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Title 19 — ZONINGChapter 19.60 — GENERAL COMMERCIAL (CG) ZONES

§ 19.64

Cupertino Zoning Code · 2026-06 edition · updated 2026-07-26 · Cupertino

19.64.010 Applicability of Regulations.

No building or structure or land shall be used in an OA, OP, MP, ML or ML-rc zoning district, otherwise than in conformance with the provisions of this chapter.

  • (Ord. 2085, § 2 (part), 2011)

19.64.020 Permitted, Conditional and Excluded Uses in Office and Industrial Zones.

Table 19.64.020 sets forth the Permitted, Conditional and Excluded Uses in Office and Industrial zones.

Table 19.64.020: Permitted, Conditional and Excluded Uses in Office and Industrial

Zones

Zones
Uses Zoning Districts
OA OP MP ML ML-
rc
1. Administratve and Executve Ofces P P P - P
2. Professional Ofces P P P - P
3. Printng and Publishing - - - - P
4. Caterers - - - CUP -
PC
-
5. The following commercial uses are permited as
independent operatons:
a. Stenographic or duplicatng services - - - P P
b. Messenger or telegraph ofces - - - P -
c. Delivery services - - - P P
d. Janitorial services; - - - P -
6. Ofce Supplies and Equipment Sales and
Services
- - - - P
7. Dry cleaning plants and similar establishments,
provided that the solvent used in the cleaning
process shall be used or stored in a manner
approved by the State Fire Marshal;
- - - P P
8. Accessory facilites and uses customarily
incidental to permited uses and otherwise
conforming with provisions of Chapter 19.100 of
this ttle.
P - - - -
9. Animal clinics and hospitals, facilites for
bathing, clipping, trimming, and similar services for
pets; kennels; taxidermists;
P
10. Gymnasium, Health Club - - - - P
11. Swim clubs, swim schools, and commercial
swimming pools
- - - CUP -
PC
-
12. Commercial parking and parking garages - - - P -
13. Commercial entertainment establishments
operated wholly or partly in the open (e.g., drive-in
- - - CUP -
PC
-
theaters, golf driving ranges, and miniature golf
courses),
14. Automotve service statons, automobile
washing facilites;
- - - CUP -
PC
-
15. Gasoline and diesel fuel pumps, whether
utlized as a principal use or as an accessory use
- - - CUP -
PC
-
16. Automobile, trailer, tre and boat sales, rentals,
service, repair and storage, including body and
upholstery shops, but limited to new and used
vehicles in operable conditon and new,
reconditoned and used parts, if stored inside a
building
- - - P -
17. Manufacturing, processing, assembly, research
and development factories, laboratories, shops,
and other uses which, in the opinion of the
Director of Community Development are similar
to uses permited in the ML zoning district, and
which do not create undue adverse impacts due
to the efects of glare, noise, dust, or any other
emission within the premises as provided in
Secton 19.72.050 of this Title.
- - - P -
18. Light Manufacturing, processing, assembly,
and storage of products and materials which do
not create undue adverse impacts due to the
efects of glare, noise, dust, or any other emission
within the premises as provided in Secton
19.72.050 of this Title.
- - P - -
19. Medical and Allied Laboratories - P P - -
20. Laboratories - - - - P
21. Warehouses; - - - P -
22. Enclosed Warehousing - - - P P
23. Wholesaler Showrooms - - - - P
24. Wholesale and storage actvites within
completely enclosed buildings;
- - - P -
25. Wholesale and storage within completely
enclosed buildings, excluding petroleum products;
- - - - P
26. Cold Storage Facilites and Frozen Food
Lockers
- - - P P
27. Packing and cratng establishments; - - - P -
28. Aucton houses, used furniture sales, feed
sales;
- - - P -
29. Home, garden and farm equipment and
appliance sales and rentals;
- - - P -
30. Machinery sales and rentals, including heavy
constructon equipment;
- - - P -
31. Repair and service shops for light machinery,
household appliances and apparel;
- - - P -
32. Light Machinery, Tools and Equipment Sales
and Services
- - - P P
33. Lumberyards, - - - P -
34. Building material sales, ice, coal and wood
sales, carpenter and cabinet shops;
- - - P -
35. Nurseries and greenhouses; - - - P -
36. Television, radio and moton picture studios
and statons;
- - - P P
37. Film Processing - - - - P
38. Commercial Photography - - - - P
39. Public utlity facilites and service yards, and
associated buildings, communicatons and
equipment buildings, corporaton yards,
contractors' and plumbers' shops, and storage
yards;
- - - P P
40. Municipal and Governmental Facilites - - - - P
41. All uses permited in a general commercial
(CG) zone as provided in Chapter 19.60, provided
that:
a. They are auxiliary or subsidiary to or an
essental part of an established operaton or
use permited by this chapter including, but
not limited to, personal services, retail
establishments, and recreaton facilites
located on the same lot as the principal use,
and
- - P P P
b. Which exist solely for the convenience of
persons employed in or customers of the
principal use;
42. Residental dwellings for caretakers or
watchmen employed for the protecton of the
principal permited use, provided they are located
on the same lot as the principal permited use.
- - - P -
43. For any ordinarily permited industrial use
where the number of parking spaces exceeds one
per fve hundred feet of net lot area, upon a
determinaton that the use will not have an
adverse impact upon the City's street and
circulaton system, and is consistent with the
City's noise ordinance.
- - - CUP -
Admin.
-
44. Retail sales of mixed concrete sold in batches
not exceeding one cubic yard
- - - CUP -
PC
-
45. Stone cutng, monument manufacture - - - CUP -
PC
-
46. Mortuaries - - - CUP -
PC
-
47. Heliports as accessory uses, - - - CUP -
PC
-
48. Manufacture of radioactve material, provided
that emissions do not exceed permissible levels
established by Federal or State standards
- - - CUP -
PC
-
Zones
49. Other uses which, in the opinion of the
Planning Commission, are consistent with the
character of an ML zone, and do not exceed the
levels of odor, noise, dust, smoke, glare, fumes,
radiaton or vibraton described in Secton
19.72.050 of this Title
- - - CUP -
PC
-
50. Existng churches approved by the City with a
Conditonal Use Permit, in existence prior to the
adopton of Ordinance 11-2084
- - - - CUP
- PC
51. Technical Colleges - With classroom schedules
which do not exceed trafc generaton rates
normally experienced by a Light
Industrial/Administratve Ofce development
between 7:00 a.m. - 9:00 a.m., 4:00 p.m. - 6:00
p.m. and 7:00 p.m. to 10:00 p.m. The on-site
enrollment shall not exceed two students for each
parking space during the day program from 7:00
a.m. to 6:00 p.m. and the evening program from
7:00 p.m. to 10:00 p.m.
- - - - CUP
- PC
52. Bag cleaning, - - - Ex Ex
53. Blast furnace, - - - Ex Ex
54. Boiler or Tank Works - - - Ex Ex
55. Boiler or Tank Works - - - Ex Ex
56. Candle Factory - - - Ex Ex
57. Cannery - - - Ex Ex
58. Central Mixing Plant for Cement - - - Ex Ex
59. Mortar - - - Ex Ex
60. Plaster or Paving Materials - - - Ex Ex
61. Coke Oven - - - Ex Ex
62. Curing - - - Ex Ex
63. Tanning or Storage of Raw Hides or Skins - - - Ex Ex
64. Distllaton of Bones, Coal or Wood - - - Ex Ex
65. Distllaton of Tar - - - Ex Ex
66. Drilling for Oil, Gas or Other Hydrocarbon
Substances
- - - Ex Ex
67. Dumping, Disposal, Incineraton or Reducton
of Garbage, Sewage, Ofal, Dead Animals or
Refuse
- - - Ex Ex
68. Fat Rendering - - - Ex Ex
69. Forge plant - - - Ex Ex
70. Foundry or Metal Fabricaton Plant - - - Ex Ex
71. Hog Farms - - - Ex Ex
72. Junk Yards - - - Ex Ex
73. Baling of Rags or Junk - - - Ex Ex
74. Pumping, Refning or Wholesale Storage of
Crude Petroleum
- - - Ex Ex
75. Slaughtering of Animals - - - Ex Ex
76. Smeltng of Copper, Iron, Tin, Zinc or other
Ores
- - - Ex Ex
77. Steam Power Plant - - - Ex Ex
78. Stockyard - - - Ex Ex
79. Stone Mill or Quarry - - - Ex Ex
80. Sugar Refning - - - Ex Ex
81. Wool Pulling or Scouring - - - Ex Ex
82. Manufacture of:
a. Acetylene, - - - Ex Ex
b. Acid - - - Ex Ex
c. Alcohol - - - Ex Ex
d. Alcoholic Beverages - - - Ex Ex
e. Ammonia - - - Ex Ex
f. Bleaching Powder - - - Ex Ex
g. Chlorine - - - Ex Ex
h. Chemicals - - - Ex Ex
i. Soda or Soda Compounds - - - Ex Ex
j. Brick Potery - - - Ex Ex
k. Terra Cota or Tile (except handcraf
products only)
- - - Ex Ex
l. Candles - - - Ex Ex
m. Celluloid or pyroxlin (treatment of same) - - - Ex
n. Cement - - - Ex Ex
o. Gypsum - - - Ex Ex
p. Lime or Plaster of Paris - - - Ex Ex
q. Chewing Tobacco (or treatment of same) - - - Ex Ex
r. Disinfectants - - - Ex Ex
s. Dyestufs - - - Ex Ex
t. Emery Cloth or Sandpaper - - - Ex Ex
u. Explosives - - - Ex Ex
v. Fireworks or Gunpowder (or storage of
same)
- - - Ex Ex
w. Fertlizer - - - Ex Ex
x. Glass - - - Ex Ex
y. Glue - - - Ex Ex
z. Gelatn - - - Ex Ex
aa. Grease - - - Ex Ex
bb. Lard or Tallow (manufactured or refned
from or of animal fat)
- - - Ex Ex
cc. Illuminaton of Heatng Gas (or Storage of
Same)
- - - Ex Ex
dd. Insectcides - - - Ex Ex
ee. Lampblack - - - Ex Ex
f. Linoleum - - - Ex Ex
gg. Oilcloth or oiled products - - - Ex Ex
hh. Linseed Oil - - - Ex Ex
ii. Paint - - - Ex Ex
jj. Oil - - - Ex Ex
kk. Shellac - - - Ex Ex
ll. Turpentne or Varnish (except mixing) - - - Ex Ex
mm. Matches - - - Ex Ex
nn. Paper or Pulp - - - Ex Ex
oo. Pickles - - - Ex Ex
pp. Sauerkraut or Vinegar - - - Ex Ex
qq. Potash Products - - - Ex Ex
rr. Rubber or Guta Percha Products (or
treatment of same)
- - - Ex Ex
ss. Shoe Polish - - - Ex Ex
t. Soap (other than liquid soap) - - - Ex Ex
uu. Starch, Glucose or Dectrin - - - Ex Ex
vv. Stove Polish - - - Ex Ex
ww. Tar Roofng or Waterproofng or other
Tar Products
- - - Ex Ex
xx. Yeast - - - Ex Ex
83. Schools (preschool, kindergarten through
grade 12(K-12))
- - - Ex Ex
84. Specialized Schools - - - Ex Ex
85. General Acute Care Hospital (e.g., any nursing
facility, intermediate care facility, congregate
living health facility)
- - - Ex Ex
86. Long-term health care facility - - - Ex Ex
87. Child Day Care Facility (including day care
centers, employer-sponsored child care centers,
adult day care and family day care homes)
- - - Ex Ex
88. Uses or facilites defned in Health and Safety
Code Sectons 1250 or 1418 or 1596.750 and
Educaton Code Secton 17323(c) which may be
utlized by sensitve receptors as defned by Public
Resources Code Secton 42100(c)
- - - Ex Ex
Key:
P– Permited Use
-– Not Allowed
CUP - Admin.– Conditonal Use Permit issued by the Director of Community
Development
CUP - PC– Conditonal Use Permit issued by the Planning Commission
CUP - CC– Conditonal Use Permit issued by the City Council
Ex– Excluded Uses

(Ord. 17-2165, § 11, 2017; Ord. 2085, § 2 (part), 2011)

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Contents — Cupertino Zoning Code
Cupertino Zoning Code
  1. Title 19 — ZONING
    Overview
    1. Chapter 19.04 — GENERAL PROVISIONS
    2. Chapter 19.08 — DEFINITIONS
    3. Chapter 19.12 — ADMINISTRATION
    4. Chapter 19.16 — DESIGNATIONS AND ESTABLISHMENT OF DISTRICTS
    5. Chapter 19.20 — PERMITTED, CONDITIONAL AND EXCLUDED USES IN AG…
    6. Chapter 19.24 — AGRICULTURAL (A) AND AGRICULTURALRESIDENTIAL (…
    7. Chapter 19.28 — SINGLE-FAMILY RESIDENTIAL (R-1) ZONES
    8. Chapter 19.36 — MULTIPLE-FAMILY RESIDENTIAL (R-3) ZONES
    9. Chapter 19.38 — MULTIPLE-FAMILY RESIDENTIAL (R-4) ZONES
    10. Chapter 19.40 — RESIDENTIAL HILLSIDE (RHS) ZONES
    11. Chapter 19.44 — RESIDENTIAL SINGLE-FAMILY CLUSTER (R1C) ZONES
    12. Chapter 19.46 — TOWNHOME (TH) COMBINING DISTRICT
    13. Chapter 19.48 — FENCES
    14. Chapter 19.50 — EMERGENCY SHELTERS
    15. Chapter 19.52 — REASONABLE ACCOMMODATION
    16. Chapter 19.56 — DENSITY BONUS
    17. Chapter 19.60 — GENERAL COMMERCIAL (CG) ZONES
    18. Chapter 19.68 — ADMINISTRATIVE AND PROFESSIONAL OFFICE (OA & O…
    19. Chapter 19.72 — LIGHT INDUSTRIAL (ML) AND INDUSTRIAL PARK (MP)…
    20. Chapter 19.76 — PUBLIC BUILDING (BA), QUASI-PUBLIC BUILDING (B…
    21. Chapter 19.80 — PLANNED DEVELOPMENT (P) ZONES
    22. Chapter 19.84 — PERMITTED, CONDITIONAL AND EXCLUDED USES IN OP…
    23. Chapter 19.92 — PARK AND RECREATION (PR) ZONES
    24. Chapter 19.96 — PRIVATE RECREATION (FP) ZONE
    25. Chapter 19.98 — MARIJUANA
    26. Chapter 19.100 — ACCESSORY BUILDINGS/STRUCTURES
    27. Chapter 19.102 — GLASS AND LIGHTING STANDARDS
    28. Chapter 19.104 — SIGNS
    29. Chapter 19.108 — BEVERAGE CONTAINER REDEMPTION AND RECYCLING C…
    30. Chapter 19.112 — ACCESSORY DWELLING UNITS
    31. Chapter 19.116 — CONVERSIONS OF APARTMENT PROJECTS TO COMMON I…
    32. Chapter 19.124 — PARKING REGULATIONS
    33. Chapter 19.128 — ADULT-ORIENTED COMMERCIAL ACTIVITIES
    34. Chapter 19.132 — CONCURRENT SALE OF ALCOHOLIC BEVERAGES AND GA…
    35. Chapter 19.136 — WIRELESS COMMUNICATIONS FACILITIES
    36. Chapter 19.140 — NONCONFORMING USES AND NONCONFORMING FACILITIES
    37. Chapter 19.144 — DEVELOPMENT AGREEMENTS
    38. Chapter 19.148 — REQUIRED ARTWORK IN PUBLIC AND PRIVATE DEVELO…
    39. Chapter 19.152 — AMENDMENTS TO THE ZONING MAPS AND ZONING REGU…
    40. Chapter 19.156 — DEVELOPMENT PERMITS, CONDITIONAL USE PERMITS …
    41. Chapter 19.160 — TEMPORARY USES
    42. Chapter 19.164 — ADMINISTRATIVE APPROVAL OF MINOR CHANGES IN P…
    43. Chapter 19.168 — ARCHITECTURAL AND SITE REVIEW
    44. Chapter 19.172 — BELOW MARKET RATE HOUSING PROGRAM

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