A. Purpose. The purpose of the C-2 general commercial district is to provide for the development of very intense retail and service areas that will serve as major community cores. These areas can only be developed where arterial streets can accommodate the very heavy traffic generated by such development. Due to the nature of these areas, proximity to mid-rise residential districts is appropriate.
 

B. Principally Permitted Uses.
 

Antique shop and store;
 

Apparel and accessory store;
 

Appliance sales, services;
 

Art supply stores;
 

Audio-visual equipment sales and rental;
 

Automobile parking lot or garage (public or private);
 

Auto supply store;
 

Bakery for on-site sales, less than four thousand (4,000) square feet;
 

Barber shop;
 

Beauty parlor;
 

Bicycle sales, service and repair shop;
 

Book and stationery store;
 

Business and office machine sales, service and repair shop;
 

Candy and ice cream store;
 

Cigar and tobacco store;
 

Clothing and costume sales and rental shop;
 

Community center or meeting hall;
 

Convenience food store;
 

Custom dressmaking, furrier, millinery or tailor shop employing five persons or less;
 

Dancing or theatrical studio;
 

Delicatessen and catering establishment;
 

Department store;
 

Dry cleaning and laundry establishment limited to not more than two fifty (50) pound machines for dry
 

cleaning and two fifty (50) pound machines for laundering or one seventy-five (75) pound machine
 

for dry cleaning and one seventy-five (75) pound machine for laundering;
 

Dry goods and notion store;
 

Electrical power transmission poles and lines, if they are within the utility corridors and within the
 

voltage limits identified in Figure 43 of the utilities element of the 1999 comprehensive plan. If
 

the poles and lines are not within such utility corridors, they shall be subject to subsection C of this
 

section;
 

Essential public service or utility installation;
 

Florist;
 

Furniture store;
 

Game rooms, pool halls;
 

Garden supply store, indoor sales only;
 

Gift shop;
 

Grocery store (including retail markets and produce store);
 

Hardware store, no exterior storage;
 

Health and exercise center;
 

Hobby, stamp and coin shop;
 

Hotel or motel;
 

Hunting and fishing supply store;
 

Interior decorator’s shop;
 

Jewelry and metal craft store;
 

Laundromat, self-service;
 

Leather goods and luggage store;
 

Light equipment rental, no exterior storage or display;
 

Liquor store;
 

Lock and key shop;
 

Mail order catalog store;
 

Medical, dental or health clinic;
 

Medical and orthopedic appliance store;
 

Messenger or telegraph service station;
 

Museum;
 

Music and instrument sales, service and repair shop;
 

 

 

Music or dance studio;
 

Newspaper office;
 

Newsstand;
 

Offices, professional;
 

Office supply and office equipment store;
 

Optician;
 

Package liquor store, including drive-in;
 

Paint and wallpaper store;
 

Pet shop;
 

Photographic equipment and supply store;
 

Photographic studio;
 

Picture frame shop;
 

Private club, fraternity, sorority or lodge;
 

Public, quasi-public uses or buildings;
 

Radio or television sales, with/without service and repair;
 

Radio and television studio, without transmission towers;
 

Research laboratories;
 

Restaurants, excluding convenience food restaurant;
 

Sewing machine store;
 

Shoe store;
 

Shoe repair and shoeshine shop;
 

Sporting and athletic goods store;
 

Tailor shop, less than five employees;
 

Theater, excluding drive-in theater;
 

Toy store;
 

Travel agency;
 

Variety store;
 

Wallpaper store;
 

Watch repair shop.
 

C. Special Uses Subject to Section 17.24.020.
 

Automobile, boat or recreational vehicles sales, service and rental lots;
 

Automobile service facility;
 

Automobile service stations;
 

Automobile washing establishments, drive-through, self-service or hand wash;
 

Banks and financial institutions;
 

Business, technical and vocational school;
 

Bus terminals;
 

Casino;
 

Child care facility: group home and/or child care center;
 

Convenience food restaurant;
 

Convenience food store with gas pumps;
 

Hospitals;
 

Light equipment rental, with exterior storage and display;
 

Massage establishment;
 

Mini-warehousing;
 

 

Mortuaries;
 

Nurseries for the retail sale of plants and related materials;
 

Pawnshops;
 

Recreational uses;
 

Recreational Vehicle Park as an accessory use to a nonprofit fraternal lodge (minimum size and design standards to be determined by the planning commission);
 

Secondhand dealers;
 

Tavern, bar, lounge or any other use or establishment which includes the “on sale” of alcoholic beverages;
 

Temporary buildings for principally permitted uses and special uses;
 

Tennis and racquet clubs;
 

Video arcades.
 

D. Permitted Accessory Uses.
 

Accessory structures as approved by the planning commission;
 

Business signs;
 

Refuse containers;
 

Temporary buildings incidental to construction work.
 

E. In those instances where a requested use is not listed above, the development director may determine whether the requested use meets the purpose and intent of the district, and is similar to other uses allowed in the district, as permitted uses, special uses or accessory uses. In those instances where the applicant disagrees with the director’s determination, the applicant may appeal the decision to the planning commission.
 

F. Setbacks and Height.
 

1. The minimum building setback from any lot line or public street right-of-way shall be as set forth below: