Scappoose City Zoning Code
17.68 EC
Expanded Commercial
17.68.010 Purpose.
The purpose of the EC zone is to provide areas: A. For combining light manufacturing, office, retail sales, and complementary related commercial uses;
B. For combining uses which have no off-site impacts in terms of noise, odor, glare, lights, vibration, smoke, dust or other types of off-site impacts;
C. For combining parking, landscaping and other design features which physically and visually link structures and uses within one development;
D. Which utilize a basic street and utility pattern which will permit flexibility in the size of development sites and provide internal circulation which connect to adjoining sites; and
E. Which provide for a circulation system that provides direct access to arterials or collectors that will not channel traffic through residential areas. (Ord. 868, 2018; Ord. 634 § 1 Exh. A, 1995)
17.68.030 Permitted and Conditional uses.
Use | |
|---|---|
Agricultural sales | Permitted outright1 |
Automotive and equipment: 1. Repairs provided that a five-foot landscaped perimeter setback surround all outdoor parking and storage areas and all repair work is performed indoors; 2. Sales/rental/storage of farm equipment, automobiles, recreational vehicles, boats or light equipment, provided that a five-foot landscaped perimeter setback surrounds all outdoor parking and all storage areas are buffered and screened in accordance with Chapter 17.100, Landscaping, Screening and Fencing. | Permitted outright1 |
Building materials sales and storage | Permitted outright1 |
Building maintenance services | Permitted outright1 |
Business equipment sales and services | Permitted outright1 |
Church | Permitted outright1 |
Commercial amusement facilities including bowling alleys, video arcades, and movie theaters other than adult motion picture theaters | Permitted outright1 |
Communication services | Permitted outright1 |
Construction sales and services | Permitted outright1 |
Day care facility | Permitted outright1 |
Mixed-use building | Permitted outright1 |
Eating and drinking establishments | Permitted outright1 |
Equipment rental and sales | Permitted outright1 |
Financial, insurance and real estate services | Permitted outright1 |
Food cart pod (Type I or II), subject to Chapter 17.126 | Permitted outright1 |
General retail sales | Permitted outright1 |
Home occupation (Type I) subject to Chapter 17.142, Home occupations | Permitted outright1 |
Laundry services | Permitted outright1 |
Medical and dental services | Permitted outright1 |
Mini-storage with or without caretaker dwelling | Permitted outright1 |
Multifamily buildings, when located outside of the Scappoose Creek Flood Plain | Permitted outright1 |
Live/Work townhouses or live/work multifamily building | Permitted outright1 |
Packaging and production of finished products from previously prepared materials | Permitted outright1 |
Parking facilities | Permitted outright1 |
Participation sports and recreation, indoor | Permitted outright1 |
Postal services | Permitted outright1 |
Professional and administrative offices | Permitted outright1 |
Public safety services | Permitted outright1 |
Public support facilities | Permitted outright1 |
Recreational vehicle parks subject to Chapter 17.94, Manufactured Home Regulations | Permitted outright1 |
Research services | Permitted outright1 |
Residential care facilities when located at least two hundred feet from Highway 30 and outside of the Scappoose Creek Flood Plain | Permitted outright1 |
Small animal sales and services including veterinary | Permitted outright1 |
Vehicle fuel sales, retail | Permitted outright1 |
Wholesale, storage and distribution | Permitted outright1 |
Hotel/motel | Permitted outright1 |
Any permitted use on a temporary basis subject to Scappoose Municipal Code 17.128, Temporary Commercial and Industrial Uses | Permitted outright1 |
Wireless communications facilities, not to include antenna support structures, subject to the provisions of Chapter 17.93 | Permitted outright1 |
Public and private schools including but not limited to charter schools and career schools as defined and regulated by the State of Oregon. | Permitted outright1 |
Adult bookstore, entertainment or motion picture theaters, provided no sales area or activity is ever visible from the building exterior, all building setbacks shall be a minimum of thirty-five feet from any property line and shall be screen and buffered in accordance with Section 17.100.090. In addition, location shall be at least one thousand five hundred feet, measured in a straight line, from any of the following: 1. Residential district 2. Public or private nursery, preschool, elementary, junior, middle or high school 3. Day care facility, nursery school, convalescent home, home for the aged, resident care facility or hospital 4. Public library 5. Community recreation 6. Church | Conditional use2 |
Automotive and equipment body repairs conducted wholly within an enclosed structure | Conditional use2 |
Fleet storage with no buildings or structures, provided that a five-foot screened and buffered perimeter setback surrounds all outdoor parking and storage areas | Conditional use2 |
Home occupations (Type II) subject to Chapter 17.142, Home Occupations | Conditional use2 |
Outside storage subject to buffering and screening in accordance with Chapter 17.100, Landscaping, Screening and Fencing | Conditional use2 |
Outside dining facilities | Conditional use2 |
Major impact utilities provided that a ten-foot perimeter setback containing both externally visible landscaping meeting buffering standards and solid screening surrounds the property | Conditional use2 |
Radio towers and transmitters | Conditional use2 |
Wireless communication facilities, subject to the provisions of Chapter 17.93. | Conditional use2 |
1In the expanded commercial zone, except as specifically stated, activities shall be conducted within an enclosed building or structure and are subject to Chapter 17.120, Site Development Review. Only these uses and their accessory uses are permitted outright.
2These uses and their accessory uses may be permitted when authorized by the planning commission in accordance with the requirements of Chapter 17.130, Conditional Use, other relevant sections of this title and any conditions imposed by the planning commission.
(Ord. 877, 2019; Ord. 868, 2018)
17.68.050 Dimensional requirements-Commercial and mixed-use buildings.
Dimensional Requirements | Requirement1 |
|---|---|
Minimum lot size | Ten thousand square feet |
Minimum lot width | One hundred feet |
Minimum setback | |
Front Yard | Shall be a minimum of ten feet and shall be landscaped per Section 17.100.090 |
Corner lots and through lots | The minimum setback for the side facing the street shall be twenty feet |
Side or rear yard | None required except thirty feet shall be required where abutting a residential zoning district and the planning commission may reduce the required yard setback by fifty percent pursuant to Chapter 17.100, Landscaping, Screening and Fencing. |
Maximum height | No commercial building shall exceed fifty feet in height. A mixed-use building shall not exceed sixty feet in height. Within fifty feet of a residential zone, no building shall exceed thirty-five feet in height. |
Maximum lot coverage | The maximum lot coverage shall be ninety percent including all buildings and impervious surfaces |
1Additional requirements shall include any applicable section of this title.
(Ord. 868, 2018; Ord. 634 § 1 Exh. A, 1995)
17.68.060 Dimensional requirements -- Multifamily buildings.
Dimensional Requirements | Requirement |
|---|---|
Minimum density | 15 dwelling units per net acre |
Minimum lot width | Fifty feet |
Minimum setback | |
Front Yard | Fifteen feet |
Front of garages or carports | Twenty feet from the property line where access occurs |
Side yard | Total a minimum of fifteen feet with one setback not less than ten feet, which shall be on the street side for corner lots |
Rear yard | Twenty feet |
Setbacks for accessory building behind a residence | |
Side | Five feet each |
Rear | Five feet |
Maximum height | Sixty feet |
Accessory Building | Twenty two feet |
Maximum lot coverage | Eighty percent, including all buildings and impervious surfaces |
Minimum landscape | Twenty percent |
(Ord. 868, 2018)
17.68.070 Dimensional requirements Live/Work townhouse or live/work multifamily building.
Dimensional Requirements | Requirement |
|---|---|
Minimum density | |
Townhouse | Two thousand five hundred square feet per unit |
Multifamily | 15 dwelling units per net acre |
Minimum lot width | |
Townhouse | Twenty-five feet per unit |
Multifamily buildings | Fifty feet |
Minimum setback | |
Front Yard | Fifteen feet |
Front of garages or carports | Twenty feet from the property line where access occurs |
Side yard | Total a minimum of fifteen feet with one setback not less than ten feet, which shall be on the street side for corner lots |
Rear yard | Twenty feet |
Setbacks for accessory building behind a residence | |
Side | Five feet each |
Rear | Five feet |
Minimum height | Two stories |
Maximum height | |
Townhouse | Thirty-five feet |
Multifamily | Sixty feet |
Accessory Building | Twenty two feet |
Maximum lot coverage | Eighty percent, including all buildings and impervious surfaces |
Minimum landscape | Twenty percent |
(Ord. 868, 2018)
17.68.080 Live/Work Requirements.
Each Live/Work unit shall meet the following requirements:
1. The ground floor commercial or office space will have visibility, signage, and access from the primary street.
2. A live/work unit with residential uses on the ground floor must be located outside of the Scappoose Creek Floodplain.
3. To preserve the pedestrian orientation of the commercial or office space, alley or rear access is required to provide services and residential parking.
4. Each Live/Work Unit shall have a minimum work space of 200 square feet and a minimum living area of 600 square feet.
5. Each Live/Work Unit shall have a minimum of one (1) off-street parking space for each dwelling unit and one (1) off-street parking space for the first 500 square feet of non-residential floor area. Additional off-street parking spaces for non-residential floor area over and above the first 500 square feet shall be provided pursuant to Chapter 17.106 (Off-Street Parking and Loading Requirements). (Ord. 868, 2018)
17.68.090 Special Buffer Requirements for multifamily buildings and live/work multifamily buildings.
Buffer requirements for multifamily uses in the expanded commercial district are the same as the A-1 zone, See Section 17.56.070. (Ord. 868, 2018)
17.68.100 Architectural character for multifamily and live/work multifamily buildings.
Architectural character requirements for multifamily uses in the expanded commercial district are the same as the A-1 zone, See Section 17.56.080. (Ord. 868, 2018)