The City of Santa Monica is now codifying into zoning their Bergamont Area Plan. As part of that new zoning, the City will be tasked with defining what constitutes “creative office” as opposed to “business or professional office”. The zoning will determine who can and cannot locate in a building that is “creative offices.” Some firms may find it unnerving that they are not considered “creative.” The purpose of the zoning is described as maintaining the clustering of firms involved in creative endeavors. We have an office property that will be impacted by this new zoning. As a result, we offered our own definition to the City.
Allowed Uses: Creative Offices shall include offices for any and all firms involved in the Creative Industries of art, architecture, advertising, design, fashion, research, entertainment, media, technology including but not limited to:
| Advertising and Marketing Firms | ||
| All uses customary and incidential to the production or distribution of print, video, audio, digital and software. | ||
| Architectural and Engineering Firms | ||
| Art spaces | ||
| Audio Video, or Print Recording, Editing, and Distribution | ||
| Costume, set and Prop Production and storage involved in audio video production | ||
| Company offices for firms involved in the creation, production, sale, and distribution of goods and services | ||
| Conversion of Services, Text, Business Practices to Digital Media | ||
| Designers | ||
| Fashion and clothing design, marketing, sale, and distribution | ||
| Film and Media Distribution and Placement | ||
| Film Developing and Printing | ||
| Film, TV, Audio, Print Commercial and Studio Production and Post Production | ||
| Fitness and Health products and services | ||
| Graphic, Fashion, Product, Industrial and Interior Design | ||
| Inventors | ||
| Investment Banking Servicing Primarily the Creative Industries | ||
| Media Broadcasting and telecommunications facility | ||
| Multimedia equipment repair and service | ||
| Photography | ||
| Printing and Media reproduction services | ||
| Product Testing | ||
| Production, design, development , consultation, distribution, sale, and service of software, digital, and marketing media and information technology for placement on computers, the internet, wireless devices, and other media | ||
| Publishing | ||
| Research and Development | ||
| Retailing and wholesaling through the internet and other media | ||
| Sales and wholesaling of media related goods and equipment | ||
| Software and digital companies | ||
| Talent Agencies | ||
| Think Tanks | ||
| Venture Capital Firms | ||
| Video and Audio Libraries | ||
| Video game design, production, sale, and distribution | ||
| Web design and services | ||
PMI Properties 