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Desert Hot Springs City Zoning Code

CHAPTER 17

210 DESERT LAND VENTURES SPECIFIC PLAN

§ 17.210.010 Desert Land Ventures Specific Plan map.

The area of the Desert Land Ventures Specific Plan is set forth on the following map, including the establishment of planning areas PA-1 and PA-2:
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(Ord. 666 5-15-18)

§ 17.210.020 Planning areas PA-1 and PA-2 permitted uses.

The following tables for permitted uses and development standards shall govern within planning areas PA-1 and PA-2; any definition, procedure or other standard not contained within these tables shall be subject to the provisions of the Zoning Code.
Table 5-1 Permitted Land Uses
Land Use
Planning Area (PA) and Land Use District
 
PA 1 Mixed Use
PA 1 Freeway Frontage Overlay Zone
PA 2 Open Space/ Conservation
INDUSTRIAL
Agricultural and Resource
Commercial gardening (indoor/enclosed only)
DR
NP
NP
Crop production (indoor/enclosed only)
DR
NP
NP
Plant nursery, with on-site sales (indoor/enclosed only)
DR
DR
NP
Plant nursery, without on-site sales
DR
DR
NP
Manufacturing and Processing
Food products
DR
DR
NP
Laundry and dry-cleaning plant
DR
NP
NP
Light manufacturing facility
DR
NP
NP
Medium manufacturing facility
DR
NP
NP
Marijuana facility, including greenhouses1
CUP & RP
NP
NP
Mixed use office/industrial
DR
DR
NP
Printing/publishing
DR
NP
NP
Recycling—Reverse vending machine
DR
DR
NP
Warehouse and distribution
DR
NP
NP
Wholesale
DR
DR
NP
COMMERCIAL
Recreation, Education, and Public Assembly
Adult day care facility
CUP
NP
NP
Art gallery and museum
DR
DR
NP
Commercial recreation and entertainment facility: including health/sports club, or interior uses such as martial arts, personal training, bowling, arcade, skating rink, bounce house, billiards, and other similar uses
DR
DR
NP
Convention center and facility
DR
DR
NP
Library
CUP
CUP
NP
Organization office or facility
DR
DR
NP
Outdoor commercial recreation
CUP
DR
NP
Recreational vehicle storage
CUP
NP
NP
Sports facility and outdoor public assembly
CUP
CUP
NP
Studio for dance, art, music, photography, etc.
DR
DR
NP
Theatre and meeting hall
CUP
CUP
NP
Retail
Accessory retail use
DR
DR
NP
Auto, mobile home, motor vehicle sales, used or new
CUP
CUP
NP
Automobile parts and supply stores
DR
DR
NP
Bars and drinking establishments
CUP
CUP
NP
Bakery, coffee, ice cream, and other similar uses, with or without drive-through
DR
DR
NP
Book stores
DR
DR
NP
Building material/home improvement stores
DR
DR
NP
Certified farmers’ market
CUP
CUP
NP
Commercial retail uses such as clothing, food, gifts, services, and other similar uses
DR
DR
NP
Convenience stores
DR
DR
NP
Drive-in and drive-through sales
DR
DR
NP
Drug stores
DR
DR
NP
Factory outlet centers
DR
DR
NP
Farm and ranch supply stores
DR
DR
NP
Furniture, furnishings, home equipment stores
DR
DR
NP
Fuel and ice dealers
DR
DR
NP
Hardware/lumber and building material stores (indoor/enclosed only)
DR
DR
NP
Liquor stores (offsite consumption)
CUP
CUP
NP
Marijuana dispensary facility2
CUP & RP
CUP & RP
NP
Outdoor retail merchandise display and activities
CUP
CUP
NP
Outdoor retail sales, temporary
CUP
CUP
NP
Restaurant, without alcoholic beverage service
DR
DR
NP
Restaurant, with alcoholic beverage service
CUP
CUP
NP
Restaurant, drive-in, takeout, fast food
CUP
CUP
NP
Retail store, general merchandise
DR
DR
NP
Second/hand thrift stores
CUP
CUP
NP
Shopping centers, 12,000 square feet or more
DR
DR
NP
Video rental stores
CUP
CUP
NP
Warehouse or club stores (big-box stores)
DR
DR
NP
Financial, Professional, or Personal Services
Automatic teller machine (ATM), stand-alone (only when proposed inside of a building/business)
DR
DR
NP
Banks and financial institutions, with or without drive-through
DR
DR
NP
Basic personal and professional service, nonmedical: including barber/beauty shop, catering (without trucks), pet grooming (without boarding), dry cleaner, locksmith, mail box rental, nail/manicure shop, repair shop for small appliances or electronics, bicycle sales/repair/rental, tailor, shoe repair, tanning salon, travel agent, accounting, advertising, architecture, artist studio, bookkeeping, business headquarters, check cashing and loans, computer programming, consulting, contracting, engineering, insurance, law, marketing, photography, real estate, or tax preparation
DR
DR
NP
Basic professional services, medical: including chiropractors, dentistry, diet/nutrition center, medicine, medical laboratory, professional care providers, psychiatry, psychology
DR
DR
NP
Bed and breakfast
CUP
CUP
NP
Body piercing and tattoo establishments
CUP
CUP
NP
Business-supportive services: including copy, fax, mail box rental, supplies; business equipment rental, sales, and repairs
DR
DR
NP
Car wash
CUP
NP
NP
Commercial parking and motor vehicle storage
CUP
NP
NP
Drive-in and drive-through services
CUP
CUP
NP
Hotel and motel, with or without spa
DR
DR
NP
Medical labs and research facilities
DR
DR
NP
Office, general, administrative, professional, or medical
DR
DR
NP
Office, temporary
CUP
CUP
NP
Repair and maintenance of consumer products
DR
DR
NP
Repair and maintenance of motor vehicles (indoor/enclosed only)
CUP
NP
NP
Research and development facilities
DR
DR
NP
Self-storage, mini-warehouse, etc.
DR
NP
NP
Veterinary clinics and animal hospitals (no boarding)
CUP
CUP
NP
Vocation and business trade schools
DR
DR
NP
UTILITIES, ENERGY FACILITIES, AND SERVICE SYSTEMS
Electrical substation3
NP
NP
CUP & JPR
Pipelines and utility lines, underground
DR
DR
JPR
Public utility and safety facilities
DR
DR
CUP & JPR
Sustainable energy facilities, large scale (e.g., wind energy conversion systems, solar farms/fields)3
CUP4
NP
CUP & JPR
Sustainable energy facilities, small scale (e.g., solar panels on building/carport roofs, building- or ground-mounted windmills or wind turbines)
DR
DR
NP
Telecommunications facilities, major (cell towers, etc.)
CUP
CUP
CUP & JPR
Telecommunications facilities, minor (antennae for building rooftops, or small intra-project communication uses)
DR
DR
NP
Transit stations and terminals
CUP
CUP
NP
Transit stop shelters
CUP
CUP
NP
Water/wastewater facilities and infrastructure (e.g., pipelines, pressure-reducing station, reservoir, lift station, storage tank, water well, booster pump station and treatment building)3
DR
DR
DR & JPR
Source: Section 17.12.020 (Development Permitted and Conditionally Permitted Uses) of the City’s Zoning Ordinance
Key: DR = Design Review; CUP = Conditional Use Permit; JPR = Joint Project Review (review undertaken by and between City of Desert Hot Springs and Coachella Valley Conservation Commission); RP = Regulatory Permit. Uses designated as DR are permitted uses and require zoning and specific plan consistency review, as well as Design Review; uses designated as CUP are uses that require approval of a Conditional Use Permit; and uses designated as RP require the approval of a Regulatory Permit. All land uses within Planning Area 1 shall be subject to the provisions of Chapter 17.80 (Design Review) of the City’s Zoning Ordinance—land uses subject to the approval of a Conditional Use Permit shall be pursuant to the provisions of Chapter 17.76 (Conditional Use Permits) of the City’s Zoning Ordinance.
Notes:
1
Marijuana facility collectively means any marijuana cultivation, distribution, testing or manufacturing facility, as those terms are defined in Chapter 17.180 (Marijuana Facilities Operation and Location) of the City’s Zoning Ordinance and California Proposition 64 (2016 Marijuana Legalization Initiative). Marijuana facilities, including any proposed greenhouse, shall be developed and operated in accordance with the provisions of Section 5.4.2, Marijuana Facilities Standards and Regulations, and Chapter 6.11, Marijuana-Related Greenhouse Design, of this specific plan.
2
Marijuana dispensary facility means any such facility that is licensed as a dispensary pursuant to the California Business and Professions Code, as this term is defined in Chapter 17.180 (Marijuana Facilities Operation and Location) of the City’s Zoning Ordinance and California Proposition 64 (2016 Marijuana Legalization Initiative). Marijuana dispensary facilities shall be developed and operated in accordance with the provisions of Section 5.4.2, Marijuana Facilities Standards and Regulations, of this specific plan.
3
The provisions outlined under Section 5.4.3, Large-Scale Energy and Water/Wastewater Facilities and Infrastructure, of this specific plan are applicable to large-scale sustainable energy facilities, electrical substations, and water/wastewater facilities and infrastructure that are proposed in Planning Areas 1 and 2.
4
Large-scale sustainable energy facilities in Planning Area 1 shall only be permitted through approval of a CUP and when proposed in conjunction with (and in support of) the submittal of a formal development application for a primary land use, such as a warehouse or distribution facility. Large-scale sustainable energy facilities shall not be permitted in Planning Area 1 as stand-alone development features or improvements. Large-scale sustainable energy facilities shall also not be permitted in Freeway Frontage Overlay Zone.
(Ord. 666 5-15-18)

§ 17.210.030 Planning areas PA-1 and PA-2 development standards.

The following tables for permitted uses and development standards shall govern within planning areas PA-1 and PA-2; any definition, procedure or other standard not contained within these tables shall be subject to the provisions of the Zoning Code.
Table 5-2 Development Standards and Regulations
Standard/Regulation
Planning Area (PA) and Land Use District
PA 1 Mixed Use
PA 1 Freeway Frontage Overlay Zone
PA 2 Open Space/Conservation
Gross lot area (minimum)
20,000 square feet
20,000 square feet
Lot coverage (maximum)
75%
75%
Distance between buildings (minimum)
20 feet
20 feet
Street setback (minimum)
10 feet
10 feet
10 feet1
Interior property line setback (minimum)
0 feet
0 feet
Building height (maximum)2, 3
Commercial/Industrial
50 feet/2 stories
50 feet/2 stories
Hotel
75 feet/7 stories
75 feet/7 stories
Parking spaces required (minimum)
Commercial/Industrial
See footnote4
See footnote4
Marijuana cultivation facility
1 per 2,500 square feet for cultivation space 1 per 250 square feet for administrative/ office space
1 per 2,500 square feet for cultivation space 1 per 250 square feet for administrative/ office space
Floor area ratio (maximum)5
1.5
1.5
Source: Chapter 17.48 (Off-Street Parking Standards), Section 17.12.030 (Land Use District Development Standards) of Chapter 17.12 (Commercial Districts), and Section 17.16.030 (Land Use District Development Standards) of Chapter 17.16 (Industrial Districts) of the City’s Zoning Ordinance.
Notes:
1
For planning purposes, the minimum street setback noted here is 10 feet; however, the final street setback will be determined during the Joint Project Review undertaken by and between City of Desert Hot Springs and Coachella Valley Conservation Commission.
2
Building height determinations shall be in accordance with the provisions of Section 17.40.160 (Height Determination) of the City’s Zoning Ordinance.
3
The maximum building heights are as shown in this table; however, architectural features/elements (e.g., tower, arch, relief) may exceed the allowed building height by a maximum of 15 feet, subject to review and approval by the Director of Community Development or designee.
4
Unless otherwise specified in this table, parking requirements for commercial and industrial uses shall be per those outlined in Chapter 17.48 (Off-Street Parking Standards) of the City’s Zoning Ordinance. Parking areas shall be designed in accordance with the standards outlined in Section 17.48.060 (Design Standards) of the City’s Zoning Ordinance.
5
Maximum floor area ratio noted here is per that outlined in Table 3-1, Land Use Development Summary, of this specific plan.
(Ord. 666 5-15-18)

§ 17.210.040 Review and approval.

A. 
All uses within the Desert Land Ventures Specific Plan planning areas shall be subject to review and approval for conformance with this chapter.
B. 
Uses which are indicated as “DR” (Design Review) shall require, for any related construction or development, review and approval by the Planning Commission, in accordance with Chapter 17.80 (Design Review).
C. 
Uses which are indicated as “CUP” (Conditionally Permitted) shall require review and approval by the Planning Commission in accordance with Chapter 17.76 (Conditional Use Permits).
D. 
Required findings for approval of Design Review (Section 17.80.040) or Conditional Use Permit (Section 17.76.050) shall include consideration of the Design Guidelines of the Desert Land Ventures Specific Plan.
E. 
Uses which are indicated as “RP” (Regulatory Permit) shall require the approval of a Regulatory Permit by the City Manager in accordance with Chapter 5.50 (Marijuana Facilities Regulatory Permit).
F. 
Uses which are indicated as “JPR” (Joint Project Review) shall require a review undertaken by and between City of Desert Hot Springs and Coachella Valley.
G. 
Uses which are indicated as “NP” (Not Permitted) shall be prohibited.
(Ord. 666 5-15-18)