The provisions of this chapter apply to the IC Industrial-Commercial Zone. Uses in the C Commercial Zone are regulated by chapter 17.28 C Commercial Zone and uses in the CR Commercial-Residential zone are regulated by Chapter 17.30 Commercial-Residential zone.

(Ord. No. 15-269, § I, 10-20-2015)

The purpose of the IC Industrial-Commercial zone is to provide areas with the county where certain industrial and commercial uses and activities may be established and maintained together to promote efficiency, ensure compatibility, and provide for mixed non-residential uses. It facilitates a heavy commercial and light industrial mixed-use environment that may be well-suited near principal traffic arterials, such as the Interstate 80 corridor, and industrial development with which the allowed uses are compatible. It is not intended for residential areas or general neighborhood commercial areas, such as Gold Hill, Virginia City, Lockwood, or other such residential communities where C Commercial or CR Commercial Residential zoning may be more appropriate.

(Ord. No. 15-269, § I, 10-20-2015)

The commercial, light industrial, and heavy industrial uses listed in this section are allowed in the IC Industrial-Commercial Zone.

A.

Commercial uses including:

1.

Retail sales and shopping centers including:

a.

General stores, shopping centers, convenience stores, principal grocery stores, neighborhood stores and shopping centers, regional stores and shopping centers, and super regional stores and shopping centers.

b.

Seasonal holiday sales and uses.

c.

Seasonal farmers markets.

2.

Commercial offices and financial institutions:

a.

Real-estate permanent office, banks and credit unions, accountants, insurance, employment agencies, consulting firms, manufacturer representatives, newspapers, secretarial services, associations and other similar office uses and activities.

b.

Building maintenance and services.

c.

Business and professional offices and buildings.

d.

Convention and meeting facilities.

3.

Personal services:

a.

Barbers, hair stylists, beauticians, manicurists/pedicurists, spas, salons, tailors, massage establishments, and similar type uses.

b.

Wedding chapels and travel agencies.

c.

Childcare of any number of children.

d.

Laundromats, personal dry cleaning, and laundry services.

4.

Boarding accommodations including hotels, motels, hostels, bed and breakfast inns, timeshares, and vacation rentals.

5.

Tourist and visitor services:

a.

Eating and drinking establishments such as restaurants, cafes, drive-in diners, fast-food, coffee shops and coffee houses, soda-fountains, saloons and taverns, and micro-breweries with on-site and off-site sales.

b.

Entertainment and casual education services such as docents, guided tours on foot, gold panning, and museums.

c.

Equestrian facilities and uses including riding arenas, stables, horse and pony rides, and carriage and stagecoach rides.

d.

Theaters.

6.

Recreation. Bowling lanes, billiard parlors and pool halls, arcades, gaming (when incidental to a primary use and limited to no more than fifteen slot and/or video machines), golf driving ranges, miniature golf, country clubs, health clubs and personal fitness gyms, swimming pools and saunas, tennis courts, permanent indoor and seasonal outdoor roller and ice skating rinks and facilities, seasonal or temporary outdoor theatres, and other similar recreational uses and activities.

7.

Civic uses:

a.

Public facilities and offices for fire, emergency services, and sheriff.

b.

Helipads and heliports for use only by medical evacuation transport services.

c.

Crisis care use uses and facilities, permanent.

d.

Libraries and cultural services, governmental offices, post offices, community centers, and courts of law.

e.

Education including elementary, middle, and high (K-12) schools and academies, colleges and higher education, technical and vocational education, apprentice training, whether public, private, or parochial. A special use permit is required for education institutions and academies that include student residential accommodations.

f.

Highway rest areas, picnicking areas, parks and playgrounds, dog parks, walking and bicycle trails, interpretive trails, restroom facilities, and information kiosks.

g.

Parking lots and structures, park-and-rides and carpool transfer centers, multi-modal transit hubs, parking garages and storage, railroad and light rail infrastructures, train tunnels, and railroad switchyards and turntables.

h.

Indoor and outdoor veterinarian services and shelters for large and small animals.

8.

General services:

a.

Catering, equipment and appliance repair, gun repair, general contractors offices, heavy and light equipment rental, feed and tack stores, manufactured home sales and service, pawn brokers, pet sales and grooming, print shops, upholstery shops, video rentals, and other similar general services uses and activities.

b.

Uses involving indoor archery and indoor discharge of firearms.

9.

Congregational establishments including religious institutions, fraternal lodges, recreational and social clubs, labor halls, service clubs and facilities for other private clubs.

10.

Agricultural and horticultural uses for domestic purposes and incidental to the permitted uses. Uses also include community gardens.

11.

Casinos and gaming establishments of more than five thousand square feet of total floor area where slots and/or video machines are located, where there are more than fifteen slots and/or video machines, and where other forms of gambling such as poker, craps, blackjack, keno, sports book and other similar activities may take place.

12.

Public utility service yards, buildings, electric substations, gas transmission substations, and ancillary uses.

13.

Recreational vehicle (RV) parks.

14.

Mini-warehouses and storage facilities for rent including recreational vehicle, boat, utility trailer, horse trailer, and similar equipment storage.

15.

Open-air markets, flea-markets, farmers markets, and the display, sale, barter, or trade of items associated with a business outside of a permanent building.

16.

Race tracks and arenas involving the use of automobiles, trucks, tractors, and other motorized vehicles.

17.

Radio-controlled (RC) cars, vehicles, watercraft, and aircraft facilities and uses.

18.

Signs as regulated by Chapter 17.84, Signs and Billboards.

19.

Automobile paint shops and body repair shops.

20.

Accessory use, buildings and structures if they are clearly incidental to a permitted use, placed upon the same lot or parcel with a permitted use, and in conformance with Section 17.12.048.

21.

Other uses similar to the above which are determined by the board to be consistent with the uses permitted within the zone.

B.

Light industrial uses including the following:

1.

Limited indoor manufacturing and assembly involving the production process that uses already manufactured components to assemble, print, or package a product such as cloth, paper, plastic, leather, wood, glass, stones, or computer and electronic parts.

2.

Contractor services, including general contractor offices, contractor service shops, carpet cleaning, pest control, printing and publishing, and similar uses.

3.

Agricultural use types including general agricultural uses, agricultural animal production, custom animal processing, agricultural research, agricultural supplies sales, and agricultural entertainment and commercial uses.

4.

Trade and craftsman industries, including furniture and carpentry manufacturing and refining, upholstery shops, monument works, and similar uses.

5.

Outdoor storage and maintenance of building materials, vehicles, trailers, and heavy equipment associated with a commercial building contractor or business when not directly associated with a construction project on the premises.

6.

Manufactured home and modular home sales lots.

7.

Propane sales and storage.

8.

Firewood sales and storage.

9.

Temporary real-estate tract offices not located within a permanent structure.

10.

Laboratories and testing services. The use of live animals in laboratory, testing, and experimentation is prohibited.

11.

Building material manufacturing.

12.

Breweries, distilleries, wineries.

13.

Warehouses, warehouse complexes, distribution operations, and wholesale distribution.

14.

Laundromats and personal dry cleaning.

15.

Automotive, truck, and heavy equipment services including washing and detailing (manual hand-washing, coin-operated, and production line methods), service and fueling stations, repair (including painting and body repair), sales, and rental.

16.

Truck stops.

17.

Solid waste recycling collection center.

18.

Solid waste recycling center.

19.

Brick, tile or terra cotta products manufacturing.

20.

Hunting, fishing, and skiing facilities and lodges, wildlife refuges, and game farms.

21.

Sewage treatment plants and facilities and other sewage or sludge processing, treatment, or storage.

22.

Watchman's dwelling, whether permanent or temporary.

23.

Outdoor storage or maintenance of building materials, vehicles, trailers, and heavy equipment associated with a commercial building contractor or business when not directly associated with a construction project on the premises.

24.

Other uses similar to the above which are determined by the board to be consistent with the uses permitted within the zone.

C.

Heavy industrial uses including the following:

1.

Manufacturing and assembly involving the production process which uses already manufactured components to assemble, print, or package a product such as cloth, paper, plastic, leather, wood, glass, stones, or computer and electronic parts and manufacturing operations involving primary production of commodity of raw materials, except those listed in Section 17.39.030 as requiring a special use permit.

2.

Storage and distribution of paints, shellac, turpentine, varnishes, and other similar chemicals within a warehouse facility.

3.

Storage and distribution of petroleum and liquid petroleum products within a warehouse facility.

4.

Manufacturing of paints, shellac, turpentine, varnishes, and other such chemicals. Manufacturing, reclaiming, refining, storage, and distribution of cyanide, hazardous materials, and liquid petroleum products are prohibited.

5.

Paper manufacturing.

6.

Bottling plants.

7.

Other uses similar to the above which are determined by the board to be consistent with the uses permitted within the zone.

(Ord. No. 15-269, § I, 10-20-2015)

Unless stated otherwise, the following uses may be permitted subject to securing a special use permit pursuant to Chapter 17.03, Administrative Provisions.

1.

Fortune tellers, astrology parlors, clairvoyance and palmistry. Additionally, uses under this subsection must comply with the regulations under Title 5 Business Licenses, and be located no closer than one thousand feet from a public or private school, religious institution, public building or facility, or another permitted fortune teller, astrology parlor, clairvoyance and palmistry use, and three hundred feet from any E, R, or SPR zone.

2.

Permanent outdoor skateboard parks and related facilities.

3.

Fairgrounds, rodeo arenas, horse and other animal competition tracks and arenas, and similar uses.

4.

Amusement parks involving various devices for entertainment such as thrill and theme rides, roller-coasters, water slides, and games and concession booths.

5.

Facilities and uses that include outdoor sets and props for the development and production of movies, film, television, and similar visual media.

6.

Education facilities that include student residential and boarding accommodations.

7.

Permanent outdoor theatres.

8.

Billboards as regulated by Chapter 17.68, Signs and Billboards.

9.

Zoos, animal theme and amusement parks, and other maintenance, display, or possession of one or more wild animals.

10.

Healthcare facilities including hospital services, medical services, urgent care, clinics, convalescent services, civic convalescent and group care service, continuum of care facilities for seniors, and group care services.

11.

Tattoo, permanent cosmetics, and invasive body piercing facilities. These uses are only allowed within the boundaries of the Tahoe-Reno Industrial Center which is zoned I-2 Heavy Industrial, IC Industrial-Commercial, or C Commercial. They are prohibited within 1,500 feet of a public or private school or religious institution.

12.

Retail establishments featuring the display, lease, or rental of "adult material" books, merchandise, periodicals, video tapes, video disks including DVDs and other recorded video devices, computer disks, instruments, devices or paraphernalia "adult" material. The merchandise shall only be available for sale or lease for private use by the purchaser or lessee off the premises of the business.

13.

Temporary (less than one year) concrete and asphalt batch plants when not incidental to an on-site construction project or when located within two thousand five hundred feet from a CR, E, R, or SPR zone.

14.

Milling and processing related to mining and extraction.

15.

Natural resources including river and waterway restoration, wetland creation, water restoration and recycling.

16.

The keeping of five or more dogs or three or more potbelly pigs more than twelve weeks of age. A minimum of ten acres is required.

17.

Commercial kennel. A minimum of ten acres is required.

18.

Other uses similar to the above that are determined by the board with action by the planning commission to be consistent with the uses requiring a special use permit within the zone.

(Ord. No. 15-269, § I, 10-20-2015)

A building, manufactured building, or structure may not exceed a height often stories or one hundred twenty feet, whichever is higher, except as may be allowed by a variance. The requirements of this section do not apply to church spires, belfries, cupolas, domes, chimneys and smoke-stacks, grain silos, water towers, flagpoles, and commercial and amateur wireless communication towers and antennas. Wind energy turbine support structures are regulated by Chapter 17.12.044, Height of Buildings and Structures.

(Ord. No. 15-269, § I, 10-20-2015)

Parcel area requirements shall be as follows: (A) commercial uses may be located on a parcel of no less than ten thousand square feet; (B) light-industrial uses may be located on a parcel no less than one-half acre; and (C) heavy-industrial uses may be located on a parcel no less than three acres. The minimum area requirement for uses requiring a special use permit shall be determined by the special use permit, except that the area shall be no less than ten thousand square feet.

(Ord. No. 15-269, § I, 10-20-2015)

Loading area must have adequate room for vehicular circulation and staging. All truck parking and docking area must be designed so that rights-of-way and travelled ways are not adversely impacted.

(Ord. No. 15-269, § I, 10-20-2015)

Setback requirements shall be as follows: (A) heavy-industrial uses may be located no closer than fifty feet from any property line; (B) light-industrial uses may be located no closer than twenty feet from any property line; and (C) commercial uses shall have a minimum ten-foot rear and side setback and a twenty-foot front setback. Uses requiring a special use permit shall have setback distances established by the granted special use permit, except that the minimum allowable setback distances shall be no less than ten feet from any property line.

(Ord. No. 15-269, § I, 10-20-2015)