Title 19 — ZONING›Chapter 19.60 — GENERAL COMMERCIAL (CG) ZONES
§ 19.64
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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 |
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| 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: |
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| 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), |
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|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 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: |
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| 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; |
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| 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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▸ Title 19 — ZONING
Overview- Chapter 19.04 — GENERAL PROVISIONS
- Chapter 19.08 — DEFINITIONS
- Chapter 19.12 — ADMINISTRATION
- Chapter 19.16 — DESIGNATIONS AND ESTABLISHMENT OF DISTRICTS
- Chapter 19.20 — PERMITTED, CONDITIONAL AND EXCLUDED USES IN AG…
- Chapter 19.24 — AGRICULTURAL (A) AND AGRICULTURALRESIDENTIAL (…
- Chapter 19.28 — SINGLE-FAMILY RESIDENTIAL (R-1) ZONES
- Chapter 19.36 — MULTIPLE-FAMILY RESIDENTIAL (R-3) ZONES
- Chapter 19.38 — MULTIPLE-FAMILY RESIDENTIAL (R-4) ZONES
- Chapter 19.40 — RESIDENTIAL HILLSIDE (RHS) ZONES
- Chapter 19.44 — RESIDENTIAL SINGLE-FAMILY CLUSTER (R1C) ZONES
- Chapter 19.46 — TOWNHOME (TH) COMBINING DISTRICT
- Chapter 19.48 — FENCES
- Chapter 19.50 — EMERGENCY SHELTERS
- Chapter 19.52 — REASONABLE ACCOMMODATION
- Chapter 19.56 — DENSITY BONUS
- Chapter 19.68 — ADMINISTRATIVE AND PROFESSIONAL OFFICE (OA & O…
- Chapter 19.72 — LIGHT INDUSTRIAL (ML) AND INDUSTRIAL PARK (MP)…
- Chapter 19.76 — PUBLIC BUILDING (BA), QUASI-PUBLIC BUILDING (B…
- Chapter 19.80 — PLANNED DEVELOPMENT (P) ZONES
- Chapter 19.84 — PERMITTED, CONDITIONAL AND EXCLUDED USES IN OP…
- Chapter 19.92 — PARK AND RECREATION (PR) ZONES
- Chapter 19.96 — PRIVATE RECREATION (FP) ZONE
- Chapter 19.98 — MARIJUANA
- Chapter 19.100 — ACCESSORY BUILDINGS/STRUCTURES
- Chapter 19.102 — GLASS AND LIGHTING STANDARDS
- Chapter 19.104 — SIGNS
- Chapter 19.108 — BEVERAGE CONTAINER REDEMPTION AND RECYCLING C…
- Chapter 19.112 — ACCESSORY DWELLING UNITS
- Chapter 19.116 — CONVERSIONS OF APARTMENT PROJECTS TO COMMON I…
- Chapter 19.124 — PARKING REGULATIONS
- Chapter 19.128 — ADULT-ORIENTED COMMERCIAL ACTIVITIES
- Chapter 19.132 — CONCURRENT SALE OF ALCOHOLIC BEVERAGES AND GA…
- Chapter 19.136 — WIRELESS COMMUNICATIONS FACILITIES
- Chapter 19.140 — NONCONFORMING USES AND NONCONFORMING FACILITIES
- Chapter 19.144 — DEVELOPMENT AGREEMENTS
- Chapter 19.148 — REQUIRED ARTWORK IN PUBLIC AND PRIVATE DEVELO…
- Chapter 19.152 — AMENDMENTS TO THE ZONING MAPS AND ZONING REGU…
- Chapter 19.156 — DEVELOPMENT PERMITS, CONDITIONAL USE PERMITS …
- Chapter 19.160 — TEMPORARY USES
- Chapter 19.164 — ADMINISTRATIVE APPROVAL OF MINOR CHANGES IN P…
- Chapter 19.168 — ARCHITECTURAL AND SITE REVIEW
- Chapter 19.172 — BELOW MARKET RATE HOUSING PROGRAM