This chapter provides definitions for all uses established in the use tables on Division II, District Regulations. Refer to Chapter 17.36, Definitions of Terms, for definitions of the terms commonly used throughout this Zoning Code.
A residential dwelling unit that is accessory to and either detached from, attached to, or located within the living area of an existing primary dwelling unit, and that provides independent living facilities for one or more persons. An accessory dwelling unit also includes and efficiency unit, as defined in California Health and Safety Code § 17958.1, and a manufactured home, as defined in California Health and Safety Code § 18007.
Any commercial activity identified in § 17.84.040, Adult Businesses, as an adult entertainment use.
Use of land for agricultural production, vine or tree farm, truck garden, apiary, horticulture, vineyard, hop yard, fruits, beekeeping, and associated crop preparation and harvesting activities on any other type of agriculture determined to be substantially similar to the above. Agricultural production may be ancillary to a primary use as a test or research facility. This use does not include nurseries, greenhouses, processing, or retail sales of agricultural products from the site.
Animal Boarding Kennel/Pet Day Care. A commercial, nonprofit, or governmental establishment licensed to operate a facility providing shelter, breeding, and care for domestic animals on a commercial basis. This classification includes activities such as feeding, exercising, grooming, and incidental medical care for domestic animals. |
Grooming. An establishment that provides day care, bathing and trimming services for domestic animals on a commercial basis. |
Pet Store. Retail pet supply stores. May include the sale of small household pets (birds, fish, reptiles). This classification includes grooming if incidental to the retail use. Uses are conducted within an enclosed building. |
Veterinary Services. Medical and health services for animals. Typical uses include veterinary offices, pet clinics, and animal hospitals. This classification allows 24-hour accommodation of animals receiving medical or grooming services. This use type excludes kennels. |
An establishment primarily engaged in small-scale, on-site production of goods by hand manufacturing, which involves only the use of hands tools or domestic mechanical equipment not exceeding two horsepower or kilns not exceeding 25 kilowatts, and the incidental direct sale to consumers of only those goods produced on site. Typical uses include ceramic studios, glass, candle making shops, metal, and woodworking, manufacturers that typically occupy smaller spaces with a maximum floor area of 10,000 square feet.
Work space for an artist or artisan, including individuals practicing one of the fine arts, or an applied art or craft. This use may include incidental display and retail sales of items produced on the premises and instructional space for small groups of students. It does not include joint living and working units (See "Live/Work). Small-scale art production that is generally of a low impact. Typical uses include painting, photography, jewelry, textile, and small-scale pottery studios. All work is indoors and may only have very limited artisan display.
Retail or wholesale business that sell, rent, and/or repair automobiles, trucks, vans, trailers, motorcycles including the following:
Automobile Rental Office. Office for the rental of automobiles. Typical uses include one or more car rental agencies with no on-site storage of vehicles. Vehicle storage may be provided in a location where automobile storage is allowed. |
Automobile/Vehicle Sales and Leasing, New. Sale or lease, retail or wholesale, of new automobiles, light trucks, motorcycles, motor homes, and trailers, together with associated minor repair services and parts sales for vehicles sold or leased by the dealership. This classification includes on-site facilities for maintaining an inventory of vehicles for sale or lease but excludes buildings and property on a separate site that are used for storing vehicles. Used vehicle sales and leasing, provided it is not large-format, may be associated with this use. |
Automobile/Vehicle Service and Repair, Major. General repair, rebuilding or reconditioning of engines, motor vehicles or trailers, collision service including body, frame or fender straightening or repair, overall painting or paint shops of automobiles, trucks, motorcycles, motor homes, boats, and recreational vehicles, including the incidental sale, installation, and servicing of related equipment and parts, generally on an overnight basis. This classification includes auto repair shops, body and fender shops, transmission shops, vehicle painting, tire sales, and installation, but excludes vehicle dismantling or salvaging and tire retreading or recapping. Vehicles may be stored overnight. Excludes parking and service of large trucks (for large truck service, see "Large Vehicle and Equipment Sales, Service and Rental"). |
Automobile/Vehicle Service and Repair, Minor. The service and repair of automobiles, light-duty trucks not exceeding one and one-half tons' capacity, boats, and motorcycles, including the incidental sale, installation, and servicing of related equipment and parts. This classification includes the replacement of small automotive parts and liquids as an accessory use to a gasoline sales station or automotive accessories and supply store, as well as smog check, quick-service oil, tire sales and service, tune-up and brake and muffler shops where repairs are made or service provided in enclosed bays and no vehicles are stored overnight. |
Farm/Agricultural Equipment Sales, Service and Rental. Sales, servicing, rental, fueling, and washing of tractors, and other equipment used for agricultural, or landscape gardening activities. |
Fueling Station. Establishments primarily engaged in retailing automotive fuels or retailing these fuels in combination with activities, such as providing minor automobile/vehicle repair services; selling automotive oils, replacement parts, and accessories; and/or providing incidental food and retail services. Also known as a service station. |
Large Vehicle and Equipment Sales, Service and Rental. Sales, servicing, rental, fueling, and washing of recreational vehicles (RVs), large trucks, trailers, heavy equipment used for construction, moving activities. Examples include cranes, earth moving equipment, heavy trucks, combines, and similar equipment. This use does not include semi-truck or semi-trailer parking, storage, service, or repair. |
Tire Retreading and Capping. A business involved in the retreading, recapping, or rebuilding of tires using previously processed rubber or synthetic products. |
Washing, Full Service. Washing, waxing, or cleaning of automobiles or similar light vehicles, with hands-on service by employees who may move, vacuum, wash, wax, and dry the vehicle. Includes an interior or exterior waiting facility for customers and may include ancillary retail and/or food and drink service for waiting customers. |
Washing, Self-Serve. Includes self-serve washing facilities that are the principal use of a building, structure, or site, either self-wash facility or drive-through automated wash with no or limited employee assistance. No on-site waiting facility is provided for customers. |
Bail Bonds. A business which provides bond money, for a fee, to meet bail requirements for the release of a person arrested and awaiting a hearing or trial. |
Bank and Savings and Loan. A financial institution, including a credit union office or check cashing service, that provides retail banking services to individuals and businesses. This classification includes only those institutions engaged in the on-site circulation of cash money. |
Nontraditional Financial Institution. An establishment engaged in short-term lending and buy-back activities in which customers typically take part in one-time or infrequent transactions and do not open long-term accounts or deposit funds. Typical uses include check cashing services, payday lenders (also known as deferred deposit originators), and similar activities. |
An independent regional brewery with a majority of volume in "traditional" or "innovative" beers. Typical annual production may be between 15,000 and 6,000,000 barrels.
Retail sales or rental of building supplies or equipment. This classification includes finished lumber for purchase, tool and equipment sales, or rental establishments.
General Business Services. An establishment primarily engaged in providing services to other businesses on a fee or contract basis, including advertising and mailing, legal document services, security services, janitorial services, model building, and taxi services or delivery services with two or fewer fleet vehicles on site. |
Printing and Copy Services. An establishment providing printed or copied materials from digital or hard copy format originals, including printing and distribution of envelopes, business cards, and similar business products. |
Cannabis Distribution. Any facility engaged in the procurement, temporary storage, non-retail sales, and transport of cannabis or cannabis products between State-licensed cannabis business, including warehouses and similar structures. |
Cannabis Manufacturing, Volatile and Nonvolatile. The compounding, blending, extracting, infusing, or otherwise making or preparing a cannabis product. For purposes of this Zoning Code, cannabis manufacturing expressly includes the production, preparation, propagation, processing, or compounding of cannabis or cannabis products directly or indirectly, including through extraction and/or chemical synthesis methods. Cannabis manufacturing may include distribution of wholesale products from the premises but shall not include any retail sales of cannabis or cannabis products or other sales to consumers. |
Indoor Personal Cannabis Cultivation. Any activity involving the planting, growing, harvesting, drying, curing, grading, or trimming of cannabis licensed by the State and intended for commercial sale. For purposes of this Zoning Code, cannabis cultivation does not mean or include personal cultivation of cannabis regulated by § 17.84.280, Personal Cultivation of Cannabis. |
Cannabis Retail. A premises permanently located in the City licensed by the State of California pursuant to the Medicinal and Adult-Use Cannabis Regulation and Safety Act, California Business and Professions Code § 26000 et seq., as may be amended, where cannabis is provided for retail sale to consumers, including an establishment that delivers cannabis as part of a retail sale. Unless otherwise specified, "cannabis retailer" means both a retailer selling medical cannabis and medical cannabis products to patients with valid physician's recommendations, and a retailer providing adult-use cannabis and cannabis products for adults 21 years of age and over, pursuant to State law. |
Cannabis Testing, Research and Development. A laboratory, facility, or entity that offers or performs tests or testing of cannabis or cannabis products, including accredited testing laboratories licensed by the State and involved in commercial cannabis activity in the State. Cannabis laboratories and research also includes start-up or incubator research activities, which typically include, but are not limited to, research, design, analysis, development, and/or testing of a cannabis product, and laboratories or facilities engaged in scientific research studies, investigation, testing, or experimentation, but not including cannabis manufacturing or sales of cannabis. |
An establishment engaged primarily in operating sites or structures reserved for the interment of human or animal remains, including mausoleums, burial places, and memorial gardens.
Institutions of higher education providing curricula of a general, religious, or professional nature, typically granting recognized degrees, including conference centers and academic retreats associated with such institutions. This classification includes junior colleges, business and computer schools, management training, and technical and trade schools, but excludes personal instructional services such as music lessons.
Facilities for the provision of broadcasting and other information relay services through the use of electronic and telephonic mechanisms.
Antennas and Transmission Towers. Broadcasting and other communication services accomplished through electronic or telephonic mechanisms, as well as structure designed to support reception or transmission systems. Typical uses include wireless telecommunication towers and facilities, radio towers, television towers, telephone exchange/microwave relay towers, and cellular telephone transmission/personal communications systems towers. |
Equipment within Buildings. Indoor facilities containing primarily communication equipment and storage devices such as computer servers. |
A facility for public or private meetings including community centers, banquet centers, religious assembly facilities, dance halls, civic auditoriums, union halls, meeting halls for clubs and other membership organizations. This classification includes functionally related facilities for the use of members and attendees such as kitchens, multi-purpose rooms, and storage. It does not include gymnasiums or other sports facilities, convention centers, or facilities, such as day care centers and schools that are separately classified and regulated.
An area of land managed and maintained by a public or nonprofit organization or a group of individuals to grow and harvest food crops and/or ornamental crops, such as flowers, for personal or group use, consumption, or donation. Community gardens may be divided into separate plots for cultivation by one or more individuals or may be farmed collectively by members of the group and may include common areas maintained and used by group members. Community gardens may be accessory to public or institutional uses such as parks, schools, community centers, or religious assembly uses. This classification does not include gardens that are on a property in residential use when access is limited to those who reside on the property. Community gardens do not include medical marijuana collectives.
A temporary structure or trailer placed on or adjacent to a project site for the duration of construction. May include a construction materials yard. Also referred to as a job shack.
A place with a building or structure containing a furnace used for the reduction of human remains by way of incineration.
A facility engaged in activities to serve and promote aesthetic and educational interest in the community that are open to the public on a regular basis. This classification includes performing arts for theater, music, dance, and events as an accessory use; spaces for display or preservation of objects of interest in the arts or sciences; libraries; museums; historical sites; aquariums; publicly owned art galleries; and zoos and botanical gardens. It does not include schools or institutions of higher education providing curricula of a general nature.
Establishments providing non-medical care for persons on a less-than-24-hour basis other than family day care (small and large). This classification includes nonhome-based commercial and nonprofit nursery schools, preschools, day care facilities for children or adults, and any other day care facility licensed by the State of California.
A motor vehicle drive-through facility which is a commercial building or structure portion thereof which is designed to be used to provide goods or services to the occupants of motor vehicles.
Drive-Through, Food Establishment. Includes drive-through for food establishments. |
Drive-Through, Limited. Includes, but is not limited to, banks, pharmacies, or other similar uses. Does not include drive-in movies, fueling stations, car-wash operations, or food establishments. |
A residential building containing two dwelling units, both of which are located on a single parcel (also referred to as a duplex or two-flat). The dwelling units are attached and may be located on separate floors or side by side. This use is distinguished from an accessory dwelling unit, which is considered a secondary residential unit, or incidental to a primary dwelling unit as defined by State law and this chapter.
Businesses primarily engaged in serving prepared food and/or beverages for consumption on or off the premises.
Bar/Night Club/Lounge. A business serving beverages for consumption on the premises as a primary use and including on-sale service of alcohol including beer, wine, and mixed drinks. This use includes karaoke bars and micro-breweries where alcoholic beverages are sold and consumed on site and any food service is subordinate to the sale of alcoholic beverages. |
Brewpub/Wine Bar. An establishment with on-sale alcohol sales and food service, such as a full-service or limited-service restaurant. May have a micro-brewery as an accessory use. May sell other supplier's beer, including other specialty, handcrafted or microbrewed beers as well as wine to patrons for consumption on its premises. Customers are not limited to 21 years or older. |
Microbrewery. A brewery that produces up to 15,000 barrels of beer per year. Generally, no more than 75% of the total gross floor space is involved in brewing. Microbreweries sell to the public either as wholesale or retail capacity. Microbreweries do not include food service. |
Microdistillery. A small, often boutique-style distillery established to produce beverage grade spirit alcohol in relatively small quantities, usually done in single batches (as opposed to larger distillers' continuous distilling process). Typically, no more than 15,000 U.S. gallons of spirits per year. May include a restaurant, bar, or tasting room. |
Restaurant, Full Service. A restaurant providing food and beverage services to patrons who order and are served while seated and pay after eating. Takeout service may be provided. |
Restaurant, Limited Counter Service/Fast Casual Food. An establishment where food and beverages are consumed on the premises, taken out, or delivered, but where limited table service is provided. Includes cafes, cafeterias, coffee shops, delicatessens, fast-food restaurants, sandwich shops, limited-service pizza parlors, self-service restaurants, and snack bars with indoor or outdoor seating for customers. This classification includes bakeries that have tables for on-site consumption of products. Excludes drive-through establishments. |
Tasting Room. A retail sales facility where customers may taste and purchase beverage and food products, grown or processed on site or locally. Products offered for tasting and sale may include wine, beer, olive oil, cheese, honey, and/or other food and beverage products. |
Facilities for parking and the dispatch of emergency medical transport services, including ambulance, fire, police, and rescue. May include offices and facilities for cooking and sleeping of on-duty personnel.
Any facility whose primary purpose is to provide temporary 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. Emergency shelter shall include other interventions, including, but not limited to, a navigation center, bridge housing, and respite or recuperative facilities. Emergency shelters do not include evacuation shelters during emergencies.
A day care facility licensed by the State of California, located in and accessory to a residential unit where the resident of the dwelling provides care and supervision for children under the age of 18 for periods of less than 24 hours a day. Family day care also includes adult in-home day care that is less than 24 hours a day.
Family Day Care, Small. A facility that provides care for children, including children who reside at the home and are under the age of 10, as set forth in California Health and Safety Code § 1597.44 and as defined in those regulations. |
A location where the primary activity is the sale of agricultural products by producers and certified producers. Sales of ancillary products may occur at the location. Open-air farmers markets are operated by a local government agency only.
Establishments engaged in the production, processing, packaging, or manufacturing of food or beverage products and any instruction, direct sales, or on site consumption are incidental to the food or beverage production activity. These uses may have specific quality assurance and quality control to ensure that ingredients and finished products are tested and meet safety and quality specifications.
Small Scale. A small-scale food and beverage products manufacturing and distribution establishment located in facilities less than 10,000 square feet in size. Examples include small coffee roasters, microbreweries (manufacturing less than 15,000 barrels per year or less), microdistilleries (manufacturing 10,000 barrels per year or less), wine manufacturing, meat or fish products, small batch candy shops, cheese makers, wholesale bakeries, and brew-on-premises stores which provide ingredients and equipment for customers to manufacture their own product. |
Large Scale. Large scale production, packaging, processing, preparation, or manufacturing of a food, beverage, or ingredient used or intended for use by human consumption in a facility over 10,000 square feet. This classification includes such uses as bottling of alcoholic or nonalcoholic beverages, milling of grain, canning, processing, extracting, fermenting, distilling, pickling, freezing, baking, drying, smoking, grinding, cutting, mixing, coating, stuffing, packing, bottling or packaging of food; coffee roasting; food products; brewing; and distillation of liquor and spirits. This use may include multiple food preparation and packaging/canning lines where processes are both interior and exterior to buildings. This use also involves warehousing and outdoor storage, including, but not limited to, pallets, bins, trailers, crates, and process-related construction materials and equipment. Ancillary office space is also consistent with this use. The parking and storage of trucks, trailers, service vehicles, and other vehicles used in connection with the operation is also permitted in this use designation. This does not include slaughtering of animals, fowl, or direct retail sales. |
A business that prepares and/or packages food for off-site consumption, excluding those of an industrial character in terms of processes employed, waste produced, water used, and traffic generation. Typical uses include catering kitchens, bakeries with on-site retail sales, commercial kitchens, and small-scale specialty food production. This classification does not include businesses involved in the processing or manufacturing of wholesale food products.
A site or facility for the keeping of empty cargo containers and equipment. Includes the storage of container chassis and truck cabs, repair facilities, warehouses and other equipment associated with the movement or storage of cargo containers.
Any property and improvements used for freight, courier, and postal services, freight transfer truck terminals; or the operations of a common carrier trucking company including the parking, servicing, repairing, storage of trucks, truck tractors, semi-trucks, and/or truck trailers. Allowed as an accessory use only.
An establishment primarily engaged in services involving the care, preparation, or disposition of human dead other than in a cemetery. Does not include crematoriums.
A sale conducted from any location on the premises of a residence in any kind of residential zone for the purpose of permitting occupants of that residence to dispose of their personal property accumulated during the course of ordinary residential living to sell the same to the public.
Facilities providing administrative or public services, including public safety and emergency services, with incidental storage, training, and maintenance facilities. Review of such uses will be dependent upon the government agency and the proposed use. If an agency owns the land and the use is for the purpose of that agency, the City may not have review oversight. This use includes publicly owned and operated surface parking lots and parking structures offering parking to the public with or without a fee.
A facility, excluding vehicles, for collection, source separation, storage, processing, treatment, recovery or disposal of hazardous wastes, or a transfer station for hazardous waste, and may include a facility at which such activities occur and where waste has been generated Storage of hazardous materials include, but are not limited to: bottled gas, chemicals, minerals and ores, petroleum or petroleum-based fuels, and fireworks (California Code of Regulations Title 22, Division 4.5, Chapter 10).
Helicopter landing area used, designed, or intended to be used for the receiving or discharging of passengers and cargo and including appurtenant facilities for passengers, cargo, or for the servicing, repair, shelter, or storage of helicopters.
Any accessory use conducted entirely within a dwelling, accessory building, or swimming pool, and carried on by the inhabitants thereof, which use is clearly incidental and secondary to the use of the dwelling for residential purposes and does not change the character thereof or adversely affect the uses permitted in the residential zone of which it is part (see § 17.84.200, Home Occupations and Cottage Food Operations).
Any facility or location whose business operation includes 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 down as it is drawn through it.
Clinic. A facility providing medical, mental health, or surgical services for sick or injured persons exclusively on an outpatient basis, including emergency treatment, urgent care, cosmetic, diagnostic services, administration, and related services to patients who are not lodged overnight. Services may be provided without a prior appointment. Treatment is typically provided by more than two licensed physicians and their professional associates. May include the provision of medical testing and analysis services as an ancillary use. This classification includes licensed facilities offering substance abuse treatment, blood banks, plasma, dialysis centers, and emergency medical services. It does not include private medical and dental offices that typically require appointments and are usually smaller scale. |
Hospital. A facility providing medical, surgical, mental health, or services primarily on an inpatient basis, and including ancillary facilities for outpatient and emergency treatment, diagnostic services, training, research, administration, and services to patients, employees, or visitors. |
Skilled Nursing Facility. A range of facility types that provides bed care on a chronic basis or convalescent care for persons who by reason of illness, physical infirmity, or age are unable to properly care for themselves for a period of time. A patient's stay at a skilled nursing facility is usually temporary in nature and is focused on rehabilitation that is intended to prepare the resident to return to their independent living. Extended care provides for the prolonged care of individuals who require custodial or nursing care. |
Establishments engaged in the manufacturing of non-edible products that include processing, manufacturing, or compounding of materials, or energy, or any industrial activities that, due to the scale or method of operation, regularly produce noise, heat, glare, dust, smoke, fumes, odors, vibration, or other external impacts detectable beyond the lot lines of the property. Includes the use of raw materials to fabricate semi-finished products including metal fabricating facilities, open welding shops, lumber woodworking (milling) facilities, heavy machine shops, chemical storage and distributing, industrial fabrication facilities, concrete product manufacturing activities, and aggregate or asphalt yards. Includes structures outside of the primary structure such as cranes, conveyor systems, cooling towers or open-air storage of large quantities of raw, semi-refined, or finished products. Heavy industrial uses may regularly employ hazardous material or procedures or produce hazardous byproducts, include outdoor storage areas, and may have activities that take place outdoors. There is no general public access.
Establishments engaged in the manufacturing of non-edible products and finished parts primarily from previously-prepared materials by means of physical assembly or reshaping. This classification includes uses where retail sales are clearly incidental to an industrial or manufacturing use. Production takes place primarily within enclosed buildings with limited impacts on nearby properties. Any heat, glare, dust, smoke, fumes, odors, or vibration are confined to the building. These uses typically have more employees per acre than other industrial uses and are more consumer-oriented. May include a showroom or ancillary sales of products related to the items manufactured on site. Often includes buildings that are smaller scale, under 50,000 square feet, or in multi-tenant type configurations, with office and production area combined. Uses typically use vans and light duty box trucks rather than semi-trucks. Examples include the manufacturing of personal care and home care products, cosmetics, printing, engraving, publishing, clothes and shoes, furniture, art ware and crafts, consumer electronics, and sign manufacture shops. Limited outdoor processing and storage of materials may require a permit in some zones.
Establishments engaged in the manufacturing of non-edible products that are larger in scale and size than light industrial uses and involve the manufacturing of products from processed or unprocessed raw materials, where the finished product is noncombustible and nonexplosive. On-site manufacturing may produce noise, vibrations, illumination, or particulate that is perceptible to adjacent land uses, but is not offensive or obnoxious. May involve interplant transfers. Uses are typically accesses by semi-trailer truck, tractor-trailer truck (18-wheeler, fifth-wheel, box-trailer) and include truck bays to accommodate semi-truck trips.
Examples include, but are not limited to, research, development, and manufacturing of finished or semi-finished products; the packaging of products manufactured on site; glass production made from manufactured glass, clay, and pottery products; wood truss assembly; computer hardware; products made from rubber, plastic, resin; converted paper and cardboard products; fabricated metal products made from semi-finished metals. Limited outdoor processing and storage of materials may require a permit in some zones. |
A facility engaged in the cleaning of fabrics in an essentially nonaqueous solvent by means of one or more washes in solvent and extraction of excess solvent. Does not include drop off and pick up for dry cleaners.
Passenger transportation services, local delivery services, medical transport, and other businesses that rely on fleets of three or more vehicles with rated capacities less than 10,000 pounds. This classification includes parking, dispatching, and offices for taxicab and limousine operations, ambulance services, nonemergency medical transport, local messenger and document delivery services, home cleaning services, and similar businesses.
A unit that combines a work space for commercial activities and incidental residential occupancy occupied and used by a single household in a structure that has been constructed or converted for such use and modified to accommodate residential and nonresidential occupancies in compliance with the Building Code.
An establishment providing overnight lodging to transient patrons.
Bed and Breakfast. A residential structure that is in residential use by the property owner or manager and within which bedrooms are rented for overnight lodging and where meals may be provided. |
Hotel and Motel. An establishment providing temporary lodging to transient patrons. These establishments may provide additional services, such as conference and meeting rooms, restaurants, bars, or recreation facilities available to guests or to the general public. This use classification includes motor lodges, motels, apartment hotels, and tourist courts. |
RV Park Resort. A form of lodging designed to accommodate travelers with recreational vehicles for short-term overnight vacation stays, on a nightly or weekly basis, in allotted spaces, or for occupancy by tents or other movable temporary sleeping quarters. RV park resorts are self-contained and provide amenities to the clients, including, but not limited to, barbecue areas, bathhouses, exercise equipment, tennis courts, gift store, laundry, and swimming pool. |
Short-Term Rental. Rental of a dwelling unit or rooms within a dwelling unit for 30 or fewer consecutive days. |
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. (See California Government Code § 65660.)
Establishments engaged in the maintenance or repair of small office machines, household appliances, furniture, and similar items. This classification excludes maintenance and repair of vehicles or boats (see "Automotive Sales and Services") and personal apparel (see "Personal Services").
As defined in California Health and Safety Code § 18214, a manufactured home park is a mobile home development constructed according to the requirements of California Health and Safety Code §§ 18200 to 18700 and intended for use and sale as a mobile home condominium or cooperative park, or as a mobile home planned unit development.
A self-contained truck or trailer or non-motorized push cart that is readily movable without disassembling, and is used to sell merchandise, prepare, and serve food and beverages, or provide other services that requires a permit as provided for in the Woodland Municipal Code Section 10.20.040, Mobile vendor permit required.
Three or more units on a single lot. Accommodates a broad range of attached multi-unit housing types including triplex, fourplex, townhouses, and stacked apartments or condominiums. Units may be contained in single structures or in a collection of cohesive structures with common open spaces and amenities.
Offices of firms or organizations providing professional, executive, management, administrative or design services. This classification also includes offices where medical and dental services are provided by physicians, dentists, chiropractors, acupuncturists, optometrists, including medical/dental laboratories within medical office buildings, but excludes clinics or independent research laboratory facilities.
Business, Professional, and Technology. Offices of private firms or organizations or public or quasi-public organizations that are primarily used for the provision of professional, executive, management, or administrative services. Typical uses include administrative offices, tax preparation, legal offices, graphic design, legal, accounting, engineering or architectural firms, employment agencies, insurance agent offices, real estate offices, travel agencies, utility company offices, and offices for elected officials. Excludes banks and savings and loan associations (see "Banks and Financial Institutions") and any drive-up service. |
Medical and Dental Offices. Uses primarily engaged in the provision of personal health services including consultation, diagnosis, therapeutic, preventative, or corrective personal treatment by physicians, dentists, nurses, chiropractors, optometrists, counselors, and other health personnel, including practitioners of medical and/or healing arts as licensed for such practice by the State. Provides for treatment by up to two licensed physicians, dentists, and their professional associates. Excludes clinics or independent research laboratory facilities and hospitals (see "Hospitals and Clinics"). |
The sale or offering for sale to the general public of merchandise outside of a permanent structure on property owned or leased by the person, firm, or corporation. These sales are of a limited duration and conducted on an occasional basis and are secondary or incidental to the principal permitted use or structure existing on the property.
A site or facility for the keeping of pallets and similar transport structures intended to support goods while being lifted by a forklift, front loader, jacking device, crane, or similar equipment.
Parks, playgrounds, recreation facilities, trails, wildlife preserves, and related open spaces, all of which are noncommercial. This classification also includes playing fields, courts, gymnasiums, swimming pools, picnic facilities, tennis courts, and golf courses, botanical gardens, as well as related food concessions or community centers within the facilities.
Privately owned or operated surface lots and structures offering parking to the public with or without a fee. Commercial parking facilities provide parking that is not considered accessory parking to a specific use. Does not include truck storage or car rental storage. Private parking may be considered on a case-by-case basis as an accessory use to a primary use.
Dry Cleaner/Self Service Laundry. A facility where coin-operated equipment for self-service laundering is open to the public. May include dry cleaning drop off/pick up. Excludes dry cleaning facilities and bulk cleaning plants. |
General Personal Services. Services of a personal nature that are typically needed on a recurring basis. Services include, but are not limited to, barbershops and beauty salons, nail salons, personal trainers, day spas, clothing rental, seamstresses, tailors, dry cleaning drop off/pick up (excluding cleaning plants), shoe repair shops, photocopying, and photo finishing services. These uses also may include accessory retail sales of products related to the services provided. |
Instructional Services. An establishment that offers specialized programs in personal growth and development such as music, martial arts, photography, vocal, fitness, yoga, dancing, and academic tutoring. Attendance is typically limited to hourly classes rather than full-day instruction. These establishments do not grant diplomas or degrees, though instruction could provide credits for diplomas or degrees granted by other institutions. Retail sales are permitted as an accessory use. |
Massage Establishments. Any establishment having in whole or in part, a fixed place of business where individuals engage in, conduct or carry on, or permit to be engaged in, conducted or carried on, massages, baths, health treatments involving massages or baths as a primary or secondary function, provided that "massage establishment" does not include establishments where massage is administered in conjunction with the practice of a medical doctor, chiropractor, acupuncturist, physical therapist, or nurse. |
Tattoo/Body Modification Parlor. An establishment whose principal business activity is one or more of the following: (1) using ink or other substances that result in the permanent coloration of the skin through the use of needles or other instruments designed to contact or puncture the skin; or (2) piercing of the body of a person for the purpose of inserting jewelry or other decoration. |
Services for the public that include water treatment facility, wastewater treatment facility, corporation yard, and other services that provide major public infrastructure services for urban development.
Facilities necessary to support established uses involving only minor structures, such as substations, pumping stations, electrical distribution lines, and underground water and sewer lines.
Cinema/Theater. An establishment intended to be used for the specific purposes of presenting or displaying motion pictures, slides, or television pictures before an assemblage of persons. |
Indoor Entertainment Facility. Indoor entertainment establishments that occupy less than 5,000 square feet of building area, including billiard parlors, axe throwing, game arcades, pool halls, and amusement arcades. Does not include cinema/theater. |
Indoor Sports and Recreation, Large-Scale. Facilities with more than 5,000 square feet in building area providing participant sports, indoor amusement and entertainment services conducted within an enclosed building. Includes coin-operated electronic amusement centers, ice or roller skating rinks, bowling alleys, indoor shooting ranges. Does not include cinema/theater. |
Indoor Sports and Recreation, Small-Scale. Facilities that are generally located indoors and occupy less than 5,000 square feet of building area. Includes gyms, exercise clubs, and studios offering martial arts, physical exercise, yoga training, or similar types of instruction to classes and groups. |
Outdoor Sports and Recreation Facility. Amusement or sports related facilities that are conducted in open or partially enclosed or screened facilities. Facilities such as amusement and theme parks, amphitheaters, golf courses, driving ranges, and golf courses. Also includes larger swimming or tennis club facilities, swimming or wave pools, miniature golf courses, archery range. |
Collection. A drop off/collection and sorting point for recyclable materials such as paper, metal, plastic, and glass. A recycling collection facility is accessory to a primary use. |
Processing. An industrial facility where recycled materials are processed into new materials or products. |
Reverse Vending Machine. An automated mechanical device which accepts at least one or more types of empty beverage containers, including, but not limited to, aluminum cans, glass, and plastic bottles, and issues a cash refund or a redeemable credit slip with a value not less than the container's redemption value as determined by the State. A reverse vending machine may sort and process containers mechanically provided that the entire process is enclosed within the machine. A bulk reverse vending machine is a type of reverse vending machine that is larger than 50 square feet; is designed to accept more than one container at a time; and will pay by weight instead of by container. |
Donation Container. An unattended container, bin, or receptacle installed outdoors on a commercial site that is used for soliciting and collecting donations of clothing or other salvageable personal property. This term does not apply to temporary/seasonal donation containers located inside buildings or recycle bins for collection of recyclable materials such as glass, plastics, or aluminum. |
A facility for the scientific research and the design, development, and testing of agri-tech, electrical, electronic, magnetic, optical, pharmaceutical, chemical, biotechnology, plant breeding, seed research, and life science components and products in advance of product manufacturing. This classification includes assembly of related products from parts produced off site, where the manufacturing activity is secondary to the research and development activities, in addition to involving the production of experimental products. Excludes uses that produce odor, dust, noise, bright lights, vibration, or the storage of hazardous material, including biohazards, that threaten public safety.
A facility licensed by the State of California to provide living accommodations, non-medical 24-hour care for persons requiring personal services, supervision, protection, or assistance for sustaining the activities of daily living. Living accommodations are group homes or shared living quarters with or without separate kitchen or bathroom facilities for each room or unit. This classification includes facilities that are operated for profit as well as those operated by public or not-for-profit institutions. Examples include residential care facilities for the elderly as defined in California Health and Safety Code § 1569.2(k), residential care facilities for the chronically ill as defined in California Health and Safety Code § 1568.01, and group homes as defined in California Health and Safety Code § 1502(a)(13).
Small. A residential care facility that is licensed by the State of California to provide care for six or fewer persons. A residential care facility for six or fewer persons is considered a residential use of property as specified in California Health and Safety Code § 1566.3. |
Large. A residential care facility that is licensed by the State of California to provide care for more than six persons. |
Artisan Shop. A retail store selling art glass, ceramics, jewelry and other handcrafted items and supplies needed to create finished items, where the facility includes an area for the crafting of the items sold. |
Convenience/Small Grocery Market. A small retail establishment (up to 10,000 square feet) that sells a range of everyday items, such as coffee, groceries, prepackaged food items, magazines, newspapers, and other household goods. The market may include a delicatessen or specialty food items and may cater to neighborhood or local clients or may be operated on the same parcel in conjunction with another use. Also known as a corner store or bodega. Liquor sales are considered separate from the market. |
Firearm Sales and Servicing. A business whose primary use is the sale and servicing of firearms, ammunition, and related materials. |
General Retail Sales. The retail sale or rental of merchandise not specifically listed under another use classification. This classification includes retail establishments with 60,000 square feet or less of sales area; including bakeries, clothing stores, drug and discount stores, florists, gift shops, household stores, furniture stores, pharmacies, small hardware and garden supply/nurseries stores, sports stores, stationary and variety stores, and businesses retailing goods including, but not limited to, the following: art supplies, dry goods, toys, hobby materials, handcrafted items, jewelry, cameras, pet supplies, photographic supplies and services (including portraiture and retail photo processing), medical supplies and equipment, musical instruments, electronic equipment, sporting and camping equipment, kitchen utensils, hardware, appliances, antiques, art galleries, art supplies and services, paint and wallpaper, carpeting and floor covering, office supplies, bicycles, video rental, new automotive parts and accessories (excluding vehicle service and installation). Retail sales may be combined with accessory indoor repair services. |
Grocery Store. An establishment between 5,000 and 60,000 square feet of sales area, primarily engaged in the retail sale of canned food; dry goods; fresh fruits and vegetables; fresh meats, fish, and poultry; and any area that is not separately owned within the store where the food is prepared and served, including a bakery, deli, and meat and seafood departments. |
Large Format Retail Sales. Retail establishments with over 60,000 square feet of sales area that sell merchandise and bulk goods for individual consumption, including department stores and membership warehouse clubs, where sales of grocery items do not occupy more than 25% of the floor area. Retail sales may be combined with accessory indoor repair services. |
Liquor Sales as Primary Use. Establishments primarily engaged in selling packaged alcoholic beverages for off-site consumption. |
Liquor Sales as Accessory Use, Small. Establishments up to 5,000 gross square feet in size where liquor sales represent no more than 20% of the total inventory sold. |
Liquor Sales as Accessory Use, Large. Establishments greater than 5,000 gross square feet in size where liquor sales represent no more than 20% of the inventory sold. |
Nursery and Garden Center. Establishments primarily engaged in retailing nursery and garden products, such as trees, shrubs, plants, seeds, bulbs, and sod, that are predominantly grown elsewhere. Fertilizer and soil products are stored and sold in packaged form only. |
Residential Limited Retail. Small neighborhood-oriented retail establishments in residential districts. Limited uses provide convenient, walkable access to convenience and/or specialty goods and services. Appropriate uses include the following: counter-service cafes and coffee shops; delicatessens; bakeries; flower shops; and bike shops and bike repair services. |
Pawn Shop. Establishments engaged in the buying, selling, trading, accepting for auctioning, or auctioning of new or secondhand merchandise and offering loans in exchange for personal property. |
Secondhand/Consignment Store. A store where secondhand goods are for sale or 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. Unlike a pawn shop, secondhand/consignment stores do not offer loans in exchange for personal property. |
Smoke Shop. Smoke shop shall mean any premises dedicated to the display, sale, distribution, delivery, offering, furnishing, or marketing of tobacco, tobacco products, or tobacco paraphernalia. Smoke shop includes tobacco stores and vape shops. Any grocery store, supermarket, convenience store or similar retail use that only sells conventional cigars, cigarettes or tobacco as an ancillary sale is not considered a smoke shop. |
A temporary structure designed or used for the display or sale of agricultural products.
Storage and dismantling of vehicles and equipment for sale of parts, as well as their collection, storage, exchange, or sale of goods, including, but not limited to, any used building materials, used shipping containers or steel drums, used tires, and similar related articles or property.
See § 17.84.380, Two-Unit Projects.
A facility for primary or secondary education, including public schools, charter schools, and private and parochial schools having curricula comparable to that required in the public schools of the State of California.
A type of multi-unit group residential facility where living accommodations are individual secure rooms, with or without separate kitchen or bathroom facilities for each room. SROs have some form of shared cooking, living, and/or bathroom facilities, and there are specific rules regarding on-site management and minimum unit size. This use classification includes rooming/boarding houses and dormitories, but is distinct from a hotel or motel, which is a commercial use.
A dwelling unit that is designed for occupancy by one household with private yards on all sides and located on a separate lot from any other units (except an accessory dwelling unit). This classification includes individual manufactured housing units installed on a foundation system pursuant to the California Health and Safety Code § 18551.
Detached. A single-unit dwelling, on a single lot, within which all rooms are internally accessible and that is not attached to any other primary dwelling unit. |
Attached. A dwelling unit that is designed for occupancy by one household located on a single parcel that does not contain any other unit (except an accessory dwelling unit) and is attached through common vertical walls to one other dwelling on an abutting parcel (also referred to as a half-plex). |
Employee Housing. This type of housing includes farmworker housing and is defined in California Health and Safety Code § 17008(b), even if the housing accommodations are not located in a rural area. Employee housing for six or fewer persons shall be treated as a single-family structure and residential use, as described in California Health and Safety Code § 17021.5. |
A residential subdivision in which there are attached or detached residential units, each owned fee-simple and located on lots less than the minimum lot size and less than the minimum lot dimensions otherwise established for the underlying residential zones. Single-family, duplex and multi-unit building types may be permitted within a small lot subdivision subject to § 17.56.040, Small Lot Subdivision Design Standards. Configurations for small lot subdivisions may include, but are not limited to, cluster housing, cottage courts, drive courts, and townhouses/rowhouses. A maintenance agreement or homeowners association may govern common areas like driveways or open space. Reduced interior setbacks are typical.
Facilities providing a variety of supportive services for disabled and homeless individuals and other targeted groups on a less-than-24-hour basis. Examples of services provided are counseling, meal programs, personal storage lockers, showers, instructional programs, television rooms, and meeting spaces. This classification is distinguished from licensed day care centers (see "Day Care Center"), clinics (see "Clinic"), and emergency shelters providing 24-hour or overnight care (see "Emergency Shelter").
The use of land to store material, equipment, or vehicles as an accessory to a primary use. The primary use must have an active business license within the City of Woodland. Does not include freight or truck trailer storage or impound lots.
Dwelling units with no limit on length of stay that are occupied by the target population as defined in the California Health and Safety Code § 53260(d) or individuals eligible for services provided pursuant to the Lanterman Developmental Disabilities Act (Division 45 of the Welfare and Institutions Code), and that are linked to on-site or off-site services that assist supportive housing residents in retaining the housing, improving their health status, and maximizing their ability to live and, where possible, work in the community and where no on-site medical care is provided. Supportive housing as defined in the California Health and Safety Code § 50675.14(b) may be provided in a multiple-unit structure or group residential facility. Facilities may operate as licensed or unlicensed facilities subject to applicable State requirements.
An indoor or outdoor place, in an approved location, or for an approved activity where new or used goods or secondhand personal property is offered for sale or to exchange to the general public by a multitude of individual licensed vendors, usually in compartmentalized spaces. The term "swap meet or flea market" is interchangeable with auctions, open-air markets, or other similarly labeled activities, but the term does not include supermarket or department store retail operations.
A temporary sales office located on the site of a new development, usually in a model home, and operated until sales are completed.
A facility to recycle or store tires, concrete, hazardous chemicals, or other industrial materials. This use does not include the processing of recycled materials into new materials.
Dwelling units configured as rental housing but operated under program requirements that require the termination of assistance and recirculating of the assisted unit to another eligible program recipient at a predetermined future point in time, that shall be not less than six months from the beginning of assistance. Transitional housing may be designated for homeless or recently homeless individuals or families transitioning to permanent housing as defined in the California Health and Safety Code § 50675.2(h). Facilities may be linked to on-site or off-site supportive services designed to help residents gain skills needed to live independently. Transitional housing may be provided in a variety of rental housing types (e.g., multiple-unit dwelling, single room occupancy, group residential, single-unit dwelling). This classification includes domestic violence shelters.
A facility for passenger transportation operations, including transit bus stops and bus terminals.
A lot, tow-yard, or in an interior space for the holding of equipment or vehicles legally impounded until they are placed back in control of the owner, recycled for their metal, stripped of their parts at a wrecking yard, or auctioned off for the benefit of the impounding agency. The impounding agency can be a police department/agency.
Storage and distribution facilities without sales to the public on site or direct public access except for public storage in small individual space exclusively and directly accessible to a specific tenant.
Chemical or Mineral Storage. Storage of hazardous materials including, but not limited to, bottled gas, chemicals, minerals and ores, petroleum or petroleum-based fuels, and fireworks. |
Indoor Warehousing and Storage. The receiving, storing and distribution of goods, including cold storage. Includes maintaining inventory and providing safekeeping for a product before sale, resale, or use. A building where goods or raw materials are stored. Includes unloading, receiving, and checking inbound goods. Includes storage and sale of materials and supplies used in production or operation, including janitorial and restaurant supplies. This use normally operates from a warehouse or office having little or no display of merchandise and is not designed to solicit walk-in-traffic. This classification does not include wholesale sale of building materials (see "Building Material Sales and Services"). |
Logistics and Distribution. Includes the inbound and outbound flow of goods with a focus on freight-related transportation services that concentrate logistics and transportation activities. Logistics centers participate in all activities linked to the supply chain. Fulfillment and distribution centers that may serve designated by companies to store products, prepare orders, and distribute products. May be a transfer center, distribution center or process distribution center. Typically larger in size, with specialized handling equipment, loading and docks. |
Personal Storage Facility. A storage facility that is characterized by individual separate spaces accessible by customers for the storing and retrieval of personal effects and household goods. This classification excludes workshops, warehousing, manufacturing, retail or wholesale selling, office or other business services with the spaces and human habitation. |
Personal Storage Warehouse Facility. The indoor storage of large boats, RVs, and other large objects for customers for storage and retrieval. The items may be moved about within the facility by the business operator with goods and vehicles possibly arranged in racks for storage. This classification excludes workshops, commercial warehousing, manufacturing, retail or wholesale selling, office or other business services with the spaces and human habitation. |
An establishment primarily engaged in the wholesale of nursery and garden products such as trees, shrubs, plants, seeds, bulbs, and sod that are predominantly grown elsewhere. Fertilizer and soil products are stored and sold in packaged form only.
(Ord. 1722, 6/18/2024; Ord. 1743, 10/7/2025)