Victorville adopts ordinance to allow medical, dental offices citywide in Industrial Park District

The Victorville City Council voted unanimously July 15 to adopt Ordinance No. 2457, amending Title 16 of the Victorville Municipal Code to add medical and dental offices as conditional uses in the Industrial Park District (IPD) land‑use zone citywide. The council also adopted resolutions approving a conditional use permit and site plan (Resolution Nos. 25‑054 and 25‑055) for a proposed 8,100‑square‑foot medical/professional office building on Business Center Drive.

Planning staff and the planning commission recommended the change after the commission on July 11 unanimously approved the site plan for the project, which sits on a vacant parcel zoned IPD. City planner Alex Hategui told the council the proposed code amendment would allow medical and dental offices to be considered as conditional uses in all IPD zones across Victorville, and that the specific plan deviation allowing a rear drive aisle without a five‑foot landscape planter would apply only to this project.

Hategui said the municipal code already allows administrative and professional offices in IPD as conditional uses and that medical offices are similar in operation; proposed uses such as urgent care would be processed under the term “medical office” and would require a discretionary conditional use permit. Hategui: “In the IPD zone, they would be subject to an allowance for a discretionary conditional use permit. We’d analyze each site individually to determine appropriateness, sufficient parking, and so on.”

Council members asked whether the zoning change would apply citywide; planning staff confirmed the amendment would be citywide for all parcels zoned IPD. The council also clarified that deviations to design guidelines (the drive‑aisle/landscape planter deviation) were specific to the project before the council and would not apply broadly.

Council member Jones moved adoption of staff recommendations for agenda points 3 through 7; Council member Irving seconded. The clerk recorded votes: Council member Godin — Yes; Council member Irving — Yes; Council member Jones — Aye; Mayor Pro Tem Herriman — Yes; Mayor Becerra — Yes. Motion passed unanimously.

The immediate effect is to allow applicants to apply for conditional use permits for medical and dental uses in IPD zones; staff noted that existing developments could be approved at the zoning administrator level while new developments would go to the planning commission. The council did not set an effective date in the public discussion; procedural environmental findings were read for exemptions under CEQA. The council record shows the site plan and conditional use permit were approved subject to the attached conditions of approval for the specific project at Business Center Drive.

The change means that in future proposals, medical‑type uses (including urgent care, as defined by staff) in IPD areas will be evaluated through the conditional use permit process, where site‑specific impacts such as parking and circulation will be considered.