20.630.070 City Center West Employment Overlay

A. Purpose. The City Center West Employment Overlay is intended to provide for economic activity and employment growth by allowing for a wide range of commercial and industrial employment opportunities limited to avoid potential conflicts from interspersed and surrounding commercial/office and residential uses. The City Center West Employment Overlay is intended to provide an area zoned to allow uses and types of employment that are transitional between heavy and light industrial lands to the west and commercial/office and residential lands to the east.

B. Establishment of boundaries. The City Center West Employment Overlay shall apply to the area outlined in Figure 20.630-6.

C. Regulation of uses. Permitted, limited, conditional, and prohibited uses in the City Center West Employment Overlay are set forth in Table 20.630.070-1.

Table 20.630.070-1. City Center West Employment Overlay Use Table
USE
RESIDENTIAL
Household Living	P
Group Living	P/C⁷
Transitional Housing	L²
Home Occupation	L³
HOUSING TYPES
Single Dwelling Units, Attached	P
Single Dwelling Units, Detached	X
Accessory Dwelling Units	X
Duplexes	P
Multi-Dwelling Units	P
Existing Manufactured Home Development	X
Designated Manufactured Home	X
New Manufactured Home	X
CIVIC (Institutional)
Basic Utilities	P
Colleges	P
Community Recreation	L⁴
Cultural Institutions	P
Day Care
- Family Day Care Home	P/L⁵
- Child Care Center	L⁵
- Adult Day Care	P
Emergency Services	P
Medical Centers	P
Parks/Open Space
- Neighborhood Parks	P
- Community Parks	P
- Regional Parks	P
- Trails	P
Postal Service	P
Religious Institutions	P
Schools (not truck driving schools)	P
Social/Fraternal Clubs	L⁴
Transportation Facility	P
Park & Ride Facilities
Surface	X
Structure	X
COMMERCIAL
Commercial Lodging	P
Eating/Drinking Establishments	P
Entertainment-Oriented
- Adult Entertainment	X
- Indoor Entertainment	P/L⁶
- Major Event Entertainment	P
General Retail
-Sales – Oriented	P⁷
- Personal Services	P
- Repair – Oriented	P
- Bulk Sales	P
- Outdoor Sales	P/L⁸
Motor Vehicle Related
- Motor Vehicle Sales/Rental	P
- Motor Vehicle Servicing Repair (entirely indoors)	L⁹
- Vehicle Fuel Sales	L⁹
- EV Basic Charging Stations (accessory and stand-alone)	P
- EV Rapid Charging Stations (accessory and stand-alone)	P
- EV Battery Exchange Stations	P
Office
- General	P
- Medical	P
- Extended	P
Marina (See also VMC 20.760)	P
Non-Accessory Parking	C ¹⁴
Self-Service Storage	X
INDUSTRIAL
Industrial Services	L¹⁵
Manufacturing and Production	P ¹⁶
Railroad Yards	X
Research and Development	P
Warehouse/Freight Movement	X
Waste-Related	X
Wholesale Sales	P
Major Utility Facilities	X
OTHER
Agriculture/Horticulture	X
Airport/Airpark	X
Animal Kennel/Shelters	X
Cemeteries	C ¹⁰
Detention & Post Detention Facilities	C/X¹¹
Dog Day Care	L
Heliports	C ¹²
Recreational or Medical Marijuana Facilities	X
Mining	X
Rail Lines/Utility Corridors	P
Temporary Uses	L⁸
Wireless Communication Facilities	L/C/X¹³
Offsite Hazardous Water Treatment and Storage Facilities	X

1Residential Care Homes with six or fewer residents and any required on-site staff permitted by right in housing above the ground floor; all larger group home uses are permitted conditionally.

2Repealed by M-4289.

3Subject to the provisions of Chapter 20.860 VMC Home Occupations.

4Subject to provisions of Section 20.895.040VMC Community Recreation and Related Facilities.

5Family day care homes for no more than 12 children are permitted when licensed by the state. Child care centers (13 or more children) are Limited (L), subject to a Type II procedure in Chapter 20.210. Child care centers can also be approved as part of a Planned Development, VMC 20.260. In all cases child care centers must meet the standards outlined in Chapter 20.840 VMC.

6Provisions in Section 20.895.060 VMC apply to Indoor Target Shooting Ranges.

7Pawnshops are prohibited.

8Subject to provisions in Chapter 20.885 VMC Temporary Uses.

9Subject to provisions in Section 20.895.070 VMC, Motor Vehicle Fuel Sales and Repair.

10Subject to provisions in Section 20.895.030 VMC Cemeteries.

11Secure Transition Facilities as per 20.150 are prohibited.

12Subject to provisions in Section 20.895.080 VMC Private Landing Strips and Heliports. Airpark related uses are permitted in Pearson Airpark and Evergreen Airport only.

13Subject to requirements in Chapter 20.890 VMC Wireless Telecommunications Facilities

14Parking structures are permitted outright.

15The following Industrial Service uses as defined in VMC 20.160.020(D)(1)Use Classifications are prohibited; Sales, repair, salvage or wrecking of heavy machinery; metal and building materials; towing and vehicle storage; heavy truck services and repair; truck stops, fuel oil distribution; solid fuel yards; and laundry, dry-cleaning and carpet cleaning plants.

16Offsite hazardous waste treatment and storage facilities are prohibited.

D. Development standards. Properties within the City Center West Overlay shall comply with the requirements of the City Center Mixed Use (CX) Zone, VMC Chapter 20.430; Design Review, VMC Chapter 20.265; and Off Site Impacts, VMC Chapter 20.935. (Ord. M-4071 § 9, 03/03/2014; Ord. M-4035 § 6, 12/03/2012; Ord. M-4024 § 10, 09/10/2012; Ord. M-3832 § 25, 06/18/2007)