Title 17 ZONING
Chapter 17.36 SUPPLEMENTARY USE REGULATIONS
17.36.010 Purpose.
17.36.020 Junk.
17.36.030 Fences, walls and plantings.
17.36.040 Lighting.
17.36.050 Public utilities.
17.36.060 Churches, clubs and quasipublic buildings.
17.36.070 Home occupations--Permitted.
17.36.080 Home occupations--Criteria.
17.36.010 Purpose.
Specific regulations, providing for the location of certain special and
accessory uses in all use districts and providing supplementary controls for the
protection of the essential uses of said districts, are contained herein. (Ord.
516 § 3(part), 1970; Ord. 491 § 8.01, 1966).
17.36.020 Junk.
In no use district shall there be a collection of junk, scrap, unlicensed
cars or parts of cars, parts and abandoned equipment, except where specific
provisions are made concerning such items in a specific use district. Junkyards
shall be surrounded by a sight-obscuring fence or planting which shall be at
least six feet in height. (Ord. 516 § 3 (part), 1970; Ord. 491 § 8.02,
1966).
17.36.030 Fences, walls and plantings.
A. Fences and walls, and hedges, shrubs, and similar plantings shall not
exceed a height of six feet along a property line, except where a greater height
is needed to be sight-obscuring as required by this
title.
B. Sight-obscuring fences, walls, or plantings not required by this
title may be erected on a side and front lot within any front yard, but shall
not exceed three feet in height.
C. Height limitations shall not be deemed
to prohibit open-type or wire-mesh fences or any height necessary for safety or
security in conjunction with playgrounds, public utilities, and similar hazards
to the public safety. (Ord. 516 § 3 (part), 1970; Ord. 491 § 8.03,
1966).
17.36.040 Lighting.
Artificial lighting on any lot, building, structure, or parking area shall
be oriented away from adjacent residential properties. (Ord. 516 § 3
(part), 1970; Ord. 491 § 8.04, 1966).
17.36.050 Public utilities.
Public utility buildings, telephone exchanges, sewage pumping stations,
electrical distribution substations, reservoirs, service lines and similar
utility facilities necessary for the operation of utilities by and within the
city, shall comply with the following requirements:
A. If the installation
is housed in a building, the building shall conform architecturally with
surrounding buildings or the type of buildings that are likely to develop in the
use district.
B. Aboveground facilities, other than towers and reservoirs,
or housed installations that, because of particular requirements, cannot be
economically made to conform to the architectural requirements of subsection A
of this section, shall be surrounded by site-obscuring plantings.
C. An
unhoused installation of a dangerous nature, such as an electrical distribution
substation, shall be enclosed by a wire fence at least eight feet in
height.
D. All buildings, installations and fences shall observe the yard
requirements for buildings in the district in which they are located, except
that in residential use districts, the side yards shall each be not less than
fifteen feet.
E. Reservoirs, towers and other irregular large shaped
structures shall be located and designed so as to minimize their impacts to the
surrounding uses as much as possible. (Ord. 944 § 8, 1996: Ord. 516 §
3 (part), 1970; Ord. 491 § 8.05, 1966).
17.36.060 Churches, clubs and quasipublic buildings.
Churches, institutions, clubs, and similar quasipublic use buildings in
residential use districts shall cover not more than thirty-five percent of their
lots. Side yards shall each be a minimum of ten feet. Off-street parking shall
be required and meet the requirements of Sections 17.44.010 and 17.44.020. (Ord.
516 § 3 (part), 1970; Ord. 491 § 8.06, 1966).
17.36.070 Home occupations--Permitted.
The following home occupations and other operations similar in nature may
be operated as an accessory use to a dwelling unit:
A. Custom dressmaking,
millinery, tailoring, sewing of fabric for custom apparel and home
furnishing;
B. Teaching of piano, voice, or dancing, limited to a total of
six pupils simultaneously;
C. Fine arts studio in which are created only
individual works of art;
D. Rooming and boarding of not more than four
persons, exclusive of the resident family;
E. Beauty salon; provided the
business is limited to the operation of one dryer;
F. Offices, staffed only
by resident of dwelling unit;
G. Funeral home. (Ord. 516 § 3 (part),
1970; Ord. 491 § 8.07, 1966).
17.36.080 Home occupations--Criteria.
All permitted home occupations shall comply with the following
criteria:
A. The home occupation shall be clearly incidental to the
residential use of the dwelling;
B. The operation is entirely within the
confines of the main building and does not employ individuals other than those
of the immediate family;
C. There is no external or internal alteration
affecting the residential character of the building, and no display of products
shall be visible from the street;
D. Entrance to the use is only from within
the main building;
E. The area of all such uses does not exceed twenty-five
percent of the gross floor area of one story of the dwelling unit or four
hundred square feet, whichever is greater. (Ord. 416 § 3 (part), 1970; Ord.
491 § 8.08, 1966).
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