The first step in starting a business is understanding the best location for your new business. The City of Bell Gardens can help you make this decision by providing you with the Business Site Locator and the Online Zoning Map.
This mapping engine was created to allow the future business owners in Bell Gardens to develop an understanding of where the existing business in Bell Gardens are located. The Business Site Locator allows you to select a particular business type and map all of the businesses in Bell Gardens that fall under that business type. Once you have understanding where you may want to start your new business, visit our online commercial zoning ordinance to find the appropriate zoning classification for your type of business.
The City of Bell Gardens has placed the entire commercial zoning ordinance online to allow you to locate your type of business and associate it to a particular zoning classification. The advantage of doing this is to save you time by allowing you to understand up front whether or not the type of business you are planning to start is allowed in the location you have selected.
Once you have determined the correct zoning classification that allows for your type of business, click on the zoning classification link at the top of the table to be taken to the city's official commercial zoning map for the location of these zones within Bell Gardens.
Now that you have determined the correct zoning classification for your type of business, it's time to locate the appropriate zones in Bell Gardens that will allow for your type of use. The official Bell Gardens Zoning Map will allow you to find this information quickly and easily.
By either clicking on one of the commercial zones below or by clicking on the zoning ordinance table in the preceding section, a map of Bell Gardens will appear displaying the locations of these zones.
