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Wheatland City Zoning Code

CHAPTER 18

36 C-3 HEAVY COMMERCIAL DISTRICT

§ 18.36.010 Purpose of district.

The purpose of the C-3 district is to provide for retail, wholesale, highway and heavy commercial uses, along with amusement, transient residential, warehousing and distribution, maintenance, repair and servicing activities. The C-3 districts are to be established in zones of two acres or larger, and shall be located only in the immediate vicinity of arterial streets, freeways, or the service/frontage drives thereof.
(Ord. 337 Exh. A, 1991)

§ 18.36.020 Principal permitted uses.

The following are principal permitted uses in the C-3 district, subject to site plan review as per Chapter 18.67:
A. 
Automotive services, general; except those which require a use permit;
B. 
Commercial recreation facilities, such as swimming pools, bowling alleys, skating rinks, dance-halls, and theaters;
C. 
Dry cleaning in facility up to three thousand square feet in area;
D. 
Rug cleaning;
E. 
Laundromats;
F. 
Bookbinding, printing and lithography;
G. 
Convenience markets, not to exceed three thousand square feet in gross floor area;
H. 
Foodstores, at least three thousand square feet of gross floor area;
I. 
Motels;
J. 
Offices;
K. 
Plant nurseries, greenhouses, fruit stands;
L. 
Restaurants, including bars, dancing and entertainment;
M. 
Restaurants, drive-in;
N. 
Retail shops for sale of auto parts and accessories, souvenirs, curios, and other similar products, primarily to serve the touring public;
O. 
Warehousing and wholesaling, when completely enclosed inside a building.
(Ord. 337 Exh. A, 1991)

§ 18.36.030 Permitted accessory uses.

Permitted accessory uses in the C-3 district are accessory uses and buildings customarily appurtenant to a permitted use, subject to Sections 18.60.010 and 18.60.020.
(Ord. 337 Exh. A, 1991)

§ 18.36.040 Conditional uses.

The following are conditional uses in the C-3 district, subject to site plan review as per Chapter 18.67:
A. 
Autobody, fender, and radiator shops;
B. 
Ambulance service, mortuary, crematorium, or columbarium;
C. 
Commercial stables; livestock feed sales; fuel sales yards;
D. 
Contractor' shops and yards; construction and materials yards;
E. 
Drive-in theaters;
F. 
Equipment rental and storage, truck terminals, retail lumber yards;
G. 
Light service industries, as defined by resolution of the city council;
H. 
Mobile home parks, subject to Section 18.60.170;
I. 
Public and quasi-public buildings and uses, including corporation yards, warehouses, and similar uses;
J. 
Recreational vehicle parks, subject to Section 18.60.220;
K. 
Electronic assembly plants in facilities less than three thousand square feet in area;
L. 
Research institutes;
M. 
Residential uses, with the density and setback requirements of the R-3 zone as set forth in Section 18.27.060;
N. 
Shopping centers, which are subject to all of the following:
1. 
Minimum size of two acres, including adjacent and associated lots developed, or managed, or owned by the same party which may or may not be enjoying joint reciprocal parking and/or access, and
2. 
Placement of the PD design control combining zone on the entire project site, and
3. 
Approval of the final site plan by the city council after review by the planning commission, and
4. 
All principal permitted uses allowed in the C-2 zone;
O. 
Veterinary hospitals or clinics subject to the requirements of Section 18.60.320.
P. 
Massage establishments, provided they meet all of the following criteria:
1. 
Owned by a California Massage Therapy Council certified massage practitioner;
2. 
Employ only persons who are certified by California Massage Therapy Council;
3. 
Will not serve alcoholic beverages on the premises; and
4. 
Will not be open before 8:00 a.m. or after 9:00 p.m.
(Ord. 337 Exh. A, 1991; Ord. 500, 8/27/2024)

§ 18.36.050 Height regulations.

No building or structure shall exceed forty-eight feet in height, except as provided in Section 18.60.110.
(Ord. 337 Exh. A, 1991)

§ 18.36.060 Area, lot coverage, and yards.

The following shall apply in the C-3 district:
Lot Area
(sq. ft.)
Min. Lot Frontage
Yards
(in feet)
Front
Side
Rear
6,000
60
15
None, except when abutting on R District, then not less than 15 feet
10 ft., except when abutting on R District, then not less than 20 feet
(Ord. 337 Exh. A, 1991)

§ 18.36.070 Other conditions.

A. 
Landscaping. All portions of the required front yard not used for access shall be landscaped in accordance with Sections 18.60.130, 18.63.100, and 18.63.110.
B. 
Shopping Centers.
1. 
In a shopping center, not less than two percent of the parking area shall be landscaped and maintained, of which not more than one percent may be placed at any one location. The periphery of the site qualifies as a single location.
2. 
In a shopping center, the provisions of Section 18.63.040 do not apply. Automobile parking spaces shall be provided at the rate of four and three-tenths parking spaces for each one thousand square feet of gross leasable floor area.
3. 
All other provisions of Chapter 18.63 shall apply to shopping centers.
C. 
Off-Street Parking. Paved off-street parking and loading facilities are required for all other principal-permitted, accessory, and conditional uses as per Chapter 18.63.
D. 
Indoor Use. All uses shall be conducted wholly within a completely enclosed building, except for service stations, off-street parking and loading facilities, plant nurseries, newspaper stands, ice machines and kindred uses. Except for nursery stock, all merchandise shall be stocked indoors. Goods for sale shall consist primarily of new merchandise and shall be sold at retail on the premises, except for occasional sidewalk or parking lot sales.
(Ord. 337 Exh. A, 1991)