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Covina planners outline final zoning code study session, including gated-community standards and new specific-use rules
Summary
City planning staff presented the sixth study session on a comprehensive zoning code modernization, detailing revisions and new sections for specific uses (massage, gated-community design, short-term rentals reserved) and said the full draft will go to a city council study session followed by public hearings.
City planning staff presented the sixth and final study session on Covina’s comprehensive zoning code update at the Planning Commission meeting on March 10, 2026, outlining revisions to existing sections and several new specific-use regulations.
Staff said the update reviews roughly 14 chapters and includes changes to readability and organization as well as substantive revisions in six areas, including adult-oriented businesses, hotels and motels, service stations, trailer/mobile-home parks and temporary uses. Staff also described four new sections: massage facilities, gated-community design regulations, a public-convenience-and-necessity finding codification, and a reserved section for short-term rentals while those rules are finalized.
“This is our last study session,” a planning staff presenter said, noting the drafts remain under…
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