This chapter is established to preserve a general business district having a wide range of retail and business uses, government and professional offices and places of amusement in a setting that is safe, convenient, comfortable, and attractive for both pedestrian and automobile access. It is not the intent to promote residences as a primary use in this district. Uses which by nature are noisy or emit excessive odors, dust and fumes are not appropriate in this district.

(Ord. 635, 1984)

(Ord. No. 946, § 1, 11-23-2010)

A.

Commercial uses:

1.

Retail businesses;* ^[]

2.

Personal services;

3.

Offices, banks, and financial institutions;

4.

Hotels and motels;

5.

Eating and drinking establishments;

6.

Indoor theaters, bowling alleys, skating rinks, electronic game arcades and other lawful indoor commercial amusements;

7.

Printing and photocopy establishments;

8.

Laundry and dry-cleaning establishments;

9.

Automobile, truck, recreational vehicle, manufactured home and farm equipment sales lots;

10.

Gasoline service stations* and automotive and truck repair garages;

11.

Automobile and truck washes;

12.

Retail lumber and building materials;

13.

Upholstery and furniture repair shops;

14.

Public transportation terminals;

15.

Veterinary clinics and animal hospitals; provided that all animal holding facilities are indoors;

16.

Nurseries, greenhouses and landscaping contractors and supplies;

17.

Fruit and produce stands;

18.

Commercial parking lots, garages and storage facilities;

19.

Funeral homes and undertaking establishments;

20.

Group homes;*

21.

Adult family homes;* ^[]

22.

Day care centers.*

B.

Public and quasi-public uses:

1.

Government buildings, including fire and police stations and administrative offices;

2.

Parks;

3.

Public utilities;*

4.

Churches, temples, synagogues and other places of worship;

5.

Museums, art galleries, libraries, clubs or fraternal societies and memorial buildings.

C.

Accessory uses and structures:

1.

Accessory uses and structures incidental to the above permitted uses, including:

a.

On-site hazardous waste treatment and storage; provided, that such facilities meet state siting criteria adopted pursuant to the requirements of Chapter 70.105.210 RCW;

2.

One dwelling unit for each business establishment for the occupancy of the owner, operator or caretaker of the establishment.

D.

Conditional uses: Other uses consistent with the intent of the commercial district.

(Ord. 683 § 1, 1988; Ord. 635 (part), 1984)

(Ord. No. 946, § 1, 11-23-2010)

There are no limitations on lot area. All lots shall have a minimum width of twenty-five feet.

(Ord. 635 (part), 1984)

(Ord. No. 946, § 1, 11-23-2010)

Minimum setbacks in the commercial district are as follows:

A.

Front: There is no front setback except where the administrator, upon examination of the street improvements and right-of-way width, determines that a setback is necessary to provide for a maximum five-foot-wide sidewalk.

B.

Side: There is no side setback except as follows:

1.

The administrator, upon examination of the street improvements and right-of-way width, determines that a setback is necessary to provide for a maximum five-foot wide sidewalk;

2.

Property abutting a residential district with no intervening street or alley shall have a side yard requirement the same as the required side setback in the abutting residential district.

C.

Rear: There is no rear setback except on property abutting a residential district with no intervening street or alley, in which case the setback shall be the same as required in the abutting residential district.

(Ord. No. 946, § 1, 11-23-2010)

Off-street parking as described in Chapter 17.24 shall be provided.

There shall be a maximum building height of four stories, but not more than forty-five feet.

(Ord. No. 946, § 1, 11-23-2010)

A.

The following signs are permitted:

1.

Projecting and freestanding signs shall be limited to one sign per parcel, except that corner and double frontage lots are permitted one sign for each street frontage, not to exceed an area of sixty square feet per sign;

2.

Directional, warning, or safety signs associated with any permitted or conditional use;

3.

Temporary signs.

B.

Uses permitted by conditional use permit by this chapter may be allowed any size and number of signs provided that they are specified by terms of the conditional use permit.

(Ord. 635, 1984)

(Ord. No. 946, § 1, 11-23-2010)