Roosevelt City Zoning Code

R17.20 Commercial

C Zone

R17.20.010 Purpose

Commercial District (C). To provide areas in appropriate locations within the City where a combination of business, commercial, entertainment, and related activities may be established, maintained and protected. Regulations of this district are designed to provide a suitable environment for commercial and service uses, as well as encourage the development of shopping centers.

HISTORY:

(Ord. 2011-366 § 1 (part), Ords. 79-101 §§ 16, 17 and 18, 82-141 § 3, 83-166, 84-177, 84-180, 86-204 § 2(A), 94-259, 98-283, 2002-304, 2002-306, 2008-344 and 2009-360)

Ord. 2024-441, 12/3/2024

R17.20.020 Use Or Construction

No building, structure or land shall be used and no building or structure shall be hereafter erected, structurally altered, enlarged or maintained in the commercial district except as provided in this Title.

HISTORY:

(Ord. 2011-366 § 1 (part), Ords. 79-101 §§ 16, 17 and 18, 82-141 § 3, 83-166, 84-177, 84-180, 86-204 § 2(A), 94-259, 98-283, 2002-304, 2002-306, 2008-344 and 2009-360)

Ord. 2024-441, 12/3/2024

R17.20.030 Permitted And Conditional Uses

Uses designated in the following land use tables depict the permitted (P), prohibited (X), or conditional (C) uses allowed within the zone districts.

If a use is permitted (P) no approval is needed from the City to carry out the listed use, excluding potential building inspections, health department, or similar approvals.
Uses not specifically shown in the following land use tables as permitted (P) or conditional (C) may be determined by the Land Use Authority to be similar to uses outlined in the following tables and may be approved in the same manner/zones as the similar use. If the Land Use Authority determines no such similar use exists, the uses shall be determined a prohibited (X) use.
To encourage an appropriate level of review, conditional (C) uses (R17.02.040/17.08) contain the following abbreviations which indicate the designated land use authority for the proposed use: Zoning Administrator (ZA), Planning Commission (PC).

Commercial

Land Use Description

Designation

A. Accessory Uses:

Accessory buildings and uses customarily incidental to the permitted or conditional use.

Parking lot incidental to a use conducted on the premises.

Parking lot not incidental to a use conducted on the premises.

B. Agriculture:

Agricultural industries.

Tilling soil, raising crops, horticulture and gardening.

C. Automobile Sales And Service:

Automobile or recreational vehicle sales, service, lease, rental and repair, new or used, conducted entirely within an enclosed building.

Automobile and recreation vehicle sales, lease, rental or repair, new or used, conducted outdoors.

Auto parts sales, indoor.

Automatic car wash.

Automobile service station.

Body and fender shop; tire recapping; motor vehicle, bicycle and recreation vehicle assembling, painting, upholstering and rebuilding.

D. Dwellings And Other Living Quarters:

Hotel and motel.

Recreational vehicle park.

Short-term rental. (Existing dwellings only.)

C - PC

E. Processing And Manufacturing:

Bag cleaning.

Baking, ice cream making and/or candy making.

Blacksmith shop.

Boiler works.

Bottling works.

Bookbinding.

C - PC

Cement, mortar, plaster or paving materials central mixing plant, related to construction industry.

Construction of buildings to be sold and moved off the premises.

Dairy.

Egg candling, sales or processing.

C - PC

Fertilizer and soil conditioning manufacture, processing and/or sales, providing only non animal products and byproducts are used.

Forage plant.

Foundry, casting lightweight, nonferrous metal.

Hatchery.

Incinerator, non accessory.

Knitting mill.

Laboratories.

Machine shop.

Mobile lunch agency.

Monument works.

Motion picture studio.

Planing mill.

Printing; convenience for drop-in customers.

Publishing and contract printing.

Rock crusher.

Sandblasting.

Sawmill.

Tire retreading, or vulcanizing.

Upholstering; including mattress manufacture, rebuilding or renovating.

Weaving.

Manufacture, curing, compounding, processing, packaging and treatment of the following:

Baked goods.

Batteries.

Candy.

Cereal.

Cosmetics.

Dairy products.

Food products; excluding fish, sauerkraut, pickles, vinegar, yeast, and rendering of fat.

Lubricating grease.

Meat products.

Oil.

Pharmaceuticals.

Toiletries.

Manufacture, curing, compounding, processing, packaging, and treatment of fish, sauerkraut, pickles, vinegar yeast, and the rendering of fat.

Manufacturing, compounding, assembling and treatment of articles or merchandise from the following previously prepared materials:

Bone.

Cellophane, canvas, cloth, and cork.

Feathers.

Hair.

Horn.

Leather.

Paper.

Paint.

Plastics.

Precious or semi-precious stones or metals.

Rubber.

Shell.

Straw.

Textiles.

Tobacco.

Wood.

Wool.

Manufacture of the following:

Boats.

Business machines.

Cameras, photo equipment.

Electric or neon signs, billboards, and/or commercial advertising structures.

Light sheet metal products including heating and ventilation ducts and equipment, cornices and eaves, venetian blinds, window shades, awnings.

Musical instruments.

Novelties.

Rubber and metal stamps.

Toys.

Manufacture, fabrication, assembly, canning, compounding, packaging, processing, treatment and storage of the following:

Airplane and parts.

Automobiles and parts.

Alcohol.

Brass.

Candles.

Cans.

Cameras, photo equipment, including film.

Cast stone products.

Celluloid.

Cement and cinder products.

Copper.

Ceramics.

Dyestuffs.

Emery cloth.

Excelsior.

Glass.

Glucose.

Gypsum.

Hair.

Hardware.

Ink.

Iron.

Lampblack.

Linoleum.

Lime.

Machinery.

Malt.

Matches.

Novelties.

Oilcloth.

Oiled rubber goods.

Oxygen.

Paper.

Paint.

Pulp.

Pickles.

Pottery.

Incidental plaster.

Plaster of paris.

Plastics.

Salt.

Sheet metal.

Shellac.

Shoddy.

Shoe polish.

Soap, detergents.

Soda.

Starch.

Steel.

Terracotta, tile.

Toys.

Turpentine.

Varnish.

Vinegar.

Yeast.

Manufacture of brick, clay, ceramic, cinder, concrete, synthetic, cast stone, plastics, and pumice stone products, including, in addition, manufacture or fabrication of building blocks, tile or pipe from raw materials for use in building construction or for sewer or drainage purposes, and excluding rock or gravel crushing of raw materials except that which is incidental to the manufacture or fabrication of the above-described products and; provided, that such crushing facilities be located not closer than two hundred (200) feet to any property line.

Uses which follow, provided they are located at least three hundred (300) feet from any district boundary:

Animal byproducts, plants, offal or dead animal reduction or dumping.

Blast furnace.

Fat rendering, fertilizer and soil conditioner, foundry.

Garbage or refuse maintenance or disposal site, gravel pits and quarries.

Manufacturing, processing, refining, treatment, distilling, storage, or compounding of the following: acid, ammonia, asphalt, acetylene gas, bleaching powder and chlorine, bones, chemicals of an objectionable or dangerous nature, coal, creosote, disinfectant, explosives, fireworks, furs, gas, gelatin or size, glue, grease or lard, hides, insecticides, metals crushing, ore, petroleum, plastic potash, pyroxylin, roofing or waterproofing material, rubber or gutta-percha, tallow, tar and wood.

F. Public And Quasi-Public:

Cemetery.

C - PC

Parks, golf courses, swimming pools and other recreation areas.

Private schools.

Public buildings.

Radio/television transmitting towers.

G. Recreation:

Archery shop/range, if in enclosed building.

Athletic club, health club, athletic goods store.

Billiards or pool hall, commercial swimming pool, dancehall, commercial skating rink, gymnasium.

Bowling alley.

Boxing arena.

Campground.

Drag strip racing.

Go-cart racing.

Golf course, miniature golf course, commercial.

Nightclub/social club.

Private nonprofit locker club.

Outdoor recreation vehicles rental-lease, sales and service.

C - PC

Recreational center, commercial.

Theater, indoor and outdoor.

Theater, outdoor, providing:

A solid fence or masonry wall with the minimum height of six feet (6') shall be constructed on all sides.
Driveways and parking areas shall be provided with properly maintained dustless surfaces.
Minimum area for single-screen theater shall be five (5) acres.
Minimum area for two-screen theater shall be eight (8) acres.

H. Sales And Related Services:

Air conditioning, ventilating equipment, awning sales/repair.

Art needlework shop, art shop and/or art supply, hobby and/or crafts shop.

Beer outlet, Class A and Class B, liquor and beer sales; places for the drinking of liquor or beer.

C - PC

Bicycle shop.

Bookstore, music store.

Building material sales enclosed.

Building material sales yard with sale of rock, sand, gravel and the like as incidental part of the main business, but excluding concrete mixing, except as such concrete mixing is necessary in preparation and manufacture of any products specified in this section.

Cafe, cafeteria, catering establishment.

Candy, confectionery, nut shop.

Carbonated water sales.

China and/or silver shops.

Clothing store, department store.

Coal/fuel sales office to include sales yard.

Coal/fuel sales office; not to include sales yard.

C - PC

Drapery/curtain store.

Drive-ins, refreshment stand, eating or drinking place.

Drugstore.

Dry goods store.

Electrical, heating appliances and fixtures sales/repairs/service, floor covering sales.

Five-cent store, notions.

Florist shop.

Fountain equipment supply.

Fountain equipment supply, lawn service.

Fruit and/or vegetable store, fruit juice store.

Fruit and/or vegetable temporary stand.

Fur sales, storage, repair.

Gift shop, novelty shop.

Greenhouse, nursery; plat materials; soil lawn services.

Grocery, meal sales.

Gunsmith.

C - PC

Hardware store.

Hardware store, including sale of lumber.

Hardware store, not including sale of powered vehicles using motors greater than eight horsepower and not including sale of lumber.

Health food store.

Hospital supplies.

Ice cream shops.

Ice manufacture, storage, and retail/wholesale sales.

Ice sales, rental, ice vendor units and/or reach-in ice merchandise units, electric ice-maker, ice storage not more than five tons capacity.

Insulation sales.

C - PC

Jewelry store, leather goods, luggage sales.

Laundry, automatic self-help, laundry agency.

Linen shop.

Lumber yard.

C - PC

Milk distributing station, sale of dairy products, excluding processing/bottling.

Military store.

Monument sales, retail.

C - PC

Motorboat sales.

News stand, magazine shop.

Oil burner shop.

Ornamental iron, sales only.

Painter/paint store.

Plumbing shop.

Radio and television sales and repair.

Radio and television station.

C - PC

Restaurant.

Retail sales bakery, delicatessen.

Roofing sales.

Package agency.

C - PC

Popcorn and/or nut shop.

Secondhand shop, antiques, conducted within a building or enclosure.

Seed/feed store.

C - PC

Sewing machine shop.

Shoe shop, shoe shine, shoe repair.

Sign painting shop.

C - PC

State store.

Stationary and greeting card sales.

Taxidermist.

C - PC

Tire shop, sale and mounting only.

Tobacco shop.

Towel and linen supply service.

C - PC

Upholstery shop.

C - PC

Variety store.

Wallpaper store.

Weather-stripping shop.

C - PC

Wholesale business.

C - PC

I. Service Activities:

Addressograph shop.

Animal hospital.

Baby services, sitter agency.

Bank.

Barber shop, beauty shop.

Bath and massage.

Beauty shop for pets.

Blueprinting, photostating, duplicating.

Carpet and/or rug cleaning.

Clothes cleaning, dyeing, pressing.

Costume rental.

Dance, drama and music school.

Dressmaking.

Electric appliances and/or electronic instruments service.

Employment agency or employment office.

Fix-it shop, repair shop, household items.

Flooring, floor repair shop.

Frozen food lockers.

C - PC

Frozen food locker incidental to a main grocery store or food business.

Household cleaning/repair, house equipment displays.

Interior decorating store.

Janitorial service.

Kennel; more than three dogs may be kept as an accessory use to a use allowed in the district.

C - PC

Key and lock service.

Lithographing, engraving, photoengraving.

Medical/dental clinic, laboratories.

Mortuary.

C - PC

Nurses’ agency.

Office, business, or professional.

Office supply; office machines sales, repair.

Optometrist and/or oculist.

Pest extermination business.

C - PC

Photographer or photography shop, sales and service.

Printing, including engraving, photo engraving, printing and small paper reproduction service.

Reception center and/or wedding chapel.

Tailor shop.

Travel bureau.

Veterinary; operations are completely enclosed within an air-conditioned and soundproof building.

J. Storage And Warehousing:

Coal, fuel and wood yards.

Contractors’ equipment storage yard or plat, or rental of equipment used by contractors.

Garage, public.

Junk yard.

Warehouse.

K. Temporary Buildings:

Temporary buildings for uses incidental to construction work including living quarters for a guard or night watchman, which buildings must be removed upon completion or abandonment of the construction work.

C - ZA

L. Transportation:

Bus terminal, taxi stand, express office.

Draying, freighting or trucking yard or terminal.

Drive-it-yourself agency.

Express office.

Taxi stand.

Terminal, parking and maintenance facilities.

Transfer company, provided trucks no larger than two tons capacity are used.

Truck stop and service facilities.

HISTORY:

(Ord. 2011-366 § 1 (part), Ords. 79-101 §§ 16, 17 and 18, 82-141 § 3, 83-166, 84-177, 84-180, 86-204 § 2(A), 94-259, 98-283, 2002-304, 2002-306, 2008-344 and 2009-360)

Ord. 2024-441, 12/3/2024

The following landscaping provisions shall apply in the Commercial (C) zone:

For commercial and mixed commercial residential developments, a minimum ten percent (10%) of the total site shall be landscaped.
The front yard areas and side yard areas adjacent to public street, except those portions devoted to driveways, shall be maintained with suitable landscaping of plants, shrubs, trees, grass and similar landscaping materials, including a minimum of fifteen (15) one-and-one-half-inch (1 ½”) caliper trees per acre, and with all shrubs having a minimum five (5) gallon size.
Landscaped areas shall generally not be less than five (5) feet wide. A reduction in landscaped area width may be granted by the Planning Commission if the applicant provides acceptable mitigation to vegetate the development area.
Parking lots shall be landscaped where possible, around the periphery, and include either a tree diamond installed every ten (10) parking spaces, or a six foot (6') wide island with a tree at the end of all parking rows, and shall be permanently maintained. Parking shall be prohibited upon any front, side, rear, or interior landscaped area.
All landscaped areas shall have sprinkling or irrigation systems.
Landscaping is to be installed (or bonded for if occupancy is in a non planting season) prior to issuance of a certificate of occupancy.
A minimum ten foot (10’) landscape buffer, including a combination of trees, shrubs, and ground cover shall be provided whenever a non-residential use is directly adjacent to any residential use or zoning district boundary.

HISTORY:

(Ord. 2011-366 § 1 (part), Ords. 79-101 §§ 16, 17 and 18, 82-141 § 3, 83-166, 84-177, 84-180, 86-204 § 2(A), 94-259, 98-283, 2002-304, 2002-306, 2008-344 and 2009-360)

Ord. 2024-441, 12/3/2024

R17.20.100 Signs

Clearance. For freestanding and projecting signs attached to a building, there shall be a minimum of ten and one-half feet (10.5') between the ground or sidewalk and any part of a projecting sign. Public necessity signs and monument signs (signs which are permanently anchored, freestanding and no more than five feet (5') in height) may be exempt from this requirement.
Lighting Requirements. No lighting shall be installed which will permit direct rays of such light to penetrate onto any adjoining property used for residential purposes in such a way as could constitute a nuisance.
Location of Signs.
All signs shall be installed behind the property line of the business so as not to obstruct the view of traffic.
No part of any sign shall be permitted to extend across any property line.
Height of Sign. The maximum sign height shall not exceed thirty-five feet (35').
Sign Area. The maximum allowed sign area for one side of a sign is as follows:
For freestanding signs: two square feet (2 sq. ft.) of sign area (not including support structure) per lineal foot of street frontage up to maximum of three hundred square feet (300 sq. ft.).
For flat signs that are either painted or attached to the building and do not project more than eighteen inches (18") from the building wall: a maximum of twenty-five percent (25%) of a wall or fifty percent (50%) of a window area may be used for a sign. Attached or painted signs using more than twenty-five percent (25%) of a wall or fifty percent (50%) of a window area shall be considered a conditional use, and as such, shall require the approval of the planning and zoning commission prior to installation of the sign.
Both freestanding and attached flat signs may be utilized by a business; provided, that each sign type conforms to the above limitations. In determining the sign area, the blocked area of the sign, including the area between letters, shall be counted as part of the sign area.
Temporary Signs. Temporary advertising signs in commercial and industrial zones may be permitted by the building inspector for up to thirty (30) days’ use; provided, that such sign is not placed in a public right-of-way and will not create a safety hazard to the public.
Quality of Signs.
All signs shall be properly engineered and constructed of quality materials.
Signs shall be neatly painted so as to look professional and be conducive to the surrounding area.
Sign Removal. If a sign does not conform with the requirements of this chapter, or if the construction, design, manner of use, or method of anchoring or supporting any sign makes such sign unsafe, the Building Official shall proceed in any manner they deems necessary to cause the removal of the sign or the rebuilding of the sign to conform with the requirements of this Chapter and the International Building Code.
Permits Required. Regardless of cost, no sign shall be erected or placed within the City without first making application for and obtaining a building permit therefor, except temporary window and political posters, temporary signs pertaining to the sale of adjacent property, and nameplates or identification signs indicating the existence of an approved home occupation or professional office. In addition to the requirements of this Chapter, all billboard signs designed to be read or comprehended from U.S. Highway 40 or 121 shall comply with the regulations for such signs established by the State of Utah. Any building permit herein required by said regulations shall be in addition to the building permit herein required and construction or placement of a sign shall not be commenced until all approvals have been obtained.

HISTORY:

(Ord. 2011-366 § 1 (part), Ords. 79-101 §§ 16, 17 and 18, 82-141 § 3, 83-166, 84-177, 84-180, 86-204 § 2(A), 94-259, 98-283, 2002-304, 2002-306, 2008-344 and 2009-360)

Ord. 2024-441, 12/3/2024

R17.20.110 Special Provisions

Distance Between Buildings. No requirement except as may be dictated by the International Building Code as adopted by the City.
All uses shall be free from objectionable noise, hazards or nuisances.
Walls and Fences.
Any area outside of a building used for any business activity other than off-street parking and loading adjacent to any residential district shall be completely enclosed within a solid fence or wall of a height sufficient to completely screen such activity from the street or from adjoining parcels.
No wall or fence, or opaque hedge or screening material higher than thirty-six inches (36") shall be within a front yard.
A decorative sight-screening wall or fence at least six feet in height shall be erected along all property lines which lie adjacent to a residential zone. Fences over six feet (6') in height, up to a maximum of ten feet (10'), may be approved through a conditional use permit and shall require a separate building permit.
Office Buildings. Manufactured homes, modular buildings and any other similar premanufactured building may be used as an office facility, providing the following provisions are met:
Manufactured after 1976.
Manufactured so as to meet HUD, IBC or equivalent.
Taxed as real property.
Placed on a permanent foundation.

HISTORY:

(Ord. 2011-366 § 1 (part), Ords. 79-101 §§ 16, 17 and 18, 82-141 § 3, 83-166, 84-177, 84-180, 86-204 § 2(A), 94-259, 98-283, 2002-304, 2002-306, 2008-344 and 2009-360)

Ord. 2024-441, 12/3/2024