The following uses are either permitted, conditionally permitted or not permitted in the C-P (Professional and Office), C-2 (Restricted Commercial) or C-3 (General Commercial) zones, as set forth in Table 1-17.33 below. Other similar permissible uses not identified in Table 1-17.33 may be permitted by Planning Commission determination pursuant to Chapter 17.88 of the Corona Municipal Code (Similar Uses). All permitted uses must be conducted completely within enclosed buildings.
(`78 Code, § 17.33.030.) (Ord. 3323 § 3, 2020; Ord. 2437 § 2, 2000.)
TABLE 1-17.33 PERMITTED LAND USES
Legend for Permitted Land Uses
“P” | Permitted use. |
“CUP” | Permitted with a conditional use permit issued in accordance with Chapter 17.92 of the Corona Municipal Code (conditional use permit). |
“MCUP” | Denotes a use which is subject to the minor conditional use permit procedure only. |
“NP” | Use not permitted. |
“BZA” | Use subject to approval by the Board of Zoning Adjustment. |
Land Use | C-P | C-2 | C-3 |
Land Use | C-P | C-2 | C-3 |
Animal hospital (small animals only) | NP | NP | CUP |
Antique shop | NP | P | P |
Art gallery | P | P | P |
Automobile accessories with installation | NP | NP | P |
Automobile body, fender repair and/or painting shop (subject to the provisions of Chapter 17.72*) | NP | NP | CUP |
Automobile parts and accessories store (retail only - no installation) | NP | P | P |
Automobile rental (subject to the provisions of Chapter 17.72*) | NP | NP | P |
Automobile sales and leasing - new or used (subject to the provisions of Chapter 17.72*) | NP | NP | P |
Automobile storage garage | NP | NP | NP |
Automobile service station (subject to the provisions of Chapter 17.72*) | NP | P | P |
Automobile upholstery (subject to the provisions of Chapter 17.72*) | NP | NP | CUP |
Bank without drive-thru | P | P | P |
Barbershop; beauty shop | P | P | P |
Bicycle shop | NP | P | P |
Billiard parlor, bowling alley | NP | NP | CUP |
Book or stationery store | P | P | P |
Brewery, craft | NP | P | P |
Cannabis cultivation | NP | NP | NP |
Cannabis distribution | NP | NP | NP |
Cannabis manufacturing | NP | NP | NP |
Cannabis microbusiness | NP | NP | NP |
Cannabis non-storefront retailer | NP | NP | NP |
Cannabis storefront retailer | NP | NP | NP |
Cannabis testing laboratory | NP | NP | NP |
Car wash - self service and full service (subject to the provisions of Chapter 17.72*) | NP | NP | CUP |
Catering establishment | NP | P | P |
Church equal to or exceeding an overall combined floor area of 10,000 square feet | CUP | CUP | CUP |
Church, interim | BZA | BZA | BZA |
Clothes - cleaning, dying, pressing, tailoring | NP | P | P |
Clothes and wearing apparel shop | NP | P | P |
Club, lodge or meeting hall | CUP | CUP | CUP |
Construction trailer (used as a construction project office during time of construction when a valid building permit is in force) | P | P | P |
Copying, printing, mall service establishments (retail only) | P | P | P |
Cybercafes (subject to the provisions of § 17.33.150) | NP | NP | P |
Day care facilities | P | P | P |
Department store or general retail | NP | P | P |
Drive-thru establishments (such as ATM, bank, coffee house, dairy, drugstore, photo processing, restaurant; and subject to the provisions of § 17.33.110) | NP | NP | P |
Drugstore | NP | P | P |
Electronics store | NP | P | P |
Florist | P | P | P |
Furniture store (new only) | NP | P | P |
Game arcade | NP | NP | CUP |
Game arcade, ancillary (20% or less of commercial floor area) | NP | P | P |
Grocery store | NP | P | P |
Hardware or appliance store | NP | P | P |
Health or fitness club | P | P | P |
Health care or community facility (subject to the provisions of Chapter 17.73*) | – | – | – |
High water demand - a non-residential project that would demand an amount of water equivalent to, or greater than, the amount of water required by a 500 dwelling unit residential project | CUP | CUP | CUP |
Home improvement retail store | NP | P | P |
Hotel/motor inn | NP | CUP | CUP |
Interior decorating shop | P | P | P |
Laboratory, medical or dental | P | P | P |
Laundromat (self-service laundry) | NP | P | P |
Library, public | P | P | P |
Liquor (off-sale only) or convenience store | NP | NP | CUP |
Locksmith | NP | NP | P |
Manufacturing | NP | NP | NP |
Market - fish, meat or produce (retail only) | NP | P | P |
Massage establishment (subject to provisions of Chapter 5.28) | P | P | P |
Mortuary | CUP | CUP | CUP |
Motorcycle sales and service (subject to the provisions of Chapter 17.72*) | NP | NP | CUP |
Museum or cultural center | P | P | P |
Newsstand | P | P | P |
Nightclub, music, dance hall, reception hall (excluding adult entertainment) | NP | NP | CUP |
Nursery (sale of live plants and flowers) | NP | P | P |
Offices - business, dental, medical or professional | P | P | P |
Office supply store | P | P | P |
Open air markets or indoor/outdoor swap meets (subject to the provisions of § 17.33.130.) | NP | NP | CUP |
Parking structures | CUP | CUP | CUP |
Parks and recreation areas (subject to the provisions of Chapter 12.24*) | P | P | P |
Pet shops | NP | P | P |
Pharmacy in association with a medical office | P | P | P |
Photography service or studio | P | P | P |
Post office | P | P | P |
Prepared food products, primarily take-out, no drive-thru (such as bakery, donut shop, coffee house, confectionery, delicatessen, specialty) | P | P | P |
Private school (such as art, dental, language, medical, modeling, technical, tutoring, business college. No riding academies.) | P | P | P |
Private elementary, middle or high school | NP | CUP | CUP |
Recreational vehicle, trailer, camper and boat sales and service (subject to the provisions of Chapter 17.72*) | NP | NP | CUP |
Residential1, 2 | P | P | P |
Restaurant or café, dine-in only (live entertainment establishments shall be subject to the provisions of Chapter 17.41*) | P | P | P |
Reverse vending machines (must be located within a permitted commercial structure) | NP | P | P |
Senior citizen housing (subject to development standards within Chapter 17.24.) | CUP | NP | NP |
Sex-oriented book stores (including pictures and filmstrips, subject to the provisions of Chapter 17.41*) | NP | NP | P |
Shoe store - repair or retail sales | NP | P | P |
Sign painting | NP | NP | P |
Smoking lounges (subject to the provisions of § 17.33.160) | NP | MCUP | MCUP |
Specialty store (such as camera, gift, hobby, jewelry, kitchen, tobacco) | NP | P | P |
Sporting goods store | NP | P | P |
Studio (such as art, music, design, martial arts, dance, gymnastics) | NP | P | P |
Tailor or dressmaker shop | P | P | P |
Tattoo and body piercing salons | NP | MCUP | MCUP |
Taxidermist | NP | NP | P |
Theater, movie or playhouse (excluding adult entertainment) | NP | NP | CUP |
Thrift store (including used furniture and consignment) | NP | NP | P |
Tire shop (subject to the provisions of Chapter 17.72*) | NP | NP | P |
Tobacco stores, retail (subject to the provisions of Chapter 5.19*) | NP | MCUP | MCUP |
Truck and recreational vehicle rental (subject to the provisions of Chapter 17.72*) | NP | NP | CUP |
*The following chapters are found in the zoning ordinance of the Corona Municipal Code: 17.04 (Definitions and Construction); 17.41 (Sexually Oriented Businesses); 17.72 (Supplemental Site Development Standards for Automotive Related Uses); and 17.73 (Health Care Facilities). Chapter 12.24 (Parks and Recreation Areas) is found under Streets, Sidewalks and Public Places of the Corona Municipal Code. Chapter 5.19 (Tobacco Sales Restrictions) is found under Business Licenses and Regulations of the Corona Municipal Code.
1Residential permitted for a housing development project proposed pursuant to Cal. Gov’t Code § 65852.24 subject to the requirements set forth in Corona Municipal Code Chapter 17.31.
2Residential permitted for a housing development project proposed pursuant to Cal. Gov’t Code §§ 65912.100 et seq.
(`78 Code, § 17.33.030.) (Ord. 3372 § 4, 2023; Ord. 3371 § 5, 2023; Ord. 3323 § 3, 2020; Ord. 3223 §§ 28, 29, 2016; Ord. 3220 §§ 27, 28, 2015; Ord. 3201 § 4, 2015; Ord. 3186 § 4, 2014; Ord. 3139 § 6, 2013; Ord. 3054 § 1, 2010; Ord. 3049, § 1, 2010; Ord. 2856 § 2, 2006; Ord. 2740 § 2, 2004; Ord. 2570 § 1, 2002; Ord. 2564 § 1, 2002; Ord. 2510 § 3, 2001; Ord. 2437 § 2, 2000.)