Fontana Municipal Code Art. IX Overlay Districts

The purpose of this article is to create overlay districts that establish additional use regulations and development standards for specific types of use and specific areas of the City requiring special consideration in the development process. The regulations established in this article for the overlay districts shall apply in addition to the regulations established for the underlying zone districts.

(a) Medical center overlay district. A district that may overlay any medical center complex.

(b) Utility corridor overlay district. A district that is intended to provide for appropriate development within or near those areas containing easements for public utilities.

(c) Hillside overlay district. A district that protects the public health and safety, minimizes environmental impacts, and requires development to conform to the natural topography of hillside areas.

(d) Auto center overlay district. A district that is intended to promote new car and truck sales adjacent to the 1-210 Freeway.

(e) Warehousing distribution/logistics overlay district (Sierra Avenue). A district that provides for the limited, well planned and orderly development of warehousing distribution/logistics uses on properties within the light industrial (M-1) zone as provided for in Section 30-532 et seq. Unlike other overlay districts in this division, this overlay identifies a geographic area where such uses may be allowed subject to a separate zone change request to establish the overlay on one or more parcels eligible to receive it.

(f) Valley business park overlay district. The intent of the valley business park overlay is to provide for a well-planned and orderly development of business park and warehousing distribution uses on parcels within the M-1 zone located on designated areas within the adopted overlay that are generally located on the south side of Valley Boulevard.

(g) Emergency shelter overlay district. A district that provides for seamless incorporation of emergency, supportive, and transitional housing opportunities on specific properties within the light industrial (I-L) and/or general industrial (I-G) general plan land use designations to house individuals at risk of homelessness, as required by Government Code §§ 65583(a)(4) and 65583(a)(5).

(h) (R-4) overlay district. The intent of the R-4 overlay district is to provide areas for the potential development at the multifamily residential (R-4) density of 24.1 du/ac to 39 du/ac for multifamily development in close proximity to transit routes and convenience uses in recognition of the need for affordable housing.

(Ord. No. 1889, § 5(Exh. A), 2-22-22; Ord. No. 1982, § 4(Exh. A), 2-24-26)