Hermiston City Zoning Code

Automobile, boat or trailer sales showroom;

Bakery;

Bank, loan company or similar financial institution;

Barber shop;

Beauty shop;

Bicycle shop;

Blueprinting, photostating or other reproduction;

Book or stationery store or newsstand;

Bookbinding;

Building supply with no outside storage;

Bus station;

Business machines, retail and service;

Catering establishment;

Church;

Clinic;

Clothes, cleaning or laundry agency;

Clothing store or tailor shop;

Club, lodge, union or fraternal organization;

Cocktail lounge or tavern;

Confectionery store, including soda fountain;

Curtain or drapery store;

Dancing school, music studio or instructional classes;

Delicatessen;

Drug store, pharmacy;

Dry cleaning, or pressing, except those using highly volatile or combustible materials or using high pressure steam tanks or boilers;

Dry goods, millinery or dress shop;

Electrical supply store;

Feed and seed store;

Floor covering sales and service;

Florist shop;

Food store;

Frozen food lockers, retail only;

Furniture store;

Garden store;

Gift, hobby or art shop;

Grocery store, includes convenience store, mini-market;

Hardware store;

Health studio, physical therapist, reducing salon;

Hotel;

Jewelry store, including repairing;

Leather goods sales, including harness and saddle shop;

Locksmith;

Magazine or newspaper distribution agency;

Meat market, retail only;

Newspaper publishing;

Notions or variety store;

Office, business or professional;

Office supplies;

Paint store, including related contractor shop;

Parking lot or garage;

Pawn shop;

Pet shop, includes animal grooming but not overnight boarding or kennel;

Printing plant;

Radio or television sales and service;

Restaurant or hotel supply;

Restaurant or tea room;

Retail store;

Scientific or professional instrument sale or repair;

Secondhand store;

Self-service laundry;

Shoe store or shoe repair shop;

Storage building for household goods in conjunction with retail sales;

Studio-art, music and photography;

Telephone or telegraph building;

Theater, except drive-in theater;

Upholstery shop, but excluding operations in mattress and upholstery refinishing where cyanide or other highly toxic material is used; and

Wholesale office or show room with merchandise on the premises limited to small items and samples.

Auditorium, exhibition hall or other public assembly room;

Automobile service station including minor automobile repairs but excluding body and fender work, or painting;

Community building;

Day care home or nursery;

Drive-in establishment offering goods or services to customers waiting in parked motor vehicles, except drive-in theater;

Government structure or land use including but not limited to a public park, playground, recreational building, fire station, library or museum;

Hospital or nursing home;

Mortuary;

Motel;

Multiple-family dwelling;

Planned unit development;

Private utilities including electric power substations, telephone exchanges, television, radio or microwave transmission facilities;

Public utilities including wells, water storage tanks and sanitary sewer pump stations; and

Schools: Preschool, primary, elementary, junior or senior high, college.

The front yard shall be a minimum of 20 feet measured from the foundation where abutting a residential zone;

The side yard shall be minimum of 20 feet measured from the foundation where abutting a residential zone;

The rear yard shall be a minimum of 25 feet measured from the foundation where abutting a residential zone; and

All properties facing E. Main street from 3rd street to 7th street shall have a two-foot building setback from their front property line.

All business, service, repair, processing, storage or merchandise display shall be conducted wholly within an enclosed building, except for off-street parking and loading, drive-in windows, island service for motor vehicles and display of merchandise along the outside wall of the building not extending more than three feet from the wall, unless conducted as part of a special event and authorized by the City Council;

All items produced or wares and merchandise handled shall be sold at retail on the premises except in the case of 157.040 (A);

Where there are existing residential dwellings, they and their accessory uses may be maintained, expanded or reconstructed in conformance with the development standards of the R-3 zone; and

Residential uses shall not be allowed on the ground floor of commercial buildings in the C-1 zone.

A use permitted outright in a C-1 zone;

Amusement enterprise, including pool hall, bowling, dancing hall, skating rink, when enclosed in a building;

Auditorium, exhibition hall or other public assembly room;

Automobile, boat or trailer sales, rental, service and repair;

Automobile service station;

Automobile laundry;

Day care home or nursery;

Mortuary, undertaking or funeral parlor;

Motel;

Recreational vehicle park subject to requirements of 157.147;

Taxidermy shop; and

Tire shop, including tire recapping.

Amusement enterprise not enclosed in a building including, but not limited to, "pitch and putt" golf course, driving range, archery range, automobile race track and drive-in theater;

Caretaker’s residence subject to the following conditions:

Community building;

Drive-in establishment offering goods or services to customers waiting in parked motor vehicles, except drive-in theater;

Government structure or land use including but not limited to a public park, playgrounds, recreational building, fire station, library or museum;

Hospital or nursing home;

Planned unit development;

Preschool, primary, elementary, junior or senior high, college;

Private utilities including electric power substations, telephone exchanges, television, radio or microwave transmission facilities;

Public utilities including wells, water storage tanks and sanitary sewer pump stations; and

Other uses similar to the uses permitted outright or the conditional uses normally located in the Outlying Commercial Zone (C-2), providing that the use has approval from the planning commission.

Where there are existing residential dwellings, they and their accessory uses may be maintained, expanded or reconstructed in conformance with the development standards as established in the R-3 zone.

The outside storage of junk shall be contained entirely within a sight-obscuring fence when adjacent to a residential use of property.

The setback from any street shall be 20 feet. However, if solid ground cover landscaping is provided and maintained, the setback from a street may be reduced to ten feet;

The side yard shall be a minimum of 20 feet measured from the foundation where abutting a residential zone; and

The rear yard shall be a minimum of 25 feet measured from the foundation where abutting a residential zone.

Be prepared to take advantage of opportunities for infill, redevelopment, and new development in downtown;

Allow different types of compatible land uses close together to shorten traffic trips and facilitate all modes of transportation such as vehicles, pedestrians and bicycles;

Continue vehicle and pedestrian circulation systems that are safe, convenient, attractive and comfortable for pedestrians;

Create, maintain and enhance public spaces such as plazas, parks, public buildings and places of assembly to allow events, informal meetings and social interactions with other people;

Design and manage parking areas efficiently to provide adequate parking for employees and visitors to downtown and to minimize unnecessary surface parking;

Design buildings to a scale that provides aesthetic appeal, pedestrian comfort and compatibility with other uses.

In the DCO Zone, all uses and accessory uses permitted outright in the Central Commercial Zone (C-1) zone are allowed.

Residential uses are permitted on upper stories and on ground floors when not located within storefront space.

Off-street parking and loading, drive-in windows, and outside dining and the display of merchandise along the outside wall of the building when extending no more than four feet from the wall.

The front yard shall be a minimum of 20 feet measured from the foundation where abutting a residential zone;

The side yard shall be a minimum of 20 feet measured from the foundation where abutting a residential zone;

The rear yard shall be a minimum of 25 measured from the foundation where abutting a residential zone; and

All business, service, repair, processing, storage or merchandise display shall be conducted wholly within an enclosed building, except for off-street parking and loading, drive-in windows, island service for motor vehicles, display of merchandise along the outside wall of the building not extending more than four feet from the wall, and outside dining, unless conducted as part of a special event and authorized by the City Council.

Where there are existing residential dwellings, they and their accessory uses may be maintained, expanded or reconstructed in conformance with the development standards of the R-3 zone.

Residential uses shall not be allowed within the storefront space on the ground floor of buildings within the DCO Zone.

Primary entrances shall be protected from weather by either the addition of an awning, recessed building entry or other method as approved by the Planning Director.

Lighting shall be provided for building entrances, parking areas and pathways.

Off-street parking is not allowed between buildings and the street to which they are oriented. Parking and other vehicle areas shall be allowed between alleys and buildings.

Ground floor windows shall be provided along 30% of the ground floor street facing elevations.

Any new drive-up/drive-through facilities established after the adoption of the ordinance codified in this chapter shall be oriented toward an alley, driveway, or interior parking area, and not a public street.

Drive-up/drive-in queuing areas shall be designed so that vehicles do not obstruct a driveway, fire access lane, walkway, or public right-of-way.

New residential or commercial development;

Expansion of single-family or two-family residential development costing in excess of 30% of the assessed value of the improvements on the property. The provisions of subsection (H)(3) of this section shall not apply;

Reconstruction of a single-family or two-family residential casualty loss costing in excess of 130% of the previously assessed value of the structure itself. The provisions of subsection (H)(3) of this section shall not apply;

Expansion of multiple-family or commercial development costing in excess of 50% of the assessed value of the improvements on the property;

Reconstruction of multiple-family; commercial casualty loss in excess of 110% of the previously assessed value of the structure itself; and

Conversion of an existing building from residential to commercial use.

The applicant shall complete a building permit application as provided by the city and provide a site plan, landscape plan and building elevations. All plans shall be drawn to scale and show the following:

At the applicant’s request site plan review can occur prior to submittal of a request for building permit.

Where the applicant’s development site abuts existing curb and gutter, sidewalks in conformance with city standards are required to be constructed to the extent curb and gutter exist at the time of application.

The applicant shall be required to participate in a future improvement district to construct and dedicate all public facilities, such as water, wastewater, drainage, curb, gutter, sidewalk and street right-of-way adjacent to the development in conformance with city standards and provide easements or deeds to the city for all public facilities. However, where it is determined that delaying the design and construction of any or all facilities is not appropriate and logical, or causes an adverse impact on surrounding properties, the city may require the developer to construct and dedicate all improvements as a condition of development.

Where it has been determined that the extension of public facilities is required, all costs related to the extension shall be borne by the developer. In addition, any extension of the facilities shall be continued and extended in a logical fashion to the extent of the development site so as to be readily available for adjacent development.

Where the improvement installed by a developer shall benefit other properties, a mutually agreeable settlement shall be arrived at between the city and the developer prior to installing the improvements. This agreement shall identify the benefiting properties, actual costs to be charged and method of repayment to the developer. Where prior agreement exists for improvements benefiting the subject property, the applicant shall make arrangements with the city for the payment of the improvements prior to issuance of any city permit.

The developer shall provide proof of review and approval by all affected and/or county agencies, such as the Department of Transportation or County Planning Department.

The requirements of § 157.175 shall apply. Surface parking shall not exceed 110% of the minimum parking required when parking is provided on site. Exemptions to the standard can be approved for developments that provide shared parking, valet parking spaces or similarly managed parking accommodations.

Off-street parking shall be provided in accordance with § 157.176.

Parking credits. Credits may be granted for on-street parking and public parking lot spaces as follows:

Shared parking. Parking facilities may be shared by users on adjacent parcels if the following standards are met:

Joint use parking. Joint use of parking spaces may occur where two or more separate developments or multiple uses in a development are able to jointly use some or all of the same required parking spaces because their parking demands occur at different times. Joint use of parking spaces may be allowed if the following standards are met:

Sandwich "A" boards and other portable signs are permitted along the outside wall of the building not extending more than four feet from the wall.

Sandwich boards do not count against the maximum number of signs allowed.

Be prepared to take advantage of opportunities for infill, redevelopment, and new development in outlying commercial areas;

Allow different types of compatible land uses close together to shorten traffic trips and facilitate all modes of transportation such as vehicles, pedestrians and bicycles.

In the NCO zone, all uses and accessory uses permitted outright in the outlying commercial zone (C-2) are allowed.

Residential uses are permitted on upper stories and on ground floors when not located within storefront space.

In the NCO zone, the conditional uses and their accessory uses permitted in the outlying commercial zone (C-2) are permitted when authorized in accordance with the requirements of §§ 157.205 through 157.210;

Mini-storage; and

Multiple-family dwelling.

Where there are existing residential dwellings, they and their accessory uses may be maintained, expanded or reconstructed in conformance with the development standards as established in the R-3 zone.

The outside storage of junk shall be contained entirely within a sight-obscuring fence when adjacent to a residential use of property.

The setback from any street shall be 20 feet. However, if solid ground cover landscaping is provided and maintained, the setback from a street may be reduced to ten feet;

The side yard shall be a minimum of 20 feet measured from the foundation where abutting a residential zone; and

The rear yard shall be a minimum of 25 feet measured from the foundation where abutting a residential zone.