(1) All business, service, processing, storage, or display of merchandise on a lot abutting or facing a lot in a residential zone shall be conducted wholly within an enclosed building or shall be screened from the residential zone by a sight-obscuring fence or hedge, permanently maintained.

(2) Openings or access to structures on sides adjacent to or across the street from a residential zone shall be prohibited if they result in glare or excessive noise or otherwise adversely affect residential properties.

(3) Motor vehicle, boat, or trailer rental or sales lots shall be drained and surfaced with crushed rock or pavement except in any parts of the lot permanently maintained as landscaped area.

(4) No construction, reconstruction, expansion, addition or alteration shall be commenced in a unified shopping area without approval having first been obtained from the planning commission of the city of North Bend of the location and design of any use, structure, access road, driveway or fire lane; the location, design and adequacy of off-street parking facilities; the height of buildings; and the location, type and sufficiency of screening of adjacent residential areas.

In granting any approval under this subsection, the planning commission may impose conditions and restrictions for the purpose of ensuring orderly commercial development, with adequate access, parking and traffic control. For the purposes of this subsection, “unified shopping area” shall mean any shopping area designed for three or more commercial uses on not less than one acre of land which share common parking areas or points of access.

(5) All repair, manufacturing, fabricating or processing shall take place within a building, and shall be conducted in such a manner that it will not create noise, odors or emissions that are offensive or disturbing to persons working, shopping or living in the vicinity.

(6) An accessory use, including warehousing incidental to the principal use, must be located on the same premises as the principal use.

(7) Residential use development in the C-G zone is limited to multifamily dwellings as defined in NBCC 18.04.030.

(8) In the case of a building authorized for residential use that faces a street that abuts a nonresidential zone, the ground floor must be designed and constructed as follows:

(c) On every side of the ground floor wall area of a building that faces a street that abuts a nonresidential zone, one of the following standards must be met. For purposes of this section, ground floor wall area includes all exterior wall areas from two to 10 feet above the finished grade. See Figure 1.

(i) Building canopies, awnings, pergolas, architectural sun shade structures, landscape windbreaks, or other similar elements shall cover primary entrances or screen outdoor seating areas. The top of such elements may be at heights greater than 10 feet above the finished grade. Overhead structures shall project no less than four feet over a sidewalk or other pedestrian space except that an awning that is a sign shall comply with the standards for signs in NBCC 18.70.080(3)(a). Where there are no primary entrances or outdoor seating areas on a side of the building that faces a nonresidential street, windows shall cover at least 40 percent of the ground floor wall area on that side of the building.

(ii) Windows must cover at least 40 percent of the ground floor wall area of all applicable street-facing façades.

(9) Development of a lot is not limited to a single building or use. (Ord. 2068 § 1 (Att. A), 2023; Ord. 2054 § 9, 2021; Ord. 1952 § 1(4), 2006)