City of Manteca, CA ALLOWED USE DEFINITIONS

The following list represents the complete list of allowed uses and corresponding definitions as used in Table 17.22.020-1 (Allowed Uses and Required Entitlements for Manteca's Base Zoning Districts) 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. Additional definitions are found in Article VI (Glossary). Allowed uses are organized into the following seven use categories as follows:

•	Residential Uses
•	Agriculture and Animal-Related Uses
•	Recreation, Resource Preservation, Open Space, Education, and Public Assembly Uses
•	Utility, Transportation, Public Facility, and Communication Uses
•	Retail, Service, and Office Uses
•	Automobile and Vehicle Uses
•	Industrial, Manufacturing, and Processing Uses

Residential Uses

Adult Day Care Home. A facility, as defined under Health and Safety Code Section 1507.7, that provides nonmedical care and supervision for adult health care for six or fewer adults, including organized day program of therapeutic, social, and skilled nursing health activities and services to elderly persons or adults with disabilities with functional impairments, either physical or mental, for the purpose of restoring or maintaining optimal capacity for self-care. Programs offered are on a less than 24-hour basis.

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.

Dwelling, Multi-Family. A building designed and intended for occupancy by three or more house-holds living independently of each other, each in a separate dwelling unit, which may be owned individually or by a single landlord (e.g., apartment, apartment house, townhouse, condominium).

Dwelling, Second Unit. An attached or detached dwelling unit which provides complete independent living facilities for one or more persons, with permanent provisions for living, sleeping, eating, cooking, and sanitation sited on the same parcel as the primary dwelling unit. This definition includes granny flats.

Dwelling, Single-Family. A building designed exclusively for occupancy by one household on a single lot. This classification includes factory-built, modular housing units constructed in compliance with the City-adopted Building Code and mobile homes/manufactured housing on permanent foundations (defined in California Health and Safety Code Section 18007) and model homes for the first sale of homes within the subdivision.

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 second dwelling units (see Dwelling, Second Unit).

Dwelling, Three- and Four-Family. An attached building (e.g., triplex) designed for occupancy by three or four households living independently of each other, where each dwelling is located on a single lot. Does not include second dwelling units (see Dwelling, Second Unit).

Emergency Shelter. Housing with minimal supportive services for homeless persons that is limited to occupancy of six months or less by a homeless person. No individual or household may be denied emergency shelter because of an inability to pay (Health and Safety Code Section 50801).

Employee Housing. Property used temporarily or seasonally for the residential use of unrelated persons/families employed to perform agricultural or industrial labor either on- or off-site of agricultural activities. The accommodations may consist of any living quarters, dwelling, boardinghouse, tent, bunkhouse, mobile home, manufactured home, recreational vehicle, travel trailer, or other housing accommodations maintained in one or more buildings, or on one or more sites, and the premises upon which they are situated, including areas set aside for parking of mobile homes or camping of employees by the employer. Employee housing may also involve permanent residency if the housing accommodation is a mobile home, manufactured home, travel trailer, or recreational vehicle. Specifically, there are two types of employee housing as follows:

Employee Housing, Large. Employee housing that serves more than six employees and consists of no more than 36 beds in group quarters or 12 units or spaces designed for use by a single family or household.

Employee Housing, Small. Employee housing that serves six or fewer employees.

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Family Day Care Home. Facility that provides nonmedical care and supervision of minor children for periods of less than 24 hours for an individual child. These facilities include the following, all of which are required to be licensed by the state:

Family Day Care Home, Large. A single-family residence that provides day care for 7 to 14 children, inclusive, including children under the age of 10 years who reside at the home.

Family Day Care Home, Small. A single-family residence that provides day care for eight or fewer children, including children under the age of 10 years who reside at the home.

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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.

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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.

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Live-Work Facility. A structure or portion of a structure:

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;

Where the resident owner or employee of the business is responsible for the commercial or manufacturing activity performed; and

Where the commercial or manufacturing activity conducted takes place subject to a valid business license associated with the premises.

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Mobile Home Park. Consistent with definitions of state law (Welfare and Institution Code Section 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.

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Residential Care Facilities. Consistent with the definitions of state law, residential care facilities provide 24-hour nonmedical care for more than six persons 18 years of age or older, or emancipated minors, with chronic, life-threatening illness 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 are included under the definition of Medical Services, Extended Care.

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Residential Care Home. Consistent with the definitions of state law (Health and Safety Code Section 1502), a residential care home is a home that provides 24-hour nonmedical care for six or fewer persons 18 years of age or older, or emancipated minors, with chronic, life-threatening illness 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 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 are included under the definition of Medical Services, Extended Care.

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Single-Room Occupancy (SRO) Facilities. 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.

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Supportive Housing. Housing with no limit on length of stay, that is occupied by the target population, and that is linked to on-site or off-site 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 (Government Code Section 65582(f)). Supportive housing units must be considered residential uses subject only to those requirements and restrictions that apply to other residential uses of the same type in the same zone.

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Transitional Housing. Buildings configured as rental housing developments, but operating under program requirements that require the termination of assistance and recirculating of the assisted unit to another eligible program recipient at some predetermined future point in time that shall be no less than six months from the beginning of the assistance (Government Code Section 65582(h)). Transitional housing units must be considered residential uses subject only to those requirements and restrictions that apply to other residential uses of the same type in the same zone.

Agriculture and Animal-Related Uses

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 this Article. This classification is distinct from Animal Sales and Grooming and Equestrian Facility, Commercial. Also see Kennel, Commercial, which provides for the boarding of animals (e.g., doggy day-care).

Domestic Pets. Small animals (no larger than the largest breed of dogs) customarily kept as pets within a dwelling unit. This classification includes dogs, cats, fish, and birds (excluding large tropical birds and poultry). Includes a kennel where the animals are owned or kept by the owner or occupant for personal, noncommercial purposes, including hunting, tracking, exhibiting at shows, exhibitions, field trials or other competitions, or for enhancing or perpetuating a given breed, other than dogs or cats used in conjunction with an agricultural operation on the lot or premises.

Exotic Animals. Wild animals not customarily confined or cultivated by man for domestic or commercial purposes, but kept as a pet or for display, including potbelly pigs, snakes, reptiles, and large tropical birds (including peacocks).

Insects. Small arthropod animals confined or cultivated by man for domestic or commercial purposes including but not limited to flies, crickets, mosquitoes, beetles, butterflies, and bees.

Livestock Animals. Domesticated animals that may be kept or raised in pens, barns, houses, and pastures whether for commercial or private use. Livestock includes, but is not limited to, cattle, sheep, swine, goats, equine, and fowl. This definition includes horses and equestrian facilities for individual homeowners.

Poultry. Domesticated birds (fowl) customarily kept for eggs or meat. This classification includes chickens, roosters, ducks, geese, turkeys, guinea fowl, and Cornish game hens.

Animal Sales and Grooming. Retail sales of domestic and exotic animals and bathing and trimming services, excludes kenneling of animals. See Kennel, Commercial.

Crop Production. Raising and harvesting of plants, tree crops, row crops, or field crops on an agricultural or commercial basis, including packing and processing. Includes horticulture establishments engaged in the cultivation of flowers, fruits, vegetables, or ornamental trees and shrubs for wholesale and incidental retail sales. This classification includes agricultural buildings accessory to such uses and roadside stands for display/sale of agricultural products grown on the premises. Excludes uses for which other garden, nursery, or landscape merchandise are stored and sold on the site.

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.

Kennel, Commercial. Facilities that provide boarding of animals as the primary use of the facility. May also include daytime boarding and activity for animals (e.g., doggy day care) and ancillary grooming facilities. Also see Animal Sales and Grooming.

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.

Recreation, Resource Preservation, Open Space, Education, and Public Assembly Uses

Assembly Uses. Include any of the following uses:

Meeting facilities for organizations including facilities for business associations, civic, social, and fraternal organizations, labor unions and similar organizations, political organizations, professional membership organizations, and other membership organizations;

Community centers and other multipurpose meeting and recreational facilities that include one or more meeting or multipurpose facilities, kitchens, and outdoor barbecue facilities available for use by various groups for meetings, parties, receptions, dances, etc.

Cemetery/Mausoleum. Land used for the burial of the dead and dedicated for cemetery purposes, including crematories, columbariums, and mausoleums. Also see Mortuaries and Funeral Homes.

Church/Place of Worship. A building wherein persons regularly assemble for religious worship and which is maintained and controlled by a religious body organized to sustain public worship, together with all accessory buildings and uses customarily associated with such primary purpose, including living quarters for ministers and staff, but excluding other establishments maintained by religious organizations such as educational institutions and day care, which are separately regulated. Includes synagogue, temple, mosque, or other such place for worship and religious activities.

Community Garden. A site used for growing plants for food, fiber, herbs, or flowers, which is shared and maintained by city residents.

Golf Course/Clubhouse. Golf courses 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.

Indoor Amusement/Entertainment Facility. Establishment providing indoor amusement and entertainment services for a fee or admission charge, including dance halls and ballrooms 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.

Indoor Fitness and Sports Facilities. Predominantly participant sports and health activities conducted entirely within an enclosed building. 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 does not include special studios not a part of an athletic or health club (e.g., karate studio, dance studio, etc.).

Libraries and Museums. Public or quasi-public facilities including aquariums, arboretums, art exhibitions, botanical gardens, historic sites and exhibits, libraries, museums, and planetariums, which are generally noncommercial in nature.

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).

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Outdoor Community Recreation. Facility for various outdoor participant sports and types of recreation provided by the community and typically located in public parks and open space areas.

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Park and Public Plaza. Public parks include 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.

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Recreational Vehicle Park. A site where one or more lots are used, or are intended to be used, by campers with recreational vehicles or tents. Recreational vehicle parks may include public restrooms, water, sewer, and electric hookups to each lot and are intended as a higher-density, more intensively developed use than campgrounds. May include accessory retail uses where they are clearly incidental and intended to serve RV park patrons only.

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Resource Protection and Restoration. Activities and management of an area to preserve, re-create, and enhance natural resource values such as fish and wildlife habitat, rare and endangered plants, vernal pools, erosion control, and floodwater conveyance.

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Resource-Related Recreation. Facility related to passive recreation in open space areas including bicycle and pedestrian trails, picnic areas, parking areas, and interpretive centers.

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School. A facility that provides for the education and/or training of individuals or groups as further defined as follows:

Academic-Private. Any privately-owned elementary schools, middle schools, junior high schools, secondary schools, high schools, colleges, universities, and any other privately-owned school providing academic instruction for students from kindergarten through 12th grade and higher not defined as Equipment/Machinery/Vehicle Training or Specialized Education and Training/Studios.

Equipment/Machinery/Vehicle Training. Facilities and programs for training students in the repair and maintenance of various equipment, machinery, and vehicles which tend to have a more industrial nature to them. Examples include, but are not limited to, maintenance of business equipment and consumer products (e.g., computers and other electronic equipment, appliance repair, re-upholstery and furniture repair), trade schools (e.g., metal work/welding), and vehicle repair and maintenance (e.g., repair, alteration, restoration, towing, painting, cleaning, or finishing of automobiles, motorcycles, trucks, recreational vehicles, boats, and other vehicles).

Specialized Education and Training/Studios. Specialty schools for instructing and training students in a variety of specialized programs, including, but not limited to, the following:

Computers and electronics training schools;

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Drama schools;

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Driver educational schools;

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Language schools;

Music schools;

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Professional, vocational, and trade schools of a non-industrial nature (e.g., culinary, cosmetology, arts and media, accounting and finance, health and dental including nursing, legal, psychology, and technology); and

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Studio-style facilities including, but not limited to, dance/ballet, art, photography, yoga, martial arts (e.g., karate, kung fu, judo, tae kwon do, jujitsu), and fitness studios other than indoor fitness and sports facilities.

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Theater/Auditorium. 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.

Utility, Transportation, Public Facility, and Communication Uses

Airport. A facility where aircraft such as airplanes can take off and land. An airport minimally consists of one runway but other common components are hangars and terminal buildings.

Ambulance Service. Emergency medical care and transportation, including incidental storage and maintenance of vehicles.

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, which are under the definition of Wireless Telecommunication Facility.

Fuel Storage and Distribution. A large-scale facility where fuel (such as propane and gasoline) is stored and distributed without retail sales.

Heliport. A designated, marked area on the ground or the top of a structure where helicopters may land at any time.

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.

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.

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.

Transit Facility. Maintenance and service centers for the vehicles operated in a mass transportation system. Includes buses, taxis, railways, monorail, etc.

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Utility Facility and Infrastructure. Includes the following:

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 Section 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.

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.

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Wireless Telecommunication Facility. Facility designed and/or used for the purpose of transmitting, receiving, or relaying voice and/or data signals from various wireless communication devices, including transmission tower, antenna, and/or other facility designed or used for that purpose. Telecommunication facilities are divided into two types as follows:

Wireless Telecommunication Facility – Major. A communication facility that is a freestanding ground-mounted facility, is a structure or roof-mounted facility that is more than 10 feet above the structure roof line, and is not specifically identified as a minor facility below. Examples include, but are not limited to, the following:

Telecommunication towers (cellular towers);

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Satellite earth station (SES) antennas that are more than 2 meters in diameter; and

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Parabolic antennas, direct broadcast satellite (DBS) antennas, and multi-point distribution service (MDS) antennas that are more than 1 meter in diameter.

Wireless Telecommunication Facility—Minor. Any wireless communication facility that is either (1) operated exclusively as part of a public safety network, or (2) specifically exempt from local regulation by state or federal law or rule [e.g., by permit of the California Public Utilities Commission (CPUC) or the rules and regulations of the Federal Communication Commission (FCC)]. Examples include, but are not limited to, the following:

Amateur radio transmission facilities which comply with the standards of Chapter 17.88 (Wireless Telecommunication Facilities);

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Satellite earth station (SES) antennas that are 2 meters in diameter or less;

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Parabolic antennas, direct broadcast satellite (DBS) antennas, and multi-point distribution service (MDS) antennas that are 1 meter in diameter or less;

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Television broadcast service (TVBS) antennas; and

Collocation on an existing major telecommunication structure, so long as the collocation facility satisfies all requirements set forth in Section 65850.6 of the California Government Code.

Retail, Service, and Office Uses

Adult Day Health Care Center. A facility, as defined under Health and Safety Code Section 1507.7, that provides nonmedical care and supervision for adult health care for more than six adults, including organized day program of therapeutic, social, and skilled nursing health activities and services to elderly persons or adults with disabilities with functional impairments, either physical or mental, for the purpose of restoring or maintaining optimal capacity for self-care. Programs offered are on a less than 24-hour basis.

Adult-Oriented Business. Those businesses defined as follows:

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:

Books, magazines, periodicals or other printed matter or photographs, films, motion pictures, videocassette tapes, slides, tapes, records, 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;

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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.

Adult Cabaret. A nightclub, theater, concert hall, auditorium, bar, or other similar establishment which 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.

Adult Motel. A motel, hotel or similar commercial establishment which:

Offers public accommodations, for any form of consideration, which provides patrons with closed-circuit television transmissions, films, motion pictures, videocassettes, slides, or other photographic reproductions which are characterized by the depiction or description of specified sexual activities or specified anatomical areas and which advertises 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;

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Offers a sleeping room for rent for a period of time less than 10 hours; or

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Allows a tenant or occupant to subrent the sleeping room for a time period of less than 10 hours.

Adult Newsrack. Any coin-operated machine or device which dispenses material substantially devoted to the depiction of specified sexual activities or specified anatomical areas.

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.

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.

Bathhouse. An establishment or business which 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.

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.

Bar. Any establishment devoted to the sale or serving of alcoholic beverages for consumption on the premises in which the serving of food, if any, is incidental to the consumption of alcoholic beverages. A restaurant or bona fide public eating place as defined in Business and Professions Codes Section 23038 that serves alcoholic beverages is not a bar. Nightclub is defined separately in this title.

Bed and Breakfast Inn. A residential structure with one family in permanent residence with up to five bedrooms rented for overnight lodging, where meals may be provided subject to applicable Health Department regulations. A bed and breakfast inn with more than five guest rooms is considered a hotel or motel and is included under the definition of Hotel and Motel.

Brew Pub. Any establishment that produces ales, beers, meads, hard ciders, and/or similar beverages to service on-site as part of a restaurant. May include off-site sales of beverages brewed by the brew pub facility.

Building Materials Store/Yard. A retail establishment selling lumber and other large building materials, where most display and sales occur indoors. Includes stores selling to the general public, even if contractor sales account for a major proportion of total sales. Includes incidental retail ready-mix concrete operations, except where excluded by a specific Zoning District. Establishments primarily selling electrical, plumbing, heating, and air conditioning equipment and supplies are classified in Wholesaling and Distribution. Hardware stores are listed in the definition of Retail, General, even if they sell some building materials. Also see Home Improvement Supplies for smaller specialty stores.

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:

Equipment repair services (except vehicle repair, see Vehicle Services);

Commercial art and design (production);

Computer-related services (rental, repair);

Copying, printing, publishing, and blueprinting services;

Equipment rental businesses within buildings (rental yards are Storage, Yards);

Film processing laboratories;

Heavy equipment repair services where repair occurs on the client site;

Janitorial services;

Mail advertising services (reproduction and shipping);

Mailbox services and other "heavy service" business services;

Outdoor advertising services; and

Photocopying and photofinishing.

Child Day Care Center. A commercial or nonprofit facility that provides nonmedical care and supervision of minor children for periods of less than 24 hours for an individual child. The facility is operated outside of a home and is typically able to accommodate 15 or more children. Such facilities include, but are not limited to, infant centers, preschools, sick child centers, day care centers, and school-age child-care centers. These may be operated in conjunction with a school or church facility, or as an independent land use. Also includes employer -sponsored child-care centers.

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Convenience Store. An easy access retail store 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. Also see Neighborhood Market and Grocery Store/Supermarket for larger stores or stores oriented toward the daily shopping needs of residents.

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Drive-In/Drive-Through Use. 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 automatic car washes.

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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).

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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. These full-service businesses do not typically have limited hours of operation. See separate but related listing for Convenience Store.

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Home Improvement Supplies. Establishments (retail or wholesale) that sell kitchen, bath, furnishings, 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 category does not include the sale of lumber and does not permit the outdoor display of merchandise. This use classification is a subcategory of the larger building materials stores and yards use classification and may be combined with or separate from such uses.

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Hotel and Motel. Facility with guest rooms or suites, provided without kitchen facilities, 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. Motels provide access to most guest rooms from an exterior walkway. Also includes accessory guest facilities such as swimming pools, tennis courts, indoor athletic facilities, accessory retail use, etc.

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Liquor Store. Any retail establishment whose main use is devoted to and the primary purpose for which the establishment exists is alcoholic beverage sales (see Section 17.24.020.E.3) for off-premises consumption, and the incidental sale of other items such as magazines, newspapers, lottery tickets and packaged snack foods. Does not include a grocery store/supermarket or neighborhood market which may offer alcoholic beverage sales along with the offering of groceries including such items as: food items prepared on-site, fruit, vegetables, dairy, meat, seafood and staple foods; or a convenience market that sells items and services primarily for convenience and travelers' need such as: diesel, gasoline, compressed gases (air and CNG), coolants (water and antifreeze), packaged and prepared food, and other miscellaneous convenience and travel items that may also offer alcoholic beverage sales.

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Maintenance and Repair of 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.

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Massage Therapy. Establishment where customers can receive a massage.

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Medical Services. Facilities that provide medical services as further defined as follows:

Extended Care. Residential facilities providing nursing and health related care 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 include medical treatment are included under residential care home and residential care facilities.

General. Facility primarily engaged in providing outpatient medical, mental health, surgical, and other personal health services, but which are 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 Offices, Business and Professional.

Hospital. Hospitals and similar facilities engaged primarily in providing diagnostic services and extensive medical treatment (with overnight stay capabilities), 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.

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Mortuaries and Funeral Homes. Funeral homes and parlors, where the deceased are prepared for burial or cremation and funeral services may be conducted.

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Neighborhood Market. A pedestrian-oriented grocery/specialty market store offering food products packaged for preparation and consumption away from the site of the store and oriented to the daily shopping needs of surrounding residential areas. Neighborhood markets are less than 15,000 square feet in size and operate less than 18 hours per day. Neighborhood markets may include deli or beverage tasting facilities that are ancillary to the market/grocery portion of the use. For larger stores, see Grocery Store/Supermarket.

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Nightclub. Any establishment devoted to the sale or serving of alcoholic beverages for consumption on the premises in which the serving of food, if any, is incidental to the consumption of alcoholic beverages, and where floor space could be used for dancing and/or live entertainment. Bar is defined separately in this title.

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Offices, Business and Professional. This use listing includes offices of administrative businesses providing direct services to consumers (e.g., insurance companies, utility companies, management consulting), banks and financial institutions, government agency and service facilities (e.g., post office, civic center), professional offices (e.g., accounting, attorneys, employment, public relations), and offices engaged in the production of intellectual property (e.g., advertising, architectural, computer programming, photography studios). 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.

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Personal Services. Establishments providing nonmedical services as a primary use, including, but not limited to, barber and beauty shops, 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, spas and hot tubs for rent, and tanning salons.

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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.

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Retail, General. Stores and shops selling multiple lines of merchandise. These stores and lines of merchandise include, but are not limited to, art galleries, bakeries (all production in support of on-site sales), clothing and accessories, collectibles, department stores, drug and discount stores, dry goods, fabrics and sewing supplies, florists and houseplant stores, furniture, general stores, gift shops, hardware, hobby materials, musical instruments, parts and accessories, newsstands, pet supplies, specialty shops, sporting goods and equipment, stationery, and variety stores.

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Tasting Room. Facility allowing beer/wine tasting with on-site and off-site retail sales directly to the public. The tasting room facility must be directly affiliated with a minimum of one brewery/winery (as defined by the Alcoholic Beverage Control (ABC)). The tasting room may be operated within a brew pub as an accessory to a separate on-site use, such as a restaurant, or as a stand-alone retail use.

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Tobacco Related Uses. A commercial establishment whose primary activity consists of a lounge or eating area where patrons smoke tobacco or non-tobacco related products, including, but not limited to hookah, cigar, cigarette, or other smoking device.

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Tobacco Shop. Any retail establishment whose main use is devoted to and the primary purpose for which the establishment exists is the retail sale of tobacco and smoking equipment, including, but not limited to, cigarettes, e-cigarettes, roll-your-own supplies, smokeless tobacco such as dipping tobacco and chewing tobacco, cigars, pipe tobacco and vaping supplies intended to be consumed off the store's premises.

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Cannabis Retailer: A licensed premises that engages in the sale and distribution of cannabis and cannabis products to a consumer. A cannabis retailer's premises may be closed to the public and the retailer may conduct sales exclusively through delivery.

Automobile and Vehicle Uses

Auto and Vehicle Rental. Retail establishments renting automobiles, trucks, vans, and large farm equipment (e.g., combines, tractors). This use listing includes the rental of recreation vehicles, motorcycles, and boats. May also include repair shops (for rental vehicles only) and the sales of parts and accessories, incidental to vehicle rental activities.

Auto and Vehicle Sales. Retail establishments selling automobiles, trucks, vans, and large farm equipment (e.g., combines, tractors). This use listing includes the sales of recreation vehicles, motorcycles, and boats. May also include repair shops and the sales of parts and accessories, incidental to vehicle dealerships. It 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 recapping establishments (see Vehicle Services – Major), businesses dealing exclusively in used parts (see Recycling Facility – Scrap and Dismantling), or fueling station, all of which are separately defined.

Auto and Vehicle Storage. Facilities for the storage of operative and inoperative vehicles for limited periods of time. Includes, but is not limited to, storage of parking tow-aways, impound yards, and storage lots for automobiles, trucks, buses, and recreation vehicles. Does not include retail sales (see Auto and Vehicle Sales).

Auto Parts Sales. Stores that sell new automobile parts, tires, and accessories. May also include minor parts installation (see Vehicle Services). Does not include tire recapping establishments, which are found under Vehicle Services – Major, or businesses dealing exclusively in used parts, which are included under Auto and Vehicle Sales.

Auto Vehicle Dismantling. Establishment for the dismantling of automobile vehicles, including the dismantling or wrecking of automobiles or other motor vehicles, and/or the storage or keeping for sale of parts and equipment resulting from such dismantling or wrecking. Retail sales are included under the definition of Auto and Vehicle Sales.

Car Washing and Detailing. Permanent, drive-through, self-service, and/or attended car washing establishments, including fully mechanized facilities. May include detailing services. Temporary car washes (e.g., fundraising activities generally conducted at a service station or other automotive-related business, where volunteers wash vehicles by hand, and the duration of the event is limited to one day) are not part of this use classification.

Fueling Station. A retail business selling gasoline, diesel, or other motor vehicle fuels. Vehicle services which are incidental to fuel services are included under Vehicle Services – Minor.

Vehicle Services – Major. The repair, alteration, restoration, towing, painting, cleaning (e.g., self-service and attended car washes), 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 repair and body work-repair facilities dealing with entire vehicles; such establishments typically provide towing, collision repair, other body-work, and painting services and may also include tire recapping establishments.

Vehicle Services – Minor. Minor facilities specialize in limited aspects of repair and maintenance (e.g., muffler and radiator shops, quick-lube, smog check). 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.

Industrial, Manufacturing, and Processing Uses

Agricultural Products Processing. The act of changing an agricultural crop after harvest from its natural state to the initial stage of processing in order to prepare it for market and for further processing at an off-site location. Examples of this processing include nut hulling and shelling, bean cleaning, corn shelling and sorting, grape sorting and crushing, primary processing of fruits to juice and initial storage of the juice, without fermentation, cleaning and packing of fruits. More comprehensive processing facilities (e.g., raw milk processed to cheese) are considered food and beverage manufacturing and, as such, are included under the definition of Manufacturing, Minor.

Freight Yard/Truck Terminal. Transportation establishments furnishing services incidental to air, motor freight, and rail transportation including freight forwarding services, freight terminal facilities, joint terminal and service facilities, packing, crating, inspection, and weighing services, postal service bulk mailing distribution centers, transportation arrangement services, truck repair, truck terminals, and trucking facilities including transfer and storage.

Manufacturing, Major. Manufacturing, fabrication, processing, and assembly of materials in a raw form. Uses in this category typically create greater than usual amounts of smoke, gas, odor, dust, sound, or other objectionable influences that might be obnoxious to persons conducting business on-site or on an adjacent site. Uses include, but are not limited to, batch plants, rendering plants, aggregate processing facilities, and plastics and rubber products manufacturing. Also see Manufacturing, Minor and Manufacturing, Small-Scale.

Manufacturing, Minor. Manufacturing, fabrication, processing, and assembly of materials from parts that are already in processed form and that, in their maintenance, assembly, manufacture, or plant operation, do not create excessive amounts of smoke, gas, odor, dust, sound, or other objectionable influences that might be obnoxious to persons conducting business on-site or on an adjacent site. Uses include, but are not limited to, furniture manufacturing and cabinet shops, laundry and dry cleaning plants, metal products fabrication, and food and beverage manufacturing. Also see Manufacturing, Major and Manufacturing, Small-Scale.

Manufacturing, Small-Scale. Establishments manufacturing and/or assembling small products primarily by hand, including, but not limited to, jewelry, pottery and other ceramics, as well as small glass and metal art and craft products. Also see Manufacturing, Major and Manufacturing, Minor.

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 mobile units, 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.

Recycling Facility – Processing. A recycling facility located in a building or enclosed space and used for the 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.

Recycling Facility – Scrap and Dismantling. Uses engaged in the assembling, breaking up, sorting, temporary storage, and distribution of recyclable or reusable scrap and waste materials. This use does not include landfills or other terminal waste disposal sites. Also see Auto Vehicle Dismantling for related use for automobiles. Collection of recycling materials as the sole activity is included in the definition of Recycling Facility – Collection.

Recycling Redemption Center. A facility, use, or structure for the collection of recyclable goods, including, but not limited to, beverage containers and newspapers.

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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 are not associated with a manufacturing facility on the same site. Includes, but is not limited to, chemical and biotechnology research and development. Does not include computer software companies (see Offices, Business and Professional), soils and other materials testing laboratories (see Business Support Services), or medical laboratories (see Medical Services, General).

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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.

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Storage, Warehouse. Facility for the storage of furniture, household goods, or other commercial goods of any nature. Includes cold storage. Does not include warehouse, storage, or 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 Wholesaling and Distribution).

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Storage, Yards. The storage of various materials outside of a structure other than fencing, either as an accessory or principal use.

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Wholesaling and Distribution. Establishments engaged in selling merchandise to retailers; to industrial, commercial, institutional, farm, or professional business users; or to other wholesalers; or acting as agents or brokers in buying merchandise for or selling merchandise to such persons or companies. Includes such establishments as agents, merchandise or commodity brokers, and commission merchants, assemblers, buyers and associations engaged in the cooperative marketing of farm products, merchant wholesalers, and stores primarily selling electrical, plumbing, heating, and air conditioning supplies and equipment.

(Ord. 1501 § 1, 2011; Ord. 1546 § 3, 2014; Ord. 1558 § 2, 2015; Ord. 1571 § 2, 2015; Ord. O2017-2 § 2; Ord. O2018-5 § 1; Ord. O2018-20 § 1; Ord. O2018-24 §1; Ord. O2021-15 § 1; Ord. O2021-16 § 6)