Riverside County Unincorporated, California · General provision
17.72.010, 17.72.030
General CommercialAll Riverside County Unincorporated districts0
Dimensional standards
Uses
Permitted by right108
- Ambulance services
- Antique shops
- Appliance stores, household
- Art supply shops and studios
- Auction houses
- Auditoriums and conference rooms
- Automobile repair garages, not including body and fender shops or spray painting
- Automobile parts and supply stores
- Bakery goods distributors
- Bakery shops, including baking only when incidental to retail sales on the premises
- Banks and financial institutions
- Barber and beauty shops
- Bars and cocktail lounges
- Billiard and pool halls
- Blueprint and duplicating services
- Book stores and binders
- Bowling alleys
- Catering services
- Cleaning and dyeing shops
- Clothing stores
- Confectionery or candy stores
- Costume design studios
- Dance halls
- Delicatessens
- Department stores
- Drug stores
- Dry goods stores
- Employment agencies
- Escort bureaus
- Feed and grain sales
- Florists shops
- Food markets and frozen food lockers
- Gasoline service stations, not including the concurrent sale of beer and wine for off-premises consumption
- Gift shops
- Hotels, resort hotels and motels
- Household goods sales, including, but not limited to, new and used appliances, furniture, carpets, draperies, lamps, radios, and television sets, including repair thereof
- Hobby shops
- Ice cream shops
- Ice sales, not including ice plants
- Interior decorating shops
- Jewelry stores, including incidental repairs
- Labor temples
- Laboratories, film, dental, medical, research or testing
- Laundries and laundromats
- Leather goods stores
- Locksmith shops
- Mail order businesses
- Manufacturer's agent
- Market, food, wholesale or jobber
- Massage parlors, Turkish baths, health centers and similar personal service establishments
- Meat markets, not including slaughtering
- Mimeographing and addressograph services
- Mortuaries
- Music stores
- News stores
- Notions or novelty stores
- Offices, including business, law, medical, dental, chiropractic, architectural, engineering, community planning, real estate
- Paint and wallpaper stores, not including paint contractors
- Pawn shops
- Pet shops and pet supply shops
- Photography shops and studios and photo engraving
- Plumbing shops, not including plumbing contractors
- Poultry markets, not including slaughtering or live sales
- Printers or publishers
- Produce markets
- Radio and television broadcasting studios
- Recording studios
- Refreshment stands
- Restaurants and other eating establishments
- Schools, business and professional, including art, barber, beauty, dance, drama, music and swimming
- Shoe stores and repair shops
- Shoeshine stands
- Signs, on-site advertising
- Sporting goods stores
- Stained glass assembly
- Stationer stores
- Stations, bus, railroad and taxi
- Taxidermist
- Tailor shops
- Telephone exchanges
- Theaters, not including drive-ins
- Tire sales and service, not including recapping
- Tobacco shops
- Tourist information centers
- Toy shops
- Travel agencies
- Typewriter sales and rental, including incidental repairs
- Watch repair shops
- Wholesale businesses with samples on the premises but not including storage
- Car washes
- Fortune telling, spiritualism, or similar activity
- Recycling collection facilities
- Convenience stores, not including the sale of motor vehicle fuel
- Day care centers
- Bicycle sales and rentals
- Boat and other marine sales
- Electrical substations
- Equipment rental services, including rototillers, power mowers, sanders, power saws, cement and plaster mixers not exceeding ten (10) cubic feet in capacity and other similar equipment
- Fishing and casting pools
- Golf cart sales and service
- Hardware stores, including not more than one thousand (1,000) square feet of outside storage lumber
- Mobilehome sales and storage, trailer sales and rental house trailers
- Nurseries and garden supply stores
- Parking lots and parking structures
- Sports and recreational facilities, not including motor driven vehicles and riding academies, but including archery ranges, athletic playgrounds, sports arenas, skating rinks, stadiums, and commercial swimming pools
- Churches, temples and other places of religious worship
- Trailer and boat storage
- Truck sales and service
Conditional / special use18
- Sale, rental, repair, or demonstration of motorcycles, scooters and motorbikes
- Drive-in theaters
- Heliports
- Tire recapping
- Animal hospitals
- Body and fender shops and spray painting
- Swap meets
- All uses permitted in subsection A of this section that have more than two hundred (200) square feet of outside storage or display of materials
- Mini-warehouse structures
- Lumber yards, including only incidental mill work
- Building materials sales yards
- Underground bulk fuel storage
- Congregate care residential facilities
- Convenience stores, including the sale of motor vehicle fuel
- Gasoline service stations with the concurrent sale of Alcoholic Beverages for off-premises consumption
- Automobile sales and rental agencies
- Solar power plant on a lot ten (10) acres or larger
- Parolee-probationer home developed in accordance with the standards set forth in Section 18.52 of this ordinance
Accessory1
- Limited manufacturing, fabricating, processing, packaging, treating and incidental storage related thereto
Prohibited1
Extracted standards
6 individual requirements pulled out of this section’s prose, each with the sentence it came from.
Other
- Accessory useAccessory useA secondary activity customarily incidental to the main use of the lot — a garage, a home office. must be enclosed
Accessory uses shall be conducted wholly within a completely enclosed building.
- Accessory useAccessory useA secondary activity customarily incidental to the main use of the lot — a garage, a home office. distance from residential zone50 ft
Such accessory use shall be located not nearer than fifty (50) feet to any residential zone.
- SetbackSetbackThe distance a building must be held back from a lot line. for buildings over 35 feet2 ft per ft over 35
Any portion of a building which exceeds thirty-five (35) feet in height shall be set back from the front, rear and side lot lines not less than two feet for each foot by which the height exceeds thirty-five (35) feet.
- Maximum accessory useAccessory useA secondary activity customarily incidental to the main use of the lot — a garage, a home office. floor area25 pct
The maximum gross floor area of the building permitted to be devoted to such accessory use shall be twenty-five (25) percent.
- Maximum accessory useAccessory useA secondary activity customarily incidental to the main use of the lot — a garage, a home office. motor horsepower5 hp
The maximum total horsepower of all electric motors used in connection with such accessory use shall be five horsepower.
- Roof-mounted mechanical equipment screening distance1,320 ft
All roof-mounted mechanical equipment shall be screened from the ground elevation view to a minimum sight distance of one thousand three hundred twenty (1,320) feet.
From the ordinance
No building or structure shall exceed fifty (50) feet in height, unless a greater height is approved pursuant to section 17.172.230.
Parking requirements
{
"general": "Per Chapter 17.188"
}Use details
{
"dropped_conditions": {
"permitted_uses": [
"One on-site operator's residence, which may be located in a commercial building",
"Ceramic sales and manufacturing for on-site sales, provided the total volume of kiln space does not exceed sixteen (16) cubic feet",
"Liquid petroleum service stations, not including the concurrent sale of beer and wine, provided the total capacity of all tanks shall not exceed ten thousand (10,000) gallons",
"Mobilehomes, provided they are kept mobile and licensed pursuant to state law, used for: a. Sales offices on mobilehome sales lots, b. Construction offices and caretaker's quarters on construction sites for the duration of a valid building permit, provided they are inconspicuously located, c. Caretakers or watchmen and their families, provided no rent is paid, where a permitted and existing commercial use is established. Not more than one mobilehome shall be allowed for a parcel of land or a shopping center complex",
"Trucks and trailers; the rental of trucks not over nineteen thousand five hundred (19,500) pounds gross vehicle weight, with body not to exceed twenty-two (22) feet in length from the back of the cab to the end of body; and the rental of trailers not exceeding six feet in width or twenty-two (22) feet in length"
],
"conditional_uses": [
"Liquid petroleum service stations with the concurrent sale of Alcoholic Beverages for off-premises consumption, provided the total capacity of all tanks shall not exceed 10,000 gallons",
"Liquor stores pursuant to the provisions of Chapter 17.248"
]
}
}