Chapter 23.915 — Storage, Personal Storage Facility Development Standards

A. Purpose. The purpose of this chapter is to establish site planning, development, and/or operating standards for storage, personal storage uses within individual or multiple zoning districts. It is the city's intent, in establishing these standards, to mitigate the potential adverse visual impacts of this use on adjacent and surrounding property by requiring additional setbacks, screening, and other location standards.

B. Applicability. The regulations and standards contained in this chapter shall apply only to storage, personal storage facilities as expressly identified in the corresponding section and shall be in addition to any other development standards and regulations contained elsewhere in this zoning code (e.g., lighting, landscaping, parking). This use may only be located in those zoning districts as described in, and shall only be authorized in concert with the permit requirements of, Article 3 of this title (Zoning Districts, Allowable Uses, and General Development Standards).

(Ord. 4-2017 § 3 (Exh. B))

A. Storage, personal storage facilities shall only be located in those zoning districts as described in Article 3 but not in the following locations:

1. Shall not be located within 250 feet of Highway 50, Folsom Boulevard, Sunrise Boulevard, or Zinfandel Drive rights-of-way unless buildings are designed to appear as office buildings. Storage bay doors shall not face any abutting property located in a residential district, nor shall they be visible from any public road.

2. Shall not be located within one-quarter mile of an existing storage, personal storage facility, or a Sacramento Regional Transit station.

B. Development Standards.

1. Except as provided in this section, all property stored on the site of a storage, personal storage facility use shall be entirely within enclosed buildings.

2. Open storage of recreational vehicles and dry storage of boats shall be permitted within a storage, personal storage facility use; provided, that the following standards are met:

   • a. The storage shall occur only within a designated area. The designated area shall be clearly delineated on the site plan and site.

   • b. The storage area shall not exceed 25 percent of the buildable area of the site.

   • c. The storage area shall be entirely screened from view from adjacent residential areas and public roads by a building and/or solid fencing with landscaping on the outside of the fence.

   • d. Storage shall not occur within the area set aside for minimum building setbacks.

   • e. No dry stacking of boats shall be permitted on site.

   • f. No vehicle maintenance, washing, or repair shall be permitted.

3. With the exception of a structure used as a security or caretaker quarters, the maximum height of a self-service storage facility use shall be 24 feet. In addition, a parapet wall shall be constructed to screen roof-mounted heating and air conditioning and other equipment, if any. The combined height of the building and the parapet wall shall not exceed 30 feet.

4. The following on-site circulation standards shall apply:

   • a. Interior parking shall be provided in the form of aisleways adjacent to the storage bays. These aisleways shall be used both for circulation and temporary customer parking while using storage bays. The minimum width of these aisleways shall be 21 feet if only one-way traffic is permitted, and 30 feet if two-way traffic is permitted.

   • b. The one- or two-way traffic flow patterns in aisleways shall be clearly marked. Marking shall consist at a minimum of use of standard directional signage and painted lane markings with arrows.

   • c. Appropriate access and circulation by vehicles and emergency equipment shall be ensured through the design of internal turning radii of aisleways.

5. Outdoor lighting shall be the minimum necessary to discourage vandalism and theft. If a facility abuts a residential district, outdoor lighting fixtures shall be no more than 15 feet in height.

6. No exterior loudspeakers or paging equipment shall be permitted on the site.