North Bend City Zoning Code

18.32 General

Commercial Zone C-G

See Chapter 18.70 NBCC, Signs.

18.32.010 Uses permitted outright.

Uses permitted outright in the C-G general commercial zone are business and professional offices, retail sales, service or repair, places of public or private assembly or amusement, their accessory uses, short-term rentals in existing residential structures, and residential uses. (Ord. 2054 § 6, 2021; Ord. 2040 § 6, 2020; Ord. 1962 § 2(2.2), 2007; Ord. 1952 § 1(4), 2006)

18.32.020 Conditional uses permitted.

In a C-G zone, the following uses and their accessory uses are permitted when authorized in accordance with Chapter 18.60 NBCC:

(1) Improvements to a preexisting, nonconforming use.

(2) Manufacturing, fabricating or processing of materials or substances for retail sale.

(3) Utility substations or pumping stations. (Ord. 1952 § 1(4), 2006)

18.32.030 Limitations on use.

In a C-G zone, uses shall be subject to the following limitations:

(1) All business, service, processing, storage, or display of merchandise on a lot abutting or facing a lot in a residential zone shall be conducted wholly within an enclosed building or shall be screened from the residential zone by a sight-obscuring fence or hedge, permanently maintained.

(2) Openings or access to structures on sides adjacent to or across the street from a residential zone shall be prohibited if they result in glare or excessive noise or otherwise adversely affect residential properties.

(3) Motor vehicle, boat, or trailer rental or sales lots shall be drained and surfaced with crushed rock or pavement except in any parts of the lot permanently maintained as landscaped area.

(4) No construction, reconstruction, expansion, addition or alteration shall be commenced in a unified shopping area without approval having first been obtained from the planning commission of the city of North Bend of the location and design of any use, structure, access road, driveway or fire lane; the location, design and adequacy of off-street parking facilities; the height of buildings; and the location, type and sufficiency of screening of adjacent residential areas.

In granting any approval under this subsection, the planning commission may impose conditions and restrictions for the purpose of ensuring orderly commercial development, with adequate access, parking and traffic control. For the purposes of this subsection, “unified shopping area” shall mean any shopping area designed for three or more commercial uses on not less than one acre of land which share common parking areas or points of access.

(5) All repair, manufacturing, fabricating or processing shall take place within a building, and shall be conducted in such a manner that it will not create noise, odors or emissions that are offensive or disturbing to persons working, shopping or living in the vicinity.

(6) An accessory use, including warehousing incidental to the principal use, must be located on the same premises as the principal use.

(7) Residential use development in the C-G zone is limited to multifamily dwellings as defined in NBCC 18.04.030.

(8) In the case of a building authorized for residential use that faces a street that abuts a nonresidential zone, the ground floor must be designed and constructed as follows:

(a) The distance from the finished floor to the bottom of the ceiling structure above must be at least 12 feet. The bottom of the structure above includes supporting structural elements that repeat at 48 or fewer inches on center.

(b) The area meeting this standard must be at least 25 feet deep, measured from the street-facing façade(s).

(c) On every side of the ground floor wall area of a building that faces a street that abuts a nonresidential zone, one of the following standards must be met. For purposes of this section, ground floor wall area includes all exterior wall areas from two to 10 feet above the finished grade. See Figure 1.

(i) Building canopies, awnings, pergolas, architectural sun shade structures, landscape windbreaks, or other similar elements shall cover primary entrances or screen outdoor seating areas. The top of such elements may be at heights greater than 10 feet above the finished grade. Overhead structures shall project no less than four feet over a sidewalk or other pedestrian space except that an awning that is a sign shall comply with the standards for signs in NBCC 18.70.080(3)(a). Where there are no primary entrances or outdoor seating areas on a side of the building that faces a nonresidential street, windows shall cover at least 40 percent of the ground floor wall area on that side of the building.

(ii) Windows must cover at least 40 percent of the ground floor wall area of all applicable street-facing façades.

(d) This subsection (8) does not apply to buildings authorized for residential use that have ground floor wall area not visible from a street abutting a nonresidential zone.

(9) Development of a lot is not limited to a single building or use. (Ord. 2068 § 1 (Att. A), 2023; Ord. 2054 § 9, 2021; Ord. 1952 § 1(4), 2006)

18.32.040 Yards.

In a C-G zone, minimum yard requirements are as follows:

(1) On the side of a lot abutting a residential zone, a yard shall be at least 15 feet plus one foot for each two feet by which the height of the building exceeds 28 feet.

(2) The rear yard shall meet the same requirements as the side yard. (Ord. 1952 § 1(4), 2006)

18.32.050 Signs.

See Chapter 18.70 NBCC, Signs. (Ord. 1952 § 1(4), 2006)

18.32.060 Lot coverage.

In a C-G zone, enclosed buildings shall not occupy more than 80 percent of the lot area. The maximum impervious surface area coverage shall not exceed 90 percent of the lot area. (Ord. 2025 § 11, 2018; Ord. 1952 § 1(4), 2006)