenty (20) feet from any public street right-of-way.

E.

Setback requirements shall not apply to transit shelters.

F.

Minimum lot areas shall be in accordance with the base zoning except the minimum lot area for residential uses located on the same lot or parcel as commercial uses shall be the square footage necessary to contain all required improvements including landscaping and parking.

G.

Building heights shall be in accordance with the base zoning. All structures containing dwelling units shall utilize at least two of the following design features to provide visual relief along the street frontage:

1.

Dormers;

2.

Recessed entries;

3.

Cupolas;

4.

Bay or bow windows;

5.

Gables;

6.

Covered porch entries;

7.

Pillars or posts;

8.

Eaves (minimum six-inch projection); or

9.

Off-sets on building face or roof (minimum sixteen (16) inches).

H.

Impervious surfaces shall not cover more than eighty (80) percent of the lot or parcel for commercial uses and sixty (60) percent for residential uses except impervious surfaces may cover up to ninety (90) percent of lots or parcel when structures contain both residential and commercial uses.

I.

Except for residential uses allowed under the base zoning, parking shall not be located between the Highway 99 or Ehlen Road rights-of-way and any structure and shall be constructed in accordance with Chapter 16.42.

J.

Landscaping requirements shall be in accordance with Chapter 16.38 except the minimum requirement landscaping for lots or parcels containing both residential and commercial uses shall be ten (10) percent.

K.

All properties located outside the designated historic commercial overlay and the historic residential overlay and adjacent to Highway 99 or Ehlen Road shall be collectively referenced as "gateway properties." The standards of Chapter 16.56 shall apply to all aspects of the such properties, including but not limited to, structural façade, yard and landscaping, immediately adjacent to and visible from Highway 99 or Ehlen Road.

L.

Additional requirements shall include any applicable section of this title.

(Ord. 419 § 5, 2002; Ord. 415 § 7.84.050, 2002)