2.1 C-1: NEIGHBORHOOD COMMERCIAL ZONE

The Neighborhood Commercial or C-1 Zone is intended to provide for neighborhood shopping centers which will provide convenient sales and service facilities to residential areas without detracting from the residential desirability of such areas. The following regulations shall apply in all Neighborhood Commercial or C-1 Zones. (Former Section INL#314-34; Ord. 1086, Sec. 7, 7/13/76; Amended by Ord. 2214, 6/6/00; Amended by Ord. 2472, Sec. 1, 2/14/12)

314-2.1 C-1: NEIGHBORHOOD COMMERCIAL

Principal Permitted Uses

Social halls, fraternal and social organizations, and clubs.

Professional and business offices, and commercial instruction.

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, bookstores, clothing and apparel stores, coin-operated dry cleaning and laundries, dry cleaning and laundry agencies, drugstores, 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.

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

Caretaker’s residence which is incidental to and under the same ownership as an existing commercial use. (Added by Ord. 2166, Sec. 14, 4/7/98)

Within Housing Opportunity Zones, multiple dwellings on the upper floors of multistory structures where below are commercial establishments engaged in uses designated “Principally Permitted” or “Conditionally Permitted” in the C-1 Zone.

Supportive housing is permitted above the ground floor as the primary use.

Emergency shelters.

Tiny house villages and dependent unit villages with connection to public water and wastewater.

Commercial Residential.

Emergency dependent unit village.

Uses Permitted With a Special Permit

The Humboldt County Code is current through Ordinance 2784, passed March 10, 2026.

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Outside Housing Opportunity Zones, apartments on the upper floors of multistory structures where below
are establishments engaged in commercial uses designated “Principally Permitted” or “Conditionally
Permitted” in the C-1 Zone. (Added by Ord. 2313A 12/16/2003; Amended by Ord. 2335 12/14/2004)
Single-room occupancy facilities which are conversions of existing buildings.
Tiny house villages and dependent unit villages without connection to public water and wastewater.
Supportive housing may be located on the ground floor with a special permit.
Uses Permitted With a Use Permit
Manufactured homes, hotels, motels, boarding and rooming houses, and manufactured home parks.
Alternative lodge parks.
Small animal hospitals completely enclosed within a building.
Stores, agencies and services such as minor automobile repair; new automobile, trailer and boat sales,
and used automobile, trailer and boat sales appurtenant thereto; bowling alleys; licensed premises not
appurtenant to any restaurant, pet shops, public garages, and sales of used or secondhand goods.
Private institutions where specifically allowed by the General Plan. (Amended by Ord. 2161 on 3/3/98)
Any use not specifically enumerated in this division, if it is similar to and compatible with the uses
permitted in the C-1 Zone.
Other Regulations
Minimum Lot Area 2,000 square feet.
Minimum Lot Width Twenty-five feet (25').
Minimum Yard Setbacks*
Front None, except that where frontage is in a block which is partially in a
Residential Zone (RS, R-1, R-2, R-3, R-4) the front yard shall be the same
as that required in such Residential Zone.
Rear Fifteen feet (15'), except that where a rear yard abuts on an alley, such
rear yard may be not less than five feet (5').
Side None, except that a side yard of an interior lot abutting on a
Residential Zone (RS, R-1, R-2, R-3, R-4) or Agricultural Zone (AE, AG)
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shall be not less than the front yard required in such Residential Zone
or Agricultural Zone.
Maximum Ground Coverage (None specified.)
Forty-five feet (45').
Maximum Building Height
(Ord. 1086, Sec. 7, 7/13/76)
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*** Note:** Setbacks may be modified by other provisions of this Code or State law. For example, see Section 314-22.1, “Alquist-Priolo Fault Hazard” and the “Fire Safe” Regulations at Title III, Division 11.

(Former Section INL#314-34(c)(1-4); Amended by Ord. 2166, Sec. 13, 4/7/98)