Accessory use classifications are limited to uses that are subordinate, incidental to, or serve a principal use. Accessory use classifications may not function as primary uses. The following uses shall always be considered accessory to a principal use:
(a) One (1) or Two (2) Residential Units with Other Nonresidential Use. A single-unit or two (2) unit dwelling, either attached or detached, located on the same lot as another nonresidential use.
(b) Accessory Dwelling Unit and Junior Accessory Dwelling Unit.
(1) Accessory Dwelling Unit. An attached or detached residential dwelling unit which provides complete independent living facilities for one (1) or more persons. It includes permanent provisions for living, sleeping, eating, cooking, and sanitation on the same parcel as the principal residential use. An accessory dwelling unit can be an efficiency unit as defined in Section
17958.1 of the State Health and Safety Code, or a manufactured home as defined in Section
18007 of the State Health and Safety Code. This use type is distinguished from the two (2) unit use classification, which is not an accessory use. See also Article 14 of Chapter 5 of this title.
(2) Junior Accessory Dwelling Unit. A unit that is no more than five hundred (500) square feet in size and contained entirely within a single-family residence. A junior accessory dwelling unit may include separate sanitation facilities or may share sanitation facilities with the existing structure. A junior accessory dwelling unit has a separate entrance and an efficiency kitchen, which includes appliances, a counter, and cabinets.
(c) Family Day Care Home. A home in which a resident of the unit regularly provides the care, protection, and supervision of children for less than twenty-four (24) hours a day and is licensed by the State of California.
(1) Small. A family day care home providing care for eight (8) or fewer children, including children less than ten (10) years of age who reside in the home.
(2) Large. A family day care home providing care for seven (7) to fourteen (14) children, including children less than ten (10) years of age who reside in the home.
(d) Home Occupation. A business conducted in a dwelling unit by the inhabitant of the unit, which is incidental and secondary to the residential use of the dwelling. See also Article 8 of Chapter 5.
(e) Live Aboard Boat. A boat used as a dwelling unit. See also Section
10-1.17.
(f) Resident Manager or Caretaker Quarters. A dwelling unit in connection with a principal nonresidential use on the same lot, to be occupied by a person who must be present on the site for managerial or security reasons and who is the owner, lessee, or an employee of the owner or lessee of the nonresidential use.
(g) Tasting Rooms. Facilities for samples or small servings of alcoholic beverages to promote and provide for the sales of beverages or services including wine tours pursuant to an appropriate license from the California Department of Alcoholic Beverage Control, including but not limited to license types 01, 02, 20, and 21. Tasting Rooms may also include samples or small servings of food.
(h) Alcohol Sales and Service. Sale or service of alcoholic beverages to patrons of a restaurant; members and guests of private clubs, organizations, and events; registered guests of bed and breakfast inns; and guests of motels and hotels and their invitees pursuant to an appropriate license from the California Department of Alcoholic Beverage Control, including but not limited to license types 01, 02, 23, 41, 47, 49, 51, 52, 57, 59, 67, 70, 75, and 80.
(i) Animal Keeping. Keeping of small domesticated animals as pets or for personal use of products such as meat, honey, milk, eggs, and fibers, as contrasted with the principal use of Animal Husbandry described in Section
9-2.509. See also Chapter 1 of Title
6.
(j) Sidewalk Cafe. An area of the sidewalk used exclusively for eating, drinking, and related pedestrian circulation and located adjacent to, and operated in conjunction with, a street-level Restaurant. See also Article 15 of Chapter 5.
(k) Off-Street Parking. Off-street parking, with or without a fee, that is intended to meet the parking provisions of Article 4 of Chapter 4 of this title. Parking in excess of the needs of the principal use with which it is associated may be operated separately as the principal use of Parking described in Section
9-2.343.
(l) Car Sharing Pod. A parking location for one (1) or more vehicles of a car sharing organization, whose members may arrange to use the vehicles for short periods of time.
(m) Private Antennas. Small antennas and satellite dishes mounted on or adjacent to residential and nonresidential structures for the exclusive use of the occupants of those structures.
(n) Fuel Dispensing. Dispensing of gasoline and other motor fuels, with or without a fee, in conjunction with a principal use on the same site such as a marina or fleet vehicle operation. This use is distinguished from Service Stations, as defined in Section
9-2.339(e), which are always principal uses pursuant to Section
9-2.701.
(o) Collection Bins. Freestanding bins for the collection of clothing, household goods, and recyclable materials such as paper, metal, plastic, and glass, typically found in the parking lots of stores and other facilities. This use is distinguished from Recycling Collection Facilities, as defined in Section
9-2.419(a), which are always principal uses pursuant to Section
9-2.701.
(p) Short-Term Rental. Rental of all or part of a dwelling for fewer than thirty (30) days.
(q) Personal Cultivation of Cannabis Plants. Growing, possessing, processing, or transporting of cannabis plants for personal use in compliance with applicable provisions of California law. See also Article
22 of Chapter 5 of this title.
(Sec. 3, Ord. 20-027, eff. Jan. 14, 2021; Sec. 3 (Exh. A) (part), Ord. 20-005, eff. May 21, 2020; Sec. 3 (part), Ord. 17-012, eff. Nov. 2, 2017; Sec. 3 (part), Ord. 17-002, eff. May 4, 2017; Sec. 4 (part), Ord. 17-001, eff. Apr. 20, 2017; Sec. 2 (Exh. A) (part), Ord. 13-001, eff. Mar. 7, 2013)