Adult Business. As defined in Chapter 5.50 of the Alhambra Municipal Code.
Animal Boarding and Veterinary Services. Services related to the medical care and boarding of household pets.
Animal Shelter and Boarding. A commercial, non-profit, or governmental facility for keeping, boarding, training, breeding, or maintaining, generally overnight or in excess of 24 hours, dogs, cats, or other household pets not owned by the owner or operator of the facility.
Pet Day Care. Facilities providing non-medical care on a less than 24-hour basis for dogs, cats, or other household pets not owned by the facility operator.
Veterinary Services. Veterinary services for dogs, cats, or other household pets. This classification allows 24-hour accommodation of animals receiving medical services and treatment, including animal hospitals, and pet clinics.
Automobile/Vehicle Sales and Services. Retail or wholesale businesses that sell, rent, and/or repair automobiles, boats, recreational vehicles, trucks, vans, trailers, and/or motorcycles.
Automobile Rental. Establishment providing for the rental of automobiles. Typical uses include car rental agencies.
Automobile/Vehicle Sales and Leasing. Sale or lease, retail or wholesale, of automobiles, light trucks, motorcycles, motor homes, and trailers, together with associated repair services and parts sales, but excluding body repair and painting. Typical uses include automobile dealers and recreational vehicle sales agencies.
Automobile/Vehicle Service and Repair, Minor. The service and repair of automobiles, light-duty trucks, and motorcycles, including the incidental
sale, installation, and servicing of related equipment and parts. This classification includes the replacement of small automotive parts and liquids as an accessory use to a gasoline sales station or automotive accessories and supply store, and smog checks, tire sales and installation, auto radio/electronics installation, auto air conditioning/heater service, and quick-service oil, tune-up shops, and brake and muffler shops where repairs are made or service provided in enclosed bays and no vehicles are stored overnight.
Automobile/Vehicle Repair, Major. Repair of automobiles, trucks, motorcycles, motor homes, boats, and recreational vehicles, generally on an overnight basis that may include disassembly, removal or replacement of major components such as engines, drive trains, transmissions or axles, automotive body and fender work, vehicle painting, or other operations that generate excessive noise, objectionable odors or hazardous materials, and towing services. This classification excludes vehicle dismantling or salvaging and tire retreading or recapping.
Large Vehicle and Equipment Sales, Service, and Rental. Sales, servicing, rental, fueling, and washing of large trucks, trailers, tractors, and other equipment used for construction, moving, agricultural, or landscape gardening activities.
Service Stations. Establishments primarily engaged in retailing automotive fuels or retailing these fuels in combination with activities, such as providing minor automobile/vehicle repair services; selling automotive oils, replacement parts, and accessories; and/or providing incidental food and retail services. These facilities may include "mini-marts" and/or convenience stores that sell products, merchandise, or services that are ancillary to the primary use related to the operation of motor vehicles.
Towing and Impound. Establishments primarily engaged in towing light or heavy motor vehicles, both local and long distance. These establishments may provide incidental services, such as vehicle storage and emergency road repair services (for automobile dismantling, see salvage and wrecking).
Vehicle Washing. Washing, waxing, or cleaning of automobiles or similar light vehicles.
Banks and Financial Services. Financial institutions providing retail banking services. This classification includes only those institutions serving walk-in customers or clients, including banks, savings, and loan institutions, check-cashing services, and credit unions.
Business Services. Establishments providing goods and services to other businesses on a fee or contract basis, including printing and copying, blueprint services, advertising and mailing, office equipment rental and leasing, office security, custodial services, photofinishing, model building, and taxi services or delivery services with two or fewer fleet vehicles on-site.
Commercial Cannabis Facility. Any building, facility, use, establishment, property, or location where any person or entity establishes, commences, engages in, conducts, or carries on, or permits another person or entity to establish, commence, engage in, conduct, or carry on, any commercial cannabis activity that requires a state license or nonprofit license under Cal. Bus. and Prof. Code §§ 26000 and following, including but not limited to cannabis cultivation, cannabis distribution, cannabis transportation, cannabis storage, manufacturing of cannabis products, cannabis processing, cannabis deliveries, the sale of any cannabis or cannabis products, and the operation of a cannabis microbusiness.
Commercial Entertainment and Recreation. Provision of participant or spectator entertainment to the public. These classifications may include incidental restaurants, snack bars, and other related food and beverage services to patrons.
Cinema/Theater. Any facility for the indoor display of films and motion pictures on single or multiple screens. This subclassification may include incidental food and beverage service to patrons as well as auditoriums within buildings.
Indoor. Establishments providing predominantly participant sports, indoor amusement and entertainment services conducted within an enclosed building. Typical uses include arcades, bingo halls, bowling alleys, billiard parlors, card rooms, health clubs, ice- and roller-skating rinks, indoor racquetball courts, athletic clubs, indoor shooting ranges, and physical fitness centers.
Outdoor Entertainment. Predominantly participant sports conducted in open or partially enclosed or screened facilities. Typical uses include driving ranges, golf courses, sports complexes, miniature golf courses, tennis clubs, outdoor batting cages, swimming pools, archery ranges, and riding stables.
Drive-Through Facility. A motor vehicle drive-through facility which is a commercial building or structure or portion thereof which is designed or used to provide goods or services to the occupants of motor vehicles. This classification includes banks and other financial services, fast food establishments, drugstores, and film deposit/pick-up establishments, but excludes drive-in theaters (see commercial entertainment and recreation), service stations, or car-wash operations (see automobile/vehicle sales and services).
Eating and Drinking Establishments. Businesses primarily engaged in serving prepared food and/or beverages for consumption on or off the premises.
Bars/Night Clubs/Lounges. Businesses serving alcoholic beverages for consumption on the premises as a primary use, including on-sale service of alcohol including beer, wine, and mixed drinks. This subclassification includes tasting rooms and micro-breweries where alcoholic beverages are sold and consumed on site and any beverage production or distilling, and food service is subordinate to the sale of alcoholic beverages.
Restaurant. Establishments where food and beverages are served to patrons on-site or off-site, including full-service, limited-service, and take-out/delivery businesses. This subclassification includes cafés, coffee shops, delicatessens, fast-food businesses, food halls, and bakeries that have tables for on-site consumption of products. It excludes catering services and commercial kitchens that do not sell food or beverages for on-site consumption.
Farmer's Markets. Temporary but recurring outdoor retail sales of food, plants, flowers, and products such as jellies, breads, and meats that are predominantly grown or produced by vendors who sell them.
Food Preparation. Establishments preparing and/or packaging food primarily for off-site consumption, including catering kitchens, retail bakeries, and small-scale specialty food production. This classification excludes establishments with an industrial character in terms of processes employed, waste produced, water used, and traffic generation.
Funeral Parlors and Interment Services. An establishment primarily engaged in the provision of services, involving the care, preparation, or disposition of human remains and conducting memorial services. This subclassification includes funeral parlors, crematories, and mortuaries, but excludes cemeteries and burial parks (see cemeteries and columbariums).
Hotels and Motels. An establishment providing overnight lodging to transient patrons for payment periods of 30 consecutive calendar days or less. These establishments may provide additional services and amenities, such as conference and meeting rooms, restaurants, bars, or recreation facilities available to guests or to the public.
Offices. Offices of firms, organizations, or public agencies providing professional, executive, management, administrative or design services, such as accounting, architectural, computer software design, engineering, graphic design, interior design, investment, insurance, and legal offices, real estate and mortgage brokers. This classification also includes offices where medical and dental services are provided by physicians, dentists, chiropractors, acupuncturists, optometrists, and similar medical professionals, including medical/dental laboratories within medical office buildings, but excludes clinics, independent research laboratory facilities (see research and development), and hospitals.
Personal Services.
General Personal Services. An establishment providing services of personal convenience to individuals as a primary use. Personal services include barber and beauty shops, permanent makeup studios, day spas, nail salons, tanning salons, electrolysis, and other cosmetic and appearance care services; shoe and luggage repair, photographers, self-serve laundry and dry cleaning pick-up, tattoo and body modification parlors, repair and fitting of clothes, and similar services.
Fortunetelling. Any place of business where any person allows or professes to carry on, engage in or practice the art or transaction of palmistry, fortunetelling, clairvoyance, crystal gazing, seancing, numerology, mediumship, tarot-card reading, past-life regression, prophecy, phrenology or divination for personal gain or other similar activity.
Massage Establishments. As defined in Alhambra Municipal Code Chapter 9.44.
Repair and Maintenance Services. Establishments engaged in the maintenance or repair of consumer products, including office machines, household appliances, electronics, furniture, and similar items. This classification excludes repair and maintenance of motor vehicles (see automobile/vehicle sales and services) and personal apparel (see personal services).
Retail Sales.
Building Materials Stores and Retail Garden Centers. Retail establishments selling lumber and other large building materials and garden supplies, where the majority of storage, display, and sales occur indoors. Includes: paint, wallpaper, glass, fixtures, nursery stock, and lawn and garden supplies sold to the general public, even if contractor sales account for a major proportion of total sales. This subclassification does not include construction and material yards, hardware stores less than 10,000 square feet in floor area, or outdoor plant nurseries.
Food and Beverage Sales. Retail sales of food and beverages primarily for off-site preparation and consumption. This subclassification includes uses such as food markets, grocery stores, liquor stores, and meat markets and butcher shops.
General Retail. The retail sale or rental of merchandise not specifically listed under another use classification. This subclassification includes retail establishments such as department stores, clothing stores, furniture stores, small hardware stores (with 10,000 square feet or less of floor area), and businesses retailing the following goods: household pets and pet supplies, toys, hobby materials, handcrafted items, jewelry, cameras, photographic supplies and services (including portraiture and retail photo processing), medical supplies and equipment,
pharmacies, electronic equipment, sporting goods, kitchen utensils, hardware, appliances, antiques, art galleries, art supplies and services, paint and wallpaper, carpeting and floor covering, office supplies, bicycles, video rental, and new automotive parts and accessories (excluding vehicle service and installation). Retail sales may be combined with other services such as office machine, computer, electronics, and similar small-item repairs.
Outdoor Retail Sales and Nurseries. Permanent outdoor sales establishments including auction yards, lumber and other material sales yards, and other retail uses where sales, storage, and/or display occurs primary outdoors. This subclassification does not include the sale of automobiles, recreational vehicles, mobile homes, or large vehicles and heavy equipment (see automobile/vehicle sales and leasing large vehicle and equipment sales, service, and rental).
(Ord. 4823, passed 1-22-24)