The Public Facility or PF District is intended to be applied
to lands owned by public agencies.
(Ord. 789 § 3, 1-19-2016)
The principal permitted uses on property within the PF District
include:
A. Public
schools, parks, playgrounds and recreational facilities.
B. Public
fairgrounds and related uses.
C. Public
buildings, including City Hall, police stations, fire stations, libraries,
courts, museums, auditoriums, hospitals, and similar uses.
D. Emergency
shelters, provided such facility complies with all of the following:
1. Any
emergency shelter newly proposed for construction or operation within
the city shall not be located within three hundred feet of the street
frontage from one emergency shelter to another emergency shelter.
2. Adequate
external lighting shall be provided for security purposes to ensure
fully lit parking, gathering, and waiting areas. Lighting shall be
placed so as to not create glare or impact adjoining parcels.
3. The
facility shall contain a maximum of ten beds and shall serve no more
than ten persons per night.
4. The
facility shall have an interior, enclosed client waiting and intake
area large enough to accommodate the number of persons equal to twenty-five
percent the number of beds. The area shall be based on space required
for seated persons. The facility shall also have an adjoining, exterior
overflow waiting area of equal size to the interior waiting area.
The exterior waiting area shall be fenced, screened, gated, and shall
not obstruct sidewalks or driveways.
5. The
facility shall provide security during hours that the shelter is in
operation, shall provide an on-site manager, and must have a minimum
of one fully trained staff person with at least one year of homeless
services experience on site at all times when a client is on the premises.
Staff shall be mandated reporters for cases of abuse both physical
and sexual.
6. Emergency
shelter shall be available to residents for no more than six days.
Extensions up to a total stay of twenty days in any continuous twelve-month
period may be provided if no alternative housing is available
7. All
conditions requiring permits or approval from a regulatory agency
(e.g. building permit, sign off from County Environmental Health Dept.,
sign off from Fire Chief of the Crescent Fire Protection District
etc.) shall be completed prior to use of the facility as an emergency
shelter.
8. The
emergency shelter shall be maintained in a neat, quiet, and orderly
condition and operated in a manner so as not to be detrimental to
adjacent properties and occupants.
9. The
applicant shall submit a Security Plan for the review and approval
of the Chief of Police prior operation of the emergency shelter.
10. The emergency shelter sponsor (the person or organization that runs
the shelter) shall retain a right of access to and control of the
premises and offer all the services provided for in California Civil
Code section 1940(b)(2) so that the transient occupants do not become
"tenants" with the rights afforded tenants under the California Civil
Code.
(Ord. 789 § 3, 1-19-2016)
The following uses are permitted on property within the PF District
with a use permit:
A. Penal,
correctional or detention institutions.
B. Public
corporation yards, shops, repair and storage yards and buildings.
(Ord. 789 § 3, 1-19-2016)
In the PF district the height of buildings and the maximum dimensions
of yards and lots shall be as follows:
A. Height.
Maximum building height shall be forty feet. Accessory structures
such as communication antennas may be erected to a maximum height
of sixty feet.
B. Yard
and Areas.
1. Front
Yard. None required except where adjacent properties abutting upon
the PF use are in a zone of greater requirements, then the front yard
shall be equal to one-half of the adjacent zone requirement;
2. Side
Yards. None required except where the side yard of the PF use abuts
upon the side yard of a residential or an RP use, then the side yard
shall be five feet;
3. Rear
Yard. Minimum ten feet;
4. Lot
Area. No minimum; and
5. Lot
Coverage. Site coverage for the total building square footage shall
not exceed eighty-five percent of the size of the lot. Parking areas
shall not be counted as building square footage.
(Ord. 789 § 3, 1-19-2016)
General provisions for the PF District shall be as follows:
A. Parking. See Chapter
17.42 for complete regulations and standards for required off-street parking.
B. Fencing. See Chapter
17.40 for complete fencing regulations.
C. All
exterior lighting shall be shielded and directed downward on the property
to prevent upward glare and glare at adjacent properties.
(Ord. 789 § 3, 1-19-2016)