§ 21.23.020. Permitted uses.

A.

Commercial Uses and Public Administration. The following uses are permitted as an allowed use or by special use permit as noted if they have a gross floor area of no more than fifteen thousand square feet and require no outside storage. The square footage limitation may be waived by the department for general merchandise stores, food stores, hotels and motels, rooming houses, educational services, and museums and gardens. To waive this requirement the department must find that the proposed use can conform to other requirements of the high density corridor, is designed to accommodate the pedestrian emphasis and is compatible and complementary to surrounding uses in the zone. Noted special uses may also be approved with a greater or lesser square footage under the same conditions of pedestrian emphasis, compatibility and complementary design. Uses allowed include:

1.

Retail Uses. Preferred retail activities are those that promote a shopping experience for pedestrians and can accommodate design that is easily integrated into the corridor's mixed use vision. Preferred retail uses include activities such as:

a.

General merchandise except as provided in Section 21.23.025A1;

b.

Food;

c.

Apparel and accessories;

d.

Eating and drinking establishments;

e.

Drug and proprietary;

f.

Shopping goods stores; and

g.

Hardware, home furnishings, appliance, auto parts stores, and similar activities that are integrated into a strip mall or a planned multiple building concept that is exclusively retail in nature.

2.

Finance, Insurance and Real Estate. Preferred uses include finance, insurance and real estate serving needs of surrounding neighborhood and community residents. Such uses will have a design that promotes the immediately surrounding mixed use high density corridor. Such uses include:

a.

Finance depository institutions, nondepository institutions, holding companies, other investment companies, brokers and dealers in securities and commodity contracts and security and commodity exchanges;

b.

Insurance, including carriers of all types of insurance and insurance agents and brokers;

c.

Real estate, including owners, lessors, lessees, buyers, sellers, agents and developers of real estate.

3.

Services. Preferred service uses are establishments primarily engaged in a variety of services for individuals, business and government establishments and other organizations and have a design promoting the service needs of the mixed uses within the corridor. Preferred service uses include activities such as:

a.

Hotels and lodging places;

b.

Personal services: laundry, photo studios, beauty shops, shoe repair and funeral service;

c.

Business services: advertising agencies, commercial art and computer programming;

d.

Repair services: radio and TV repair;

e.

Motion pictures: theaters and video tape rental stores;

f.

Amusement and recreation: physical fitness facilities and health clubs;

g.

Health services: offices and clinics of doctors, dentists, health practitioners, veterinarian clinics and medical laboratories;

h.

Educational services: establishments involved in academic and technical instruction and libraries;

i.

Social services: child care and residential care;

j.

Museums, art galleries and botanical and zoological gardens;

k.

Membership organizations; and

l.

Engineering, accounting, research, management and related services.

4.

Public Administration. Limited to uses promoting the mixed use of the corridor by serving the residents of the neighborhoods and within the corridor. Such uses include activities like a post office, satellite police stations and fire stations.

5.

Transportation Activities. Preferred uses are transportation activities which promote a multi-modal environment or can be easily integrated into the mixed use vision for the corridor. Such uses include activities such as:

a.

Bus terminals;

b.

Taxicab services;

c.

Transportation services;

d.

Travel agencies;

e.

Tour operators; and

f.

Commercial parking facilities may be allowed provided they are limited to twenty-five cars. Commercial parking facilities shall be prohibited on corner lots.

B.

Residential Uses. All residential uses are permitted with a minimum density of at least twelve units per acre. No density maximum shall be imposed provided any density beyond twenty units per acre shall be obtained by purchase of transfer of development rights, low income housing density bonuses or other incentive density bonuses as may be available or determined in the best interest of the community by the department.

C.

Wireless communication facilities and other antenna support structures are permitted as provided in Chapter 20.33;

D.

Temporary uses are permitted as provided in Chapter 21.66.

(Ord. 13058 § 9, 2003; Ord. 12032 § 75, 1999; Ord. 11867 §§ 2 (part), 15 (part), 1998: Ord. 11499 § 11, 1997: Ord. 11274 § 1 (part), 1996)