2.4 CH: HIGHWAY SERVICE COMMERCIAL ZONE

The Highway Service Commercial or CH Zone is intended to provide necessary services and conveniences for the traveling public along main roads and highway frontages at proper intervals and locations in developments designed for safety, convenience and suitable appearance. The following regulations shall apply in all highway Service Commercial or CH Zones. (Former Section INL#314-40; Ord. 1086, Sections 9 and 10, 7/13/76; Amended by Ord. 2214, 6/6/00; Amended by Ord. 2472, Sec. 1, 2/14/12)

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Principal Permitted Uses

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Hotels and motels.

Emergency dependent unit villages.

Car washes.

Nurseries and greenhouses.

Amusement parks and commercial recreational facilities.

Social halls, fraternal and social organizations, and clubs. (From Section INL#314-34(a)(1)

Professional and business offices, and commercial instruction. (From Section INL#314-34(a)(2))

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. (From Section INL#314-34(a)(3))

Caretaker’s residence which is incidental to and under the same ownership as an existing commercial use. (From Section INL#314-34(a)(5); Added by Ord. 2166, Sec. 14, 4/7/98)

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, sales of used or secondhand goods, and storage warehouses. (From Section INL#314-34(b)(3))

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-H Zone.

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

Commercial Residential.

Uses Permitted With a Special Permit

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 CH Zone, as well as emergency shelters outside areas mapped to specifically allow

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emergency shelters as a principally permitted use. (Added by Ord. 2313A, 12/16/2003, Amended by Ord. 2335, 12/14/04)

Single-room occupancy facilities which are conversions of existing buildings.

Tiny house villages and dependent unit villages without connection to public water and wastewater.

Uses Permitted With a Use Permit

Small animal hospitals and kennels.

Special occupancy parks. (Amended by Ord. 2166, Sec. 15, 4/7/98)

Dwellings, manufactured homes, manufactured home parks and boarding and rooming houses.

Alternative lodge parks.

Any use not specifically enumerated in this division, if it is similar to and compatible with the uses permitted in the CH Zone.

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Other Regulations
Minimum Lot Area 5,000 square feet.
Minimum Lot Width Fifty feet (50').
Minimum Yard Setbacks*
Front Fifteen feet (15').
Rear None, except that where a rear yard abuts on a
Residential Zone (RS, R-1, R-2, R-3, R-4) such rear
yard shall not be less than twenty feet (20').
Side None, except that, where a side yard abuts on a
Residential Zone (RS, R-1, R-2, R-3, R-4), such side
yard shall not be less than fifteen feet (15') provided
further that such side yard, of a motel shall not be
less than six (6) feet.
Maximum Ground Coverage (None specified.)
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Other Regulations
Maximum Building Height Forty-five feet (45').
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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#314-40(a)(1-5); INL#314-40(b)(1-3); INL#314-40(c)(1-4)) (Ord. 2693, § 6, 6/7/2022; Ord. 2721, § 5, 7/11/2023; Ord. 2742, § 4, 8/20/2024; Ord. 2747, § 5, 10/1/2024; Ord. 2748, § 4, 10/1/2024; Ord. 2743a, § 4, 8/ 20/2024)

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