Chapter 17.08
USE CLASSIFICATIONS
Sections:
17.08.010 Purpose and intent. Revised 3/17
17.08.020 Agricultural use classifications.
17.08.030 Commercial and office use classifications.
17.08.040 Industrial use classifications.
17.08.050 Residential use classifications.
17.08.060 Public and quasi-public use classifications. Revised 4/16
17.08.070 Temporary use classifications.
17.08.010 Purpose and intent.
A use classification describes a land use or activity that may be appropriately included within that use classification. The community development director may determine that a specific use is or is not within a use classification, whether or not it is named, and if its operational characteristics are substantially compatible or incompatible with those uses named within the classification. (Ord. 2016-10 § 3 (part): Ord. 97-03 § 2 (part): prior code § 8-1.3001)
17.08.020 Agricultural use classifications.
A. Agricultural Operation.
“Agricultural operation” means, but is not limited to, the cultivation and tillage of soil; the production, irrigation, cultivation (including horticultural), growing, harvesting, and processing of any commercial agricultural commodity, including farming, dairying, pasturage, agriculture, husbandry, and timber; the lawful application of chemicals including, but not limited to, the application of pesticides, the raising of livestock, fish or poultry, and any practices performed by a farmer and on a farm incidental to or in conjunction with such operations, including preparation for market, delivery to storage or to market, or to carriers for transportation to market, and all activities or facilities related thereto. Such operations may occur during any twenty-four (24) hour period of the day.
B. Animal Production.
“Animal production” means a commercial location for the breeding, raising, feeding and transshipping of livestock. (Ord. 97-03 §2 (part): prior code § 8-1.3002)
17.08.030 Commercial and office use classifications.
A. Adult Entertainment. See Chapter 17.100.
B. Automobile Repair, Major.
“Major automobile repair” means the major repair, rebuilding or reconditioning of engines or transmissions, including the removal of the same; motor vehicle, truck or trailer collision services, including body, frame or fender straightening or repair; glass repair; and overall painting or paint shops. Outside storage of inoperable vehicles and/or vehicle parts is permitted within this definition for up to ten (10) business days and only if screened from off-site views. The use includes towing services.
C. Automobile Repair, Minor.
“Minor automobile repair” means upholstering, detailing, replacement of parts, including batteries, mufflers, brakes, starters, generators, radiators, stereos, etc., adjusting of engines, transmission, electrical systems, air conditioning equipment, brakes and motor service, excluding any operation delineated in the definition of “major automobile repair” or any other use similar thereto. Outside storage of inoperable vehicles and/or vehicle parts is permitted within this definition for up to ten (10) business days and only if screened from off-site views. The use includes towing services.
D. Bar, Cocktail Lounge.
“Cocktail lounge bar” means establishments, including brew pubs, which are primarily designed, maintained, operated, used or intended to be used for the selling and on-site consumption of beer, wine and/or distilled spirits. Food sales may be incidental to the bar use. Live entertainment may also be offered as an incidental use if conducted within a building. The storage and sale of alcoholic beverages, including a liquor store, is included in this classification.
E. Bed and Breakfast Inn.
“Bed and breakfast inn” means a structure, typically a converted single-family or multi-family dwelling, or portion thereof, where lodging (typically on a less than weekly basis) and meals are provided to the general public for compensation.
F. Business Service.
“Business service” means establishments providing document delivery, mail receiving and boxes, blueprinting, copying, printing and photographic services. Use also includes business/office support services, such as janitorial, window cleaning and indoor plant maintenance.
G. Equipment Sales, Rental, Repair.
“Equipment sales, rental, repair” means a business establishment engaged in the rental, sale, leasing and/or repair of vehicles, tools and large equipment. This classification includes sale of appliances, tools, home improvement merchandise and similar equipment.
H. Financial Institution.
“Financial institution” means an establishment for the custody, loan, exchange or issue of money, for the extension of credit, and for facilitating the transmission of funds, for use by the general public. The use may also include automatic teller machines for direct pedestrian access and drive-through service for persons in automobiles.
I. Funeral Parlor.
“Funeral parlor” means the use of a building or part thereof for human funeral services and as a mortuary. Such building may contain space and facilities: (1) for embalming and the performance of other services used in preparation and temporary keeping of the dead prior to burial; (2) the performance of autopsies and other surgical procedures; (3) the storage of caskets, funeral urns and other related funeral supplies; and (4) the storage of funeral vehicles, but shall not include facilities for cremation. Where a funeral parlor is permitted, a funeral chapel shall also be permitted.
J. Hotel, Motel.
“Hotel, motel” means any building structure or portion thereof, including groups designated as motels, hotels, boarding houses or similar designations (other than a bed and breakfast inn), containing guestrooms or guest dwellings designed or intended for transient occupancy, typically on a less than weekly basis.
K. Nurseries.
“Nurseries” means the retail handling of any article, substance or commodity related to the occupation of gardening, including the sale, both indoor and outdoor, of above-ground plants, shrubs, trees, packaged fertilizers, soils, chemicals, and other nursery goods and related products.
L. Office, Business and Medical.
“Business and medical office” means an office engaged in management, administrative, consulting, or medical, dental or related services. This classification includes architectural, accounting, environmental analysis, engineering, real estate, insurance, commercial technical schools, secretarial, computer software development and data processing, advertising, construction, and tree and landscaping services.
M. Outdoor Sales.
“Outdoor sales” means any retail business, unless specifically noted elsewhere in this title, whose sales are conducted primarily outside of an enclosed building. The use may include contractor’s yards and hardware stores.
N. Personal Retail Services.
“Personal retail services” means the provision of retail services of a personal nature. Examples include beauty parlor, barber shop, nail salon, weight reduction salon, laundromat, tailor, photography studio, travel agency, shoe repair, locksmith and dry cleaner.
O. Personal Storage.
“Personal storage” means the leasing or rental of storage units, including self-storage facilities.
P. Recreation, Indoor or Outdoor.
“Indoor or outdoor recreation” means recreation or entertainment uses, other than these classified under “public parks” and which are conducted indoors or outdoors. Typical uses include bowling alleys, health clubs and racquetball courts, ice and roller skating rinks, live and motion picture theaters, pool rooms, video arcades and dance halls, private golf courses and golf driving ranges and swimming and tennis clubs.
Q. Recreational Vehicle Park.
“Recreational vehicle park” means any facility on which two or more recreational vehicles sites are located, established or maintained for occupancy by recreational vehicles of the general public as temporary living quarters for vacationers, campers, recreationists and travelers.
R. Restaurant.
“Restaurant” means a use providing preparation and primarily on-site consumption of food and beverages, including cafes, coffee shops, delicatessens, ice cream parlors and similar uses, and may include the incidental service of alcoholic beverages for consumption on the premises. (Incidental alcohol sales may not exceed forty-nine (49) percent of gross sales receipts.) Outdoor dining/seating is also included in this classification if provisions for off-street parking are complied with, and the outdoor dining space does not create a pedestrian or vehicle hazard or public nuisance, as determined by the community development director and city engineer.
S. Restaurant, Drive-Through.
“Drive-through restaurant” means a restaurant which serves food and drinks from a pass-through opening to customers in their vehicles or delivery of food to a diner remaining in their vehicle.
T. Retail Sales, General.
“General retail sales” means the retail sale or rental of merchandise generally not listed under another use classification. Typical of this classification is a business engaged in the sale of items such as antiques, art and photographic supplies, gifts, apparel, fabrics luggage, sporting goods, toys, hobby materials, jewelry and watches, books and magazines, music and musical instruments, home electronics, video cassette sales and rentals, computer hardware and software, office equipment and supplies, stationery, educational supplies, furniture, optical and hearing aids, food or grocery stores (including convenience stores), tobacco, and new automotive parts and accessories (excluding service and installation). This classification includes a store retailing general lines of merchandise such as variety and drugstore/pharmacy. These businesses may include the incidental sale of goods listed under other use classifications. Outdoor displays of retail goods is included in this classification if the extent of the display is incidental to the primary use, does not create a pedestrian or vehicle hazard, and does not create a visual nuisance, as determined by the community development director and city engineer.
U. Roadside Stand.
“Roadside stand” means the display or sale of agricultural products in a structure or stand located outside of a public right-of-way.
V. Service Station.
“Service station” means a place which provides for the servicing, washing and fueling of operating motor vehicles, including the sale of merchandise and supplies incidental thereto.
W. Veterinary Hospital, Kennel.
“Veterinary hospital, kennel” means any premises used for the care and treatment of animals, including, but not limited to horses, ponies, cattle, dogs, cats and fowl. Kennels may provide for the grooming and temporary boarding of animals. (Ord. 97-03 § 2 (part): prior code § 8-1.3003)
17.08.040 Industrial use classifications.
All industrial uses typically include either direct or incidental (accessory) outdoor storage and uses, unless otherwise noted.
A. Finished Goods Assembly.
“Finished goods assembly” means a use engaged in the assembly of pre-manufactured components, packaging, incidental storage, sales and distribution of finished products and/or parts. The use includes assembly of electrical and mechanical equipment and structural fabrication.
B. Heavy Equipment Terminal.
“Heavy equipment terminal” means a location where trucks, buses and heavy equipment are stored when not in use, where cargo may be transhipped from one vehicle to another, and may include related repair facilities and dispatch operations.
C. Laboratory, Research, Experimental.
“Laboratory, research, experimental” means facilities for scientific research, investigation, and materials testing or experimentation, but not facilities for the manufacture or sale of products.
D. Manufacturing, Heavy General.
“Heavy general manufacturing” means the manufacture, processing, fabrication, assembly, treatment and packaging of products or parts, and incidental storage, sales and distribution of such products. The use specifically excludes heavy manufacturing uses involving hazardous wastes or which have the potential to exceed performance standard criteria of this title.
E. Manufacturing, Light General.
“Light general manufacturing” means the manufacture, predominantly from previously prepared materials, of finished products or parts, including light processing, fabrication, assembly treatment and packaging of such products producing no detectable levels of the emissions.
F. Mineral Extraction.
“Mineral extraction” means mining and digging of earth minerals or materials. It does not include or provide for oil or gas well drilling.
G. Recycling Collection Center.
“Recycling collection center” means an incidental use that serves as a neighborhood drop-off point for temporary storage of recyclable materials including glass, plastic, newspaper, aluminum, paper and other materials, typically located within a shopping center parking lot or other public/quasi-public area. No processing of the recyclable material is allowed.
H. Recycling and Salvage Yards.
“Recycling and salvage yards” means the use of more than two-hundred (200) square feet of any parcel lot or contiguous lot (or one hundred (100) square feet in the front yard of a residential zone), as a place where imported waste, discarded or salvaged materials are disassembled, handled, baled, packed, processed or stored. Includes auto wrecking yards, scrap metal yards, wrecking yards, junk yards, used lumber yards, tire shredding operations, and places or yards for the storage of salvaged materials or miscellaneous construction and structural steel materials, boxes, paper or trash and equipment.
I. Warehouse, Wholesale, Freight Terminal.
“Warehouse, wholesale, freight terminal” means a facility where goods are bought in bulk, stored temporarily, and then re-shipped. The use may include incidental storage and repair of trucks. (Ord. 97-03 § 2 (part): prior code § 8-1.3004)
17.08.050 Residential use classifications.
A. Day Care, Limited.
“Limited day care” means “the non-medical care and supervision of six or fewer persons on a less than twenty-four (24) hour a day basis. The use includes child care operations.
B. Dwelling, Multiple-Family.
“Multiple family dwelling” means a building or portion thereof containing three or more dwelling units, including apartments and flats, but excluding rooming houses, boarding houses, lodging houses, motels, mobilehome parks, hotels, fraternity and sorority houses.
C. Dwelling, Single-Family.
“Single family dwelling” means a building containing exclusively one dwelling unit.
D. Dwelling, Two-Family or Duplex.
“Two-family or duplex dwelling” means a building containing exclusively two dwelling units under a common roof.
E. Mobilehome Park.
“Mobilehome park” means any area or tract of land where two or more mobile home sites are rented or held out for rent. “Mobilehome park” includes the terms “mobilehome court” and “trailer park.”
F. Residential Care Facility.
“Residential care facility” means the rooming and boarding of up to six physically, mentally, or educationally disadvantaged persons for which a license is required by a county, state, or federal agency, and which provides resident staff. Such a facility shall not be included in the definition of a boarding house, rooming house, foster care home, rest home or other similar term which differs in any other way from a single-family dwelling. (Ord. 97-03 § 2 (part): prior code § 8-1.3005)
17.08.060 Public and quasi-public use classifications.
A. Assembly Hall/Community Services.
“Assembly hall/community services” means a building or portion of a building, often for large-scale gatherings. The use includes lodges, social clubs and youth centers, offering social, religious or recreational programs which may be open to the public. The use also includes community education activities, including public or private schools.
B. Cemetery.
“Cemetery” means burial grounds for the interment of the dead.
C. Communication Equipment Facility.
“Communication equipment facility” means a building or facility housing electrical and mechanical equipment necessary for the conduct of a public utility communications business, with or without personnel. The use includes telecommunications operations, including cellular, wireless or digital telephone facilities, and related installation of antennas, poles, wires and similar improvements or equipment corollary to the use.
D. Convalescence and Care Services.
“Convalescence and care services” means activities oriented to the healing, recovery, care or support of seven or more sick, injured or terminally ill people.
E. Cultural Facility.
“Cultural facility” means a facility used for developing the intellectual and moral faculties by education, including performing arts centers, libraries, museums.
F. Day Care, General.
“General day care” means providing non-medical care and supervision of seven or more persons on a less than twenty-four (24) hour a day basis. The use includes child care operations.
G. Emergency Shelter.
“Emergency shelter” means a building providing temporary shelter for persons in distressed circumstances, including temporary housing for homeless persons. May include counseling services as well as temporary room or board.
H. Government Offices.
“Government offices” means administrative and clerical offices of a federal, state or local government agency. The use includes municipal corporation yards.
I. Hospital.
“Hospital” means an institution providing clinical and emergency services of a medical or surgical nature to human patients and injured persons, and licensed by state law to provide facilities and services in surgery, obstetrics and general medical practice.
J. Public Parks.
“Public parks” means a park, playground, swimming pool, golf course, athletic field or other recreation facility within the city which is under the control, operation, and/or management of the city, county or state.
K. Religious Institutions.
“Religious institutions” means an institution that people regularly attend to participate in or hold religious services, meetings, and other activities, including a church or other place of religious worship in which religious services of any denomination are held.
L. Safety Services.
“Safety services” means services (public or private) oriented to serve and protect the public health, safety and general welfare of the community, and shall include police, fire and rescue facilities.
M. Utility Services, Major.
“Major utility services” means large-scale public utilities typically requiring substantial commitment of land and/or having the potential of creating impacts on the surrounding area, such as sewer treatment plants, electrical substations and water storage/reservoirs.
N. Utility Services, Essential.
“Essential utility services” means the erection, construction, alteration or maintenance of minor public utilities such as minor underground or overhead gas, electrical, steam or other transmission or distribution systems or collection, communication, supply or disposal systems, including poles, wires, drains, sewers, pipes, conduits, cables, fire alarm boxes, police call boxes, traffic signals, hydrants and other similar equipment and accessories in connection therewith, reasonably necessary for furnishing adequate service by such public utilities or municipal or other governmental agencies, or for the public health, safety or general welfare.
O. Vocational Training Facility. “Vocational training facility” means a public or private school offering specialized trade and commercial courses for the purpose of technical, vocational or occupational training. These schools typically involve workshops, laboratories or similar facilities, as well as outdoor instruction and outdoor storage. This classification includes specialized non-degree-granting schools offering such subjects as professional driving schools for commercial licenses, operation of construction equipment, crane certification, welding, woodworking or material fabrication, and engineering and/or automotive design and/or repair. (Ord. 2015-02 § 4; Ord. 97-03 § 2 (part): prior code § 8-1.3006)
17.08.070 Temporary use classifications.
The uses set forth in this section are classified as temporary uses subject to the authority of the zoning administrator under Chapter 17.20.
Temporary uses include arts and crafts shows, outdoor seasonal sales (such as pumpkins at Halloween and Christmas trees sales), carnivals, locally serving charitable fund-raisers, the placement of on-site construction trailers and portable sanitation facilities and/or trailers for real estate sales, and commercial coaches. (Ord. 97-03 § 2 (part): prior code § 8-1.3007)