The purpose of this chapter is to describe use classifications listed in chapter
17.30 (Allowed Land Use by Base Zone). Use classifications are land uses that have been grouped into general categories on the basis of common function, product, or compatibility characteristics. This chapter should be used as a reference for the land use classifications listed throughout this title. Additional definitions for specialized terms used in the zoning code can be found in article IX (Glossary).
(Ord. No. 1000 § 4, 2022)
The following list represents the complete list of allowed uses
by land use classification and corresponding descriptions as used
in Table 17.30.030-1 (Allowed Land Uses and Permit Requirements by
Base Zone) and throughout this title. Individual use classifications
describe one or more uses having similar characteristics, but do not
list every use or activity that may appropriately be within the classification.
Allowed uses are organized into the following use categories as follows:
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Residential uses.
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Agriculture and animal-related uses.
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Recreation, resource preservation, open space, education, and
public assembly uses.
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Utility, transportation, public facility, and communication
uses.
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Office and service uses.
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Retail and restaurant uses.
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Automobile and vehicle uses.
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Industrial, manufacturing, and processing uses.
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A. Residential
uses.
1. Adult
day care home. Defined by state law as the provision of nonmedical
care to six or fewer adults, including seniors, in the provider's
own home, for a period of less than 24 hours at a time. Homes serving
more than six adults are included in adult day care facility.
2. Caretaker
housing. A residence that is accessory to a site with a nonresidential
primary use and that is needed for security, 24-hour care or supervision,
or monitoring of facilities, equipment, or other conditions on the
site.
3. Dwelling,
multi-family. A building designed and intended for occupancy by three
or more households living independently of each other, each in a separate
dwelling unit, which may be owned individually or by a single landlord
(e.g., triplex, quadplex, apartment, apartment house, townhouse, condominium).
4. Dwelling,
single-family. A building designed exclusively for occupancy by one
household on a single lot. This classification includes manufactured
homes (defined in California
Health and Safety Code § 18007)
and model homes for the first sale of homes within the subdivision.
5. Dwelling,
two-family. An attached building (e.g., duplex) designed for occupancy
by two households living independently of each other, where both dwellings
are located on a single lot. For the purposes of this title, this
definition also includes halfplexes (two attached units, each with
a separate lot). Does not include accessory dwelling units.
6. Emergency
shelter. Housing with minimal supportive services for homeless persons
that is limited to an occupancy of six months or less by a homeless
person. No individual may be denied emergency shelter because of an
inability to pay.
7. Family
day care home. State-licensed facilities that provide nonmedical care
and supervision of minor children for periods of less than 24 hours
within a single-family or multi-family dwelling. The occupant of the
residence provides care and supervision generally for seven to 14
children. As described in the
Health and Safety Code, large day care
homes may provide services for up to 14 children when specific conditions
are met.
8. Group
residential. Shared living quarters without separate kitchen and/or
bathroom facilities for each room or unit. This classification includes
residential hotels, dormitories, fraternities, sororities, convents,
rectories, and private residential clubs but does not include living
quarters shared exclusively by a family. This category includes boardinghouses,
which are defined as a building other than a hotel or restaurant where
meals or lodging or both meals and lodging are provided for compensation
for four or more persons.
9. Guest
house. A detached structure accessory to a single-family dwelling,
accommodating living and/or sleeping quarters, but without kitchen
or cooking facilities.
10. Home occupation. The conduct of a business within a dwelling unit
or residential site, employing occupants of the dwelling, with the
business activity being subordinate to the residential use of the
property. Examples include, but are not limited to, accountants and
financial advisors, architects, artists, attorneys, offices for construction
businesses (no equipment or material storage), and real estate sales.
This category includes cottage food uses, consistent with state law.
11. Live-work facility. A structure or portion of a structure:
a. That combines a commercial or manufacturing activity allowed in the
zone with a residential living space for the owner of the commercial
or manufacturing business, or the owner's employee, and that person's
household;
b. Where the resident owner or employee of the business is responsible
for the commercial or manufacturing activity performed;
c. Where the commercial or manufacturing activity conducted takes place
subject to a valid business license associated with the premises;
and
d. The commercial or manufacturing activity is secondary to the residential
living space.
12. Manufactured home. California
Health and Safety Code § 18007
defines a manufactured home as a structure, that meets the following
criteria:
a. Transportable in one or more sections.
b. When in the traveling mode, is eight body feet or more in width,
or 40 body feet or more in length, or, when erected on-site, is 320
or more square feet.
c. Built on a permanent chassis.
d. Designed to be used as a residential dwelling.
e. Erected with or without a permanent foundation when connected to
the required utilities.
f. Includes the plumbing, heating, air conditioning, and electrical
systems contained therein.
This term shall include any structure that meets all the requirements
of this paragraph except the size requirements so long as the manufacturer
voluntarily files a certification and complies with the standards
established under this part. Manufactured home includes a mobile home
subject to the National Manufactured Housing Construction and Safety
Act of 1974 (42 USC section 5401 et seq.).
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13. Mobile home park. Consistent with definitions of state law (Health
and Safety Code § 18214), a mobile home park is any site
that is planned and improved to accommodate two or more mobile homes
used for residential purposes, or on which two or more mobile home
lots are rented, leased, or held out for rent or lease, or were formerly
held out for rent or lease and later converted to a subdivision, cooperative,
condominium, or other form of resident ownership, to accommodate mobile
homes used for residential purposes.
14. Residential care facility. Consistent with the definitions of state
law, a residential care facility provides housing and 24-hour nonmedical
care for seven or more children, elderly persons, or physically and
mentally handicapped persons in need of personal services, protection,
supervision, assistance, guidance, or training essential for sustaining
the activities of daily living or for the protection of the individual.
This classification includes, but is not limited to, rest homes, residential
care facilities for the elderly, adult residential facilities, wards
of the juvenile court, and other facilities licensed by the State
of California. Convalescent homes, nursing homes, and similar facilities
providing medical care for more than six persons are included under
the definition of medical services, extended care. When located in
the low (L) and low-medium (LM) residential zones, a residential care
facility shall maintain a minimum three-acre project area.
15. Residential care home. A residential care facility licensed or supervised
by any federal, state, or local agency, which provides housing and
nonmedical care for six or fewer children, elderly persons, or physically
and mentally handicapped persons in a family-like environment. These
facilities include the following:
a. An intermediate care facility, developmentally disabled habilitative
and intermediate care facility/developmentally disabled-nursing or
a congregate living facility as identified in
Health and Safety Code
§ 1267.8;
c. A residential care facility for the elderly as identified in Health
and Safety Code § 1569.85;
f.
A residential care facility may also allow a person who has
been diagnosed by his or her physician or surgeon as terminally ill,
as defined in § 1568.01(l) of the Health and Safety Code,
to become a resident of the facility if the person receives hospice
services from a hospice certified in accordance with federal Medicare
conditions of participation and is licensed pursuant to chapter 8
(commencing with § 1725) or chapter 8.5 (commencing with
§ 1745) of the Health and Safety Code. (Health and Safety
Code, § 1568.02)
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16. Short-term rental. A short-term rental is a dwelling unit, or any portion thereof, that is rented by the host to another party for a period of not more than 30 consecutive days in exchange for any form of monetary or non-monetary consideration, including trade, fee, swap or any other consideration in lieu of cash payment. Hosted stays, un-hosted stays, and vacation rentals are types of short-term rental. Related definitions are available in section
8.34.010.
17. Single-room occupancy (SRO) facility. Multi-unit housing for very
low-income persons that typically consists of a single room and shared
bath and also may include a shared common kitchen and common activity
area. SROs may be restricted to seniors or be available to persons
of all ages. Subsidized versions may be supervised by a government
housing agency.
18. Transitional housing. Consistent with
Health and Safety Code § 50675.2,
transitional housing is defined as buildings configured as rental
housing developments but operated under program requirements that
call for the termination of assistance and recirculation of the assisted
unit to another eligible program recipient at some predetermined future
point in time, which shall be no less than six months.
19. Supportive housing. Housing with no limit on length of stay, that
is occupied by the target population, and that is linked to an onsite
or offsite service that assists the supportive housing resident in
retaining the housing, improving his or her health status, and maximizing
his or her ability to live and, when possible, work in the community.
20. Low Barrier Navigation Center. A Housing First, low-barrier, service-enriched
shelter focused on moving people into permanent housing that provides
temporary living facilities while case managers connect individuals
experiencing homelessness to income, public benefits, health services,
shelter, and housing.
B. Agriculture
and animal-related uses.
1. Agricultural
uses. This use category includes farms, orchards, vineyards, livestock
grazing, and hydroponics, including on-site sales of products grown
on site.
2. Animal keeping. Care and maintenance of animals on private property. The listing below provides a distinction between various types of animals related to allowed use provisions in chapter
17.88 (Animal Regulations). This classification is distinct from "animal sales and grooming" and "equestrian facility (commercial or hobby)." Also see "Kennel, commercial," which provides for the boarding of animals (e.g., doggie day-care).
a. Bee colony. The hive and its equipment and appurtenances including
honeybees, comb, honey, pollen, and brood.
b. Domestic pets. Small animals (no larger than the largest breed of
dog) customarily kept as pets within a dwelling unit. This classification
includes dogs, cats, fish, and birds not raised for their eggs or
meat.
c. Exotic animals. Wild animals not customarily confined or cultivated
for domestic or commercial purposes but kept as a pet or for display.
This classification includes, but is not limited to, arachnids, non-poisonous
snakes, reptiles, large tropical birds, and wolf-dog hybrids.
d. Livestock animals. Domesticated animals raised to produce commodities
such as food, fiber, and labor.
i. Livestock, large. Bovine, horses, and other similar-sized animals.
ii. Livestock, medium. Llamas, alpacas, ostriches, ponies, donkeys, mules,
sheep, goats, swine, and other similar-sized animals.
iii.
Livestock, small. Miniature goats, miniature pigs, poultry,
rabbits, and other similarsized animals.
iv. Miniature pigs. Small breeds of domestic pig, characterized by a
swayed back and weight ranging up to 90 pounds and 18 inches in height
(measured at the shoulder). This classification includes Vietnamese,
Chinese, or Asian pot-bellied pigs, Göttingen minipigs, and other
similar-sized breeds.
e. Poultry. A domesticated bird (also called fowl) that is used to produce
meat or eggs. This classification includes, but is not limited to,
chickens, roosters, ducks, pigeons, quail, geese, turkeys, guinea
fowl, and Cornish game hens. "Poultry, crowing" includes roosters,
peacocks, peahens, and similar animals known to make noises whose
volume or frequency amounts to a nuisance.
3. Equestrian
facility, commercial. Commercial horse, donkey, and mule facilities
including horse ranches, boarding stables, riding schools and academies,
horse exhibition facilities (for shows or other competitive events),
pack stations, and barns, stables, corrals, and paddocks accessory
and incidental to these uses.
4. Equestrian
facility, hobby. Stables, corrals, and paddocks used by the individual
homeowners of corresponding property and their animals.
5. Microscale
agriculture. The production of food in a form and scale that is appropriate
for an urban mixed-use or commercial context, most commonly for the
cultivation of fruits, vegetables, flowers, fiber, nuts, seeds, or
culinary herbs for sale or donation of its produce to the public.
C. Recreation,
resource preservation, open space, education, and public assembly
uses.
1. Assembly
use. A permanent meeting facility for organizations operating on a
membership basis for the promotion of the interests of the members,
including facilities for business associations; civic, social, and
fraternal organizations; labor unions and similar organizations; political
organizations; religious organizations; professional membership organizations;
and other membership organizations.
2. Cemetery/mausoleum.
Land used for the burial of the dead and dedicated for cemetery purposes,
including columbariums and mausoleums. Also see descriptions for "Mortuary/funeral
home" and "Crematory services."
3. Community
center/civic use. Multipurpose meeting and recreational facility typically
consisting of one or more meeting or multipurpose rooms, kitchen,
and/or outdoor barbecue facilities that are available for use by various
groups for such activities as meetings, parties, receptions, dances,
etc.
4. Community
garden. A privately or publicly owned vacant parcel of land used by
the community or a neighborhood for the growing of fruits, vegetables,
and culinary herbs for personal consumption and/or to be offered for
sale on site or at a local certified farmers' market.
5. Convention
center. A large building designed to hold a convention, where individuals
and groups gather to promote and share common interests. Convention
centers typically offer sufficient floor area to accommodate several
thousand attendees. Convention centers typically have at least one
auditorium and may also contain concert halls, lecture halls, meeting
rooms, and conference rooms. Some large resort-area hotels include
a convention center.
6. Golf
course/clubhouse. A golf course and accessory facilities and uses
including clubhouses with bar and restaurant, locker and shower facilities,
driving ranges, "pro shops" for on-site sales of golfing equipment,
and golf cart storage and sales facilities.
7. Indoor
amusement/entertainment facility. An establishment providing amusement
and entertainment services in an indoor facility for a fee or admission
charge, including, but not limited to, dance halls, ballrooms, bowling
alleys, laser tag, inflatable playgrounds, trampoline parks, escape
room venues and electronic game arcades, as primary uses. Four or
more electronic games or coin-operated amusements in any establishment,
or premises where 50 percent or more of the floor area is occupied
by amusement devices, are considered an amusement device arcade as
described above; three or less machines are not considered a land
use separate from the primary use of the site.
8. Indoor
fitness and sports facility, large. An establishment predominantly
for participant sports and health activities conducted entirely within
an enclosed building or tenant space greater than 2,500 square feet.
Typical uses include bowling alleys, billiard parlors, ice/roller
skating rinks, indoor racquetball courts, indoor climbing facilities,
soccer areas, athletic clubs, and health clubs. This use classification
also includes studio-style facilities such as dance/ballet, yoga,
martial arts, and fitness studios.
9. Indoor
fitness and sports facility, small. An establishment predominantly
for participant sports and health activities conducted entirely within
an enclosed building or tenant space less than or equal to 2,500 square
feet. Typical uses include studio-style facilities such as dance/ballet,
yoga, martial arts, and fitness studios but may also include uses
described in "indoor fitness and sports facilities, large" if they
are in an enclosed building less than or equal to 2,500 square feet.
10. Library and museum. A public or quasi-public facility including aquariums,
arboretums, art exhibitions, botanical gardens, historic sites and
exhibits, libraries, museums, and planetariums, which are generally
noncommercial in nature.
11. Outdoor commercial recreation. Facility for various outdoor participant
sports and types of recreation where a fee is charged for use (e.g.,
amphitheaters, amusement and theme parks, golf driving ranges, health
and athletic club with outdoor facilities, miniature golf courses,
skateboard parks, stadiums and coliseums, swim and tennis clubs, water
slides, zoos).
12. Park and public plaza. A public park including playgrounds and athletic
fields/courts and public plazas and outdoor gathering places for community
use. If privately owned and restricted to the public (e.g., require
payment of fee), the same facilities are included under the definition
of "outdoor commercial recreation."
13. Public safety facility. Facility operated by public agencies including
fire stations, other fire prevention and firefighting facilities,
and police and sheriff substations and headquarters, including interim
incarceration facilities.
14. Resource-related recreation. Facility related to passive recreation
in open space areas including bicycle and pedestrian trails, picnic
areas, parking areas, and interpretive centers.
15. School, academic (private). Any privately owned and operated elementary
school, middle school, secondary school, high school, or other institution
providing academic instruction for students from kindergarten through
12th grade. This listing also includes a private school operating
under a charter from the local school district and not managed directly
by the governing body of the public school district (e.g., school
board).
16. School, academic (public). Public elementary schools, middle schools,
secondary schools, high schools, and any other public school providing
academic instruction for students from kindergarten through 12th grade.
17. School, college/university (private). Any privately owned college
or university, including medical schools, law schools, and other instruction
of higher education, including dorms, offices, facility maintenance
yards, offices, and similar supportive functions.
18. School, college/university (public). Public community colleges, colleges,
and universities, including dorms, offices, facility maintenance yards,
offices, and similar supportive functions.
19. School, specialized education and training. Specialty schools for
instructing and training students in a variety of specialized programs,
including, but not limited to, computers and electronics training,
drama, driver educational, language, music. Includes professional,
vocational, and trade schools of a nonindustrial nature (e.g., culinary,
cosmetology, arts and media, accounting and finance, health and dental
including nursing, legal, psychology, and technology). Technical and
vocational schools/colleges are included in this description.
20. Theater and auditorium. An indoor facility for public assembly and
group entertainment, other than sporting events (e.g., civic theaters,
facilities for "live" theater and concerts, exhibition and convention
halls, motion picture theaters, auditoriums). Does not include outdoor
theaters, concert and similar entertainment facilities, and indoor
and outdoor facilities for sporting events; see "Outdoor commercial
recreation."
21. Tutoring center, large. An indoor facility where instructors teach,
coach, or educate students with more than ten instructors and/or students
using the facility at any given time.
22. Tutoring center, small. An indoor facility where instructors teach,
coach, or educate students with ten or fewer instructors and/or students
using the facility at any given time.
D. Utility,
transportation, public facility, and communication uses.
1. Broadcasting
and recording studio. Commercial and public communications uses including
radio and television broadcasting and receiving stations and studios,
with facilities entirely within buildings. Does not include transmission
and receiving apparatus such as antennas and towers.
2. Park
and ride facility. A designated area where a vehicle may be left in
order for the driver to carpool with other commuters or to ride public
transit.
3. Parking
facility. A parking lot or parking structure used for parking motor
vehicles where the facility is the primary use of the site. Parking
structures and lots that are developed in conjunction with another
primary use of the site to satisfy the on-site parking requirements
for the development are not included in this definition.
4. Transit
facility. A maintenance and service center for the vehicles operated
in a mass transportation system. Includes buses, taxis, railways,
monorail, etc.
5. Utility
facility and infrastructure, fixed-base structures. Fixed-base structures
and facilities serving as junction points for transferring utility
services from one transmission voltage to another or to local distribution
and service voltages. These uses include any of the following facilities
that are not exempted from land use entitlements by
Government Code
§ 53091: electrical substations and switching stations,
natural gas regulating and distribution facilities, public water system
wells, treatment plants and storage, telephone switching facilities,
wastewater treatment plants, settling ponds, and disposal fields.
These uses do not include office or customer service centers (classified
in offices) or equipment and material storage yards.
6. Utility
facility and infrastructure, pipelines. Pipelines for potable water,
reclaimed water, natural gas, and sewage collection and disposal,
and facilities for the transmission of electrical energy for sale,
including transmission lines for a public utility company. Also includes
telephone, telegraph, cable television, and other communications transmission
facilities utilizing direct physical conduits.
7. Wind
energy system, small. A machine which can convert kinetic energy in
wind into a usable form of electrical or mechanical energy intended
primarily for on-site consumption but may transfer excess energy into
the electrical grid.
E. Service
and office uses.
1. Adult
day care facility. State-licensed facility that provides nonmedical
care and supervision for more than six adults for periods of less
than 24 hours, with no overnight stays.
2. Adult-oriented
business.
a. Adult bookstore or adult video store. A commercial establishment
which has as a significant or substantial portion of its stock-in-trade
or derives a significant or substantial portion of its revenues or
devotes a significant or substantial portion of its interior business
or advertising to the sale, rental for any form of consideration,
of any one or more of the following:
i. Books, magazines, periodicals, or other printed matter or photographs,
films, motion pictures, videocassette tapes, digital video discs,
slides, tapes, records, compact discs, or other forms of visual or
audio representations which are characterized by an emphasis upon
the depiction or description of specified sexual activities or specified
anatomical areas.
ii. Instruments, devices, or paraphernalia which are designed for use
or marketed primarily for stimulation of human genital organs or for
sadomasochistic use or abuse of themselves or others.
b. Adult cabaret. A nightclub, theater, concert hall, auditorium, bar,
or other similar establishment that regularly features live or media
presentations of performances by topless or bottomless dancers, go-go
dancers, exotic dancers, strippers, or similar entertainers where
such performances are distinguished or characterized by an emphasis
on specified sexual activities or specified anatomical areas.
c. Adult motel. A motel, hotel or similar commercial establishment which:
i. Offers public accommodations, for any form of consideration, which
provides patrons with closed-circuit television transmissions, films,
motion pictures, videocassettes, DVDs, CDs, slides, or other photographic
reproductions which are characterized by the depiction or description
of specified sexual activities or specified anatomical areas and which
advertise the availability of this sexually oriented type of material
by means of a sign visible from the public right-of-way, or by means
of any off-premises advertising including, but not limited to, newspapers,
magazines, pamphlets or leaflets, radio or television;
ii. Offers a sleeping room for rent for a period of time less than ten
hours; or
iii.
Allows a tenant or occupant to sub-rent the sleeping room for
a time period of less than ten hours.
d. Adult news rack. Any coin-operated machine or device that dispenses
material substantially devoted to the depiction of specified sexual
activities or specified anatomical areas.
e. Adult theater. An enclosed or unenclosed building, to which the public
is permitted or invited, used for presenting any form of audio or
visual material, and in which a substantial portion of the total presentation
time is devoted to the showing of material which is distinguished
or characterized by an emphasis on depiction or description of specified
sexual activities or specified anatomical areas.
f. Adult viewing area. An area in any adult book and/or novelty store,
cabaret, theater, motion picture arcade or other adult entertainment
business, where a patron or customer would ordinarily be positioned
for the purpose of viewing or watching a performance, picture show,
or film.
g. Bathhouse. An establishment or business that provides the services
of baths of all kinds, including all forms and methods of hydrotherapy
during which specified anatomical areas are displayed or specified
sexual activity occurs.
3. Ambulance
service. Emergency medical care and transportation, including incidental
storage and maintenance of vehicles.
4. Animal
sales and grooming. Retail sales of domestic and exotic animals, bathing
and trimming services, and boarding of said animals for a maximum
period of 72 hours conducted entirely within an enclosed building
with no outdoor use. Boarding for periods longer than 72 hours is
considered a kennel.
5. Bail
bonds. A business providing a bond or obligation on behalf of a prisoner
to insure the prisoner's appearance in court at the return of the
writ.
6. Banks
and financial services. Financial institutions such as banks and trust
companies, credit agencies, holding (but not primarily operating)
companies, lending and thrift institutions, and investment companies.
Freestanding exterior automated teller machines (ATMs) are considered
an accessory use and not part of this definition.
7. Bed
and breakfast inn. A residential structure with one family in permanent
residence with up to six bedrooms rented for overnight lodging, where
meals may be provided subject to applicable health department regulations.
A bed and breakfast inn with more than six guest rooms is considered
a hotel or motel and is included under the definition of hotels and
motels.
8. Business
support services. Establishments primarily within buildings, providing
other businesses with services such as maintenance, repair and service,
testing, rental, etc. Support services include, but are not limited
to:
a. Equipment repair services (except vehicle repair, see "Vehicle services,
major" and "Vehicle services, minor");
b. Commercial art and design (production);
c. Computer-related services (rental, repair);
d. Copying, quick printing, and blueprinting services (other than those
defined as printing and publishing);
e. Equipment rental businesses within buildings (rental yards are storage
yards);
f. Film processing laboratories;
g. Heavy equipment repair services where repair occurs on the client
site;
i. Mail advertising services (reproduction and shipping);
j. Mail box services and other "heavy service" business services;
k. Outdoor advertising services; and
l. Photocopying and photofinishing.
9. Call
center. An office equipped to handle a large volume of calls, especially
for taking orders or servicing customers.
10. Check cashing business. An establishment that, for compensation,
engages in the business of cashing checks, warrants, drafts, money
orders, or other commercial paper serving a similar purpose. Also
includes establishments primarily engaged in cashing payroll or personal
checks for a fee or advancing funds on future checks. This classification
does not include a state or federally chartered bank, savings association,
credit union, or similar financial institution (see "Banks and financial
services").
11. Child-care facility/center. A facility installed, operated, and maintained
for the nonresidential care of children as defined under applicable
state licensing requirements for the facility. Such facilities include,
but are not limited to, infant centers, preschools, extended day care
facilities, or school-age child-care centers as defined in this title.
12.
Commercial cannabis activity. Any location providing for the cultivation, possession, manufacture, distribution, processing, storing, laboratory testing, packaging, labeling, transportation, delivery or sale of cannabis and cannabis product for medical, non-medical, or any other purpose and includes the activities of any business licensed by the state or other government entity under Division 10 of the California
Business and Professions Code, or any provision of state law that regulates the licensing of cannabis businesses. Commercial cannabis activity does not include the cultivation, possession, storage, manufacturing, or transportation of cannabis by a qualified patient for his or her personal medical use so long as the qualified patient does not provide, donate, sell or distribute cannabis to any other person. Commercial cannabis activity also does not include the cultivation, possession, storage, manufacturing, transportation, donation or provision of cannabis by a primary caregiver, exclusively for the personal medical purposes of no more than five specified qualified patients for whom he or she is the primary caregiver, but who does not receive remuneration for these activities except for compensation in full compliance with California
Health and Safety Code § 11362.765. Commercial cannabis activity also does not include the possession, storing, delivery or sale of cannabis by a non-storefront medical cannabis retailer as defined in section
5.20.020 of chapter
5.20 of this code.
13. Crematory services. An establishment providing services involving
the care, preparation, and disposition of human and/or animal remains
by means of cremation. Uses typically include, but are not limited
to, crematories and crematories with embalming services.
14. Hotel. A facility with guest rooms or suites rented to the general
public for transient lodging (less than 30 days). Hotels provide access
to most guest rooms from an interior walkway and typically include
a variety of services in addition to lodging, for example, restaurants,
meeting facilities, personal services, etc. A hotel also includes
accessory guest facilities such as swimming pools, tennis courts,
indoor athletic facilities, accessory retail uses, etc.
15. Kennel, commercial. A facility that provides boarding of animals
as the primary use of the facility. May also include daytime boarding
and activity for animals (e.g., "doggie day-care") and ancillary grooming
facilities. Also see "Animal sales and grooming."
16. Maintenance and repair, small equipment. Establishments providing
on-site repair and accessory sales of supplies for appliances, office
machines, home electronic/mechanical equipment, bicycles, tools, or
garden equipment, conducted entirely within an enclosed building.
Does not include maintenance and repair of vehicles.
17. Massage establishment. Any establishment where customers can receive
a massage either as a primary or accessory function and where all
massage therapists and practitioners are certified by the California
Massage Therapy Council.
18. Medical services, extended care. Residential facilities providing
nursing and health-related care for more than six persons as a primary
use with inpatient beds, such as board and care homes, convalescent
and rest homes, extended care facilities, and skilled nursing facilities.
Long-term personal care facilities that do not emphasize medical treatment
are included under "Residential care home." Care facilities for six
or fewer persons are regulated under "Residential care home."
19. Medical services, general. Facility primarily engaged in providing
outpatient medical, mental health, surgical, and other personal health
services, but which is separate from hospitals, including medical
and dental laboratories, medical, dental, and psychiatric offices,
outpatient care facilities, and other allied health services. Counseling
services by other than medical doctors or psychiatrists are included
under "Office, business and professional."
20. Medical services, hospitals. Hospitals and similar facilities engaged
primarily in providing diagnostic services and extensive medical treatment,
including surgical and other hospital services. These establishments
have an organized medical staff, inpatient beds, and equipment and
facilities to provide complete health care. May include on-site accessory
clinics and laboratories, accessory retail uses (see "Retail, accessory"),
and emergency heliports.
21. Mortuary/funeral home. A funeral home and parlor, where the deceased
are prepared for burial or cremation and funeral services may be conducted.
This use does not include crematorium, which is a separate use classification.
22.
Non-storefront medical cannabis retail. A retailer as defined in section
5.20.020 of chapter
5.20 of this code.
23. Office, accessory. An office that is incidental and accessory to
another business or sales activity that is the primary use (part of
the same tenant space or integrated development). The qualification
criteria for this definition is that the floor area of the accessory
office use shall not exceed 50 percent of the total net habitable
or leasable floor area of the tenant space for a single-use development
or the combined floor area of an integrated development for a mixed-use
project.
24. Office, business and professional. This use listing includes offices
of administrative businesses providing direct services to consumers
(e.g., insurance companies, utility companies), government agency
and service facilities (e.g., post office, civic center), professional
offices (e.g., accounting, attorneys, public relations), and offices
engaged in the production of intellectual property (e.g., advertising,
architecture, computer programming). This use does not include medical
offices (see "Medical services, general"); temporary offices, or offices
that are incidental and accessory to another business or sales activity
that is the primary use (see "Office, accessory"). Outdoor storage
of materials is prohibited.
25. Pawnshop. Any room, store, building, or other place in which the
business of pawn brokering, or the business of lending money upon
personal property, pawns, or pledges, or the business of purchasing
articles from vendors or their assignees at prices agreed upon at
or before the time of such purchase, is engaged in, carried on, or
conducted.
26. Personal services. Establishments providing nonmedical services as
a primary use, including, but not limited to, barber and beauty shops
(including permanent makeup), weight loss clinics, day spas, spiritualist
reading or astrology forecasting, clothing rental, dry cleaning pickup
stores with limited equipment, home electronics and small appliance
repair, laundromats (self-service laundries), shoe repair shops, and
tailors. These uses may also include accessory retail sales of products
related to the services provided. This use classification does not
include massage or tattoo establishments (see "Massage establishment"
and "Tattoo shop").
27. Shooting range. An establishment in which the primary use is an enclosed
firing range with targets for rifle or handgun practice, training,
or both. The establishment may include an ancillary retail space for
a business that is engaged in the sale, transfer, exchange, leasing
or vending of firearms, ammunition and/or related materials. The ancillary
retail component may not exceed 25 percent of the gross floor area
and may not engage in businesses related to the operation of pawnshops,
secondhand stores or thrift stores as defined in this title.
28. Tattoo shop. An establishment that engages in the business of body
modification made by inserting ink, dyes, and/or pigments, either
indelible or temporary, into the dermis layer of the skin to form
a design.
29. Veterinary facility. Veterinary facility that is primarily enclosed,
containing only enough cage arrangements as necessary to provide services
for domestic and exotic animals requiring acute medical or surgical
care with accessory outdoor use that provides long-term medical care.
Grooming and boarding of animals is allowed only if accessory to the
facility use.
F. Retail
and restaurant uses.
1. Alcoholic
beverage sales. The retail sale of beverages containing alcohol for
off-site consumption subject to regulation by the California Department
of Alcoholic Beverage Control (ABC) as an off-sale establishment.
On-site alcoholic beverage sales are included in the definitions for
"Bar/nightclub" and "Restaurant."
2. Bar/nightclub.
Any bar, cocktail lounge, discotheque, or similar establishment, which
may also provide live entertainment (e.g., music and/or dancing, comedy,
subject to an entertainment permit) in conjunction with alcoholic
beverage sales. These facilities do not include bars that are part
of a larger restaurant. Includes bars, taverns, pubs, and similar
establishments where any food service is subordinate to the sale of
alcoholic beverages. Bars and nightclubs may include outdoor food
and beverage areas.
3. Building
construction materials sales and storage yard. A retail establishment
selling large amounts of building materials such as lumber, roofing,
fresh water and sewer pipes, paving, and electrical equipment, where
most display and storage are outside of an enclosed structure. Professional
contractor sales account for a major proportion of total sales. Customers
may also include the general public. Includes incidental retail ready-mix
concrete operations, except where excluded by a specific zone. See
description for "Home improvement supply store" for specialty stores
that cater to the general public.
4. Consignment
store. A retail store where goods are placed on consignment, which
is the act of placing goods in the hands of another, while still retaining
ownership, until the goods are sold.
5. Convenience
store. An easy access retail store in a building or tenant space of
5,000 square feet or less in gross floor area, which carries a range
of merchandise oriented to convenience and travelers' shopping needs.
These stores may be part of a service station or an independent facility.
6. Drive-in
and drive-through sales and service. A use where a customer is permitted
or encouraged, either by the design of physical facilities or by the
service and/or packaging procedures offered, to be served while remaining
seated within an automobile including, but not limited to, drive-through
food, financial services, and automated car washes.
7. Electric
vehicle showroom with indoor sales. A use where the primary function
of the space is to display and showcase electric vehicles only, and
act as point of sale or rental of vehicles, parts, or accessories
which are stored off site. Use may include storage of vehicles entirely
inside the building. Minor auto repair to prepare cars for delivery
to customers is permitted within an enclosed building.
8. Electric
vehicle showroom with outdoor sales. A use where the primary function
of the space is to display and showcase electric vehicles only, and
act as a point of sale or rental of vehicles, parts, or accessories
which are stored on site. Use may include storage of vehicles either
inside or outside the building. Minor auto repair to prepare cars
for delivery to customers is permitted within an enclosed building.
9. Equipment
sales and rental. Service establishments with outdoor storage/rental
yards, which may offer a wide variety of materials and equipment for
rental (e.g., construction equipment).
10. Feed and tack store. A retail store selling animal food and equestrian
supplies.
11. Garden center/plant nursery. Establishments providing for the cultivation
and sale of ornamental trees, shrubs, and plants, including the sale
of garden and landscape materials (packaged and/or bulk sale of unpackaged
materials) and equipment.
12. Grocery store/supermarket. A retail business where the majority of
the floor area open to the public is occupied by food products packaged
for preparation and consumption away from the site of the store. Such
uses may include up to ten percent of floor area for alcohol sales.
These full-service businesses do not typically have limited hours
of operation.
13. Gun sales. A business whose primary use is the sale of firearms,
ammunition and related materials.
14. Home improvement supply store. An establishment (retail or wholesale)
that sells kitchen, bath, carpeting, and other home-oriented supplies.
Other retail uses are permitted if accessory to the primary use. These
uses may include an expansive showroom. This use classification is
a subcategory of the larger "Building construction materials sales
and storage yard" use classification and may be combined with or separate
from such uses.
15. Hookah shop. Any facility or location whose business operation includes
as an outdoor accessory use the smoking of tobacco or other substances
through one or more pipes (commonly known as a hookah, waterpipe,
shisha, or narghile) designed with a tube passing through an urn of
water that cools the smoke as it is drawn through it, including, but
not limited to, establishments known variously as hookah bars, hookah
lounges, or hookah cafes.
16. Liquor store. A retail establishment which has 50 percent or more
of the shelving or gross floor area devoted to the public display
and sale of alcoholic beverages for off-site consumption.
17. Mobile food vehicle. Any vehicle, as defined in
Vehicle Code § 670,
which is equipped and used for retail sales of prepared food or staple
foods including, but not limited to, fruits, vegetables, animal protein,
dairy products, and beverages. For the purposes of this section, a
mobile food vehicle shall also include any trailer or wagon equipped
and used as described in this paragraph and pulled by a vehicle.
18. Restaurant. A retail business selling food and beverages prepared
and/or served on the site, for on- or off-premises consumption. Includes
eating establishments where customers are served from a walk-up ordering
counter for either on- or off-premises consumption and establishments
where most customers are served food at tables for on-premises consumption
but may include providing food for take-out. Also includes coffee
houses and accessory cafeterias as part of office and industrial uses.
Restaurants are divided into three categories as follows:
a. Restaurant, no liquor service. Restaurants that do not serve liquor,
including fast food establishments.
b. Restaurant, beer and wine. Restaurants with liquor services limited
to beer and wine for onsite consumption. May also include the brewing
of beer as part of a brewpub or microbrewery.
c. Restaurant, full liquor service. Restaurants with a full range of
liquor service, including beer, wine, and distilled spirits, all for
on-site consumption.
19. Retail, accessory. The retail sales of various products and services
(including food service) in a subtenant store, space, or other clearly
defined/dedicated area that is located within a building occupied
by a primary tenant such as a health care facility, hotel, office
building, or department store, supermarket, or warehouse store. These
uses include, but are not limited to:
a. Pharmacies, gift shops, and food services within a health care facility;
b. Travel services, convenience stores, and food services within a hotel;
c. Food services within an office building; and
d. Food services and banking within a department store, supermarket,
or warehouse store.
The floor area of the subtenant store/unit, space, or other
clearly defined/dedicated area occupied by the retail, accessory use
shall not exceed 25 percent of the gross floor area of the primary
tenant.
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20. Retail, general. Stores and shops selling single and multiple lines
of merchandise. These stores and lines of merchandise include, but
are not limited to, bakeries (all production in support of onsite
sales), clothing and accessories, collectibles, department stores,
drug and discount stores, dry goods, fabrics and sewing supplies,
florists and houseplant stores (indoor sales, only; outdoor sales
are plant nurseries and included in the definition of "garden center/plant
nursery"), general stores, gift shops, hardware, hobby materials,
musical instruments, parts and accessories, news-stands, pet supplies
specialty shops, sporting goods and equipment, stationery, and variety
stores.
21. Retail, warehouse club. Retail stores that emphasize the packaging
and sale of products in large quantities or volumes, some at discounted
prices. Sites and buildings are usually large and industrial in character.
Patrons may be required to pay membership fees.
22. Secondhand dealer. Any business where the primary or ancillary use
includes buying, selling, trading, accepting for sale on consignment,
accepting for auctioning, or auctioning secondhand tangible personal
property such as "cash for gold." This use classification does not
include a "coin dealer" or participants at gun shows or events, pawnshops
or secondhand stores.
23. Smoke shop. An establishment that either devotes more than 15 percent
of its total floor area to smoking, drug, and/or tobacco paraphernalia
or devotes more than a two-foot by four-foot (two feet in depth maximum)
section of shelf space for display for sale of smoking, drug, and/or
tobacco paraphernalia.
24. Thrift store. A retail establishment selling secondhand goods donated
by members of the public.
G. Automobile
and Vehicle Uses.
1.
Auto and Vehicle Sales and Rental. Retail establishments selling
and/or renting automobiles, trucks, and vans. Includes the sales and
rental of mobile homes, recreational vehicles, and boats. May also
include repair shops and the sales of parts and accessories, incidental
to vehicle dealerships. Does not include the sale of auto parts/accessories
separate from a vehicle dealership (see "Auto parts sales"), bicycle
and moped sales (see "Retail, general"), tire sales and repair establishments
(see "Vehicle services, major"), businesses dealing exclusively in
used parts (see "Recycling facility, scrap and dismantling"), or service
station, all of which are separately defined.
2.
Auto and Vehicle Sales, Auto Broker. Establishments providing
the service of arranging, negotiating, assisting or effectuating,
for a fee or compensation, the purchase of a new or used vehicle,
not owned by the broker for a person(s). This use, consistent with
the licensing guidelines from the California Department of Motor Vehicles
does not allow for the storage or display of vehicles on site.
3.
Auto and Vehicle Sales, Wholesale. Wholesale establishments
selling new and used vehicles to licensed commercial auto dealers.
This use, consistent with the licensing guidelines from the California
Department of Motor Vehicles does not allow for the storage or display
of vehicles on site.
4.
Auto and Vehicle Storage. Facilities for the storage of operative
and in operative vehicles for limited periods of time. Includes, but
is not limited to, storage of parking tow-aways, impound yards, fleet
yards and storage lots for automobiles (excluding recreational vehicles),
trucks, and buses. Does not include retail sales (see "Auto and vehicle
sales, wholesale").
5.
Auto Parts Sales. Stores that sell new automobile parts, tires,
and accessories. May also include minor parts installation (see "Vehicle
services, minor"). Does not include tire sales and repair establishments,
which are found under "Vehicle services, major," or businesses dealing
exclusively in used parts, which are included under "Auto and vehicle
sales, wholesale."
6.
Automobile Service Station, General. A facility that is primarily
for the purpose of retail sales of fuel (gasoline, diesel, ethanol
etc.) for internal combustion powered vehicles.
7.
Car Washing and Detailing. Permanent, drive-through, self-service,
and/or attended car washing establishments, including fully mechanized
facilities. May include detailing services. Temporary carwashes (e.g.,
fundraising activities generally conducted by volunteers and the duration
of the event is limited to less than 12 hours within a day) are not
part of this use classification.
8.
Electric Vehicle Charging, Ancillary. A dedicated area where
equipment and associated infrastructure is located for the purpose
of charging the battery of an electric vehicle.
9.
Electric Vehicle Service and Repair. A use in which electric
vehicles or vehicle parts, are serviced or repaired. It may include
other services for electric vehicles, including, but not limited to,
accessory towing, maintenance, battery stations, and an electric charging
station. Any on-site carwash shall only be used to clean vehicles
receiving maintenance or repair and shall not be made available for
public use. May include electric vehicle showroom as an accessory
use.
10.
Alternative Fuel Station with Lounge. A facility that is primarily
for the purpose of retail sales of non-petroleum based fuel (e.g.
electricity, hydrogen) for vehicles and associated ancillary facilities
such as a lounge. The lounge includes seating and associated retail
activities intended to serve customers waiting for their vehicles
to refuel.
11.
Recreational Vehicle Storage. Facilities for the storage of
recreational vehicles.
12.
Vehicle Services, Major. The repair, alteration, restoration,
towing, painting, or finishing of automobiles, trucks, recreational
vehicles, boats, and other vehicles as a primary use, including the
incidental wholesale and retail sale of vehicle parts as an accessory
use. This use includes major engine and/or transmission repair and
bodywork-repair facilities dealing with entire vehicles; such establishments
typically provide towing, collision repair, other body work, and painting
services and tire sales and repair establishments.
13.
Vehicle Services, Minor. Minor facilities specialize in limited
aspects of repair and maintenance (e.g., muffler and radiator shops,
quick-lube, smog check, and tires). Does not include repair shops
that are part of a vehicle dealership on the same site (see "Auto
and vehicle sales") or automobile dismantling yards, which are included
under "Recycling facility, scrap and dismantling."
H. Industrial,
Manufacturing, And Processing Uses.
1. Commercial
(Secondary/Accessory)—Industrial. On-site, retail sales of products
within an industrial building (the subject building) for walk-in customers
and/or will call customers who order products via the internet/telephone
or at a separate location such as a retail store. This use is secondary/accessory
to the primary industrial use(s) that occur on-site and/or within
the subject building, such as manufacturing, wholesale, storage, and
distribution. The products available for retail sale shall be limited
to products that are manufactured on-site or within the subject building,
that are primarily sold on a wholesale basis, and/or are stored in,
and/or distributed from, the subject building. Such products include,
but are not limited to:
a. Personal/home electronic equipment and accessories;
b. Home improvement materials (tile, flooring, carpet, wall covering,
etc.); and
c. Automotive accessories (wheels, tires, engine components, etc.).
This classification allows, but does not require, physical retail
and/or display/showroom space within the subject building. If such
space is proposed/required, then the floor area used for that purpose
shall only occupy the floor area that was originally designated for
the office of the subject building, or 25 percent of the gross floor
area of the subject building, whichever is less, and shall be subject
to the parking requirements for retail uses as described in Table
17.64.050-1 (Parking Requirements by Land Use). Use of, and/or expansion
into, areas of the building previously designated for storage, warehousing,
or manufacturing is only permitted if it is demonstrated that the
number of parking stalls that exist on-site for the overall subject
building complies with the parking requirements described in Table
17.64.050-1. A use not permitted to operate as a principal use, such
as a marijuana dispensary, is not permitted within this land use classification.
A use that requires a conditional use permit, entertainment permit,
or adult entertainment permit in order to operate as a principal use
is subject to the same permitting requirements within this land use
classification.
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2. Commercial
(re-purposing)—Industrial. A set of multiple commercial uses
operating together as subtenants in a building that was originally
designed for a single industrial tenant such as a warehouse, or a
single commercial tenant such as a department store. This land use
classification applies only to commercial uses that, individually,
could not utilize the entire floor space of the subject building and,
therefore, would not operate as the sole, primary tenant of the building.
This classification does not apply to single tenants/uses that could
utilize the entire floor space of the subject building. Characteristics
of this land use classification include, but are not limited to:
a. An open floor plan with tenant demising walls that do not extend
to the ceiling;
b. Exterior wall signs that only provide identification of the subject
building;
c. Common, non-exclusive floor area within the interior of the building,
and the exterior in the vicinity of the building, for use by the customers
of all tenants;
d. Tenant spaces with no direct access to the exterior of the building;
and
e. Shared parking.
All proposals for re-purposing buildings shall require the submittal
of a conditional use permit for review and approval by the planning
director, and the submittal of a parking study prepared by a qualified
traffic/parking engineer for review and acceptance by the director
of engineering services/city engineer and planning director. With
the exception of specific uses identified in Table 17.30.030-1, a
use that is not permitted to operate as a principal use, such as a
marijuana dispensary, is not permitted within this land use classification.
A use that requires a conditional use permit, entertainment permit,
or adult entertainment permit in order to operate as a principal use
is subject to the same permitting requirements within this land use
classification.
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3. E-commerce
distribution. Activities that involve the buying, selling, and distribution
of products and associated services over the internet or through mobile
applications. Products are transported using freight trucks and stored
in warehouses or fulfillment centers to then be distributed to designated
shipping locations using delivery trucks. Includes the following categories
of e-commerce distribution:
a. Distribution/fulfillment center. A fulfillment center or similar
use's primary purpose is storage and distribution (non-sort) of e-commerce
products to consumers or end-users, either directly or through a parcel
hub. These facilities shall have a minimum ceiling height of 24 feet.
i. Distribution/fulfillment center, large. A distribution/fulfillment
center with a minimum gross floor area over 50,000 square feet.
ii. Distribution/fulfillment center, small. A distribution/fulfillment
center with 50,000 square feet or less in gross floor area.
b. Parcel sorting facilities. An establishment for sorting and/or re-distribution
of parcels or products from distribution/fulfillment centers to a
parcel hub via intramodal transit truck-to-truck.
c. Parcel hub. A "last mile" facility or similar establishment for the
processing and/or redistribution of parcels or products. A parcel
hub's primary function is moving a shipment from one mode of transport
to another for delivery directly to consumers or end-users.
i. Parcel hub, large. A parcel hub facility with a minimum gross floor
area over 130,000 square feet.
ii. Parcel hub, small. A parcel hub facility with less than 130,000 square
feet in gross floor area.
4. Food
processing/manufacturing. Activities include methods of turning fresh
foods into food products through various processes including, for
example, washing, chopping, pasteurizing, freezing, fermenting, packaging,
and cooking.
5. Lumber
yard. Activities include the storage, sale, and display of lumber,
wood, and building construction products. Lumber and wood products
may be stored outside or within a structure. Onsite milling and planing
of wood is prohibited.
6. Maker
space. Activities typically include, but are not limited to, on-site,
small-scale production of tangible goods including assembly of completely
hand-fabricated parts or hand-fabrication of custom or craft goods
not for mass production. Examples of maker space uses include ceramic
studios, fabrics, inlays, needlework, weaving, leatherwork woodwork,
3D printing, laser cutting, local food and beverage production, metal
or glass work, candle making, or custom jewelry. Goods are predominantly
manufactured and fabricated involving only the use of hand tools or
domestic-scaled mechanical equipment and kilns not exceeding 20 square
feet in size. Retail sales are permitted on site. Accessory retail
areas cannot exceed 30 percent of the maker space floor area.
7. Manufacturing,
custom. Activities typically include, but are not limited to, manufacturing,
processing, assembling, packaging, treatment, or fabrication of custom-made
products. These types of business establishments do not utilize raw
materials for their finished products, but rather may utilize semi-finished
type of manufactured materials for their custom made-to-order products.
The finished products from these business establishments are ready
for use or consumption and may include on-site wholesale and retail
of the goods produced. Examples of custom manufacturing uses include,
but are not limited to household furniture, apparel products, electrical
instruments signs and advertising displays, and assembly of bicycle
parts. The uses do not produce odors, noise, vibration, or particulates
that would adversely affect uses in the same structure or on a same
site. Where 24-hour on-site surveillance is necessary, a caretaker's
residence may be permitted when approved by a minor use permit.
8. Manufacturing,
green technology. Activities typically include, but are not limited
to, manufacturing, processing, assembling, packaging, treatment, or
fabrication of finished made-to-order products utilizing semi-finished
manufactured materials rather than raw materials. Examples of green
technology manufacturing uses include, but are not limited to, solar
panels, wind turbines, geothermal system components, and batteries
for electric vehicles/bicycles. The uses do not typically produce
odors, noise, vibration, or particulates that would adversely affect
uses in the same structure or on a same site. Where 24-hour on-site
surveillance is necessary, a caretaker's residence may be permitted
with a minor use permit.
9. Manufacturing,
light. Activities typically include, but are not limited to, labor-intensive
manufacturing, assembly, fabrication, or repair processes which do
not involve large container truck traffic or the transport of large-scale
bulky products but may include limited rail traffic. The new product
may be finished in that it is ready for use or consumption or it may
be semi-finished to become a component for further assembly and packaging.
These types of business establishments are customarily directed to
the wholesale market, inter-plant transfer, rather than direct sale
to the consumer. Such uses may include, but are not limited to, electronic
microchip assembly; printing, publishing, and allied industries; food
processing and manufacturing; candy and other confectionery products;
bottled or canned soft drinks and carbonated water; apparel and other
finished products; paperboard containers and boxes; drugs; medical
equipment; and small fabricated metal products such as hand tools,
general hardware, architectural, and ornamental metal work and toys,
amusement, sports, and athletics goods. The activities do not produce
odors, noise, vibration, hazardous waste materials, or particulates
that would adversely affect other uses in the structure or on the
same site. Where 24-hour on-site surveillance is necessary, a caretaker's
residence may be permitted when approved by a minor use permit.
a. Manufacturing, light – large. A light manufacturing facility
with a minimum gross floor area over 50,000 square feet
b. Manufacturing, light – small. A light manufacturing facility
with 50,000 square feet or less in gross floor area.
10. Microbrewery. A small-scale brewery operation dedicated to the production
of specialty beers and producing less than 15,000 barrels (465,000
U.S. gallons) per year. Ancillary on-site tasting and/or retail sales
of beers produced on site for off-site consumption may be permitted
when approved by a minor use permit.
11. Printing and publishing. Establishments engaged in printing by letterpress,
lithography, gravure, screen, offset, or electrostatic (xerographic)
copying, and other establishments serving the printing trade including
bookbinding, typesetting, engraving, photoengraving, and electrotyping.
This use also includes establishments that publish newspapers, books,
and periodicals, and establishments manufacturing business forms and
binding devices. Does not include "quick printing" services or desktop
publishing which are included in "business support services."
12. Recycling facility, collection. A recycling facility used for the
acceptance by donation, redemption, or purchase of recyclable materials
from the public that does not occupy more than 500 square feet. This
classification may include a mobile unit, kiosk-type units that may
include permanent structures, and unattended containers placed for
the donation of recyclable materials. Also includes so-called "reverse
vending machines," an automated mechanical device that accepts one
or more types of empty beverage containers including, but not limited
to, aluminum cans, glass bottles, and plastic bottles, and issues
a cash refund or a redeemable credit slip with value of not less than
the container's redemption value as determined by the state.
13. Recycling facility, processing. A recycling facility located in a
building or enclosed space and used for the collection and processing
of recyclable materials. Processing means the preparation of material
for efficient shipment or to an end-user's specifications by such
means as baling, briquetting, compacting, flattening, grinding, crushing,
mechanical sorting, shredding, cleaning, and remanufacturing. Collection
of recycling materials as the sole activity is included in the definition
of "Recycling facility, collection."
14. Research and development. Indoor facilities for scientific research,
and the design, development, and testing of electrical, electronic,
magnetic, optical, and mechanical components in advance of product
manufacturing, that is not associated with a manufacturing facility
on the same site. Includes, but is not limited to, chemical, medical,
and biotechnology research and development. Does not include computer
software companies (see "Office, business and professional"), soils
and other materials testing laboratories (see "Business support services").
15. Storage, personal storage facility. A structure or group of structures
containing generally small, individual, compartmentalized stalls or
lockers rented as individual storage spaces and characterized by low
parking demand.
16. Storage warehouse. Facility for the storage of furniture, household
goods, or other commercial goods of any nature. Includes cold storage
and moving and storage services where no wholesale or distribution
is conducted. Does not include mini-storage facilities offered for
rent or lease to the general public (see "Storage, personal storage
facility") or warehouse facilities in which the primary purpose of
storage is for wholesaling and distribution (see "Wholesale and distribution
(medium and light)").
17. Wholesale, and distribution, light. Activities typically include,
but are not limited to, wholesaling and distribution of finished goods
and/or food products from the premises. Activities under this classification
shall be conducted in enclosed buildings and occupy 50,000 square
feet or less of building space. Includes incidental storage and warehousing.
Retail sales from the premises may occur when approved by a minor
use permit.
18. Wholesale and distribution, medium. Activities typically include,
but are not limited to, wholesale and distribution of finished goods
and/or food products from the premises; including distribution facilities
for large-scale retail firms. Includes incidental storage and warehousing.
Activities under this classification shall be conducted in enclosed
buildings and occupy greater than 50,000 square feet of building space.
Included are multi-tenant or speculative buildings with over 50,000
square feet of warehouse space.
19. Work/live. A building or spaces within a building used jointly for
commercial and residential purposes where the residential use of the
space is secondary or accessory to the primary use as a place of work.
Typical types of work include small-scale, custom manufacturing of
goods with limited on-site sales. The dedicated work area must be
at least twice the size of the residential area with no more than
two inhabitants living on the premises. Work/live uses are typically
found in industrial zones and have a maximum gross floor area of 30,000
square feet.
(Ord. No. 1009 § 4, 2022; Ord. No. 1000 § 4, 2022; Ord. No. 1015 § 3, 2023; Ord. No. 1022, 12/20/2023; Ord.
No. 2023, 1/17/2024; Ord. No. 1026, 5/15/2024)
Prior to development, the following agricultural uses are either
permitted or allowed permitted with a minor use permit on lots of
two and one-half acres or more:
A. Permitted
uses.
1. Farms
for orchards, trees, field crops, truck gardening, flowering gardening,
and other similar enterprises carried on in the general field of agriculture.
2. Raising,
grazing, breeding, boarding or training of large or small animals:
except concentrated lot feeding and commercial poultry and rabbit
raising enterprises, subject to the following:
a. Cats and dogs shall be limited to the keeping of no more than five
cats and/or four dogs, over four months of age, limited to lot size.
b. Small livestock are allowed with the number of goats, sheep, and
similar animals limited to 12 per acre of total gross area.
c. Cattle and horses, including calves and colts over six months of
age, with a maximum number of four animals per acre of total gross
area.
d. Combinations of the above animals provided the total density on any
given parcel shall not exceed that herein specified.
e. In no event shall there be any limit to the permissible number of
sheep which may be grazed per acre, where such grazing operation is
conducted on fields for the purpose of cleaning up unharvested crops,
stubble, volunteer, or wild growth and further, where such grazing
operation is not conducted for more than four weeks in any six-month
period.
3. Aviary
shall be limited to 50 birds per acre.
4. Retail
sale of products raised on the property excluding retail nurseries
and sale of animals for commercial purposes.
B. Minor
use permit required.
1. Wholesale
distributor and processor of nursery-plant stock. Retail nursery where
incidental and contiguous to propagation of nursery stock and/or wholesale
distributor. Outdoor storage and display is prohibited except for
nursery-plant stock.
2. Dog
kennels, dog training schools, small animal shelters, and dog breeding
establishments with outside runs.
3. The
raising of chinchilla, nutria, hamsters, guinea pigs, cavy, and similar
small animals.
(Ord. No. 1000 § 4, 2022)