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A. Uses Permitted Outright. No building or land shall be used within the WCC institutional district, except as follows:

1. Academic. Classrooms, laboratories, computer labs, faculty offices, college and departmental offices, centers, institutes, conference, libraries, research areas, food services, parking facilities, and related uses.

2. Administrative/Support. Administrative offices, utility systems support functions, physical plant, recycling, copying services, business functions, archival functions, environmental health and safety functions, parking facilities, and related uses.

3. Residential. Residence halls, dining halls, apartments, administrative functions, conferences, resident fitness centers, resident computer centers, outdoor recreation areas, parking facilities, and related uses.

4. Student Activities. Programmed outdoor sport activity areas, playfields, tennis courts, running tracks, campus recreation facilities, associated student functions, student union functions, administrative offices such as admissions, counseling, registrar, career services and general student support, parking facilities, and related uses.

5. Open Space. Educational or recreational functions, native growth protection areas, plazas, art (including outdoor sculpture), landscaping, walkways, kiosks, and related uses.

6. Mixed Use. Any combination of the above uses.

7. Public utilities.

8. Wireless communications facility, subject to the provisions of Chapter 20.13 BMC.

B. Accessory Uses. WCC is allowed to establish accessory uses that are customarily subordinate to the primary use of a building. Examples of accessory uses include day care, a small coffee shop located in an office building, a computer lab located in a residence hall, or small retail for student supplies in the Syre Student Center. Where development directly interfaces with the Meridian commercial district on the southeast corner of campus, small-scale commercial uses may occur at ground level to provide a transition between the institutional and commercial zoning, provided they support the campus community. They can also be incorporated elsewhere in district 2 as a mixed-use student housing village concept. Commercial uses are not intended as standalone one-story commercial buildings.

C. In the case of a question as to the inclusion or exclusion of a particular proposed use in a particular use category, the planning director shall have the authority to make the final determination. The director shall make the determination according to the characteristics of the operation of the proposed use as they relate to similar allowed uses within the use area, the intent in the WCC IMP, or both.

D. Building Across Boundary Lines. The existence of district boundary lines within the WCCID does not preclude the construction of a building across said boundary lines provided other development standards such as height limits are met within each respective district. [Ord. 2017-11-025 § 18 (Exh. I)].