National City City Zoning Code
Complete index of all zoning chapters, sections, and subsections
DIVISION 1
GENERAL PROVISIONS
Sections
- Chapter - 18.10 UNDERSTANDING THE LAND USE CODE
- 18.10.010 - Purpose.
- 18.10.020 - Applicability.
- 18.10.030 - Authority, relationship to the general plan, specific plans, and design guidelines.
- 18.10.040 - Responsibility for administration.
- 18.10.050 - Interpretation of land use code provisions.
- 18.10.060 - Rules of measurement.
- 18.10.070 - Reasonable accommodations.
- Chapter 18.11 - NONCONFORMING USES, STRUCTURES, AND PARCELS
- 18.11.010 - Purpose.
- 18.11.020 - Continuance.
- 18.11.030 - Enlargements and alterations.
- 18.11.040 - Substitution of nonconforming uses.
- 18.11.050 - Partially destroyed structures.
- 18.11.060 - Religious institutions.
- 18.11.070 - Single-family dwellings.
- 18.11.080 - Nonconforming parking facilities.
- 18.11.090 - Nonconforming signs.
- 18.11.100 - Termination.
- 18.11.110 - Exemptions.
- Chapter 18.12 - PERMITS AND APPLICATIONS
- 18.12.005 - Residential development.
- 18.12.010 - Permit application and review.
- 18.12.020 - Decision processes for planning applications.
- 18.12.030 - Ministerial decision process.
- 18.12.040 - Discretionary decision process.
- 18.12.050 - Noticing and public hearings.
- 18.12.060 - Appeals.
- 18.12.070 - Site plan review.
- 18.12.080 - Minor use permits.
- 18.12.090 - Home occupation permits.
- 18.12.100 - Sign permit.
- 18.12.110 - Conditional use permits.
- 18.12.120 - Variances.
- 18.12.130 - Planned development permits.
- 18.12.140 - Zoning amendments.
- 18.12.150 - General plan and specific plan amendments.
- 18.12.160 - Historic properties.
DIVISION 2
ZONING DISTRICTS AND ALLOWABLE LAND USES
Sections
- Chapter 18.20 - ZONING MAP
- Chapter 18.21 - RESIDENTIAL ZONES
- Chapter 18.22 - COMMERCIAL ZONES
- Chapter 18.23 - WESTSIDE MIXED-USE ZONES
- Chapter 18.24 - MIXED-USE CORRIDOR AND DISTRICT ZONES
- 18.24.010 - Purpose.
- 18.24.020 - Mixed-use zones.
- 18.24.030 - General provisions.
- 18.24.040 - Building form and placement.
- 18.24.050 - Allowed land uses and permit requirements.
- 18.24.060 - Accessory uses.
- 18.24.070 - Building frontage standards.
- 18.24.080 - Parking requirements.
- 18.24.090 - Civic space standards.
- Chapter 18.25 - INDUSTRIAL ZONES
- Chapter 18.26 - INSTITUTIONAL ZONE
- Chapter 18.27 - OPEN SPACE ZONE
- Chapter 18.28 - OPEN SPACE RESERVE ZONE
- Chapter 18.29 - OVERLAY ZONES
- 18.29.010 - Purpose.
- 18.29.020 - Overlay Zone designations.
- 18.29.030 - Coastal Zone (CZ).
- 18.29.050 - Height Limit Restriction Overlay Zone (H).
- 18.29.060 - Mobile Home Park Overlay Zone (MHP).
- 18.29.070 - Floodway (-FW), Floodway Fringe (-FF-1), Floodway Fringe Shallow Flooding (-FF-2), Floodway Fringe Riverine Flooding (-FF-3), and Coastal High Hazard Flooding (-FF-4) zones.
- 18.29.080 - Mixed-Use Overlay Zone (MU).
DIVISION 3
SPECIFIC USES
Sections
- Chapter 18.30 - SPECIFIC USE REGULATIONS
- 18.30.010 - Purpose.
- 18.30.020 - Applicability.
- 18.30.030 - Adult-oriented businesses.
- 18.30.040 - Automobile impound and storage yards.
- 18.30.050 - Sale of alcoholic beverages and live entertainment.
- 18.30.060 - Automotive body and paint shops.
- 18.30.070 - Child day care centers.
- 18.30.080 - Family day care homes.
- 18.30.090 - Condominium conversions.
- 18.30.100 - Conversions to nonresidential use.
- 18.30.110 - Emergency shelters.
- 18.30.120 - Hazardous waste facilities.
- 18.30.130 - Helicopter operations.
- 18.30.140 - Mobile homes and similar temporary structures.
- 18.30.150 - Outdoor display or sale of merchandise.
- 18.30.160 - Outdoor storage.
- 18.30.170 - Recycling collection facilities.
- 18.30.180 - Scrap metal processing.
- 18.30.190 - Service stations and convenience stores with gasoline pumps.
- 18.30.200 - Sidewalk cafes.
- 18.30.210 - Small wind energy systems.
- 18.30.220 - Telecommunications facilities.
- 18.30.230 - Tobacco specialty businesses.
- 18.30.240 - Urban agriculture.
- 18.30.250 - Veterinary hospitals and clinics.
- 18.30.260 - Neighborhood corner stores.
- 18.30.270 - Motels.
- 18.30.280 - Markets that sell seafood.
- 18.30.290 - Bed and breakfast inns.
- 18.30.300 - Solar energy systems.
- 18.30.310 - Tattoo parlors and body-piercing establishments.
- 18.30.320 - Pawn shops and businesses engaged in secondhand dealing and/or the purchase and selling of gold and other precious metals.
- 18.30.330 - Payday lenders.
- 18.30.340 - Medical Marijuana dispensaries.
- 18.30.345 - Medical Marijuana cultivation.
- 18.30.350 - Auto Body uses.
- 18.30.360 - Fast food eating places.
- 18.30.370 - Massage establishments.
- 18.30.380 - Accessory Dwelling Units.
- 18.30.390 - Junior Accessory Dwelling Units.
- 18.30.400 - Low barrier navigation centers.
- 18.30.410 - Transitional/Supportive Housing.
DIVISION 4
GENERAL DESIGN AND DEVELOPMENT REGULATIONS
Sections
- Chapter 18.40 - GENERAL STANDARDS
- Chapter 18.41 - SITE PLANNING STANDARDS
- Chapter 18.42 - BUILDING DESIGN STANDARDS
- 18.42.010 - Purpose.
- 18.42.020 - Projections
- 18.42.030 - Accessory structures.
- 18.42.040 - Screening mechanical equipment and elevator housing.
- 18.42.050 - Commercial and institutional building design standards.
- 18.42.060 - Industrial building design standards.
- 18.42.070 - Residential building design standards.
- Chapter 18.43 - FENCES AND WALLS
- 18.43.010 - Purpose.
- 18.43.020 - Screening requirements.
- 18.43.030 - Parking lots.
- 18.43.040 - Materials, construction, and maintenance.
- 18.43.050 - Maximum height.
- 18.43.060 - Prohibited fences.
- 18.43.070 - Entry arbors.
- 18.43.080 - Openings in view-obscuring fences.
- 18.43.090 - Special fences.
- 18.43.100 - Traffic visibility triangles.
- Chapter 18.44 - Landscaping
- 18.44.010 - Purpose.
- 18.44.020 - Applicability.
- 18.44.030 - Definitions.
- 18.44.040 - Landscape plan.
- 18.44.050 - Requirements.
- 18.44.060 - Plant materials.
- 18.44.070 - Turf lawn.
- 18.44.080 - Soils and mulching.
- 18.44.090 - Minimum percentage of net lot area to be landscaped.
- 18.44.100 - Statuary structures and other lawn art.
- 18.44.110 - Landscape location requirements.
- 18.44.120 - Tree preservation.
- 18.44.130 - Landscaping work included in building permit inspections.
- 18.44.140 - Traffic visibility triangle.
- 18.44.150 - Maintenance required.
- 18.44.160 - Certain trees a public nuisance.
- 18.44.170 - Nonconforming landscaping.
- 18.44.180 - Public utilities.
- 18.44.190 - Water efficient landscape regulations.
- Chapter 18.45 - OFF-STREET PARKING AND LOADING
- 18.45.010 - Purpose.
- 18.45.020 - Requirements—General.
- 18.45.030 - Off-site facilities.
- 18.45.040 - Site plan review required.
- 18.45.050 - Off-street parking requirements by land use.
- 18.45.055 - Tandem parking.
- 18.45.060 - Westside specific area plan parking requirements.
- 18.45.070 - Parking for commercial vehicles.
- 18.45.080 - Opportunities for reduced parking.
- 18.45.090 - Parking for disabled persons.
- 18.45.100 - Parking design standards.
- 18.45.110 - Loading requirements.
- 18.45.120 - Bicycle parking.
- Chapter 18.46 - OUTDOOR LIGHTING
- 18.46.010 - Purpose.
- 18.46.020 - Applicability.
- 18.46.030 - General standards.
- 18.46.040 - Lighting plan requirements.
- 18.46.050 - Security lighting.
- 18.46.060 - Accent lighting.
- 18.46.070 - Lighting standards for uses within fifty feet of residential zones.
- 18.46.080 - Parking lot lighting.
- 18.46.090 - Lighting of outdoor performance, sport and recreational facilities.
- 18.46.100 - Lighting for multi-unit attached residential projects.
- 18.46.110 - Standards for single-family residential uses.
- Chapter 18.47 - SIGNS ON PRIVATE PROPERTY AND PUBLIC PROPERTY NOT OWNED BY THE CITY OR ITS AFFILIATED AGENCIES
- 18.47.010 - Title.
- 18.47.020 - Authority, scope, intent, purposes.
- 18.47.030 - Basic principles.
- 18.47.040 - Definitions.
- 18.47.050 - Sign permits, other sign-related decisions, appeals.
- 18.47.060 - Signs exempt from sign permit requirement.
- 18.47.070 - Prohibited signs.
- 18.47.080 - Permanent signs.
- 18.47.090 - Temporary signs.
- 18.47.100 - Vehicle signs.
- 18.47.110 - Mural-type signs.
- 18.47.120 - Flags, banners, and pennants.
- 18.47.130 - Master sign programs.
- 18.47.140 - Nonconforming signs; abandoned uses.
- 18.47.150 - Safety, maintenance, and refacing.
- 18.47.160 - Enforcement and removal.
- 18.47.170 - Severability.
- Chapter 18.48 - RESIDENTIAL DENSITY BONUS AND AFFORDABLE HOUSING INCENTIVES
- Chapter 18.49 - OBJECTIVE DESIGN STANDARDS
- 18.49.010 - Purpose.
- 18.49.020 - Applicability.
- 18.49.030 - Definitions.
- 18.49.040 - Site design.
- 18.49.050 - Building design.
- 18.49.060 - Facade and articulation.
- 18.49.070 - Building equipment and service areas.
- 18.49.080 - Fence and walls.
- 18.49.090 - Pedestrian access.
- 18.49.100 - Outdoor common spaces.
- 18.49.110 - Landscaping.
- 18.49.120 - Parking.
- 18.49.130 - Bicycle parking.
- 18.49.140 - Lighting.
- Chapter 18.50 - FLOOR AREA RATIO BONUS REGULATIONS
- 18.50.010 - Purpose.
- 18.50.020 - Definitions.
- 18.50.030 - Application of floor area ratio bonus regulations.
- 18.50.040 - Required replacement of existing affordable units.
- 18.50.050 - Tenant benefits, rights, and obligations.
- 18.50.060 - Incentives in exchange for transit priority area affordable housing.
- 18.50.070 - Required provision of affordable dwelling units.
- 18.50.080 - Supplemental development regulations.