Bethel City Zoning Code
18.35 Downtown Commercial
DC District
18.35.010 Intent.
The intent of the downtown commercial district is to create a concentrated area of retail, financial, and public institutional facilities in order to encourage the development of interrelated uses and functions, reduce pedestrian walking distance between activities, and ensure the development of compatible pedestrian-oriented uses in the downtown commercial district. [Ord. 01-05 § 8.]
18.35.020 Permitted and principal uses and structures.
The following are permitted and principal uses and structures in the DC district:
A. Greenbelts and land reserves.
B. Trails and boardwalks.
C. Sewer facilities and water supply facilities.
D. Utility facilities.
E. Any accessory use or structure associated with the principal use or structure on the lot.
F. Parks, playfields, and playgrounds.
G. Museums, historic and cultural exhibits.
H. Educational institutions, including public, private or parochial academic schools, colleges, and universities.
I. Hospitals, sanitariums, children’s homes, group homes, nursing homes, convalescent homes, homes for the aged, and similar homes.
J. Cemeteries.
K. Churches and synagogues, along with the customary accessory uses, including administrative offices, parsonages, day nurseries, kindergartens and meeting rooms.
L. Headquarters or administrative offices for charitable organizations and similar quasi-public organizations of a noncommercial nature.
M. Governmental office buildings.
N. Radio and television transmission towers and antennas, not including amateur radio and citizen band radio antennas that are accessory to a residential use.
O. Recreation uses.
P. Governmental service shops, maintenance and repair centers, and equipment storage yards.
Q. Private roads and parking areas.
R. Animal control facility.
S. Other public buildings.
T. Landing strips and air taxi services.
U. Other uses and structures that are compatible with existing development and support or supplement existing development.
V. Commercial uses and structures permitted in the GU district.
W. Any use or structure that is accessory to the principal use or structure on the lot. [Ord. 01-05 § 8.]
18.35.030 Conditional uses.
The following structures and uses are permitted in the DC district under the terms of a conditional use permit:
A. Planned unit developments. [Ord. 01-05 § 8.]
18.35.040 Minimum lot size.
A lot in the DC district may not contain less than five thousand (5,000) square feet. [Ord. 01-05 § 8.]
18.35.050 Minimum setback requirement.
Structures, other than minor structures, in the DC district shall be set back from property lines to provide yards as follows:
A. Front yard: Fifteen (15) feet.
B. Side yard: Zero (0) feet, except as provided in subsections D and E of this section.
C. Rear yard: Zero (0) feet, except as provided in subsection E of this section.
D. If the lot is a corner lot, the setback from the side street is twenty-five (25) feet from the street right-of-way or five (5) feet if the width of the lot is fifty (50) feet or less.
E. When a side or rear interior property line abuts a residential district, buildings and other permanent structures shall be set back twenty-five (25) feet from that property line, plus one (1) foot for each three (3) feet of structure height greater than twelve (12) feet.
F. Twenty-five (25) feet from the mean high water mark of any drainage or lake. [Ord. 01-05 § 8.]
18.35.060 Maximum height of structures.
The height of structures in the DC district is not restricted except as may be limited under BMC 18.35.050(E) or under the airport height restrictions under BMC 18.48.250 through 18.48.270. [Ord. 01-05 § 8.]
18.35.010 Intent.
The intent of the downtown commercial district is to create a concentrated area of retail, financial, and public institutional facilities in order to encourage the development of interrelated uses and functions, reduce pedestrian walking distance between activities, and ensure the development of compatible pedestrian-oriented uses in the downtown commercial district. [Ord. 01-05 § 8.]
18.35.020 Permitted and principal uses and structures.
The following are permitted and principal uses and structures in the DC district:
A. Greenbelts and land reserves.
B. Trails and boardwalks.
C. Sewer facilities and water supply facilities.
D. Utility facilities.
E. Any accessory use or structure associated with the principal use or structure on the lot.
F. Parks, playfields, and playgrounds.
G. Museums, historic and cultural exhibits.
H. Educational institutions, including public, private or parochial academic schools, colleges, and universities.
I. Hospitals, sanitariums, children’s homes, group homes, nursing homes, convalescent homes, homes for the aged, and similar homes.
J. Cemeteries.
K. Churches and synagogues, along with the customary accessory uses, including administrative offices, parsonages, day nurseries, kindergartens and meeting rooms.
L. Headquarters or administrative offices for charitable organizations and similar quasi-public organizations of a noncommercial nature.
M. Governmental office buildings.
N. Radio and television transmission towers and antennas, not including amateur radio and citizen band radio antennas that are accessory to a residential use.
O. Recreation uses.
P. Governmental service shops, maintenance and repair centers, and equipment storage yards.
Q. Private roads and parking areas.
R. Animal control facility.
S. Other public buildings.
T. Landing strips and air taxi services.
U. Other uses and structures that are compatible with existing development and support or supplement existing development.
V. Commercial uses and structures permitted in the GU district.
W. Any use or structure that is accessory to the principal use or structure on the lot. [Ord. 01-05 § 8.]
18.35.030 Conditional uses.
The following structures and uses are permitted in the DC district under the terms of a conditional use permit:
A. Planned unit developments. [Ord. 01-05 § 8.]
18.35.040 Minimum lot size.
A lot in the DC district may not contain less than five thousand (5,000) square feet. [Ord. 01-05 § 8.]
18.35.050 Minimum setback requirement.
Structures, other than minor structures, in the DC district shall be set back from property lines to provide yards as follows:
A. Front yard: Fifteen (15) feet.
B. Side yard: Zero (0) feet, except as provided in subsections D and E of this section.
C. Rear yard: Zero (0) feet, except as provided in subsection E of this section.
D. If the lot is a corner lot, the setback from the side street is twenty-five (25) feet from the street right-of-way or five (5) feet if the width of the lot is fifty (50) feet or less.
E. When a side or rear interior property line abuts a residential district, buildings and other permanent structures shall be set back twenty-five (25) feet from that property line, plus one (1) foot for each three (3) feet of structure height greater than twelve (12) feet.
F. Twenty-five (25) feet from the mean high water mark of any drainage or lake. [Ord. 01-05 § 8.]
18.35.060 Maximum height of structures.
The height of structures in the DC district is not restricted except as may be limited under BMC 18.35.050(E) or under the airport height restrictions under BMC 18.48.250 through 18.48.270. [Ord. 01-05 § 8.]