A. The C-1 district is a zone to provide for restricted neighborhood commercial needs. Business and professional offices and limited retail stores and service establishments to serve the convenience of the area are permitted.

B.

The standards of development are designed to coordinate with all density and design control in such zone, promote orderly development and retain and promote scenic landscaping basic to natural beauty of the city.

(Prior code § 11-205-B-1)

In the C-1 districts, the following principal uses are permitted:

A.

Retail Stores:

1.

Bakery shops, including baking only when incidental to retail sales from the premises;

2.

Bookstore;

3.

Children's wearing apparel stores;

4.

Cigar or tobacco stores;

5.

Confectionery or candy stores;

6.

Delicatessens;

7.

Dressmaking or millinery only when incidental to retail sales from the premises;

8.

Drug stores;

9.

Florist shops;

10.

Dry goods or notions stores;

11.

Food markets;

12.

Garden supplies stores;

13.

Gift stores;

14.

Hardware stores;

15.

Hobby supply stores;

16.

Ice cream stores;

17.

Jewelry stores with incidental repairs;

18.

Liquor stores;

19.

Newsstands;

20.

Photograph shops;

21.

Restaurants, cafes, soda fountains (no floor shows, dancing or drive-in car service);

22.

Stationery stores;

23.

Toy stores;

24.

Emergency shelters.

B.

Services:

1.

Banks and financial institutions;

2.

Barber and beauty shops;

3.

Cleaning and dyeing pick-up agencies, including incidental spotting, sponging, pressing and repairs;

4.

Laundries, self-service;

5.

Laundry agencies;

6.

Real estate and insurance offices;

7.

Shoe repair shops;

8.

Tailor shops.

C.

Office and Professional:

1.

Administrative, business, executive, editorial and professional office (in which chattels or goods, wares or merchandise are not manufactured or sold);

2.

Clinics, medical, dental and therapeutic;

3.

General research not involving manufacture, fabrication or processing, or sale of products listed in any other commercial or industrial zone;

4.

Laboratories, biological, optical, medical, dental and X-ray, not including the manufacture of pharmaceuticals or other products for general sale or distribution and only when incidental to retail sales from the premises;

5.

Libraries and reading rooms;

6.

Optometrists;

7.

Professional pharmacy;

8.

Public utility customer service offices;

9.

Stenographers, public;

10.

Stock exchanges and brokers;

11.

Tax consulting service;

12.

Travel agency.

(Prior code § 11-205-B-2; Ord. No. 312, § 4, 3-28-2023)

In the C-1 districts, the following conditional uses are permitted, after obtaining a conditional use permit from the planning commission:

1.

Blueprint shops;

2.

Business technical schools and schools and studios for photography, art, music and dance;

3.

Caterer;

4.

Diaper supply service;

5.

Escort bureau;

6.

Hotels, motels and motor hotels;

7.

Ice storage house, not more than one ton capacity;

8.

Printing and publishing or lithographic shop;

9.

Cocktail lounges, theaters, and similar enterprises, provided that such uses are conducted within buildings;

10.

Slenderizing studios;

11.

"R" zone residential uses, subject to all restrictions and requirements of that zone;

12.

Accessory uses and buildings customarily appurtenant to a permitted use, such as incidental storage facilities, by use permit if not included in original building permit;

13.

Signs as permitted by the sign ordinance which pertain only to permitted use on the premises; are either integral with, or attached flat against the building, and which do not face the side of an adjoining lot which is in an R-district;

14.

Public and quasi-public uses appropriate to the "C-1" zone;

15.

Auto service stations;

16.

Social halls, lodges, fraternal organizations and clubs;

17.

Commercial cannabis businesses;

18.

Any other use not specifically defined in Section 17.24.020 shall be subject to receiving a use permit.

(Prior code § 11-205-B-3; Ord. No. 289, § 4, 10-24-2017)

The following standards shall apply to all land and buildings in the "C-1" zone:

A.

Lot Area and Dimensions. All lots hereafter created shall comply with following minimum standards and requirements, except where a variance is granted by the city council:

1.

Lot Area. Ten thousand square feet minimum.

2.

Lot Width. Fifty feet and Depth - 100 feet.

3.

Yards. Front 35 feet; side ten feet and rear 15 feet set-back.

4.

Building Height. No principal building shall exceed two stories or 30 feet in height and no accessory building shall exceed one story or 15 feet in height, except as approved by a variance.

B.

Off-Street Parking and Loading.

1.

Before issuance of a building permit for any building or structure in the "C-1" zone, the developer or builder shall show on plot-site plan proposed off-street parking spaces, and ingress and egress to same, to care for total parking and loading need, created by particular type of commercial business involved.

2.

The number of parking spaces required shall be as set forth in the following:

a.

Dwellings, single-family and detached guest houses: one space for each dwelling unit or guest house which shall be in garage.

b.

Hotels, motels, motor hotels and boatels: one space for each living or sleeping unit, plus two spaces for every 50 rooms.

c.

Theaters, churches, stadiums, funeral homes, auditoriums, sports arenas, assembly halls:

1.

One space for each five seats of maximum seating capacity;

2.

In cases where temporary or movable seats are provided for, there shall be one space for each 50 square feet of floor area used for assembly.

d.

Dance halls, skating rinks, lodge halls, exhibition halls without fixed seats: one space for each 50 square feet of floor area used for assembly or dancing.

e.

Professional or business office buildings: one space for each 300 square feet of floor area.

f.

Retail or service commercial stores and shops, banks, post offices, repair garages: one space for each 500 square feet of floor area.

g.

Restaurants, bars and nightclubs: one space for each 2.5 seats.

h.

Nursery sales and display yards, building materials and lumber sales yards and similar uses: one space for each 2,500 square feet of space devoted to sales, display and yard storage.

i.

Shopping centers:

i.

Under 100,000 square feet - eight cars per 1,000 square feet;

ii.

100,000 - 250,000 square feet - seven cars per 1,000 square feet;

iii.

Over 250,000 square feet - six cars per 1,000 square feet.

3.

Common parking facilities may be provided in lieu of the individual requirement specified, but such facilities shall be approved by the planning commission as to size, shape and relationship to business sites to be served; provided, that the total of off-street parking spaces when used together shall not be less than the sum of the various use computed separately.

4.

Each off-street parking space shall have an area of not less than 180 square feet exclusive of access drives or aisles, and shall be of usable shape and condition. There shall be adequate provision for ingress and egress to all parking spaces.

(Prior code § 11-205-B-4)

Other required conditions in C-1 districts are as follows:

A.

All uses shall be conducted wholly within a completely closed building except for service stations, off-street parking and loading facilities, nurseries, sidewalk cafes, and similar uses as approved by the planning commission.

B.

In any "C-1" zone directly across a street from an "R" or "D" zone, the parking and loading facilities shall be a distance at least ten feet from said street and said set-back space shall be permanently landscaped with woody plants.

C.

Goods for sale shall consist primarily of new merchandise and shall be sold at retail on the premises.

D.

No more than three persons shall be directly engaged in the fabrication and processing of goods in any one establishment without approval of a use permit.

E.

Off-street parking areas shall be effectively screened.

F.

Any off-street parking area shall be surfaced with asphalt concrete or portland cement binder pavement, so as to provide a durable and dustless surface, shall be so graded and drained as to dispose of all surface water within the area, and shall be so arranged and marked as to provide the orderly and safe loading or unloading and parking and storage of vehicles. All parking areas shall be maintained by the owner in a good and usable condition.

G.

Lighting used to illuminate any off-street parking area shall be so arranged as to reflect the light away from enjoining premises in an "R" or "D" zone.

H.

1.

Either complete underground electrical distribution or streamline distribution, as approved by city council, will be required in a "C-1" zone.

2.

Also underground TV-cable and telephone distribution lines shall be required in a "C-1" zone unless a variance is obtained from city council. The person constructing, remodeling, owning, operating, leasing, occupying, or renting each building or structure located within a "C-1" zone shall ensure that when the trench where the underground electrical distribution facilities or lines are to be placed has been excavated, notice of the same is given to each utility supplying utility service to the zone in which said building or structure is situated, prior to the time said trench is filled.

I.

Architectural designs and landscaping layouts shall be as approved by city council and/or the designated architectural control committee.

(Prior code § 11-205-B-5)