Chapter 17.48
PERMITTED USES IN COMMERCIAL ZONES

Sections:

17.48.010    Purpose.

17.48.020    Permitted uses table.

17.48.010 Purpose.

This chapter establishes Table 48-1 which contains the list of uses that are permitted in each commercial zone within the city of Dinuba. The intent is to ensure (to the degree practical) that commercial neighborhoods function in a harmonious manner and that uses with similar operating characteristics are reasonably grouped and do not conflict with one another or surrounding areas and zones. (Ord. 2024-02 § 2 (Exh. 1), 2024)

17.48.020 Permitted uses table.

Table 48-1 lists uses that are permitted in Dinuba’s commercial zones. Permitted uses are listed in the left column and the city’s commercial zones are listed across the top. To determine whether a particular use is permitted (and whether it is subject to any special requirements) each box is marked with one of the following:

•

“P”

Permitted

•

“C”

Permitted by conditional use permit

•

“(S)”

Where the use is listed as permitted (or Conditionally Permitted) along with the letter “(S),” the use is permitted subject to special standards contained in Chapter 17.48

•

A box in the table with no letter indicates that the use is not permitted in this zone.

Note: For projects involving new construction, site plan review is required consistent with procedures in Section 17.80.020(A) (Administrative Site Plan).

Any use that is judged by the city planner to be reasonably similar in nature to other permitted uses may be considered a permitted use. Further, any use judged by the city planner to be reasonably similar in nature to a conditionally permitted use may be considered as such (permitted by conditional use permit).

For ease of use, the uses in Table 48-1 are grouped into similar categories, as follows:

A.    Educational facilities and schools;

B.    Automotive and vehicular uses;

C.    Entertainment and recreational facilities and uses;

D.    Restaurants, cafes, eating and drinking establishments and related facilities;

E.    Offices and related uses;

F.    Personal services;

G.    Public and semipublic uses;

H.    Residential uses;

I.    Retail stores and related uses;

J.    Service commercial, minor manufacturing, processing and related uses;

K.    Utilities and related activities;

L.    Other uses.

Table 48-1: Permitted Uses in Commercial Zones


Educational facilities and schools, including:

Zones

C-1

C-2

C-3

C-4

PO

Art and craft schools and colleges

 

P

 

P

 

Beauty colleges

 

P

P

P

 

Business, professional, and trade schools and colleges

 

P

 

P

 

Day care centers (adults, up to 12 attendees)

P

P

P

P

P

Day care centers (adults, more than 12 attendees)

C

C

C

C

C

Day care centers (children, up to 14 attendees)

P

P

P

P

P

Day care centers (children, more than 14 attendees)

C

C

C

C

C

Music and dance studios

 

P

 

P

 

Automotive and vehicular uses including vehicle sales, servicing repair and parts, etc., including:

Zones

C-1

C-2

C-3

C-4

PO

Automobile parts stores

P

P

P

P

 

Automobile audio and security installations within an enclosed structure

 

P(S)

 

P(S)

 

Automobile detailing, hand car wash within an enclosed building

 

P(S)

 

P(S)

 

Automobile oil and lube shop

 

P(S)

P(S)

P(S)

 

Automobile repair, body and fender repair

 

P

 

P

 

Automobile sales, new, including service and repair within an enclosed building

 

P

P

P

 

Automobile sales, used, including service and repair within an enclosed building

 

P

P

P

 

Automobile upholstery and top shops

 

P

 

P

 

Boat sales and service

 

 

 

P

 

Car wash/self-service

 

 

 

P

 

Car wash, including use of mechanical conveyors, blowers and steam cleaning

 

 

P

P

 

Equipment rental yards

 

 

 

P

 

Farm equipment sales and service

 

 

 

P

 

Gasoline service stations, including dispensing of diesel and liquid petroleum gas fuels and complete truck service

 

 

 

P(S)

 

Mobile home, recreational vehicle and trailer sales and servicing

 

 

 

P

 

Motorcycle sales and service

 

P

 

P

 

Muffler shop

 

P

 

P

 

Rental equipment, including trailers, trucks and cars

 

 

 

P

 

Service stations, gasoline sales and convenience store only

 

C

C

C

 

Tire shops, including rebuilding, recapping and retreading

 

P

 

P

 

Entertainment and recreational facilities and uses, including:

Zones

C-1

C-2

C-3

C-4

PO

Adult bookstores and adult movie theaters as provided for in Title 17

 

 

 

C

 

Arcades

P

P

P

P

 

Bowling alleys

 

P

P

P

 

Card rooms

 

C

 

 

 

Dance halls

 

C

 

C

 

Health clubs

 

P

P

P

 

Pool and billiards, including in conjunction with a restaurant

 

 

 

C

 

Shooting range, indoor

 

 

 

C

 

Theaters and auditoriums

 

P

P

P

 

Restaurants, cafes, eating and drinking establishments and related facilities where products are typically consumed on site, or prepared for off-site consumption, including:

Zones

C-1

C-2

C-3

C-4

PO

Bakeries, retail and wholesale

P

P

P

P

 

Bars and cocktail lounges

 

C

C

C

 

Breweries, micro

 

C

 

C

 

Candy store

P

P

P

P

 

Delicatessens

P

P

P

P

 

Drive-thru restaurants

 

 

P

P

 

Mobile food vehicles parked on private property

 

P(S)

 

P(S)

 

Restaurants, including those serving alcoholic beverages

P

P

P

P

 

Restaurants, including restaurant with bar/lounge

 

C

C

C

 

NOTE: New businesses featuring drive-thru lanes are not permitted in the downtown (C-2) zone in an effort to strengthen the pedestrian-oriented shopping character of the downtown

Offices and related uses, including:

Zones

C-1

C-2

C-3

C-4

PO

Banks, including drive-in banks and other savings and lending agencies

 

P

P

P

 

Blueprint and photocopy shops

P

P

P

P

P

Clinics/medical

P

P

P

P

P

Employment agencies

P

P

P

P

P

Medical and dental laboratories and clinics including out-patient facilities and prescription pharmacies in conjunction therewith, or with a hospital

P

P

P

P

P

Medical buildings, professional medical buildings, including dentists, physicians, podiatrists, ophthalmologists, and similar practitioners

P

P

P

P

P

Offices, general

P

P

P

P

P

Personal services, including:

Zones

C-1

C-2

C-3

C-4

PO

Banks, including drive-in banks and other savings and lending agencies

 

P

P

P

 

Barber shops and beauty shops

P

P

P

P

P

Body piercing shops

 

C

C

C

 

Cleaning, pressing and dyeing shops (retail only, dry cleaning, cleaning clothes in enclosed machines, noninflammable cleaning compounds)

 

P

P

P

 

Copy and blueprint shops

P

P

P

P

P

Dry cleaning service

 

P

P

P

 

Laundries and laundromats

P

P

P

P

 

Locksmiths

 

P

P

P

 

Massage therapy

 

C(S)

C(S)

C(S)

 

Pet grooming business, no overnight stay for pets

P

P

P

P

P

Pet grooming business, with overnight stay for pets for a maximum of five nights

 

C

C

C

C

Photography studios

P

P

P

P

P

Tattoo shops

 

P

P

P

 

Tattoo shops that also provide body piercing services

 

C

C

C

 

Taxidermists

 

 

 

P

 

Public and semipublic uses, including:

Zones

C-1

C-2

C-3

C-4

PO

Ambulance service

 

 

 

P

 

Churches and other religious institutions

C

C

C

C

C

City, county, state and federal administrative offices, libraries and police and fire stations

 

P

 

P

 

Mortuaries, crematoriums and columbariums

 

P

 

P

C

Public parking lots or structures

P

P

P

P

P

Public parks, playgrounds and other public recreation facilities

 

 

 

 

P

Public uses of a cultural type, including museums and art galleries

 

P

 

 

P

Public utility service yards, electrical and gas transmission stations

 

 

 

 

P

Wedding chapels

 

P

 

P

 

Residential uses, including:

Zones

C-1

C-2

C-3

C-4

PO

Dwellings for a caretaker or watchman and his immediate family, necessary and incidental to a use located in such zone

 

C(S)

C(S)

C(S)

 

Emergency shelter, up to six persons

 

P

 

 

 

Hotel and motels

 

P

P

P

 

Mixed land use in conformance with Chapter 17.61

 

P(S)

 

P(S)

 

Residential drug treatment recovery homes

 

 

 

 

C

Residential uses; single-family residential structures used as dwelling units constructed prior to January 1, 2010. This entry does not apply to a use converted from a residential use to a professional office use.

 

 

 

 

P

Supportive housing

 

C

 

 

 

Transitional housing

 

C

 

 

 

Retail stores and related uses, including:

Zones

C-1

C-2

C-3

C-4

PO

Apparel stores

P

P

P

P

 

Appliance sales

 

P

P

P

 

Antique stores

P

P

P

P

P

Art galleries

P

P

P

P

P

Book stores

P

P

P

P

 

Carpet stores

 

P

P

P

 

Cell phone stores

P

P

P

P

 

Convenience stores, including the sale of alcoholic beverages

 

C

C

C

 

Department stores

 

P

P

P

 

Drug stores

 

P

P

P

 

Feed and seed stores

 

 

 

P

 

Florists

P

P

P

P

P

Furniture stores

 

P

P

P

 

Garden supplies

 

P

P

P

P

Gift, novelty or souvenir shops

P

P

P

P

 

Gunsmith shops

 

P

 

P

 

Hardware and home improvement stores

 

P

P

P

 

Health food stores

 

P

P

P

 

Hobby supply stores

 

P

P

P

 

Hydroponic stores

 

C

C

C

 

Jewelry stores, including clock and watch repairing

 

P

P

P

 

Liquor stores

 

C

C

C

 

Machinery sales and rentals

 

 

 

P

 

Manufacturing and repair activities incidental to a permitted or conditionally permitted retail use, where the manufacturing function occupies no more than 25% of the building or site

 

P

P

P

 

Medical and orthopedic appliance stores

 

P

P

P

 

Music stores

 

P

P

P

 

Paint and wallpaper stores

 

P

P

P

 

Pawn shops

 

P

 

P

 

Pet shops

 

P

P

P

 

Shoe stores

P

P

P

P

 

Sporting goods stores

 

P

P

P

 

Supermarkets (including sales of alcoholic beverages)

 

P

P

P

 

Thrift shops and secondhand stores

 

P

 

P

 

Tobacco stores and smokeshops

 

 

C

C

 

Toy stores

 

P

P

P

 

Variety stores

 

P

P

P

 

Wholesale establishments

 

P

 

P

 

Service commercial, minor manufacturing, processing and related uses, including:

Zones

C-1

C-2

C-3

C-4

PO

Animal hospitals and kennels and veterinarians

 

 

 

C

 

Building materials, sales and storage

 

 

 

P

 

Cabinet shops

 

 

 

P

 

Catering

 

P

 

P

 

Ceramics and pottery studios

 

P

 

P

 

Contractor’s storage yards

 

 

 

C

 

Diaper supply services

 

 

 

P

 

Electrical appliance and incidental repair shops

 

P

 

P

 

Electrical shops

 

 

 

P

 

Electroplating shops

 

 

 

C

 

Exterminators

 

 

 

P

 

Food lockers (no slaughtering, handling of dressed meats only)

 

P

 

P

 

Glass shops

 

 

 

P

 

Heating and ventilating or air conditioning shops, including incidental sheet metal

 

 

 

P

 

Laboratories, experimental and testing

 

 

 

C

 

Lumber yards, not including planing mills or saw mills

 

 

 

P

 

Machine shops

 

 

 

C

 

Petroleum products storage; provided, that gasoline, kerosene and similar highly inflammable products shall be stored underground

 

 

 

C

 

Plumbing and sheet metal shops

 

 

 

P

 

Recycling collection centers

P(S)

P(S)

P(S)

P(S)

 

Rug and carpet cleaning and dyeing

 

 

 

P

 

Stone monument works

 

 

 

C

 

Upholstery shops

 

 

 

P

 

Veterinarian offices and small animal hospitals or clinics including short-term boarding of animals and incidental care such as bathing and trimming; provided, that all operations are conducted entirely within a completely enclosed structure which complies with specifications of soundproof construction prescribed by the Uniform Building Code

 

C

 

C

 

Utilities and related activities, including:

Zones

C-1

C-2

C-3

C-4

P-O

Communication and wireless facilities, with stealthing

 

 

 

P(S)

 

Communication and wireless facilities, without stealthing

 

 

 

C(S)

 

Communications equipment buildings

 

P

 

P

 

Electrical distribution substations, communication equipment buildings, gas regulator stations and utility pumping stations and elevated pressure tanks

 

P

P

P

 

Gas and electric transmission lines, electrical transmission and distribution substations, gas regulator stations, communications equipment buildings, public service pumping stations and elevated pressure tanks

 

P

P

P

 

Microwave relay stations

 

 

 

C

 

Solar energy system

P

P

P

P

P

Water pump stations

 

P

P

P

 

Other uses, including:

Zones

C-1

C-2

C-3

C-4

PO

Auction rooms

 

P

 

P

 

Hookah bar

 

C

 

C

 

Ice dispensers (coin-operated)

P

P

P

P

 

Kennels located not closer than 500 feet to any residential or PO district

 

 

 

P

 

Meeting or social halls

 

P

 

P

 

Meeting or social halls with fewer than 4,000 square feet of floor space that do not operate after twelve a.m.

 

P

 

P

 

Mini-storage facilities

 

 

 

P

 

Modular structures

P(S)

P(S)

P(S)

P(S)

P(S)

Parking lots improved in conformity with the standards prescribed for required off-street parking facilities in Chapter 17.64

P

P

P

P

P

Planned unit development subject to provisions of Chapter 17.92

C

C

C

C

C

Private clubs and lodges

 

P

 

P

 

Storage buildings incidental to a permitted use (including the use of cargo containers)

P(S)

P(S)

P(S)

P(S)

P(S)

Swap meets

 

 

 

P

 

Temporary uses

P(S)

P(S)

P(S)

P(S)

P(S)

Other uses determined by the city planner to be reasonably similar in nature and operational characteristics to a permitted use in the zone

P

P

P

P

P

Other uses determined by the city planner to be reasonably similar in nature and operational characteristics to a conditionally permitted use in the zone

C

C

C

C

C

Key to Matrix: “P” = Permitted; “C” = Conditional use permit required; “(S)” = Subject to requirements for special uses (see Chapter 17.48)

(Ord. 2024-02 § 2 (Exh. 1), 2024)