18.60.060 Standards governing conditional uses.
A conditional use shall comply with the standards of the zone in which it is located except as these standards may have been modified in authorizing the conditional use or as otherwise provided as follows:
(1) Yards. In a residential zone, yards shall be at least two-thirds the height of the principal structure. In any zone, additional yard requirements may be imposed.
(2) Height Exception. A church or governmental building may be built to exceed the height limitations of the zone in which it is located to a maximum height of 50 feet if the total floor area of the building does not exceed one and one-half times the area of the site and if the yard dimensions in each case are equal to at least two-thirds of the height of the principal structure.
(3) Limitation on Access to Property and on Openings to Buildings. The city may limit or prohibit vehicle access from a conditional use to a residential street and it may limit or prohibit building openings within 50 feet of residential property in a residential zone if the openings will cause glare or excessive noise or will otherwise adversely affect adjacent residential property.
(4) Signs. See Chapter 18.70 NBCC, Signs.
(5) Schools.
(a) Nursery schools shall provide and maintain at least 100 square feet of outdoor play area per child. A sight-obscuring fence at least four feet but not more than six feet high shall separate the play area from abutting lots.
(b) Primary schools shall provide one acre of site area for each 90 pupils or one acre for every three classrooms, whichever is greater.
(c) Elementary schools shall provide one acre of site area for each 75 pupils or one acre for every two and one-half classrooms, whichever is greater.
(6) Service Stations. A service station may be permitted as a conditional use if adjacent property is not adversely affected by noise, smoke, odors or glare, and if the service station does not interfere with the shopping pattern of a retail business district.
(7) Utility Substation or Pumping Substation. In the case of a utility substation or pumping substation, the city may waive the minimum lot size requirement only if it is determined that the waiver will not have a detrimental effect on adjacent property.
(8) Rowhouses. Provision shall be made for rowhouses to have adequate access to rear yard areas.
(9) Manufactured Home Parks.
(a) Manufactured home parks shall comply with all rules, regulations and standards of the state of Oregon.
(b) Improvements in a manufactured home park shall include paved streets, roads and parking areas, installation and connection to public sewer and water systems, and the installation of adequate public fire hydrants. Roadways shall be so designed as to accommodate the movement of public fire vehicles to provide protection to the entire park.
(c) Separate storm and sanitary sewer systems shall be provided in all manufactured home parks and stormwater shall not be discharged into the sanitary sewer system. No stormwater shall be permitted to drain onto adjacent public or private property except into natural watercourses or a storm sewer system.
(d) All public streets within the manufactured home parks shall be constructed to city standards and accepted by the city for maintenance prior to use and occupancy of the park. Private roads shall be paved to a width of not less than 20 feet, exclusive of any adjacent parking areas, and such roads shall contain positive channeling of stormwater which shall be collected in the storm sewer facilities. Both public and private roads and streets must be illuminated by a lighting system approved by the city. Areas within public or private streets and roads shall not be included as a part of required off-street parking.
(e) Based on the size, characteristics and occupancy proposed for a manufactured home park, it may be required to provide landscaping, playground, open space or other common facilities.
(f) The minimum site size for a manufactured home park is three acres.
(g) A manufactured home shall have a water closet, lavatory, and bathtub or shower, a kitchen area containing a sink and shall be connected to public sewer and water lines.
(h) A manufactured home shall have continuous skirting, its wheels shall be removed when installed, and if it is a single-wide unit, it shall be tied down with devices that meet state standards, and in a floodplain area a double-wide manufactured home may be required to be tied down.
(i) In manufactured home parks in common ownership, each space for a manufactured home shall contain not less than 3,630 square feet exclusive of space provided for common use of tenants, roadways, general use structures, guest parking, walkways and areas for recreation and landscaping purposes. Each manufactured home shall occupy not more than 40 percent of the contiguous space provided for the exclusive use of the occupants of the manufactured home and exclusive of space provided for common use of tenants. No manufactured home in the park shall be located closer than 15 feet from another manufactured home or from a general use building in the park. No manufactured home accessory building or other building or structure on a manufactured home space shall be closer than 10 feet from a manufactured home accessory building or other building or structure on another manufactured home space. No manufactured home or other building or structure shall be within 25 feet of a public street property boundary or 10 feet of another property boundary. The land which is used for park purposes shall be surrounded except at the entry and exit places by a sight-obscuring fence or hedge not less than six feet in height, and the fence or hedge shall be maintained to have a neat appearance.
(j) In a manufactured home park in which individual lots are separately owned, the same person shall own the manufactured home to be situated thereon, and the owner of the lot shall agree that if the manufactured home is removed from its foundation, the owner shall within 30 days either replace the manufactured home with another approved home or remove the foundation, manufactured home accessory structures and other structures on the property and disconnect sewer, water and other utilities. The agreement shall further provide that the city may make the removal and disconnection and place a lien against the property for the cost of the work if the individual ownership shall comply with the lot size, yard, height, lot coverage and other requirements of the R-M zone in which it is situated.
(10) Off-Premises Signs. See Chapter 18.70 NBCC, Signs.
(11) Churches.
(a) Churches may provide housing or space for housing in a building that is detached from the church, provided:
(i) At least 50 percent of the residential units provided are affordable to households with incomes equal to or less than 60 percent of the median family income for Coos County;
(ii) The housing or space for housing complies with applicable land use regulations and meets the standards and criteria for residential development for the underlying zone; and
(iii) The city finds that the level of service of public facilities, including transportation, water supply, and sewer and storm drain systems, is adequate to serve the church described in this subsection (11).
(b) Housing and space for housing provided under ORS 227.500 and subsection (11)(a) of this section must be subject to a covenant appurtenant that restricts the owner and each successive owner of the building or any residential unit contained in the building from selling or renting any residential unit designated as affordable housing as housing that is not affordable to households with incomes equal to or less than 60 percent of the median family income for Coos County for a period of 60 years from the date of the certificate of occupancy. (Ord. 2025 § 12, 2018; Ord. 1952 § 1(4), 2006)