Chapter 18.32 (CN Commercial Neighborhood District)
Dimensional standards
Lot
Height & bulk
- Minimum landscaping
- 10%
Servicing
- Geographic extent
- Applies to all CN districts; additional conditionalConditional useAllowed only after a discretionary approval — usually a public hearing and a board vote. uses in Lake Berryessa, Capell Valley, and Angwin areas.
Uses
Permitted by right3
- Agriculture
- Minor antennas meeting requirements of Sections 18.119.240 through 18.119.260
- Telecommunication facilities meeting performance standards of Section 18.119.200 (with site plan approval)
Conditional / special use25
- Retail business (candy, ice cream, bakeries, health food, ice sales, dry goods, gift, hardware, liquor, tobacco, newsstands, bookstores) - max 2,500 sq ft
- Food/meat markets (less than 28,000 sq ft)
- Service businesses (barber, beauty, shoe repair, laundry, dry cleaning agency, repair of personal items)
- Child day care centers
- Medical, optical and dental offices
- Branch post offices
- Swimming pool
- Gasoline service stations
- Video rentals
- Private schools (institutional)
- Nurseries and garden stores
- Small financial services (branch banks, ATMs, no drive-through)
- Professional, administrative, executive, financial, real estate, insurance and other general business offices
- Auto supply stores (Lake Berryessa and Capell Valley only)
- Small contractor's offices and equipment, boat and material storage yards (Lake Berryessa and Capell Valley only)
- Restaurants, coffee shops, pizza parlors, cafes (max 50 seats, no drive-through) (Lake Berryessa and Capell Valley only)
- Storage and sales yards for hardware stores, building materials yards (Lake Berryessa and Capell Valley only)
- Auto supply, service, repair, and detail shops (Angwin only)
- Awning, cover, upholstery, framing, custom cabinet shops (Angwin only, max 2,500 sq ft)
- Service businesses (house cleaners, exterminators, plumbing, floor covering, septic tank cleaners, landscape maintenance) (Angwin only)
- Contractor's offices with incidental outdoor storage (Angwin only)
- Outdoor display and storage (incidental, max 3,000 sq ft, rear half of lot)
- Telecommunication facilities not meeting performance standards
- Satellite earth stations (if cannot be located in I, IP, or GI district)
- Commercial accessory dwelling units (moderate income, deed restriction)
Extracted standards
16 individual requirements pulled out of this section’s prose, each with the sentence it came from.
Environmental
- Stream setbackSetbackThe distance a building must be held back from a lot line. from top of bank50 ft
All new roadways, parking lots, outdoor display/material storage areas, and buildings or expansion of existing buildings shall be set back a minimum of fifty feet from the top of the bank of any stream. (18.32.080 E)
Lighting
- Outdoor lighting shielding
All outdoor lighting shall be shielded and directed onto the subject property only, so that the light source is not visible from adjacent properties or streets. (18.32.080 D)
Other
- Commercial ADUAccessory dwelling unit (ADU)A second, smaller home on a lot that already has one — a garage flat, basement flat or backyard cottage. deed restriction
Commercial accessory dwelling units, provided that (i) prior to the issuance of a building permit to commence construction of the dwelling units, the permittee shall record a deed restriction, in a form acceptable to county counsel, limiting in perpetuity the use of the dwelling units to occupancy by households with moderate income and below (18.32.030 G)
- All repair and detailing operations inside
All repair and detailing operations and commercial activities except outdoor display/storage authorized by Section 18.030.130D shall take place within a completely enclosed building. (18.32.060 F)
- Maximum floor area for food/meat markets28,000 sqftsq ftSquare feet. An acre is 43,560 sq ft; a typical suburban lot is 7,000–10,000.
Food/meat markets, not including slaughtering (less than twenty-eight thousand square feet in floor area) (18.32.030 A2)
- Maximum outdoor display/storage area3,000 sqftsq ftSquare feet. An acre is 43,560 sq ft; a typical suburban lot is 7,000–10,000.
Outdoor display and storage of materials and equipment shall be allowed upon grant of a use permit when incidental to the commercial use of a lot in the CN zone provided that such storage is confined to an area not exceeding three thousand square feet and is situated on the rear half of the lot. (18.32.030 D)
- Maximum seats for restaurants in Lake Berryessa/Capell Valley50 seats
Restaurants, coffee shops, pizza parlors and cafes, not including drive-through eating places, with no more than fifty seats on the parcel containing the use (18.32.030 B3)
- Maximum floor area for retail uses2,500 sqftsq ftSquare feet. An acre is 43,560 sq ft; a typical suburban lot is 7,000–10,000.
Each of these uses are limited to a maximum floor area of two thousand five hundred square feet. (18.32.030 A1)
- Maximum heightMaximum heightThe tallest a building may be, given in feet, in storeys, or both — whichever binds first. of screening for outdoor storage15 ft
All outdoor storage areas, exterior sales areas, and service yards shall be screened from the public streets and adjacent properties by a combination of solid fencing or walls and dense evergreen hedging or trees not exceeding fifteen feet in height. (18.32.060 E)
- Minimum landscaped setbackSetbackThe distance a building must be held back from a lot line. from curb10 ft
A minimum of ten feet of unpaved development area between a curb line and the front and side walls of a building or side yard enclosure shall be permanently landscaped. (18.32.060 C)
- Minimum lot areaMinimum lot areaThe smallest parcel on which the district allows anything to be built. with public water and sewer21,780 sqftsq ftSquare feet. An acre is 43,560 sq ft; a typical suburban lot is 7,000–10,000.
Minimum lot area shall be one-half acre if both public water supply and public sewage facilities are available, and one acre in all other circumstances. (18.32.050)
- Minimum screening heightMaximum heightThe tallest a building may be, given in feet, in storeys, or both — whichever binds first. for setbacksSetbackThe distance a building must be held back from a lot line. adjoining residential6 ft
All such setback areas shall be landscaped with a combination of solid fencing or walls and dense evergreen hedging or trees, a minimum of six feet in height. (18.32.060 B)
- Performance standards for noise, dust, light
All activities shall be conducted so that noise, vibration, dust, odor, light, and all other objectionable factors shall be confined or reduced to the extent that no unreasonable annoyance or injury will result to persons residing in the vicinity. (18.32.080 B)
This landscaping shall include trees at a ratio of one per every thirty feet of parcel frontage. (18.32.060 C)
Parking
- Parking not in required setbackSetbackThe distance a building must be held back from a lot line.
Parking areas shall not be located within any required setback area. (18.32.070 B)
- Parking lot landscaping ratio
Parking lots shall be landscaped at a minimum ratio of one tree per six parking spaces for double-loaded stalls and one tree per three spaces for single-loaded stalls. (18.32.070 B)
From the ordinance
Minimum lot area shall be one-half acre if both public water supply and public sewage facilities are available, and one acre in all other circumstances. (18.32.050)
Parking requirements
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