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§301.19."C-2" Downtown Village District. The "C-2" District is intended to
accommodate a variety of retail stores, services, offices, and mixed-density residential uses and
related activities conducive to the environment desired in the Downtown Village District. The
C-2 Downtown Village District zoning designation is reserved for those properties located within
the adopted Downtown District Boundary Map of the Downtown Design Guidelines document
identifying areas for commercial, office, mixed-use, and/or residential uses.
A. Principal Permitted Uses.
1.Any commercial use such as the following, provided that said commercial
use is located within a conforming district established in the adopted
Downtown Design Guidelines:
a.Medical clinics, group medical centers, or the office of a doctor,
dentist, osteopath, or similar profession.
b.Businees and Professional offices including the following: law,
engineering, real estate, insurance, financial, and similar uses.
c.Personal service businesses such as:
i.Beauty and barber shops
ii.Shoe, watch, and hat repair shops
iii.Laundrettes and dry-cleaners.
d.Retail business or service establishments such as the following:
i.Antique shops
ii.Apparel shops
iii.Art and hobby shops
iv.Art Galleries
v.Baby and children stores
vi.Bakeries or bakery outlets - retail sales only
vii.Bicycle shops, sales and repairs
viii.Book stores
ix.Camera stores
x.Confectionery stores, including ice cream or snack bars
xi.Convenience store
xii.Dairy stores – retail only
xiii.Delicatessens
xiv.Dance studios
xv.Drinking establishments
xvi.Drug stores
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xvii.Dry goods stores
xviii.Florist shops
xix.Gift shops
xx.Harware stores
xxi.Home furnishing, décor, and accessory stores
xxii.Jewelry stores and watch repair shops
xxiii.Key shops
xxiv.Meat market for retail sales only
xxv.Leather goods store
xxvi.Music and video stores
xxvii.Music studios
xxviii.Novelty food and drink shops
xxix.Paint and wallpaper stores
xxx.Photographic studios
xxxi.Postal substations
xxxii.Retail printing/copy shops
xxxiii.Radio and television sales and repair shops
xxxiv.Restaurants, cafes
xxxv.Sporting goods stores
xxxvi.Tailor and dressmaking shops
xxxvii.Toy stores
xxxviii.Variety stores
xxxix.Child care centers and nursery schools
e.Service, business or recreational uses such as the following:
i.Automobile service and accessory stores
ii.Bowling Alley
iii.Drive-in banks
iv.Food, meat and fruit stores and food catering services, retail
only
v.Theatres, movie or performance
vi.Travel and tourist information centers
2. Dwelling units – provided that the residential dwelling(s) is within the
Residential Transition District identified within the adopted Downtown
Design Guidelines or in a mixed-use building as specified herein.
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3. Mixed-Use Buildings – provided that residential uses are within the upper
floor(s) of a building with a commercial or office use located in the ground
floor of said building. Ground floor dwelling units may be considered,
provided that the ground floor dwelling unit does not comprise more than
1/3 of the total building’s street frontage and the unit(s) receives a
unanomous approval from the Waukee City Council as a part of an overall
site plan proposal.
B. Permitted Accessory Uses.
1.Accessory uses and structures customarily incidental to any principal
permitted use.
2.Storage of merchandise incidental to a commercial principal use.
3.Private garage or carport.
4.Home occupations as permitted in and as limited by Section 301.8(I).
5.Temporary buildings for uses incidental to construction work, which
buildings shall be removed upon the completion or abandonment of the
construction work.
C. Bulk Regulations. The following maximum requirements shall be observed
subject to the modifications in Section 301.26, unless indicated otherwise herein.
1. Lot Area: None.
2. Front Yard:
a. 10 feet for commercial or mixed use properties.
b. 30 feet for properties adjacent to Hickman Road
(US Highway 6).
c. 30 feet for lots used soley for residential dwellings.
3. Side Yard: None, except for principal permitted uses adjacent
to residential properties not within the C-2
Downtown Village District which shall provide a
minimum of 10 feet.
A minimum of 15 total feet, 7 foot minimum on one
side, for any residential only use.
4. Rear Yard: None for commercial uses, except for principle
permitted uses adjacent to residential properties not
within the C-2 Downtown Village District which
shall provide a minimum of 25 feet.
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5. Height: 40 feet for commercial or residential only buildings,
except that radio communication towers constructed
in compliance with §221.1 of the Waukee
Municipal Code may not exceed 45 feet in height.
60 feet for mixed-use buildings.
6. Maximum Number 3 stories for commercial or residential only
buildings. 4 stories for mixed-use buildings.
of Stories:
D. Site Plan Requirements. See Chapter 304 of the Municipal Code and the adopted
Downtown Design Guidelines.
E. Off-Street Parking and Loading: None required for commercial uses. The
minimum off-street parking for dwelling units should be provided at a rate of 1
space per unit.
December 5, 2011 – Ordinance 2704