Calaveras County Municipal Code Ch. 17.42 Use Classifications

Residential Housing Types.

Single-Unit Dwelling, Detached. A dwelling unit that is designed for occupancy by one household with private yards on all sides and located on a separate lot from any other unit (except an accessory dwelling unit, where permitted). This subclassification includes individual manufactured housing units installed on a foundation system pursuant to Section 18551 of the California Health and Safety Code.

Single-Unit Dwelling, Attached. A dwelling unit that is designed for occupancy by one household located on a separate lot from any other unit (except an accessory dwelling unit, where permitted), and is attached through common walls to more than one dwelling on abutting lots, such as townhomes.

Multi-Unit Dwelling. Two or more attached or detached dwelling units on a single lot. Types of multi-unit dwellings can include duplexes, multiple detached residential units, and apartment buildings.

Accessory Dwelling Unit. An attached or detached residential dwelling unit that is accessory to the primary single-unit dwelling on the same site and provides complete independent living facilities for one or more persons, including permanent provisions for living, sleeping, eating, cooking, and sanitation.

Employee Housing. Has the same meaning as "employee housing" as set forth in Health & Safety Code §17008 for farmworkers.

Caretaker Unit. A dwelling unit on the site of a nonresidential use that is occupied either by the business owner(s) and their immediate families or by employees (and their immediate families) employed by the owner for the purpose of on-site management, maintenance, or upkeep.

Co-housing. Developments containing clusters of small homes or multi-unit dwelling units generally near services and including at least one common building where residents can meet, eat, gather.

Family Day Care. A day care facility licensed by the state of California, located in a residential unit where the resident of the dwelling provides care and supervision for children under the age of eighteen for periods of less than twenty-four hours a day.

Small. A facility that provides care for eight or fewer children, including children who reside at the home and are under the age of ten (California Health and Safety Code Section 1597.44).

Large. A facility that provides care for seven to 14 children, including children who reside at the home and are under the age of 10 (California Health and Safety Code Section 1597.465).

Mobile Home Park. Any area or tract of land where two or more lots are rented or leased, held out for rent or lease, or were formerly held out for rent or lease and later converted to a subdivision, cooperative, condominium, or other form of resident ownership, to accommodate manufactured homes, mobile homes, or recreational vehicles used for human habitation (California Health and Safety Code Section 18214).

Residential Facility, Assisted Living. A facility that provides a combination of housing and supportive services for the elderly or functionally impaired, including personalized assistance, congregate dining, recreational, and social activities. These facilities may include medical services. Examples include residential care facilities licensed by the state of California to provide care for more than six persons, assisted living facilities, retirement homes, and retirement communities. These facilities typically consist of individual units or apartments, sometimes containing kitchen facilities and common amenities. The residents in these facilities require varying levels of assistance.

Single Room Occupancy (SROs). A residential facility where living accommodations are individual secure rooms, with or without separate kitchen or bathroom facilities for each room and rented to one or two-person households. This use classification includes extended stay hotels intended for long-term occupancy (more than thirty days) but excludes Hotels and Motels, and Residential Care Facilities.

Small Residential Care Facilities. A facility licensed by the state of California to provide living accommodations, twenty-four-hour care for six or fewer persons requiring personal services, supervision, protection, or assistance with daily tasks. Facilities may include shared living quarters, with or without a private bathroom or kitchen facilities. This classification includes both for- and not-for-profit institutions but excludes Supportive Housing and Transitional Housing.

Supportive Housing. Dwelling units with no limit on length of stay that are occupied by the target population as defined in subdivision (d) of Section 53260 of the California Health and Safety Code, and that are 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, where possible, work in the community.

Transitional Housing. Buildings configured as rental housing developments, but operated under program requirements that call for the termination of assistance and recirculation of the assisted unit to another eligible program recipient at some predetermined future point in time, which shall be no less than six months (California Health and Safety Code Section 50675.2(h)).

Cemetery. Establishments primarily engaged in operating sites or structures reserved for the interment of human or animal remains, including mausoleums, burial places, and memorial gardens.

Crematories. Establishments engaged in the cremation or decomposition (i.e., composting) of bodies of the dead.

Colleges and Trade Schools. Institutions of higher education primarily for adults providing curricula of a general, religious, or professional nature, granting degrees or professional certifications and including junior colleges, business and computer schools, management training, and technical and trade schools. This classification excludes Instructional Services such as music lessons.

Community Assembly. A facility for public or private meetings and gatherings, including community centers, union halls, meeting halls, religious facilities, and membership organizations. This classification includes the use of functionally related facilities for the use of members and attendees, such as kitchens, multi-purpose rooms, classrooms, and storage.

Community Garden. Use of land by several individuals or households for and limited to the 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. This classification excludes the cultivation of cannabis and any other controlled substance.

Cultural Institutions. A public or private institution and/or associated facility engaged in activities to promote aesthetic and educational interest among the community that are open to the public on a regular basis. This classification includes performing arts centers, spaces for display or preservation of objects of interest in the arts or sciences, libraries, museums, historical sites, aquariums, art galleries, zoos, and botanical gardens. This classification excludes schools or institutions of higher education providing curricula of a general nature (see Colleges and Trade Schools).

Day Care Centers. Establishments providing non-medical care for persons on a less than twenty-four hour basis other than family day care. This classification includes nursery schools, preschools, and day care facilities for children or adults, and any other day care facility licensed by the state of California.

Detention Facility. A facility providing housing, care, and supervision for persons confined by law under the direction and control of any law enforcement agency including the California State Department of Corrections, Federal Bureau of Prisons, and the U.S. Immigration and Naturalization Service.

Emergency Shelter. Housing with minimal supportive services for homeless persons that is limited to occupancy of six months or less, as defined in Section 50801 of the California Health and Safety Code. Medical assistance, counseling, and meals may be provided. This classification excludes temporary housing for residents who have lost their homes due to a disaster (see Chapter 17.23, Post-Disaster Recovery).

Government Offices. Administrative, clerical, or public contact offices of a government agency, including postal facilities and courts. 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.

Hospitals and Clinics. State-licensed facilities providing medical, surgical, psychiatric, or emergency medical services to sick or injured persons. This classification includes facilities for inpatient or outpatient treatment, including substance-abused programs, as well as training, research, and administrative services for patients and employees. This classification excludes veterinaries and animal hospitals (see Animal Care, Sales, and Services).

Clinic. A facility providing medical, psychiatric, or surgical service for sick or injured persons exclusively on an out-patient basis including emergency treatment, diagnostic services, administration, and related services to patients who are not lodged overnight. Services may be available without a prior appointment. This classification includes licensed facilities offering substance abuse treatment, blood banks and plasma centers, and emergency medical services offered exclusively on an out-patient basis. This classification does not include private medical and dental offices that typically require appointments and are usually smaller scale.

Hospitals. A facility providing medical, psychiatric, or surgical services for sick or injured persons, primarily on an inpatient basis, and including supplementary facilities for outpatient and emergency treatment, diagnostic services, training, research, administration, and services to patients, employees, or visitors. The institutions are to be licensed by the state of California to provide surgical and medical services.

Skilled Nursing Facility. A state-licensed facility or a distinct part of a hospital that provides continuous skilled nursing and supportive care to patients whose primary need requires the availability of skilled nursing care on an extended basis. The facility provides twenty-four-hour inpatient care and, at a minimum, includes physician, nursing, dietary, pharmaceutical services, and an activity program. Intermediate care programs that provide skilled nursing and supportive care for patients on a less-than-continuous basis are classified as skilled nursing facilities.

Instructional Services. Establishments that offer specialized programs in personal growth and development such as music, martial arts, vocal, fitness, dancing, reading, and math instruction. Attendance is typically limited to hourly classes rather than full-day instruction. The establishments do not grant diplomas or degrees, though instruction could provide credits for diplomas or degrees granted by other institutions. This classification also includes tutoring facilities which offer academic instruction to individuals or groups.

Park and Recreation Facilities, Public. Noncommercial park and recreation facilities, including both passive and active areas used as parks, playgrounds, recreation facilities, trails, wildlife preserves, public campgrounds, related open spaces, and other recreational activities on land owned and/or managed by a public agency or non-profit organization. This classification also includes playing fields, courts, gymnasiums, swimming pools, skate parks, picnic facilities, tennis courts, public golf courses, and botanical gardens, as well as related visitor areas, food concessions, or community centers within the facilities.

Passive Recreation. Recreational activities that involve the existing natural resources and has minimal impact or development. Passive recreation generally consists of open space and/or trail systems for such activities as hiking, walking, bicycling, horseback riding, and picnicking.

Active Recreation. Recreation activities requiring some constructed facilities and/or playing fields.

Parking Lots. Surface lots and structures offering parking for a fee when such use is not incidental to another on-site activity.

Public Safety Facilities. Facilities providing public-safety and emergency services, including police and fire protection and emergency medical services, ranger stations, lookout towers, and forest stations, with incidental storage, training, and maintenance facilities.

Schools, Private. Facilities for primary or secondary education, including private and parochial schools, that provide full-time school instruction for children in the several branches of study required to be taught in the public schools of the State in a manner that is adequate to qualify its students for the exemption from compulsory public-school attendance in California Education Code § 48220 et. seq.

Social Service Facilities. Facilities providing a variety of supportive services for disabled and homeless individuals and other targeted groups on a less than twenty-four-hour basis. Examples of services provided are counseling, meal programs, personal storage lockers, showers, instructional programs, television rooms, and meeting spaces. This classification is distinguished from licensed day care centers (see Day Care Centers), clinics, and emergency shelters providing twenty-four-hour care (see Emergency Shelter).

Animal Care and Boarding Services. Services related to the medical care and boarding of animals.

Animal Sanctuary. A facility for the care and/or rehabilitation of animals, including large, exotic, and/or undomesticated animals.

Animal Shelter. A public or nonprofit facility for the safekeeping and/or impoundment of dogs, cats, or other domestic animals not owned by the operator of the facility.

Animal Boarding. The commercial keeping, boarding, training, breeding, or maintaining, dogs, cats, or other household pets and animals not owned by the owner or operator of the facility. Overnight boarding may be offered.

Kennel, Private or Commercial. Private and commercial kennels as defined in Title 6, Animals, of the Calaveras County Code.

Veterinary Services. Veterinary services for dogs, cats, or other household pets and animals. This classification may allow twenty-four-hour accommodation of animals receiving medical services and treatment, including animal hospitals, and pet clinics.

Banks and Financial Institutions. Institutions such as banks, credit unions, lending institutions, trust companies, credit agencies, brokers and dealers in securities and commodity contracts, investment companies, and similar financial services.

Business Support Services. Establishments providing business related services, including printing, and copying, blueprint services, advertising and mailing, office equipment rental and leasing, office security, custodial services, photofinishing, and model building.

Cannabis.

Cannabis Retailer. See Chapter 17.17, Cannabis Retailers.

Commercial Cannabis Cultivation. See Chapter 17.18, Regulation of Commercial and Non-commercial Cannabis Cultivation and Commerce (Except for Cannabis Retailers Pursuant to Chapter 17.17).

Commercial Entertainment and Recreation. Provision of participant or spectator entertainment to the general public on privately owned land. These classifications may include incidental restaurants, snack bars, and other related food and beverage services to patrons.

Agricultural Entertainment and Recreation. Commercial activities associated with agricultural operations such as self-pick fruit and vegetables, trails, picnic facilities, corn/hay mazes, pony rides, petting zoo, mini train rides, wagon rides, tours, and similar activities.

Equestrian Facility. Equine facilities, boarding stables, riding schools and academies, riding arenas, exhibition facilities, and other facilities that provide for the raising, boarding, breeding, training, riding, and showing of equines on a commercial basis.

Hunting/Fishing Club. Privately operated areas and facilities for participants engaged in the pursuit of fish and game species.

Indoor Entertainment and Recreation. Establishments providing sports, recreation, exercise, amusement, and entertainment services conducted primarily within an enclosed building. Typical uses include movie theaters, arcades, bingo halls, bowling alleys, billiard parlors, card rooms, health clubs, gymnasiums, ice- and roller-skating rinks, indoor racquetball courts, basketball courts, pickleball courts, athletic clubs, indoor shooting ranges, and physical fitness centers.

Outdoor Entertainment. Predominantly spectator uses, conducted in open or partially enclosed or screened facilities. Typical uses include amusement parks, sports stadiums and arenas, racetracks, amphitheaters, and drive-in theaters.

Outdoor Sports and Recreation. Predominantly participant sports and entertainment activities conducted in open or partially enclosed or screened facilities. Typical uses include driving ranges, private golf courses, sports complexes, miniature golf courses, tennis clubs, basketball courts, pickleball courts, outdoor batting cages, swimming pools, shooting and archery ranges, and motocross/ATV parks.

Drive-Through Facility. A motor vehicle drive-through facility which is a commercial building or structure or portion thereof which is designed or used to provide goods or services to the occupants of motor vehicles. This classification includes banks and other financial services, fast food establishments, drugstores, and coffee kiosks, but excludes drive-in theaters (see Commercial Entertainment and Recreation), service stations, or car-wash operations (see Vehicle Sales and Services).

Eating and Drinking Establishments. Businesses primarily engaged in serving prepared food and/or beverages for consumption on or off the premises.

Bars/Night Clubs/Lounges. Businesses serving alcoholic beverages for consumption on the premises as a primary use, including on-sale service of alcohol including beer, wine, and mixed drinks. This subclassification includes establishments where alcoholic beverages are sold and consumed but are not operated and maintained as bona fide eating establishments and establishments where beverage production, brewing, or distilling is subordinate to the sale of alcoholic beverages.

Restaurant. Establishments where food and beverages are served to patrons on-site or off-site, including full-service, limited-service, and take-out/delivery businesses. This subclassification includes cafes, coffee shops, delicatessens, fast-food businesses, and bakeries that have tables for on-site consumption of products, as well as establishments operated and maintained as a bona fide eating place that serves alcoholic beverages. It excludes catering services and commercial kitchens that do not sell food or beverages for on-site consumption.

Tasting Rooms. Operations offering tasting of food and beverage products that are available for purchase. Products offered for tasting and purchase may include wine, olive oil, honey, cheese, and/or other food and beverage products.

Event Center. An indoor or outdoor facility accommodating gatherings, assembly, entertainment, and related support facilities (e.g., kitchens, offices, etc.) for special events or occasions. Event centers may include overnight accommodations.

Farmer's Markets. Temporary but recurring outdoor retail sales of food, plants, flowers, and products such as jellies, breads, and meats that are predominantly grown or produced by vendors who sell them.

Food Preparation. Establishments preparing and/or packaging food primarily for off-site consumption, including catering kitchens, retail bakeries, and small-scale specialty food production. This classification excludes establishments with an industrial character in terms of processes employed, waste produced, water used, and traffic generation.

Funeral Parlor. An establishment primarily engaged in the preparation of the dead for burial or cremation and conducting memorial services. This subclassification excludes crematories (see Crematories) and cemeteries and burial parks (see Cemeteries).

Home Occupation. A commercial use conducted on residential property by the inhabitants of the subject residence in compliance with Section 17.25.140, Home Occupations.

Lodging. An establishment providing overnight accommodations to transient patrons for payment for periods of less than thirty consecutive calendar days. Lodging may include the incidental provision of food, drink, sales, and services for the convenience of overnight guests.

Agricultural Homestays and Dude Ranches. Lodging facilities operated by a resident of the property on which the facility is located that is accessory and subordinate to an on-site, bona fide agricultural or ranching operation which educates guests about the work done on-site and allows guests to take part in the on-site agricultural or ranching activities.

Bed and Breakfast Inn. A residential structure or a portion of such structure or dwelling unit inhabited by a full time, permanent resident, and a maximum of five bedrooms are rented independently for less than thirty consecutive days, with any meals available but limited exclusively for guests of the inn.

Campgrounds and RV Parks. An area developed where one or more campsites are rented or leased, or held out for rent or lease, to accommodate tents, trailers, and RV's for transient occupancy (thirty days or less), including organizational group camps sponsored by a church, youth group, corporation, or other organization. Campgrounds and RV parks may include restrooms, electric hookups, recreational amenities, shower and laundry facilities, and incidental retail services.

Hotels and Motels. An establishment providing overnight lodging to transient patrons. These establishments may provide additional services, such as conference and meeting rooms, restaurants, bars, or recreation facilities available to guests or to the general public. This use classification includes hotels, motor lodges, motels, inns, hostels, and tourist courts.

Resort and Retreat Center. Establishments engaged in recreational, educational, therapeutic, and similar activities, with day use and overnight facilities to serve the guests. Establishments are often focused on self-improvement or relaxation in a natural setting, although indoor facilities such as conference rooms, lodging, and dining facilities for the guests may be included. It includes, but is not limited to conference, retreat, or outdoor education centers, and health spas but does not include health clubs and beauty salons/day spas where no lodging facilities are provided.

Office. Offices of firms, organizations, solo practitioners or public agencies providing professional, executive, management, administrative or design services, such as accounting, architectural, computer software design, engineering, graphic design, interior design, investment, insurance, legal, and real estate and mortgage brokerage services, but excludes banks and savings and loan associations with retail banking services (see Banks and Financial Institutions). This classification also includes offices where medical and dental services are provided by physicians, dentists, chiropractors, acupuncturists, optometrists, and similar medical professionals, including medical/dental laboratories within medical office buildings, but excludes clinics, independent research laboratory facilities (see Research and Development), and hospitals.

Personal Services. An establishment providing non-medical services of personal convenience to individuals. Personal services include barber and beauty shops, permanent makeup studios, day spas, nail salons, tanning salons, electrolysis, and other cosmetic and appearance care services; pet grooming, shoe and luggage repair, photographers, laundry and cleaning services and pick-up stations, tattoo and body modification parlors, repair and fitting of clothes, and similar services.

Repair and Maintenance Services. Establishments engaged in the maintenance or repair of larger consumer products, including office machines, household appliances, electronics, furniture, and similar items. This classification excludes repair and maintenance of motor vehicles (see Vehicle Sales and Services) and personal apparel (see Personal Services).

Retail Sales.

Agricultural Product Sales. The sale of agricultural products grown on-site, or products made with ingredients grown on-site.

Building Materials Stores. Retail sales or rental of building supplies or equipment. This classification includes lumber yards, tool and equipment sales, or rental establishments, and includes establishments devoted principally to retail sales to individuals for their own use. This subclassification does not include construction and material yards, hardware stores less than ten thousand square feet in floor area, or plant nurseries.

Feed and Farm Supply Store. An establishment primarily engaged in selling or renting agricultural equipment and supplies for use in soil preparation and maintenance, the planting and harvesting of crops, and other operations and processes pertaining to farming and ranching such as feed sales, irrigation equipment, fertilizer, agricultural sprays, livestock equipment, small indoor livestock such as rabbits and chickens, and fencing. The sale or rental of agricultural equipment does not include tractors and other motorized, self-propelled farm vehicles, which are included under large vehicle and equipment sales, service, and rental.

Food and Beverage Sales. Retail sales of food and beverages primarily for off-site preparation and/or consumption. This subclassification includes food markets, grocery stores, liquor stores, meat markets and butcher shops, and retail bakeries.

General Retail. The retail sale or rental of merchandise not specifically listed under another use classification. This subclassification includes retail establishments such as department stores, clothing stores, furniture stores, small hardware stores (with ten thousand square feet or less of floor area), and businesses retailing the following goods: household pets and pet supplies, toys, books, hobby materials, handcrafted items, jewelry, cameras, photographic supplies and services (including portraiture and retail photo processing), medical supplies and equipment, pharmacies, electronic equipment, sporting goods, kitchen utensils, hardware, appliances, antiques, art galleries, art supplies and services, paint and wallpaper, carpeting and floor covering, office supplies, bicycles, video rental, and new automotive parts and accessories (excluding vehicle service and installation). Retail sales may be combined with other services such as office machine, computer, electronics, and similar small-item repairs.

Garden Shop. Any establishment(s) primarily engaged in retailing nursery and garden products, such as trees, shrubs, plants, seeds, bulbs, and sod that are predominantly grown elsewhere.

Rural Home Industries. Small-scale industries which are secondary to the principal residential use of the property where the review authority finds the use is compatible with neighboring properties. These industries may process or manufacture goods or commodities, but not those which are hazardous or produce excessive noise, dust, or traffic.

Sexually Oriented Business.

A. Purpose. The purpose of defining and regulating sexually oriented businesses as a distinct use classification is to prevent community-wide adverse secondary effects that can be generated by the unregulated operation of sexually oriented businesses. These adverse secondary effects include, but are not limited to: depreciation of property values; increased vacancy rates in residential and commercial areas; increased criminal activity; increased litter, noise, and vandalism; and interference with the enjoyment of residential property in the vicinity of such businesses.

B. Definitions.

1. "Sexually oriented business" shall mean a business whose primary purpose is the offering of sexually explicit matter and includes any of the following:

a. Adult arcade. An "adult arcade" is an establishment where, for any form of consideration, as a regular and primary course of conduct one or more still or motion picture projectors, or similar machines, for viewing by five or fewer persons each, are used to show films, computer generated images, motion pictures, video cassettes, slides or other photographic, digital, or video reproductions that are characterized by an emphasis upon any specified sexual activities described in (B)(7) or the exposure of any specified anatomical area described in (B)(6).

b. Adult cabaret. An "adult cabaret" is an establishment that, for any form of consideration, as a regular and primary course of conduct presents live performances that are characterized by an emphasis upon any specified sexual activities described in (B)(7) or exposure of any specified anatomical area described in (B)(6).

c. Adult motion picture theater. An "adult motion picture theater" is an establishment that, for any form of consideration, as a regular and primary course of conduct offers to show films, computer-generated images, motion pictures, video cassettes, slides, or other photographic, digital, or video reproductions that are characterized by an emphasis upon any specified sexual activities described in (B)(7) or the exposure of any specified anatomical area described in (B)(6).

d. Adult retail store. An "adult retail store" is an establishment that, for any form of consideration, as a regular and primary course of conduct offers for sale, rent, or viewing either any adult entertainment material described in (B)(2), any adult entertainment merchandise described in (B)(3) or both.

e. Any business that, for any form of consideration, as a regular and primary course of conduct offers to its patrons products, merchandise, services or entertainment characterized by an emphasis upon any specified sexual activities described in (B)(7) or the exposure of any specified anatomical area described in (B)(6).

2. "Adult entertainment material" shall mean any audio tape, book, periodical, magazine, photograph, drawing, sculpture, motion-picture film, videotape recording, or other visual representation, characterized by an emphasis upon any specified sexual activities described in (B)(7) or the exposure of any specified anatomical area described in (B)(6).

"Adult entertainment material" shall not include any material that does not fall within the definition of "Harmful Matter" in Sections § 313 et. seq. of the California Penal Code.

3. "Adult entertainment merchandise" shall mean adult entertainment implements or paraphernalia, such as, but not limited to: dildos; auto sucks; vibrators; edible underwear; benwa balls; inflatable orifices; anatomical balloons with orifices; simulated vaginas and similar adult entertainment devices that are designed or marketed primarily for the stimulation of human genital organs or sadomasochistic activity.

4. "Characterized by an emphasis upon" shall mean the dominant or essential theme of the object described by such phrase.

5. "Regular and primary course of conduct" shall mean that any of the following conditions exist:

a. At least sixty percent of the stock-in-trade is devoted to adult entertainment material, adult entertainment merchandise, or both; provided, however, that this criteria shall not apply to mail order businesses or wholesale businesses with no patrons on the premises.

b. At least sixty percent of the total display area is devoted to adult entertainment material, adult entertainment merchandise, or both; provided, however, that this criteria shall not apply to mail order businesses or wholesale businesses with no patrons on the premises.

c. The business presents, as at least sixty percent of its total performance time presented, any type of entertainment, live or otherwise, characterized by an emphasis upon any specified sexual activities described in (B)(7) or featuring any specified anatomical area described in (B)(6).

d. At least sixty percent of the gross receipts of the business are derived from the sale, trade, rental, display or presentation of services, products, materials or entertainment that is characterized by an emphasis upon any specified sexual activities described in (B)(7) or the exposure of any specified anatomical area described in (B)(6).

6. "Specified anatomical areas" shall mean any of the following:

a. Less than completely and opaquely covered human (i) genitals or pubic region; (ii) female breast below a point immediately above the top of the areola;

b. Human male genitals in a discernibly turgid state, even if completely and opaquely covered;

c. Any device, costume or covering that simulates any of the body parts included in subparagraphs (1) or (2) above.

7. "Specified sexual activities" shall mean any of the following, whether performed directly or indirectly through clothing or other covering:

a. The fondling or other erotic touching of human genitals, pubic region, buttocks, anus, or female breast;

b. Sex acts, actual or simulated, including intercourse, oral copulation, or sodomy;

c. Masturbation, actual or simulated;

d. Excretory functions as part of, or in connection with, any of the other activities described in subparagraphs (1) through (3) of this paragraph.

Smoking Lounge. A business which primarily serves tobacco or non-tobacco products (e.g., fruit, vegetables) whereby patrons, who are eighteen years of age or older, smoke the tobacco or non-tobacco products or share them from a hookah, water pipe, or similar device.

Vehicle Sales and Services. Retail or wholesale businesses that sell, rent, and/or repair vehicles such as automobiles, pickup trucks, boats, recreational vehicles, trucks, vans, trailers, ATVs, and/or motorcycles.

Automobile Rental. Establishment providing for the rental of automobiles. Typical uses include car rental agencies.

Automobile/Vehicle Sales and Leasing. Sale or lease, retail or wholesale, of automobiles, light trucks, motorcycles, motor homes, and trailers, together with associated repair services and parts sales, but excluding body repair and painting. Typical uses include automobile dealers.

Service and Repair, Minor. The service and repair of automobiles, light-duty trucks, and motorcycles, including the incidental sale, installation, and servicing of related equipment and parts. This classification includes automotive accessories and supply stores, and smog checks, tire sales and installation, auto radio/electronics installation, auto air conditioning/heater service, and quick-service oil, tune-up shops, and brake and muffler shops where repairs are made, or service provided in enclosed bays and no vehicles are stored overnight.

Repair, Major. Repair of automobiles, trucks, motorcycles, motor homes, boats, and recreational vehicles, generally on an overnight basis that may include 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 towing services. This classification excludes vehicle dismantling or salvaging and tire retreading or recapping.

Large Vehicle and Equipment Sales, Service, and Rental. Sales, servicing, rental, fueling, and washing of large trucks, recreational vehicles, trailers, tractors, and other equipment used for construction, agriculture, moving, or landscape gardening activities.

Service Stations. Establishments primarily engaged in retailing automotive fuels and charging or retailing these fuels/charging in combination with activities, such as providing minor automobile/vehicle repair services; selling automotive oils, replacement parts, and accessories; and/or providing incidental food and retail services. These facilities may include "mini-marts" and/or convenience stores that sell products, merchandise, or services that are ancillary to the primary use related to the operation of motor vehicles.

Towing and Impound. Establishments primarily engaged in towing light or heavy motor vehicles, both local and long distance. These establishments may provide incidental services, such as vehicle storage and emergency road repair services (for automobile dismantling, see Salvage and Wrecking).

Washing. Washing, waxing, or cleaning of automobiles or similar light vehicles, including self-serve or automatic washing facilities.

Agricultural, Food, and Beverage Processing. Establishments engaged in the production, processing, packaging, or manufacturing of food or beverage products. This classification excludes the slaughtering of animals or fowl but does include butchering of already slaughtered animals. Examples include coffee roasters, micro-breweries, micro-distilleries, wine manufacturing, cheese makers, wholesale bakeries, and produce-on-premises operations which provide ingredients and equipment for customers to manufacture their own product, as well as cooking, dehydrating, refining, bottling, canning, milling, and other treatment of agricultural products.

Contractor and Materials Yards. Storage of construction and contractor materials or equipment on a site other than a construction site. This classification also includes non-government agency corporation yards and establishments that sell bulk landscaping materials such as soil or bark by the ton.

Custom Manufacturing. Any establishment primarily engaged in on-site production or fabrication of goods by small scale manufacturing or artistic endeavor, which involves the use of hand tools or small mechanical equipment, and which may include incidental instruction or direct sales for consumers. Typical uses include ceramic studios, fabric and needleworking, leather working, metalworking, glass working, candle-making shops, woodworking, and custom jewelry manufacturers.

Light Industrial. Establishments engaged in manufacturing of non-edible products and finished parts from already-manufactured base materials by means of physical assembly or reshaping. These industrial activities produce limited impacts on nearby properties, such as noise, gas, odor, or vibration. This classification includes uses where retail sales are clearly incidental to an industrial or manufacturing use, commercial laundries and dry-cleaning plants, monument works, printing and engraving, publishing, computer and electronic product manufacturing, furniture and related product manufacturing, and industrial services.

General Industrial. Establishments engaged in manufacturing of non-edible products from extracted or raw materials or recycled or secondary materials, or bulk storage and handling of such products and materials. Production typically involves some transformation by way of heating, chilling, combining, or through a chemical or biochemical reaction or alteration. This classification includes manufacturing for biomass energy conversion, commercial cosmetics and perfumes, electrical appliances and explosives, film and photographic processing plants, apparel and textile mills, leather and allied products manufacturing, wood and paper, glass and glass products, medical/pharmaceutical products, plastics and rubber, nonmetallic minerals, primary and fabricated metal products, and automotive and heavy equipment.

Intensive Industrial. Industrial uses that regularly use hazardous chemicals or procedures or produce hazardous materials or byproducts, including the following: manufacturing of acetylene, cement, lime, gypsum or plaster-of-paris, chlorine, corrosive acid or fertilizer, insecticides, disinfectants, poisons, explosives, paint, lacquer, varnish, petroleum products, coal products, plastic and synthetic resins, and radioactive materials. This classification also includes petrochemical tank farms, gasification plants, smelting, oil refining, asphalt and concrete plants, chemical manufacturing, and tanneries. Intensive industrial uses have high potential for external impacts on the surrounding area in terms of noise, vibration, odor, hours of operation, and traffic.

Lumbermill/Sawmill. Facility where logs are cut into lumber.

Research and Development. A facility for the scientific research and the design, development, and testing of electrical, electronic, magnetic, optical, pharmaceutical, and biotechnology components and products in advance of product manufacturing. This classification includes assembly of related products from parts produced off site, where the manufacturing activity is secondary to the research and development activities, in addition to involving the production of prototypes.

Salvage and Wrecking. Storage and dismantling of vehicles and equipment for sale of parts, as well as their collection, storage, exchange, or sale of goods including, but not limited to, any used building materials, used containers or steel drums, used tires, and similar or related articles or property.

Storage, Warehousing, and Wholesaling. Storage, warehousing, and wholesaling facilities that store and/or engage in wholesale sales of merchandize to retail establishments; industrial, commercial, institutional, agricultural, or professional businesses; or facilities acting as agents or brokers in buying or selling merchandise/commodities to such businesses. Wholesalers are primarily engaged in business-to-business sales but may sell to individual consumers through mail or internet orders. These establishments have little or no display of merchandize and are not designed to solicit walk-in traffic except for storage space exclusively and directly accessible to a specific tenant.

Indoor. Storage, warehousing, and wholesaling of goods and merchandise within an enclosed building.

Boat and RV Storage. Facilities offering outdoor storage areas with individual access for boats, RVs, trailers, and other recreational vehicles. This subclassification does not include indoor facilities which are considered Personal Storage.

Outdoor. Storage, warehousing, and wholesaling of goods in open lots.

Personal Storage. Facilities offering enclosed storage with individual access for personal effects and household goods including mini-warehouses and mini-storage, and records or inventory storage for businesses. This classification includes moving company businesses which offer storage and transporting services, but excludes workshops, hobby shops, manufacturing, or commercial activity.

Chemical, Mineral, and Explosives Storage. Establishments other than Intensive Industrial or Service Station uses, the business of which includes the storage of hazardous materials including but not limited to: bottled gas, chemicals, minerals and ores, petroleum or petroleum-based fuels, fireworks, and explosives.

Woodyard. Storage of wood for seasoning, splitting, cutting, or bucking as firewood for sale or resale.

Aviation.

Personal Landing Field. A private use aviation landing area that is used for fixed-wing aircraft or helicopter landing operations that are incidental and ancillary to established allowable land uses, including, but not limited to, agricultural, ranching or mining activities, as long as no aviation-related commerce is conducted at the personal landing fields. Personal landing fields do not engage in scheduled or nonscheduled air transportation activities, or in any scenic and sightseeing transportation service, or any other form of aviation commerce. The term "personal landing field" does not apply to "nonmunicipal air strips and glider ports," or to public airports operated by any federal, state, or local government agencies.

Nonmunicipal Air Strips and Glider Ports. Any Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) recognized public use landing area, privately owned, and operated for scheduled or nonscheduled air transportation activities, where commercial uses and aviation-related commerce can occur. Such use may include provision of landing privileges, hangar, and tie-down lease/rental spaces, fuel and lubrication service, flight instruction, plane rental, mechanical repairs, or any other form of aviation commerce. Uses can also include scenic and sightseeing transportation service, including helicopter rides, glider plane rides, air balloon rides, ultra-light and experimental aircraft activities and aircraft charters. The term "nonmunicipal air strips and glider ports" does not apply to public airports operated by any federal, state, or local government agencies. The term also does not apply to a personal landing field that is used for fixed-wing aircraft or helicopter landing operations that are incidental and ancillary to established allowable uses, including, but not limited to, agricultural, ranching or mining activities, as long as no aviation-related commerce is conducted at the personal landing fields.

Airports. Facilities for the takeoff and landing of airplanes, including runways, related facilities, and support activities.

Heliports. Facilities for the takeoff and landing of helicopters, including helipads, related facilities, and support activities.

Communication Facilities. Facilities for the provision of broadcasting and other information-relay services using electronic and telephonic mechanisms.

Facilities Within Buildings. Indoor facilities which include radio, television or recording studios, and telephone switching centers.

Telecommunication. Broadcasting and other communication services accomplished through electronic or telephonic mechanisms, as well as structures and equipment cabinets designed to support one or more reception/transmission systems. This subclassification includes wireless telecommunication towers and facilities, radio towers, television towers, telephone exchange/microwave relay towers, cellular telephone transmission/personal communications systems towers, and associated equipment cabinets and enclosures.

Freight/Truck Terminals and Distribution. Property and improvements used for freight, courier, and postal services; freight transfer truck terminals; transfer, loading, and unloading points for trucks and automobiles carrying goods and produces; or for the operations of a "common carrier trucking company," including the parking, or servicing, or repairing, or storage of trucks, truck tractors, and/or truck trailers.

Light Fleet-Based Services. Passenger transportation services, local delivery services, medical transport, and other businesses that rely on fleets of three or more vehicles with rated capacities less than ten thousand lbs. This classification includes parking, dispatching, and offices for taxicab and limousine operations, ambulance services, non-emergency medical transport, local messenger and document delivery services, home cleaning services, and similar businesses.

Public Works and Utilities. Generating plants; commercial energy facilities, including wind arrays and solar farms; solid waste collection, including transfer stations and materials recovery facilities; landfills; commercial composting and waste reduction facilities; solid waste treatment and disposal; wastewater treatment plants; potable water facilities occupying more than one acre of land and/or with treatment facilities; elevated water storage tanks; and, similar facilities of public agencies or public/private utilities. This classification also includes private corporation yards, equipment service centers, and similar facilities that primarily provide maintenance and repair services and storage facilities for vehicles and equipment.

Recycling Facility. A facility for receiving, temporarily storing, transferring and/or processing materials for recycling, reuse, or final disposal. This use classification does not include waste transfer facilities that operate as materials recovery, recycling, and solid waste transfer operations and are classified as utilities.

Reverse Vending Machine. An automated mechanical device that accepts, sorts and processes recyclable materials and issues a cash refund or a redeemable credit slip.

Recycling Collection Facility. An incidental use that serves as a neighborhood drop off point for the temporary storage of recyclable or reusable materials but where the processing and sorting of such items is not conducted on-site.

Small Collection Facility. Small collection facilities occupy no more than two hundred square feet and may include:

A "mobile recycling unit," which means an automobile, truck, trailer, or van, licensed by the Department of Motor Vehicles, and used for the collection of recyclable materials. A mobile recycling unit also means the bins, boxes or containers transported by trucks, vans or trailers, and used for the collection of recyclable materials;

Bulk reverse vending machines or a grouping of reverse vending machines occupying more than fifty square feet;

Booth-type units which may include permanent structures; and

Unattended containers placed for the donation of recyclable materials.

Large Collection Facility. A recycling facility for the acceptance by donation, redemption, or purchase of recyclable materials from the public. A large collection facility does not use power-driven processing equipment and occupies an area greater than two hundred square feet.

Recycling Processing Facility. A facility that receives, sorts, stores and/or processes recyclable materials.

Agricultural Production.

Animal Production. Commercial facilities engaged in the raising, production, and sale of livestock, including cattle, sheep, goats, pigs, horses, llamas, rabbits, fur-producing animals, poultry, fowl, fish, and all other kinds of animal husbandry; includes dairying and ranching. This classification excludes feedlots, stockyards, slaughterhouses, fertilizer works, or plants for the reduction of animal matter.

Crop and Horticulture Production. Commercial facilities engaged in the cultivation and tillage of the soil, irrigation, pruning, protection against frost, control of bird or animal damage, lawful and proper use of agricultural chemicals, pesticides, and fertilizers, growing and harvesting of any agricultural commodity, including timber, trees, shrubs, vines, berries, flowers, herbs, vegetables, hay, grains, and all other plants, food and fiber crops. Includes viticulture, horticulture, apiculture, aquaculture.

Agricultural/Environmental Education Center. An educational center consistent with Education Code Sections 8700 through 8784.

Feed Lot. Confined animal feeding operation where cattle and/or other livestock are concentrated in numbers per acre without the limitations of Section 17.25.070, Animal Production, and fed, without reliance on grazing, prior to slaughter. Does not include stockyards, places where feeding is incidental, pens for weaning or doctoring and locations used for youth projects such as 4-H, Future Farmers of America and Grange Youth Fair Program.

Forest Improvement Program. Projects under the auspices of the California Forest Improvement Program (CFIP), or any other state, federal, or public forestation program.

Forestry. The operation and harvesting of timber tracts, tree farms, forest nurseries, whether planted or of natural growth, standing or down, including Christmas trees and nursery stock for restocking commercial forest land and related activities such as reforestation services, also the gathering of gums, barks, sap, moss and other forest products.

Stockyard. Any place, establishment, or facility commonly known as stockyards, conducted, or operated for compensation or profit as a public market, consisting of pens, or other enclosures, and their appurtenances, in which live cattle, sheep, swine, horses, mules, or goats, are received, held, or kept for sale or shipment in commerce.

Mineral Extraction. The act or process of extracting resources, such as rock, sand, gravel, ores, coal, oil, clay, hydrocarbons, or mineral from the earth. The term also includes exploration; quarrying; excavating; drilling; well operation; milling, such as crushing, screening, washing and flotation; and other preparation customarily done at the mine site or as part of a mining activity.

Nurseries and Greenhouses, Wholesale. A business which is primarily engaged in the raising, propagation, growth of landscape vegetation and garden plants for sale or for planting elsewhere.

Resource Management. Lands and management activities dedicated to the protection and conservation of natural resources, such as aquatic environments, wetland and sensitive riparian habitat, water recharge areas, and rare or endangered plant or animal habitat. Resource management includes the utilization of techniques to improve grazing potential and wildlife habitat, reduce erosion, protect watershed, and minimize the risk of wildfire. These techniques include, but are not limited to, brush removal, tree thinning, control burns, re-seeding, pond and spring development, application of herbicides, and fencing.

Slaughterhouse. Establishments engaged in the slaughtering and butchering of animals, including facilities dedicated for dead animal reduction and fat rendering.