Santa Monica shut down the Food Truck Lot today.  According to the Code Enforcement City Official, the C4 zone in which the lot resides does not list “Food Truck Lot” as an acceptable use.  If the Zone does not expressly permit the activity then it is prohibited. Since there is no mention of Food Truck Lot in the zoning code we’re out of luck.

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Below are the acceptable uses.

The following uses shall be permitted in the C4 District, if conducted within an enclosed building, except where otherwise permitted:

(a)   Ambulance service.

(b)   Appliance repair shops.

(c)   Artist studios above the first floor.

(d)   Automatic ice dispensing machine which need not be in an enclosed building.

(e)   Bakeries.

(f)    Banks and savings and loan institutions.

(g)   Barber or beauty shops.

(h)   Bowling alleys.

(i)    Business colleges.

(j)    Child day care centers.

(k)   Cleaners.

(l)    Congregate housing.

(m)  Dance studios.

(n)   Domestic violence shelters.

(o)   Electrical shops.

(p)   Electric distribution substations.

(q)   Funeral parlors or mortuaries.

(r)    General offices.

(s)    General retail and specialized retail uses.

(t)    Homeless shelters with less than fifty-five beds.

(u)   Laundromats.

(v)   Medical, dental and optometrist clinics and laboratories.

(w)  Medical equipment rentals.

(x)   Multifamily dwelling units.

(y)   Public parks and playgrounds.

(z)   Party equipment rentals.

(aa) Photocopy shops.

(bb) Places of worship.

(cc) Plant retail stores.

(dd) Real estate offices.

(ee) Restaurants of fifty seats or less.

(ff)  Senior group housing.

(gg) Senior housing.

(hh) Sidewalk cafés not more than two hundred square feet in area, subject to the limitations contained in Section 9.04.10.02.460.

(ii)   Sign painting shops.

(jj)   Single-family dwelling units.

(kk) Single-room occupancy housing.

(ll)   Skating rinks.

(mm) Tailors.

(nn) Trade schools.

(oo) Transitional housing.

(pp) Variety stores.

(qq) Accessory uses which are determined by the Zoning Administrator to be necessary and customarily associated with, and appropriate, incidental, and subordinate to, the principal permitted uses and which are consistent and are no more disruptive or disturbing than permitted uses.

(rr)   Other uses determined by the Zoning Administrator to be similar to those listed above and which are consistent and no more disruptive or disturbing than permitted uses.  (Prior code § 9020.2; amended by Ord. No. 1687CCS § 6 (part), adopted 6/22/93; Ord. No. 2192CCS § 13, adopted 7/11/06)