Beaumont Municipal Code Ch. 17.E.04 Definitions of Uses

This Chapter provides definitions for all uses established in the use tables in Division 17.B (Zone Regulations).

Accessory Dwelling Unit. As defined by California Government Code § 66313, an ADU is an attached or a detached residential dwelling unit that provides complete independent living facilities for one or more persons and is located on a lot with a proposed or existing primary residence. An ADU also includes an efficiency unit as defined in California Health and Safety Code § 17958.1 and a manufactured home as defined by California Health and Safety Code § 18007.

Junior Accessory Dwelling Unit (JADU). As defined by California Government Code § 66313, a JADU is a residential unit that is consistent with the following:

1. Is no more than 500 square feet in size;

2. Is contained entirely within an existing or proposed single-family structure, including attached garages;

3. Includes its own separate sanitation facilities or shares sanitation facilities with the existing or proposed primary dwelling; and

4. Includes an efficiency kitchen.

Boarding or Rooming House. A residence or dwelling, other than a hotel or motel, where three or more rooms are rented under three or more separate written or oral rental agreements, leases or subleases or combination thereof, whether or not the owner, agent or rental manager resides within the residence.

Caretaker's Unit. A dwelling unit occupied by employees or caretakers of the primary use on the site.

Community Care Facility.

Small. Consistent with Health and Safety Code § 1502, a facility that is maintained and operated to provide nonmedical residential care, day treatment, adult daycare, or foster family agency services for six or fewer children, adults, or children and adults, including, but not limited to, the physically handicapped, mentally impaired, incompetent persons, and abused or neglected children 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.

Large. Consistent with Health and Safety Code § 1502, a facility that is maintained and operated to provide nonmedical residential care, day treatment, adult daycare, or foster family agency services for seven or more children, adults, or children and adults, including, but not limited to, the physically handicapped, mentally impaired, incompetent persons, and abused or neglected children. 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.

Duplex. A structure consisting of two attached dwelling units.

Elderly and Long-Term Care. Establishment that provides 24-hour medical, convalescent, or chronic care to individuals who, by reason of advanced age, chronic illness or infirmity, are unable to care for themselves, and is licensed by the California Department of Public Health. Includes, but is not limited to skilled nursing facilities, rest homes, and convalescent hospitals. Does not include a community care facility or hospital.

Emergency 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 as set forth in the California Health and Safety Code § 50801(e), as may be amended.

Employee Housing. As described in California Health and Safety Code § 17021.6 and 17008, any employee housing consisting of no more than 36 beds in a group quarters or 12 units or spaces designed for use by a single family or household.

Family Day Care Home. As defined by Health and Safety Code § 1596.78, a home in which the provider regularly provides care, protection, and supervision for children for less than 24 hours per day.

Small. A home in which the provider regularly provides care, protection, and supervision for eight or fewer children for less than 24 hours per day.

Large. A home in which the provider regularly provides care, protection, and supervision for up to 14 children for less than 24 hours per day.

Home Occupation Business. A commercial use conducted on residential property by the inhabitants of the subject residence, which is incidental and secondary to the residential use of the dwelling.

Live-Work Unit. An integrated housing unit and working space that has been constructed for such use or converted from commercial or industrial use and structurally modified to accommodate residential occupancy and work activity in compliance with the California Building Code. Living space includes, but is not limited to, a sleeping area, a food preparation area, and a full bathroom. The working space is reserved for and regularly used by one or more occupants of the unit.

Low Barrier Navigation Center. Consistent with California Government Code § 65660, a 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, shelter, and housing services.

Mobilehome Park. A development designed for and occupied by manufactured/mobile housing units consistent with the requirements of California Health and Safety Code § 18200 to § 18700. A mobile home park includes facilities and amenities used in common by occupants who rent, lease, or own spaces for mobile home units/spaces through a subdivision, cooperative, condominium, or other form of resident ownership.

Multiple Family Dwelling. A building containing three or more dwelling units.

Parolee/Probationer Home. A dwelling in which at least one parolee or probationer lives.

Single-Family Dwelling. A dwelling unit designed for occupancy by one household, where all rooms are internally connected and internally accessible via habitable space, located on a separate lot from any other unit (except accessory dwelling units, where permitted), and have only one kitchen. This includes individual manufactured housing units installed on a foundation system pursuant to California Health and Safety Code § 18551, and the use of a single-family residential structure as employee housing for six or fewer employees consistent with California Health and Safety Code § 17021.5.

Single-Room Occupancy (SRO) Residence. A multi-tenant building consisting of single room dwelling units that are the primary residence of its occupants, containing either individual or shared kitchen and bathroom facilities.

Supportive Housing. Consistent with Health and Safety Code § 50675.14, housing with no limit on length of stay, that is occupied by the target population, and that is linked to onsite or offsite services that assist the supportive housing resident in retaining the housing, improving their health status, and maximizing their ability to live and, when possible, work in the community.

Transitional Housing. Consistent with California Government Code § 65582, buildings configured as rental housing developments 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 no less than six months from the beginning of the assistance.

Two-Unit Project. The development of two primary dwelling units or, if there is already a primary dwelling unit on the lot, the development of a second primary dwelling unit on a legally subdivided lot. Also known as an "SB 9 unit" (see California Government Code § 65852.21).

Adult-Oriented Business. See Beaumont Municipal Code Section 5.60.020 (Definitions).

Animal Care and Services.

Animal Hospital. Medical care for household pets on a commercial basis with 24-hour accommodation of animals, but does not include kennels. Includes animal rescue facilities.

Kennel/Cattery. A commercial, non-profit, or governmental establishment licensed to operate a facility providing shelter, breeding, and/or care for domestic animals that offers overnight (24-hour) accommodation. This classification includes activities such as feeding, exercising, grooming, and incidental medical care for domestic animals. Includes animal rescue facilities.

Pet Day Care. A commercial, nonprofit, or governmental facility for keeping or maintaining household pets not owned by the facility owner or operator that provide daily accommodations of animals (not including overnight stays). Also includes grooming services.

Veterinary Clinic. Medical care for household pets on a commercial basis with no overnight (24-hour) accommodation of animals.

Banks and Financial Institutions.

Bank and Financial Services. A financial institution providing retail banking services. This classification includes only institutions that serve walk-in customers or clients, including banks, savings, and loan institutions, check-cashing services, and credit unions. Includes facilities that provide self-serve facilities; excludes drive-through facilities.

Pawnbroker. A place of business where personal property is received and for which money is advanced, with the right of privilege granted to the person to whom said money is advanced to reclaim such property upon repayment of said money.

Commercial Day Care Facility. Establishments providing non-medical care for children on a less than 24-hour basis other than large/small family child care homes. This classification includes licensed nursery schools, preschools, and day care facilities for children, and any other day care facility licensed by the State of California. This use does not include after school program, summer camp, and tutoring facilities.

Drive-through Facility. A motor vehicle drive-through facility which is a commercial building or structure or portion thereof which is designed and/or used to provide goods and services to drivers while they remain seated in their vehicles. It includes, but is not limited to, banks and other financial institutions, fast food establishments, and pharmacies, but shall not include drive-in movies, service stations, or car wash operations.

Entertainment and Recreation, Commercial.

Entertainment, Indoors. Predominantly spectator uses conducted within an enclosed building. Typical uses include movie theaters, enclosed sports arenas, live performing arts venues, escape rooms, and video game activities and competitions such as e-sports.

Entertainment, Outdoors. Predominantly spectator uses conducted in open or partially enclosed or screened facilities. Typical uses include outdoor theaters, partially enclosed sports arenas, racing facilities, outdoor concert facilities, amphitheaters, drive-in movie theaters, aquatic parks, and amusement parks.

Sports and Recreation, Indoors. Predominantly participant sports conducted within an enclosed building. Typical uses include indoor bowling alleys, billiard parlors, ice and roller skating rinks, indoor racquetball courts, go-kart tracks, indoor shooting ranges, trampoline parks, athletic clubs, and physical fitness centers. Excludes operations where activities are primarily class- or appointment-based such as yoga studios and personal trainers.

Sports and Recreation, Outdoors. Predominantly participant sports conducted in open or partially enclosed or screened facilities. Typical uses include driving ranges, outdoor shooting and/or archery ranges, miniature golf courses, golf courses, outdoor go-karts, swimming pools, and tennis courts.

Funeral Home, Mortuary. An establishment primarily engaged in the provision of services involving the care, preparation, or disposition of human remains and conducting memorial services. Typical uses include a crematory or mortuary. This use does not include cemeteries.

Hospital. A state-licensed facility providing medical, psychiatric, or surgical services for sick or injured persons primarily on an in-patient basis, and including ancillary facilities for outpatient and emergency treatment, diagnostic services, training, research, administration, and services to patients, employees, or visitors.

Instructional Services. An establishment that offers specialized programs in improvement, information, and personal growth and development such as photography, fine arts, crafts, music, yoga, martial arts, dance, driving schools, health and wellness, 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 may provide credits for diplomas or degrees granted by other institutions. Retail sales are permitted as an accessory use.

Group. Group instruction includes six or more students or clients at any one time.

Private. Private instruction includes fewer than six students or clients at any one time.

Lodging Uses.

Bed and Breakfast Establishment. A residential property with one or more bedrooms dedicated for rental for overnight lodging and where meals may be provided to guests. A bed and breakfast is either owner-occupied or has the manager or proprietor of the lodging business living on the premises.

Hotel. A commercial establishment providing lodging accommodations for a fee for transient guests, generally for stays of 30 days or less, with access to rooms or units primarily from interior lobbies, courts or halls. A hotel may include limited facilities for storage and preparation of food and beverages within individual rooms, such as coffee makers, mini refrigerators and microwave ovens.

Motel. A building or group of attached or detached buildings providing lodging accommodations for a fee for transient guests, generally for stays of 30 days or less, with access to each room or unit through an exterior door. Motels are distinguished from hotels primarily in that motels provide direct independent access to, and adjoining parking for, guest rooms and do not provide 24-hour guest services.

RV Camper Park. Any area or tract of land where one or more lots are rented or leased or held out for rent or lease to owners or users of RVs or tent camping used for travel or recreation purposes. RV parks can include utility hook-ups and amenities which could include but are not limited to a pool, recreational structure, and playground.

Maintenance and Repair Services. Establishments engaged in the maintenance or repair of office machines, household appliances, furniture, and similar large items. This classification excludes maintenance and repair of vehicles or boats (see "vehicle repair and maintenance") and personal items such as apparel, shoes, and jewelry (see "general services, small").

Medical Support Laboratory. A facility for scientific laboratory analysis of medical resources. The analysis is generally performed for medical providers to support the medical provider's work on behalf of patients.

Offices.

Business and Professional. Offices of firms or organizations providing professional, executive, business, management, or administrative services, including but not limited to accounting, architectural, computer software design, engineering, consulting, graphic design, insurance, interior design, real estate, legal, and tax preparations offices. Also includes co-working spaces designed to accommodate individuals and organizations that provide such services.

Communication Office/Studio. Includes radio, television or recording studios.

Medical Office/Clinic. Office use providing consultation, diagnosis, therapeutic, preventive, or corrective medical treatment services by doctors, dentists, chiropractors, optometrists, psychotherapists, alternative healing practitioners such as acupuncturists, and similar practitioners of medical and healing arts for humans licensed for such practice by the State of California. Incidental medical and/or dental laboratories and research within the office that supports the on-site patient services is considered part of the office use. This use includes urgent care facilities. Excludes independent research laboratory facilities and hospitals (see medical support laboratory and see hospital).

Retail. Convenience Store. An easy access retail store in a building or tenant space of 5,000 square feet or less in gross floor area, which carries a range of merchandise oriented to convenience and travelers' shopping needs. These stores may be part of a service station or an independent facility.

General Retail. The retail sale or rental of merchandise not specifically listed under another use definition. This includes department stores, clothing stores, furniture stores, pharmacies, pet supply stores, thrift stores, flower shops (florist), art supply stores, music stores, book stores, and other businesses retailing (or renting) toys, hobby materials, handcrafted items, formalwear, music equipment and instruments, jewelry, cameras, candy, gifts and novelties, electronic equipment, sporting goods, hardware, appliances, antiques, art, paint and wallpaper, carpeting and floor covering, office supplies, bicycles, and new automotive parts and accessories, excluding vehicle service and installation (see vehicle repair and maintenance). Excludes large format retail and other sales-related uses more specifically described in other use definitions.

Grocery Store, Large. Retail establishments that primarily sell food, but also may sell other convenience and household goods, and could include a delicatessen or specialty food shop, baked goods, frozen foods, fruits, vegetables, meats, cheeses, dairy, and prepared food, and which occupy more than 25,000 square feet of gross floor area, but not more than 80,000 square feet of gross floor area.

Grocery Store, Small. Retail establishments with gross floor area less than 25,000 square feet that primarily sell food products, such as fresh fruits and vegetables, meats and seafood, dairy products, baked goods, packaged and prepared foods, and frozen foods, but that may also sell other convenience and household goods. May also include a delicatessen or other specialty food shop.

Large Format Retail. Retail establishments over 80,000 square feet in size that sell merchandise and/or bulk goods primarily for individual consumption, including, but not limited to, department stores, home improvement stores, membership warehouses which emphasize bulk sales to the general public as well as to other businesses, and other big box format stores. Large format retail uses may include a grocery store sales component.

Liquor Store. A business establishment having at least 50 percent of its gross floor area used for the sale of alcoholic beverages intended for off-site consumption.

Smoke Shop. An establishment dedicated to the display, sale, distribution, delivery, offering, furnishing, or marketing of tobacco, tobacco products, or tobacco paraphernalia.

Services.

General Services, Small. A commercial establishment that performs cleaning, repair, and alteration of small consumer and household items, including but not limited to dry cleaning pick-up stores without equipment that uses chemical solvents, laundromats (self-service laundries), photocopying and photo finishing services, tailor shops, watch and jewelry repair, shoe repair, home electronics repair, and locksmiths. Does not include repair of vehicles or boats (see "vehicle repair and maintenance"), personal services (see "personal services"), or maintenance and repair of large or bulky items (see "maintenance and repair services").

Massage Establishment. See Beaumont Municipal Code Chapter 5.44.020 (Definitions).

Personal Services. A commercial establishment which provides services of a personal or aesthetic nature directly to consumers, including but not limited to barber and beauty shops, nail salons, tanning salons, hair removal salons, tattoo and body piercing studios, spa/wellness center (excluding massage establishments), medical spas, and personal trainers.

Bar or Cocktail Lounge. Business serving beverages for consumption on the premises as a primary use, including serving alcohol such as beer, wine, and spirits. Dancing and live entertainment may also be conducted within the establishment. This use includes nightclubs. This use does not include breweries, wineries, or distilleries.

Brewery, Winery, or Distillery. A limited production brewery, winery, or distillery where beer, wine, or spirits are brewed, made, distilled, sold, and consumed on site and meets all applicable California Department of Alcoholic Beverage Control regulations. This use includes tasting rooms where alcoholic beverages are sold and consumed on site. Food service is subordinate to the sale of alcoholic beverages.

Restaurants.

Full Service. Restaurants providing cooked-to-order food and beverage services (including alcohol) to patrons who order and are served while seated and pay after eating. Takeout service may also be provided. Restaurants that serve alcohol cannot have more than 25 percent of the gross floor area dedicated to a bar area or else they are considered a Bar or Cocktail Lounge or Brewery, Winery, or Distillery.

Limited Service. Establishments where food and beverages may be consumed on the premises (including alcohol), taken out, or delivered, but where no table service is provided. This includes, but is not limited to cafeterias, carryout sandwich shops, limited-service pizza parlors and delivery shops, self-service restaurants, snack bars, and takeout restaurants. This use includes cafes, coffee shops, and bakeries with a retail storefront component. Restaurants that serve alcohol cannot have more than 25 percent of the gross floor area dedicated to a bar area or else they are considered a Bar or Cocktail Lounge or Brewery, Winery, or Distillery. This use does not include drive-through facilities, including fast-food restaurants (see Drive-through Facility).

Automobile/Vehicle Washing. A business engaged in the washing, waxing, cleaning, and/or detailing of automobiles or similar light vehicles.

Commercial Fueling Facility. A fueling facility designed for commercial customers which dispenses gasoline, diesel, or similar vehicle fuels, and which is not open to the general public, has no cash sales and provides no personal services on-site.

Fleet-based Service. Passenger transportation services, local delivery services, medical transport, and other businesses that rely on fleets of three or more vehicles. This includes parking, dispatching, and offices for taxicab and limousine operations, ambulance services, non-emergency medical transport, home cleaning services, pedicab services, and similar businesses. This does not include towing operations (see "vehicle storage").

Gas/Service Station. An establishment 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; or providing incidental food and retail services. Major motor vehicle repair (engine rebuilding or reconditioning of engines, motor vehicles or trailers; collision service, including body, frame or fender repair; over-all painting) is not permitted.

Parking Lot. Open parking area(s) provided on property other than a public street, alley, or right-of-way that is the primary use on the lot. May include park-and-ride lots. Use of the parking lot may be subject to a fee.

Parking Structure. A building or structure containing parking spaces that is the primary use on the lot. May be located above or below grade, and use of the parking structure may be subject to a fee. May include park and ride structures.

Tire Store and Tire Repair Facility. An establishment where the sale, installation or storage of new or used or retread tires and tubes is conducted with or without other products or services. Tire store does not include a retreading establishment, collection, reduction or transfer of tires.

Vehicle Rental. An establishment providing for the rental of automobiles, motorcycles, trucks, or trailers. Typical uses include car rental agencies.

Vehicle Repair and Maintenance.

Major. Repair of automobiles, trucks, motorcycles, motor homes, boats and recreational vehicles, including the sale, installation, and servicing of related equipment and parts. This classification includes the servicing and repair of engines, body and fender, transmission, axels, wheels and brake, auto glass services, tire sales and installation, tire treading and recapping, and vehicle painting. Excludes vehicle dismantling or salvaging (see "salvage and wrecking") and tire retreading or recapping. All minor activities may also be included in major uses. The repair and maintenance of vehicles over 14,000 pounds is included in major uses only.

Minor. The service and repair of automobiles, boats, motorcycles, and light-duty trucks/vans under 14,000 pounds, including the 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 an automotive accessories and supply store, and quick-service oil, tune-up and brake and muffler shops, auto glass sales and replacement, window tinting, stereo and alarm sales, and tire sales where repairs are made or service provided in enclosed bays and no vehicles are stored overnight. This classification excludes disassembly, removal or replacement of major components such as engines, drive trains, transmissions or axles; automotive body and fender work, vehicle painting or other operations that generate excessive noise, objectionable odors, or hazardous materials, and repair of heavy trucks, limousines, or construction vehicles (see "vehicle repair and maintenance, major"). It also excludes towing services (see "vehicle storage") and fueling stations (see "gas/service station").

Vehicle Sales and Leasing. Sale or lease, retail or wholesale, of automobiles, trucks, motorcycles, motor homes, and trailers, together with associated repair services and parts sales, but excluding body repair and painting. Includes, but is not limited to, automobile dealers and recreational vehicle sales agencies.

Vehicle Storage. The use of a site for the short-or long-term storage of automobiles, trucks, motorcycles, and/or other vehicles. Includes towing and impound lots.

Advanced Manufacturing. The use of innovative technologies to create existing and new products or to improve products and processes. Advanced manufacturing focuses on the rapid transfer of science and technology into production activities and may incorporate high technology elements such as information, automation, computation, software, sensing, artificial intelligence, machine learning, and networking. Advanced manufacturing may include storage space for raw materials and/or finished goods that actively supports the primary use.

Construction Yard and Equipment Rental. Storage of construction materials or equipment on a site other than a construction site. Includes rental of large construction equipment and machinery. This classification may include parking/storage of contractor vehicles.

Custom and Artisan Manufacturing. An establishment primarily engaged in on-site production of goods by hand manufacturing or artistic endeavor, which involves only the use of hand tools or small mechanical equipment and the incidental direct sale to consumers of only those goods produced on site. Typical uses include metalworking, pottery and ceramic studios with a kiln, glass furnace, or woodworking.

Food and Beverage Processing and Preparation. Cooking, processing, packaging, bottling, and shipping of food products for off-site sales. Includes, but is not limited to wholesale bakeries, catering services, commercial kitchens, and commissary kitchens. This does not include breweries, wineries, and distilleries. This use does not include the slaughtering of live animals.

Industry, General. Manufacturing of products from extracted or raw materials or recycled or secondary materials, or bulk storage and handling of such products and materials, where operations are conducted primarily within an enclosed building. Includes, but is not limited to operations such as biomass energy conversion; fuel yards; textile mills; production apparel manufacturing; photographic processing plants; leather and allied product manufacturing; wood product manufacturing; paper manufacturing; plastics and rubber products manufacturing; and nonmetallic mineral product manufacturing.

Industry, Heavy. Manufacturing of products that include petroleum products, metals and/or metal processing, and hazardous chemicals.

Industry, Light. Establishments engaged in light industrial activities taking place primarily within enclosed buildings and producing minimal impacts on nearby properties. Includes, but is not limited to operations such as manufacturing finished parts or products primarily from previously prepared materials; commercial laundries and dry cleaning plants; mobile home manufacturing; monument works; printing, engraving and publishing; electronics manufacturing not included under advanced manufacturing; and furniture and related product manufacturing.

Recycling Processing and Collection Facility.

Collection Facility. A center for the acceptance of recyclable materials from the public by donation, redemption, or purchase.

Processing Facility. A building or enclosed space used for the collection and processing of recyclable materials. "Processing" means the preparation of material for efficient shipment, or to an end-user's specifications, by such means as baling, briquetting, compacting, flattening, grinding, crushing, mechanical sorting, shredding, cleaning, and re-manufacturing.

Research and Development. Industrial or scientific research for the design, development, engineering and testing of high technology, clean technology, industrial, or scientific products. May include limited manufacturing as necessary for the production of prototypes but excludes the full-scale manufacturing of final products. May also include storage space for raw materials and/or finished goods that actively supports the primary use.

Salvage and Wrecking. The dismantling of wrecked or decommissioned vehicles, appliances, or other metal products where usable parts are sold for use in operating vehicles and the unusable metal parts are sold to metal-recycling companies. Incidental storage is allowed.

Warehousing, Storage, and Distribution.

Mini-Storage or Self-Storage. An operation serving the public where customers rent or lease, or self-store and have direct access to, individual storage areas, compartments, or facilities rooms within a larger structure or structures provided for storage use. This use may also include limited caretaker facilities.

Logistics Use. A facility, primarily within an enclosed building, for the storage of commercial or industrial goods, products and materials and the associated on-site sorting, packing, staging, shipping, receiving, and distributing of goods to wholesale and retail outlets, including ancillary truck parking and dispatching. Also includes long-term, passive storage of furniture, household goods, or other commercial goods; and of industrial equipment, products, and materials. Warehousing and distribution facilities may include, but are not limited to, wholesale distribution, distribution centers, moving and transfer storage, cross-dock facilities, package handling centers, order fulfilment centers, and logistics centers. Excludes storage of raw materials and/or finished products as part of an active primary use (e.g., see "advanced manufacturing"; "industry, general"; "industry, light"; "research and development").

Animal Keeping (Commercial Use). The raising, care, and maintenance of animals on private property for commercial purposes, including dairies. Also see "kennel/cattery", which provides for the boarding of animals.

Animal Keeping (Secondary Use). The raising, care, and maintenance of animals on private property for non-commercial purposes.

Apiary. A place where bees are kept.

Aviary. A large cage, building, or enclosure for the keeping of birds.

Cultivated Agriculture. The planting, growing, and harvesting of crops or plants, or the preparation of land for this purpose for viticulture, horticulture, pasturage, floriculture, or similar farming where a crop or final product may be produced for sale, but not necessarily. Includes incidental uses like produce stands.

Stables. Commercial horse, donkey, and mule facilities including horse ranches, boarding stables, riding schools and academies, horse exhibition facilities (for shows or other competitive events), pack stations, barns, stables, corrals, and paddocks accessory and incidental to these uses.

Cemetery. Land used for the burial of the dead and dedicated for cemetery purposes, including crematories, mausoleums, and mortuaries only when operated in conjunction with and within the boundary of such cemetery.

Civic/Government. Administrative, clerical, or public contact offices of a government agency, including postal facilities and courts, along with accessory storage and maintenance. This classification excludes corporation yards, equipment service centers, and similar facilities that require maintenance and repair services and storage facilities for related vehicles and equipment (see "vehicle repair and maintenance"). Also see "public safety facility".

Community Assembly. A facility for public or private meetings including clubs and lodges, community centers, senior centers, religious assembly facilities, convention centers, civic and private auditoriums, union halls, meeting halls for clubs and other membership organizations. This 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 (see "indoor sports and recreation") or facilities such as commercial day care facilities and schools, which are separately defined.

Major. Community assembly use that is over 2,000 gross square feet and has capacity for more than 200 seats.

Minor. Community assembly use that is 2,000 gross square feet or less and has capacity for no more than 200 seats.

Community Garden. Use of land for and limited to cultivation of herbs, fruits, flowers, or vegetables, including the cultivation and tillage of soil and the production, cultivation, growing, and harvesting of any agricultural, floricultural, or horticultural commodity, by several individuals or households.

Community Recreation Center. A recreation facility open to the public. Uses include, but are not limited to, swimming pools, sports courts and fields (e.g., tennis, pickleball, baseball, soccer), play areas, turf, community center buildings, recreation buildings, and other works/properties/structures/facilities necessary or associated with a public park, playground, or recreation purposes.

Cultural Facility. 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.

Educational Institutions.

College or University. The use of a site for either a public or private college or university, excluding vocational/trade schools. This classification may include, but is not limited to, incidental/accessory dining and food service facilities, event spaces, sports fields, and student housing (dormitories).

Schools, Public or Private. An institution of learning for minors, whether public or private, offering instruction in those courses of study required by the California Education Code and maintained in compliance with the standards set by the State Board of Education. This classification includes elementary school, middle or junior high school, or senior high school.

Vocational and Trade Schools. A postsecondary institution offering educational services which provide career training or lead to an occupation or job title; prepare students to take or pass a licensing examination or other qualifying test for employment; or which licenses persons in a particular profession, trade, or job category. This classification excludes programs that lead to a bachelor, master, or doctoral degree or that provide solely a vocational or recreational program, or programs sponsored by a business or professional organization solely for the benefit of its members.

Park. A park, trail, recreation center, sports complex, golf course, or athletic field within the City which is under the control, operation or management of the City or other public agency.

Public Safety Facility. Facility operated by public agencies including fire stations, other fire prevention and firefighting facilities, and police and sheriff substations and headquarters, including interim holding facilities.

Public Utility/Service Structures.

Public Utility Facility. Generating plants, electric substations, solid waste collection, including transfer stations and materials recovery (recycling processing) facilities, solid waste treatment and disposal, water or wastewater treatment plants, and similar facilities of public agencies or public utilities.

Wind Energy Conversion System. A machine and/or equipment that creates electricity from wind energy.

Transit Station and Facility.Facilities for passenger transportation operations, such as rail (e.g., Metrolink) but does not include airports or heliports.

Wireless Telecommunication Facility. A facility that transmits and/or receives electromagnetic signals. It includes antennas, microwave dishes, horns, and other types of equipment for the transmission or receipt of such signals, equipment, switches, wiring, cabling, power sources, shelters or cabinets associated with an antenna, telecommunication towers or similar structures supporting the equipment, equipment buildings, parking area and other accessory development. Also see Wireless Telecommunications Terms in Chapter 17.E.02 (Definitions of Terms).

Accessory Use. A use that is customarily associated with, and is incidental and subordinate to, the primary use and located on the same lot as the primary use.

Farmers' Market. An establishment offering for sale produce, prepared food items, and other artisan/craft goods and merchandise by certified growers and producers authorized to sell, directly to consumers, products that are produced on land the producer controls or taken in consignment from other producers. Excludes flea markets.

Temporary Use. A use established for a specified period of time, with the intent to discontinue the use at the end of the designated time period.