CITY OF COON RAPIDS, MINNESOTA
CHAPTER 11-1400
(CC) COMMUNITY COMMERCIAL DISTRICT

11-1401 Intent. The intent of the (CC) Community Commercial District is to minimize detrimental influences on surrounding residential neighborhoods, while encouraging efficient and attractive large-scale shopping centers. To achieve this goal, such centers should be designed as a unit and have access to arterial streets. Businesses that would disrupt the center or its circulation pattern should be excluded.

11-1402 Permitted Uses.

(1) Agricultural uses, except feedlots.
(2) Offices.
(3) Public parks and their incidental structures.
(4) Public uses or utilities and their incidental structures.
(5) Restaurants or fast food establishments.
(6) Retail stores. Other than those subject to license pursuant to Title 5 of this Code, except as specifically provided under this Title 11. [Revised 5/6/97, Ordinance 1602]
(7) Duplicating, blueprinting, and photostating services.
(8) Barber shops and beauty shops.
(9) Pet grooming shops, provided no animal is kept overnight or outside and no noise is audible outside of the building or bay occupied by the grooming shop.
(10) Repair and/or servicing of such items as musical, scientific, and medical instruments, photographic equipment, jewelry, watches, clocks, small household appliances (such as televisions, toasters, sewing machines, or computers), office machines (such as adding machines, typewriters, or dictation equipment), shoes and clothes (including tailoring and dressmaking) and similar uses; provided there is no exterior storage of materials as a result of such business, except for motor vehicles used in the business, and no noise, vibrations, or odor is created which is noticeable outside the building or bay occupied by the business.
(11) Medical and dental clinics and medical and dental laboratories.
(12) Financial institutions.
(13) Secondhand dealers or antique dealers as defined by Revised City Code - 1982 Section 5-2602(15) and 5-2602(18). [Revised 2/4/97, Ordinance 1594][Revised 11/17/98, Ordinance 1651]
(14) City licensed transient merchants, solicitors, and canvassers operating from a fixed location. [Revised 4/1/97, Ordinance 1600]
(15) Off-sale intoxicating liquor establishments licensed pursuant to Title 5.[Revised 5/6/97, Ordinance 1602]
(16) Precious Metal Dealers as defined by Revised City Code-1982 Section 5-2702(6). [Revised 11/17/98, Ordinance 1651]
(17) Non-on-premises consumption adult bookstores and adult novelty stores, as defined by Revised City Code 1982 Section 5-2202, subject to regulation under Revised City Code 1982 Chapter 5-2200 and Section 11-1863. [Revised 1/19/99, Ordinance 1654][Revised 4/6/99, Ordinance 1659]

11-1403 Accessory Uses. Any accessory use that is permitted in the (O) Office District.

11-1404 Conditional Uses.

(1) Stores for the sale or installation of automobile parts. There shall be no storage or work performed outside the building. No noise resulting from this work shall be audible in adjacent stores above and beyond the noises customarily associated with the retailing of merchandise.
(2) Motor vehicle washes operated in conjunction with service stations.
(3) Commercial recreation such as bowling alleys, roller rinks, ice rinks, pool halls, and indoor movie theaters.
(4) Automobile Rental Facility. [Revised 5/15/07, Ordinance 1949]
(5) Hotels or motels.
(6) Ice sales from vending machines.
(7) Mortuaries.
(8) Nonprofit clubs, lodges, or halls.
(9) Outdoor sales of household equipment.
(10) Seasonal businesses.
(11) Service stations.
(12) Taverns or bars.
(13) Taxi stands or bus stops.
(14) Repealed.
(15) New vehicle sales and used vehicle sales in conjunction therewith.
(16) Greenhouses or nurseries, including repair of lawn and garden equipment as an accessory use thereto.
(17) Commercial printing and letterpress, provided these services do not include publishing/ printing of newspapers, periodicals or books, book binding, engraving, or photoengraving.
(18) Animal hospitals and kennels, excluding establishments with outside runs.
(19) Newspaper distribution centers.
(20) Small engine repair.
(21) State licensed day care facilities.
(22) Churches.
(23) Physical Fitness Centers. [Revised 8/16/05, Ordinance 1900]

11-1405 District Standards. The District Standards shall be as follows:

(1) Bike Racks. Bike racks shall be provided in an area that is convenient to the major building entrances, but which will not disrupt pedestrian or vehicular traffic or fire lanes.
(2) Landscaping and Screening. The landscape design objectives, the landscape plan and the size, location, quantity and type of landscape and screening plants shall meet the requirements of the current version of Landscape Standards On File With The Community Development Director and the following requirements:

(a) All landscaped areas shall be irrigated with an underground sprinkler system.
(b) Landscaped islands shall be provided in parking lots to break up and soften large areas of paving.
(c) All areas not covered by impervious surfaces or landscaping shall be planted with cultured sod laid over four inches of drought-resistant soil top soil.
(d) Trash and recycling areas, mechanical equipment and other screening shall be required in accordance with Sections 11-1833 through 11-1837. [Revised 12/16/03, Ordinance 1828]

(3) Building Appearance. The design of buildings and exterior building materials and colors shall be consistent with the following standards.

(a) Building Character. The design of buildings shall have a comparable, compatible and complementary relationship to surrounding land uses. Buildings shall be designed with interesting and varied exterior materials, setbacks and architectural features and details. All exterior wall surfaces shall be of the same materials.
(b) Development Guidelines. Developments shall satisfy the following guidelines. Determination of whether these guidelines are satisfied shall be made by the Planning Commission.

i. Vary building massing, using methods including staggering building components, adding columns, recessing doorways, creating interesting shapes and short, uneven facades.
ii. Articulate building facades using techniques such as staggering, arcades, awnings, special window treatments, ornamentation and unique details. Face primary entries to public or private streets and orient doors for loading and unloading goods away from public or private streets.
iii. Provide a variety of roof shapes using techniques including pitched, gable or hip roofs or detailed parapets and cornices creating interesting roof profiles for flat roofs. iv. Every building shall include a focal element or feature adding interest or distinction, using techniques such as elevating parts of buildings, towers, or emphasizing a prominent part of the building such as a corner or main entry or by using features such as canopies, porticoes, overhangs, arcades, facade recesses and projections and peaked roofs or raised parapets above doors or windows.
v. High quality, exterior building materials shall be used. Such materials include brick, natural stone, textured pre-cast masonry, integrally colored, concrete masonry units, and similar materials. Accent materials may include metal, glass block, EIFS and similar materials. Exterior materials shall not include smooth-faced concrete block, pre-fabricated steel panels, reflective glass or aluminum, fiberglass or vinyl siding.
vi. Exterior colors approved by the Planning Commission shall not be changed, at the time of building construction or in the future, unless approved by the Commission.
vii. Where approved, the motor vehicle fuel pump canopy roof shall have the same shape, materials and color as the roof of the principal building. Canopy supports shall be enclosed in decorative masonry or metal columns. [Revised 1/2/96, Ordinance 1557] [Revised 7/6/04, Ordinance 1822][Revised 8/16/05, Ordinance 1899]

(4) Building Height. The maximum building height is 70 feet.
(5) Outdoor Storage. Outdoor storage is prohibited except as authorized in Section 11-1854.
(6) Floor Area. The minimum floor area is 40,000 square feet.
(7) Reserved for future use. [Revised 12/16/03, Ordinance 1828]
(8) Loading Areas. Loading areas shall be provided as specified in Sections 11-1814 through 11-1818 of the City Code.
(9) Lot Area. The minimum lot area is five (5) acres in a single ownership or control.
(10) Lot Coverage. No more than 40 percent of a lot shall be covered by buildings.
(11) Mechanical Screening. All mechanical equipment on the ground or roof, such as heating and air conditioning units and electrical transformers, shall be screened on all sides so as not to be visible from public streets or other properties. Such screening shall be compatible with the building. Evergreen plant materials may be used to screen such equipment located on the ground.
(12) Parking, Driveways and Driving Areas. Such areas shall be provided as specified in Sections 11-1803 through 11-1812, 11-1819, 11-1820, and 11-1823 of City Code. All vehicles shall be parked on a paved surface.
(13) Setbacks. Minimum setbacks shall be as follows:

(a) Principal use buildings from:

Another principal use building: 25 feet

Arterial Street Right-of-Way (with or without service drive): 50 feet. This may be reduced to 30 feet if a 30 foot landscaped yard is maintained between the building and the right-of-way and if the arterial street is constructed as a completely improved roadway and no further upgrading of it is proposed or the full anticipated right-of-way has been dedicated or acquired.

Other street right-of-way: 35 feet
Adjacent residential district: 50 feet
Other adjacent property: 25 feet
Parking and drives: 5 feet [Revised 12/05/00, Ordinance 1717]

(b) Parking and drives from:

Street Right-of-Way: 25 feet

Adjacent residential district: 45 feet. The Planning Commission may reduce this to 5 feet when the use on the abutting property is a non-residential conditional use

Other adjacent property: 5 feet

(14) Sidewalks. Public sidewalks shall be installed at all locations designated in the Sidewalk System Plan adopted by the City Council and elsewhere as deemed necessary by City Council. The location, design and elevation of such sidewalks shall be in conformance with the standards on file in the office of the City Engineer. If the Planning Commission determines that sidewalk construction is not feasible because of future street construction, the Planning Commission may postpone such construction, provided a cash payment is made to the City in an amount determined by the City Engineer sufficient to cover the cost of constructing the sidewalk when it is feasible.
On-site sidewalks shall be provided where necessary for pedestrian safety and convenience.
(15) Sign Plan. A sign plan shall be submitted with the site plan for new developments or when existing developments are being enlarged or extensively remodeled.
(16) Peripheral Uses. Peripheral uses shall meet the (GC) General Commercial district standards as to floor area, lot area, height, lot coverage and setback requirements. Such uses shall be complementary to and architecturally harmonious with their adjoining commercial uses. The site planning of such uses shall strive to encourage pedestrian movement between uses, promote safe and efficient vehicular circulation and not disrupt shopping patterns.
(17) Site Design. Access to buildings within a shopping center shall be planned so as to avoid pedestrian crossings of vehicular traffic lanes. Adjacent commercial uses shall be designed to encourage pedestrian movement between uses. Common drives, parking, walks and green space shall be used whenever possible.

11-1406 Site Plan Approval. Site plan approval shall be required pursuant to Sections 11-320 through 11-328. Before a site plan is approved, a finding shall be made that the proposed uses are planned as one (1) integrated project.