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Inglewood City Zoning Code

ARTICLE 9

"C-S" COMMERCIAL SERVICE ZONE

§ 12-26 C-S Zone. Permitted Uses.

The following uses shall be permitted in the C-S Commercial Service Zone unless otherwise provided in this Chapter.
(1) 
Any use permitted in the C-2 zone except convalescent or retirement homes, group homes, orphanages, half-way houses, fraternities or sororities.
(2) 
Automobile sales (new and used), including automobile auction houses.
(3) 
Automobile servicing and repair (including painting, body and fender work) subject to Section 12-16.6 and when conducted within a fully enclosed building that has no openings (doors or windows) within twenty-five feet of any property zoned R-1, R-1 1/2, R-2, or R-3.
(4) 
Automobile rental and leasing (including limousines) and nonambulatory transportation uses, subject to all the following conditions:
(a) 
A rental or leasing office open to the public shall be maintained on the premises: the storage of automobiles without such office is prohibited.
(b) 
The rental, leasing or storage of trucks, trailers, inoperable vehicles and/or buses is prohibited.
(c) 
Only minor, incidental servicing of automobiles and nonambulatory vehicles is permitted on the premises and only when conducted within a fully enclosed building.
(d) 
The site shall be improved and maintained per the parking lot requirements of Article 19 of this Chapter.
(5) 
Automobile glass shop.
(6) 
Battery shops.
(7) 
Boat and marine sales and services, but not to include manufacturing or the testing of hydroplanes or similar equipment.
(8) 
Car wash.
(9) 
Carburetor repair shop.
(10) 
Motorbike or motorcycle sales and service but not to include dyno or similar testing equipment.
(11) 
Mobile home sales (including campers).
(12) 
Radiator shop.
(13) 
Radio repair.
(14) 
Tire sales and service.
(15) 
Trailer sales.
(16) 
Truck sales and service.
(17) 
Bath houses, Turkish baths, massage parlors, acupressure establishments and similar uses, subject to Special Use approval.
(18) 
Adult-oriented businesses subject to the conditions of Article 24.1 of this Chapter.
(19) 
Escort, dating, and introduction services subject to approval by the Permits and License Committee and the granting of a Special Use Permit by the Planning Commission or the City Council.
(20) 
Trade school teaching body and fender work and automobile painting subject to the provisions of subsection (3) above, and subject to Special Use Permit approval.
(21) 
Mortuaries. Mortuaries shall be subject to Special Use Permit approval when adjacent to a residentially-developed or residentially-zoned property.
(22) 
Towing service, subject to Special Use Permit approval and the following requirements:
(a) 
Shall not be located within one thousand feet of an existing towing service business, as measured from property line to property line; and
(b) 
The site shall be a minimum of thirty thousand square-feet of lot area with a minimum street frontage of one hundred linear feet; and
(c) 
A tow service office open to the public shall be maintained on the premises; and
(d) 
The site shall be improved and maintained per the parking lot requirements of Article 19 of this Chapter; and
(e) 
May include ancillary vehicle storage (including storage of tow trucks in fleet operation) if storage area is enclosed by a minimum six-foot high decorative wall; and
(f) 
May include ancillary vehicle inspection if conducted within a fully enclosed building or vehicle bay; and
(g) 
The storage of trucks (not including pickup trucks as defined by the California Vehicle Code), trailers, and/or buses is prohibited.
(Ord. 87-7 5-19-87; Ord. 96-17 9-10-96; Ord. 98-28 12-15-98; Ord. 01-14 10-2-01; Ord. 02-21 6-11-02; Ord. 04-22 9-28-04; Ord. 11-03 4-19-11; Ord. 20-02 11-5-19)

§ 12-26.1 Building Height.

No building hereafter erected or structurally altered shall exceed six stories or seventy-five feet in height.

§ 12-26.2 Yards.

No front, side or rear setbacks shall be required, except as necessary to provide landscaped buffers along streets.
(Ord. 1853 2-18-66; Ord. 1957 8-30-68; Ord. 2119 9-1-72; Ord. 2346 7-3-79)

§ 12-26.3 Same. Signs.

It shall be unlawful, after the effective date hereof, to erect or structurally alter any sign, or to maintain any sign which has been erected or structurally altered after said effective date, in the C-S Commercial Service Zone, except as permitted in Article 23 of this Chapter.

§ 12-26.4 Residential Use Prohibited.

No new residential structure shall be constructed nor any existing residential structure enlarged in the C-S Zone.
(Ord. 2346 7-3-79)