This district is designed to provide the opportunity for various types of retail stores, offices, service establishments, and wholesale businesses to concentrate for the convenience of the public; to be established in such relationships to each other as to be mutually beneficial; and to be located and grouped on sites that are in logical proximity to the respective geographical areas and categories of patrons which they serve.

(Ord. 211 (part), 1980: prior code § 11-1-1201)

Uses permitted in the C-3 district are:

1.

Uses permitted in the C-2 district, Section 17.30.020;

2.

Accessory structures located on the same lot as the permitted use;

3.

Appliance sales;

4.

Art and antique stores;

5.

Bakeries (retail);

6.

Banks;

7.

Barber and beauty shops;

8.

Clothing stores;

9.

Delicatessens;

10.

Department stores;

11.

Dressmaking and tailor shops;

12.

Dry goods;

13.

Employment agencies;

14.

Florists;

15.

Furniture stores;

16.

Garden supply stores;

17.

Grocery stores;

18.

Gunsmiths;

19.

Hardware;

20.

Hobby shops;

21.

Hotels;

22.

Ice cream stores;

23.

Jewelry stores;

24.

Libraries;

25.

Liquor stores;

27.

Meat markets;

28.

Medical buildings;

29.

Motels;

30.

Museums;

31.

Music, dance and art studios;

32.

Music stores;

33.

Novelty shops;

34.

Office supplies and machines;

35.

Retail paint sales;

36.

Pet shops;

37.

Photographic supplies;

38.

Post offices;

39.

Printing shops;

40.

Restaurants (excluding drive-ins);

41.

Shoe repair shops;

42.

Signs;

43.

Souvenir shops;

44.

Sporting goods;

45.

Supermarkets;

46.

Telegraph offices;

47.

Tobacco and cigar shops;

48.

Soda fountains;

49.

Toy stores;

50.

Television and radio sales;

51.

Veterinary hospitals;

52.

Christmas tree sales lots;

53.

Newspaper offices;

54.

Electrical appliance repair and retail sales;

55.

Plumbing parts, retail sales and repair;

56.

Radio and television retail sales and repair;

57.

Fireworks stands.

(Ord. 213 §§ 3(part), 4, 1981; Ord. 211 (part), 1980: prior code § 11-1-1202)

Uses permitted subject to conditional use permit in the C-3 district are:

1.

Auditoriums;

2.

Automatic self-serve car wash;

3.

Automobile parts sales;

4.

Automobile repair and towing;

5.

Bakeries (wholesale);

6.

a.

Bars, beer halls, amusement rooms, pool rooms, adult bookstores, and adult theaters, providing that such proposed use shall not be established within one thousand feet of any such business enumerated in this subsection.

b.

The distance between any two such businesses shall be measured in a straight line, without regard to intervening structures, from the closest point on the exterior parcel line of each business.

c.

The distance limitation of this section shall not apply to any included establishments that are in existence at the time of the adoption of the ordinance codified in this section. Such nonconforming uses may continue as long as the building and/or the premises are not increased, expanded or enlarged in any manner;

7.

Bowling alleys;

8.

Building with heights greater than two stories;

9.

Bus stations;

10.

Car sales (new and used);

11.

Churches;

12.

Clinics and laboratories;

13.

Communication substations, gas regulator stations, utility pumping stations, radio and television stations;

14.

Drive-in restaurants;

15.

Dry cleaners;

16.

Hospitals;

17.

Janitorial services;

18.

Laundry shops;

19.

Linen supply services;

20.

Mortuaries;

21.

Nurseries (within or behind the main buildings);

22.

Nursing and convalescent hospitals or homes;

23.

Private clubs, lodges;

24.

Public grounds and buildings;

25.

Parking lots, in conjunction with permitted uses;

26.

Radio and television repair;

27.

Recycling collection facility;

28.

Theaters;

29.

Trade and professional schools;

30.

Used furniture stores.

(Ord. No. 361, § 6, 6-13-2012; Ord. 213 §§ 3(part), 4, 1981; Ord. 211 (part), 1980: § 11-1-1203; Ord. No. 373, § 8, 10-15-2015)

Uses expressly prohibited in the C-3 district are:

A.

Residential uses;

B.

Advertising structures;

C.

Any combination of residential and commercial uses;

D.

Industrial uses;

E.

Trailer parks.

(Ord. 211 (part), 1980: prior code § 11-1-1204)

Property development standards in the C-3 district are:

A.

Lot area, no requirement;

B.

Lot dimensions, no requirement;

C.

Population density, no requirement;

D.

Building height, maximum three stories, not to exceed forty feet.

(Ord. 211 (part), 1980: prior code § 11-1-1205)

A.

All proposed yards shall be landscaped in accordance with conditions sited in the site plan review.

B.

Open parking areas shall be provided with appropriate perimeter and internal landscaping in accordance with conditions sited in site plan review.

C.

Front, none;

D.

Side, none;

E.

Rear, none.

(Ord. 211 (part), 1980: prior code § 11-1-1205.5)

There are no requirements for space between buildings in the C-3 district.

(Ord. 211 (part), 1980: prior code § 11-1-1205.6)

There are no lot coverage requirements in the C-3 district.

(Ord. 211 (part), 1980: prior code § 11-1-1205.7)

A.

Any fence, hedge or wall shall be reduced to three feet when within the front yard or street side yard.

B.

Fences, walls and railings shall be ornamental masonry or concrete, textured or stamped metal, or ornamental iron work or similar durable materials.

(Ord. 211 (part), 1980: prior code § 11-1-1205.8)

A.

The general requirement for off-street parking spaces or areas shall be one square foot of off-street parking for each three square feet of floor area.

B.

The space shall be provided on a site not more than five hundred feet from the external boundaries of the lot upon which the building it serves is located. This required parking area shall be provided in any of the following ways:

1.

On the lot with the building served;

2.

On a contiguous lot or a lot within five hundred feet of the building or use being served;

3.

By membership in an assessment district established for the purpose of providing off-street parking for the uses located in the district.

C.

The improvement and maintenance standards of Sections 17.60.100 through 17.60.160 shall apply.

(Ord. 211 (part), 1980: prior code § 11-1-1205.9)

There shall be adequate vehicular access from a dedicated and improved street or alley.

(Ord. 211 (part), 1980: prior code § 11-1-1205.10)

The provisions of the C-1 district, Section 17.28.180(A), (B), (D) and (F) shall apply.

(Ord. 211 (part), 1980: prior code § 11-1-1205.11)

For nonresidential uses the requirements for size, location, treatment and maintenance of loading spaces, Section 17.60.190 shall apply.

(Ord. 211 (part), 1980: prior code § 11-1-1205.12)

All uses shall be subject to the general provisions and exceptions prescribed in Chapters 17.52 through 17.64.

(Ord. 211 (part), 1980: prior code § 11-1-1206)

Before any building or structure is erected on any lot in the C-3 district, a site plan pursuant to Chapter 17.56 of this code shall be submitted to and approved by the City Manager, or his designee.

(Ord. No. 359, § 2(Exh. A), 2-22-2012; Ord. 211 (part), 1980: prior code § 11-1-1207)

Any proposed structure in this district shall be architecturally compatible to existing or future buildings and reviewed and approved for conformance by the city administrator upon submittal of a conditional use permit or site plan review application.

(Ord. 211 (part), 1980: prior code § 11-1-1208)