Westminster / Central Orange County
None of the fitness brands we could check lists a club inside Westminster: LA Fitness' club list (nearest clubs at 11932 Valley View St in Garden Grove and 10115 Talbert Ave in Fountain Valley), Orangetheory, CorePower Yoga, Burn Boot Camp, F45, 9Round, Club Pilates and YogaSix. 24 Hour Fitness keeps a Westminster, CA city page on its sitemap but no club page under it. We could not check Planet Fitness, Crunch or Chuze because their sites blocked us or load by script, so treat this as a gap in what we could verify, not proof the city has no gyms. The code makes small formats easiest: a gym under 5,000 sq ft without massage needs only an Administrative Use Permit in C1, C2 and CM, and art, dance, music and martial arts studios are permitted by right, so neighborhood centers on Beach Boulevard, Westminster Boulevard, Goldenwest Street and Brookhurst Street are the first place to look, while a big-box club needs a CUP.
Population
89,860
Median HHI
$85,541
Median age
43.2
Homeownership
53.4%
Source: U.S. Census Bureau, American Community Survey 2020-2024 5-year estimates.
Primary retail corridors
Bolsa Avenue · Westminster Boulevard · Brookhurst Street · Beach Boulevard · Magnolia Street
Specific shopping centers in Westminster that already carry credible co-tenancy for this use. Listed in approximate order of fit.
South of I-405 between Goldenwest Street and Edwards Street
Anchors / key tenants: Target (open during redevelopment)
Westminster Mall closed on October 29, 2025 and demolition began in April 2026. Shopoff is redeveloping the site as Bolsa Pacific, and Target remains open. Beach Boulevard corridor carries national/value retail outside the Little Saigon core.
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Size threshold (Table 2-4, Section 17.220.010): a health/fitness facility without a massage establishment under 5,000 sq ft needs an Administrative Use Permit in C1, C2 and CM (Director review, no hearing, Section 17.550.015.B.1). At 5,000 sq ft or more, or with massage, it needs a CUP with a Planning Commission hearing in C1, C2 and CM and is not allowed in CR. In the mixed-use zones (Table 2-8) the smaller format is permitted by right and the larger one needs an AUP. Article 7 counts saunas, spas, tanning, hot tubs, indoor tennis, racquetball, archery and shooting ranges as health/fitness uses.
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Studio or gym: 'Studios' (art, dance, music, photography and similar) are permitted by right in C1, C2 and CM and in MU36 and MU40, and Article 7 includes martial arts in the definition. Section 17.400.153 bars any studio from operating after 10:30 p.m. and limits a dance studio to one open house, practice party or social dance night a week. Get Planning's written call on whether a yoga, pilates, cycling or boxing concept is a studio or a health/fitness facility, since that decides both the permit and the closing time.
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Parking (Table 3-5): health/fitness facilities and studios both park at 1 space per 250 sq ft, courts at 2 spaces per court plus 1 per 300 sq ft of ancillary space. Section 17.320.020.C.1 applies the shopping center rate only to offices, retail and eating and drinking uses in a retail center, so in a center over 100,000 sq ft (center rate 1 per 300) a gym counted at 1 per 250 could need more stalls than the retailer it replaces. If the change of use needs more parking than the prior use, the difference has to be added (17.320.020.D.3).
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Hours: Article 7 defines late night hours as midnight to 6:00 a.m., and Section 17.220.015.B requires a CUP for businesses with late night operations within 150 feet of a residentially zoned parcel. A 24-hour club next to homes should raise this with Planning early; a class studio is capped at 10:30 p.m. regardless.
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Massage add-ons: adding massage moves any health/fitness facility into the CUP row of Table 2-4, and Section 17.400.095 requires massage establishments to meet Municipal Code Chapter 5.32. Recovery or stretch services with a massage component should be scoped with Planning before the lease is drafted.
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Former Westminster Mall site: the mall closed October 29, 2025 and demolition was under way by April 2026 for a mixed-use project. A Specific Plan district follows its own plan document instead of Table 2-4 (Section 17.240.030), so a large club looking at that site should ask the developer and Planning which uses and parking rules the plan sets. Elsewhere, an existing AUP or CUP expires after one consecutive year without the use (Section 17.550.030.B), so ask whether a second-generation gym box still has a live permit.
Zoning, licensing, and demographic figures on this page come from the public records below. Codes and licenses change, so confirm with the city and the licensing agency before you sign.