The commercial districts included in this code are designed
to provide the opportunity for various types of retail stores, offices,
entertainment and restaurant facilities, commercial recreation, service
establishments and wholesale business to concentrate for the convenience
of the public; to be established in such relationships to each other
as to be mutually beneficial; and to be located and grouped on sites
that are in logical proximity to the respective geographical areas
and categories of patrons which they serve.
(Ord. 92-73)
A.
Application.
The neighborhood commercial district is intended primarily for the
provision of retail and personal service facilities to satisfy the
convenience needs of the consumer relatively close to the consumer's
place of residence.
B.
Permitted
Uses. Retail stores, offices and service establishments which supply
goods or provide services primarily to meet the convenience of residents
of one or more residential neighborhoods shall be permitted, including
the following:
Permitted Uses for CN Districts:
Apparel
Art supply
Automobile supply
Bakery goods
Banks
Barber shops and beauty salons
Books and rental libraries
Camera equipment and supplies
Candy and confectioneries
Clothes cleaning (pick-up and delivery, dry cleaning within
enclosed machines)
Clinics (medical)
Commercial small business offices, not involving more than 8,000
square feet of gross floor area)
Dairy products
Drugs (prescription and over-the-counter)
Dry goods
Electrical appliance repair (small appliances only)
Florists
Food stores, delicatessens and supermarkets
Garden supply and plant nurseries (provided that all equipment,
supplies and merchandise other than plants and mulches shall be kept
within completely enclosed buildings or under a shade structure, and
with fertilizer to be stored and sold only in packaged form)
Gifts
Hardware
Hobby supplies
Ice dispensers, outdoor (coin-operated)
Liquor (packaged)
Locksmith
Newsstands and magazines
Pressing of wearing apparel
Radio and television sales and repair
Recycling center (a state certified recycling center or collection facility may be located within an existing development commercial property if the area is within a "convenience zone" as defined by the California Department of Resources Recycling and Recovery (CalRecycle). The recycling center or collection facility shall conform to the provisions of Chapter 17.100 of this title)
Restaurants and cafés
Self-service laundry and dry cleaning
Self-service car washing
Shoes
Shoe repair
Soda fountains
Tailoring and dressmaking
Video stores, subject to the limitations of Chapter 5.08
Variety stores, not involving more than 10,000 square feet of
gross floor area Incidental and accessory structures and uses on the
same site as a permitted use
Other uses added to this list by the planning commission according to the procedure in Section 17.16.020.
C.
Permitted Uses. Administrative Approval Required. The following uses may be permitted in accordance with the provisions of Chapter 17.108:
1.
City,
county, state and federal administrative offices, libraries, and police
and fire stations;
2.
One-family
dwellings over or to the rear of a permitted use; provided, such dwellings
shall be subject to the use, site area, coverage and yard requirements
of the RM-2 district;
3.
Electric transmission lines subject to the provisions of Section 17.108.080, electric transmission and distribution substations, gas regulator stations, communications equipment buildings, public service pumping stations, and/or elevated pressure tanks;
4.
Private
clubs and lodges and drive-in restaurants;
5.
Public
parks and playgrounds, public and quasi-public uses of an educational
or religious type, including public and private elementary, junior
and senior high schools, colleges, nursery schools, trade schools
and private schools;
6.
Incidental
and accessory structures and uses locates on the same site as a use
permitted by administrative approval or conditional use;
D.
Conditional Uses—Commission Approval Required. The following conditional uses may be permitted in accordance with Chapter 17.112:
1.
Bowling
alleys;
2.
Assembly
uses;
3.
A
state authorized licensed day care center for 13 or more children;
4.
Restaurants
and cafés, including the serving of alcoholic beverages when
incidental to food service;
5.
Expansion
or remodeling of an existing nonconforming use of a structure or land,
limited to 50% or less of the value of existing structures, or reestablishment
of a nonconforming use which has been damaged, except nonconforming
signs and outdoor advertising structures, nonconforming uses occupying
a structure with an assessed valuation of less than $200, and nonconforming
fences, walls and hedges;
6.
Expansion, remodeling or additions to a conditional use that are not considered an incidental or accessory use as defined in Section 17.04.080;
7.
Service
stations (gasoline), excluding automotive repair services not included
in the definition of "service station" in this chapter; provided,
all operations, except the sale of gasoline and oil, shall be conducted
in a building enclosed on at least three sides;
(Ord. 92-73; Ord. 99-168; Ord. 16-355 § 1; Ord. 21-418 § 12; Ord. 18-384 § 1)
A.
Application.
The central commercial district serves as the primary commercial district
of the community where a wide range of retail, financial, governmental,
professional, business service and entertainment activities and uses
are encouraged to concentrate to serve the entire community. Central
commercial areas are intended to be developed only as unified commercial
centers, except where the existing development pattern makes it impractical.
B.
Permitted
Uses.
1.
Any
use listed as a permitted use in the CN district;
2.
Parking lots improved in conformity with the standards prescribed for required off-street parking facilities in Chapter 17.76;
3.
Professional
and commercial offices;
4.
Retail
stores and service establishments which supply commodities or provide
services primarily to meet the needs of residents of the entire community,
including the following:
Permitted Uses for CC Districts
Addressograph and copying
Apparel
Arcades
Art and antiques
Art and craft schools and colleges
Art galleries
Art supplies
Auction rooms
Automobile supply
Bakery goods
Banks and other lending agencies
Barber shops and beauty salons
Bicycle shops
Billiard and pool halls
Blueprint and photocopy
Books and rental libraries
Bowling alleys
Bus depots and transit stations, provided that buses or other
transit vehicles shall not be stored on the site and no repair work
or servicing of vehicles shall be conducted on the site
Business, professional and trade schools and colleges
Cafeterias
Camera shops, photographic supplies and photography studios
Candy and confectioneries
Card rooms
Catering
Clothing and costume rental
Communications equipment buildings
Dairy products
Drapery and interior decorating
Department stores
Drug stores
Dry cleaning service
Dry goods
Electrical appliance and incidental repair
Employment agencies
Fire and police stations
Florists
Food stores, delicatessens and supermarkets
Furniture
Gifts, novelties or souvenirs
Gymnasium and health studios
Hardware
Health foods
Hobby supply
Home furnishings
Home improvements supplies
Hotels, motels and apartment hotels
Household appliance and repair shops
Ice dispensers (coin-operated)
Inns, providing temporary visitor accommodations and accessory
recreational and commercial facilities
Interior decorating
Jewelry
Leather goods and luggage
Libraries
Liquor
Locksmith
Massage establishment
Medical and orthopedic appliance stores
Medical buildings
Messenger offices
Millinery
Musical instruments and supplies
Music and dance studios
Newspaper publishing
Newsstands and magazine stores
Office and business machine stores
Paint and wallpaper stores
Pawn shops
Pet and bird stores and pet grooming, but not including boarding
of pets
Photographic supplies
Photography studios
Picture framing
Pool halls
Post offices
Pressing of wearing apparel
Printing shops
Public and private nonprofit charitable institutions
Radio and television broadcasting studios
Radio and television stores and repair shops
Reading rooms
Recycling center (a state certified recycling center or collection facility may be located within an existing development commercial property if the area is within a "convenience zone" as defined by the California Department of Resources Recycling and Recovery (CalRecycle). The recycling center or collection facility shall conform to the provisions of Chapter 17.100 of this title)
Restaurants, including drive-in restaurants, cafés and
outdoor cafés
Scientific instrument stores
Secretarial services
Self-service laundry and dry cleaning
Shoe repair
Shoes
Soda fountains
Sporting goods (excluding incidental boat sales) Sports arenas
within buildings
Stamps and coins
Stationery
Storage buildings incidental to a permitted use
Tailoring and dressmaking
Telegraph offices
Theaters and auditoriums
Tobacconists
Toys
Travel bureaus
Variety stores
Vending machines within enclosed areas
Incidental and accessory structures and uses located on the
same sites as a permitted use
Other uses which are added to this list according to the procedure in Section 17.16.020.
C.
Permitted Uses—Administrative Approval Required. The following uses may be permitted in accordance with the provisions of Chapter 17.108:
1.
Electrical
distribution substations, communication equipment buildings, gas regulator
stations and utility pumping stations;
2.
Incidental
and accessory structures and uses located on the same site as a use
permitted by administrative approval, or conditional use;
4.
Temporary uses such as a circus, carnival, religious revival, Christmas tree lot, promotion and sale in trucks or trailers, animal show or display, and pumpkin patch pursuant to Section 17.108.080.
D.
Conditional Uses—Commission Approval Required. The following uses may be permitted in accordance with the provisions of Chapter 17.112:
1.
Bars,
cocktail lounges and nightclubs;
2.
Assembly
uses;
3.
City,
county, state or federal administrative offices, libraries, police
and fire stations;
4.
Farmers
markets, including indoor and outdoor facilities;
5.
Service commercial uses designated by an asterisk (*), as listed under Section 17.44.040, which include incidental retail and/or office use;
6.
Expansion
or remodeling of an existing nonconforming use of a structure or land,
up to 50% or less of the value of the structure, or reestablishment
of a nonconforming use which has been damaged, except nonconforming
signs and outdoor advertising structures, nonconforming uses occupying
a structure with an assessed valuation of less than $200, and nonconforming
fences, walls and hedges;
7.
Expansion, remodeling or additions to a conditional use that are not considered an incidental or accessory use as defined in Section 17.04.080;
8.
Incidental
and accessory structures and uses located on the same site as a conditional
use;
(Ord. 92-73; Ord. 98-164; Ord. 99-168; Ord. 16-355 § 1; Ord. 23-449, 11/13/2023)
A.
Application.
The service commercial district is intended primarily for establishments
engaged in servicing equipment, materials and products, but which
do not require the manufacturing, assembly, packaging or processing
of articles or merchandise for distribution and retail sale. Land
requirements for most service commercial uses generally dictate their
application along arterial and collector streets of the city which
generally lie close to central commercial, highway commercial and
industrial districts, in accordance with the general plan.
B.
Permitted
Uses.
2.
Service commercial establishments, including the following. (Note: Those uses marked with an asterisk (*) are permitted as conditional uses in CC districts, as indicated in Section 17.44.030:
Permitted Uses for CS Districts
Addressograph services *
Automobile body and fender repair
Automobile repairing, overhauling, rebuilding and painting
Automobile sale and service (new) *
Automobile and tractor parts and equipment *
Automobile upholstery and top shops
Automobile washing, either self-service or involving the use
of mechanical conveyors, blowers and steam cleaning *
Bakeries, retail and wholesale *
Bars, cocktail lounges and nightclubs
Bicycle shops
Blacksmith shops
Blueprint and photocopy
Boat sales and service
Book binding
Bottling works
Building materials
Bus depots and transit stations, including storage and repair
Business, professional and trade schools and colleges
Carpenters' shops
Carpeting and flooring
Catering
Ceramic and pottery works
Cleaning, pressing and dyeing establishments (using noninflammable
and nonexplosive cleaning flu-id)*
Cold storage
Columbariums and crematoriums
Communications equipment
Contractors' storage yards
Convenience-oriented food stores limited to a maximum of 5,000
square feet of floor area
Dairy products plants
Diaper supply
Drapery and interior decorating
Electrical repair shops *
Equipment rental
Exterminators
Farm equipment sales and service
Feed and seed
Food lockers
Freight forwarding terminals
Furniture stores, new and used
Furniture warehouses and van services
Glass Installation *
Gunsmith *
Heating, ventilating and air-conditioning shops, including incidental
sheet metal
Home improvement centers
Household and office equipment and machinery repair shops
Household repair shops *
Ice storage and sale
Kennels located not closer than 500 feet to an R, RM, CN or
CC district
Laboratories *
Laundries *
Linen supply services *
Liquor
Locksmith
Lumber yards, not including planing mills or saw mills *
Machinery sales and rentals
Mattress repair
Mini-storage *
Mortuaries *
Motorcycle sales and service *
Musical instrument repair and incidental sales *
Nurseries and garden supply stores *
Offices incidental to another permitted use
Packing and crating
Paint and wallpaper
Parcel delivery *
Photographic and blueprint processing and printing *
Picture framing
Plumbing and sheet metal *
Pool halls
Pressing of wearing apparel *
Printing, lithographing and engraving *
Public utility service yards
Radio and television broadcasting
Radio, television, VCR, video and related electronic equipment
repair shops
Railroad freight and passenger stations
Recycling center (a state certified recycling center or collection facility may be located within an exist-ing development commercial property if the area is within a "convenience zone" as defined by the California Department of Resources Recycling and Recovery (CalRecycle). The recycling center or collection facility shall conform to the provisions of Chapter 17.100 of this title)
Repair garages
Restaurants, including drive-in restaurants
Rug and carpet cleaning and dyeing
Safe and vault repairing
Self-service laundry and dry cleaning
Sheet metal shops
Shoe repair shops
Sign painting shops *
Small animal hospitals or clinics and veterinarians' offices,
including short-term boarding of animals and incidental care such
as bathing and trimming; provided, that all operations are conducted
entirely within a completely enclosed structure which complies with
specifications of soundproof construction as prescribed by the building
official
Stone and monument yards or mills
Storage garages and buildings *
Storage yards for commercial vehicles
Taxidermists *
Thrift shops and secondhand stores
Tire sales, retreading and recapping *
Tool or cutlery sharpening or grinding *
Trade schools *
Trailer sales and service and rentals
Transit terminals
Truck sales, including sales and installation of parts and accessories
and repairs incidental to vehicle dealerships
Trucking terminals
Typewriter repair shops *
Upholstery shops *
Used car sales *
Warehouses, except for the storage of fuel oil or flammable
liquids and explosives
Welding and blacksmithing, excepting drop hammer
Wholesale establishments *
Other uses which are added to this list according to the procedure in Section 17.16.020;
3.
Offices
and retail stores incidental to and on the same site with a commercial
service establishment;
4.
Electrical
transmission and distribution substations, gas regulator stations,
public service pumping stations and elevated pressure tanks;
5.
Incidental
and accessory uses and structures located on the same site as a permitted
use.
C.
Permitted
Uses—Administrative Approval Required.
1.
Gas and electrical transmission lines, in accordance with Section 17.108.080;
2.
Temporary uses such as a circus, carnival, religious revival, Christmas tree lot, promotion and sale in trucks or trailers, animal show or display, and pumpkin patch pursuant to Section 17.108.080;
3.
Incidental
and accessory structures and uses located on the same site as a use
permitted by administrative approval or conditional use;
D.
Conditional
Uses—Commission Approval Required.
1.
Any
use listed as a permitted use in the IL, limited industrial district;
2.
Drive-in
theaters, golf driving ranges, pony riding rings, race tracks, riding
stables, skating rinks, sports arenas and sports stadiums, and other
similar open, unenclosed commercial recreation facilities;
3.
Electroplating
shops;
4.
Expansion
or remodeling of an existing nonconforming use of a structure or land,
up to 50% or less of the value of the structure, or reestablishment
of a nonconforming use which has been damaged, except nonconforming
signs and outdoor advertising structures, nonconforming uses occupying
a structure with an assessed valuation of less than $200, and nonconforming
fences, walls and hedges;
5.
Public
buildings and grounds;
6.
Assembly
uses;
7.
Expansion,
remodeling or additions to a conditional use that are not considered
an incidental or accessory use;
10.
Service stations (gasoline), including dispensing of diesel fuel
and complete truck service;
11.
Recycled water storage ponds and sprayfields.
(Ord. 92-73; Ord. 92-92; Ord. 99-168; Ord. 04-237 § 1; Ord. 16-355 § 1; Ord. 23-449, 11/13/2023)
A.
Application.
The highway commercial district is intended primarily for application
to areas along major highway entrances to the city in accord with
policies of the general plan, where controlled access to the highway
is afforded for the convenience of patrons traveling the highway by
the provision of frontage roads, interchanges, channelized intersections
and control over driveway spacing.
B.
Permitted
Uses.
1.
The
following highway commercial uses are permitted:
Permitted Uses for CH Districts
Ambulance service
Automobile sales, service and repair, including body and fender
work
Automobile and farm equipment sales and supply stores
Automobile washing
Bars, cocktail lounges or night clubs
Boat sales and service
Bowling alleys
Bus depots and transit stations
Hotels and motels
Medical offices
Motorcycle sales, service and repair
Public utility structures, service and facilities, including
gas and electrical distribution and transmission substations, gas
regulator stations and pumping stations
Private clubs and lodges
Recreation vehicle sales and service
Recycling center (a state certified recycling center or collection facility may be located within an existing development commercial property if the area is within a "convenience zone" as defined by the California Department of Resources Recycling and Recovery (CALRecycle). The recycling center or collection facility shall conform to the provisions of Chapter 17.100 of this title)
Repair garages
Restaurants, including drive-in restaurants Soda fountains
Truck sales, including sales and installation of parts and accessories
and repairs incidental to vehicle dealerships
Used car sales
Utility trailer sales, service and rental
Incidental and accessory structures and uses located on the
same site as a permitted use
Other uses which are added to this list according to the procedure in Section 17.16.020;
2.
Convenience
stores and services for the highway traveler, only at locations close
to highway intersections or freeway interchanges, including the following:
Additional Permitted Uses for CH Districts
Barber and beauty shops
Drug stores
Food stores (under 10,000 square feet in area), excluding supermarkets
Gift shops
Laundromats
Liquor stores
Offices providing financial lending services
Offices and retail stores incidental to and on the same site
with a highway commercial use
Incidental and accessory structures and uses located on the
same site as a permitted use
Other uses which are added to this list according to the procedure in Section 17.16.020.
C.
Permitted
Uses—Administrative Approval Required.
1.
Gas and electric transmission lines, in accordance with the provisions of Section 17.108.080;
2.
Public
buildings and grounds;
3.
Temporary uses such as a circus, carnival, religious revival, Christmas tree lot, promotion and sale in trucks or trailers, animal show or display, and pumpkin patch pursuant to Section 17.108.080;
4.
Incidental
and accessory structures and uses located on the same site as a use
permitted by administrative approval or conditional use;
D.
Conditional
Uses—Commission Approval Required.
1.
Factory
outlet malls: drive-in theaters, golf driving ranges, pony riding
rings, race tracks, riding stables, skating rinks, sports arenas and
sports stadiums, and other similar open, unenclosed commercial recreation
facilities;
2.
Overnight
parking for recreational vehicles;
5.
Expansion
or remodeling of an existing nonconforming use of a structure or land,
up to 50% or less of the value of the structure, or reestablishment
of a nonconforming use which has been damaged, except nonconforming
signs and outdoor advertising structures, nonconforming uses occupying
a structure with an assessed valuation of less than $200, and nonconforming
fences, walls and hedges;
6.
Expansion, remodeling or additions to a conditional use that are not considered an incidental or accessory use as defined in Section 17.04.080;
7.
Incidental
and accessory structures and uses located on the same site as a conditional
use;
(Ord. 99-168; Ord. 07-268 § 1; Ord.
16-355 § 1; Ord. 18-384 § 1)
A.
In
any C district other than a CS district, all businesses, services
and processes shall be conducted entirely within a completely enclosed
structure, except for off-street parking and off-street loading areas,
gasoline service stations, outdoor dining areas, nurseries, garden
shops, signs, Christmas tree sales lots, bus depots and transit stations,
public utility stations, and used car sales incidental to new car
sales.
B.
No
use shall be permitted, and no process, equipment or materials shall
be used which are found by the planning commission to be objectionable
to persons living or working in the vicinity by reasons of odor, fumes,
dust, smoke, cinders, dirt, refuse, water-carried waste, noise, vibration,
illumination, glare or unsightliness or to involve any hazard of fire,
explosion or toxic chemicals.
C.
Temporary
sidewalk sales and use of the public right-of-way for the display
and sales merchandise shall require approval by the city council.
Permanent use for such purposes is strictly prohibited.
D.
The
visual interface between commercial and residential areas shall be
designed and developed so as to avoid obtrusive visual impacts of
commercial activities on nearby residential areas.
E.
Street
trees and frontage landscaping with automatic irrigation shall be
provided for all commercial sites. Parking area landscaping may also
be required under site plan review.
(Ord. 92-73)
A.
Screening and landscaping, fences, walls and hedges shall conform to the provisions of Chapter 17.92.
B.
Site
Area. There shall be no limitation.
C.
Frontage,
Width and Depth. There shall be no limitation.
D.
Coverage.
There shall be no limitation.
E.
Yard
Requirements.
1.
The
minimum front yard shall be as follows:
|
District
|
Minimum Yard Requirements
|
Minimum Yard Requirements Abutting Certain Property1
|
|---|---|---|
|
CN
|
15 feet
|
15 feet
|
|
CC
|
0 feet2
|
10 feet
|
|
CS
|
0 feet
|
10 feet
|
|
CH
|
10 feet
|
15 feet
|
|
Note:
|
|---|
|
1 Minimum on a site abutting on property
in an RCO, UR-ST, R, or RM District and fronting on the same street.
|
F.
Distances
Between Structures. The minimum distance between a dwelling unit and
another structure shall be 10 feet.
(Ord. 92-96; Ord. 92-73; Ord.
23-449, 11/13/2023)
No use shall be erected on any lot or site in any C district until a site plan and architectural plans shall have been submitted to and approved by the city pursuant to the provisions of Chapter 17.100 and 17.104.
(Ord. 92-73)
All uses shall be subject to the general provisions and exceptions in Chapter 17.16.
(Ord. 92-73)
