§ 30-12. LIMITED COMMERCIAL ZONE (C-L).

[Added by Ord. #1557, § 9131.1; Ord. #1733, § 1]

The Limited Commercial Zone (C-L) is established to provide for neighborhood, community, and regional retail business areas with related uses.

[Added by Ord. #1557, § 9131.2; Ord. #1602, § 1 g; Ord. #1711, § 1; Ord. #1712,fj § 1; Ord. #1733, § 1; Ord. #1746, § 1; Ord. #1784; Ord. #1921, § 1; Ord. #2031, § 3; Ord. #2072, § 1; Ord. #2101, § 7; Ord. #2155, § 3; Ord. #2282 § 11; Ord. #2300 § 2]

• a. Principal Permitted Uses. The following uses and buildings, of less than 50,000 square feet in size, shall be permitted in the Limited Commercial Zone (C-L):

  1. Administrative and professional offices;

2. Ambulance services (no more than four ambulances);

• 2A. Amusement machines-accessory use (subject to approval by the Architectural Review Board);

3. Antique stores;

4. Art galleries;

5. Auto parking lots and structures;

6. Auto supply stores (new and rebuilt, packaged auto supplies only);

7. Bakeries (employing not more than five persons, excluding full-time sales personnel);

8. Banks and financial institutions;

9. Barber shops;

10. Beauty shops;

11. Bicycle sales and repair;

12. Blueprinting;

13. Book stores;

14. Bus stations (no storage or repair of buses);

15. Cafeterias;

16. Carpet sales;

17. Carnivals, circuses and Christmas tree lots; temporary (subject to approval by the Council);

18. Child day-care centers;

19. City parks, playgrounds, Police and Fire Stations;

20. Civic clubs;

21. Civic center buildings and uses;

22. Cleaning and dyeing agencies (including retail cleaning and dyeing using noninflammable, nonexplosive cleaning fluids);

23. Cleaners, self-service;

24. Clothing sales;

25. Colleges, beauty, barber, and business;

26. Confectionery stores;

• 26A. Convenience stores;

27. Curio shops;

28. Department stores;

29. Drapery sales;

30. Dressmakers (custom, retail dress-making subject to the provisions of the Division of Labor Standards);

31. Drugstores;

32. Dry good sales;

33. Elementary junior high and high schools offering full curricula as required by State laws;

34. Electrical and electronic appliance sales and service and repair;

35. Engravers, hand;

36. Fireworks stands (subject to approval by the Council);

37. Fix-it-shops;

38. Florist shops;

39. Food markets;

40. Frozen food lockers;

41. Furniture stores;

42. Garden equipment sales, service, rental, and repair;

43. Gift shops;

44. Glass shops;

45. Governmental offices;

46. Gymnasiums (commercial);

47. Hardware stores;

48. Health centers;

49. Hobby shops;

50. Ice cream parlors;

51. Ice sales and storage (no more than 10 ton capacity);

52. Knit and yarn shops;

53. Jewelry sales and repairs;

54. Laundries, hand;

55. Laundries, self-service;

56. Leather products sales;

57. Libraries;

58. Locksmiths;

• 58A. Major retail facilities (including the sale of alcoholic beverages for consumption off the premises where such sales utilize less than 10% of the sales floor area);

59. Manicurists;

• 59A. Massage establishments (the provisions of Section 9-15 of the Compton Municipal Code shall apply.);

60. Mattress sales;

61. Medical, dental and therapeutic clinics;

62. Medical, dental and X-ray laboratories;

63. Millinery shops;

64. Mimeographing;

65. Museums;

66. Newsstands;

67. Newspaper offices;

68. Notions stores;

69. Novelty stores;

70. Nurseries, horticultural;

71. Paint stores;

72. Pet shops;

73. Pharmacies;

74. Photo equipment and supplies;

75. Photoengraving;

76. Photographers studios;

77. Photostating;

78. Plumbing fixture sales;

79. Pottery fixture sales;

80. Print and lithography shops (employing not more than five printers);

81. Public utility substations;

82. (Reserved)

83. Realtors;

84. Radio studios (fully soundproofed);

85. Reducing salons;

86. Restaurants;

87. Restaurants, fast food;

88. Schools (art, music, dancing, drama; driving, trade, vocational, karate and other similar special-purpose schools);

89. Secondhand stores;

90. Sewing machine sales and service;

91. Shoe sales and repair;

92. Shoeshine stands;

93. Sightseeing and limousine agencies (no storage or repair of vehicles);

94. Sporting goods stores (the provisions of subsection 30-26.3 of this Chapter shall apply);

95. Stationery stores;

96. Swimming pools (commercial);

97. Tailors (custom, retail tailoring subject to the provisions of the Division of Labor Standards);

98. Taxidermists;

99. Tearooms;

100. Telephone and telegraph offices and exchanges;

101. Tile sales;

102. Tobacconists;

103. Travel agencies;

104. Water company wells, pumping plants, reservoirs and electrical distribution stations;

105. Uses and buildings customarily incidental to any use or building set forth in this subsection; and

106. Any use or building which the Commission finds, as evidenced by resolution in writing, is similar to any of the uses or buildings set forth in this subsection.

107. Certified small recycling collection facilities maintained as an accessory to major retail facilities (the provisions of subsection 30-12.4i of this Chapter shall apply).

108. Certified small used oil collection facilities maintained within a building as an accessory to gas stations, auto repair garages and auto parts stores (the provisions of subsection 3012.4i of this Chapter shall apply).

109. Temporary and accessory uses for a maximum of 12 days per calendar year (the provisions of Section 30-25 of this Chapter shall apply);

110. Indoor marijuana cultivation is allowed consistent with State law which permits no more than six live marijuana plants to be planted, cultivated, harvested, dried, or processed within a single private residence or inside an accessory structure located upon the grounds of a private residence that is fully enclosed and secured as long as the marijuana cultivation activities comply with the regulations set forth in paragraph c of subsection 9-24.4 .

• b. Uses Permitted Subject to Conditional Use Permits. The following uses and buildings may be permitted in the Limited Commercial Zone (C-L) provided a conditional use permit has been obtained pursuant to the provisions of Section 30-26 of this Chapter. [Amended 12-28-2021 by Ord. No. 2342]

  1. Advertising statuary;

2. Alcoholic beverage sales for consumption on the premises that are accessory to a primary restaurant or entertainment use (the provisions of Section 30-51 of this Chapter shall apply);

   3. Amusement machine sales (the provisions of Subsection 7-6.9 shall apply);

   4. Amusement parks, fairgrounds, private clubs and privately owned recreation centers, game rooms and domino parlors;

   5. Arcades (the provisions of Subsection 7-6.9 shall apply);

3. Auctions (open air);

4. Automobile repair garages (excluding body and fender work and painting);

5. Automobile service stations (no more than two tow trucks);

6. Automobile upholstery shops;

7. Bars, lounge and liquor stores (the provisions of Section 30-51 of this Chapter shall apply);

8. Beer and wine sales for consumption off the premises that are accessory to a convenience or small grocery store use where such sales utilize less than 10% of the sales floor area (the provisions of Section 30-51 of this Chapter shall apply).

9. Buildings in excess of 50,000 square feet in size;

10. Bowling alleys;

11. Charitable institutions and rescue missions;

12. Children's homes, foster homes, fraternity and sorority houses, college and military housing, orphans' homes, rooming houses, boarding houses and residential care facilities;

13. Furniture upholstery shops;

14. Dance halls;

15. Dog and cat hospitals, training schools and kennels;

16. Firearm sales;

17. Furniture upholstery shops;

18. Ice and roller skating rinks;

19. Jail farms;

20. Live work units;

21. Microwave stations and telecommunications antennas;

22. Motels and hotels;

23. Mortuaries;

24. Multiple and single-family residences;

25. New commercial strip centers;

26. New establishments with drive-thru facilities;

27. New take-out restaurants;

28. Planned commercial, residential and condominium developments (the provisions of Section 30-18 of this Chapter shall apply);

29. Pool halls;

30. Race tracks;

31. Radio and television transmission towers;

32. Rifle and pistol ranges, shooting galleries, skeet and trap shooting and archery ranges;

33. Small collection facilities (the provisions of Subsection 30-12.4i of this Chapter shall apply);

34. Swap meets, indoor swap meets, flea markets and similar multiple-vendor sales;

35. Trailer parks;

36. Used automobile sales;

37. Wedding chapels, banquet halls and live entertainment;

38. Zoos and menageries; and

39. Uses and buildings customarily incidental to any use or building set forth in this subsection.

[Ord. #1733, § 1; Ord. #2282 § 12]

The following uses and buildings shall be prohibited in the Limited Commercial Zone (C-L):

• a. Pawn Shops.

• b. Commercial marijuana uses, except as permitted by subsection 9-24.4 .

• c. Marijuana cultivation outdoors upon the grounds of a private residence.

• d. Marijuana cultivation indoors that does not comply with subsection 30-12.2a .

[Added by Ord. #1557, § 9131.3; Ord. #1733, § 1; Ord. #1784; Ord. #1921, § 1; Ord. #1941, §§ 2, 3; Ord. #2025, § 1; Ord. #2101, § 7; Ord. #2155, § 3; Ord. #2300 § 6]

The following property development standards shall apply to all land and buildings in the Limited Commercial Zone (C-L):

• a. Lot Area and Width. (For exceptions see subsection 30-20.2 of this Chapter). Each lot or parcel of land shall have a minimum area of 10,000 square feet and a minimum width of 70 feet.

• b. Dwelling Unit Density. The minimum lot area for each dwelling unit shall be 1,500 square feet, except that for senior citizen units the minimum lot area shall be 1,250 square feet.

• c. Dwelling Unit Area and Number of Bedrooms. Each dwelling unit shall have a gross floor area of not less than 450 square feet for bachelor units, 600 square feet for one bedroom units, 800 square feet for two bedroom units and 1,000 square feet for units with more than two bedrooms. Dwelling units shall not exceed 2,000 square feet.

• d. Lot Coverage and Building Height. (For exceptions see subsection 30-20.4 of this Chapter).

  1. Building lot coverage shall be limited to 40% of the lot or parcel of land.

  2. Building height shall be limited to 75 feet above grade (exclusive of roof structures housing building operating equipment).

• e. Yards. (For exceptions see subsection 30-20.3 of this Chapter).

  1. Front Yards. There shall be a front yard of not less than 10 feet, except that buildings used as residences shall comply with the front yard requirements of the High-Density Residential Zone (R-H).

  2. Side Yards.

     • (a) No side yard shall be required, except where a side lot line abuts a street and/or a residential zone there shall be a side yard of not less than 10 feet.

     • (b) Buildings used as residences shall comply with the side yard requirements of the HighDensity Residential Zone (R-H).

  3. Rear Yards.

     • (a) No rear yard shall be required, except where a rear lot line abuts a residential zone there shall be a rear yard of not less than 10 feet.

     • (b) Buildings used as residences shall comply with the rear yard requirements of the HighDensity Residential Zone (R-H).

• f. Fences and Walls. The provisions of Section 30-44 of this Chapter shall apply.

• g. Special Development Standards: Outside Storage and Display. All uses, storage, and display shall be located entirely within a building (for exceptions see subsection 30-20.6 of this Chapter.)

• h. (Reserved)

• i. All applications for the establishment of recycling facilities shall be subject to the standards and criteria set forth in the City's policy for the evaluation and approval of recycling facility sites.

• j. Special Development Standards: Tenant Mix Leasing Plan. A Tenant Mix Leasing Plan shall be approved by the City prior to issuance of building permits on existing structures reconfigured with three or more commercial tenant spaces or the granting of any discretionary permit approving any commercial or mixed-use project, including housing and commercial or manufacturing uses, which contain three or more commercial tenant spaces. The Tenant Mix Leasing Plan shall be reviewed and approved by the Planning Director or his/her designee. When submitted concurrently with an application for a discretionary permit, Planning Commission shall approve the Plan.