The central business district (C-1) is a zoning classification providing for a wide range of retail and professional business uses and services compatible to the central business district of Woodland and providing a focal point of commerce in a setting conducive to safe, convenient, and attractive pedestrian use. The intent of the district is to insure that the downtown business district is preserved and has the capability for growth, expansion, and enhancement. Furthermore, the district provides for uses which will complement and not compete with other commercial use districts. The central business district is intended to be that area generally north of Dunham, south of Bozarth, east of the railroad, and west of Interstate 5.

(Ord. 490 § 8.01 (part), 1979)

The following uses are permitted in the central business district (C-1). Other uses may require a conditional use or temporary use permit or be prohibited in the C-1 district.

1.

Artisanal/craft shop and shops for custom work or repair;

2.

Arts and cultural facilities, institutions, and businesses such as museums, theaters, art galleries, and art studios;

3.

Automatic teller machines (ATM);

4.

Automobile sales (indoor);

5.

Bakeries with retail service;

6.

Banks and financial services;

7.

Bed and breakfast inns;

8.

Community clubs, fraternal societies, and other places of assembly for membership groups;

9.

Daycare center;

10.

Dwelling units; provided residential uses are located above a permissible C-1 commercial use and adequate off-street parking is provided pursuant to Chapter 17.56. Lobbies for residential uses on upper floors may be located on the ground floor.;

11.

Electric vehicle charging stations;

12.

Entertainment facilities such as indoor theaters and playhouses;

13.

Event center (three hundred person occupancy);

14.

Existing, legally established, automotive repair and towing businesses established before December 27, 1979;

15.

Existing, legally established, manufacturing and production businesses established before passage of the ordinance codified in this section, April 15, 2013;

16.

Farm and garden stores;

17.

Farmers' markets, bazaars, and open air markets;

18.

Funeral homes and mortuaries;

19.

Grocery stores, delicatessens, butcher shops, and indoor markets selling food and farm products;

20.

Hardware and building supply stores (retail);

21.

Home occupations provided they are accessory to single-family dwellings and meet the requirements of WMC 17.16.100;

22.

Hotels, motels, and hostels;

23.

Laundry and dry cleaning operations (retail and self);

24.

Live-work units;

25.

Medical clinics and offices;

26.

Microbreweries, microdistilleries, and microwineries;

27.

Motorcycle, scooter, bicycle, and other small motorized or non-motorized means of transportation (indoor and outdoor sales);

28.

On-site hazardous waste treatment and storage facilities as an accessory use to any activity generating hazardous waste and lawfully permitted in this zone, provided that such facilities must meet the state siting criteria adopted pursuant to the requirements of RCW 70.105.210 as now or hereafter amended;

29.

Outdoor eating and/or drinking areas associated with an indoor facility;

30.

Outdoor storage of product when: a. Accessory to a permitted use on site, b. Storage area does not exceed fifty percent of the area of the permitted use on a square foot basis, and c. Storage areas is located behind buildings and screened by landscaping or an architectural wall at least six feet in height. If appropriate, some viewing of activity may be allowed through gaps in screening.;

31.

Personal and business services;

32.

Pet stores and animal grooming businesses;

33.

Plant nurseries;

34.

Printing shops;

35.

Professional and business offices;

36.

Public and commercial recreation facilities, gyms, and sports complexes;

37.

Public and private off-street parking facilities;

38.

Public and quasi-public buildings and uses such as post offices, libraries, and government offices;

39.

Public parks, open spaces, and courtyards;

40.

Public transportation facilities such as bus stations, train stations, and transit shelters;

41.

Recycling collection point;

42.

Religious institutions;

43.

Repair shops for small equipment and items;

44.

Restaurants and cafes and other eating and drinking establishments;

45.

Retail establishments, less than fifty thousand one square feet;

46.

Signs and outdoor advertising displays pursuant to Chapter 17.52;

47.

Single-family dwellings existing at the time of passage of the ordinance codified in this title shall be allowed to remain, and any additions or improvements thereto shall meet the standards of the LDR-6 district;

48.

Taverns and liquor establishments;

49.

Upholstery and furniture repair;

50.

Veterinary offices and clinics without outdoor animal runs;

51.

Uses similar to the above that are not otherwise listed in this chapter;

52.

Residential use is allowed on the bottom floor of any building in the C-1 zone that does not share a property line with Davidson Avenue or Goerig Street;

53.

Wireless Communication Facilities. New attached facilities and colocations consistent with Section 17.71.195.

(Ord. 939 § 12, 2000: Ord. 884 § 1, 1998: Ord. 671 § 3, 1988; Ord. 654 § 6, 1987; Ord. 622 § 1, 1986; Ord. 573 § 3, 1984; Ord. 490 § 8.01(A), 1979)

(Ord. No. 1257, § 7, 1-7-2013; Ord. No. 1263, § 1, 4-15-2013; Ord. No. 1376, § 3, 1-23-2017; Ord. No. 1412, § 1, 6-17-2019)

The following uses in the central business district (C-1) require conditional use permit approval from the community development director as per WMC Chapter 17.72.

1.

Public utility uses except electrical substations and transfer facilities and power-generating units;

2.

Vending stands and kiosks.

(Ord. 982 § 3, 2003)

(Ord. No. 1263, § 2, 4-15-2013; Ord. No. 1378, § 70, 11-21-2016)

The following uses in the central business district (C-1) require conditional use permit approval from the hearing examiner as per WMC Chapter 17.72.

1.

Automobile diagnostic and repair facilities, major and minor repairs;

2.

Automobile sales (outdoor);

3.

Automobile service stations, gas stations, and car washes;

4.

Drive-through facilities;

5.

Event center, greater than three hundred one person occupancy;

6.

Farm machinery sales and services;

7.

Hospital, psychiatric facility, rest home, home for the aged, nursing home, or convalescent home;

8.

Schools (public, parochial, private, vocational, technical, business or other schools, nonprofit or operated for profit);

9.

Shelters, temporary housing, emergency housing;

10.

Wireless Communication Facilities. New support towers consistent with Section 17.71.195;

11.

Building height increase to four stories or fifty-five feet.

(Ord. 982 § 3, 2003: Ord. 915 § 1, 1999: Ord. 573 §§ 1, 2, 1984; Ord. 490 § 8.01(C), 1979)

(Ord. No. 1263, § 3, 4-15-2013; Ord. No. 1376, § 1, 1-23-2017; Ord. No. 1412, § 1, 6-17-2019)

The following uses in the central business district (C-1) require temporary use permit approval from the community development director or his or her designee as per WMC Chapter 17.70.

1.

Agricultural stands;

2.

Mobile vending carts;

3.

Parking lot sales that are not ancillary to the indoor sale of similar goods and services;

4.

Uses similar to the above to be located on a temporary basis in the C-1 district.

(Ord. No. 1263, § 4, 4-15-2013; Ord. No. 1378, § 71, 11-21-2016)

The following uses are specifically not permitted in the central business district (C-1):

1.

Animal kennel, commercial/boarding;

2.

Animal shelter;

3.

Any use whose operation constitutes a nuisance by reason of smoke, fumes, odors, steam, gases, vibration, noise hazards or other causes readily detectable beyond property lines;

4.

Collective garden, medical marijuana;

5.

Commercial dispatch and maintenance facilities;

6.

Drug treatment facilities;

7.

Junkyards and wrecking yards;

8.

Laundry/dry cleaning (industrial);

9.

Lumber yards and other building material sales that sell primarily to contractors (wholesale);

10.

Manufacturing and production, except those specifically listed as permitted uses in this chapter;

11.

Outdoor sales of boats, campers, motor homes, and mobile homes;

12.

Recreational vehicle park;

13.

Recycling center or plant;

14.

Sand, soil, gravel sales and storage;

15.

Sexually oriented businesses;

16.

Storage facilities, such as self-storage or recreational vehicle storage businesses;

17.

Storage, distribution and warehousing when such use is not a part of and not essential to a permitted use; also, when it is proposed to be independently sited within the C-1 district or independently owned and operated within a permitted structure, i.e. using a second floor of a building;

18.

Towing;

19.

Wholesale businesses;

20.

Marijuana retailer;

21.

Medical marijuana cooperative.

(Ord. 490 § 8.01(B), 1979)

(Ord. No. 1263, § 5, 4-15-2013; Ord. No. 1440, § 6, 10-21-2019)

There are no limitations for minimum lot size.

(Ord. 490 § 8.01(D)(1), 1979)

There are no limitations for minimum lot width and depth.

(Ord. 490 § 8.01(D)(2), 1979)

All setbacks shall be measured from the nearest wall or corner to the appropriate property line.

A.

Front Setback. No limitations, except to provide room for a sidewalk in conformance with city standards;

B.

Side Setback. No limitations, except where the C-1 zone abuts a residential zone, the side yard setback shall be that required by the residential zone;

C.

Rear Setback. No limitations, except where the C-1 zone abuts a residential zone and there is no alley between the C-1 zone and the residential zone, the rear setback shall be that required by the residential zone.

(Ord. 645 § 1, 1987; Ord. 490 § 8.01(D)(3), 1979)

No building shall be more than three stories or forty-five feet in height. A fourth story, up to fifty-five feet in height, be allowable by conditional use.

(Ord. 490 § 8.01(D)(4), 1979)

(Ord. No. 1376, § 2, 1-23-2017)

There are no limitations; provided the applicable setbacks are observed.

(Ord. 490 § 8.01(D)(5), 1979)

Off-street parking in the C-1 district shall meet the requirements of Chapter 17.56.

(Ord. 490 § 8.01(E), 1979)

A.

Abutting Residential Zones. C-1 uses which abut residential districts along the side and rear property lines shall provide a sight-obscuring fence a minimum of six feet, but not more than eight feet high. In addition to the fence, hedges and shrubbery may be placed along the inside of the fence but shall not become a nuisance to adjacent properties.

If the applicant proposes that the C-1 use and building will be visually and functionally compatible with the neighboring residential character of the area without providing a fence, the applicant shall present the proposal to the planning commission for a determination of zone and neighborhood compatibility. The planning commission may require the use and its site to be designed and landscaped so as to further blend into the area.

B.

Corner Lots. Fences and hedges on corner lots shall be no higher than three feet along the front property line and three feet along the side street property line to a point equal to the front setback of the main building.

(Ord. 490 § 8.01(F)(1), 1979)

All buildings and yards in the C-1 district shall be maintained in a neat and orderly manner. Landscaping shall be maintained in a healthy, presentable state. Nonfunctional vehicles, machinery, appliances, steel drums, boxes, crates, pallets and related equipment and materials shall not be openly stored in front, side and rear yards.

(Ord. 490 § 8.01(F)(2), 1979)

Lighting, including permitted illuminated signs, shall be designed and arranged so as not to:

A.

Reflect or cast glare into any residential zone;

B.

Rotate, glitter, or flash; and

C.

Conflict with the readability of traffic signs and control signals.

(Ord. 490 § 8.01(F)(3), 1979)