Angels Camp, CA Zoning Ordinance

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Prior legslation: Ords. 270, 275, 323, 410, 412, 448 and 469.

§ 17.30.010 Purposes and intent.

The shopping center commercial (SC) district is intended to implement the city general plan’s shopping center commercial (SC) land use designation. The purposes and intent of the district are to:

Provide a broad range of commercial uses for both residents and visitors. Typical uses include shopping centers, hotels, motels, restaurants, bars, department stores, specialty stores and professional offices. In addition, this designation is intended to provide live-work opportunities by allowing residential uses above, or in close association with, commercial establishments (e.g., mixed use) while maintaining the commercial use as the primary and most visible use. Generally, permitted land uses in the SC zone may be larger and provide more opportunities for expanded and appropriately designed outdoor sales and displays than those permitted in the CC zone.

Consistent with the general plan, the SC zoning district is generally expected to extend from the intersection of SR 4 and SR 49 north to the city limits along major thoroughfares.

(Ord. 516 § 2 (Att. A), 2022)

§ 17.30.020 Permitted uses.

All permitted uses in the SC district are subject to either an administrative site plan review pursuant to Chapter 17.73 or a site plan review pursuant to Chapter 17.74 unless otherwise exempted pursuant to those chapters. Permitted uses include:

Retail sales and/or services, including personal services, indoors unless otherwise listed in Section 17.30.030;

Drive-through retail sales and/or services unless otherwise listed in Section 17.30.030;

Large format retail, up to eighty thousand square feet in accordance with Section 17.30.050. Also requires a development agreement;

Banks, and other financial institutions;

Hotels, motels, inns, bed and breakfasts, vacation rentals;

Professional office(s);

Schools, churches, libraries, museums, art galleries, tourist information facilities;

Restaurants, banquet halls, delis, fast food, take-out;

Outdoor dining in conjunction with a restaurant when proposed in conjunction with the restaurant. Alcohol service is subject to Section 17.30.025;

Winery, brewery;

Health clubs, recreational facilities, indoor;

Theaters, indoor;

Private clubs, lodges, social clubs, cultural centers;

Emergency shelters subject to the standards established in Section 17.52.030;

Special needs housing regardless of size;

Mixed Use--Residential/Commercial. This section is intended to allow second-floor housing units in ground-floor commercial buildings. Housing units located at the rear of commercial buildings also are permitted;

Medical clinics; hospitals;

Ambulance service, taxi service;

Animal hospitals, indoors;

Kennels, animal spa, groomers indoors--ten animals or less;

Plant nurseries (retail);

Certified farmer’s market, community gardens;

Self-service laundry;

Exterminator services, without on-site storage of vehicles or chemicals;

Public services and facilities including police stations, fire stations, administration, public parks;

Minor public facilities and infrastructure (e.g., water distribution, wastewater distribution, drainage facilities, pumps, lighting, light transit facilities);

AA.

Recycling facilities, small (less than five hundred square feet);

BB.

TV, radio, broadcast studios without towers;

CC.

Nonresidential rooftop solar energy systems (accessory use for private/single building)--See also Chapter 15.28;

DD.

Off-street garage or lot, public or private;

EE.

Accessory uses and structures appurtenant to permitted uses.

(Ord. 516 § 2 (Att. A), 2022; Ord. 545 (Att. A), 2025; Ord. 550 (Att. A), 2025)

§ 17.30.025 Administrative conditional use permit.

In the SC district, the following uses are subject to the issuance of an administrative conditional use permit in accordance with Section 17.78.027:

Sale of alcoholic beverages with food;

Sale of alcoholic beverages requiring an ABC license or change in the type of ABC license other than a change of ownership of an existing license;

Child day care centers;

Temporary buildings (e.g., construction buildings, sales offices) unless otherwise approved in conjunction with a site development permit or administrative site plan review;

Seasonal sales outside the public right-of-way (e.g., candy sales) involving a semi-permanent or permanent structure remaining on site (in use or vacant) more than sixty days in a calendar year;

Vehicle food vendor, food and drink stands not in conjunction with a special event, or proposed for use more than three days.

(Ord. 516 § 2 (Att. A), 2022; Ord. 550 (Att. A), 2025)

§ 17.30.030 Conditional uses.

In the SC district, the following uses are subject to the issuance of a conditional use permit pursuant to Chapter 17.78:

Retail sales including outdoor sales and/or outdoor display areas in accordance with Section 17.37.060;

Tavern, nightclub, bar and/or cocktail lounge;

Smoke shop;

Firearms, weapons, ammunition sales;

Gas stations including those with automobile service and repair;

Mini-marts;

Residential use, multifamily;

Residential hotels;

Animal hospitals, outdoors;

Kennels--more than ten animals;

Feed store including animals and fowl in conjunction with a feed store;

Recreation facility, outdoor; campgrounds, recreational vehicle parks; outdoor theaters;

Flea markets;

Funeral homes;

Depots--bus, freight, rail--major facilities (excludes bus stops, small light transit facilities);

Self-storage facilities;

Recycling facilities, large (five hundred square feet or more);

Car washes;

Machine shop, sheet metal shop, welding shop;

Printing, publishing;

Distribution, freight facilities; package delivery services;

Warehousing, wholesaling;

Exterminator services, with on-site storage of vehicles or chemicals;

Research or testing laboratory;

Laundromats, dry cleaners, pick-up;

Heliport--emergency use;

AA.

Broadcasting studios (radio or television) with tower(s), telecommunications, internet facilities with tower(s);

BB.

Nonresidential freestanding solar energy systems (accessory use, private-single building)--See also Chapter 15.28, Small Residential Solar System Permitting;

CC.

Businesses involving limited small scale manufacturing, processing or treatment of goods or products which are clearly incidental to the retail business conducted on the premises and that are not objectionable due to noise, odor, dust, smoke, vibration or other similar causes and which do not contain more than three thousand square feet of floor area or that employ more than five persons at any one time such as bakeries, print or photocopy shops, dry cleaners, electronic appliance repair shops, cobbler shops, flower shops, upholstery shops, cabinet shops and other uses considered to be similar in the opinion of the planning commission;

DD.

Accessory uses and structures appurtenant to conditional use permits for which a conditional use permit has been issued;

EE.

Large format retail facilities in excess of eighty thousand square feet in accordance with Section 17.30.050. Also requires a development agreement.

(Ord. 516 § 2 (Att. A), 2022; Ord. 545 (Att. A), 2025)

§ 17.30.040 Site development standards.

Site development standards in the SC district are as follows except as otherwise amended in Section 17.30.050:

Minimum lot area for new lots, ten thousand square feet;

Maximum impervious surfaces, eighty percent;

Landscaping, minimum of twenty percent. Landscaping may be reduced to ten percent with the provision of housing for low or very low income households in accordance with the general plan;

Maximum building height, forty feet;

Lot width, seventy-five feet, minimum;

Lot depth, one hundred twenty feet, minimum;

Minimum building setbacks:

Front, ten feet;

Side, five feet;

Exterior side of a corner lot, same as front;

Rear:

Principal building, twenty feet;

Between buildings, ten feet;

Vision clearance, thirty-five feet;

For parcels adjoining or visible from highways, project design shall accommodate the provision of street trees when identified in adopted city plans;

Additional standards applicable to outdoor sales and storage pursuant to Sections 17.37.060 and 17.37.070.

(Ord. 516 § 2 (Att. A), 2022)

§ 17.30.050 Large format retail.

Site development standards for large format retail are as follows:

Minimum lot area for a single large format retail store shall be five acres. Large format retail stores with two anchors shall be ten acres. Large format stores with three or more anchors shall be forty acres;

Building coverage: large format retail stores shall not exceed eighty thousand square feet in area unless a conditional use permit is first obtained in accordance with Section 17.30.030(EE);

Maximum building height: forty feet;

Lot width: one hundred fifty feet minimum;

Lot depth: one hundred fifty feet minimum;

Minimum building setbacks:

Front, ten feet;

Side, N/A;

Exterior side of a corner lot, same as front;

Rear:

Principal building, twenty feet;

Distance between buildings is subject to planning commission review;

Vision clearance, thirty-five feet;

All large format retail developments shall require a development agreement;

All design components for large format retail stores are required to be approved by the planning commission.