The provisions of this chapter shall be known as the S-9 retail frontage combining zone regulations. The S-9 zone is intended to create, preserve, and enhance compact, attractive, and clearly defined street frontage, to assure continuity of retail and consumer service uses at ground level along principal shopping streets, and to encourage retail establishments serving both short and long term needs to locate in compact locations oriented toward pedestrian comparison shopping, and is typically appropriate to district shopping areas and along important shopping streets. These regulations shall apply in the S-9 zone, and are supplementary to the regulations applying in the zones with which the S-9 zone is combined. (Prior planning code § 6500)

The S-9 zone may be combined with any other zone. (Prior planning code § 6501)

General Food Sales and Consultative and Financial Service Commercial Activities shall not be located on the ground floor of any building, except upon the granting of a conditional use permit pursuant to the conditional use permit procedure in Chapter 17.134 and the provisions of Section 17.88.040, and except that incidental entranceways which lead to such an activity on a different floor are permitted. (Ord. 12776 § 3, Exh. A (part), 2006: prior planning code § 6504)

In the S-9 zone, a conditional use permit for any use under Section 17.88.030 may be granted only upon determination that the proposal conforms to the general use permit criteria set forth in the conditional use permit procedure in Chapter 17.134 and to the following additional use permit criteria:
A. That the proposal will not detract from the compact, integrated character of the area;
B. That the proposal will not impair a generally continuous wall of building facades;
C. That the proposal will not weaken the concentration and continuity of retail facilities at ground level, and will not break up an important shopping frontage;
D. That the proposal will not interfere with the movement of people along an important pedestrian walkway;
E. That the proposal will conform in all significant respects with any applicable district plan which has been adopted by the City Council. (Ord. 12776 § 3, Exh. A (part), 2006: prior planning code § 6511)