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Central-Commercial Zone

The Central-Commercial (C-C) zone is intended to encourage and accommodate the development and redevelopment of a viable central business district serving a broad trade area. The intended physical form of the district is an intensive concentration of compatible business, professional and commercial, and high density residential activities. This purpose is accomplished by:

1. Allowing a range of commercial uses that serve the broad trade area; 2. Promoting office uses, which provide for local employment and complement other commercial uses; 3. Promoting residential as a secondary use, including upper floors on storefront dominated streets; 4. Providing standards and guidelines that preserve and/or enhance the historic character and scale of buildings; 5. Providing standards and guidelines that reinforce and/or enhance the character and walkability of streets; 6. Use of this zone is appropriate for areas designated urban center in the comprehensive plan.

General Mixed-Use Zones Purpose

The general purposes of the mixed-use zones are as follows:

1. Fostering a development pattern offering direct, convenient pedestrian, bicycle, and vehicular access between residences and businesses, in order to facilitate pedestrian and bicycle travel and reduce the number and length of automobile trips; 2. Encouraging new development that supports the safe and efficient movement of goods and people; 3. Providing for a compatible mix of multifamily housing and neighborhood commercial businesses and services, with an emphasis on promoting multistory structures with commercial uses on the ground floor and multifamily housing on upper floors; 4. Promoting a compact growth pattern to efficiently use the developable land, and to enable cost-effective extensions of utilities, services, and streets; frequent transit service; and to help sustain neighborhood businesses; 5. Fostering the development of mixed-use areas that are arranged, scaled, and designed to be compatible with surrounding land uses and which provide transitions between significantly different land use; and 6. Ensuring that buildings and other development components are arranged, designed, and oriented to facilitate pedestrian access.

Allowed Uses

RESIDENTIAL, GENERAL:
Dwelling, duplex ¹
Dwelling, townhouse ¹
Dwelling, multifamily ¹
Dwelling, live-work ¹

GROUP RESIDENCES:
Boarding houses, lodging houses ¹
Adult family home ¹
Community residential facility ¹
Senior citizen assisted housing ¹
Transitional housing ¹
Permanent supportive housing ^1, ²
Indoor emergency shelter
Indoor emergency housing
Accessory dwelling unit ¹
Home occupations ¹

TEMPORARY LODGING:
Bed and breakfast ¹

RETAIL:
Auto sales ²
Automobile Fueling
Automobile, EV charging station
Farmers' markets
Heavy retail ²
Nurseries and greenhouses
Restaurants
Bars and brewpubs
Coffee house, espresso bar
Retail, small scale (less than 2,000 SF floor area)
Retail, medium scale (between 2,000 and 20,000 SF floor area)
Retail, large scale (between 20,001 and 60,000 SF floor area)
Retail, very large scale (60,001 to 100,000 SF floor area) ³
Cannabis retailer

PERSONAL AND GENERAL SERVICE:
Day care I facilities
Day care II facilities
Heavy services ²
Hotels and motels
Hospitals ³
Offices, medical
Nursing homes
Cannabis cooperative
Personal service establishments
Laundromats and dry cleaners
Places of assembly
Veterinary clinic

BUSINESS SERVICE:
Conference center
Offices, business or professional, small scale (less than 2,000 SF floor area)
Offices, business or professional, medium scale (between 2,000 and 20,000 SF floor area)
Offices, business or professional, large scale (between 20,001 and 60,000 SF floor area)

INDUSTRIAL:
Light manufacturing ²
Light industry ^2, ⁴
Hazardous waste treatment (on-site) ³

PARK, OPEN SPACE AND RECREATIONAL:
Recreation, indoor (commercial)
Recreation, small-scale indoor studios (commercial)
Parks, playgrounds (public or private) ⁶

CULTURAL AND ENTERTAINMENT:
Art, performing arts, and recording studios
Museums
Theaters

EDUCATIONAL:
Schools ³

GOVERNMENTAL:
Court
Police facility ⁵
Public agency or utility office
Public agency or utility yard ^3, ⁷
Utility facility
Public transportation passenger terminals

RESOURCE:
Gardening or fruit raising (accessory use or noncommercial)
Small wind energy systems

Note 1: Except for lobbies or similar entrances, all permitted residential uses in the CC and CCII zones are prohibited within 30 feet of the sidewalk on the ground floor of properties fronting on storefront streets per ECC 15.510.050(E).

Note 2: Use must be enclosed entirely within a building.

Note 3: Subject to Conditional Use review procedures.

Note 4: Special restrictions - No power tools or equipment are allowed which by their decibel, frequency, and/or feature of their operation would negatively impact the surrounding area. Production or manufacturing activity shall not occur between the hours of 10:00pm and 6:00am.

Note 5: Limited to "storefront" police offices. Such offices shall not have holding cells, suspect interview rooms, or long-term storage of stolen properties.

Note 6: Lighting for structures and fields shall be directed away from residential areas through the use of exterior full cut-off shields or through optics within the fixture.

Note 7: Utility yards shall only be allowed on sites with utility district offices. Public agency yards are limited to material storage, vehicle maintenance, and equipment storage for road maintenance, facility maintenance, and parks facilities

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