Glenn County Municipal Code § 15.42 SC - Service Commercial District

The purpose of the service commercial district is to provide areas suitable for heavy retail and service commercial uses which do not specialize in pedestrian traffic and are more appropriately located away from the central business district of communities within the county. (Ord. 1183 § 2, 2006)

When conducted within a completely enclosed building, when outdoor storage does not exceed fifty percent of the gross floor area per use and when within a completely screened area on the same lot, the following service commercial uses are permitted:

1. Retail sales of large and bulky household items such as appliances, carpet and floor covering, furniture, fireplaces or woodstoves;

2. Installation of auto parts and accessories such as tire or battery stores, muffler shops and tune-up shops, including incidental retail sales of auto parts and accessories;

3. Commercial trade services with or without incidental retail sales such as cleaning and dyeing agencies and plants, bottling works, funeral homes, cabinet and carpentry shops, blacksmith, welding and machine shops, furniture repair and upholstery shops;

4. Construction-related sales and services such as building supply stores with incidental lumber storage yards, general and specialty contractors offices, electrical, plumbing and heating shops, and light equipment rental shops;

5. Warehouses and mini-storage;

6. Sales and services to the agricultural sector such as farm supply stores, farm implement sales and service shops, agricultural supply cooperatives and commercial irrigation services;

7. Professional construction support services such as blue-printing, duplicating, printing, drafting, engineering, surveying, planning or architecture services;

8. Laundry, janitorial or facility maintenance services;

9. Other service commercial uses when of similar character to those listed above;

10. Commercial and residential accessory uses and accessory structures;

11. Public buildings, public utility substations. (Ord. 1253 § 2, 2015; Ord. 1183 § 2, 2006)

The following uses shall be permitted only after obtaining a conditional use permit. The following service commercial uses are permitted when conducted within a completely enclosed building (excepting auto sales):

1. Uses permitted in Section 15.42.020 when outdoor storage does exceed fifty percent of the gross floor area per use or when not contained within a completely screened area;

2. Uses which do not meet the performance criteria listed in Division 4, Part 1, Performance Standards;

3. Businesses providing retail sales of new or used automobiles with incidental minor and major repair services;

4. Open-air retail sales of boats, recreational vehicles, mobilehomes, modular homes, factory-built homes, swimming pools, storage tanks, satellite dish antennas and other large and bulky items;

5. Rental or leasing of trucks, trailers and recreational vehicles;

6. Automobile, truck and vehicle service and repair shops and garages providing minor and major repairs, body work and painting;

7. Commercial parking lots, taxicab companies, including outdoor storage;

8. Contractors’ heavy equipment storage yards or heavy equipment rental yards;

9. Fuel tank farms, wholesale fuel sales or distributors, including natural gas or propane distributors or wholesalers;

10. Natural gas wells. (Ord. 1253 § 2, 2015; Ord. 1183 § 2, 2006)

The following uses shall be permitted only after obtaining an administrative permit:

1. An administrative permit for one (1) residential dwelling unit per parcel of land used and occupied exclusively by the proprietor who owns and operates the business on the site, or by an employee who is employed specifically as a caretaker or watchman for the business on the site. (Ord. 1183 § 2, 2006)

• 15.42.050 Minimum Lot Size

Net lot sizes shall be no less than the following:

1. Lots with public water and sewer: Twelve thousand five hundred square feet;

2. Lots with well and public sewer, or public water and septic system: Twenty thousand square feet;

3. Lots with well and septic system: Forty thousand square feet. (Ord. 1183 § 2, 2006)

The minimum average lot width shall be as follows:

1. Interior lots: One hundred feet;

2. Corner lots: One hundred twenty feet. (Ord. 1183 § 2, 2006)

Maximum length to width ratio shall not exceed three to one. (Ord. 1183 § 2, 2006)

The maximum lot coverage shall be seventy-five percent. (Ord. 1183 § 2, 2006)

Yards shall be no less than the following:

1. Front Yard: Ten feet from lot line, or thirty-five feet from the centerline of a roadway, whichever is greater. Yards abutting streets are front yards;

2. Rear Yard: None, or five feet from the lot line when contiguous to any residential district;

3. Side Yard: None, or twenty-five feet from the lot line when contiguous to any residential district;

4. Accessory structures: The above yards shall apply. (Ord. 1183 § 2, 2006)

Structures shall not exceed the following heights:

1. Principal Structures: Thirty-five feet;

2. Accessory Structures: Twenty feet. (Ord. 1183 § 2, 2006)

Prior to or concurrent with the application for a building permit, the applicant shall submit to the agency a complete site plan and all necessary supporting documentation for review by the agency to ensure compliance with all the requirements of the Glenn County Code. (Ord. 1200 § 3, 2008; Ord. 1183 § 2, 2006)