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Deadwood City Zoning Code

CHAPTER 17

40 CH COMMERCIAL HIGHWAY DISTRICT

17.40.010 Intent

The CH commercial highway district is intended to provide locations for commercial uses, which require access to roads and highways, and substantial amounts of parking.

(Ord. 831 § 3.7, 1992)

17.40.020 Uses Permitted By Right

Property in the CH commercial highway district shall be used for the following purposes or any use which the planning commission considers comparable to another use which is directly listed under this section.

  1. Adult education facility;
  2. Animal clinic;
  3. Auditorium, indoor theaters;
  4. Auto parking lots (commercial);
  5. Auto sales and service;
  6. Auto service station and garage;
  7. Auto accessory part and repair;
  8. Auto wash and polish service;
  9. Bakery;
  10. Banks;
  11. Barber shops and beauty shops;
  12. Book, hobby, toy and music stores;
  13. Bowling alley;
  14. Chiropractic office;
  15. Civic youth social/fraternal organization;
  16. Convenience stores;
  17. Delicatessen;
  18. Department, dry goods and variety stores;
  19. Drive-in restaurants;
  20. Dwelling unit, for hired personnel only;
  21. Electrical and household appliance stores, sales and service;
  22. Florist;
  23. Frozen food lockers, not including slaughtering on the premises;
  24. Fuel storage tanks, above and below ground;
  25. Furniture stores;
  26. Gaming (within city boundaries as of November 1, 1989);
  27. Gasoline service station;
  28. Hardware stores;
  29. Hotels and motels;
  30. Indoor amusement establishment;
  31. Insurance, real estate, investment offices;
  32. Laundromat;
  33. Libraries and museums;
  34. Liquor stores;
  35. Mail order;
  36. Medical and dental clinics;
  37. Miniature golf;
  38. Music, radio and television stores;
  39. Novelty, curio, antique and souvenir shops;
  40. Paint stores;
  41. Parks, recreation land;
  42. Personal Service Outlet;
  43. Pet shops;
  44. Photographic equipment sales and service;
  45. Printing, photocopying, blueprint service;
  46. Professional/accounting service offices;
  47. Radio and television studios;
  48. Restaurant, bar and lounge;
  49. Schools, vocational and technical;
  50. Second-hand stores;
  51. Shoe stores;
  52. Shoe repair;
  53. Sporting goods stores;
  54. Travel bureaus; and
  55. Wildlife preserves.
  56. Recreational Cannabis dispensaries.
  57. Medical Cannabis dispensaries.
  58. Cannabis Cultivation Facilities.
  59. Cannabis Testing Facilities.
  60. Cannabis Product Manufacturing Facilities.

(Ord. 900 (part), 1995; Ord. 831 § 3.7.1, 1992)

HISTORY
Amended by Ord. 1329 on 9/8/2021
Amended by Ord. 1337 on 12/8/2021
Amended by Ord. 1432 on 10/6/2025

17.40.030 Conditional Uses

The following uses, or any use which the planning commission considers comparable to another use which is directly listed under this section, may be permitted in the CH commercial highway district under the provisions of Chapter 17.76, Conditional Uses.

  1. Animal hospital for large animals;
  2. Animal hospital for small animals;
  3. Bed and breakfast;
  4. Building materials supply;
  5. Bus, train and airline terminals;
  6. Camping areas;
  7. Churches and related uses;
  8. Condominium(s);
  9. Day care centers;
  10. Duplexes;
  11. Dry cleaning;
  12. Dwelling unit, multiple-family;
  13. Dwelling unit, single-family;
  14. Efficiency living unit;
  15. Electrical distribution lines - underground (k.v. or less)
  16. Electrical, heating, painting, plumbing, roofing and ventilating shops and service;
  17. Equipment rental;
  18. Fire and police stations;
  19. Gas distribution lines;
  20. Gas regulator stations;
  21. Gas transmission lines;
  22. Governmental offices;
  23. Group care facility;
  24. Group home for developmentally disabled;
  25. Home occupations;
  26. Homes for the aged;
  27. Hospitals;
  28. Hostel;
  29. Laundry;
  30. Machine shops;
  31. Massage therapy office, city license required;
  32. Mortuaries;
  33. Nursing homes;
  34. Residential care facility;
  35. Sanitariums, mental institutions;
  36. Sewer collection lines;
  37. Sewer lift stations;
  38. Specialty Resort Establishment;
  39. Tattoo business, state license required;
  40. Telephone lines;
  41. Television cables - only below ground;
  42. Utility offices;
  43. Vacation Home Establishment;
  44. Valet parking;
  45. Warehouse (storing of goods connected with an industrial operation - “No Hazardous Materials”);
  46. Water pumping stations;
  47. Water storage tanks - above ground either wholly or partially; and
  48. Water storage tanks - in ground.

(Ord. 1026 (part), 2004; Ord. 952 (part), 1999: Ord. 915 (part), 1996; Ord. 900 (part), 1995; Ord. 851 (part), 1993; Ord. 831 § 3.7.2, 1992)

HISTORY
Amended by Ord. 1369 on 5/21/2023

17.40.040 Area And Bulk Requirements

All buildings shall set back from street right-of-way lines and lot lines to comply with the following requirements.

Where contiguous lots are in single ownership, the setbacks for the structure may be measured from the perimeter of the combined lots.

  1. Lot Size.
    1. Minimum lot area: two thousand five hundred (2,500) square feet.
    2. Minimum lot area per dwelling unit: two thousand five hundred (2,500) square feet.
  2. Front Yard Requirements. Minimum front yard setback requirements for all buildings and uses (feet):
    1. Minimum front yard, principal buildings and uses: fifteen (15) feet.
    2. Minimum front yard, accessory buildings and uses: fifteen (15) feet.
  3. Side Yard Requirements. Minimum side yard setback requirements for all buildings and uses:
    1. Minimum side yard, principal buildings and uses: ten (10) feet.
    2. Minimum side yard, from interior lot line for principal buildings and uses: five feet.
    3. Minimum side yard, from interior lot line for accessory buildings and uses: five feet.
  4. Rear Yard Requirements. Minimum rear yard setback requirements for all buildings and uses:
    1. Minimum rear yard, for principal buildings and uses: five feet.
    2. Minimum rear yard, for accessory buildings and uses: five feet.
  5. Height Requirements. Maximum height:
    1. Height for principal buildings and uses: forty-five (45) feet.
    2. Height for accessory buildings and uses: thirty-five (35) feet.
    3. Principal building maximum floor area ratio: 1.7:1.

(Ord. 952 (part), 1999; Ord. 831 § 3.7.3, 1992)

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