Chapter 17.44 — C-3 COMMUNITY COMMERCIAL DISTRICT

Sections:

• 17.44.010 Purpose 17.44.020 Special provisions and development standards 17.44.030 Permitted uses 17.44.040 Screening and landscaping – Fences, walls and hedges 17.44.050 Required conditions 17.44.060 Site area 17.44.070 Frontage, width and depth of site 17.44.080 Coverage 17.44.090 Yard requirements 17.44.100 Distances between structures 17.44.110 Building height 17.44.120 Off-street parking and off-street loading facilities 17.44.130 Signs

The C-3 district is intended to provide location outside the downtown business district for unified shopping centers serving the entire community and areas surrounding the city.

All uses in the C-3 district shall be subject to the provisions of Chapter 17.71 of this title.

Uses permitted by right and subject to approval of an administrative site plan or conditional use permit in the C-3 district shall be as listed in Section 17.48.030.

In the C-3 district:

• A. Where a site adjoins or is located across a street or alley from any residential district, an ornamental solid wall or fence, six (6) feet minimum in height, or such other height or type of screening device as may be required by the director, shall be located on the property line common to such districts, except in a required front yard.

• B. Open storage of materials and equipment attendant to a permitted use or conditional use shall be permitted only within an area surrounded or screened by a solid wall or fence six (6) feet minimum in height, except as may be modified under site plan review. Said storage shall not be visible above said fence or wall.

City of Dinuba Zoning Ordinance

September 2008 17.44-1

• C. Street trees and other forms of landscaping may be required under the provisions of Chapter 17.71 of this title.

The following are required conditions in the C-3 district:

• A. All businesses, services and processes shall be conducted entirely within a completely enclosed structure, except for off-street parking and off-street loading areas, gasoline service stations, outdoor dining areas, nurseries, garden shops, signs, bus depots, transit stations, public utility stations, used car sales incidental to new car sales and temporary uses as prescribed in Chapter 17.71 of this title.

• B. No use shall be permitted and no process, equipment or materials shall be used which are found by the city to be objectionable to persons living or working in the vicinity to be reasons of odor, fumes, dust, smoke, cinders, dirt, refuse, water-carried waste, noise, vibration, illumination, glare or unsightliness or to involve any hazard of fire or explosion.

The minimum site area in the C-3 district shall be five (5) acres.

In the C-3 district, there are no limitations on frontage, width and depth of site.

In the C-3 district, there are no coverage limitations.

Yard requirements in the C-3 district are as follows:

• A. The minimum front yard shall be fifteen (15) feet. An average of fifty percent of the required front yard shall be landscaped.

• B. Except as specified in subparagraphs (1) and (2) of this section, no side yards or rear yards shall be required:

  1. The minimum side yard abutting any residential or PO district shall be ten (10) feet and shall be landscaped.

  2. The minimum rear yard abutting any residential or PO district shall be ten (10) feet and shall be landscaped.

City of Dinuba Zoning Ordinance

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• A. The minimum distance between any structure on a property in the C-3 district and a residential dwelling unit shall be ten (10) feet.

The maximum height in the C-3 district shall be fifty (50) feet, except as may be allowed under provisions of Chapter 17.80 of this title.

Off-street parking facilities and off-street loading facilities in the C-3 district shall be provided on the site for each use as prescribed in Chapter 17.64 of this title.

No sign shall be provided in the C-3 district except as prescribed in Chapter 17.72 of this title.

City of Dinuba Zoning Ordinance

September 2008 17.44-3