It is the purpose and intent of the highway commercial zone to provide for motorist-tourist dependent businesses having little interdependence and requiring convenient access to passing traffic.

For properties located within the City of Ellensburg UGA, the use and development standards in KCC § 17.11.030 through § 17.11.039 shall be utilized. Where KCC § 17.11.030 through § 17.11.039 does not identify use and development standards to be utilized for development within the Ellensburg UGA, this chapter shall apply.

Uses allowed in the highway commercial zone include those uses pursuant to KCC Chapter 17.15.

It is the intent of this chapter that each business be situated on a site of sufficient size to provide all off-street parking, loading and necessary driveways.

Properties bordering or adjacent to the Commercial Forest zone are subject to a two hundred (200)-foot setback from the Commercial Forest Zone. (KCC § 17.57.050(1)). For properties where such setback isn't feasible, development shall comply with KCC § 17.57.050(2).

The maximum height of any structure shall be 40 feet.

All lots in this district shall abut a public street, or shall have such other access as deemed suitable by the board.