Article 20 — C-1 RETAIL COMMERCIAL DISTRICT

(Added by O-1317; O-1318; Amended by O-1636)

(Amended by O-1877; O-1878; O-2268; O-3113; O-3179; O-3453; O-3855)

No building, structure, improvement or premises shall be used, and no building, structure, or premises shall be erected, established, altered or enlarged which is designed, arranged or intended to be occupied or used for any purpose other than the following:

a) Residential uses when a conditional use permit has been granted in accordance with the provisions of Chapter 5.

b) Home occupation in a residential unit.

c) Small family day care home.

d) Large family day care home subject to approval of a large family day care permit.

e) The following uses:

Accessory sales of non-cannabis sourced CBD products as defined in Section 413.1.010, accounting for no more than ten percent (10%) of total floor area of a primary retail use.

Advertising agencies Agencies, including financial institutions and automobiles Antiques, genuine Automobile agencies, if no body or fender work is done Auto trailers, sale of new Bakeries Banks Bars, beer, as provided for in Chapter 5 Bars, cocktail, as provided for in Chapter 5 Barber shops Beauty parlors Books, new Bronzes, retail sale of Cafes or restaurants Churches Cocktail lounges Confectioneries Day schools Dramatic schools Drug stores Dyeing and cleaning works (retail) in the event that no gasoline or explosives are stored in connection therewith Electrical distributing substation as provided for in Chapter 5 Employment agencies Fine arts galleries Flowers, growing of Furniture store (new only), retail Furrier shops

Gasoline filling stations; providing that no garage, battery repair, tire rebuilding or automobile washing, except hand washing, where an area of not more than five hundred (500) square feet is used shall be permitted in connection with such filling station as provided for in Chapter 5

Greenhouses

Groceries Gunsmith stores Hardware Insurance agencies Interior decorating studio, store or shop

Jewelry

Laundry agencies and hand laundry

Libraries

Liquor store, retail Locksmith store Massage parlors

Meats

Motor vehicles (new), sale and display

Museums

Notions

Nurseries Office, including medical, dental, legal, scientific, engineering, fine arts and literary, fortune tellers and psychics offices Orchards Paints, retail sale of

Parking lots, commercial

Pet stores

Photography

Plumbing shop (new only), retail

Police and fire stations

Porcelains, retail sale of

Post offices

Poultry, dressed (live poultry shall not be kept or maintained on the premises)

Printing

Private clubs, fraternities, sororities, lodges

Radio transmitter and/or broadcasting studios as provided for in Chapter 5

Railroad and bus passenger stations

Real estate offices

Reducing salons

Rest homes, convalescent homes, guest homes, homes for the aged

Sale of new automobiles parts and accessories, and the installation and servicing thereof, provided no mechanical repair work, tire rebuilding or automobile washing is done Schools, academies for music, dancing and trade as provided for in Chapter 5

Silver, retail sales of

Stationery, new Telephone company district offices Theaters

f) Other businesses or enterprises for which a use permit has been granted in accordance with the provisions of Chapter 5.

The conditions under which the uses described above are permitted to be established, operated and/or maintained in Zone C-1 are as follows:

a) That all goods, other than nursery stock, offered for sale shall be displayed within a building.

b) That parking facilities shall comply with the provisions of Chapter 3.

c) That the architecture and general appearance of all such commercial buildings and ground shall be in keeping with the character of the neighborhood and such as not to be detrimental to the public health, safety and general welfare of the community in which such use or uses are located.

The maximum building height shall be regulated by the Building Code of the City of Torrance; provided, however, that the maximum building height of structures used for residential purposes shall be fifty (50) feet.

No minimum lot area is required, except that when property in Zone C-1 is used for residential purposes, the lot area per living unit shall be not less than required in Zone R-4; provided, however, that such requirements shall not apply to hotels or apartments where no cooking facilities are provided in any room, suite or apartment.

(Amended by O-1937; O-1938)

No minimum front yard depth is required; provided, however, that for residential uses there shall be a front yard as required in the R-3 zone.

No minimum side yard depth is required, except that any residence, apartment house or hotel shall have side yards to comply with Section 92.5.3. and Section 91.8.8. of this Division. 91.20.7 REAR YARD. (Amended by O-1937; O-1938)

No minimum rear yard depth is required, except that any residence or apartment house shall have a rear yard of not less than the rear yard requirements in the R-3 zone.

(Added by O-1875; Amended by O-3179)

No building, structure or improvement shall be used for commercial purposes on any lot until all buildings used or designed or constructed to be used for residential purposes, and accessory structures existing thereon have been removed, unless a conditional use permit therefor has been obtained.

(Added by O-1937; O-1938; Amended by O-2111; O-2307)

A flat building, apartment house or other residential dwelling shall not occupy a site which provides less than one thousand six hundred (1,600) square feet of land area per dwelling unit.

(Added by O-1937; O-1938)

Where the main entrance to any dwelling unit faces a driveway, a separate walkway shall be provided. Said walkway shall be unobstructed and physically separated from the driveway by a twenty-four (24) inch wide buffer strip permanently maintained in landscaping. The minimum distance between said driveway and the main entrance to any unit shall be ten (10) feet. The minimum distance between said driveway and a secondary entrance shall be five (5) feet

(Added by O-2307)

There shall be useable open space not less than that required in the R-3 zone for residential uses.

(Added by O-2470)

a) All trash from all uses permitted by this Article shall be kept at all times in enclosures of the type described in this Section.

b) Trash enclosures as required in this Section shall be bounded on three (3) sides by walls of material compatible in color, texture and appearance with the main structure and having a gated opening of sufficient width to permit the removal and replacement of standard size commercial trash bins. The gate of said enclosure shall be constructed of solid, opaque material.

c) Trash bins shall remain in the enclosure except during trash pickup.