Wyoming City Zoning Code
CHAPTER 1171
E Commercial District
1171.01 APPLICATION OF CHAPTER.
The regulations set forth in this chapter, or set forth elsewhere in this Zoning Code, when referred to in this chapter, are the E Commercial District regulations.
(Ord. 12-2012. Passed 10-15-12.)
1171.02 USE REGULATIONS.
A building or premises shall be used only for the following purposes:
(a) Any use permitted in the C-3 Office Building District.
(b) Stores or other establishments where goods are sold or service is rendered primarily at retail.
(c) Hotels or boarding houses.
(d) Theaters, assembly halls, restaurants, and micro-breweries provided that the products brewed on the premises are available for sale and may be consumed on the premises.
(e) Public garages, filling stations, and automobile repair shops provided, however, that:
(1) No private or community garage having a capacity for more than five cars or trailers, or no public garage, filling station or automobile repair shop shall have an entrance or an exit for vehicles within 200 feet measured along the street frontage of any entrance or exit to the grounds of any church, school, playground, hospital, public library or institution for dependents or children except where such property is in another block.
(2) No public garage shall have an opening in the side or rear walls or roof, not equipped with fixed wire glass sashes in incombustible frames within fifty feet of any residence zone.
(3) No gasoline filling or oil and greasing station shall have any oil-draining pit or exposed appliance located within twelve feet of any street line or within fifty feet of any residence zone except when such appliance or pit is within a building and distant at least twelve feet from every vehicular entrance or exit to the premises.
(f) Wholesale merchandising providing that it is incidental and subordinate to a primarily retail business.
(g) Manufacturing, processing, fabricating, converting, altering, finishing or assembling; provided that such use is incidental to the main use of the premises and does not exceed twenty-five percent (25%) of the total floor space of any building and provided that the noise associated with the use shall be contained to the site.
(h) Storage provided that it is incidental to the main use of the premises and is limited to a reasonable supply of those articles which are to be used, displayed or sold on the premises. Railroad, shipping, and other containers, and outside storage of materials shall be permitted for a period of not more than thirty days in any given calendar year. (Ord. 12-2012. Passed 10-15-12.)
1171.03 PROHIBITED USES.
In addition to the uses not expressly permitted in Section 1171.02, no building or premises shall be used for the following purposes:
(a) Storage or handling of coal or building supplies.
(b) Junk or salvage yards.
(c) Electric lighting and power generating stations.
(d) Gas works or gas storage in quantities exceeding 500 cubic feet or in quantities exceeding fifty cubic feet if the pressure is greater than 100 pounds per square inch.
(e) Gasoline, oil, liquid propane or other above ground fuel storage in quantities exceeding 150 gallons.
(f) Steam laundries. (Ord. 12-2012. Passed 10-15-12.)
(g) Transient stands, vehicles, trailers, temporary buildings, grills, barbeque pits, and similar items where products, goods, items, or services are sold or offered for sale when such products, goods, items, or services are not owned and operated by the owner of the primary business legally operating on the premises unless such transient stand, vehicle, trailer, temporary building, grill, barbeque pit, or similar items is associated with a civic event, or is otherwise operating under a Special Use Permit in accordance with Chapter 1188.
(Ord. 19-2020. Passed 11-16-20.)
(h) Medical marijuana cultivation, processing or retail dispensaries.
(Ord. 08-2016. Passed 8-15-16.)
(i) Adult use marijuana cultivation, processing or retail dispensaries.
(Ord. 20-2024. Passed 9-16-24.)
1171.04 PARKING REGULATIONS.
(a) Any commercial building that is erected, converted or structurally altered shall provide a minimum of one parking space for each 200 square feet of gross floor space in the building, and any restaurant or establishment that serves meals, lunches or drinks to patrons either in their cars or in the building shall provide one parking space for each 100 square feet of gross floor space in the building, provided, however, that two or more establishments may provide necessary parking space upon a single parcel of land within the E Commercial District and within 300 feet of the establishments. Any commercial property that provides more than ten percent of parking spaces above the minimum number of spaces required, shall provide additional landscaping islands in the parking lot areas at a rate of one ten foot by twenty foot island for each five additional spaces or portion thereof.
(b) Each parking space shall have minimum dimensions of ten feet by twenty feet, 200 square feet. Provided, however, that when a parking space or spaces abut a landscaped area, grassy strip, or yard, that a maximum of two feet of the overall length (twenty square feet) of any such space or spaces may extend into the landscaped area, grassy strip or yard. No part of a parking space shall be permitted to extend over a public or private sidewalk or pedestrian way.
(c) No parking area shall be permitted within ten feet of the front property line, not including any public right-of-way, and such ten-foot strip shall be planted in grass, landscaped, or surfaced with decorative paving unsuitable for parking use or, in the alternative, be physically separated from parking areas immediately to the rear of the ten-foot strip by some type of natural or artificial barrier.
(Ord. 12-2012. Passed 10-15-12.)
(Ord. 12-2012. Passed 10-15-12.)
1171.05 HEIGHT REGULATIONS.
The height regulations shall be the same as those of the AA Single-Family Residence District.
(Ord. 12-2012. Passed 10-15-12.)
(Ord. 12-2012. Passed 10-15-12.)
1171.06 AREA REGULATIONS.
(a) Front Yard. No front yard is required.
(b) Side Yard. The side yard regulations for dwellings are the same as those in the C-1 District. In all other cases, a side yard is not required except on the side of a lot adjoining a dwelling district or a residential use, in which case there shall be a side yard of not less than five feet.
(c) Rear Yard. The rear yard regulations for dwellings are the same as those in the C-1 District. In all other cases, a rear yard is not required except on the rear of a lot abutting a dwelling district or residential use, in which case there shall be a rear yard of not less than twenty feet.
(d) Intensity of Use. When used for residential occupancy the intensity of use regulations for the E Commercial District shall be the same as those of the C-3 Office Building District. When used for other than residential purposes, each lot in the E Commercial District shall meet the following requirements:
(1) For single-story buildings the lot area shall be not less than 5,000 square feet and the average width shall be not less than one-half the average depth, provided that the minimum lot width shall be fifty feet.
(2) For two-story buildings the lot area shall be not less than 7,000 square feet and the average width shall be not less than one-half the average depth, provided that the minimum lot width shall be seventy feet.
(Ord. 12-2012. Passed 10-15-12.)