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West Bountiful City Zoning Code

17.28 Commercial

Neighborhood District, C-N

17.28.010 Purpose

The C-N commercial neighborhood district is intended to provide areas in appropriate locations where convenience buying outlets may be established to serve surrounding residential neighborhoods. The regulations of this district are designed to promote a combination of retail and service facilities which in character and scale are necessary to meet day-to-day needs of area residents in a manner which will minimize any hazard or nuisance to adjacent residential areas. 

HISTORY
Adopted by Ord. 374-15 on 11/18/2015

17.28.020 Permitted Uses

The following uses are permitted in the C-N commercial neighborhood districts: 

  1. Appliance and small equipment repair, including shoe repair;
  2. Drug store;
  3. Dry cleaning pickup station;
  4. General merchandise sales (retail and wholesale) less than two thousand (2,000) square feet;
  5. Offices, business or professional;
  6. Personal services;
  7. Public and quasi-public institutions;
  8. Convenience store, less than two thousand (2,000) square feet;
  9. Learning studios such as karate, dance, gymnastics;
  10. Real estate and/or insurance offices;
  11. Computers: software and hardware, sales and service;
  12. Office machine sales and service;
  13. Ceramic business;
  14. Carpet cleaning; and
  15. Medical cannabis pharmacy, as defined in Chapter 17.62. 
HISTORY
Adopted by Ord. 374-15 on 11/18/2015
Amended by Ord. 429-20 on 7/27/2020

17.28.030 Conditional Uses

The following uses are conditional in the C-N commercial neighborhood districts:

  1. Reception center, meeting hall;
  2. Restaurants, cafeterias and fast food eating establishments;
  3. Banking and financial services;
  4. Custom woodworking (as approved by fire marshal)
  5. Sheet metal;
  6. Contractor: general, electrical, mechanical and plumbing, etc.
  7. Printing and publishing;
  8. Silkscreening;
  9. Lawn and yard care;
  10. Residential healthcare facility; and
  11. Business and uses which are similar to those listed in this section and Section 17.28.020 and other small businesses determined suitable for a neighborhood environment by the planning commission.

HISTORY
Adopted by Ord. 374-15 on 11/18/2015

17.28.035 Prohibited Uses

The following uses are prohibited in the C-N commercial neighborhood districts:

  1. Retail tobacco specialty businesses;
  2. Retail e-cigarette specialty businesses;
  3. Sexually oriented businesses; and
  4. Cannabis production establishment, as defined in Chapter 17.62.
HISTORY
Adopted by Ord. 374-15 on 11/18/2015
Amended by Ord. 429-20 on 7/27/2020

17.28.040 Area And Frontage Regulations

There shall be no area or frontage requirement for an individual lot in a C-N district, except that each lot shall provide at least one hundred (100) feet of frontage on any side abutting an arterial or collector street. No frontage requirement shall apply to sides of lots abutting other streets. 

HISTORY
Adopted by Ord. 374-15 on 11/18/2015

17.28.050 Yard Regulations

The following regulations apply in C-N commercial neighborhood districts:

  1. Front Yard. The minimum front yard setback for all structures shall be thirty (30) feet.
  2. Side Yard. The minimum side yard setback for all structures shall be ten (10) feet unless fire coded (six feet if fire code is used), except when the parcel abuts any residential district a side yard of at least thirty (30) feet shall be provided on that side adjacent to the residential zone. The side yard requirement adjacent to a residential district may be modified if justified and approved by the planning commission. On corner lots the side yard which faces the street shall not be less than twenty (20) feet for all structures.
  3. Rear Yard. The minimum rear yard setback for all structures shall be twenty (20) feet, except when the parcel abuts a residential district a rear yard of thirty (30) feet shall be provided. The rear yard requirement adjacent to a residential district may be modified if justified and approved by the planning commission. 

HISTORY
Adopted by Ord. 374-15 on 11/18/2015

17.28.060 Height Regulations

  1. No structure shall be erected to a height greater than thirty-five (35) feet. 
  2. Penthouses or roof structures for the housing of elevators, stairways, tanks, ventilating fans or similar equipment required to operate and maintain the building, and fire or parapet walls, skylight, towers, steeples, flagpoles, chimneys, smokestacks, water tanks, wireless or television masts, theater lofts, silos or similar structures may be erected above the height limits herein prescribed, but no space above the height limit shall be allowed for the purpose of providing additional floor space, nor shall such increased height be in violation of any other ordinance or regulation of the City.

HISTORY
Adopted by Ord. 374-15 on 11/18/2015

17.28.070 Off-Street Parking

  1. Off-street access and parking shall be provided and designed as specified in Chapter 17.52.
  2. No parking space shall be provided that would allow a vehicle to back out directly into a public street. 

HISTORY
Adopted by Ord. 374-15 on 11/18/2015

17.28.080 Development Standards

  1. Site Plan. A site plan for all phases of the proposed development shall be presented for review and approval, as provided in the Municipal Code.
  2. Landscaping. Notwithstanding Chapter 12.28, no less than ten (10%) percent of the total site area shall be landscaped. Required side and rear yard areas may be used for driveways or parking; provided, that trees and shrubs of sufficient size and quantity are installed to assure a visual screen from abutting residential properties. All landscaping shall be adequately irrigated and maintained.
  3. Outdoor Storage and Merchandising. Storage and merchandising shall be accomplished entirely within an enclosed structure or as provided by the zoning matrix following this title. 
HISTORY
Adopted by Ord. 374-15 on 11/18/2015
Amended by Ord. 461-22 on 9/20/2022

374-15

429-20

461-22