The CG zone is established in order to:

A.

Provide the land necessary for wholesale, bulk storage, industrial services, processing, packing and other heavy commercial activities to serve the community, and provide employment and income for its residents;

B.

Provide for the development of heavy commercial service facilities, concentrated in well planned areas properly located in relation to utilities, access, topography, and residential uses;

C.

Create conditions conducive to a convenient and desirable working environment, control the objectionable or dangerous effects of certain uses necessary in the community but detrimental to other areas, and protect the areas designated under this zone against the encroachment of uses which could be better located in areas less suited for heavy commercial activities.

(Ord. 376 §10-5-10(A), 1967.)

In the CG zone, uses allowed by right are as follows:

A.

Bulk storage, wholesale, packing, truck, bus, taxi, or rail terminal;

B.

Processing, services or research, provided that no odor, gas, fumes, dust, smoke, noise, vibrations, glare, heat, electrical interference, radioactive or waste material is produced or emitted beyond the confines of the property onto contiguous properties or into the air or watercourses, to an extent constituting a nuisance, and provided it does not constitute a physical hazard to persons or properties beyond the confines of the property by reason of fire, explosion, or similar cause;

C.

Animal clinic or shelter;

D.

Gas station, new and used automobile sale and service;

E.

Church or other places used exclusively for religious worship;

F.

One dwelling for caretaker, watchman or person primarily employed on the property and his immediate family;

G.

Office, bank or retail sales;

H.

Public utility structure, fire station;

I.

Rest homes, convalescent homes, tri-level senior communities, senior housing facilities;

J.

Eating and drinking establishment;

K.

Motel, hotel;

L.

Clubs or associations, clinics, hospitals, dispensary;

M.

Studio, place of entertainment, shopping center, theater.

(Ord. 600 §2, 1985; Ord. 376 §10-5-10(B), 1967.; Amended by Ord. 832 on 11/16/2015; Amended by Ord. 857 on 7/15/2019)

In the CG zone, the land and structure regulations are as follows:

A.

Minimum parcel area: four thousand square feet;

B.

Maximum building coverage: sixty percent;

C.

Minimum parcel width: sixty feet;

D.

Minimum yards: front, ten feet; sides and rear, five feet or on the property line if fireproof wall without opening;

E.

Maximum building height: thirty-five feet, except as set forth in Section 17.60.040(J).

(Ord. 812, § 1, 9-17-2012; Ord. 376 §10-5-10(C), 1967.)