CITY OF RIVERSIDE
NOTICE OF PUBLIC HEARING
CITY OF
RIVERSIDE
City of Arts & Innovation
YOU ARE HEREBY NOTIFIED that the City Council of the City of Riverside will hold a Public Hearing regarding the following item:
CITY COUNCIL PUBLIC HEARING
CASE NUMBER: PR-2023-001523 Zoning Code Text Art Pick Council Chamber, City Hall Amendments 3900 Main Street, Riverside, CA 92522
APPLICANT: City of Riverside Live webcast can be viewed at LOCATION: Citywide (All Wards) www.RiversideCA.gov/Meeting PROPOSAL: Consider amendments to Title 19 Zoning of
To listen to the public hearing live and
the Riverside Municipal Code (RMC), including but provide public comment by phone call not limited to Articles V Base Zones and Related Use
(951) 826-8686.
and Development Provisions, VII Specific Land Use
Provisions, and Definitions. The proposed MEETING DATE: January 27, 2026 amendments implement recent changes to state law
MEETING TIME: 6:15 p.m.
and policy direction from the City Council Land Use
Committee and Planning Commission related to
CONTACT PLANNER: Daniel Palafox
industrial development. The amendments will: PHONE: (951) 826-5985
1. Define "sensitive receptors" throughout Title 19
including amending applicable tiered сто ослом
development standards for new warehousing and
distribution facilities development adjacent to
specified uses; DONESIA GAUSE, MMC
2. Provide landscaping buffering requirements for City Clerk of the City of Riverside industrial development adjacent to residential
zones or uses;
3. Modify project notification requirements including requiring on-site Notice of Filing signs, and notification to multi-tenant occupants in addition to real property owners for specified industrial development;
4. Revise Table 19.150.020.A Permitted Use Table and 19.150.020.B Incidental Uses Table to modify the required entitlements for warehousing and distribution facilities and warehousing storage as an incidental use;
5. Align Chapter 19.435 Warehousing and Distribution Facilities with recent changes to state law including implementation of Assembly Bill (AB) 98 and implement revised Floor Area Ratio (FAR) values, increased project notification radius requirements, buffer requirements, and other substantive changes;
6. Make other minor and/or non-substantive changes and technical corrections as required to provide clarity, correct errors, or remove redundancies.
ENVIRONMENTAL DETERMINATION: The Planning Commission recommends finding that this project is exempt from further California Environmental Quality Act (CEQA) Review pursuant to Section 15061 (b)(3) (Common Sense) of the CEQA Guidelines, as it can be seen with certainty that approval of the project will not have an effect on the environment.
Mail written statements to City Clerk, City Hall, 3900 Main Street, Riverside, CA 92522, or via email [email protected]. Comments via eComments feature may be submitted through 11:00 a.m. on January 27, 2026, at www.RiversideCA.gov/Meeting.
If you challenge the above proposed action in court, you may be limited to raising only those issues you or someone else raised at the public hearing described in this notice, or in written correspondence delivered to the City Clerk of the City of Riverside at, or prior to, the public Dated and published: January 14, 2026.