YAVAPAI COUNTY PLANNING AND ZONING ORDINANCE
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C3 DISTRICT (Commercial and Minor Industrial) Permitted Uses:
The front fifty feet (50’) depth of a lot shall not be used for open-land storage of material or equipment,
work yard or display (except display for sale or rental as may be granted under a Use Permit); such open-
land storage or work areas on any other portion of the lot shall be secured by a solid wall, fence or hedge
so as not to be visible from any higher ranking Zoning District (nor shall any materials or equipment
extend higher than such screening).
Where no Density District has been combined, then the provisions of Density District 1 shall prevail for
hotels and motels. (See Section 516 (Density Districts), most common ones shown in attached chart.)
A. All principal and accessory uses permitted in any more restrictive Zoning District (except
dwelling units and manufactured home courts) and providing further that unless specifically
provided to the contrary the following are waived:
1. Requirements for Use Permits/Administrative Reviews (except for lots contiguous to
Residential Districts).
2. Area limitations for uses and buildings.
3. Limitations on hours of operation.
4. Confining of uses to closed or partially closed buildings.
B. Sales facilities, retail and wholesale.
C. Lumber yards (prohibiting milling and planing operations).
D. Custom warehouses within closed buildings and not including animals, limited to fifteen
thousand (15,000) square feet of floor area.
E. Craft shops and work, storage and equipment yards in connection therewith, limited to fifteen
thousand (15,000) square feet of floor area.
F. Cemeteries for human or animal internment. Subject to Administrative Review with Comment
Period.
G. Pet shops within closed buildings.
H. Small animal hospitals for diagnosis, treatment or boarding, limited to five thousand (5,000)
square feet of floor area entirely within a closed building. Outdoor runs, pens and cages and/or
larger buildings, no less than one hundred feet (100’) from any Residential District for such
outdoor use, with special consideration to the neighborhood reaction to the administrative review
application, type and number of day and night animal guests, whether to restrict to diagnosis and
treatment or to permit boarding, the extent of outdoor activity; total lot and use area, and
limitations on permit duration. Subject to Administrative Review with Comment Period.
I. Transportation terminal and transfer facilities within closed buildings, limited to fifteen thousand
(15,000) square feet of floor area.
J. Cleaning and dyeing plants within closed buildings, limited to fifteen thousand (15,000) square
feet of floor area.
K. Frame work, body and fender shops within closed buildings.
L. Commercial ballrooms, arenas, gymnasiums, rinks, pools and indoor shooting galleries.
M. Public auction within closed buildings, livestock sales prohibited.
SECTION 422 C3 DISTRICT