Vallejo Municipal Code Ch. 16.310 Automobile/Vehicle Washing

These provisions are intended to ensure that automobile and vehicle washing facilities, including small-scale facilities that are not accessory to another auto-related use are located, and operate in a manner that minimizes or prevents adverse effects on the environment, and to surrounding development.

A. Locational Limitations. Regular facilities shall not abut a residential zoning district.

B. Washing Facilities. A recycled water system is required.

C. Landscaping. In addition to complying with the landscaping standards in Chapter 16.504, Landscaping, and Section 16.504.09, Water-Efficient Landscape Requirements, additional screening and landscaping may be required where necessary to prevent visual impacts of a small-scale facility that is adjacent to a residential zoning district. The following landscaping standards shall also apply:

1. A minimum of fifteen percent of the site shall be landscaped. A planting strip at least five feet wide shall be provided along all interior parcel lines, non-driveway street frontages, and adjacent to buildings. Planters shall be surrounded by masonry or concrete curbs and arranged to preclude motor vehicles from driving across the sidewalk at locations other than access driveways. Permanent opaque landscaping or berm, as defined in Chapter 16.505, Fences, Walls and Screening shall be provided and maintained in the planters at a height of not less than three feet above the average adjacent grade.

2. A landscape planter at least fifty square feet in area shall be provided at the intersection of two property lines at a street corner.

3. All street trees shall be preserved or replaced where missing, as required by the city, and driveways and vehicle approaches shall be designed so as not to necessitate the removal of any existing street trees.

D. Location of Activities. All washing, vacuuming, waxing, machine drying, and related activities and operations shall be conducted entirely within an enclosed service building, except hand drying of vehicles.

A. Hours of Operation. Washing facilities are limited to 7:00 a.m. to 11:00 p.m., seven days a week except for the following additional restrictions:

1. When abutting or adjacent to a residential zoning district, the hours of operation are limited to 8:00 a.m. to 7:00 p.m., seven days a week.

B. Outdoor Loudspeakers. There shall be no outdoor loudspeakers or public address systems.