HomeMy WebLinkAboutOrdinance #3842 ORDINANCE NO. 3842
AN ORDINANCE OF THE CITY OF HUNTINGTON BEACH
AMENDING CHAPTER 204 OF THE HUNTINGTON BEACH ZONING
AND SUBDIVISION ORDINANCE RELATING
TO USE CLASSIFICATIONS
The City Council of the City of Huntington Beach does hereby ordain as follows:
SECTION 1. Section 204.10 of the Huntington Beach Zoning and Subdivision
Ordinance is hereby amended to read as follows:
204.10 Commercial Use Classifications
A. Ambulance Services. Provision of emergency medical care or
transportation, including incidental storage and maintenance of
vehicles as regulated by Chapter 5.20.
B. Animal Sales and Services.
l. Animal Boarding. Provision of shelter and care for small
animals on a commercial basis. This classification includes
activities such as feeding, exercising, grooming, and
incidental medical care, and kennels.
2. Animal Grooming. Provision of bathing and trimming
services for small animals on a commercial basis. This
classification includes boarding for a maximum period of 48
hours.
3. Animal Hospitals. Establishments where small animals
receive medical and surgical treatment. This classification
includes only facilities that are entirely enclosed,
soundproofed, and air- conditioned. Grooming and
temporary (maximum 30 days)boarding of animals are
included, if incidental to the hospital use.
4. Animals: Retail Sales. Retail sales and boarding of small
animals, provided such activities take place within an entirely
enclosed building. This classification includes grooming, if
incidental to the retail use, and boarding of animals not
offered for sale for a maximum period of 48 hours.
5. Equestrian Centers. Establishments offering facilities for
instruction in horseback riding, including rings, stables, and
exercise areas.
6. Pet Cemetery. Land used or intended to be used for the burial
of animals, ashes or remains of dead animals, including
placement or erection of markers, headstones or monuments
over such places of burial.
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C. Artists' Studios. Work space for artists and artisans, including
individuals practicing one of the fine arts or performing arts, or
skilled in an applied art or craft.
D. Banks and Savings and Loans. Financial institutions that provide
retail banking services to individuals and businesses. This
classification includes only those institutions engaged in the on-site
circulation of cash money. It also includes businesses offering
check-cashing facilities.
1. With Drive-up Service. Institutions providing services
accessible to persons who remain in their automobiles.
E. Building Materials and Services. Retailing, wholesaling, or rental of
building supplies or equipment. This classification includes lumber
yards,tool and equipment sales or rental establishments, and building
contractors' yards, but excludes establishments devoted exclusively
to retail sales of paint and hardware, and activities classified under
Vehicle/Equipment Sales and Services.
F. Catering Services. Preparation and delivery of food and beverages
for off-site consumption without provision for on-site pickup or
consumption. (See also Eating and Drinking Establishments.)
G. Commercial Filming. Commercial motion picture or video
photography at the same location more than six days per quarter of a
calendar year. (See also Chapter 5.54, Commercial Photography)
H. Commercial Recreation and Entertainment. Provision of participant
or spectator recreation or entertainment. This classification includes
theaters, sports stadiums and arenas, amusement parks, bowling
alleys, billiard parlors and poolrooms as regulated by Chapter 9.32;
dance halls as regulated by Chapter 5.28; ice/roller skating rinks, golf
courses, miniature golf courses, scale-model courses, shooting
galleries, tennis/racquetball courts, health/fitness clubs, pinball
arcades or electronic games centers, cyber cafe having more than 4
coin-operated game machines as regulated by Chapter 9.28; card
rooms as regulated by Chapter 9.24; and fortune telling as regulated
by Chapter 5.72.
1. Limited. Indoor movie theaters, game centers and performing
arts theaters and health/fitness clubs occupying less than
2,500 square feet.
I. Communications Facilities. Broadcasting, recording, and other
communication services accomplished through electronic or
telephonic mechanisms, but excluding Utilities (Major). This
classification includes radio,television, or recording studios;
telephone switching centers; telegraph offices; and wireless
communication facilities.
J. Eating and Drinking Establishments. Businesses serving prepared
food or beverages for consumption on or off the premises.
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1. With Fast-Food or Take-Out Service. Establishments where
patrons order and pay for their food at a counter or window
before it is consumed and may either pick up or be served
such food at a table or take it off-site for consumption.
a. Drive-through. Service from a building to persons in
vehicles through an outdoor service window.
b. Limited. Establishments that do not serve persons in
vehicles or at a table.
2. With Live Entertainment/Danciniz. An eating or drinking
establishment where dancing and/or live entertainment is
allowed. This classification includes nightclubs subject to the
requirements of Chapter 5.44 of the Municipal Code.
K. Food and Beverage Sales. Retail sales of food and beverages for off-
site preparation and consumption. Typical uses include groceries,
liquor stores, or delicatessens. Establishments at which 20 percent or
more of the transactions are sales of prepared food for on-site or
take-out consumption shall be classified as Catering Services or
Eating and Drinking Establishments.
1. With Alcoholic Beverage Sales. Establishments where more
than 10 percent of the floor area is devoted to sales, display
and storage of alcoholic beverages.
L. Food Processing. Establishments primarily engaged in the
manufacturing or processing of food or beverages for human
consumption and wholesale distribution.
M. Funeral and Interment Services. Establishments primarily engaged
in the provision of services involving the care, preparation or
disposition of human dead other than in cemeteries. Typical uses
include crematories, columbariums, mausoleums or mortuaries.
N. Horticulture. The raising of fruits, vegetables, flowers,trees, and
shrubs as a commercial enterprise.
O. Laboratories. Establishments providing medical or dental laboratory
services; or establishments with less than 2,000 square feet providing
photographic, analytical, or testing services. Other laboratories are
classified as Limited Industry.
P. Maintenance and Repair Services. Establishments providing
appliance repair, office machine repair, or building maintenance
services. This classification excludes maintenance and repair of
vehicles or boats; see (Vehicle/Equipment Repair).
Q. Marine Sales and Services. Establishments providing supplies and
equipment for shipping or related services or pleasure boating.
Typical uses include chandleries, yacht brokerage and sales, boat
yards, boat docks, and sail-making lofts.
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R. Reserved.
S. Nurseries. Establishments in which all merchandise other than plants
is kept within an enclosed building or a fully screened enclosure, and
fertilizer of any type is stored and sold in package form only.
T. Offices, Business and Professional. Offices of firms or organizations
providing professional, executive, management, or administrative
services, such as architectural, engineering, graphic design, interior
design, real estate, insurance, investment, legal, veterinary, and
medical/dental offices. This classification includes medical/dental
laboratories incidental to an office use, but excludes banks and
savings and loan associations.
U. Pawn Shops. Establishments engaged in the buying or selling of new
or secondhand merchandise and offering loans secured by personal
property and subject to Chapter 5.36 of the Municipal Code.
V. Personal Enrichment Services. Provision of instructional services or
facilities, including photography, fine arts, crafts, dance or music
studios, driving schools, business and trade schools, and diet centers,
reducing salons, fitness studios, and yoga or martial arts studios
W. Personal Services. Provision of recurrently needed services of a
personal nature. This classification includes barber and beauty
shops, seamstresses, tailors, shoe repair shops, dry-cleaning
businesses (excluding large-scale bulk cleaning plants), photo-
copying, self-service laundries,and massage as regulated by Chapter
5.24.
X. Research and Development Services. Establishments primarily
engaged in industrial or scientific research, including limited product
testing. This classification includes electron research firms or
pharmaceutical research laboratories, but excludes manufacturing,
except of prototypes, or medical testing and analysis.
Y. Retail Sales. The retail sale of merchandise not specifically listed
under another use classification. This classification includes
department stores, drug stores, clothing stores, and furniture stores,
and businesses retailing the following goods: toys, hobby materials,
handcrafted items,jewelry, cameras, photographic supplies, medical
supplies and equipment, electronic equipment, records, sporting
goods, surfing boards and equipment, kitchen utensils, hardware,
appliances, antiques, art supplies and services,paint and wallpaper,
carpeting and floor covering, office supplies, bicycles, and new
automotive parts and accessories (excluding service and installation).
Z. Secondhand Appliances and Clothing Sales. The retail sale of used
appliances and clothing by secondhand dealers who are subject to
Chapter 5.36. This classification excludes antique shops primarily
engaged in the sale of used furniture and accessories other than
appliances, but includes junk shops.
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AA Sex Oriented Businesses. Establishments as regulated by Chapter
5.70; and figure model studios as regulated by Chapter 5.60.
BB. Swap Meets, Indoor/Flea Markets. An occasional, periodic or
regularly scheduled market held within a building where groups of
individual vendors offer goods for sale to the public.
CC. Swap Meets, Recurring. Retail sale or exchange of handcrafted or
secondhand merchandise for a maximum period of 32 consecutive
hours, conducted by a sponsor on a more than twice yearly basis.
DD. Tattoo Establishment. Premises used for the business of marking or
coloring the skin with tattoos as regulated by Chapter 8.70.
EE. Travel Services. Establishments providing travel information and
reservations to individuals and businesses. This classification
excludes car rental agencies.
FF. Vehicle/Equipment Sales and Services.
1. Automobile Rentals. Rental of automobiles, including
storage and incidental maintenance, but excluding
maintenance requiring pneumatic lifts.
2. Automobile Washing. Washing, waxing, or cleaning of
automobiles or similar light vehicles.
3. Commercial Parking Facility. Lots offering short-term or
long-term parking to the public for a fee.
4. Service Stations. Establishments engaged in the retail sale of
gas, diesel fuel, lubricants, parts, and accessories. This
classification includes incidental maintenance and minor
repair of motor vehicles, but excluding body and fender work
or major repair of automobiles, motorcycles, light and heavy
trucks or other vehicles.
5. Vehicle/Equipment Repair. Repair of automobiles,trucks,
motorcycles, mobile homes, recreational vehicles, or boats,
including the sale, installation, and servicing of related
equipment and parts. This classification includes auto repair
shops, body and fender shops, transmission shops, wheel and
brake shops, and tire sales and installation, but excludes
vehicle dismantling or salvage and tire retreading or
recapping.
a. Limited. Light repair and sale of goods and services
for vehicles, including brakes, muffler, tire shops, oil
and lube, and accessory uses, but excluding body and
fender shops, upholstery, painting, and rebuilding or
reconditioning of vehicles.
6. Vehicle/Equipment Sales and Rentals. Sale or rental of
automobiles, motorcycles,trucks, tractors, construction or
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agricultural equipment, manufactured homes, boats, and
similar equipment, including storage and incidental
maintenance.
7. Vehicle Storaize. The business of storing or safekeeping of
operative and inoperative vehicles for periods of time greater
than a 24 hour period, including, but not limited to, the
storage of parking tow-aways, impound yards, and storage
lots for automobiles,trucks, buses and recreational vehicles,
but not including vehicle dismantling.
GG. Visitor Accommodations.
1. Bed and Breakfast Inns. Establishments offering lodging on a
less than weekly basis in a converted single-family or multi-
family dwelling or a building of residential design, with
incidental eating and drinking service for lodgers only
provided from a single kitchen.
2. Hotels and Motels. Establishments offering lodging on a
weekly or less than weekly basis. Motels may have kitchens
in no more than 25 percent of guest units, and "suite" hotels
may have kitchens in all units. This classification includes
eating, drinking, and banquet service associated with the
facility.
3. Condominium—Hotel. Facility providing overnight visitor
accommodations where ownership of at least some of the
individual guestrooms (units)within the larger building or
complex is in the form of separate condominium ownership
interests, as defined in California Civil Code section 1351(f).
The primary function of the Condominium-Hotel is to
provide overnight transient visitor accommodations within
every unit that is available to the general public on a daily
basis year-round, while providing both general public
availability and limited owner occupancy of those units that
are in the form of separate condominium ownership interests.
4. Fractional Ownership Hotel. Facility providing overnight
visitor accommodations where at least some of the
guestrooms (units) within the facility are owned separately by
multiple owners on a fractional time basis. A fractional time
basis means that an owner receives exclusive right to use of
the individual unit for a certain quantity of days per year and
each unit available for fractional ownership will have
multiple owners.
HH. Warehouse and Sales Outlets. Businesses which store large
inventories of goods in industrial-style buildings where these goods
are not produced on the site but are offered to the public for sale.
11. Quasi Residential
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1. Residential Hotels. Buildings with 6 or more guest rooms
without kitchen facilities in individual rooms, or kitchen
facilities for the
exclusive use of guests, and which are intended for
occupancy on a weekly or monthly basis.
2. Single Room Occupancy. Buildings designed as a residential
hotel consisting of a cluster of guest units providing sleeping
and living facilities in which sanitary facilities and cooking
facilities are provided within each unit; tenancies are weekly
or monthly.
3. Timeshare. Any arrangement,plan, or similar program, other
than an exchange program, whereby a purchaser receives
ownership rights in or the right to use accommodations for a
period of time less than a full year during any given year, on a
recurring basis for more than one year, but not necessarily for
consecutive years.
SECTION 2. This Ordinance shall become effective 30 days after its
adoption.
PASSED AND ADOPTED by the City Council of the City of Huntington Beach
at a regular meeting thereof held on the 19th day of October , 2009.
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ATTEST: APP ED AS TO FORM:
Clerk ity Attorney Dt a -111A69
REVIE APPROVED: INITIAED AND APPROVED:
City trator Director of Planning
g/Ohl/Amend ZSO 204 7
Ord. No. 3842
STATE OF CALIFORNIA )
COUNTY OF ORANGE ) ss:
CITY OF HUNTINGTON BEACH )
I, JOAN L. FLYNN, the duly elected, qualified City Clerk of the City of
Huntington Beach, and ex-officio Clerk of the City Council of said City, do hereby
certify that the whole number of members of the City Council of the City of Huntington
Beach is seven; that the foregoing ordinance was read to said City Council at a regular
meeting thereof held on October 5, 2009, and was again read to said City Council at a
regular meeting thereof held on October 19,2009, and was passed and adopted by the
affirmative vote of at least a majority of all the members of said City Council.
AYES: Carchio, Dwyer, Green, Bohr, Coerper, Hansen
NOES: None
ABSENT: Hardy
ABSTAIN: None
I,Joan L.Flynn,CITY CLERK of the City of Huntington
Beach and ex-officio Clerk of the City Council,do hereby
certify that a synopsis of this ordinance has been
published in the Huntington Beach Fountain Valley
Independent on October 29,2009. e
In accordance with the City Charter of said City Qut's'd
Joan L. Flynn,Qi1y Cler Cvy Clerk and ex-officio Jerk
Senior Deputy City Clerk of the City Council of the City
of Huntington Beach, California