Within any zone, service uses shall be permitted as follows:
A. Essential service facilities to include the construction, extension, maintenance and operation of underground or overhead installations and incidental appurtenances, equipment and accessories thereto for the normal and regular distribution and supply within and for the benefit of properties within the city, such as electric, gas, telephone, telegraph, water, sewer and storm drain facilities, including electric distribution lines having fifty kV power or less, and gas, telephone and similar essential-service lines, poles, pipes, conduits, cables, mains, drains, fire alarm boxes, police call boxes, traffic signals, hydrants and other similar equipment and accessories in connection therewith, but not including facilities listed as requiring conditional use permit approval in Section
17.680.003.
B. Subject to conditional use permit approval, essential service facilities to include underground or aboveground public utility electric transmission lines, and towers for transmission of electricity, telephone, telegraph, television, radio and other communications messages, such as high tension power lines and towers; underground or aboveground facilities for the transmission, storage or collection of petroleum, water, gas and sewage; public utility, office buildings, service or maintenance structures and yards, reservoirs, tanks, and substations; and routes of proposed reservoirs, tanks and substations; and routes of proposed electric transmission lines.
C. Subject to conditional use permit approval, airports and helicopter ports, cemeteries and hospitals.
(Ord. 408, 1987; Ord. 727, 2002)