Beverly Hills City Zoning Code
PART 2
USE OF LAND OR PREMISES
§ 2.0 General Provisions.
Land or premises in each of the following classified districts in the City of Beverly Hills shall be used for the following purposes only. Any other use of such land or premises shall be unlawful and in violation of this ordinance.
(Ordinance 040412 adopted 4/12/04)
§ 2.01 In the R-1 Single Family Residential.
A.
Land Use.
1.
Single-Family Dwellings except trailers and mobile homes.
2.
Churches.
3.
Public Parks, playgrounds, golf courses (but excluding miniature golf and commercial driving tees), public recreation, and community buildings.
4.
Public schools and private schools having a curriculum equal to a public elementary school, a public high school, or institutions of higher learning.
5.
Public office buildings used by schools, city, county, state or federal governments.
6.
Farms, truck gardens, orchards, and nurseries for growing shrubs, flowers, and trees, provided that no retail or wholesale business sales office is maintained on the premises and provided further that no poultry or livestock other than normal household pets shall be housed within one hundred feet of any property line.
(Ordinance 040412 adopted 4/12/04)
§ 2.02 In the C-1 Restricted Commercial District.
A.
Purpose of district.
The Restricted Commercial District is intended to provide for compatible land, building and structure uses primarily oriented to select retail convenience goods and services which supply the daily needs of residential neighborhoods, including neighborhood shopping centers; select low intensity office uses and select community facility uses. The locational characteristics of this district are generally confined to limited intersection locations of collector streets and thoroughfare streets; and as a transition district between residential districts and higher intensity commercial and industrial districts.
B.
Land Use.
The following are the only permitted uses within the Restricted Commercial District and subject only to the general conditions of this section and such other sections as are applicable:
1.
All uses permitted in R District.
2.
Existing residential uses.
3.
Professional offices and any other office not requiring the display or inventor[y] of merchandise.
4.
Banks and other financial institutions.
5.
Dressmaking, millinery, tailor shops, shoe repair shops and similar shops.
6.
Personal service shops such as barber and beauty shops.
7.
Religious, educational and philanthropic institutions, but not animal care.
8.
Retail bakery shop.
9.
Retail candy shop.
10.
Studios of artists and photographers.
11.
Restaurants.
12.
Retail sales, excluding automobiles, trucks, motorcycles, farm machinery, construction machinery & equipment, building materials and agricultural & farm supplies and subject to the following conditions:
a.
That all uses or activities be conducted wholly within an enclosed building.
b.
That yards be not used for display, sale, or storage of merchandise for service to customers or for the storage of vehicles, equipment, containers or waste materials.
c.
That all merchandise be firsthand and be sold at retail on the premises except merchandise considered to be antiques.
d.
That such use be not objectionable because of odor, excessive light, vapor, dust or vermin or rodents, or similar nuisances.
13.
Clubs and lodges where the principal activity is not a business.
14.
Libraries, parks and playgrounds, churches, elementary and junior high schools, educational institutions offering programs equivalent to public school grades.
C.
General Conditions.
2.
Outdoor activities or uses: No outdoor activities or uses shall be permitted in the district other than accessory parking and the servicing of refuse containers.
4.
Height restrictions: No building shall exceed 35 feet in height.
5.
Fences and screening: Fences and screening as set forth in section 9.103 [8.103] shall be provided and maintained.
6.
Parking and loading: One space per 150 feet of floor space.
7.
Signs - No Billboards.
8.
Building material and appearance:
a)
All building shall have exterior front wall of not less than 75 percent masonry surface (professional grade steel);
b)
The area of window and door openings along each exterior wall shall not exceed 50 percent of the area of such exterior wall;
c)
Roof designs shall be mansard, hip or gable type;
d)
Placements of doors and windows will not create adverse effects on adjoining properties by reason of interior lighting, pedestrian flow[,] reflection of sunlight or heat or noise.
9.
Refuse facilities: All refuse and refuse containers that are 3 cubic yard[s] or larger shall be screened from view of all adjacent public streets.
10.
Hours of operation: No use within this district shall be open to the public except during the hours of 6 a.m. to 10 p.m.; provided, however, this limitation shall not be applicable to fire stations or other essential municipal services.
11.
Landscaped open area: In addition to paved parking and driving areas, at least 20 percent of the lot shall be maintained in landscaped open area.
D.
C-1 district regulations.
1.
All business, servicing or processing, except for off-street parking, off-street loading, shall be conducted within completely enclosed buildings except as otherwise provided. No inoperative motor vehicle shall be permitted outside the business building.
2.
No use hereunder shall be permitted if said use entails storage or display of items for sale not enclosed by a building.
3.
Accessory off-street parking is required for C-1 district.
4.
All structures, except accessory buildings, shall face a major street.
5.
Where a nonresidential use abuts a residential lot, use or district, the side and rear property lines abutting said residential lot, use, or district shall be suitably screened by the nonresidential use so as to obscure the view from the residential lot, use or district to the nonresidential use to a height not less than six feet. All required screening elements shall be permanently and adequately maintained by the nonresidential property owner.
6.
No structure or part of a structure shall have in excess of 20 percent of the floor area of the structure used for storage or warehousing; all articles, merchandise, or commodities stored upon a premises shall be sold at retail or fabricated upon the premises.
7.
For any newly constructed building or any remodeling or structural changes on a existing building exceeding 75 percent of its fair market value, in addition to paved parking and driving areas, at least ten percent of the lot in front of the building line shall be maintained in landscaped open areas. If all of a portion of the parkway is maintained in landscaped open area, such landscaped portion will reduce the amount of landscaped area on the lot at the rate of two square feet of landscaped parkway area for each required one square foot of landscaping on the lot.
8.
All metal buildings shall meet the following minimum requirements:
(Ordinance 040412 adopted 4/12/04)
§ 2.03 C-2 General Commercial District.
A.
Purpose.
The C-2 district is established to permit a wide variety of businesses characterized by those uses that require an extensive amount of land for the conduct of business. Uses permitted in the C-2 districts shall include uses permitted in the C-1 district and such use when the use entails outdoor facilities or display or sale of items for sale outside of a building, in excess of five percent of the total lot area. In the C-2 district the following regulations shall apply:
B.
In addition to paved parking and driving areas, at least ten percent of the lot, in front of the building line, shall be maintained in landscaped open area. If all of a portion will reduce the amount of landscaped area on the lot at the rate of two square feet of landscaped parkway area for each required one square foot of landscaping on the lot [sic].
C.
No inoperative equipment or vehicle shall be stored or parked in a required yard. Any parking or storage spaces for such equipment or vehicles adjacent to an exterior yard or visible from an exterior yard shall be screened by a solid wall or fence not less than six feet in height at the building line.
D.
Metal Buildings.
All metal building shall meet the following minimum requirements:
E.
Uses permitted.
1)
Any use permitted in the C-1 District;
2)
Multi-Family;
3)
Auction Rooms;
4)
Auto body operations;
5)
Automobile accessory stores;
6)
Automobile service facilities;
7)
Automobile washes;
8)
Blueprinting and Photostatting establishments;
9)
Bus passenger station;
10)
Business machine sales and service establishments;
11)
Carpet and rug stores;
12)
Catering establishments;
13)
Cleaning and dyeing facilities;
14)
Commercial recreation uses, including bowling alleys, arcades, golf driving range, gymnasiums, miniature golf courses, pool halls, swimming pools and skating rinks;
15)
Convalescent or rest homes;
16)
Department stores;
17)
Drive-in eating establishments;
18)
Dry goods stores;
19)
Employment agencies;
20)
Existing residential dwelling units and lodging uses as such on the effective date of this ordinance;
21)
Exterminating shops;
22)
Floor covering, sales and installation;
23)
Fraternal, philanthropic and eleemosynary uses;
24)
Furniture shops;
25)
Furrier shops, including the incidental storage and conditioning of furs;
26)
Hotels, apartment hotels and motels;
27)
Hospitals other than veterinary;
28)
Interior decorating shops, including upholstering and making of draperies, slipcovers, and other similar articles when conducted as part of the retail operation and secondary to the principal use;
29)
Laboratories for research development and testing;
30)
Laundries;
31)
Leather goods and luggage stores;
32)
Loan offices;
33)
Locksmith shops;
34)
Meat markets, including sale of meat and meat products to restaurants, hotels, clubs and other similar establishments when such sale is conducted as part of the retail business on the premises;
35)
Mortuaries;
36)
Musical instruments sales and repair;
37)
Office supply stores;
38)
Orthopedic and medical appliance and supply stores;
39)
Other retail and wholesale sales, rental and service uses which are similar in character to those enumerated in this subsection, and which will not be dangerous or otherwise detrimental to persons residing or working in the vicinity thereof, or to the public welfare, and will not impair the use, enjoyment or value of any property, but not including any of the following uses:
40)
Paint and wallpaper stores;
41)
Painters and plumbers shops;
42)
Pawnshops;
43)
Phonograph, record, sound equipment and sheet music stores;
44)
Physical culture and health services and reducing salons;
45)
Printer;
46)
Repair and storage garages;
47)
Restaurants;
48)
Sanitariums;
49)
Schools for music, dance, business or trade;
50)
Sewing machine sales and service, household appliances;
51)
Sporting goods stores;
52)
Spray-painting operations;
53)
Taxidermists;
54)
Telegraph Offices;
55)
Theaters, lodges, assembly halls, auditoriums, clubs;
56)
Ticket agencies, amusement;
57)
Tire repair shops;
58)
Travel bureaus and transportation ticket offices;
59)
Upholstery shops;
60)
Veterinary;
61)
Water softener sales and service;
62)
Vehicles service centers;
63)
Veterinary services for the care and temporary boarding, within a enclosed building, of domestic household pets;
64)
The assembly of goods from previously processed or fabricated materials and the warehousing of these goods. Such uses shall be in conjunction with permitted commercial sales and service uses, shall be conducted wholly within a building and there shall be no storage of hazardous materials. Such uses shall not emit any vibration, noise, dust, glare, heat, smoke or odor which is detectable beyond the lot on which the use is located;
65)
Ministorage facilities;
66)
Storage of rental trucks and trailers, except that vehicles or equipment shall not be parked within the public right-of-way.
(Ordinance 040412 adopted 4/12/04)
§ 2.05 M industrial districts.
A.
Permitted uses.
1.
Any use permitted in C-2 district, excluding those uses specifically stated as C-1 uses.
2.
Warehouses, ministorage.
3.
Display rooms.
4.
Manufacturing, fabricating.
5.
Assembly and miscellaneous processing of goods.
6.
Wholesale distributors and retail sales of products made on the premises, or items incidental or related to those products.
7.
Public buildings used by schools, city, county, state or federal governments.
8.
Truck or bus terminal.
9.
Garage, public, private or repair.
B.
Prohibited industrial uses.
The following industrial uses are not permitted:
1.
Any manufacturing or industrial use that is obnoxious or offensive by reason of the emission of odor, dust, smoke, gas, noise or pollutants to the air, water, or land, or which will be dangerous or otherwise detrimental to persons residing or working in the vicinity thereof, or to the public welfare.
2.
Distillation of bones.
3.
Explosive manufacturing or storage.
4.
Fat rendering.
5.
Garbage[,] offal, or dead animal incineration, reduction or dumping.
6.
Junkyards.
7.
Petroleum refinery.
8.
Animal slaughter and dressing.
9.
Stockyards.
10.
Wholesale storage of gasoline or other petroleum products above ground in carload lots or more.
11.
Commercial stables.
12.
Drilling or mining of geologic resources.
C.
Written authorization required for certain industrial uses.
The following industrial uses are not permitted except by written authorization of city council in accordance with [the] development plan following guidelines of section 2.113 [sic]:
(Ordinance 040412 adopted 4/12/04)