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Sutter Creek City Zoning Code

CHAPTER 18

32 - C-1 ZONE—LIMITED COMMERCIAL

18.32.010 - Regulations designated.

The following regulations apply to the C-1 limited commercial zone unless otherwise provided in this title.

18.32.015 - Purpose.

The limited commercial district is designed to provide office, medical, and convenient services and products to residents on a daily basis.

(Ord. 373, §16(a), 2023)

18.32.020 - Permitted uses.

Uses permitted in the C-1 zone are:

A.

Any of the following uses:

1.

Bakeries;

2.

Day care center—adult (fourteen or fewer clients);

3.

Banks and automatic teller machines;

4.

Barber shops;

5.

Beauty shops;

6.

Book stores;

7.

Confectionery stores;

8.

Day care center—child (fourteen or fewer clients);

9.

Dental clinics or offices;

10.

Dressmaking or millinery shops;

11.

Drug stores;

12.

Financial service offices;

13.

Fire stations and public safety training facilities

14.

Dry cleaning, pressing and laundry establishments using non-inflammable and non-explosive cleaning fluid;

15.

Fitness/health studios, spas;

16.

Dry goods or notions stores;

17.

Sales and repair of electric appliances and electronic goods;

18.

Florist shops;

19.

Gift shops;

20.

Grocery, fruit, and vegetable stores;

21.

Hardware stores;

22.

Jewelry stores;

23.

Live-work units;

24.

Meat markets or delicatessen stores;

25.

Medical clinics;

26.

Medical and dental laboratories;

27.

Offices, professional;

28.

Photographic shops;

29.

Restaurants, tea rooms or cafés where all customers are served at a table or counter (excluding dancing, entertainment and sale of intoxicating liquors);

30.

Shoe stores or shoe repair shops;

31.

Stationery stores; and

32.

Tailoring, clothing or wearing apparel shops;

33.

Veterinarian clinics.

B.

The above specified businesses shall be professional offices or retail establishments permitted only under the following conditions:

1.

Such businesses shall be conducted entirely within an enclosed building. Businesses proposing outdoor uses shall do so only on application to and approval by the planning commission as a conditional use;

2.

Products made incidental to a permitted use may be sold at retail on the premises;

3.

All public entrances to such businesses shall be from the principal street upon which the property abuts, except that a rear or side entrance from the building to a public parking area may be provided;

4.

Refer to chapter 15.16 for signage requirements and chapter 13.12 for obstructions to public way requirements;

5.

The accessory buildings necessary to such use located on the same lot or parcel of land, including a storage building for the exclusive use of the patrons of the above stores or businesses;

6.

Day care center—adult, with fifteen or more clients, requires an application and approval by the planning commission as a conditional use; and

7.

Day care center—child, with fifteen or more clients, requires an application and approval by the planning commission as a conditional use.

C.

Any use conducted within a C-1 zone shall comply with the provisions of chapter 18.50, site plans.

(Ord. 373, §16(b), 2023)

18.32.030 - Buildings—Height limitations.

Maximum building height in the C-1 zone shall be limited to three stories and shall not exceed forty feet.

(Ord. 373, §16(c), 2023)

18.32.040 - Yard—Front.

All buildings shall be located at least ten feet from the front lot line; provided, that where existing buildings on sheets within a block average less than the required setback, the provisions of section 18.10.110 shall apply.

18.32.050 - Yard—Side.

Five feet or in conformance with the California Building Code.

(Ord. 373, §2, 2023)

18.32.060 - Yard—Rear.

There shall be behind every building a rear yard having a minimum depth of ten feet. Where there is an alley at the rear of the lot, such rear yard may be measured to the center of said alley.

18.32.070 - Area requirements.

None.

18.32.080 - Buildings—Required distance between.

None.

18.32.090 - Lot coverage.

Building lot coverage shall not exceed eighty-five percent of the lot area.

18.32.100 - Residential density.

Maximum development density shall be sixteen to twenty-nine units per acre, as established in City of Sutter Creek General Plan Land Use Element Table 4-3, and dependent upon site conditions and constraints. See 18.62 regarding density bonus allocations.

(Ord. 373, §16(d), 2023)