Inglewood Municipal Code § 12-27.4 Yards and Setbacks

The following uses shall be permitted in the C-R (Commercial and Recreation Zone) unless otherwise provided in this Chapter and shall be exempt from the Special Use Permit provisions of Article 25 of this Chapter:

(1) Animal exhibits including, but not limited to, circuses, petting zoos, animal shows, bird shows, animal auctions and sales.

(2) Animal competitions and shows including, but not limited to, horse racing, harness racing and equestrian shows.

(3) Athletic events (professional and amateur) including, but not limited to, football, baseball, track, tennis, soccer, wrestling, boxing, skating (ice or roller), golf, hockey, rodeos, and basketball.

(4) Social events including, but not limited to, dances, charity benefits and balls.

(5) Entertainment events, including, but not limited to, movies, closed circuit television, musicals, singing groups, talent acts, ice shows and water shows. Exception: the following adult-oriented entertainment businesses are subject to Special Use Permit approval and the conditions of Article 24.1 of this Chapter: Adult Cabaret, Adult Live Entertainment Theater, and any Miscellaneous Adult Oriented Business that includes live entertainment as a part of its operation.

(6) Banquets and dining events (political, public, charity, private, educational and charitable).

(7) Conventions and conferences including, but not limited to, business, industrial, professional, religious, political and educational.

(8) Exhibit (business, industrial and professional) including, but not limited to, trade shows, automotive, boat, mobile home, home and home appliances, business and industrial sales and service.

(9) Movie sets and locations when approved as to time and location by the Department of Community Development and Housing.

(10) Live telecast, filming of commercials and documentaries.

(11) Recreation and leisure events including, but not limited to, picnics, fiestas, Centinela Days and other community events (Boy and Girl Scout campouts), parks and recreational activities.

(12) Vehicular competitive events within a fully enclosed building or structure including, but not limited to, midget auto races and motorcycle races and bicycle races.

(13) Children's activities including, but not limited to, carnivals, fairs, animal rides, amusement rides, fishing, children's athletic events. These uses can be conducted by non-profit and for-profit organizations and are not limited to fourteen days.

(14) Game and video arcades and comparable family recreation centers, when provided as an ancillary use within a larger entertainment or sports facility of not less than one hundred thousand square feet in floor area. (Additional on-site parking is not required for such ancillary use). Note: game or video arcades located within smaller facilities shall require prior Special Use Permit approval pursuant to Article 25 of this Chapter.

(15) Gaming clubs per Section 12-27.1 of this Article.

(16) Public parking (surface, subsurface, and structures).

(17) Accessory uses and buildings meaning those uses associated with the efficient operation or conduct of any of the permitted uses.

(18) Tailgating, subject to regulations set forth in Section 12-16.9.

(19) Tailgating event, subject to regulations set forth in Section 12-16.9.

(20) Smoke Shops. New or expanded smoke shops are prohibited within five thousand two hundred eighty feet of another smoke shop, prohibited within six hundred feet of any school, public playground or nonprofit youth facility and are subject to Special Use Permit approval.

(21) Hookah Lounge. New or expanded hookah lounges, subject to Special Use Permit approval and the following:

(a) Prohibited within six hundred feet of any school, public playground, or nonprofit youth facility;

(b) Hours of operation shall be limited to the hours between nine a.m. and eleven p.m.; and

(c) New or expanded hookah lounges are prohibited within five thousand two hundred eighty feet (one mile) of another hookah lounge.

(22) Restaurants, subject to the following:

(a) Dine-In Restaurants.

(b) Fast-food restaurants, subject to the following exceptions:

(i) New or expanded single-tenant, free-standing fast-food restaurants are prohibited within one thousand feet of another single-tenant free-standing fast-food restaurant, as measured property line to property line.

(ii) New or expanded single-tenant, free-standing fast-food restaurant, subject to Special Use Permit approval.

(iii) New or expanded fast-food drive-throughs, subject to Special Use Permit approval.

(Ord. 94-05 3-22-94; Ord. 94-09 4-26-94; Ord. 02-21 6-11-02; Ord. 05-06 8-9-05; Ord. 21-12 8-10-21; Ord. 22-01 10-19-21; Ord. 23-01 10-11-22; Ord. 23-19, 9/26/2023)

Card clubs operated for gaming purposes, pursuant to the provisions of Section 19802 of the California Business and Professions Code, are only permitted in the C-R Zone and are subject to all of the following criteria:

(1) The establishment and operation of any gaming club shall be individually approved by a majority vote of the voters of the City of Inglewood.

(2) Any gaming club shall be located within a single structure containing not less than one hundred thousand square feet of gross floor area.

(3) Any gaming club shall additionally adhere to and comply with all other applicable State and City laws and conditions of operation.

(Ord. 93-02 2-2-93)

All the uses enumerated in Section 12-27 with the exceptions of horse racing, golf courses, accessory uses and such limited duration activities as fiestas and carnivals shall be conducted within an enclosed building, structure, tent or arena.

(Ord. 93-02 2-2-93)

Parking shall be provided for each new supplemental use set forth in Section 12-28 in conformance with Article 19.

No permanent building or structure shall be erected or constructed within thirty feet of any property line within this zone. Said areas shall be used only for landscaping or landscaped parking areas and subterranean parking.

No new building, tent or structure shall be constructed or erected within this zone which exceeds one hundred fifty feet in height from natural grade.

All signs shall comply with requirements of Article 23, Chapter 12 of Inglewood Municipal Code.

(Ord. 2250 3-16-76)

No lot shall be created within this zone which contains less than one acre or forty-three thousand five hundred sixty square feet in area. No such lot shall have a frontage on a dedicated public street of less than one hundred feet.

No new building, structure, tent or accessory use such as parking or open storage of materials shall be erected, located or placed within two hundred feet of any single-family residential zone.

No new stables or animal shelters shall be erected, located or placed within five hundred feet of any single-family residential zone.