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Yacolt City Zoning Code

CHAPTER 18

30 COMMERCIAL DISTRICTS

§ 18.30.010 Purpose.

A. 
Neighborhood Commercial (C1) District. This district is intended to provide for medium-sized shopping and service facilities. These centers shall range from 10,000 square feet to three acres. They are intended to provide for the shopping and service needs of the immediate urban neighborhood in which they are found.
B. 
Community Commercial (C2) District. This district is intended to recognize existing retail and service commercial development patterns that occur as small centers or strips. Most uses provide goods and services to the local population.
(Ord. 371 § 5(A), 1997)

§ 18.30.020 Uses.

The uses set out in Table 5A are examples of uses allowable in the commercial zone districts. The review of all proposed commercial uses is mandatory.
Table 5A
"P" – Permitted uses;
"C" – Conditional uses which may be permitted subject to the approval of a conditional use permit;
"X" – Uses specifically prohibited.
C1
C2
A. Residential.
1. New single-family dwelling units as provided in Chapter 18.25 YMC.
C
C
2. Existing residences without any increase in density.
P
P
3. Caretaker or manager residence when incorporated as an integral part of a use permitted outright or by conditional use.
C
C
4. Duplexes or two-family dwellings; triplexes, four-plexes, or other multifamily dwellings; dwelling groups; apartment houses; townhouses; or other multifamily dwellings (subject to the provisions of YMC § 18.30.100)
C
C
B. Retail Sales – Food.
1. Markets in excess of 25,000 sq. ft. of gross floor area.
C
C
2. Markets – 5,000 to 25,000 sq. ft. of gross floor area.
P
P
3. Markets – <5,000 sq. ft. of gross floor area.
P
P
4. Delicatessen.
P
P
5. Meat and fish markets.
C
P
6. Fruit and vegetable markets.
C
P
7. Dairy products, including egg and poultry stores.
C
P
8. Other specialized food stores.
C
P
9. Bakery – where baked foods manufactured elsewhere are sold on the premises.
C
P
10. Bakery – manufacturing where on-site baked foods are sold on the premises (<5,000 sq. ft. of gross area).
C
P
11. Bakery – manufacturing where on-site baked foods are sold on the premises (5,000 sq. ft. or more gross floor area).
C
P
C. Retail Sales – Apparel and Accessories.
1. Apparel and accessory stores – men's, women's, and children's.
P
P
2. Shoe stores.
P
P
3. Tailor shops.
C
P
4. Furrier shops.
C
P
D. Retail Sales – General Merchandise.
1. Department stores, major (over 50,000 sq. ft. of gross floor area).
C
C
2. Department stores, junior (under 50,000 sq. ft. of gross floor area).
C
C
3. Limited price (e.g., 5 and 10 variety stores).
C
P
4. Mail order houses (principal use).
C
P
5. General merchandise stores.
C
P
6. Specialty stores including building/home improvement/hardware and drug/variety/garden center (located in an enclosed building).
C
P
E. Retail Sales – Restaurants, Drinking Places.
1. Restaurants.
C
P
2. Restaurants – Take out.
C
C
3. Drinking places, alcoholic beverages (with or without entertainment).
C
C
4. Restaurants – Portable building (coffee, nonalcoholic beverages, ready-made, prepackaged food sales).
P
P
F. Retail Sales – Furniture, Home Furnishings, and Home Equipment.
1. Household furniture, home furnishing and home equipment stores.
C
P
2. Household appliance stores.
C
P
3. Radio, television, and music stores.
C
P
G. Retail Sales – Automotive and Related.
1. Motor vehicle dealers, new and used.
C
C
2. Tire, battery, and accessory stores.
C
C
3. Service stations.
C
C
4. Boat, marine supplies, and trailers.
C
C
5. Motorcycles.
C
P
6. Auto parts, new or remanufactured.
C
P
7. Mobile home and/or recreational vehicle dealers, new and used.
C
C
8. Car washes.
C
C
H. Retail Sales – Building Material and Farm Equipment.
1. Lumber and other building materials stores and yards, with only incidental cutting and planing of products sold.
C
C
2. Heating and plumbing equipment, including incidental fabrication (operated entirely within an enclosed building).
C
P
3. Paint, glass, and wallpaper store.
C
P
4. Electrical supplies store.
C
P
5. Hardware store.
C
P
6. Farm equipment and implement dealer.
C
C
I. Retail Sales – Miscellaneous Stores.
1. Antiques, stamp, and coin shops.
C
P
2. Bicycles.
C
P
3. Book and stationery.
C
P
4. Camera and photographic supplies.
C
P
5. Drug and proprietary.
C
P
6. Fabric (yard goods).
C
P
7. Farm and garden supplies, including nurseries.
C
P
8. Florists.
C
P
9. Fuel dealers.
C
C
10. Gift, novelty and souvenirs.
C
P
11. Hay, grain, and feed stores.
C
C
12. Ice dealers.
C
C
13. Jewelry.
C
P
14. Liquor.
C
P
15. News and magazine dealers.
C
P
16. Secondhand stores (providing that merchandise displayed and sold is from within an entirely enclosed building).
C
P
17. Sporting goods.
C
P
18. Tobacco and smoker supplies.
C
P
19. Yarn shops.
C
P
J. Retail Sales – Products (Custom Fabricated, Processed, Assembled, Installed, Repaired, or Printed on the Premises within an Entirely Enclosed Building).
1. Cabinet shops.
C
C
2. Electrical shops.
C
C
3. Plumbing shops.
C
C
4. Sheet metal shops.
C
C
5. Welding shops.
C
C
6. Electroplating shops.
C
C
7. Heating and air-conditioning shops.
C
C
8. Sign shops.
C
C
9. Upholstery shops.
C
C
10. Printing, publishing, and lithographic shops.
C
C
11. Radio and television repair shops.
C
P
12. Home appliance repair shops.
C
C
K. Services – Personal.
1. Laundry, cleaning and dyeing plants.
C
C
2. Self-service laundries and cleaning places.
C
P
3. Laundry and cleaning drop and pick-up places.
C
P
4. Pressing, alteration and garment repair.
P
P
5. Barber and beauty shops.
P
P
6. Shoe repair shops.
P
P
7. Photographic studios.
C
P
8. Clothing rental establishments.
C
P
9. Transportation terminals.
C
C
10. U.S. Post Offices.
C
C
11. Mortuaries.
C
C
L. Services – Business.
1. Adjustment and collection agencies.
C
P
2. Advertising agencies, including commercial artists.
C
P
3. Auto, truck and trailer rental or repair.
C
C
4. Business and management services.
C
P
5. Car washes.
C
C
6. Credit agencies.
C
P
7. Duplicating, addressing, blueprinting, photocopying, mailing and stenographic services.
C
P
8. Employment agencies.
C
P
9. Equipment rental agencies.
C
C
10. Equipment service and repair shops.
C
C
11. Offices housing personnel who provide special services to business.
C
P
12. Off-street parking facilities.
C
P
13. Services to buildings (including dwellings), cleaning and exterminating.
C
C
14. Telephone answering services.
C
P
15. Miscellaneous business services, including auctioneers, bondsmen, drafting, detective agencies, notary public, and other like services.
C
P
16. Moving and storage.
C
C
17. Vehicle repair shops (located entirely within an enclosed building).
C
C
18. Mini-warehouses.
C
P
19. Auction barns.
C
C
20. Vehicle towing and storage services.
C
C
M. Services – Finance, Insurance, and Real Estate.
1. Financial and banking institutions.
C
P
2. Insurance and bond carriers, agents, brokers, and services.
C
P
3. Real estate brokers, agents, and services.
C
P
4. Branch banks.
C
P
N. Services – Lodging Places.
1. Hotels.
C
C
2. Motels.
C
C
3. Travel trailer and camper parks.
C
C
O. Services – Medical and Health.
1. Hospitals.
C
C
2. Medical and dental laboratories.
C
C
3. Sanitaria, convalescent, and rest homes.
C
C
4. Orthopedic equipment and supplies, rental, sales, and service.
C
P
5. Animal hospitals and veterinary clinics.
Outside animal activities.
C
C
Inside animal activities only.
C
C
6. Ambulance services.
P
P
7. Residential care homes.
C
C
8. Residential care facilities.
C
C
9. Congregate care facilities.
C
C
10. Low-cost animal vaccination clinic.
C
C
P. Services – Professional Office such as Accounting, Architectural, Engineering and Law.
1. Clinic, outpatient.
C
P
2. Professionals, other.
C
P
Q. Services – Amusement.
1. Amusement centers.
C
C
2. Art galleries.
C
P
3. Billiard and pool parlors.
C
P
4. Bowling alleys.
C
P
5. Carnivals (temporary) and circuses (temporary).
C
C
6. Dance studios and dance schools.
C
P
7. Golf, miniature.
C
P
8. Skating rinks, ice and/or roller.
C
P
9. Racquet clubs.
C
C
10. Theaters, indoor.
C
C
11. Sports facilities, including stadium and arena facilities.
C
C
12. Skateboard facilities, indoor.
C
C
13. Outdoor public entertainments, amusements, or assemblies.
C
C
14. Athletic and health clubs.
C
C
R. Services – Educational.
1. Nurseries, commercial day-care centers, preschools.
C
P
2. Mini day-care centers.
C
P
3. Family day-care centers (only single-family residences).
C
P
4. Libraries.
C
P
5. Vocational schools.
C
P
6. Music schools.
C
P
7. Public parks, parkways, recreation facilities, trails, and related facilities.
P
P
S. Services – Membership Organizations.
1. Business and professional.
C
P
2. Civic, social and fraternal.
C
P
3. Charitable.
C
P
4. Labor.
C
P
5. Political.
C
P
6. Religious, not including churches.
C
P
7. Churches.
C
C
T. Public Services and Facilities.
1. Buildings and other structures such as city hall, police, and fire stations.
C
C
2. Educational institutions.
C
C
3. Sewer, water and utility transmission lines.
P
P
4. Zoos, museums, historic and cultural exhibits and the like.
C
C
5. Utility substation facilities.
C
C
U. Food and Fiber Production.
1. Agriculture.
C
C
2. Silviculture.
C
C
(Ord. 371 § 5(B), Table 5A, 1997; Ord. 432 § 5, 2004; Ord. 482, 2011; Ord. 485 § 1, 2011; Ord. 515 § 2(c), 2014; Ord. 538 § 1, 2016; Ord. 549 § 1(e), 2016; Ord. 563 § 2(f), 2017)

§ 18.30.030 Accessory uses.

A. 
The following accessory uses are permitted in all commercial districts: on-site hazardous waste treatment and storage facilities, subject to Washington State siting criteria (RCW 70.105.210).
B. 
Outdoor storage of equipment or materials is permitted outside buildings if not expressly prohibited and if such storage complies with the applicable development standards.
(Ord. 371 § 5(C), 1997)

§ 18.30.040 Height regulations.

No building or structure with the exception of storage sheds shall be hereafter erected, enlarged or structurally altered to exceed 35 feet in height. No storage sheds shall be hereafter erected, enlarged or structurally altered to exceed 10 feet in height. The height of storage sheds shall be measured at the peak of the roof.
(Ord. 371 § 5(D), 1997; Ord. 399, 2000)

§ 18.30.050 Lot requirements.

For lot requirements, see Table 5B.
Table 5B
C1
C2
A. Minimum square feet of new zoning district.
10,000
10,000
B. Minimum square lot area.
10,000
10,000
C. Minimum front yard setback (feet).
25
0
D. Minimum side yard setback (feet).
1. Abutting all single-family residential uses.
5
0
2. Not abutting one of above.
5
None
E. Minimum rear yard (only if adjacent to a residential district).
25
10 feet plus an additional 1/2 foot for each foot the building exceeds 20 feet in height
F. Minimum landscaped area (type subject to Chapter 18.75 YMC).
15%/L1
15%/L1
(Ord. 371 § 5(E), Table 5(B), 1997; Ord. 549 § 1(f), 2016)

§ 18.30.060 Off-street parking and loading.

Off-street parking and loading shall be provided as required in Chapter 18.70 YMC.
(Ord. 371 § 5(F), 1997)

§ 18.30.070 Landscaping.

Landscaping shall be provided as required in Table 12A of Chapter 18.75 YMC.
(Ord. 371 § 5(G), 1997)

§ 18.30.080 Signs.

Signs shall be permitted according to the provisions of Chapter 18.85 YMC.
(Ord. 371 § 5(H), 1997)

§ 18.30.090 Special provisions.

When a commercial district abuts a residential district, the minimum side yard setback shall be 20 feet, plus an additional one-half foot for each foot the building exceeds 20 feet in height. Also see Chapter 18.75 YMC for additional landscape/buffer width requirements abutting a residential zone.
(Ord. 371 § 5(I), 1997)

§ 18.30.100 Multiple-family residential apartments.

Duplexes or two-family dwellings; triplexes, four-plexes, or other multifamily dwellings; dwelling groups; apartment houses; townhouses; or other multifamily dwellings are permitted in the C1 neighborhood commercial district and the C2 community commercial district as a conditional use. The following provisions apply to the location of such multifamily dwellings in the C1 and C2 districts:
A. 
Lot Requirements.
1. 
Lot Area. Minimum lot area shall be 6,000 square feet for the first unit, an additional 2,000 square feet (1,500 square feet if the size of an existing lot is less than 8,000 square feet for duplexes) for the second unit, and a minimum of 1,000 square feet of land for each additional dwelling unit over two units.
2. 
Front Yard. Minimum front yard setback shall be 20 feet.
3. 
Side Yard. Minimum side yard setback on each side of the residential dwelling shall be five feet, except on corner lots, where the street side yard setback shall be 20 feet.
4. 
Rear Yard. Minimum rear yard shall have a depth of five feet. The rear yard shall be increased by one-half foot for each foot by which the building height exceeds 15 feet.
5. 
Lot Coverage. Maximum lot coverage by buildings and structures shall be 50 percent of the total lot area.
6. 
Local Health Officer Authority. Where a public sewer system is not available, the local health officer shall have final authority to approve, approve with conditions, or deny any development application for a multifamily residential structure (listed above) in a C1 or C2 zoning district. No building or development permit for such multifamily residential structure may be issued by the town except in compliance with the conditions described in a recommendation for approval from the local health officer, who shall determine the minimum lot size, minimum land area, lot coverage criteria, dwelling density, soil condition standards, or such other standards and requirements as the local health officer is authorized by law or regulation to determine, as such law or regulation is now enacted or may hereafter be amended.
(Ord. 371 § 5(J), 1997; Ord. 563 § 2(g), 2017)

§ 18.30.110 Single-family residences.

The regulations and minimum requirements for single-family residences in any residential zoning classification described in Chapter 18.25 YMC, as amended, shall apply as minimum standards to the location of any single-family residence in any commercial zoning district of the town, except as those regulations and minimum requirements may be changed in the discretion and judgment of the town council and expressed in the conditional use permit.
(Ord. 549 § 1(g), 2016)