Part III Use Standards | 16.331 Personal Storage
16.331 PERSONAL STORAGE 16.331.01 PURPOSE AND APPLICABILITY These provisions present regulations for Personal Storage facilities, while not generating adverse impacts on its surroundings, such as parking demand, traffic generation, fire, or safety hazard, visual blight, or use indirectly supportive of illegal or criminal activity. Personal Storage uses shall be located, developed, and operated in compliance with the following standards; and apply to all new and existing facilities where the storage area of the existing business is expanded. All new Personal Storage facilities and any increase in the floor area or number of units in an existing facility shall require a Major Use Permit, as provided in Chapter 16.606, Minor and Major Use Permits.
16.331.02 REQUIREMENTS A. Business Activity. The use of Personal Storage facilities by customers shall be limited to inactive storage only. No retail, repair, or other business activity shall be conducted out of the individual rental storage units. No activities other than rental of storage units and pick-up and deposit of storage shall be allowed on the premises. Examples of activities prohibited in said facilities include, but are not limited to the following:
B. Enclosure. Outdoor storage is prohibited. No boats, trailers, and/or other vehicles shall be parked or otherwise stored outside the storage units except in areas approved for such storage. C. Hazardous Materials. No caustic, hazardous, toxic or flammable or explosive matter, material, liquid, or object, nor any matter, material, liquid or object that creates obnoxious or offensive dust, odor or fumes shall be stored in a Personal Storage unit. D. Utilities. Water, gas or telephone service to any rental space is prohibited. E. Habitation. Human habitation of any rental space is prohibited. F. Notice to Tenants. As part of the rental process, the facility manager shall inform all tenants of conditions restricting storage of hazardous materials and limitation on the use of the storage units. These restrictions shall be included in rental contracts and posted in a conspicuous location within the front of each rental unit.
1. Auctions, commercial wholesale or retail sales, or miscellaneous garage sales. An exception is made for auctions required by law to comply with lien sale requirements. During the course of said lien sales, customer vehicles shall not be allowed to obstruct circulation within the Personal Storage facility. 2. The servicing, repair, or fabrication of motor vehicles, boats, trailers, lawn mowers, appliances, or other similar equipment. 3. The operation of power tools, spray-painting equipment, table saws, lathes, compressors, welding equipment, kilns, or other similar equipment. 4. The establishment of a transfer and storage business.
Draft: 01/06/2021
TITLE 16: ZONING CODE | VALLEJO, CA 151
