Inyo County Unincorporated
City Zoning Code
City Zoning Code
CHAPTER 18
45 C-1 DISTRICTS GENERAL COMMERCIAL AND RETAIL
§ 18.45.010 Intent.
The primary purpose of and application of this district shall be to provide suitable lands and locations for various retail, service and commercial activities.
(Ord. 943 § 4, 1994)
§ 18.45.020 Permitted uses.
The following principal uses are permitted in the C-1 district, when entirely conducted within an enclosed building:
A.
Retail stores, including:
1.
Bakery,
2.
Book or stationery store,
3.
Confectionery store,
4.
Drugstore, pharmacy,
5.
Dry goods or notions store,
6.
Florist or gift shop,
7.
Grocery, fruit or vegetable stores,
8.
Hardware, plumbing or electrical appliance store,
9.
Jewelry store,
10.
Meat market or delicatessen store,
11.
Apparel and department stores,
12.
Amusement enterprises,
13.
Antiques stores,
14.
Automobile and trailer sales, provided that repair work be conducted wholly within a building,
15.
Furniture stores,
16.
Secondhand stores if conducted wholly within completely enclosed building,
17.
Bar, cocktail lounge, and eating and drinking establishments,
18.
Liquor store,
19.
Sporting goods store;
C.
Services:
1.
Bank,
2.
Barbershop and beauty parlor,
3.
Cafe or restaurant (including dancing or entertainment),
4.
Church,
5.
Clothes cleaning agency and/or pressing establishment,
6.
Club or lodge (nonprofit), fraternal or religious association,
7.
Community center,
8.
Dressmaker or millinery shop,
9.
Clinic,
10.
Laundry agency,
11.
Library,
12.
Photographer,
13.
Post office,
14.
Shoe store and repair,
15.
Tailor,
16.
Motion picture theater,
17.
Blueprinting or photostatting,
18.
Cleaning and pressing establishment,
19.
Carpenter shop, if conducted wholly within a completely enclosed building and no more than five persons are employed on the premises,
20.
Conservatory of music,
21.
Drive-in business,
22.
Fortunetelling, clairvoyance or astrology,
23.
Interior decorating store,
24.
Locksmith shop,
25.
Massage parlor,
26.
Medical and dental laboratories,
27.
Mortuary,
28.
Newspaper plants,
29.
Public garage, including automobile repairing, and incidental body work, painting or upholstering, if all operations are conducted wholly within a completely enclosed building; provided, however, that where a public garage is located on a lot which does not abut an alley and is within sixty-five feet of a lot in any R district, the garage wall which parallels the nearest line of such district shall have no opening other than stationary windows,
30.
Public services, including electric distributing substation, fire or police station, telephone exchange, and similar uses,
31.
Theater,
32.
Wedding chapel,
33.
Automobile service station, including facilities for general repair or mechanical washing;
D.
Housing:
1.
Single room occupancy units,
2.
Transitional, supportive and group homes,
3.
Low barrier navigation centers (in compliance with California Government Code Sections 65660-65668);
E.
Other uses similar to above if approved by the planning commission.
(Ord. 943 § 4, 1994; Ord. 1290 § 35, 2022)
§ 18.45.030 Conditional uses.
The following are conditional uses in the C-1 district, and shall be permitted only if approved by the planning commission:
A.
Frozen food locker plants (excluding wholesale processing or cold storage);
B.
Plumbing shop;
C.
Printing, lithographing, publishing or reproducing;
D.
Distributors of petroleum products if location is approved by the planning commission;
E.
Furniture warehouse, for storing personal household goods, provided the ground floor front is devoted to stores;
F.
Ice storage house;
G.
Trade school, if location is approved by the planning commission;
H.
Stadium and commercial recreation enterprise;
I.
Warehouses and storage facilities;
J.
Combination signs, electronic signs, informational kiosks and directory boards, off-site directional signs, off-site advertising signs not exceeding fifty square feet in sign area, tall wall signs, and three-dimensional signs in compliance with the provisions of Chapter 18.75 and subject to the requirements of Sections 18.45.060 and 18.45.070;
K.
Manufactured home sales displays;
L.
Floor area ratio (FAR) increases;
M.
Mixed use;
N.
Multiple dwellings;
O.
Public/quasi-public buildings and uses of recreational, religious, cultural or public service nature not listed under permitted uses;
P.
Non-storefront commercial cannabis retailer and delivery, pursuant to commercial cannabis license classification 9;
Q.
Commercial cannabis retailer and delivery, pursuant to commercial cannabis license classification 10;
R.
Commercial cannabis distributor pursuant to commercial cannabis license classification 11;
S.
Commercial cannabis microbusiness pursuant to commercial cannabis license classification 12 combining only some or all of those uses otherwise permitted by this section.
(Ord. 943 § 4, 1994; Ord. 1007 § 17, 1998; Ord. 1108 § 3, 2006; Ord. 1142 § 2, 2009; Ord. 1143 § 2, 2009; Ord. 1187 § 2, 2014; Ord. 1221 § 11, 2018; Ord. 1248 §§ 5, 6, 2019)
§ 18.45.040 Accessory uses.
A.
In a C-1 district, a dwelling unit within a business building may be qualified as an accessory use if it is for occupancy by the owner or lessee of business premises therein, or by a caretaker or watchman, provided that a minimum fifty percent of the usable floor area is being utilized for the principal permitted use;
B.
Emergency housing, in conformance with the policies stated in the housing element of the Inyo County general plan;
D.
Outdoor seating when combined with or involving a permitted use.
(Ord. 943 § 4, 1994; Ord. 1007 § 18, 1998; Ord. 1281 § 4, 2022)
§ 18.45.050 Parking.
One parking space shall be provided for each four hundred square feet of usable floor area, or as determined by the planning director.
(Ord. 943 § 4, 1994; Ord. 1143 § 3, 2009)
§ 18.45.060 Yards.
There shall be no minimum yard requirement in the C-1 district, providing the property does not abut a residential parcel, wherein a setback of twenty feet shall be observed.
(Ord. 943 § 4, 1994)
§ 18.45.070 Height limitations.
No building in a C-1 district shall have a height in excess of forty feet or three stories, or in excess of twenty feet when located within fifty feet of a residential (R) district.
(Ord. 943 § 4, 1994)
§ 18.45.080 Building site area.
The minimum building site area or lot in the C-1 district shall be ten thousand square feet; the minimum width of a lot shall be seventy-five feet.
(Ord. 943 § 4, 1994)
§ 18.45.090 Floor area ratio (FAR).
For properties with a General Plan Designation of Retail Commercial (RC), the allowable floor area ratio is forty percent without a conditional use permit and up to sixty percent with a conditional use permit.
(Ord. 1142 § 4, 2009)
§ 18.45.100 Residential density.
Residential densities shall be 7.6 to twenty-four dwelling units per acre.
(Ord. 1143 § 4, 2009)