The C-3 zone is intended primarily to accommodate stores, offices, service establishments, hotels, and governmental and cultural centers at the central focal point of the arterial and transportation systems where they can conveniently serve the population of Butte-Silver Bow, state of Montana, and the entire surrounding area with a varied and specialized selection of goods and services.

(Ord. 53 § 120-1, 1978)

Hereafter in the C-3 zones, no building or structure shall be erected, altered, enlarged, or relocated therein which is designed or intended to be used for any use other than the following unless otherwise provided in this title:

1.

Any retail or wholesale business and service business uses including the following uses, subject to Section 17.26.010;

2.

Amusement enterprises, including pool halls, skill device gamerooms, penny arcades, and similar uses, including temporary circuses; provided, that any such use that is located within three hundred feet of any residential zoning district be governed by a conditional use permit obtained from the board of adjustment;

3.

Antique shops;

4.

Any use permitted in the C-2 zone;

5.

Auction houses;

6.

Baby store;

7.

Bakeries;

8.

Bakery whose products are sold only at retail;

9.

Barbershop or beauty parlor;

10.

Businesses and professional offices;

11.

Furniture store;

12.

Garages, public;

13.

Gift shop;

14.

Grocery and delicatessen;

15.

Hardware store;

16.

Hobby shop;

17.

Hotel, motel, or motor lodge;

18.

Household appliances, sales and repair;

19.

Household equipment repair shops;

20.

Jewelry shop;

21.

Laboratories, experimental; excluding activity which may be hazardous because of explosion or fire;

22.

Launderette and similar business;

23.

Laundry;

24.

Missions and similar philanthropic uses;

25.

Multifamily residences shall be permitted, except as provided under Section 17.26.035, Conditional uses;

26.

Office building;

27.

Packaging of candy, confections and/or frozen foods;

28.

Paint and wallpaper store;

29.

Pawnshops;

30.

Printing and/or publishing business;

31.

Radio and television, sales and repair;

32.

Real estate office;

33.

Restaurant, cafe and soda fountain;

34.

Shoe repair shop;

35.

Sporting goods;

36.

Storage garages;

37.

Studios;

38.

Tailor shop;

39.

Taverns, beer parlors and nightclubs serving alcoholic beverages subject to other regulations, laws, and ordinances of Butte-Silver Bow and the state of Montana;

40.

Telegraph office;

41.

Telephone office;

42.

Variety store;

43.

Wholesale establishments with stock on the premises, but excluding establishments whose principal activity is that of a storage warehouse and those uses first permitted in the M zones;

44.

Other uses permitted under supplementary use regulations in Sections 17.38.170 through 17.38.240, and accessory uses, buildings, and structures ordinarily appurtenant to any of the above uses;

45.

Uses similar to those mentioned above in this section may be permitted, subject to the approval of the zoning officer;

46.

Adult uses including but not limited to adult book stores, adult motion picture theaters, adult mini motion picture theaters and adult entertainment cabarets and subject to the following restrictions:

a.

No such adult use shall be located within four hundred feet of any zoning district which is zoned for residential use;

b.

No such adult use shall be located within six hundred feet of a preexisting school or place of worship or a site dedicated for a school or place of worship.

(Ord. 552 § 1 (part), 1996; Ord. 225 § 1(G), 1985; Ord. 164 § 1(C), 1982; Ord. 117 § 1(C), 1980; Ord. 53 § 120-2, 1978)

In all C-3 zones, all storage (including storage of waste materials) shall be located wholly within a building or shall be screened from view from the surrounding properties in R and C zones.

(Ord. 53 § 120-3, 1978)

Light industrial uses which meet the Class B Occupancy of the Uniform Building Code, public housing and correctional housing.

(Ord. 552 § 1 (part), 1996: Ord. 456 § 5, 1993)

There shall be no building height limit requirement.

(Ord. 53 § 120-4, 1978)

There shall be no minimum lot area requirement.

(Ord. 53 § 120-5, 1978)

There shall be no minimum lot width requirement.

(Ord. 53 § 120-6, 1978)

There shall be no requirement for any other building unless fronting on the proposed right-of-way of a major thoroughfare shown on the official major thoroughfare plan, in which case the building setback shall be the proposed right-of-way line.

(Ord. 53 § 120-7, 1978)

There shall be no requirement for any other building except when adjacent to the side lot line of a lot in an R zone, in which case the minimum side yard width shall not be less than fifteen feet.

(Ord. 53 § 120-8, 1978)

There shall be no requirement for any other building except when adjacent to the side lot line of a lot in an R zone, in which case the minimum rear yard depth shall be ten feet.

(Ord. 53 § 120-9, 1978)