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Council Bluffs City Zoning Code

CHAPTER 15

15 - C-2-COMMERCIAL DISTRICT

15.15.010 Statement Of Intent

The C-2 district is intended to provide for major commercial retail shopping and service areas adjacent to major traffic corridors. This district also provides a variety of commercial services to the community and adjacent residential neighborhoods.

(Ord. 5458 § 2 (part), 1999)

15.15.020 Principal Uses

The following principal uses shall be permitted outright in a C-2 district:

  1. Automobile repair, minor;
  2. Automobile service establishment;
  3. Building material, retail sales only;
  4. Business, professional office;
  5. Business service establishment;
  6. Club or lodge;
  7. Commercial recreation (indoor and outdoor);
  8. Consumer service establishment;
  9. Contractor shop;
  10. Cultural service;
  11. Financial service;
  12. General government use;
  13. Hotel/motel;
  14. Kennel, commercial;
  15. Local utility service;
  16. Park and recreation services;
  17. Pawn shops;
  18. Printing, binding, and mail operations (fifty thousand (50,000) square feet or less);
  19. Private and public parking lots;
  20. Public safety services;
  21. Religious assembly;
  22. Restaurant (drive-in/fast food, limited and general);
  23. Retail shopping establishment;
  24. School;
  25. Secondhand store;
  26. Tattoo parlor;
  27. Tavern, as limited by CBMC 15.15.060;
  28. Veterinary service;
  29. Warehousing and distribution, limited (fifty thousand (50,000) square feet or less);
  30. Funeral service;
  31. Consumer fireworks sales;
  32. Small alcohol production facility.

(Ord. 5557 § 1, 2001)

(Ord. No. 6147, § 1, 2-13-2012; Ord. No. 6332, § 1, 6-11-2018; Ord. No. 6341, § 1, 8-13-2018)

Editor's note— Ord. No. 6085, § 1, adopted June 14, 2010, repealed the former section and enacted a new section as set out herein. The former section pertained to similar subject matter and derived from Ord. No. 5555, § 1, 2001; Ord. No. 6026, § 1, 2-23-2009.

15.15.030 Conditional Uses

The following conditional uses shall be permitted in a C-2 district, in accordance with the requirements set forth in CBMC 15.27:

  1. Adult entertainment, as further limited by CBMC 15.15.060;
  2. Automobile repair, major;
  3. Automobile sales and rental, as further limited by CBMC 15.15.060;
  4. Automobile sales and rental, indoor;
  5. Commercial storage;
  6. Communication tower;
  7. Day care services;
  8. Manufacturing, light (fifty thousand (50,000) square feet or less);
  9. Warehousing and distribution (limited).
  10. Equipment sales and rental.

(Ord. No. 6026, § 2, 2-23-2009; Ord. No. 6306, § 1, 10-9-2017)

Editor's note— Ord. No. 6026, § 2, adopted Feb. 23, 2009, repealed the former CBMC 15.15.030, and enacted a new CBMC 15.15.030 as set out herein. The former CBMC 15.15.030 pertained to similar subject matter and derived from Ord. No. 5555, § 2, adopted 2001.

HISTORY
Amended by Ord. 6519 on 9/12/2022
Amended by Ord. 6622 on 3/11/2025

15.15.040 Accessory Uses

The following accessory uses shall be permitted in a C-2 district:

  1. Uses of land or structure customarily incidental and subordinate to one of the principal uses, unless otherwise excluded.

(Ord. 5458 § 2 (part), 1999)

15.15.050 Site Development Regulations

Minimum Lot Size
Lot area
5,000 square feet
Lot width
50 feet
Lot depth
100 feet
Minimum Setbacks
Principal Structure
Accessory Structure
Front yard
15 feet
15 feet
Interior side yard
5 feet
5 feet
Street side yard
10 feet
10 feet
Rear yard
10 feet
10 feet
Maximum height
50 feet
18 feet
Lot coverage, all structures:
60% maximum
 

(Ord. 5458 § 2 (part), 1999)

15.15.060 Additional Regulations

  1. None of the adult entertainment activities as defined in CBMC 15.03 shall be located within one thousand (1,000) feet of any other such use, nor shall any such use be located within three hundred (300) feet of any school, place of religious assembly, public park, or residential district.
  2. No tavern or small alcohol production facility shall be located within two hundred (200) feet of any school, place of religious assembly, public park, or any conforming residential use. Distance shall be measured between the closest points from lot line to lot line.

    Exception: The two hundred (200) foot distance limitation from conforming multifamily residential uses as noted above shall not apply to taverns which do not exceed three thousand (3,000) square feet in gross floor area if located within a commercial development with one hundred twenty-five thousand (125,000) square feet or more of leasable retail/commercial space.
  3. Parking for automobile sales and rental facilities shall include space for both visitor parking and sale display area. One space is required for each vehicle available for sale, lease or rental at one time with additional parking based on the size of the building used for sales and accessory repairs and service.
  4. Consumer fireworks sales from a temporary structure shall not be located within three hundred (300) feet of a residential structure.

(Ord. No. 6026, § 3, 2-23-2009; Ord. No. 6332, § 1, 6-11-2018; Ord. No. 6341, § 1, 8-13-2018)

Editor's note— Ord. No. 6026, § 3, adopted Feb. 23, 2009, repealed the former CBMC 15.15.060, and enacted a new CBMC 15.15.060 as set out herein. The former CBMC 15.15.060 pertained to similar subject matter and derived from Ord. No. 5940, § 1, adopted 2007.

15.15.070 Signs

Signage in this district shall comply with CBMC 15.33, Signs.

(Ord. 5458 § 2 (part), 1999)

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