Ferndale Zoning Code § 5.05 Neighborhood Commercial or C1 Zone

The Neighborhood Commercial or C1 Zone is intended to provide for neighborhood shopping centers which provide convenient sales and service facilities to residential areas, detracting from the residential desirability of such areas. The following regulations apply in all Neighborhood Commercial or C1 Zones.

• 5.05.1 Principal permitted uses:

  • a. Social halls, fraternal and social organizations and clubs, plant nurseries and greenhouses.

  • b. Professional and business offices and commercial instruction.

  • c. Stores, agencies and services of a light commercial character, conducted entirely within an enclosed building, such as: antique shops, art galleries, retail bakeries, banks, barber shops, beauty salons, book stores, clothing and apparel stores, coin-operated dry cleaning and laundries, dry cleaning laundry agencies, drug stores, florists, food markets, furniture stores, hardware and appliance stores, radio and television sales and services, restaurants and licensed premises appurtenant thereto, automobile service stations, studios, tailor shops, enclosed theaters, variety stores and mortuaries, nurseries and greenhouses.

  • d. Sales of used and secondhand goods when appurtenant to any of the foregoing.

  • e. Vacation Rentals in conjunction with a dwelling use permit.

  • f. (Begin section amendments by Ord. 2025-04 on 8/20/2025 and Ord. 2025-06 on 11/19/2025) Dwellings, small employee housing, and Multiple Dwellings and Dwelling Groups, single room occupancy housing, and supportive housing developments above the first floor.

• 5.05.2 Uses permitted with a Use Permit

  • a. Dwellings, small employee housing, Multiple Dwellings and Dwelling Groups, single room occupancy housing, and supportive housing developments on the first floor. (End section amendments by Ord. 2025-04 on 8/20/2025 and Ord. 2025-06 on 11/19/2025)

  • b. Hotels, motels, boarding houses and mobile home parks.

  • c. Small animal hospitals, completely enclosed within a buildings.

  • d. Stores, agencies and services such as: minor automobile repair, new automobile, trailer and boat sales, and used automobile, trailer and boat sales when appurtenant thereto, bowling alleys, licensed premises not appurtenant to any restaurant, pet shops, public garages, sales of used or secondhand goods, storage warehouses.

• 5.05.3 Other Regulations:

  • a. Minimum lot area: 2,000 square feet.

  • b. Minimum lot width: 25 feet.

  • c. Minimum yards: front, none, except where frontage is in a block which is partially in an “R” Zone, the front yard shall be the same as that required in such “R” Zone; rear, 15 feet, except where a rear yard abuts on an alley, such rear yard may be not less than 5 feet; side, none, except that a side yard of an interior lot abutting on an “R” Zone shall be not less than the front yard required in such “R” Zone.

  • d. Maximum building height: 35 feet.

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