The BC community business district is intended to create, preserve and enhance areas with a wide range of retail sales and service establishments serving both long- and short-term needs in compact locations typically appropriate to commercial clusters near intersections of major thoroughfares. This district also includes some noncommercial development such as conditional multi-family.

(Ord. No. 4617, § 1(Exh. A), 10-4-2021; Ord. No. 4777, § 1(Exh. A), 12-18-2023)

The primary business operations, except for vehicle/recreational vehicle/trailers/ manufactured, modular or mobile homes sales, newsstands, private or public parking areas, nurseries and service station pump islands shall be in an entirely enclosed building unless otherwise specified by a conditional use permit. Temporary uses may be allowed subject to regulations cited in section 10-1-12 of this title.

Accessory exterior storage affiliated with principal uses shall not be allowed in any area in front of the principal building(s) on a property and shall be otherwise screened from view with a sight obscuring fence, wall or hedge not to exceed eight feet in height.

Bars, taverns, and cocktail lounges are not and shall not be allowed in or on any property having frontage on or within 300 feet of Garrity Boulevard. Existing bars, taverns, cocktail lounges fronting that boulevard are considered legally nonconforming in accordance with the provisions of chapter 3 of this title but may not be expanded as also stated in that chapter.

(Ord. No. 4617, § 1(Exh. A), 10-4-2021)

In the BC district there is no structure height limitation, except when said district abuts upon a residential district, in which case the maximum permitted structure height allowed on a BC property shall not exceed the maximum structure height permitted in that residential district for a distance into the commercial property of 50 feet from the abutting boundary.

(Ord. No. 4617, § 1(Exh. A), 10-4-2021; Ord. No. 4702, § 1(Exh. A), 12-5-2022)

The following minimum requirements shall be observed:

A.

Property area. No minimum is/shall be required.

B.

Property width. No minimum is/shall be required.

C.

Front yard/street side (building and parking setback). Setbacks shall be measured from the property line (or future right-of-way where known or determined by the city engineer).

* Except downtown zones which have a 0' setback from local roads.

Exception—Parking lot: When an intervening sight obscuring fence at least six feet tall that obscures visibility of a parking lot is placed between that commercially zoned property and an adjoining single- or two-family residential zoned property, then a zero-foot setback may be allowed in order to separate/screen the commercial property's parking lot from the residentially zoned property.

D.

Access. All lots/parcels developed/"built out," or proposed to be developed/"built out," with structures thereon shall have, or be demonstrated to have, legal access to a public street, before the city may issue or approve construction of any structures on that lot/parcel (as iterated in the definition of "property" in section 10-1-2, Definitions, and subsection 10-1-7.B.1 of this title). Lots/parcels developed in this zone do not have to have direct lot/parcel frontage on a public street however, only legal access to the same.

(Ord. No. 4617, § 1(Exh. A), 10-4-2021; Ord. No. 4702, § 1(Exh. A), 12-5-2022; Ord. No. 4809, § 1(Exh. A), 6-3-2024)

None specified.

(Ord. No. 4617, § 1(Exh. A), 10-4-2021)

The following additional conditions shall apply:

A.

Setback from residential districts. In any BC district directly across the street from any residential or agricultural zoning district, or residential or "very low density residential" land use setting on the comprehensive plan, the commercial property's parking and loading facilities shall be distant at least 20 feet from the intervening street's edge upon the commercial property. The requirements of this subsection shall not, however, apply where such residential or agricultural zoning district, or any "very low density residential" or residential land use setting is separated from the BC district by a street planned to have a right-of-way of 80 feet or more.

(Ord. No. 4617, § 1(Exh. A), 10-4-2021; Ord. No. 4842, § 3, 2-3-2025)

All uses shall conform to the façade design, parking, parking lot landscaping, signage, open space and property landscaping requirements in chapters 22, 23, 33 and 34 of this title. Additionally:

A.

Landscaping. The following landscape standards (in addition to those listed in chapters 22 and 33 of this title) shall apply to new construction or expanded construction (as defined by section 10-1-6 of this title) within the BC zone:

1.

Location(s) and quantity of landscaping required.

a.

General location requirement. Landscaping shall be emplaced on a site wherever a structure, pedestrian pathway or parking lot is not located.

b.

Arrangement. Landscaping shall be designed by a landscape architect and shall serve to highlight the building entrances and pedestrian plazas without encroaching into public right-of-way or impede pedestrian and vehicular views or intrude into required vision triangles.

c.

Around building exteriors. Shrubs and flowerbeds shall be required around any new building's exterior. Landscaping is also required in all yard areas of the development to enhance the appearance of a building when viewed from a right-of-way that abuts the development site.

d.

Screening. Evergreens may be used to help screen mechanical equipment and service areas (refer to mechanical unit screening, subsection 10-34-10.A.2 of this title).

e.

Growth coverage. Plants used in landscaping around a building or on a development site shall be selected to complement the scale of the development area and any building(s) thereon.

2.

Landscaping components requirements.

a.

Composition of added plants selected (aside from what is required by chapter 33 of this title for a landscape strip along an arterial or collector street) shall be comprised of at least 50 percent flowering trees.

b.

Landscaping shall be designed so that 50 percent coverage of the site occurs after the first year and 90 percent coverage occurs after five years.

3.

Stormwater retention. Planter areas may be used to absorb on site stormwater in accordance with city stormwater regulations.

(Ord. No. 4617, § 1(Exh. A), 10-4-2021)