Inyo County Municipal Code Ch. 18.51 C-3 Administrative and Professional Offices Zone

The administrative office or C-3 districts are established to provide a suitable location for offices for professional services and those business activities which are related to professional type services and which will be compatible with professional service type uses.

(Ord. 943 § 4, 1994)

The following uses shall be permitted in the C-3 district, plus such other uses as the planning commission may deem to be similar and not detrimental to other uses permitted in this zone subject to Section 18.81.020 of this title:

A. Office or office building for the conduct of business, professional or administrative services;

B. Bank or loan agency;

C. Church;

D. Medical or dental offices;

E. Medical, dental and optical clinics or laboratories (not including the manufacture of pharmaceuticals or other products);

F. Public and quasi-public buildings and uses of an administrative, recreational, educational, religious nature, but not including corporation yards, storage or repair yards, and warehouses;

G. Photographic studio (excluding retail sales of equipment or supplies);

H. Single room occupancy units;

I. Transitional, supportive and group homes;

J. Low barrier navigation centers (in compliance with California Government Code Sections 65660-65668).

(Ord. 943 § 4, 1994; Ord. 1290 § 38, 2022)

The following are conditional uses in a C-3 district and shall be permitted only if approved by the planning commission:

A. Pharmacy, limited to the sale of drugs and medical supplies;

B. Restaurant or store needed to serve the occupants of existing buildings in the same district, or their clients or patrons;

C. Parking lot;

D. Public utility substation or facility, not including any service yard or repair shop;

E. Mortuary establishment;

F. Informational kiosks and directory boards, in compliance with the requirements of Chapter 18.75 and subject to the requirements of Section 18.51.050;

G. Mixed use;

H. Multiple dwellings.

(Ord. 943 § 4, 1994; Ord. 1007 § 23, 1998; Ord. 1143 § 11, 2009)

A. In a C-3 district, a dwelling unit within a business building may be qualified as an accessory use if it is for occupancy by the owner or a lessee of business premises therein, or by a caretaker or watchman, provided a minimum fifty percent of the usable floor area is being utilized for the principal permitted use;

B. Emergency housing, in conformance with the policies stated in the housing element of the Inyo County general plan;

C. Signs and advertising for permitted, accessory or conditional uses in compliance with the requirements of Chapter 18.75 and subject to the requirements of Section 18.51.050.

(Ord. 943 § 4, 1994; Ord. 1007 § 24, 1998)

The following minimum standards are established for development in the C-3 (administrative and professional offices) zone, except as otherwise provided in this title or as modified for conditional uses:

A. Maximum height of buildings:

1. Principal: three stories or forty feet;

B. Minimum parcel size: seven thousand five hundred square feet;

C. Minimum parcel width: sixty feet;

D. Front yard: none required;

E. Rear yard: none required;

F. Side yard: none required, except for those side yards abutting an R district, which shall be not less than that required by the abutting R zone;

G. Distance between buildings on the same parcel: ten feet;

H. One parking space shall be provided for each two hundred square feet of usable floor area, or as determined by the planning director;

I. Residential densities shall be 7.6 to twenty-four dwelling units per acre.

(Ord. 943 § 4, 1994; Ord. 1143 §§ 12, 13, 2009)