21.62.200 Permitted land uses.
The following land uses are permitted:
A. Principal Uses Permitted Outright.
1. Retail, office, eating/entertainment (including brewpubs, and outdoor dining as an accessory use to an indoor restaurant), professional offices (including medical and vet clinics), institutional and personal service uses are permitted, except as provided below for conditional uses and prohibited uses.
2. Multiple-family residences (including convalescent and nursing homes, and housing for the elderly and physically disabled).
3. Wireless communication facilities.
a. Facilities attached (to buildings and structures), with no limitations; and
b. Freestanding facilities (towers) when designed so that they are not readily identifiable as such, and are designed to be aesthetically compatible with existing and proposed building(s) and uses on a site – sometimes referred to as a “stealth” or “camouflaged” facility. Examples of concealed support structures that can have a secondary, obvious function include, but are not limited to, the following: church steeples, bell towers, clock towers, cupolas, light standards, utility poles, flagpoles, or trees.
c. Freestanding facilities existing on the effective date of this chapter are a permitted use.
4. Transit stops/stations, not including park-and-ride, park-and-pool, or other transit-related parking areas.
5. Senior center or community center.
6. Day-care (for children or adults).
7. Boarding house, dormitory or other group residential facility suitable for students.
8. Inn or hotel; provided, that parking for any rooms in excess of 100 rooms shall be located in a parking structure.
9. Auto/vehicle dealership (new and/or used vehicles) and vehicle service company, whether a building intended for occupancy by these uses is vacant (structures with a history of housing these uses) or in use, at the time of adoption of this chapter, may expand the business to other parts of the property in existence at the time of the ordinance codified in this chapter, but may not expand to adjoining parcels; provided, that a use that is absent from a property and/or the property is used for other purposes for a continuous period of seven years shall not be allowed to reestablish itself as a dealership or vehicle service company.
10. Drive-up or drive-through service and/or drive-through window subject to the following requirements:
a. No component of the drive-through (such as approaching drive aisle, order box, service window, etc.) shall be located between the building it serves and a public street unless another intervening building(s) or building screening (walls and roof) exists between the drive-through and street that blocks visibility of the drive-through from the street; and
b. No more than two drive-through lanes (plus a by-pass lane, where necessary) shall be permitted for the specific business being served by the drive-through lane.
c. Access to the drive-through shall be provided only from a project parking area; direct access to a drive-through from a project entry aisle or from a public street is not allowed.
d. Any/all service windows within 150 feet of a public street may only be located on a building wall that sits at an angle of at least 90 degrees to the public street.
e. See also LMC 21.18.810 (Stacking lanes for drive-through facilities).
11. Indoor amusements such as arcades, bowling, pool halls, etc.
12. Auto parts and accessory stores with no service/installation work on the premises.
13. Health and fitness club.
14. Electric vehicle charging station, Level 1, Level 2 or Level 3.
B. Principal Uses Allowed by Conditional Use Permit.
1. Performing arts facility.
C. Allowed Accessory Uses. Uses that meet the definition “accessory” in this code shall be permitted, except that a new accessory use may not be established at a site with a nonconforming use. (Ord. 3047 § 11, 2014; Ord. 2911 § 1, 2011)