Fremont Zoning Map & Districts 2026

Promotes and maintains predominantly single-family home neighborhoods; the map suffix states the minimum lot size in thousands of square feet (R-1-6 = 6,000 sq ft, up to R-1-40 = 40,000 sq ft).

Promotes and maintains duplex and two-family home neighborhoods to increase both ownership and rental housing.

Permits multiple-dwelling development in low-medium and medium density General Plan areas, along with service uses and limited commercial uses; the map suffix states maximum dwelling units per acre.

Applies to garden-apartment developments built before the R-3 district was adopted on July 22, 2003; no additional property is intended to be placed in this district.

Provides for professional, financial, health care, and general commercial offices and limited personal services, and can buffer commercial areas from housing.

Provides convenience shopping for nearby residents, such as small neighborhood shopping centers, retail food sales, eating and drinking places, and personal services.

Accommodates a broader range of commercial uses than C-N, including offices, instructional and health services, group assembly, auto sales and repair, gas stations, and equipment rental.

Provides locations for national and large-format retailers, hotels, auto sales, big-box stores, and larger restaurant and entertainment facilities, usually along arterials and near freeways.

Principally accommodates commercial uses while allowing ground-floor retail and service with upper-floor residential; any project that is majority residential floor space must include a substantial commercial component.

Provides mixed retail, service, office, and residential uses in a pedestrian-oriented setting in the historic town centers, characterized by small parcels and a mix of older and newer structures.

Provides mixed retail, service, office, and residential uses in the town centers in areas transitioning to the desired long-term pedestrian-oriented character.

Provides for industrial uses serving local businesses and residents that can operate near commercial and residential uses, and prohibits certain hazardous-materials uses and larger quantities of hazardous materials.

Provides for research and development, clean tech, semiconductor, computer hardware and software, and related administrative, sales, and engineering facilities with superior architectural and landscaping treatment.

Provides for general industrial, manufacturing, wholesale, and related service uses needed by the city and the region.

Permits limited use of open lands while protecting against seismic hazards and unstable soils, preserving topography, and allowing agricultural production; covers city parks, hillside and hill-face lands, and public and private open space.

Provides for large-scale educational and public service uses and approved uses on publicly owned land, with a 45-foot height limit (30 feet in designated hill areas).