Chapter 19.20 COMMERCIAL ZONING DISTRICTS

The C-1 neighborhood business zoning district is reserved for the construction, use and occupancy of commercial buildings providing retail commercial shopping and service facilities to the adjacent neighborhood residential areas.

The C-2 highway business zoning district is reserved for the construction, use and occupancy of retail commercial buildings, tourist accommodations and service facilities adapted to principal highway commercial zoning districts.

§ 19.20.030 Permitted, conditionally permitted and prohibited uses in commercial zones.

The C-3 regional business zoning district is reserved for the construction, use and occupancy of commercial buildings providing extensive retail, commercial, shopping, and service facilities to serve the entire city or greater regional area.

(d)

The C-4 service commercial zoning district is reserved for the construction, use and occupancy of service rather than retail facilities such as repair shops, crafts shops or custom fabricators, contractors' offices, materials suppliers, as well as residential uses.

(Prior zoning code §§ 19.32.100(a), 19.32.110(a), 19.32.120(a), 19.32.125(a); Ord. 2623-99 § 1)

Table 19.20.030 sets forth those uses which are permitted, conditionally permitted, and prohibited in commercial zoning districts, and the type of permit a use requires.

It is a violation of this chapter to:

(1)

Engage in a use that is conditional without complying with the imposed conditions;

(2)

Engage in a prohibited use;

(3)

Engage in a use requiring a miscellaneous plan permit, use permit or special development permit without obtaining the required permit.

§ 19.20.040 Uses requiring use permit; all commercial zoning districts.

Unless otherwise authorized by a permit, all permitted or conditionally permitted uses in a commercial zoning district shall be conducted entirely within an enclosed building.

Table 19.20.030
Permitted, Conditionally Permitted and Prohibited Uses in Commercial Zoning Districts
In the table, the letters and symbols are defined as follows:
P	=	Permitted use
UP	=	Use Permit required
MPP	=	Miscellaneous Plan Permit required
N	=	Not permitted, prohibited

COMMERCIAL ZONING DISTRICTS		C-1	C-2	C-3	C-4
1.	Retail Commercial
A.	Bakeries	P¹	P¹	P¹	P¹
B.	Drive-through retail sales businesses, except restaurants	UP	UP	UP	N
C.	Retail sales businesses	P¹	P¹	P¹	N
D.	Outside display of merchandise or products in connection with a retail sales business	MPP	MPP	MPP	N
E.	Donation centers for used goods²	MPP	MPP	MPP	MPP
F.	Retail liquor stores within 200 feet of public schools	N	P	P	P
G.	Retail liquor stores outside 200 feet of public schools	P	P	P	P
2.	Service Commercial
A.	Bulk sale of building and construction materials, feed, fertilizers, soil conditioners and fuel (except motor vehicle fuel)	N	N	N	UP
B.	Commercial storage	N	N	N	MPP¹
C.	Crafts shops such as cabinetmakers, upholsterers, taxidermists, etc.	N	N	N	MPP
D.	Custom fabricators	N	N	N	MPP
E.	Livestock or poultry housing or sales	N	N	N	N
F.	Open or unenclosed storage ancillary to a permitted use (screened from public view)	P	P	P	P
G.	Outdoor storage of materials or supplies ancillary to a permitted use, not screened from public right-of-way	N	N	N	MPP¹
H.	Printers, copiers, and engravers using chemical processes	N	N	N	MPP¹
I.	Repair shops for household appliances and apparel	P¹	P¹	P¹	P¹
J.	Retail service uses such as copiers, locksmiths, and engravers not using chemical processes	P¹	P¹	P¹	P¹
K.	Self storage "mini warehousing"	N	UP	UP	MPP¹
L.	Trailer, automobile, boat, motorcycle and truck services and repairs	N	UP	UP	MPP¹
3.	Personal Service
A.	Child care centers with occupancy of 30 or fewer children	MPP	MPP	MPP	MPP
B.	Child care centers with occupancy of 31 or more children	UP	UP	UP	UP
C.	Laundry, cleaning business, self-operated laundries, and dry cleaners	UP	UP	UP	MPP¹
D.	Personal service businesses not otherwise specified	P¹	P¹	P¹	UP
4.	Eating/Drinking Establishments
A.	Drive-through restaurants	UP	UP	N	N
B.	Nightclubs and cocktail lounges, where alcoholic beverages are sold and consumed	UP	UP	P	N
C.	Restaurants and fast food restaurants that may have on sale beer and wine alcohol beverage service	MPP	MPP	MPP	MPP
D.	Restaurants and fast food restaurants that have on sale general alcoholic beverage service	UP	UP	UP	UP
5.	Automotive
A.	Automotive service stations:	UP	UP	UP	UP
1.	Retail sales of groceries at permitted stations⁷	MPP	MPP	MPP	MPP
2.	Retail sale of beer and wine at permitted stations⁷	UP	UP	UP	UP
B.	Car wash facilities	N	UP	UP	UP
C.	Automobile/Vehicle repair	N	UP	UP	UP
D.	Automotive broker for 3 or fewer vehicles on site	N	MPP¹	MPP¹	MPP¹
E.	New or used vehicle sales	N	UP	UP	N
6.	Education, Recreation, and Places of Assembly
A.	Education—Recreation and enrichment	MPP⁵	MPP⁵	MPP⁵	N
B.	Education—Primary and high school	UP⁵	UP⁵	UP⁵	N
C.	Education—Institution of higher learning	UP⁵	UP⁵	UP⁵	N
D.	Recreational and athletic facilities	UP⁵	UP⁵	UP⁵	N
E.	Places of assembly—Business serving	UP⁵	UP⁵	UP⁵	UP
F.	Places of assembly—Community serving	UP⁵	UP⁵	UP⁵	N
G.	Cardrooms	N	N	N	N
H.	Entertainment establishments	UP	UP	UP	N
I.	Safe parking site	See Chapter 19.66
7.	Office
A.	Ground floor dependent office less than 1,000 square feet	P	P	P	MPP
B.	Ground floor dependent office greater than 1,000 square feet	MPP	MPP	MPP	UP
C.	Office not located on the ground floor	P	P	P	P
D.	Financial institutions	MPP	MPP	MPP	UP
E.	Research and development office	N	N	N	N
F.	Medical clinics	MPP	MPP	MPP	UP
8.	Public Facilities
A.	Bus terminals and other public transportation facilities	UP	UP	UP	UP
B.	Public utility buildings and service facilities	UP	UP	UP	UP
9.	Residential/Boarding/Lodging
A.	Hotel or motel	N	UP	UP	N
B.	Residential uses	N⁶	UP	N⁶	N⁶
C.	Single room occupancy living facilities	N	UP	UP	N
D.	Single room occupancy residential hotels	N	UP	UP	N
10.	Other
A.	A. Any use which is obnoxious, offensive or creates a nuisance	N	N	N	N
B.	Adult business establishments	N	N	N	N
C.	Assembly, compounding, manufacture or processing of merchandise or products are customarily incidental or essential to permitted retail commercial and service uses	N	N	N	UP
D.	Massage establishments³	P	P	P	P
E.	Recycling centers	UP	UP	UP	UP
F.	Sale or rental of utility trailers, heavy equipment or machinery	N	N	N	UP
G.	Storage or parking of commercial, industrial or public utility vehicles	N⁴	N⁴	N⁴	N⁴
H.	Wholesale storage or warehousing of merchandise or products within a building or premises⁸	N	N	N	P UP
I.	Facilities for storage of recreational vehicles	N	N	N	MPP
J.	Animal hospitals and clinics	UP	UP	UP	UP
K.	Payday lending establishment	N	MPP⁹	N	N

Notes:
¹	Construction of a new building greater than ten thousand square feet requires a use permit.
²	Donation centers in C-1 are only allowed on sites of four or more acres. Miscellaneous plan permits for donation centers shall be reviewed for compliance with council policy on operations, location and appearance following the procedures in Chapter 19.82 (Miscellaneous Plan Permit).
³	Subject to provisions of Chapter 9.41.
⁴	Except that daytime and overnight parking of up to five commercial motor vehicles (of a type that are less than ten thousand pounds in gross vehicle weight with not more than two axles) that are owned or operated by the person(s), company or business which conducts the primary use is permitted, provided the vehicles are used for purposes of delivery, pick up or service to patrons of the primary use only, do not utilize on-site required parking and are not utilized for purposes of advertising.
⁵	Educational and recreational uses and places of assembly shall not be located in retail centers in a manner that disrupts the flow of pedestrians between retail establishments.
⁶	Except caretaker residence ancillary to a permitted use.
⁷	Automobile service stations with sale of groceries, beer and wine, or both, require findings as set forth in Section 19.98.020(i) and/or (j), as applicable.
⁸	In the C-4 zoning district, wholesale storage or warehousing is permitted up to thirty-five percent FAR, and requires a use permit for greater than thirty-five percent FAR.
⁹	Subject to the provisions of Section 19.20.050.

(Prior zoning code §§ 19.32.100(b)(1)—(d)(8), 19.32.110(b)(1)—(c)(6), 19.32.120(b)(1)—(d)(7), 19.32.125(b)(1)—(c)(4), 19.52.010; Ord. 2623-99 § 1; Ord. 2649-00 § 2; Ord. 2673-01 § 2; Ord. 2802-06 § 6; Ord. 2805-06 § 2; Ord. 2848-07 § 3; Ord. 2874-08 § 1; Ord. 2877-08 § 5; Ord. 2887-08 § 4; Ord. 2906-09 § 1; Ord. 2910-09 § 2; Ord. 2947-10 § 4; Ord. 3002-13 § 4; Ord. 3043-14 § 1; Ord. 3065-15 § 4; Ord. 3077-16 § 3; Ord. 3125-17 § 3; Ord. 3150-19 § 1; Ord. 3233-24, 11/19/2024)

A use permit is required for all uses in the C-1 (neighborhood business zoning district) and C-3 (regional business zoning district) which:

(1)

Consists of more than two buildings on one lot.

(2)

Consists of any building or buildings in any of the following forms of multiple ownership: condominium, as defined in Section 783 of the California Civil Code; community apartment project, as defined in Section 11004 of the California Business and Professions Code; a stock cooperative as defined in Section 11003.2 of the Business and Professions Code; or a planned development as defined in Section 11003 of the Business and Professions Code.

(3)

The conversion of ownership of any existing building or buildings to any of the forms of multiple ownership set forth above.

If state law requires the city to allow a residential use on a commercially zoned site, such use shall require a use permit, or, if required by Chapter 19.90 of this code, a special development permit. The project shall comply with the residential density and other residential standards applicable to the site in the General Plan. The project shall also comply with all zoning standards that apply to residential uses in the lowest residential zoning district that would allow the density established by the General Plan for the site.

§ 19.20.050 Payday lending establishments.

By-right housing developments on sites identified in Chapter 19.73 require approval of a ministerial miscellaneous plan permit in accordance with the provisions of Chapter 19.82, even if a Use Permit or Special Development Permit is listed in Table 19.18.030.

(Prior zoning code § 19.32.068; Ord. 2623-99 § 1; Ord. 3176-21 § 2; Ord. 3223-24, 2/6/2024)

Distance Requirement. Payday lending establishments are prohibited within one thousand feet of the parcel boundaries of any other payday lending establishment.

Maximum Number of Payday Lending Establishments. The maximum number of payday lending establishments that may be operating at any one time is six.