The community commercial (C-2) zone is intended to provide suitable areas for the location of the various types of commercial activity needed to serve the people and commerce of the city.

(ZO § 21-1)

Permitted uses in the C-2 zone include:

1. Accessory building and use customarily incidental to a permitted use;
2. Air conditioning, sales and service;
3. Altering, pressing and repairing of wearing apparel;
4. Antique, import or souvenir shop;
5. Apartment or multiple-family dwelling;
6. Archery shop and range, provided conducted within completely enclosed building;
7. Art and artists' supply store;
8. Athletic and sporting goods store, including sale or repair of motor vehicles, motor boats or motors;
9. Athletic club;
10. Automobile parts sales;
11. Automobile repair including paint, body and fender, brake, muffler, upholstery or transmission work, provided conducted within completely enclosed building;
12. Automobile, new or used, sales and service;
13. Awning sales and service;
14. Baby formula service;
15. Bakery manufacture;
16. Bank or financial institution;
17. Barber shop;
18. Bath and massage establishment;
19. Beauty culture school, beauty shop;
20. Beauty parlor for cats and dogs;
21. Bicycle sales and service;
22. Billiard parlor;
23. Blueprinting or photostating;
24. Boarding or lodging house;
25. Boat sales and service;
26. Bookbinding;
27. Book store, retail;
28. Bottling and distribution plant;
29. Bowling alley;
30. Building materials sales or yard;
31. Bus terminal;
32. Cafe or cafeteria;
33. Camera store;
34. Candy manufacture, candy store, confectionery;
35. Carbonated water sales;
36. Carpenter and cabinet shop;
37. Carpet, rug and linoleum service and sales;
38. Car wash;
39. Cash register sales and service;
40. Catering establishment;
41. China, crystal and silver shop;
42. Christmas tree sales;
43. Cleaning and dyeing establishment;
44. Clinics, medical or dental;
45. Clothing and accessory store;
46. Coal and fuel sales office;
47. Communication equipment building;
48. Contractor shop, provided work conducted within a completely enclosed building;
49. Costume rental;
50. Dairy products store;
51. Data processing service and supplies;
52. Delicatessen;
53. Department store;
54. Detective agency;
55. Diaper service, including cleaning;
56. Drapery and curtain store;
57. Drive-it-yourself agency or business;
58. Drug store;
59. Dry cleaning establishment, dry cleaning pickup station;
60. Egg and poultry store, provided no live bird slaughtering permitted;
61. Electrical and heating appliances and fixtures, sales and service;
62. Electronic equipment sales and service;
63. Employment agency;
64. Fabric and textile store;
65. Farm implement sales;
66. Film exchange establishment;
67. Five and ten cent store;
68. Florist shop;
69. Frozen food lockers, incidental to a grocery store or food business;
70. Fruit store or stand;
71. Furniture sales and repair;
72. Fur apparel sales, storage or repair;
73. Garden supplies and plant material sales;
74. Gift store;
75. Glass sales and service;
76. Government buildings or uses, nonindustrial;
77. Greenhouse and nursery; soil and lawn service;
78. Grocery store;
79. Gunsmith;
80. Gymnasium;
81. Hardware store;
82. Health club, health food store;
83. Hobby and crafts store;
84. Hospital supplies;
85. Hotel;
86. Household cleaning and repair.
87. House equipment display;
88. Household appliance sales and service;
89. Household pets, dwelling units only;
90. Ice cream manufacture;
91. Ice cream parlor;
92. Ice manufacture and storage, ice store or vending station;
93. Insulation sales;
94. Insurance agency;
95. Interior decorating and designing establishment;
96. Janitor service and supply;
97. Jewelry store, sales and service;
98. Laboratory, dental or medical;
99. Laundry or dry cleaners, laundry or dry cleaning collection station, launderette or laundromat;
100. Lawn mower sales and service;
101. Leather goods sales and service;
102. Legal office;
103. Library;
104. Linen store, linen supply service;
105. Locksmith;
106. Lodge or social hall;
107. Luggage store;
108. Machine shop operations incidental to any permitted use;
109. Meat, fish and seafood store;
110. Medical office;
111. Millinery;
112. Mobilehome sales lot and service;
113. Monument works and sales;
114. Mortuary;
115. Motel;
116. Motorboat sales and service;
117. Motorcycle and motor scooters sales and service;
118. Music store;
119. Needlework, embroidery or knitting store;
120. Newsstand;
121. Night club or social club;
122. Notions store;
123. Novelty store;
124. Nursery school;
125. Office in which goods or merchandise are not commercially created, exchanged or sold;
126. Office supply;
127. Office machines sales and service;
128. Optometrist, optician or oculist;
129. Ornamental iron sales or repair;
130. Paint or wallpaper store;
131. Paperhanger shop;
132. Park and playground;
133. Pawnshop;
134. Pest control and extermination service;
135. Pet and pet supply store;
136. Pharmacy;
137. Photographic supplies, photo studio;
138. Physician or surgeon;
139. Plumbing shop;
140. Pool hall;
141. Popcorn or nut shop;
142. Post office;
143. Printing, lithographing, publishing or reproduction sales and service;
144. Professional office;
145. Radio and television sales and service;
146. Radio, television or FM broadcasting station;
147. Real estate agency;
148. Reception center or wedding chapel;
149. Recreation center;
150. Recreation vehicle storage;
151. Rental agency for home and garden equipment;
152. Restaurant or restaurant drive-in;
153. Roller skating rink;
154. Roofing sales or shop;
155. Secondhand store;
156. Seed and feed store;
157. Service station, automobile;
158. Sewing machine sales and service;
159. Shoe repair or shoe shine shop, shoe store;
160. Shooting galley;
161. Sign manufacture or sign painting;
162. Supermarket;
163. Tailor shop;
164. Tavern;
165. Taxidermist;
166. Telegraph office;
167. Temporary building for uses incidental to construction work. Such building shall be removed upon the completion of the construction work;
168. Theater, indoor;
169. Tobacco shop;
170. Toy store, retail;
171. Trade or industrial school;
172. Trailer sales and service;
173. Travel agency;
174. Upholstery shop;
175. Variety store;
176. Vegetable store or stand;
177. Ventilating equipment sales and service;
178. Warehouse storage, wholesale business;
179. Weather stripping shop;
180. Window washing establishment.

(ZO § 21-2)

The following uses shall be permitted only when authorized by a conditional use permit as provided in Chapter 17.88:

1. Amusement enterprises;
2. Animal hospital;
3. Auction establishment;
4. Beer parlor, sale of draft beer;
5. Church, temporary revival;
6. Circus, carnival or other transient amusement;
7. Dance hall;
8. Express and transfer service;
9. Knitting mill;
10. Liquor store;
11. Lumber yard;
12. Manufacture of goods retailed on premises;
13. Miniature golf;
14. Oil burner shop;
15. Parking lot or garage for passenger automobiles;
16. Penny arcade;
17. Public utilities substation;
18. Sheet metal shop and retinning, provided all operation conducted within completely enclosed building;
19. Theater, outdoor;
20. Tire recapping or retreading, sales and service;
21. Tool design (precision), repair and manufacture;
22. Truck terminal;
23. Used car lot;
24. Welding shop;
25. Storage units;
26. Towing business;
27. Tattoo shop.

(Ord. 001001 § 2, 2001; ZO § 21-3) (Ord. No. 071001, § 2, 10-10-2007; Ord. No. 080901, § 2, 9-24-2008; Ord. No. 081101, § 2, 12-10-2008)

Site development standards in the C-2 zone include:

1. Minimum lot area: none;
2. The following minimum lot width requirement to C-2 zone: As required for site plan approval.
3. Minimum yard setbacks:
   1. Front: none,
   2. Side: none, except ten (10) feet adjacent to residential zone,
   3. Rear: none, except ten (10) feet where building rears on a residential zone;
4. Building height:
   1. Minimum: one story,
   2. Maximum: none;
5. Minimum yard setbacks for dwelling units: same as provided in Chapter 17.36
6. Minimum lot area requirements for dwelling units: same as provided in Chapter 17.36.
7. Corner Lots:
   1. "Clear Vision Triangle" means the area at the corner of a street that must be regulated in order to ensure that vehicles have an unobstructed clear viewing area. To define the clear vision triangle: 1) determine the intersecting point of two (2). More or less perpendicular, right of way lines: 2) from the intersecting point measure fifty feet (50') (for minor streets) or seventy-five feet (75') (for major streets) away from the intersecting point, along the right of way lines to the triangle base points; and 3) draw a line between the two (2) base points to form the clear vision triangle. Refer to drawing in the Construction Standard Plan set forth by Salina City.

(ZO § 21-4) (Ord. No. 080902, § 2, 9-24-2008)

1. Permitted and conditional uses shall be permitted only when the following conditions are complied with:
   1. All manufacturing shall be done within a completely enclosed building.
   2. All uses shall be free from objection because of odor, dust, smoke or noise.
2. Car wash shall be permitted subject to the following restrictions:
   1. Such car wash shall be for automobiles and trucks of a maximum of one-ton capacity.
   2. There shall not be more than four washing bays for a manual spray car wash.
   3. Off-street vehicle storage of not less than four spaces in the approach lane for each wash bay shall be provided.

(ZO § 21-5)

The height, size and location of the following permitted signs shall be in accordance with regulations set forth in Chapter 17.76:

1. Animated;
2. Business;
3. Construction project;
4. Directional;
5. Flat;
6. Freestanding;
7. Identification and information;
8. Marquee;
9. Nameplate;
10. Off-premises;
11. Projecting;
12. Roof;
13. Temporary;
14. Wall.

(ZO § 21-6)