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Adult Businesses. A business based primarily upon materials or performances that depict, describe, or relate to "specified sexual activities" or "specified anatomical areas," as defined in Chapter 18.06 PMC, Article II.
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Ambulance Services. Nonpublic emergency and nonemergency medical care and transportation, including incidental storage and maintenance of vehicles.
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Animals Sales and Services.
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Animal Boarding. Shelter and care for small animals on a commercial basis. This classification includes activities such as feeding, exercising, adoption, obedience and assistance training, grooming, and incidental medical care.
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Animal Grooming. Bathing and trimming services for small animals on a commercial basis.
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Animal Hospital. Establishment where small animals receive medical and surgical treatment. This classification includes only facilities that are entirely enclosed, soundproofed, and air-conditioned. Grooming and temporary boarding of animals is included if incidental to the hospital use.
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Animals – Retail Sales. Retail sales of small animals which take place within an entirely enclosed building. This classification includes activities such as feeding, exercising, obedience and assistance training, and grooming, if these activities occur within the building and are incidental to the retail use.
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Artist Studio. Work space for artists and artisans, including an individual practicing one of the fine arts, or skilled in an applied art or craft.
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Bakery, Commercial. Establishment in which baked food products (such as bread and pastry) are made primarily for wholesale distribution but which may also provide retail sales.
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Bank and Savings and Loan. Financial institution, including 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.
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ATM. Automatic teller machine (ATM) on the exterior of a building for direct pedestrian access.
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Campground. A site with two or more campsites for temporary use by campers, vacationers, and travelers occupying tents and recreational vehicles, and that may include permanent structures on-site for use as offices, restrooms, and similar ancillary facilities.
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Cannabis Delivery. Consistent with state law, a facility or business that holds a valid and appropriate state license and conducts the retail sale of cannabis or cannabis products via delivery service to the end user. Cannabis delivery includes both storefront retail businesses open to the public and engaged in the delivery of cannabis or cannabis products, as well as nonstorefront cannabis businesses with a physical location in the city that sell and deliver cannabis or cannabis products to customers without a premises that is open to the public. This definition excludes cannabis microbusiness.
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Cannabis Retail. Consistent with state law, a facility or business that holds a valid state license and conducts the retail sale of cannabis or cannabis products. This definition excludes cannabis microbusiness.
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Commercial Filming and Communications. Facility providing for the creation, broadcasting or recording of motion pictures, digital imaging, video photography, or other communication service. These facilities offer post-production, editing and reproduction services, and may include appurtenant structures necessary to support one or more reception/transmission systems, such as radio or television towers. This classification includes film, radio, television or recording studio; telephone switching center; and Internet broadcasting, telegraph or cable television transmitting office.
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Commercial Recreation and Entertainment. Business providing participant or spectator recreation, entertainment, or sports activities. Under no circumstance, as a primary, permitted, or accessory use, shall any commercial recreation and entertainment use be allowed to operate simulated gambling devices as defined in Chapter 9.26 PMC.
a.
Within Building. This classification includes movie or live performing arts theater, sports arena, bowling alley, billiard parlor, ice/roller skating rink, scale-model course, shooting gallery, tennis/racquetball court, health/fitness club and gym, game center including pinball arcade or establishment having four or more coin operated electronic or mechanical game machines, cardroom as governed by Chapter 5.24 PMC or facility used for bingo games.
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Outdoor Facility. This classification includes movie or live performing arts theater, sports stadium and arena, athletic field, amusement park, golf, miniature golf, or scale-model course, radio-operated airplane field, tennis/racquetball or basketball court, waterslide and plunge, or target shooting, batting, or golf driving range.
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Limited. Indoor movie or live performing arts theater, health or fitness club or gym, or tennis/racquetball court.
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Drive-Through Retail or Service. Establishment providing goods or services from a building through an outdoor service window to customers who remain in their automobiles. Uses in this classification include fast-food restaurants, grocery stores, pharmacies, dry cleaners, and retail banks with drive-through window service. Establishments engaged in the retail sale of gasoline or motor fuel, or that offer automotive oil changes or other vehicle services are classified under vehicle sales and services.
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Eating and Drinking Establishment. Business serving prepared or cooked meals or beverages.
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Food Shop. Establishment engaged in the sale of primarily ready-to-eat food and beverage items. This classification includes cookie and candy store, ice cream and yogurt shop, retail bakery, coffee or tea cafe, and donut or sandwich shop.
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Restaurant, Full-Service. Establishment at which meals are cooked on the premises, and at which an employee takes menu orders from and serves meals to diners who are seated at a table, booth, or counter, either inside or outside a building. This classification includes cafeterias where food items are displayed and selected by diners from a counter or serving line from which they carry their meals to a table or booth for on-site consumption.
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Restaurant, Self-Service. Establishment at which meals are cooked on the premises and at which customers place and receive menu orders at a window or counter either inside or outside a building and take the food for consumption on or off the site.
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Restaurant, Take-Out. Establishment at which meals are cooked on the premises and from which menu orders are picked up by customers for consumption primarily off the premises. An establishment at which over 20 percent of the gross floor area is devoted to on-site dining is classified as a self-service restaurant.
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Restaurant with Drive-In Service. Restaurant providing service to customers by an employee while the diner remains in the automobile.
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Restaurant with Full Alcoholic Service. Restaurant serving alcoholic beverages in addition to beer and wine.
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Restaurant with Outdoor Dining. Establishment in which food and beverages are prepared within the restaurant building, but which offers patrons tables and seating immediately outside of the building for consumption of food or beverages.
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Restaurant or Alcoholic Beverage Establishment with Live Entertainment. Establishment offering live entertainment.
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Alcoholic Beverage Establishment. Establishment such as a cocktail lounge and bar, at which alcoholic beverages, including beer and wine, are served for on-site consumption. The service of food, such as appetizers and/or light meals, incidental to beverage service shall be required throughout all operating hours.
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Food and Beverage Sales. Retail sales of food and beverages for primarily off-site preparation or consumption.
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Grocery. This classification includes a supermarket or convenience store that sells general merchandise incidental to food and beverages.
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Liquor Store. Establishment engaged in the sale of alcoholic beverages for off-site consumption and incidental sale of general merchandise.
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Specialty Food Market. Establishment engaged in the sale of limited food items or product lines. This classification includes food pantry, butcher shop, dry coffee or tea store, and meat or produce market.
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Catering Service. Preparation and delivery of food and beverages for off-site consumption without provision for on-site pick-up or consumption of food by customers.
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Funeral and Interment Service. Establishment primarily engaged in services involving the care, preparation or disposition of human dead other than in a cemetery. Typical uses include crematory or mortuary.
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Horticulture, Limited. Cultivation of flowers, fruits, vegetables, or ornamental trees and shrubs on a wholesale basis with incidental retail sales and where no other garden, nursery or landscape merchandise is sold or stored on the site.
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Laboratory, Limited. Establishment providing medical or dental laboratory services or establishment with less than 2,000 square feet providing photographic, analytical, or testing service. Other laboratories are classified as industrial services, laboratory.
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Maintenance and Repair Service. Establishment providing on-site repair and incidental sales of supplies for appliances, office machines, tools, or garden equipment within an enclosed building. This classification includes establishments offering furniture upholstery, refinishing and repair services, but excludes establishments engaged in maintenance and repair of vehicles (see automobile and recreational vehicle repair), boats or ships (see industrial services, boatyard), or industrial repair (see industrial services, repair/jobbing services).
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Marine Facilities and Services.
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Boat and Marine Vessel Sales and Rental. Establishment engaged in the retail sale or rental of small boats, personal motorized water skis, and similar recreational or commercial watercraft. Uses in this category may also parts and supplies accessory to watercraft and may conduct incidental repairs and maintenance of boats and watercraft for sale. Typical uses include chandlery, yacht brokerage and sales.
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Boat and Marine Vessel Storage. Terrestrial facility or yard used for the exclusive storage of personal motorized water skis, kayaks, motor or sailboats and similar recreational or small commercial watercraft.
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Marina. Boat basin with docks, boathouses and mooring facilities intended for docking of small boats used for recreation, commercial fishing, commuter ferry, or charter, tour and excursion services. This classification includes the incidental maintenance of boats and equipment, and facilities for the incidental sale of fuel, navigational equipment, and boating supplies.
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Massage Establishment. An establishment where any person engages in or carries on massage in exchange for any form of consideration, whether at a fixed place of business or at a location designated by a customer or client for off-premises massage services. The term "massage establishment" includes a sole owner and employee of a massage business operating as a sole proprietorship. Refer to Chapter 5.64 PMC for additional definitions related to massage establishments.
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Medical Services Office. Offices of state-licensed firms or organizations that provide human physical and psychological health services and resources, such as physicians, dentists, chiropractors, physical therapists, psychiatrists, psychologists, counseling and family planning services, optometrists, or acupuncturists. This classification includes only those facilities intended for outpatient medical services, and may include medical/dental laboratory incidental to the office use.
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Office, Business and Administrative. Establishment engaged in the provision of executive, management, administrative, consulting, or professional services, such as architectural, design, engineering, real estate, information technology and technology support, insurance, investment, legal, secretarial, accounting, graphic arts, typesetting, desktop publishing, advertising, marketing, title insurance, bail bonds, travel, entertainment, collection, or personnel agency. This classification includes health program administration or management offices where no medical services are provided, but excludes retail banking services and medical offices. Under no circumstance, as a primary, permitted, or accessory use, shall any business and administrative office use be allowed to operate simulated gambling devices as defined in Chapter 9.26 PMC.
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Personal Improvement Services. Provision of instructional services on a commercial basis, including photography, fine arts, crafts, dance, music or martial arts studio; driving or language-learning school; diet center; and tutoring or scholastic examination preparation facility. Facilities that are engaged in the instruction of technical or vocational skills are classified under school, commercial.
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Personal Services. Provision of services and incidental sales of a personal nature. This classification includes barber and beauty shop, tanning salon, watch and jewelry repair, engraver, picture framing, seamstress, tailor, shoe repair shop, dry cleaner, locksmith, portrait studio, film developing, self-service laundry, bicycle repair, tattoo and piercing, and home electronic equipment repair.
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Printing and Publishing Services. Establishment containing equipment for duplicating printed or electronic matter other than as an incidental activity. Under no circumstance, as a primary, permitted, or accessory use, shall any printing and publishing services be allowed to operate simulated gambling devices as defined in Chapter 9.26 PMC.
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Commercial. Establishment utilizing lithography, blueprinting, or offset presses capable of printing sheets larger than 11 inches by 17 inches. This classification primarily engages in high-volume printing such as newspapers, books, magazines, business and telephone directories, and catalogs.
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Electronic. Establishment engaged in developing, reproducing and distributing computer or electronic software or media. This classification includes those establishments that offer support services to software consumers.
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Limited. Establishment providing full- or self-service business or personal photocopying and printing services. This classification is limited to the printing of booklets, brochures, business forms, newsletters, and stationery, and the provision of related support services.
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Recycling Collection Facility. Collection facility (defined in PMC § 18.06.215) established as a principal or accessory use or device.
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Reverse Vending Machine. An automated or 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 cash refund or a redeemable credit slip. Typically, this type of vending machine does not cover an area larger than 50 square feet.
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Small Recycling Facility. Collection facility established as an accessory use to a principal use, not exceeding 500 square feet in size. This facility may include: mobile recycling units (truck, trailer, van, boxes, bins, containers transported by truck, car or train), reverse vending machines, or grouping of reverse vending machines (more than three machines), kiosk type units (may be permanent), and unattended container placed for donation of recyclable materials.
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Large Recycling Facility. Collection facility established either as an accessory use, 500 square feet or larger in size, or as a principal use, regardless of size, devoted exclusively to the collection of recyclable materials from the public. A large recycling center may include: mobile recycling units (truck, trailer, van, boxes, bins, containers transported by truck, car or train), reverse vending machines, or a grouping of reverse vending machines (more than three machines), kiosk type units (may be permanent), and unattended containers placed for donation of recyclable materials.
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Research and Development Services. Establishment primarily engaged in industrial or scientific research, including limited product testing. This classification includes electronic research firm or pharmaceutical research laboratory, but excludes manufacturing or medical testing and analysis. (See research and development production.)
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Retail and Wholesale Sales. Establishments engaged in the sale or distribution of merchandise to the consumer. This category includes businesses offering wholesale sales of merchandise directly to the end consumer, and businesses offering incidental post-sales services such as installation, repair and customer support. Except where noted in the land use description, all uses in this classification occur indoors.
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General Merchandise, Retail Sales and Rental. The retail sale or rental of merchandise not specifically listed under another use classification. Typical of this classification is a business engaged in the sale or rental of specialty items such as antiques, art supplies, artworks, gifts, handcrafted items, clothing and wearing apparel, fabrics, luggage and leather goods, sporting goods, toys, hobby materials, jewelry, books and magazines, records, discs and tapes, musical instruments, radios and televisions, electronic equipment, cameras and photographic equipment, computer hardware and software, office equipment and supplies, stationery, educational supplies, appliances and utensils, optical and hearing aids, hospital and medical supplies and equipment, floral items, tobacco (excluding smoke shops and smoking lounges), coins and stamps, bicycles, or new automotive parts and accessories (excluding service and installation). This classification includes a store retailing general lines of merchandise such as department, variety, furniture and drugstore. This classification also includes wholesale showroom and catalog store, wherein merchandise is displayed and ordered on site but is shipped directly from the supplier to the consumer. These businesses typically include the incidental sale of goods listed under other use classifications.
b.
Home Improvement Sales and Service. Retail, wholesale, rental, and related services of hardware, plumbing, electrical, heating, air conditioning, or building supplies, tools and equipment, plants and garden products, patio furniture, swimming pools, spas, and hot tubs, lighting fixtures, countertops, kitchen and bathroom fixtures and cabinets, paint, carpeting, window coverings, floorcoverings or wallpaper. This classification includes establishments with outdoor display area for limited lines of merchandise such as landscaping, garden and patio products. Hardware stores occupying less than 25,000 square feet of total indoor and outdoor area are classified under general merchandise, retail sales and rental.
c.
Lumber and Building Material Yard. Establishment engaging in the retail or wholesale sales of lumber, finished wood products, or building and landscape material supplies either inside or outside of a structure. This classification includes incidental sales and rental of hardware, plumbing, electrical, garden or painting supplies and equipment.
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Nursery. Establishment providing the sale and cultivation in aboveground containers or flats of trees, shrubs, and plants either inside or outside of a building, including the sale or rental of garden and landscape materials and equipment.
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Mail Order or Direct Selling Establishment. Retailing of merchandise outside of a fixed retail location or store. Uses in this classification include those businesses that store merchandise on-site within an enclosed building; accept orders transmitted by mail, telephone or the Internet; and distribute merchandise from an on-site office/point-of-sale desk through vending machines, person-to-person sales, or shipment directly to the consumer. Businesses within this use classification generally do not provide on-site retail opportunities to consumers, but may dedicate up to 10 percent of the total building floor area to walk-in retail sales.
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Pawn Shop. Establishment engaged in retail sales of new or secondhand merchandise and offering loans secured by personal property.
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Retail Warehouse. Establishment consisting of over 100,000 square feet of sales area, that is primarily engaged in the sale and warehousing of factory-direct merchandise and bulk goods. This classification includes membership warehouse and superstore.
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Secondhand Appliance and Clothing Sales. The retail sale of used appliances and clothing. An antique or similar shop engaged in the retail sale of used furniture and accessories other than appliances is classified under general merchandise, retail sales and rental.
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Smoke Shop. Retail establishment that devotes 15 percent or more of its total floor space to products intended or designed for use in ingesting, inhaling or otherwise introducing tobacco or controlled substances into the human body, including but not limited to tobacco products, smoking oils and extracts, electronic cigarettes which contain nicotine and emit smoke or vapor, smoking accessories, including but not limited to rolling papers, rolling machines, herb grinders, scales, glass pipes, hookah pipes, bongs, bubbler or other paraphernalia. Herbal and nicotine containing products which do not generate smoke or vapor, and incense used solely for olfactory purposes and not containing tobacco or nicotine, are not included in this definition.
j.
Smoking Lounge. Business establishment that is dedicated, in whole or in part, to the smoking or vaporization of tobacco or other substances, including but not limited to establishments commonly known as cigar lounges, hookah cafes, tobacco clubs, tobacco bars, e-cigarette lounges and vapor bars.
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School, Commercial. Establishment engaged in the teaching of technical or vocational skills, including barber and beauty college, real estate, modeling, and secretarial school. Institutions that typically grant recognized degrees are classified under college, public or private.
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Vehicle Sales and Services.
a.
Automobile and Recreational Vehicle Repair, Major. Repair of automobiles, trucks, motorcycles, mobile homes, or recreational vehicles, including the sale, installation, and servicing of related equipment and parts. This classification includes engine overhauls involving the removal of engine blocks, body and fender work, painting, undercoating, steam cleaning, glass replacement, upholstery and convertible top service, vehicle towing, radiator, transmission, wheel and axle repair, but excludes vehicle dismantling or salvage and tire retreading or recapping. Establishments engaged in the repair or restoration of boats and watercraft are classified under industrial services, boatyard. Establishments engaged in the service or repair of construction or agricultural equipment are classified under industrial services, equipment sales and rental.
b.
Automobile Rental. Rental of automobiles or motorcycles, including storage and incidental maintenance, but excluding maintenance requiring lifts capable of elevating more than one vehicle tire off of the ground.
c.
Automobile Repair, Limited. Limited repair and service or installation of parts for automobiles. This includes retail sales and installation of tires, mufflers, exhaust and suspension systems; automobile window tinting; automotive radio/electronics installation and service; automotive air conditioning/heater service; oil changing service; and smog testing or diagnostic facility with no on-site repair. This classification includes only those facilities that offer same-day service of vehicles, without provision for overnight storage of vehicles inside or outside of a building. This classification excludes those facilities that are also engaged in the sale of gasoline and motor fuels. Other repair activities are classified under automobile and recreational vehicle repair, major.
d.
Automobile Sales. Establishment engaged in the sale or leasing of motorcycles and passenger cars, pickup trucks and vans, including storage and incidental maintenance. An establishment engaged only in the rental of automobiles or motorcycles is classified under automobile rental. An establishment engaged in the sale, service or rental of construction equipment, agricultural equipment, or commercial trucks or vans with a gross vehicle weight in excess of 15,000 pounds is classified under industrial services, equipment sales and rental.
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Automobile Washing. An establishment engaged in the washing, waxing, or cleaning of automobiles by mechanical or semi-mechanical devices as a main use or, if an accessory use, utilizing an automatic track system with blowers or drying vacuums. Manual automobile washing is prohibited unless it can be sufficiently demonstrated to the zoning administrator that all wastewater can be captured, treated, and recycled or properly disposed of in accordance with regulatory standards.
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Recreational Vehicle and Mobile Home Sales. Establishment engaged in the retail sale of mobile home dwelling units or the sale or rental of various vehicles for recreational touring purposes, such as travel trailers or coaches. An establishment engaged in the sale or rental of boats, personal motorized water skis, and similar watercraft is classified under marine sales and rental.
g.
Service Station. Establishment primarily engaged in the retail sale of gasoline and motor fuel. This classification provides for the incidental sale of grocery items or related retail goods, and auto parts and accessories. Services offered may include minor vehicle repair and installation of parts, towing services limited to automobiles, nonmechanical washing and waxing or mechanical washing other than classified under automobile washing. Other repair activities are classified under automobile and recreational vehicle repair, major.
h.
Vehicle Storage. Storage of operative or inoperative vehicles. This classification includes storage of parking tow-aways, impound yards, and storage lots for automobiles, trucks, trailers, buses, and recreational vehicles, but does not include vehicle dismantling. An establishment engaged exclusively in the storage of boats and watercraft is classified under boat and marine vessel storage.
i.
Electric Vehicle (EV) Charging Stations. Establishment with charge points or electric vehicle supply equipment which supplies electrical power for charging plug-in electric vehicles.
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Visitor Accommodations. Commercial establishments offering lodging to transients.
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Bed and Breakfast Inn. Establishment that provides bedrooms for lodging on a less than weekly basis and that has one household in permanent residence. Establishments in this category typically occur in a converted single-family or multifamily dwelling and offer incidental eating and drinking service from a single kitchen for lodgers and residents only.
b.
Hotel. Establishment providing guest rooms for temporary lodging, typically on a less than weekly basis, with no or minimal kitchen facilities in the guest units. This classification may include health and recreational facilities and on-site conveniences such as business and laundry services for guests. Establishments in this category may also offer conference and convention facilities, and eating, drinking and banquet service for guests as well as nonguests.
c.
Motel. Establishment with guest rooms for temporary lodging, typically on a less than weekly basis. Guest rooms in these facilities provide no or minimal kitchen facilities, but have a separate entrance leading directly to the outside of the building and adjacent to an individual parking space.
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Warehousing and Storage, Limited. Provision of space, within an enclosed building, for the storage of privately owned household goods, personal property, business records, documents, and supplies. This classification includes ministorage facility but excludes wholesaling and storage, and vehicle storage.
(Ord. 979 § 2 (Exh. A), 1990; Ord. 998 § 3 (Exh. B), 1990; Ord. 1060 § 5, 1993; Ord. 1116 § 3 (Exh. A), 1996; Ord. 07-1284 § 3 (Exh. B), 2007; Ord. 14-1380 §§ 3 – 5, 2014; Ord. 15-1390 § 3 (Exh. C), 2015; Ord. 16-1419 § 4, 2016; Ord. 17-1439 § 4 (Exh. A), 2018; Ord. 18-1451 § 3 (Exh. C), 2018; Ord. 21-1492 § 5, 2021; Ord. 21-1498 § 3, 2021; Ord. 23-1509 §§ 12, 13, 2023)