Montesano City Zoning Code

Personal and professional services;

Business offices;

Financial services;

Commercial banks;

Wholesale or retail sales in a building;

Secondhand sales;

Restaurants;

Taverns or cocktail lounges;

Indoor amusements and entertainment;

Small appliance repair;

Cabinet or craft shops;

Laundry or dry cleaners;

Printers or data processing centers;

Libraries, police stations and fire stations;

Hotels or motels and boardinghouses;

Clubs (private), community centers and churches;

Child care centers;

New and used vehicle sales, rental and repair;

Service stations;

Public parking areas and public garages;

Transmission lines and utility substations;

Warehousing and food or property storage facilities;

Outdoor sales, such as mobile homes, boats, RVs, etc.;

Automotive and truck cleaning;

Veterinary facility;

Bottlers and distributors;

On-site hazardous waste treatment and storage facilities as an accessory use to any activity generating hazardous waste and lawfully allowed as a permitted or conditional use in this zone; provided, that the hazardous waste treatment and storage facilities meet the state siting criteria adopted pursuant to the requirements of RCW 70.105.070 as they now exist or are hereafter amended;

Public agency offices; or

Hospitals or clinics.

Single-family dwellings; provided, that the lot, yard, height, density, sign and parking requirements established by Sections 17.22.050 through 17.22.080, as well as the special conditions established by Section 17.22.040, shall apply to such dwellings;

Guesthouse and caretaker's single-family dwelling, incidental to a permitted use;

Dwelling units when contained within commercial buildings;

Mobile/manufactured housing in conformity with Section 17.08.375(2);

New and used heavy equipment sales, repair and rental;

Machine shops;

Manufacturing, fabricating and processing;

(Repealed by Ord. 1621);

Campgrounds;

Publicly owned facilities;

Outdoor storage of equipment, goods and materials, (except as permitted by Section 17.30,020) provided:

Off-site hazardous waste treatment and storage facilities as an accessory use to any activity generating a hazardous waste and lawfully allowed as a permitted or conditional use in this district; provided, that the hazardous wastes are generated by a similar business owned by the same owner and located in the same district; and provided, that the hazardous waste treatment and storage facilities meet the state citing criteria adopted pursuant to the requirements RCW 70.105.210 as they now exist or are hereafter amended;

Privately owned schools;

Truck and heavy equipment terminal;

Animal shelter; or

Mortuary or funeral home.

Temporary amusements and public assembly: Section 17.44.022;

Exceptions to height restrictions: Section 17.44.028;

Storage of vehicles and other materials: Section 17.44.029;

For buildings or uses exceeding five thousand square feet in gross floor area, space shall be provided either inside or outside a building for loading and unloading goods and materials. Such space shall not be less than ten feet wide, twenty-five feet long, or fifteen feet in height if covered, and shall have access to an alley or street.

Minimum lot size: two thousand five hundred square feet;

Minimum lot width: twenty-five feet;

Minimum yards: as required in the building code, except that where side or rear yards are adjacent to a residential district, the required minimum side yard shall be ten feet and the required minimum rear yard shall be twenty-five feet.

Maximum building height: three stories and not more than forty-five feet. Greater building height may be allowed through a conditional use permit; provided, that building height does not exceed fifty feet; and provided further, that the minimum front, side and rear yard setbacks are increased by one foot for each one foot by which the building exceeds forty-five feet. Accessory buildings shall not exceed one story or twenty-five feet in height.

Distance between buildings:

Not more than two unlighted signs that pertain to the sale or lease of commercially-zoned land and that do not exceed thirty-two square feet in total area;

Public service signs, subject to obtaining a conditional use permit. Such signs will not be subtracted from the property's allowable advertising area;

Appurtenant and nonappurtenant signs with:

Signs projecting over public rights-of-way, provided they:

Plans for any projecting signs or freestanding signs higher than twenty feet shall be approved by a registered engineer.

Personal, professional and financial services, business offices, or public offices: one space per three hundred fifty square feet of gross floor area. Three spaces may be deducted for each drive-in window in a bank;

Retail sales of small items (groceries, drugs, department store items) in a building: one space per three hundred square feet of gross floor area;

Retail sales on bulky items (furniture, appliances, feeds) in a building: one space per seven hundred fifty square feet of gross floor area;

Taverns, cocktail lounges, restaurants and indoor amusements and entertainment:

Service stations and car washes; furniture, small appliance, automotive, and heavy equipment repair; professional dry cleaners; printers or data processing centers; builders, plumbers, or other trades; wholesale or secondhand sales; cabinetmakers or other craft shops; warehousing and food or property storage facilities; outdoor sales or rental of big and bulky items; animal hospitals or kennels; bottlers and distributors; truck terminals; machine shops; and fabricators: one space per employee;

Hotels, motels, or boardinghouses: one space per guest room plus one space for each two employees;

Hospitals, convalescent centers, residential care facilities, and clinics: one space per three patient beds or tables plus one space for every three employees;

Churches, mortuaries, places of public assembly, or exhibition halls:

Dwelling units, when contained within commercial buildings: one and one-half parking spaces per dwelling unit in structures occupied by the general public and one space per two dwelling units in one-bedroom or efficiency apartments to be continually occupied by those sixty-two years of age or older; and

Self-service laundries: one space for every one hundred seventy-five square feet of gross floor area.