The purpose of this chapter is to provide definitions of terms and phrases used in this title that are technical or specialized or that may not reflect common usage. If any of the definitions in this chapter conflict with definitions in other provisions of this code, these definitions shall control for the purposes of this title. If a word is not defined in this chapter or in other provisions of this code, the director shall determine the correct definition.
(Ord. 2323 § 1 Exh. A (part), 4-28-2015)
Terms and phrases defined in this chapter shall be applicable to all contexts within this title, unless the context in which they are used clearly indicates otherwise.
(Ord. 2323 § 1 Exh. A (part), 4-28-2015)
"Accessory structure"
(land use) means a detached building or structure or part of a building or structure that is incidental or subordinate to the main building, structure, or use on the same parcel (e.g., storage shed, garage, gazebo).
"Accessory fabrication/assembly and light manufacturing"
(land use) means limited fabrication, assembly, or light industrial activities that provide ancillary warehousing and storage, require minimal outdoor storage, and require minimal heavy vehicle delivery/pick-up, and are in support of a primary research and development and/or industrial permitted land use in the applicable zone.
Active Uses.
See "Pedestrian-oriented uses."
Active, Pedestrian-Oriented Uses.
See "Pedestrian-oriented uses."
"Administrative modification"
means a permissible administrative modification to the general property standards as authorized in Chapter 11.30, Section 11.30.030 and Table 11.30-1.
"Adult day care center"
(land use) means:
1. 
General.
The provision of nonmedical care for seven or more adult persons on a less than twenty-four-hour basis. Includes commercial day care centers for adults. Excludes substance-recovery shared living/dwelling units.
2. 
Limited.
Provision of nonmedical care for six or fewer adult persons on a less than twenty-four-hour basis. Includes commercial day care centers for adults. Excludes substance-recovery shared living/dwelling units.
"Aircraft/missile factory"
(land use) means a facility engaged in the private or commercial manufacturing of aircraft or missiles of any type or form.
Alcohol Sales (Land Use).
1. 
"Alcohol sales, as part of a restaurant"
means any licensed alcohol sales and service conducted in conjunction with a restaurant. See "Restaurant" (land use). Such retail liquor licenses consist of the following:
i. 
Type 02 (winegrower);
ii. 
Type 23 (small beer manufacturer);
iii. 
Type 41 (on-sale beer and wine – eating place);
iv. 
Type 47 (on-sale general – eating place);
v. 
Type 75 (on-sale general – brewpub).
2. 
"Alcohol sales, as part of a bar/tavern"
means any establishment that is making an application for or has obtained a retail liquor license from the California Department of Alcoholic Beverage Control authorizing the sale of alcoholic beverages for consumption on premises, for sale or given away. Such retail liquor licenses consist of the following:
i. 
Type 40 (on-sale beer);
ii. 
Type 42 (on-sale beer and wine, public premises – no minors);
iii. 
Type 48 (on-sale beer, wine, distilled spirits, general public premises – no minors).
3. 
"Alcohol sales, off-sale"
means any establishment that is making an application for or has obtained a retail liquor license from the California Department of Alcoholic Beverage Control authorizing the sale of alcoholic beverages for consumption off the premises in original, sealed containers. Such retail liquor licenses consist of the following:
i. 
Type 17 (beer and wine wholesaler);
ii. 
Type 20 (off-sale beer and wine);
iii. 
Type 21 (off-sale general). May include any retail establishment that primarily sells wine, beer, and/or spirits, and/or may specialize in a type of alcohol, and may sell convenience merchandise, including food products.
"Alcoholic Beverage Control"
("ABC") means the California Department of Alcoholic Beverage Control, or successor entity, administering the provisions of the Alcoholic Beverage Control Act.
"Ambulance/patrol/dispatch service"
(land use) means a business/dispatch base and storage for ambulance, limousine, safety patrol, taxis, tow truck, and similar vehicles for specialized transportation and/or where ambulance vehicles and crews not based at a hospital or fire department stand by for emergency calls. Does not include storage facilities for towed, wrecked, or salvaged vehicles.
"Animal sale and services"
(land use) means a commercial land use (charitable or for profit) that includes any individual or combination of the following:
1. 
"Boarding/kennels"
means shelter and care of animals, daily or overnight, on a commercial basis (charitable or for profit), including feeding and activities.
2. 
"Grooming"
means the provision of bathing, tending, or general trimming services on a commercial basis.
3. 
"Retail sales"
means the retail sale and boarding of small animals within an enclosed building.
"Animal services, veterinary hospitals"
(land use) means an establishment providing medical and surgical treatment for domestic animals.
"Animal shelter"
(land use) means a facility operated for the purposes of shelter, care, impounding, harboring, selling, placing, and retrieving seized, strayed, distressed, homeless, abandoned, or unwanted animals. May include incidental activities, including vaccination, training classes, spay/neuter services, and boarding services.
"Antenna/communication facility"
(land use) means any and all equipment located, in whole or in part, in, above, or below public rights-of-way and other public or private property used by a telecommunications carrier in its telecommunications system, including conduits, cables, wires, ducts, pedestals, antennas, electronics, drops, and switching equipment.
1. 
"Telecommunication system"
means an operating system that is located, in whole or in part, on, in, above, or below public rights-of-way or other public or private property that is designed and used, in whole or in part, to provide telecommunication services.
2. 
Institutional Use.
Any facility owned, operated by, or operated on property of a nonprofit corporation, hospital, place of worship, private school, or public agency other than the city of South Gate.
3. 
"FCC"
means the Federal Communications Commission or its designated representative.
4. 
"PUC"
means the California Public Utilities Commission or its designated representative.
5. 
"Stealth facility"
means any telecommunications facility that is designed to blend into the surrounding environment and is visually unobtrusive. Examples of stealth facilities include architecturally screened, roof-mounted antennas or façade-mounted antennas painted and treated as architectural elements to blend with the existing building. All screening materials for stealth facilities match in color, size, proportion, style, and quality with the exterior design and architectural character of the structure and the surrounding visual environment, depending on the visibility, zoning, and character of the environment where the facility is located.
"Architectural feature"
means any nonhabitable functional or decorative feature of a building that projects above the finished roof of a building and is specifically designed for an architectural (tower, parapet walls, skylights, chimneys, smokestacks) or utility (elevator shaft, ventilation system, heating/cooling system, flagpole, or similar equipment) purpose.
"Architectural projection"
means horizontal building wall offsets projecting beyond the minimum setback line for the express purpose of accommodating utility features, including, but not limited to, fireplaces, eaves, window surrounds, chimneys, media niches, ventilation systems, and similar features.
"Art work"
(as applicable to the art in public places program) means any form of physical hard media deemed adequate for contribution under the arts in public places program, including the following:
1. 
Calligraphy;
2. 
Earthwork;
3. 
Fiber work;
4. 
Glass mosaic;
5. 
Mural;
6. 
Neon work;
7. 
Photograph;
8. 
Portable painting;
9. 
Print;
10. 
Sculpture;
11. 
Other form of physical hard media and digital media.
"Artisan/craft product manufacturing"
(land use) means any commercial use (charitable or for profit) or space for the creation, exhibition, or production of artistic or craft pieces, including art installations, ceramic products manufacturing, crafts, glass work (edging, beveling, staining, silvering in connection with sale of mirrors and glass-decorated furniture glass), jewelry, painting, sculpture, and welding activities limited to the production of art.
"Assembly and repair"
(land use) means any commercial use operating for the primary or incidental purpose of repairing personal or commercial goods, categorized by the following programmatic categories:
1. 
Appliances/Furniture.
Any land use engaged in the repair of residential or commercial appliances or furniture on site. This land use includes the following industry types:
i. 
Appliance repair;
ii. 
Upholstery, new materials/frames;
iii. 
Saw and filing shops.
2. 
Fix-It Shop/Footwear/Garments.
Any repair land use engaged in the repair of small electronics, general commercial or residential wares (excluding those associated with an appliance/furniture repair land use), footwear, garments, or related textile repair/refurbishing and light manufacturing of goods.
"Assembly/bottling/distribution plant"
(land use) means an enclosed facility whose primary operation involves assembling, bottling, processing, packaging, and/or distributing wholesale or retail merchandise or materials. This land use includes the following commercial operation types:
1. 
Bottling plants;
2. 
Distribution plants;
3. 
Jobbers.
"ATM"
(land use) means a pedestrian-oriented machine used by bank and financial service patrons for conducting transactions, including deposits, fund transfers, and withdrawals, without contact with financial institution personnel. ATMs may be located as a freestanding machine or a machine installed in an exterior wall that functions as an ATM as an accessory use to the primary building use(s), or as a space located inside a building dedicated to the functions of an ATM as an accessory use to the primary building use(s). ATMs accessed by drive-through space shall be regulated as a drive-through service; see "Drive-through service" (land use).
"Auction"
(land use) means any public, commercial, or industrial use conducting the live or silent sale of products or merchandise through an auction process. This land use includes the warehousing and storage of auction products and merchandise, and public auctions and auction houses or stores. All activities are conducted completely indoors and abide by all noise, loading, and storage standards of this title that are applicable to the zone.
(Ord. 2323 § 1 Exh. A (part), 4-28-2015)
A. 
"Adult-oriented business"
means any business engaged in or including any of the following activities:
1. 
"Adult arcade"
means any establishment where coin- or slug-operated or electronically or mechanically controlled amusement devices, still or motion picture machines, projectors, or other image-producing devices are maintained to show images on a regular or substantial basis, where the images are distinguished or characterized by an emphasis on specified sexual activities or specified anatomical areas.
2. 
"Adult cabaret"
means any nightclub, restaurant, bar, or other commercial establishment, whether or not serving alcoholic beverages, that features live performances by topless and/or bottomless dancers, go-go dancers, exotic dancers, strippers, wrestlers, and/or similar entertainers, and such performances are distinguished or characterized by an emphasis on specified sexual activities or specified anatomical areas.
3. 
"Adult dance studio"
means any commercial establishment that provides for members of the public a partner for dance, where the partner exposes specified anatomical areas or the dance is distinguished or characterized by an emphasis on specified sexual activities.
4. 
"Adult hotel or motel"
means any hotel or motel or similar lodging business offering public accommodations for any form of consideration that does either or both of the following:
i. 
Provides patrons with closed-circuit television transmission, films, computer-generated images, motion pictures, video cassettes/DVDs, slides, or other photographic reproductions, thirty percent or more of which are distinguished or characterized by an emphasis on specified sexual activities or specified anatomical areas; and/or
ii. 
Rents, leases, or lets any room for less than a six-hour period, or rents, leases, or lets any single room more than twice in a twenty-four-hour period.
5. 
"Adult motion picture theater"
means any business where, for any form of consideration, films, computer-generated images, motion pictures, video cassettes/DVDs, slides, or similar photographic reproductions are shown, and thirty percent or more of the number are distinguished or characterized by an emphasis on the depiction or description of specified sexual activities or specified anatomical areas.
6. 
"Adult specialty shop"
means any establishment having, as thirty percent of its stock in trade, material on display or available for sale or rent or for viewing on the premises that is distinguished or characterized by its emphasis on matter depicting, describing, or relating to specified sexual activities or specified anatomical areas. This includes stock in books, magazines, periodicals, or other printed materials, or of photographs, films, motion pictures, video cassettes, DVDs, slides, tapes, records, or other form of visual or audio representations that are distinguished or characterized by its emphasis on matter depicting, describing, or relating to specified sexual activities or specified anatomical areas.
7. 
"Adult theater"
means any theater, concert hall, auditorium, or similar establishment which, for any form of consideration, regularly or substantially features live performances that are distinguished or characterized by an emphasis on the display of specified anatomical areas or specified sexual activities.
8. 
"Modeling studio"
means any establishment which, for any form of consideration, hires or rewards figure models who, for the purposes of sexual stimulation of patrons, display specified anatomical areas to be observed, sketched, painted, photographed, sculpted, or otherwise depicted by persons paying such consideration. "Modeling studio" does not include schools maintained pursuant to standards set by the State Board of Education, nor does it include a studio or similar facility owned, operated, or maintained by an individual artist or group of artists.
9. 
"Sexual encounter center"
means any establishment which, for any form of consideration, provides a place where three or more persons, not all members of the same family, may congregate, assemble, or associate for the purpose of engaging in specified sexual activities or exposing specified anatomical areas.
10. 
Other.
Any other business or establishment that offers its patrons services or entertainment distinguished or characterized by an emphasis on matter depicting, describing, or relating to specified sexual activities or specified anatomical areas.
B. 
For purposes of this definition of "adult-oriented businesses," the following terms are defined as follows:
1. 
"Distinguished or characterized by an emphasis on"
means and refers to the dominant or essential theme of the object described by such phrase.
2. 
"Specified anatomical areas"
means and includes any of the following:
i. 
Less than completely and opaquely covered human genitals or pubic region, buttocks, or female breast below a point immediately above the top of the areola;
ii. 
Human male genitals in a discernibly turgid state, even if completely and opaquely covered;
iii. 
Any device, costume, or covering that simulates any of the body parts included in subsections (B)(2)(i) or (ii) of this section.
3. 
"Specified sexual activities"
means and includes all of the following:
i. 
The fondling or other erotic touching of human genitals, pubic region, buttocks, anus, or female breast;
ii. 
Sex acts, actual or simulated, including sexual intercourse, oral copulation, anal intercourse, oral-anal copulation, bestiality, coprophilia, fellatio, necrophilia, pedophilia, sodomy, direct physical stimulation of unclothed genitals, masochism or sexually oriented torture, or the use of excretory functions in the context of a sexual relationship;
iii. 
Human or animal masturbation, actual or simulated.
(Ord. 2323 § 1 Exh. A (part), 4-28-2015)
"Banquet facility/catering"
(land use) means preparation and delivery of food and beverages for off-site consumption without provision for on-site pickup or consumption. This land use does not include standalone banquet halls or banquet facilities as an ancillary use (see "Restaurant" (land use)).
1. 
"Food truck"
means a mobile food vendor operating a fully self-contained unit with valid California registration that sells only food and beverages and that uses no outside cooking area. Mobile food vendors stopping for sales of less than thirty minutes at a single site are not considered food trucks. Catering facilities with food truck operations are subject to additional storage, parking, and screening requirements.
"Bed and breakfast/inn"
(land use) means a converted single-family or multifamily residential unit providing a maximum of five guest rooms (maximum ten lodgers) for rental lodging accommodations on an overnight basis. Incidental eating and drinking services for lodgers is permitted from a single kitchen. This land use does not include rest homes or convalescent homes. Accommodations with six or more guest rooms are considered hotels.
"Boat building"
(land use) means any establishment engaged in the construction, fabrication, or assembly of water vessels/vehicles of any size Including boat sales and incidental storage.
"Bookbinding"
(land use) means any establishment engaged in the production and binding of books.
"Brew pub/brewery/tasting room"
(land use) means any establishment engaging in the on-site brewing of any liquor beverage as regulated by the California Alcoholic Beverage Control. On-site bar/tasting facilities are limited to the sale/tasting of products produced on site, and shall not exceed fifty percent of the building area. Ancillary retail sales are permitted. Alcohol-related businesses are subject to all applicable state laws (Section 23000 et seq. of the California Business and Professions Code) and licensing requirements for the sale or provision of alcohol.
"Building materials storage yard"
(land use) means a site used for wholesale or retail storage or sale of building materials, including lumberyards, plumbing supply yards, and all similar outdoor or indoor storage of building materials.
"Business support services"
(land use) means an establishment providing non-retail-related services that may be regulated by square footage thresholds subject to the regulations of the applicable zone. The following service types are operated under "business support services":
1. 
Architecture, CAD services, drafting, engineering, etc.;
2. 
Dispatch office (including taxi, plumbing, limo, emergency) limited to fielding calls; no on-site vehicle operations or storage;
3. 
Blueprint printing, binding, engraving, photocopying, or related services;
4. 
Business equipment repair services;
5. 
Computer-related services (rental, repair);
6. 
Electronics/small machinery maintenance and repair;
7. 
Equipment rental businesses within buildings;
8. 
Film processing and photofinishing;
9. 
Heavy equipment repair services where repair occurs on the client site;
10. 
Interior decorator services;
11. 
Janitorial and window-cleaning services;
12. 
Job printing;
13. 
Locksmith services;
14. 
Mailbox services;
15. 
Outdoor advertising services.
(Ord. 2323 § 1 Exh. A (part), 4-28-2015)
"Caretaker unit"
(land use) means an accessory residential unit occupied or intended solely for occupancy by a caretaker or night watchperson employed on the same parcel.
"Check cashing"
(land use) means a facility providing check cashing and/or paycheck advance services in a separate facility from a traditional banking institution.
"Child day care facility, day care center"
(land use) means a facility providing a program for social development, preacademic, or group training for children under eighteen years of age; a facility, other than a family home day care, providing care and supervision of children on less than a twenty-four-hour basis, with or without compensation or on a cooperative basis. This land use may include nursery schools, infant centers, preschools, sick-child centers, and school-age day care facilities, and is required to be licensed by the California State Department of Social Services.
This land use may operate in conjunction with other approved land uses, such as schools or places of worship, or as an independent land use.
"Child day care facility, family home"
(land use) means, as defined by Section 1596.78 of the California Health and Safety Code, a home that regularly provides nonmedical care, protection, and supervision for fourteen or fewer minor children, in the provider's own home, for periods of less than twenty-four hours per day, while the parents or guardians are away. This land use may be either a small family home day care or a large family home day care, and is required to be licensed by the California State Department of Social Services:
1. 
"Small family home"
means a day care facility located in a residence, where an occupant of the residence provides care and supervision for eight or fewer children, including children under the age of ten years who reside at home, subject to requirements of Section 1597.44 of the California Health and Safety Code.
2. 
"Large family home"
means a day care facility located in a residence, where an occupant of the residence provides care and supervision for up to fourteen children, including children under the age of ten years who reside at home, subject to requirements of Section 1597.46 of the California Health and Safety Code.
Church.
See "Place of worship" under "Community assembly" (land use).
"City"
means the city of South Gate, California.
"College"
(land use) means a public or private higher-learning educational facility granting degrees, certificates, and academic training, categorized by the following programmatic elements:
1. 
"Industrial trades"
means a post-secondary school or college providing instruction and/or certification in the instruction of industrial trades, including auto mechanic, welding, heavy equipment operation, truck driving, and similar industrial trade skills.
2. 
"Nontraditional campus"
means a college in a business/office-oriented setting that does not include any form of student housing.
3. 
"Traditional campus"
means a college in a traditional multibuilding campus setting for educational purposes and providing faculty offices, student services, and on-campus student housing.
"Commercial bakeries"
(land use) means any establishment manufacturing bakery products for retail or wholesale sales, operating standard bakery ovens, rotary ovens, peel ovens, and other commercial bakery equipment, or operating delivery trucks or shipping such bakery products interstate. Bakeries operating for on-site sales only (not engaging in distribution to other food sellers outside of the city) are considered a restaurant based on the programmatic categories of the "restaurant" definition within this chapter.
"Commercial entertainment"
(land use) means any place of business providing spectator entertainment for commercial purposes. This use includes the following:
1. 
Concert halls;
2. 
Nightclubs (commercial establishment selling alcoholic beverages for consumption on-site featuring entertainment and/or dancing);
3. 
Comedy clubs.
"Commercial recreation"
(land use) means establishments providing recreational activities and entertainment services for a fee or admission charge, categorized by the following:
1. 
Indoor.
Commercial recreation occurring indoors within an enclosed building. This land use includes the following recreation (and similar) types:
i. 
Bowling alley;
ii. 
Coin-operated amusement arcade (see "Amusement arcade," subsection (1)(vii) of this definition);
iii. 
Dance hall/ballroom;
iv. 
Electronic game arcade (video games, pinball, etc.) (see "Amusement arcade," subsection (1)(vii) of this definition);
v. 
Ice skating or roller skating;
vi. 
Pool/billiard room as primary use.
vii. 
"Amusement arcade"
means four or more electronic games or coin-operated amusements in any establishment, or a premises where fifty percent or more of the floor area is occupied by amusement devices; three or fewer machines are not considered a land use separate from the primary use of the site. This use does not include or pertain to adult-oriented businesses.
2. 
Outdoor.
Commercial recreation occurring primarily outdoors involving outdoor participant or spectator recreation. This land use includes the following recreation (and similar) types:
i. 
Amusement park;
ii. 
Driving range;
iii. 
Golf course;
iv. 
Miniature golf course;
v. 
Private sport field;
vi. 
Tennis club/organization;
vii. 
Outdoor batting cages;
viii. 
Private outdoor swimming pool.
"Commercial training center"
(land use) means any space used for education of students (youth or adults) in business practices relevant to commercial uses under this title. Student enrollment is limited to available dedicated student parking spaces. Operational hours are limited to seven a.m. to ten p.m., Monday through Saturday; closed on Sunday. Upon city request the center shall provide a copy of enrollment totals.
"Communications equipment"
(land use) means any equipment and/or building sheltering operating electrical and mechanical equipment necessary for the conduct of a public utility communications business, with or without personnel.
1. 
"Standalone or accessory attachment"
means any communication equipment erected, mounted, or attached after completion of building construction.
2. 
"Integrated into original building design"
means any communication equipment erected, mounted, or designed as part of the site or building during initial permit application.
"Community apartment"
means an estate in real property consisting of an undivided interest in common in a parcel of real property and the improvements thereon, coupled with the right of exclusive occupancy of any apartment located therein; as related to a residential condominium.
"Community assembly"
(land use) means gathering places for public, private, commercial, or nonprofit gatherings with permanent or movable seating. Attached portions of a building, including nonfixed seating, are also considered community assembly space. These uses may be rented to nonprofit civic or community organizations; no additional use permit is required for this rental use. The following use types are all considered within the "community assembly" land use:
1. 
"Auditorium"
means a building used or designed for audience attendance, including public assembly, meetings, lectures, dances, entertainment, and similar uses. This use does not apply to auditoriums within a school facility.
2. 
"Club"
means a meeting, recreational, or social facility of a private or nonprofit organization, primarily used by members or guests, but not including groups organized primarily to render a service that is customarily carried on as a commercial business.
3. 
"Place of worship"
means a nonsecular or nonprofit facility or establishment that may include structures such as sanctuary space, religious education, ministry, clothing and food distribution (kitchen facility), counseling, employment assistance, study or library space, referral services, support groups, and assembly rooms. A place of worship is limited to one single-family dwelling unit; any additional dwelling units or spaces require separate land use approvals and permits as applicable and permitted within the zone. A place of worship does not include businesses operated by the religious group for support of religious activities or for charitable purposes.
"Concrete manufacture"
(land use) means manufacturing establishments producing bulk concrete, concrete building block, brick, or types of precast and prefab concrete products, including ready-mix concrete products.
"Conference/convention center"
(land use) means a building or complex of buildings used as a conference center that includes auditorium, meeting rooms, exhibition space, and/or banquet facilities.
"Contractor office and services"
(land use) means any office space or building operated for use by a contractor of any type. This land use includes all types of contractor office and services, including the following business types:
1. 
Building contractor;
2. 
Contractor storage yard;
3. 
Electrical/electrician contractor;
4. 
Furniture repair;
5. 
Plumbing shop;
6. 
Sheet metal shop. This land use is categorized by the following programmatic categories:
i. 
"Full"
means the full operation, assembly, and storage of contractor office and services, including the storage of vehicles, equipment, or materials based on the operational standards of Chapter 11.40. Storage of equipment/materials is only permitted within enclosed buildings. This use includes transportation dispatch offices with on-site vehicle storage or vehicle waiting areas.
ii. 
"Limited"
means any contractor office and services facility operated for administrative purposes based on the operational standards of Chapter 11.40, Specific Use Standards; this land use does not permit indoor or outdoor storage of equipment or materials.
"Conversion"
means a proposed change in the type of ownership of a parcel or parcels of land, together with the existing attached structures, to that defined as a condominium project, community apartment project, or stock cooperative, regardless of the present or prior use of such land structures and of whether substantial improvements have been made to such structures; as related to a residential condominium.
"Cottage food operation"
(land use) means any person who registers a permitted area of their home as defined in Section 113758(b)(7) of the California Health and Safety Code which allows a person's private kitchen to be used for the preparation, packaging, storage, or handling of cottage food and related ingredients or equipment, and the attached rooms within the home that are used exclusively for storage. The operation is subject to the gross annual income sales as set forth in Section 113758 of the California Health and Safety Code, as may be amended, and in compliance with Ordinance 2305 and Section 2.10.650, cottage food operation.
"Cottage food products"
means non-potentially-hazardous foods as described in Section 114365.6 of the California Health and Safety Code (cottage food products) that are prepared for sale in the kitchen of a cottage food operation and are approved food products by the California Department of Public Health, as may be amended, and in compliance with Ordinance 2305 and Section 2.10.650, cottage food operation.
"Cyber café"
(land use); a land use prohibited in the city of South Gate as a primary use, allowed only as an ancillary use; means any establishment that offers Internet access on computers that it owns, or via Wi-Fi on patrons' computers.
(Ord. 2323 § 1 Exh. A (part), 4-28-2015)
"Dairy"
(land use), a land use prohibited in the city of South Gate, means any use or premises where three or more cows, goats, or any combination thereof are kept, milked, or maintained.
Day Use Land Use.
The following uses are typical daytime uses: banks, business offices, retail stores, personal service shops, clothing stores, shoe repair or service shops, manufacturing or wholesale buildings, and similar uses. The following uses are typical of nighttime and/or Sunday uses: auditoriums incidental to a public or parochial school, churches, dance halls, theaters, and bars.
"Dead animal reduction or dumping"
(land use), a land use prohibited in the city of South Gate, means any land, parcel, or structure used for disposing, dumping, or the reduction of deceased animals or animal parts of any kind.
"Decorative block wall"
means a wall or structure of solid materials between land uses or spaces, or to define property lines.
Director.
The community development director, or designee, is the person who is responsible for the administration and enforcement of this title on behalf of the community development department.
"Distillation of bones"
(land use), a land use prohibited in the city of South Gate, means any land, parcel, or structure used for the distillation of human or animal bones.
"Drive-through service"
(land use) means any business that sells products or provides services to occupants in vehicles, including drive-through or drive-up windows and drive-through services.
"Drop forge, drop hammer"
(land use) means any establishment using a drop hammer or drop forge operated by mechanical, steam, or other means in the manufacturing of metals or similar products. All operations shall be conducted entirely within an enclosed building.
Dry Cleaning/Laundry (Land Use).
This land use is categorized by the following programmatic categories:
1. 
"Agency"
means a facility where materials are dropped off and picked up for cleaning service, or cleaned on site through either conventional laundry or chemical processes where an agency is less than two thousand five hundred square feet and no material collected at other dry cleaning or laundry agencies are brought for cleaning. Cleaning or laundry facilities that are greater than two thousand five hundred square feet or that clean items collected at other dry cleaning or laundry agencies are considered cleaning or laundry plants.
2. 
"Plant"
means a facility greater than two thousand five hundred square feet or that processes items collected from other retail locations, where clothing and similar items are cleaned through either conventional laundry or chemical processes. Cleaning or laundry facilities that are less than two thousand five hundred square feet and that accept only items dropped off and picked up on site are considered dry cleaning or laundry agencies.
"Duplex/two-family residential"
(land use) means a building or site with two attached or detached dwelling units.
"Dwelling"
means a building or portion thereof used exclusively for residential purposes, including kitchen and sanitary facilities consistent with the regulations in Title 9 of this code, Buildings.
(Ord. 2323 § 1 Exh. A (part), 4-28-2015)
"E-cigarettes/vapors/smoke shops/hookah"
(land use) means any business that sells cigarettes, cigars, tobacco, electronic cigarettes, hookah supplies, or other smoke related accessories and supplies, as a primary use. This does not include sales of cigarettes, cigars, or other smoke related accessories within grocery stores, drug stores, convenience stores, or other similar types of markets.
"Electric-generating plant"
(land use) means an establishment operating as a steam electric-generating plant.
"Emergency shelter"
(land use) means a public or private facility that provides immediate, short-term shelter (up to six months) in any consecutive twelve-month period for homeless individuals or families and that involves minimal supplemental supportive services. An emergency shelter facility may consist of one or more buildings, and the shelter may remain open year-round.
"Employee services (land use)"
means uses or space accessory to the primary use for employee personal services, including the following:
1. 
Cafeteria;
2. 
Food service;
3. 
Health and fitness facilities;
4. 
Recreation;
5. 
Day care center;
6. 
Play area;
7. 
Outdoor eating;
8. 
Other similar employee services.
These uses shall be appropriately integrated into the primary building, or architecturally shielded from noise/exposure to industrial processes in a manner that matches the architectural treatment of the primary building.
"Entitlement"
means any city permit or action that conveys a right or rights to an individual consistent with the governing code.
"Explosives manufacture/storage"
(land use), a land use prohibited in the city of South Gate, means any land, parcel, or structure engaged in any manufacturing process resulting in an explosive material or significant component of an explosive device. This land use does not include the storage for sale of small quantities of explosives, as customary in hardware or sporting goods stores.
(Ord. 2323 § 1 Exh. A (part), 4-28-2015)
"Fire/police substation"
(land use) means any facility operated and staffed by approved city employees or city contractors for the express purpose of providing fire, police, or emergency services related to health, safety, and protection of the public welfare.
"Food/creamery manufacture"
(land use) includes the manufacture, storage, processing, packaging, and dressing of food and creamery products. This land use includes the following industry types:
1. 
Food product manufacture, storage/processing/packaging;
2. 
Creameries and dairy products manufacture;
3. 
Poultry and rabbit (dressed only, no live fowl/rabbits on premises).
"Food market/specialty market"
(land use) means the retail sale of food and beverages for off-site preparation and consumption, with a retail floor of five thousand square feet or less. This use may also include bakeries and the provision of other services (e.g., banks, copy services, dry cleaners, film processing, food take-out, coffee shop/service, pharmacies, movie rentals) within a single building. This use shall also apply to the retail of specialty food or cultural culinary items. This use may include an off-sale liquor license consistent with the California Department of Alcoholic Beverage Control licensing and conditions, where liquor is not the primary or majority retail item. This use shall be classified as a "neighborhood market/convenience store" under this title if the building is five thousand square feet or less.
Food Processing (land use).
See "Food/creamery manufacture" (land use).
"Foundry, nonferrous"
(land use) means an establishment entirely enclosed within a building producing nonferrous metal or metal castings; no outdoor foundry activities permitted.
"Freight classification yard"
(land use) means any business establishment characterized by the sorting and handling of the cargo of multiple shippers to be hauled by multiple trucking companies and dispatching of trucks hauling this cargo. Minimum lot size required for this use is one acre.
"Frozen food/cold storage processing"
(land use) means any business or establishment operating or using frozen food and/or cold storage lockers on premises, including packing houses or food processing/warehousing.
"Funeral home/mortuary"
(land use) means the provision of services that includes preparing human remains for burial and arranging and managing funerals. This use does not include cemeteries, crematoriums, or columbariums.
"Furniture/carpentry"
(land use) means a place of business providing furniture upholstery, furniture assembly, manufacture and repair, cabinet making, and/or general carpentry services. Palette manufacturing is prohibited.
(Ord. 2323 § 1 Exh. A (part), 4-28-2015)
"Garbage processing"
(land use), a land use prohibited in the city of South Gate, means any land, parcel, or structure used for the disposal of refuse, including incineration, reduction, cooking, processing, or dumping of ashes, garbage, combustible or noncombustible refuse, and/or the processing of any refuse matter. Recycling facilities are not included in this land use. Note: City currently has two garbage processing facilities (one private and one public facility). As of the date of the ordinance codified in this title, an application for a privately managed garage facility is being processed.
"Gas manufacture"
(land use), a land use prohibited in the city of South Gate, means any land, parcel, or structure engaged in the manufacture of gas or gas products.
"Glue manufacture"
(land use), a land use prohibited in the city of South Gate, means any land, parcel, or structure engaged in the manufacture of glue or glue products.
"Gold, semiprecious, precious metal buying stores"
(land use) means any establishment that buys, sells, ships, melts or changes/modifies gold, semiprecious or precious metals from consumers or other merchants.
Granny Flat.
See "Second dwelling unit" (land use).
"Greenhouse"
(land use) means any private noncommercial enclosed structure or partially covered structure used for the propagation and cultivation or protection of plants on a neighborhood residential zoned lot. This land use does not allow the on-site sale of cultivated plants.
"Grinding shops"
(land use) means any establishment where power-driven tools are used for making, finishing, or repairing machines or machine parts (see "Machine shop" (land use)).
"Ground-floor residential"
(land use) means dwelling units located at and taking direct access from the ground floor of a building.
(Ord. 2323 § 1 Exh. A (part), 4-28-2015)
"Home occupation"
means an occupation from a person living in the residence that has no commercial or business displays on the premises used. No outside or garage storage of materials, supplies or mechanical or professional equipment or commercial vehicles on the premises, except such equipment that is customarily used for household purposes. Also see "Cottage food operation" (land use) and "Cottage food products."
"Horticultural services"
(land use) means any services for propagating, cultivating, fertilizing, trimming, and/or protecting of fruit, vegetables, flowers, trees, and/or ornamental plants. Includes educational and research activities; farming or agricultural activities are not included as part of this land use.
"Hospital"
(land use) means an institution specializing in clinical, temporary, and/or emergency medical or surgical services for human patients and injured persons, and licensed by state law to provide facilities and services in surgery, obstetrics, and general medical practice as distinguished from treatment of mental and nervous disorders, but not excluding surgical and post-surgical treatment of mental cases.
"Hotel"
(land use) means any building, or portion thereof, serving compensation-based lodging for six or more guest rooms, with or without service of meals. Hotels are limited to kitchen facilities in a maximum of twenty percent of the individual rooms or suites. Does not include jails, hospitals, asylums, sanitariums, orphanages, prisons, detention homes, or similar buildings where people are housed or detained under legal restraint.
(Ord. 2323 § 1 Exh. A (part), 4-28-2015)
"Industrial design/services"
(land use) means any business providing or combining professional design services and light fabrication or assembly technology for product specification. This land use may include office space and light or quasi-light industrial space to provide the full range of design, testing, and modification of commercial and industrial products.
"Institution"
(land use) means any establishment maintained and operated by a society, corporation, individual, foundation, or public agency for the purpose of providing charitable, social, educational, or similar services to the public, groups, or individuals. Social services provided by a public agency or other entity are covered under this land use. This land use does not include churches or places of worship.
(Ord. 2323 § 1 Exh. A (part), 4-28-2015)
"Junkyard"
(land use), a land use prohibited in the city of South Gate, includes junkyards, junk storage yards, parts storage yards, and salvage yards. The use of more than two hundred square feet of the area of any lot for the storage of junk, including scrap metals, used paper or fabric materials, or other scrap materials.
(Ord. 2323 § 1 Exh. A (part), 4-28-2015)
"Library/museum/gallery"
(land use) means a commercial or nonprofit use that displays or preserves objects of interest in literature, art, or science.
"Liquefied petroleum gas"
(land use) means an establishment engaged in the chemical mixing, storage, and/or sales of liquefied petroleum gas, not for the purposes of an automotive fueling station.
"Live entertainment"
(land use) means music, comedy, readings, dancing, acting, or other entertainment performed on a site three or more days during a calendar year. This includes dancing by patrons to live or recorded music.
"Live/work unit"
(land use) means an integrated dwelling unit that has been designed or structurally modified to accommodate joint residential occupancy and work activity with internal connection between the dedicated spaces. The unit includes a complete kitchen space and sanitary facilities in compliance with the building code, and the working space is reserved for and regularly used by dwelling occupants.
"Lot"
means a parcel, tract, or area of land established by plat, subdivision, or other legal means to be owned, used, or developed and having a frontage upon or access by adequate public easement to a public street, road, or highway.
"Lot size"
means the total square footage of a parcel within the lines of a lot.
"Lot width"
means the average linear measurement at a midway point between the front and rear lot lines when measured at right angles from the front and rear lot lines.
"Irregular lot"
means nonrectangular lots, with three sides or more than four sides, and is located, shaped, or oriented so that the general measurement of yard requirements are impractical, and the location of the front, side, and rear yards are not related to the adjacent yard patterns of a regular lot.
"Substandard lot"
means a lot that does not meet the minimum lot size requirements of the zoning designations applicable to the property (see Section 11.25.050, Neighborhood low (NL) zone).
(Ord. 2323 § 1 Exh. A (part), 4-28-2015)
"Machine shop"
(land use) means any establishment engaged in the repair, retooling, and associated light fabrication activities for mid- to industrial-size machines.
1. 
"Limited"
means a machine shop that does not house or use a punch press over five tons or automatic screw machines on site.
2. 
"Full"
means a machine shop that uses a punch press over five tons or automatic screw machines on site.
"Manufacturing"
(land use) means any establishment engaged in the manufacturing, production, and/or assembly of products, including or similar to the industry types below, categorized by the following programmatic use types:
1. 
"General manufacturing and assembly"
means any establishment engaged in the manufacturing, production, and/or assembly of products as the primary use, primarily from extracted or raw materials, or bulk storage and handling of the products and materials. Uses in this classification involve truck or rail traffic, and/or outdoor storage of products, materials, equipment, or bulk fuel. All activities are completely enclosed within a structure unless other outdoor activities are expressly permitted within the zone. This land use includes the following industry types:
i. 
Apparel and other finished products;
ii. 
Brick/tile/terra cotta;
iii. 
Building materials (expect those included in "Liquid/chemical manufacturing" definition);
iv. 
Ceramic products, manufacture of, including figurines, using only previously pulverized clay and kilns fired only by electricity or low-pressure gas;
v. 
Cosmetics and pharmaceuticals;
vi. 
Lumber and wood product;
vii. 
Paper and related products;
viii. 
Paper mill;
ix. 
Prefabricated buildings;
x. 
Professional and scientific goods;
xi. 
Rubber and miscellaneous plastic products;
xii. 
Stone, clay, and glass products;
xiii. 
Textile mill products.
2. 
"Liquid/chemical/mineral"
means any establishment engaged in the manufacturing, production, or chemical alteration of liquids, gas, synthetics, and chemicals, excluding those industry types described in the "General manufacturing and assembly" land use. This land use includes the following industry types:
i. 
Acetylene gas;
ii. 
Acid;
iii. 
Alcohol;
iv. 
Ammonia/bleaching powder/chlorine;
v. 
Asphalt (including refining);
vi. 
Battery manufacture/rebuilding;
vii. 
Chemicals and related products;
viii. 
Compounds and batteries (manufacture/rebuilding);
ix. 
Concrete products and ready-mix concrete;
x. 
Gas;
xi. 
Liquids;
xii. 
Lime/gypsum/plaster;
xiii. 
Oil/cloth/linoleum;
xiv. 
Ore reduction;
xv. 
Paint/oil/shellac/turpentine;
xvi. 
Plastics;
xvii. 
Potash works;
xviii. 
Roofing materials;
xix. 
Soda and compound;
xx. 
Soap and synthetic detergents;
xxi. 
Stove or shoe polish;
xxii. 
Synthetics;
xxiii. 
Tar distillation or tar products.
3. 
"Fabrication/welding"
means any establishment engaged in the fabrication, manufacturing, welding, or production of electronics/electronic components, steel, textile processing, or treatment. This land use includes the following industry types:
i. 
Automobile/truck components, accessories, and related parts;
ii. 
Fabricated metal products;
iii. 
Manufacture and assembly of electronic and optical products, components, and related parts;
iv. 
Rolling mills;
v. 
Steel fabrication plants;
vi. 
Textile manufacture, processing, or treatment;
vii. 
Tires/tubes/related products;
viii. 
Vacuum metallization;
ix. 
Welding shops.
"Manufacturing, light"
(land use) means the manufacture, processing, fabrication, repair/service, assembly and/or disassembly of products and services typically targeted to consumers, including, but not limited to:
1. 
Artificial plants/trees/flowers;
2. 
Auto accessories;
3. 
Apparel, clothing accessories;
4. 
Bedding, décor items/decorations;
5. 
Carpeting, rugs, drapery;
6. 
Computers, computer accessories, electronic devices, printers, and 3D printers;
7. 
Consumer appliances;
8. 
Exercise equipment;
9. 
Food products, bakeries, restaurant supplies, and catering;
10. 
Footwear;
11. 
Furniture and carpentry;
12. 
Gaming devices;
13. 
Green technologies, including solar, wind and other related technologies;
14. 
Hand tools;
15. 
Home goods/accessories;
16. 
Home improvement/repair products (no roofing materials);
17. 
Jewelry;
18. 
Medical equipment and devices;
19. 
Musical instruments;
20. 
Play equipment;
21. 
Toys;
22. 
Windows/doors.
"Marijuana (commercial cannabis activity)"
means the cultivation, possession, manufacture, processing, storing, laboratory testing, labeling, transporting, distribution, or sale of marijuana and marijuana products, including medical and nonmedical marijuana, nonmedical cannabis products and medical cannabis products within the meaning of California Business and Professions Code Section 19300 et seq.
"Massage establishment"
(land use) means any establishment or business engaging in any method of treating the soft parts of the human body by rubbing, stroking, kneading, or any other similar treatment, accomplished by hand and/or use of any instrument, performed by a licensed massage practitioner.
"Medical marijuana dispensary," "marijuana dispensary," "marijuana cultivation," "marijuana processing," and "delivery"
of marijuana or medical cannabis products (land uses), as these terms are defined in Section 7.80.010, are land uses prohibited in the city of South Gate.
"Medical services"
(land use) may also include incidental medical laboratories. Counseling services by other than medical doctors or psychiatrists are included under "Office" – "Professional/administrative."
1. 
"Medical/dental/holistic"
means a facility other than a hospital where medical, dental, holistic, mental health, surgical, and/or other personal health care services are provided on an outpatient basis, and that accommodates no more than four licensed primary practitioners (for example, chiropractors, medical doctors, psychiatrists, other than nursing staff) within an individual office suite.
2. 
"Clinic"
means medical offices of five or more licensed practitioners and/or medical specialties.
3. 
"Extended care"
means a private medical services facility providing for regular care on an extended basis as required beyond immediate in-office visits; generates limited to no walk-in service.
4. 
"Urgent care"
means an establishment providing limited clinical and emergency medical services generating primarily walk-in service.
"Merchandising centers, indoor"
(land use) means any single-building establishment providing nonagricultural retail space for five or more vendors, in addition to legal and permitted personal or business services, separated from each other by something less than securable rooms (those having walls on all sides, ceiling, and a lockable access door). Minimum rental contracts for retail vendors/tenants shall be six months or more.
Mini-Mart.
See "Neighborhood market/convenience store" (land use) or "Alcohol sales, off-sale."
"Mixed-use"
(land use) means any development or single building that combines more than one land use (residential, commercial, cultural, institutional, or industrial uses) where uses are physically and functionally integrated (horizontally or vertically), and compatibility is addressed through building or site design.
"Mobile home park"
(land use) means a site, parcel, or area used for the siting of two or more mobile or manufactured housing lots that are rented, leased, or offered for rent or lease to accommodate mobile homes used for human habitation. This land use includes accessory common amenities for the service of mobile home park residents.
"Mobile recycling unit"
(land use) means an automobile, truck, trailer, or van licensed by the Department of Motor Vehicles that is used for collection of recyclable materials. Bins, boxes, or containers used for collection of recyclable materials to be transported by (delivered/emptied/removed) the licensed vehicle are also considered mobile recycling units.
"Model Water Efficient Landscape Ordinance"
("MWELO") means California Code of Regulations Title 23, Waters; Division 2, Department of Water Resources; Chapter 2.7, Model Water Efficient Landscape Ordinance; as adopted or modified by the California Department of Water Resources.
"Motel"
(land use) means a building or group of buildings containing individual sleeping or living units where a majority of such units open individually and directly to the outside, and where a garage is attached or a parking space is conveniently located near each unit, all for the temporary use by automobile tourists or transient travelers.
"Motorcycle parts/accessory sales"
(land use) means a retailer specializing in motorcycle vehicles, accessories, lubricants, parts, and/or tires.
"Multifamily residential"
(land use) means a building, parcel, or site with three or more dwelling units; units may be attached or detached.
MWELO.
See "Model Water Efficient Landscape Ordinance" ("MWELO").
(Ord. 2323 § 1 Exh. A (part), 4-28-2015; Ord. 2326 § 4, 2-9-2016; Ord. 2345 § 7, 3-13-2018)
NCO.
See "Noise control officer" ("NCO").
"Neighborhood market/convenience store"
(land use) means a neighborhood-serving retail store of five thousand square feet or less in gross floor area that carries a range of merchandise oriented to daily convenience shopping needs, which may include alcoholic beverage sales as allowed by this title. See "Alcohol sales, off sale" (land use) for alcohol sales in a convenience store setting (see "Food market/specialty market").
"Nitrocellulose products, manufacture of"
(land use), a land use prohibited in the city of South Gate, means any establishment engaging in the manufacture of the specialized cellulose-derivative nitrocellulose.
"Noise control officer"
("NCO") means the city employee or designee primarily responsible for the administration, measurement, and enforcement of the noise control program of this title. See Chapter 11.34, Noise Control Program.
"Nonconforming building"
means any building or improvement legally established prior to the adoption of this title or future amendments to this title, and in compliance with the conditions of the original permit.
"Nonconforming use"
means any land use legally established prior to the adoption of this title or future amendments to this title, operated and maintained in compliance with the conditions of the original permit.
(Ord. 2323 § 1 Exh. A (part), 4-28-2015)
"Off-premises surface street sign"
means any sign that advertises or otherwise identifies any property, structure, business or use not located on the same parcel as sign, including freeway signs. Signs in permitted outdoor seating areas are not covered by this definition.
Office (Land Use).
This title distinguishes between the following office types. These types do not include medical offices.
1. 
"Service"
means establishments providing direct services to consumers. Examples of these uses include employment agencies, insurance agent offices, real estate offices, travel agencies, utility company offices, and elected official satellite offices. This use does not include "Bank, financial services," which is separately defined.
2. 
"Processing"
means office-type facilities characterized by high employee densities and occupied by businesses engaged in information processing and other computer-dependent and/or telecommunications-based activities. Examples of these uses are the following:
i. 
Airline, lodging chain, and rental car company reservation centers;
ii. 
Computer software and hardware design and development;
iii. 
Consumer credit reporting;
iv. 
Data processing services;
v. 
Health management organization (HMO) offices where no medical services are provided;
vi. 
Insurance claim processing;
vii. 
Mail order and electronic commerce transaction processing;
viii. 
Telecommunications facility design and management;
ix. 
Telemarketing.
3. 
"Professional/administrative"
means office-type facilities occupied by businesses that provide professional services or are engaged in the production of intellectual property. Examples of these uses are the following:
i. 
Accounting, auditing, and bookkeeping services;
ii. 
Advertising agencies;
iii. 
Attorneys;
iv. 
Banks/financial savings and loan institutions;
v. 
Business associations, chambers of commerce;
vi. 
Commercial art and design services;
vii. 
Construction contractors (office facilities only);
viii. 
Counseling services;
ix. 
Court reporting services;
x. 
Detective agencies and similar services;
xi. 
Design services (e.g., architecture, engineering, landscape architecture, urban planning);
xii. 
Literary and talent agencies;
xiii. 
Management and public relations services;
xiv. 
Media postproduction services;
xv. 
News services;
xvi. 
Photographers and photography studios;
xvii. 
Political campaign headquarters;
xviii. 
Educational, scientific, and research organizations;
xix. 
Financial management and investment counseling;
xx. 
Psychologists;
xxi. 
Secretarial, stenographic, word processing, and temporary clerical employee services;
xxii. 
Security and commodity brokers;
xxiii. 
Writer and artist offices.
"Open field growing"
(land use) means the growing of flowers and/or horticultural nursery stock in open fields, commercially or otherwise. This land use does not permit any cans or other containers, bulk or packaged fertilizers, or sale of horticulture on site.
"Organic fertilizer manufacture"
(land use) means any establishment that manufactures amended soil derived from natural sources that guarantees, at least, the minimum percentages of nitrogen, phosphate, and potash, including but not limited to plant and animal byproducts, rock powders, seaweed, inoculants, and conditioners and includes on-site composting.
"Outdoor advertising display/structure"
(land use) means any display or device of any kind, material, or character placed for outdoor advertising purposes located on or attached or secured to the ground, any tree, wall, rock, structure, or other natural or built structure in compliance with existing sign ordinance.
"Outdoor amphitheater"
(land use) means any outdoor stadium, theater, amphitheater, or similar structure for public or private use; generally, but not necessarily, operated in conjunction with a school, college, recreational use, or public government.
"Outdoor dining/seating"
(land use) means any outdoor space directly adjacent to a primary use for the purpose of outdoor food or beverage service and dining. This accessory use shall be subject to the operational and design standards of Sections 11.23.070(E) and 11.40.160, Outdoor dining/seating.
"Outdoor storage"
(land use) means on-site at-grade or shelved space for the storage of business-related materials, products, and goods. All on-site storage is limited to those materials directly used or produced in relation to the functional on-site business activity; subject to all storage and screening requirements of the applicable zone.
"Outdoor vending"
(land use) means a freestanding, walk-up facility for retail sales of merchandise or services; this use is generally operated as a kiosk or cart in conjunction with a shopping center or other retail establishment. For facilities with a drive-through access, see "Drive-through service" definition and operational standards.
"Owner"
shall mean and include any person having legal title to, or who leases, rents, occupies or has charge, control or possession of, any real property in the city, including all persons shown as owners on the last equalized assessment roll of the Los Angeles County assessor's office. Owners include persons with powers of attorney, executors of estates, trustees, or who are court-appointed administrators, conservators, guardians or receivers. An owner of personal property shall be any person who has legal title, charge, control, or possession of such property.
(Ord. 2323 § 1 Exh. A (part), 4-28-2015)
"Parcel delivery service/moving"
(land use) means a facility providing indoor collection, receiving, warehousing, sorting, and delivery (including on-site transportation vehicles) for commercial shipping and/or delivery of parcels and mail. Excludes United States Postal Service facilities. Includes any facility providing for-hire transportation and temporary indoor warehousing for the moving of personal possessions.
"Parking facility"
(land use) means any off-street parking lot and/or structure, enclosed or freestanding, operated for off-site parking to be used by two or more establishments. Parking facilities may be operated as fee-based or free-of-charge.
"Parking, fleets"
(land use) means parking at-grade, covered or uncovered, for fleet vehicles (two or more business-related vehicles), subject to all storage and screening requirements of the applicable zone.
"Parks/recreation facility"
(land use) means any publicly owned and operated active or passive recreational parcel, space, or facility categorized by the following programmatic elements:
1. 
"Full"
means any parks/recreation parcel or facility that includes ball parks, bleachers, swimming pools, or other types of facilities where racing or contests can be conducted; public amusement devices for hire are prohibited.
2. 
"Limited"
means any parks/recreation parcel or facility that does not include ball parks, bleachers, swimming pools, or other types of facilities where racing or contests are conducted; public amusement devices for hire are prohibited.
"Pedestrian-oriented uses"
include active uses that are accessible to the general public, generate walk-in pedestrian clientele, and contribute to a high level of pedestrian activity in the public realm. Typical pedestrian-oriented uses include ground-floor retail such as retail shops and grocery stores, restaurants, outdoor dining areas, bars, theaters, performing arts, recreation and entertainment, personal and convenience services, building lobbies and building common areas, civic uses, libraries, museums, galleries, and public plazas. Pedestrian-oriented uses may be located in single-story buildings or at the ground floor of multistory and/or mixed-use buildings. Pedestrian-oriented uses shall be subject to Section 11.23.070, Ground-floor retail and pedestrian-oriented uses.
"Person"
shall mean and include any individual, partnership of any kind, corporation, limited liability company, association, joint venture or other organization, however formed, as well as trustees, heirs, executors, administrators, or assigns, or any combination of such persons. "Person" also includes any public entity or agency that acts as an owner in the city.
"Personal property sales"
(temporary use) means any sale of personal property to the general public occurring on private or public property; commonly referred to as "garage sales," "yard sales," "patio sales," "rummage sales," "estate sales," and similar activities.
"Personal services"
(land use) means any place of business providing services and accessory retail sales of products related to the services provided, categorized by the following programmatic elements:
1. 
"General"
means establishments providing nonmedical services to individuals as a primary use. In addition to the uses listed below, general personal service uses may also include accessory retail sales of products related to the services provided. Examples of these uses include the following:
i. 
Barber/beauty shop;
ii. 
Clothing rental;
iii. 
Home electronics and small appliance repair;
iv. 
Locksmith;
v. 
Pet grooming with no boarding;
vi. 
Shoe repair shop;
vii. 
Tailor;
viii. 
Waxing shop.
2. 
"Fitness/health facility"
means any place of business, or membership club, providing facilities devoted especially to health, beauty, and relaxation, and/or provides cosmetic, therapeutic, and/or holistic treatments, where people visit for professionally administered personal care treatments, including health or physical fitness centers/facilities. A medical spa or medical therapy facility shall be classified as a "Medical services, medical/dental/holistic" land use.
3. 
"Fortune, palm and card reader"
means establishments providing any type of fortune telling, palm or card reading, psychic services, future telling, spirit communication, and/or any other related type of trade, donation, or compensation, retail or otherwise.
4. 
"Instructional"
means any place of business, including charitable or nonprofit, that is intended for group or individual instruction, including the following:
i. 
Art;
ii. 
Dance;
iii. 
Martial arts of any form;
iv. 
Mediation;
v. 
Modeling agency;
vi. 
Pilates;
vii. 
Pottery;
viii. 
Yoga;
ix. 
Weight control clinic;
x. 
Similar group/individual instruction uses.
Massage shall not be regulated under this land use.
"Petroleum products/wholesale storage of petroleum"
(land use) means any establishment engaged in sale of petroleum products, including storage, refinery and recycling of biodiesel fuels that may be serviced by pipeline, rail or trucks.
"Planned unit development"
means a tract of land that is developed as an integrated unit under single ownership or control.
"Power distribution substation"
(land use) means electrical power-generating plant, electrical transmission station, utility storage yard, or other uses of similar or like nature involving very limited number of persons or that do not require personnel in daily attendance for operating or maintenance.
Preferential Parking for Carpool and Vanpool Vehicles.
See parking ordinance for definition.
"Primary frontage"
means the side of the lot directly adjacent to the street frontage considered the front of the lot by the city parcel map. The director shall determine the front lot for corner lots or lots having frontage on two or more streets.
"Private outdoor space"
means any yard or outdoor living space reserved for the private use and access of the individual living unit from which it can be directly accessed.
"Private storage space"
means an individual space contiguous with the dwelling unit designed for storage of private belongings that is accessible within the garage or from the outside of the unit.
"Production of experimental products"
(land use) means any establishment, or space within a building, conducting the production of experimental or prototype products in support of a research and development land use. Production facilities are limited to products researched and/or designed on site.
"Project elements"
means, as related to a residential condominium, the condominium units that are to be conveyed, the areas and space that are to be assigned to such units, and the common areas that are to be shared by the owners of all units. Such elements constitute the totality of the condominium project and are enumerated in a formal declaration or statement within the condominium documents that includes the incidents of the condominium grant. Such enumerative description may contain irrevocable limitations on the use of the project elements that are not appropriate for the declaration of covenants, conditions, and restrictions.
"Public garage"
("park-once garage") (land use) means a garage (below or above grade) that provides the public with parking spaces for commercial, service, and office uses.
"Public garden"
(land use) means a parcel of land, or portion of land, used by residents of the local neighborhood for the planting, raising, harvesting, and trading of horticultural and produce in a co-op setting.
"Public/government building"
(land use) means any structure or building owned, operated, or leased by a municipal, state, or federal governmental agency for the use of administering public programs or services, including operational, administrative, and community outreach functions.
"Public utility structure or yard"
means a parcel of land, or portion of land, used by a private company or public entity for the production, storage, conduction, or transmission of a public utility.
"Pumping plant/pipeline booster"
(land use) means any pipeline booster or pumping plant in connection with gas, gasoline, oil, petroleum, water, or other petroleum product.
"Punch press"
(land use) means any business or establishment operating a punch press on premises; the punch press and all related operations shall be contained in a completely enclosed building.
(Ord. 2323 § 1 Exh. A (part), 4-28-2015)
"Recycling/collections facility"
(land use) means any establishment, including a place of business, center, or standalone container, for collecting or processing recyclable materials from the public. A "certified recycling facility" or "certified processor" is a recycling facility certified by the California Department of Conservation as meeting the requirements of the California Beverage Container Recycling and Litter Reduction Act of 1986. A recycling facility does not include storage containers or processing activity located on the premises of a residential, commercial, or manufacturing use and used solely for the recycling of material generated by that residential property, business, or manufacturer. Recycling facilities are categorized by the following programmatic elements:
1. 
"Small"
means a recycling center established as an accessory use to a principal use for acceptance/donation, redemption, or purchase of recyclables, not exceeding five hundred square feet and devoted exclusively to the collection of recyclable materials from the public.
2. 
"Large"
means a recycling facility established either as an accessory use, five hundred square feet or larger, or as a principal use, regardless of size, devoted exclusively to the collection of recyclable materials from the public.
"Recycling processing facility"
(land use) means any enclosed structure used for collecting and processing recyclable materials. "Processing" means the preparation of material for efficient shipment, or to an end user's specifications, by means such as bailing, briquetting, compacting, flattening, grinding, crushing, mechanical sorting, shredding, cleaning, or remanufacturing. Processing facilities include the following:
1. 
"Light"
occupies an area of less than forty-five thousand square feet of gross collection, processing, and storage area, and has up to an average of two outbound truck shipments per day. Light processing facilities are limited to baling, briquetting, crushing, compacting, grinding, shredding, and sorting of source-separated recyclable materials, and repairing of reusable materials sufficient to qualify as a certified processing facility. A light processing facility shall not shred, compact, or bale ferrous metals other than food and beverage containers.
2. 
"Heavy"
means any processing facility other than a light processing facility.
"Rendering plant"
(land use), a land use prohibited in the city of South Gate, means any establishment engaged in the rendering of inedible stearin, grease, and tallow from animal fat, bones, and meat scraps.
"Renewable energy system"
(land use) means any equipment installed for processing, generating, conducting, or storing of any type of renewable energy (solar, wind, or similar or new technologies). Rain barrels are not regulated under this land use. Systems are regulated in the following ways:
1. 
"Building-mounted"
means any renewable energy system mounted or affixed to the outside of a building (new or existing), or located interior to the structure.
2. 
"Standalone or ground-mounted"
means any renewable energy system erected or installed separate from a building (new or existing). This use is regulated by a CUP to review for compatibility with adjacent uses, and is only permitted where the "building-mounted" option is shown to be nonviable for basic normal operation and energy generation.
"Research and development"
(land use) means any business combining activities, laboratories, and facilities for research; uses involve the production of experimental products that neither constitute nor cause a public health risk to employees and/or to surrounding properties and/or residents.
"Residential care facility"
(land use) means an integrated facility that provides accommodations for varying levels of care to residents, depending on need. The use contains the following components: independent living units; residential care facilities; and continuing care, Alzheimer, and related facilities. This use may include supportive medical and nonmedical services directly affiliated with the treatment of on-site patients. Residential care facilities are categorized by the following programmatic elements:
1. 
"Residential care facility, general"
means any state-licensed facility, place, or structure that is maintained and operated to provide nonmedical residential care, day treatment, or foster agency services for six or fewer adults, children, or adults and children as defined in Article 1 of Chapter 3 of the California Health and Safety Code, Section 1500 et seq. This use includes the administration of limited medical assistance (e.g., dispensing of prescribed medications).
2. 
"Residential care facility, large"
means any state-licensed facility, place, or structure that is maintained and operated to provide nonmedical residential care, day treatment, or foster agency services for seven or more adults, children, or adults and children as defined in Article 1 of Chapter 3 of the California Health and Safety Code, Section 1500 et seq. This use includes the administration of limited medical assistance (e.g., dispensing of prescribed medications). This definition excludes hospitals and those facilities that qualify as small residential care homes.
"Residential condominium"
means an estate in real property consisting of an undivided interest in common in a portion of a parcel of real property together with a separate interest in space in a residential complex located on such real property. A residential condominium may include, in addition, a separate interest in other portions of such real property.
"Responsible person"
means any person that causes, creates, allows, permits, suffers, or maintains a public nuisance under this title or this code to exist or continue within the city, by any act or the omission of any act or duty. A responsible person shall also include employees, principals, joint venturers, officers, agents, and/or other persons acting in concert with, or at the direction of, and/or with the knowledge and/or consent of the owner and/or occupant of the lot, building or structure on, or in which, a public nuisance or violation exists or existed. The actions or inactions of a responsible person's agent, employee, representative or contractor may be attributed to that responsible person.
"Restaurant"
(land use) includes dine-in and take-out establishments. Any establishment operated for the primary purpose of providing food, beverages, or meals for compensation that has suitable kitchen facilities for the preparation, storage, and service of food. Food service may be for on-site consumption, off-site consumption, or a combination of service types. Any bar area with all applicable licenses is typically limited to approximately five hundred square feet or approximately thirty percent of the dining area; bar areas exceeding these limits are classified as a bar.
1. 
"Drive-through"
means any dine-in or take-out eating establishment with an affiliated drive-through facility for the service of food and beverages directly to patrons in vehicles.
"Retail sales"
(land use) means any commercial use engaged in retail sales directly to the end user not specifically listed under another use. Retail sales may be regulated by square footage thresholds subject to the regulations of the applicable zone and are categorized by the following programmatic categories:
1. 
"General"
means any form of retail sales establishment selling merchandise with a retail floor area of twenty-five thousand square feet or less. Examples of these stores and lines of merchandise include the following:
i. 
Antiques;
ii. 
Art supplies, including framing services;
iii. 
Bicycles;
iv. 
Books, stationery, magazines, and newspapers;
v. 
Cameras and photographic supply stores;
vi. 
Candy shop;
vii. 
Clothing, shoes, and accessories;
viii. 
Collectibles (cards, coins, comics, stamps), excludes secondhand and pawn;
ix. 
Department stores and pharmacies;
x. 
Dry goods;
xi. 
Fabrics and sewing supplies;
xii. 
Florist and house plants (indoor sales only);
xiii. 
Hardware;
xiv. 
Hobby materials;
xv. 
Jewelry;
xvi. 
Luggage and leather goods;
xvii. 
Musical instruments, parts, and accessories;
xviii. 
Orthopedic supplies;
xix. 
Paint sales;
xx. 
Small wares;
xxi. 
Specialty shops;
xxii. 
Sporting goods and equipment;
xxiii. 
Toys and games;
xxiv. 
Variety stores;
xxv. 
Movie rental and sales (does not include cinemas);
xxvi. 
Other similar retail sales.
2. 
"Large format"
means any form of retail sales establishment with a retail floor area of greater than twenty-five thousand square feet.
3. 
Showrooms.
See "Retail sales, large format."
4. 
"Used/pawn"
means an establishment engaged in the retail sale of secondhand merchandise, or offering loans secured by personal property and shall comply with all local and state operating requirements.
"Reverse vending machine"
(land use) means an automated recycling/depository mechanical device, as an accessory use, that accepts one or more types of recyclable beverage containers and issues a cash refund or a redeemable credit slip with a value not less than the container's redemption value as determined by the state. The reverse vending machine may sort and process containers mechanically, provided the entire process is fully enclosed. A grouping of multiple reverse vending machines may be necessary/provided to meet the requirements of certification as a recycling facility. Reverse vending machines include the following categories:
1. 
"Bulk"
means a reverse vending machine larger than the standard fifty square feet and designed to accept more than one container at a time; machine pays by weight instead of by container. Personal commodities are not allowed to be dropped off or accepted.
2. 
"Standard"
means a reverse vending machine that does not exceed fifty square feet, with a maximum height of eight feet. Personal commodities are not allowed to be dropped off or accepted.
(Ord. 2323 § 1 Exh. A (part), 4-28-2015)
"School"
(land use) means any public, charter, or private educational facility for elementary, middle, junior high, and high schools, serving kindergarten through twelfth grade students, including denominational and sectarian, boarding schools, and military academies. Preschools and child day care uses are included in the "Child day care facilities" definition.
"Second dwelling unit"
(land use), also referred to as a "granny flat" or "granny unit," means an attached or detached dwelling unit that provides complete independent living facilities; the unit shall include permanent provisions for living, sleeping, eating, cooking, and sanitation on the same parcel as the primary unit.
"Senior/age-restricted dwellings"
("senior housing") means any residential development of three or more units developed, substantially rehabilitated, or substantially renovated for habitation by "senior citizens" as defined in Section 51.3 of the California Civil Code. This use may include supportive medical and nonmedical services directly affiliated with the treatment of on-site residents/patients.
SGMC.
See "South Gate Municipal Code" ("SGMC").
"Shared parking program"
means designated areas, zones, districts, corridors, programs or plans that are intended to provide centralized off-site parking that is strategically dispersed and used by specifically designated properties in order to replace, supplement and/or reduce on-site parking standards. The program is also designed to implement the city's goal to provide for balanced integration of all transportation modes, consolidating parking provisions, relieving individual properties of providing potentially duplicative parking, and reducing individual vehicle trips (see Section 11.33.110, Trip reduction measures).
"Single-family residential"
(land use) means a single, detached dwelling unit designed for habitation by a single household on an individual lot.
"Single-room-occupancy apartment"
(land use) means a residential facility where individual, secure rooms of a minimum twelve-foot-by-twelve-foot dimension plus in-suite full bathroom, closet, and small refrigerator are rented to a one- or two-person household. A rooming house is considered a type of single-room-occupancy apartment. See Section 11.40.190, Single-room-occupancy apartment, for additional standards and requirements.
1. 
"Rooming house"
(land use) means a building containing three or more rooms for rent individually on a monthly term basis, with or without meals, for compensation. On-site property owner, agent, or rental manager is not required. A rooming house may or may not have individual or group cooking facilities or free access to common living areas beyond the bedrooms or guest rooms. Accessory units housing two or fewer people are not considered a rooming house.
Single-Use Retail.
See "Standalone retail."
"Slaughterhouse"
(land use), a land use prohibited in the city of South Gate, means establishments primarily engaged in slaughtering cattle, hogs, sheep, lambs, calves, poultry, rabbits, and/or other animals for meat to be sold or to be used on the same site in canning, curing, and freezing, and in the making of sausage, lard, and other products.
"Smelting"
(land use), a land use prohibited in the city of South Gate, includes any activities related to smelting of tin, copper, zinc, lead, or iron ores, and the reclamation of lead or zinc.
"Solid wall"
means a solid concrete masonry wall or other material (i.e., stucco or brick) used to screen, attenuate noise or provide privacy between parcels and land uses.
South Gate Municipal Code (SGMC).
The South Gate Municipal Code contains codification of the general ordinances of the city of South Gate, California, as adopted or modified.
"Stable"
(land use) means animal enclosures, riding arenas, corrals, paddocks, pens and/or other structures used for the boarding, breeding, raising, rehabilitation, riding, training and/or performing of horses, by the owners, occupants or persons other than the owners or the occupants of the premises, for commercial or private purposes.
Standalone Retail.
This land use is intended to be consistent with the intent of the general plan to ensure single-use retail is developed in appropriate locations within the city. This land use includes the following single-use standalone retail buildings and large format retail buildings: large-format supermarkets, big box centers, regional destination shopping areas, strip commercial development, highway commercial uses, drive-through restaurants, and gas stations.
"Stockyard/feeding pen"
(land use), a land use prohibited in the city of South Gate, means any intensive commercial animal facility, including beef and dairy feedlots (any premises where cattle or hogs are held or maintained for the purposes of feeding and fattening for market or milking, and where sixty percent or more of the feed for the cattle is imported or purchased), sales yards, and stockyards.
"Storage facilities"
(land use) means indoor bulk storage for the handling of products and materials occurring within an enclosed building; includes self-storage facilities. Outdoor storage is not permitted within this land use; see "Wholesale, processing/distribution" for related outdoor facility uses.
"Supportive housing"
(land use) means housing with no limit on length of stay that is occupied by the target population and that is linked to on-site or off-site services that assist the resident in retaining the housing, improving his or her health status, and maximizing his or her ability to live and, when possible, work in the community, in accordance with Section 65582 et seq. of the Government Code, and as amended. Housing meeting this definition shall be permitted, conditionally permitted, or not permitted, as per the regulation of other residential dwellings of the same type in the same zone. All standards and regulations of this title governing the regulation of other residential dwellings of the same type, and in the same zone, shall apply.
"Swap meet/flea market"
(land use), a land use prohibited in the city of South Gate, means any parcel or establishment primarily used as a permanent outdoor sales area providing long-term or short-term, temporary or permanent sales area for multiple vendors.
(Ord. 2323 § 1 Exh. A (part), 4-28-2015)
"Tannery"
(land use), a land use prohibited in the city of South Gate, means any manufacturing establishment engaged in hide and leather tanning.
"Target population"
(land use) means persons with low incomes who have one or more disabilities, including mental illness, HIV or AIDS, substance abuse, or other chronic health condition, or individuals eligible for services provided pursuant to the Lanterman Developmental Disabilities Services Act (Division 4.5 of the California Welfare and Institutions Code, commencing with Section 4500) and may include, among other populations, adults, emancipated minors, families with children, elderly persons, young adults aging out of the foster care system, individuals exiting from institutional settings, veterans, and homeless people, in accordance with Section 65582 et seq. of the California Government Code, and as amended.
"Tattoo/body modification"
(land use) means any facility that includes any of the following activities. This use is subject to the standards and restrictions in Section 11.40.200, Tattoo/body modification.
1. 
"Body art facility"
means any specified building, section of a building, or vehicle in which a practitioner performs body art, including reception areas, the procedure area, and the decontamination and sterilization area. "Body art facility" does not include a facility that only pierces the ear with a disposable, single-use, presterilized clasp and stud or solid needle that is applied using a mechanical device to force the needle or stud through the ear.
2. 
"Body art"
means the body piercing, tattooing, branding, or application of permanent cosmetics.
3. 
"Body piercing"
means the creation of an opening in a human body for the purpose of inserting jewelry or other decoration. "Body piercing" includes the piercing of an ear, including the tragus; lip; tongue; nose; eyebrow; or other body part. "Body piercing" does not include the piercing of an ear, except for the tragus, with a disposable, single-use, presterilized stud and clasp or solid needle that is applied using a mechanical device to force the needle or stud through the ear.
4. 
"Branding"
means the process in which a mark or marks are burned into human skin tissue with a hot iron or other instrument, with the intention of leaving a permanent scar.
5. 
"Permanent cosmetics"
means the application of pigments in human skin tissue for the purpose of permanently changing the color or other appearance of the skin. This includes permanent eyeliner, eyebrow, or lip color. Permanent cosmetics, if done as an ancillary use within a beauty salon or spa, is not subject to the standards and restrictions in Section 11.40.160, Tattoo/body modification.
6. 
"Tattooing"
means the insertion of pigment in human skin tissue by piercing with a needle.
"Technical/scientific laboratories"
(land use) means any use engaged in laboratory work or research in support of a primary office/research and development land use. These uses shall be fully enclosed and adequately regulated/permitted/licensed for the type of activity facilitated within the laboratory. Accessory laboratory uses shall not exceed forty percent of the building area; laboratory space greater than forty percent of the building area is subject to a CUP. This land use includes motion picture studios and testing facilities.
"Temporary acquisition"
means any verbal or written agreement resulting in the temporary, short-term rental, lease, donation, or use of a structure or portion of a structure for any activity.
"Theater"
(land use) means any auditorium for live performing arts or the showing of movies/cinemas. This land use may include the service of food and beverages. A fee may or may not be charged at the door.
"Transit-accessible location"
means any property located within one-quarter mile (one thousand three hundred twenty linear feet) of a transit facility.
"Transit station/stop"
(land use) means any publicly owned and operated parcel, structure, or facility designed to provide accessibility to the transit system, including bus, light rail, train, and rapid transit.
"Transit/transportation equipment storage"
(land use) means indoor or outdoor site for the storage of transit and transportation equipment; excludes freight classification yards.
"Transitional housing"
(land use) means buildings configured as rental housing developments, but operated under program requirements that require the termination of assistance and recirculating of the assisted unit to another eligible program recipient at a predetermined future point in time that shall be no less than six months from the beginning of assistance, in accordance with Section 65582 et seq. of the California Government Code, and as amended. Housing meeting this definition shall be permitted, conditionally permitted, or not permitted, as per the regulation of other residential dwellings of the same type in the same zone. All standards and regulations of this title governing the regulation of other residential dwellings of the same type, and in the same zone, shall apply.
"Truck repair and overhauling"
(land use) means an establishment providing repair and overhauling for medium- to heavy-duty trucks.
"Truck storage/terminal"
(land use) means indoor or outdoor site for freight, truck terminals, truck storage yards, or similar commercial facilities; see Section 11.24.060(J) for standards.
(Ord. 2323 § 1 Exh. A (part), 4-28-2015)
"Unlawful use"
(land use) means any land use prohibited by any federal, state, or local law, or violating the intent of the applicable zone as defined by this title.
"Utility metering/distribution"
(land use) means any public or private utility equipment, facility, or structure providing for or engaging in electrical or other utility distribution services.
(Ord. 2323 § 1 Exh. A (part), 4-28-2015)
Vehicle Fueling Station (Land Use).
This land use is equivalent to the "gas station" addressed in the general plan. A commercial establishment primarily engaged in the retail sales of vehicle fuels, traditional and alternative fuel types (including electric-charging stations, ethanol, natural gas, propane, solar), lubricants, parts, and accessories. These uses include service stations with convenience stores and self-service auto washes, and facilities having service bays for vehicle service and repair as permitted by the applicable land use. The service and repair may include incidental maintenance and repair of automobiles and light trucks as permitted by the applicable land use, but shall not include maintenance and repair of large trucks, or body and fender work or automobile painting on any vehicles. Single, standalone alternative-fuel charging units located in a parking lot or similar individual vehicle situation are not regulated by this land use.
"Vehicle fueling station, fleets"
(land use) means a site where the primary activity is the retail sale and dispensing of vehicle fuels for nonpassenger vehicles. This use may be accessory to a primary industrial or public agency use or a primary use for the regular fueling of site-specific or general commercial fleet vehicles. It may include maintenance and service facilities conducted completely within an enclosed structure. For passenger vehicle fueling stations, see "Automotive, fueling station."
"Vehicle parking district"
means a shared parking approach to allow grouping of parking facilities in strategically dispersed locations to encourage sustainable development and more economic use of properties, while also encouraging and accommodating pedestrian activity between businesses and destinations. The districts are intended to reduce and/or relieve individual properties of providing potentially duplicative parking throughout the identified area, dependent on need and impact (see Section 11.33.120, Park-once/parking districts, and the special requirements and overlay zones).
"Vehicle parts store"
(land use) means a retailer specializing in automotive and motor vehicles accessories, lubricants, parts, and/or tires.
"Vehicle rentals"
(land use) means any establishment providing for the rental of passenger or commercial automobiles or equipment, including storage and incidental maintenance, but excluding maintenance requiring pneumatic lifts.
Vehicle Sales (Land Use).
1. 
"New"
means the retail sale or lease of automobiles, trucks, tractors, construction or agricultural equipment, mobile homes, and similar equipment, including storage and incidental maintenance and repair. This use includes the on-site storage and display of vehicle inventory. This use does not include uses that exclusively rent vehicles.
2. 
"Other"
means the retail sale (new or used) or lease of boats, trailers, trucks, or other automotive vehicles or equipment (excluding heavy-duty equipment for commercial operations) not specifically stated under the "Automotive sales, new" land use. This use includes the on-site storage and display of vehicle inventory.
3. 
"Used"
means the retail sale of previously owned or used automobiles, not directly from the manufacturer. Used automotive sales are not permitted on sites of less than one and one-half acres (sixty-five thousand three hundred forty square feet), are limited to one business operator/sales establishment per site, and cannot be located adjacent to an existing used automotive sales establishment.
Vehicle Services (Land Use).
1. 
"Limited repair"
means any activity where automotive vehicles, including recreational vehicles, cars, trucks, or motorcycles, are serviced in a capacity limited to oil change, tune-up, tire installation, and similar maintenance activities limited to start and completion within one business day; all activities of longer duration are regulated under the "Vehicle services, repair/storage" land use.
2. 
"Repair/storage"
means any activity where automotive vehicles, including recreational vehicles, cars, trucks, or motorcycles, are serviced, painted, stored, maintained, or repaired, or associated parts are installed into, on, or attached to these vehicles. These shall include oil change, tune-up, tire installation, brakes, engine overhaul/rebuilding, muffler installation, car washing and detail, and any other use deemed similar by the director.
3. 
"Washing/detailing"
means any business, indoor or outdoor, providing machinery or staffing for the cleaning, washing, or detailing of vehicles as a primary use. Washing and detailing are permitted as an accessory use in conjunction with a primary automotive services repair use. This includes self-service auto washing facilities that include all appropriate utility connections and drainage.
"Vehicle towing/impounding"
(land use) means an indoor or outdoor site used for temporary storage of vehicles that have been removed or impounded from public or private property at the direction of a police officer or judicial order as prescribed by law. This land use includes dispatch operations and the overnight parking of towing vehicles (tow trucks).
"Vehicle wrecking,"
a land use prohibited in the city of South Gate, means any dismantling or wrecking of used motor vehicles or trailers, or the storage, sale, or dumping of dismantled or wrecked vehicles or their parts.
"Vehicle wrecking yard"
(land use), a land use prohibited in the city of South Gate, means any land or parcel on which dismantling or wrecking of used motor vehicles or trailers, or the storage, sale, or dumping of dismantled or wrecked vehicles or their parts, occurs.
(Ord. 2323 § 1 Exh. A (part), 4-28-2015)
"Walking distance"
means the distance measured from the nearest point of the parking facility to the nearest point of the building for which the parking services are provided.
"Warehousing"
(land use) means facilities, over fifteen thousand square feet, with a primary use for the storage of commercial goods of any kind; includes cold storage and limited retail sales of products stored on site and has limited employees on site. This use may or may not include freight/delivery bay. This use does not include self-storage or mini-storage facilities offered for lease or rent to the public. Warehousing facilities primarily for wholesaling and distribution are regulated under "Wholesale, processing/distribution."
"Warehousing, mini"
(land use) means facilities of no more than fifteen thousand square feet, with a primary use for the storage of commercial goods of any kind; includes cold storage and limited retail sales of products stored on site, and has limited employees on site. This use shall not be located along a street frontage but is a rear use, and may or may not include freight/delivery bays. This use does not include self-storage or mini-storage facilities offered for lease or rent to the public. Warehousing facilities primarily for wholesaling and distribution are regulated under "Wholesale, processing/distribution."
"Wholesale, processing/distribution"
(land use) means any establishment where the primary use is in selling merchandise to retailers; contractors; industrial, commercial, institutional, farm, or professional business users; or other wholesalers; or acting as agents or brokers in buying merchandise for or selling merchandise to persons or companies. This use includes processing, packaging, and shipping facilities for delivery, mail order, and e-commerce retail establishments, with warehousing as an ancillary use. This is a high employment generating use, and may include limited retail sales of products stored or processed on site. This land use may include the following establishments:
1. 
Agents, merchandise or commodity brokers, and commission merchants;
2. 
Assemblers, buyers, and associations engaged in cooperative market or farm products;
3. 
Merchant wholesalers;
4. 
Stores primarily selling electrical, plumbing, heating, or air conditioning supplies and equipment.
"Winery"
(land use) means a bonded winery facility comprising the building or buildings used to convert fruit juices (all or part of which are produced on the property) to wine, and to age, bottle, store, distribute, and sell said wine. A winery includes crushing, fermenting and refermenting, bottling, blending, bulk and bottle storage, aging, shipping, receiving, laboratory equipment and maintenance facilities, sales, and administrative office functions, and may include tasting and promotional events.
(Ord. 2323 § 1 Exh. A (part), 4-28-2015)