The purpose of the highway commercial district is to provide for the location of the facilities and services needed by the traveling public or uses related to recreational travel. Facilities and services should be located where they can be reached conveniently and safely. This district provides for appropriate protections to assure that highway businesses have minimum adverse affects on surrounding, more restrictive districts. The highway commercial district is to be established only upon land adjoining major highway and freeway interchanges.

(Ord. 11398 § 3 (part), 1997: Ord. 11323 § 1, 1996: Ord. 6708 § 3 (part), 1980)

Subject to the provisions of this title, the permitted uses in the highway commercial district include but are not limited to:

1.

Private and public parking lots, parking garages and accessory servicing;

2.

Restaurants;

3.

Service stations including repair;

4.

Hotels and motor hotels;

5.

Convenience stores for the traveling public;

6.

Fruit and vegetable stands;

7.

Travel trailer parks;

8.

Churches;

9.

Public facilities (except schools);

10.

Recreational vehicles or boat repair and sales, but not including storage. Recreational vehicles and boats that are for sale or undergoing repair may be kept on site;

11.

Commercial trade schools.

(Ord. 13235 § 12, 2004; Ord. 11804 § 74, 1998: Ord. 11398 § 3 (part), 1997: Ord. 11323 § 2, 1996: Ord. 6708 § 3 (part), 1980)

See Chapter 20.54 for special uses permitted in this district.

(Ord. 11398 § 3 (part), 1997)

No requirement.

(Ord. 11398 § 3 (part), 1997: Ord. 6708 § 3 (part), 1980)

The following standards are established as the minimum necessary to insure that the purpose of this highway commercial district is achieved and maintained:

1.

Minimum lot size—twenty-thousand square feet;

2.

Minimum lot width—one hundred feet;

3.

Minimum district size for purpose of zoning map amendments—five acres;

4.

Maximum building height—forty feet;

5.

Minimum yard requirements:

a.

Front yard—twenty-five feet from right-of-way easement or property line and thirty-five feet from right-of-way easement or property line on arterials, except ten feet from right-of-way of a flanking street.

b.

Side yard—ten feet,

c.

Rear yard—ten feet;

6.

Maximum coverage by hard surfaces: eighty-five percent (also see Chapter 20.07).

(Ord. 12761 § 22, 2002; Ord. 11398 § 3 (part), 1997: Ord. 10595 § 41, 1994: Ord. 6708 § 3 (part), 1980)

(Ord. No. 15355, 1(Att. A, § FF), 10-18-2016)

Refer to the following chapters for provisions which may qualify or supplement the regulations presented above:

1.

Chapter 20.32, Open Space;

2.

Chapter 20.34, Accessory Uses and Structures;

3.

Chapter 20.37, Site Plan Review;

4.

Chapter 20.40, Signs and Lighting;

5.

Chapter 20.44, Parking and Loading;

6.

Chapter 20.45, Landscaping and Screening.

(Ord. 11804 § 75, 1998: Ord. 11398 § 3 (part), 1997: Ord. 8216 § 93 (part), 1985; Ord. 6708 § 3 (part), 1980)