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33.07.040 Commercial Forest/Mixed Use 5 (CFM5).
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The purpose of the Commercial Forest/Residential Mixed Use 5 zone is to maintain and enhance the forest resources of Clallam County through conservation of productive forest lands and discouragement of incompatible land uses. The Commercial Forest/Residential Mixed Use 5 zone provides for a compatible mix of commercial forest and residential land uses. The Commercial Forest/Residential Mixed Use 5 zone is usually found in association with the Commercial Forest zone and the forest reserves provided for under the cluster development option provide a buffer between Commercial Forest zoning and the housing allowed in the CFM zones and adjacent rural residential zones.

(1) Allowed Land Uses. The following land uses should be allowed outright in the Commercial Forest/Residential Mixed Use 5 zoning district:

•Agricultural activities

•Cluster developments

•Commercial greenhouse (wholesale)

•Communication relay facilities

•Family daycare providers

•Fish and wildlife management structures and activities

•Forest or ecological research facilities and related educational facilities

•Home enterprises

•Mineral extraction

•Power generating facilities having a capacity of not more than five (5) megawatts

•Primitive campgrounds

•RV park

•Single-family dwellings

•Timber harvesting

•Water extraction facilities

(2) Conditional Land Uses. The following land uses should be allowed in the Commercial Forest/Residential Mixed Use 5 zoning district through a special permitting process with public input and a determination that the proposed use is consistent with applicable land use regulations and the character of the neighborhood:

•Asphalt plant

•Bed and breakfasts

•Cemetery

•Church

•Commercial greenhouse (retail)

•Commercial horse facility

•Home-based industries

•Lodge

•Outdoor-oriented recreation facility

•School

•Timber labor camp

•Veterinary clinics/kennels

•Wood manufacturing

(3) Prohibited Land Uses. The following land uses should be prohibited in the Commercial Forest/Residential Mixed Use 5 zoning district:

•Airports

•Business parks

•Child daycare center

•Commercial storage

•Duplexes

•Gas stations

•Grocery stores

•Medical service facilities

•Mobile home parks

•Motels

•Multiple-family dwellings

•Planned unit development

•Professional offices

•Race tracks

•Restaurants

•Retail stores

•Shooting ranges

•Taverns

•Tourist shops

•Vehicular repair

•Wrecking yards

(4) Maximum Residential Density. One dwelling unit per 4.8 acres.

(5) Minimum Lot Size. One acre.

(6) Maximum Lot Size. 2.5 acres; provided, that a single forest reserve lot within a land division is allowed on divisions of forty (40) acres or greater. The forest reserve lot shall be located so as to buffer commercial forest lands and the smaller lots in the land division.

(7) Minimum Lot Width. Seventy-five (75) feet.

(8) Maximum Width to Depth Ratio. 1:5 (0.20).

(9) Setbacks. The setbacks are established by the underlying zoning district:

(a) Front yard – forty-five (45) feet from a local access street, fifty (50) feet from an arterial street, sixty (60) feet from a highway.

(b) Side yard – ten (10) feet (forty (40) feet from the centerline of the right-of-way of a side street).

(c) Rear yard – fifteen (15) feet (forty (40) feet from the centerline of the right-of-way of a rear street).