Sutter Creek Municipal Code Ch. 18.32 C-1 Zone—limited Commercial

The following regulations apply to the C-1 limited commercial zone unless otherwise provided in this title.

The limited commercial district is designed to provide office, medical, and convenient services and products to residents on a daily basis.

(Ord. 373, §16(a), 2023)

Uses permitted in the C-1 zone are:

A. Any of the following uses:

1. Bakeries;

2. Day care center—adult (fourteen or fewer clients);

3. Banks and automatic teller machines;

4. Barber shops;

5. Beauty shops;

6. Book stores;

7. Confectionery stores;

8. Day care center—child (fourteen or fewer clients);

9. Dental clinics or offices;

10. Dressmaking or millinery shops;

11. Drug stores;

12. Financial service offices;

13. Fire stations and public safety training facilities

14. Dry cleaning, pressing and laundry establishments using non-inflammable and non-explosive cleaning fluid;

15. Fitness/health studios, spas;

16. Dry goods or notions stores;

17. Sales and repair of electric appliances and electronic goods;

18. Florist shops;

19. Gift shops;

20. Grocery, fruit, and vegetable stores;

21. Hardware stores;

22. Jewelry stores;

23. Live-work units;

24. Meat markets or delicatessen stores;

25. Medical clinics;

26. Medical and dental laboratories;

27. Offices, professional;

28. Photographic shops;

29. Restaurants, tea rooms or cafés where all customers are served at a table or counter (excluding dancing, entertainment and sale of intoxicating liquors);

30. Shoe stores or shoe repair shops;

31. Stationery stores; and

32. Tailoring, clothing or wearing apparel shops;

33. Veterinarian clinics.

B. The above specified businesses shall be professional offices or retail establishments permitted only under the following conditions:

1. Such businesses shall be conducted entirely within an enclosed building. Businesses proposing outdoor uses shall do so only on application to and approval by the planning commission as a conditional use;

2. Products made incidental to a permitted use may be sold at retail on the premises;

3. All public entrances to such businesses shall be from the principal street upon which the property abuts, except that a rear or side entrance from the building to a public parking area may be provided;

4. Refer to chapter 15.16 for signage requirements and chapter 13.12 for obstructions to public way requirements;

5. The accessory buildings necessary to such use located on the same lot or parcel of land, including a storage building for the exclusive use of the patrons of the above stores or businesses;

6. Day care center—adult, with fifteen or more clients, requires an application and approval by the planning commission as a conditional use; and

7. Day care center—child, with fifteen or more clients, requires an application and approval by the planning commission as a conditional use.

C. Any use conducted within a C-1 zone shall comply with the provisions of chapter 18.50, site plans.

(Ord. 373, §16(b), 2023)

Maximum building height in the C-1 zone shall be limited to three stories and shall not exceed forty feet.

(Ord. 373, §16(c), 2023)

All buildings shall be located at least ten feet from the front lot line; provided, that where existing buildings on sheets within a block average less than the required setback, the provisions of section 18.10.110 shall apply.

Five feet or in conformance with the California Building Code.

(Ord. 373, §2, 2023)

There shall be behind every building a rear yard having a minimum depth of ten feet. Where there is an alley at the rear of the lot, such rear yard may be measured to the center of said alley.

Building lot coverage shall not exceed eighty-five percent of the lot area.

Maximum development density shall be sixteen to twenty-nine units per acre, as established in City of Sutter Creek General Plan Land Use Element Table 4-3, and dependent upon site conditions and constraints. See 18.62 regarding density bonus allocations.

(Ord. 373, §16(d), 2023)