Chapter 19.12 — COMMERCIAL ZONES

This chapter provides regulations applicable to primary uses in the commercial zoning districts established by Section 19.06.010 (Zoning districts established). The commercial zoning districts are as follows:

• A. Business Professional (BP) District. The business professional district is intended to provide locations for a wide variety of office uses and other uses which are related to and supportive of office uses.

• B. Neighborhood Commercial (NC) District. The neighborhood commercial district is intended to be applied to properties in close proximity to residential areas providing for convenient retail and personal service facilities.

• C. Community Commercial (CC) District. The community commercial district is intended to serve the principal retail shopping needs of the entire community by providing areas for shopping centers, and other retail and service uses.

• D. General Commercial (GC) District. The general commercial district is intended to serve the entire community by providing areas for commercial facilities that are more of a service or heavy commercial character than are permitted in the community commercial district, and may involve outdoor display, storage or activity areas.

• E. Highway Commercial (HC) District. The highway commercial district is intended to be applied where commercial facilities serving the traveling public are necessary or desirable.

• F. Regional Commercial (RC) District. The regional commercial district is intended to provide for commercial facilities serving Roseville and the greater South Placer Area.

• G. Central Business (CBD) District. The central business district is intended to be applied to the older portions of the downtown area to provide flexibility in the types of uses typically found in the traditional downtown where a range of business and service, residential, and mixed use uses can be located to support the entire community.

• H. Commercial Mixed Use (CMU) District. The commercial mixed use district is intended to promote a variety of commercial use types and the flexible citing of other uses that are typically considered to be compatible with commercial development. It is the intent of the CMU zoning district to establish a mix of uses, which will be accompanied by overlay zones, to ensure that different commercial uses will be successfully integrated into desirable, cohesive commercial districts. The CMU zoning district shall always be applied in conjunction with either the DS (Development Standards) or SA (Special Area) overlay zones. (Also see Chapter 19.18 .)

intent of the CMU zoning district to establish a mix of uses, which will be accompanied by overlay zones, to ensure that different commercial uses will be successfully integrated into desirable, cohesive commercial districts. The CMU zoning district shall always be applied in conjunction with either the DS (Development Standards) or SA (Special Area) overlay zones. (Also see Chapter 19.18 .)

• I. Old Town Historic (HD) District. The Old Town historic district is intended to be applied to the original commercial core of Roseville to acknowledge its historic and architectural significance. The HD zoning district is intended to ensure that new land uses and development within the district further the rehabilitation, revitalization, and preservation of the architectural, aesthetic, historic and economic health of the district. Each parcel within the historic district shall be subject to the specific historic district design guidelines contained within the Downtown Code which has been adopted in Chapter 19.31 of the Roseville Municipal Code.

• (Ord. 5428 § 1, 2014)

Primary uses are permitted in commercial zones subject to the requirements of this title as designated below:

• A. Principally permitted use, designated as "P";

• B. Conditionally permitted use, designated as "CUP"; and

• C. Administratively permitted use, designated as "A."

Refer to the Downtown Code for permitted uses within the CBD and HD zones.

Notes:

• (1) Reserved.

• (2) Additional requirements are contained in Chapter 19.32 .

• (3) Additional requirements are contained in Chapter 19.40 .

• (4) Additional requirements are contained in Chapter 19.39 .

• (5) Additional requirements are contained in Chapter 19.38 .

• (6) Additional requirements are contained in Chapter 19.49 .

• (7) Additional requirements are contained in Chapter 19.34 .

• (8) Additional requirements are contained in Chapter 19.36 .

• (9) Additional requirements are contained in Chapter 19.55 .

• (10) Transitional housing and supportive housing are considered residential use types and are permitted (P) where residential uses are permitted (P) or conditionally permitted (CUP). For supportive housing the total floor area dedicated to administrative office space shall not exceed 25% of the total floor area and must provide the minimum supportive services/service area defined in Government Code Section 65651 , as may be amended from time to time.

• (11) Accessory dwelling/junior accessory dwelling units are only permitted within areas zoned to allow single-family, two-family or multi-family residential use and must be located on a lot that contains an existing or proposed single-family, two-family or multi family dwelling unit which has an approved CUP as defined in Section 19.08.080(F)(1) and (F)(2) (Residential Use Types). See Chapter 19.60 for additional accessory dwelling/junior accessory dwelling unit regulations.

• (12) A Conditional Use Permit is required for fast food with drive-through establishments, fuel sales establishments, or electric vehicle charging centers contiguous to: (a) proper ties with a residential zoning designation; (b) parcels designated as a public utilities easement or landscape easement which are contiguous to a property having a residential zoning designation; and (c) any other parcel of land upon which a building cannot be developed and which separates the subject parcel by less than 100 feet which is contiguous to a property having a residential zoning designation. A Conditional Use Permit is not required for these uses if the subject parcel is separated from properties with a residential zoning designation by a public roadway.

• (13) Multi-family uses are permitted with an Administrative Permit in the NC and CC zone districts when the housing development is constructed on or adjacent to a site occupied by a nonprofit organization, and a nonprofit organization will offer supportive services to the proposed residents. Examples of supportive services include transportation, child care, education assistance, and the provision of clothing and other supplies.

• (14) For sites within a specific plan, residential units are only permitted with a CUP if the specific plan has allocated units to the site. If no units are allocated or if fewer units are allocated than are proposed, a unit transfer or Specific Plan Amendment is required in addition to the CUP.

• (15) Multi-family units are permitted by right in the RC zone district if the specific plan has al located units to the site. If no units are allocated or if fewer units are allocated than are proposed, a unit transfer or

Notes:

Specific Plan Amendment will be required.

(Ord. 5428 § 1, 2014; Ord. 5974 § 9, 2018; Ord. 6198 § 1, 2020; Ord. 6538 § 7, 2022; Ord. 6662 § 3, 2023; Ord. No. 6813, 5/1/2024; Ord. 6829, 6/19/2024; Ord. 6954, 6/18/2025)

• A. General. Permitted uses and structures shall comply with the City’s adopted Community Design Guidelines, applicable specific plans, approved Design Review Permit and any other applicable requirements of this title.

• B. Maximum Height. Notwithstanding the requirements referred to in subsection A , maximum height limits in the commercial zoning districts are as follows unless otherwise modified by an approved Design Review Permit or specific plan:

• C. Clear Vision Triangle, Nonresidential. The following standards shall apply to the installation of structures on corner parcels:

  1. On a corner parcel, no fence, wall, hedge, sign or other structure, shrubbery, mounds of earth, or other visual obstruction over 36 inches in height above the top of the existing or planned curb elevation shall be erected, placed, planted, or allowed to grow within a commercial clear vision triangle (see Chapter 19.95 , Definitions).

The foregoing provision shall not apply to public utility poles; trees trimmed (to the trunk) to a line at least eight feet above the elevation of the intersection; saplings or plant species of open growth habits and not planted in the form of a hedge, which are so planted and trimmed as to leave, at all seasons, a clear and unobstructed crossview; supporting members of appurtenances to permanent structures existing on the date that this Zoning Ordinance becomes effective; and official warning signs or signals.

(Ord. 5428 § 1, 2014)