Colfax Municipal Code Ch. 17.64 Use Type Classifications

The purpose of this chapter is to classify land uses according to use types on the basis of common functional, product, or compatibility characteristics.

(Ord. No. 519, 8-8-2012)

A. Primary Uses. Primary uses shall be defined as either principal, conditional, or administrative uses. A principally permitted use is allowed in a zoning district and subject to the restrictions applicable to that district. A conditionally permitted use is a use permitted in a particular zone district upon showing that such use will comply with all the conditions and standards as specified in the zoning ordinance and authorized in the conditional use permit. An administratively permitted use may be permitted in a zone district upon administrative approval by the planning director. Primary uses are established and regulated by this Article III.

B. Accessory Uses. Accessory uses are uses accessory and incidental to the primary use of a parcel and are regulated by Chapter 17.96 (accessory uses and structures).

(Ord. No. 519, 8-8-2012)

Editor's note— Ord. No. 555, § 1(Exh. A), adopted Oct. 10, 2023, repealed § 17.64.030, which pertained to listing of use classifications and derived from Ord. No. 519, 8-8-2012; Ord. No. 542, § 1(Exh. B), 7-8-2020.

The following rules shall apply where a use of a parcel resembles two or more different primary use types, and none of the uses are accessory uses regulated pursuant to Chapter 17.96 (accessory uses and structures).

A. Separate Classifications of Multiple Establishments. If two or more individual establishments or businesses conduct separate primary uses on a single parcel, each use shall be considered a separate and distinct primary use of that parcel.

B. Separate Classification of Different Major Categories of Uses Conducted by Individual Establishment. If an individual establishment, or business conducts more than one primary use, which use appears to fit under more than one different use type as described in this chapter, each primary use shall be considered a separate and distinct primary use; provided, however, when the primary uses have the characteristics of one of the following listed use types, all such primary uses shall be classified as one of the use types on the list:

• General industrial;

• Hazardous materials handling; or

• Intensive public facilities.

If the primary uses resemble more than one of the use types on the above list, the uses shall be classified in the most appropriate use type, except that any industrial uses shall be classified within the hazardous materials handling use type if they so qualify under subsection 17.64.100D. (hazardous materials handling use type).

(Ord. No. 519, 8-8-2012)

If a proposed primary use is not specifically listed or identified as a use type in this Article III, the use shall not be allowed, except as follows:

A. The planning director may determine that a proposed use not listed is permitted if:

1. The common functional, product or compatibility characteristics and activities associated with the proposed use are consistent with one of the use types identified in Chapter 17.64 listed as a permitted use type within the zoning district;

2. The proposed use is compatible with the purpose of the zoning district that applies to the parcel; and

3. The proposed use will be consistent with the goals, objectives and policies of the general plan.

B. If the planning director determines that an unlisted proposed use is encompassed within a listed use type, the proposed use shall be subject to the same use regulations as the listed use type.

C. The planning director may forward questions about permitted uses directly to the planning commission for an interpretation at a public hearing. The public hearing shall be scheduled in accordance with Section 17.40.020. The planning commission shall make a determination based on the criteria of subsection 17.64.050A. as to which use type the proposed use fits into. The decision of the planning commission may be appealed pursuant to Chapter 17.44.

D. The planning director shall maintain a written record of all such determinations.

(Ord. No. 519, 8-8-2012)

Open space use types include on-site structures, development, and management activities which are necessary for the protection and enhancement of open space resources. Specific open space use types referred to in this title are:

A. Resource protection and restoration, includes activities and management of an area to preserve, recreate and enhance natural resource values such as fish and wildlife habitat, rare and endangered plants, erosion control, and floodwater conveyance.

B. Resource related recreation, includes facilities related to passive recreation of open space areas including bike and pedestrian trails, picnic areas, parking areas, and interpretive centers.

(Ord. No. 519, 8-8-2012; Ord. No. 555, § 1(Exh. A), 10-11-2023)

Civic use types include governmental and quasi-governmental agencies providing utility, educational, cultural, major medical, protective, governmental, and other uses which are strongly vested with public or social importance. Specific civic use types referred to in this title are:

A. Community assembly, includes the activities typically performed by, or at, the following institutions or installations:

• Churches, temples, synagogues, and other places of worship;

• Public and private non-profit clubs, lodges, and meeting halls; and

• Public community recreation facilities, including community centers, amphitheaters and museums.

B. Community services, includes uses provided by public agencies which are necessary to support the community's health, safety and welfare. Typical community services include:

• Cemeteries;

• Community water storage, wells and associated treatment facilities;

• Corporation yards, including storage, repair and processing of materials and equipment, and vehicles operated by governmental entities;

• Detention/retention basins;

• Electrical substations (up to sixty (60)kV);

• Intermodal facilities;

• Libraries;

• Park-and-ride lots;

• Police and fire stations (including antennas, antenna towers and communication facilities);

• Post offices, excluding major processing centers;

• Public parks and golf courses; and

• Satellite government facilities.

C. Essential services, includes services which are necessary to support development and involve only minor structures such as bus stops, gas distribution pipelines, electrical distribution lines (up to and including sixty (60)kV), utility poles, transformers (twelve (12)kV or less), water and sanitary sewer, drainage facilities, communication facilities for community services provided by a public agency, and neighborhood parks.

D. Reserved.

E. Hospital services.

1. General hospital services, includes medical, or surgical services for sick or injured persons primarily on an in-patient basis, and includes accessory facilities for out-patient and emergency medical services, diagnostic services, training, research, administration, and services to patients, employees, or visitors.

2. Psychiatric hospital services, includes psychiatric services for persons primarily on an in-patient basis, and includes accessory facilities for out-patient and diagnostic services, training, research, administration, and services to patients, employees, or visitors.

F. Intensive public facilities, includes public services and utilities which because of location, are objectionable due to production of offensive odor, dust, noise, bright lights, vibration or the storage of hazardous materials or products. Typical uses are electric receiving stations (sixty (60)kV to two hundred thirty (230)kV), sanitary landfills, public airports and heliports, or correctional institutions.

G. Libraries and museums, private, includes permanent, public and quasi-public facilities generally of a non-commercial nature such as libraries, museums, art exhibitions, planetariums, aquariums, botanical gardens, and arboretums. Also includes historic sites, exhibits, and zoos located in a public park.

H. Power generating facilities. These facilities consist of temporary support facilities used to supply electrical power on an interim basis when power outages occur, or facilities that are used on a permanent basis to generate a power supply for a single use or multiple users if connected to a power grid. Power generating facilities generally include technologies that produce electricity from fossil fuels, natural gas, solar, wind, hydro or biomass fuels in order to provide back-up power, augment utility power supplies or if grid-connected, to sell power. Power generating facilities may include, but are not limited to, the following specifically defined facilities:

1. General Power Production Facility. A facility whose sole purpose is for the resale and production of power which may consist of a natural gas fired facility, co-generating facility, solar, wind, waste, photovoltaic, geothermal operated, or other alternative fuel source, that produces electricity primarily for the transmission of electricity associated with the overall power grid. This type of facility may be a peak load facility that only operates during the period in which the power demand for the overall power grid is at its peak usage.

2. Supplemental/Individual Use Power Facility. A facility that is utilized to provide electrical power as either a supplement to power supplied by the existing grid or as a permanent power source for an individual user and does not provide off-site sale to the power grid. For commercial and industrial developments these types of facilities may consist of a natural gas fired facility, co-generating facility, solar, wind, waste, photovoltaic, geothermal operated, or other alternative fuel source, that produces electricity. Residential uses will be restricted to facilities, which do not materially change the character of the zone district or impact adjacent residential uses (i.e., solar and photovoltaic).

3. Emergency Power Facility. A facility that acts as a stand-by generator used to supply electric power during the event of a power outage by the local electric utility. These types of facilities maybe permanent in nature or temporary portable gas/diesel generators.

4. Passive Power Facility. These facilities are considered to produce power when using clean fuel such as sunlight or other similar natural resource to generate power. Typical facilities would be solar or photo voltaic power generators. Residential zones will be restricted to these types of passive power facilities for power generation on a permanent basis. No industrial conversion solar facilities will be allowed on residentially-zoned property.

I. Public parking services, includes parking services involving buildings or lots which are publicly owned or operated.

J. Schools.

1. College and university, includes community colleges, public or private colleges, universities and professional schools granting associate degrees, certificates, undergraduate and graduate degrees and requiring for admission at least a high school diploma or equivalent general academic training.

2. Public elementary and secondary, includes public elementary, middle, junior high and high schools serving grades K through twelve (12).

3. Private elementary and secondary, includes private and religious schools. It does not include schools included within the commercial districts, schools specialized education and training use type.

K. Social services, generally include those services which help people become more self-sufficient, prevent dependency, strengthen family relationships, and restore individuals, families, groups or communities to successful social functioning. Such social services may include, but are not limited to, the following specifically defined services:

1. Food Distribution Facility. A facility or use which distributes food on a not-for-profit basis.

2. Food Service Facility. A facility or use where food is served on-site on a not-for-profit basis.

3. Emergency Shelter. A facility or use which provides temporary housing for individuals on a not-for-profit basis. The housing may include, but is not limited to, emergency housing on a short-term basis or temporary transitional basis until permanent housing is available. This definition does not include such temporary residential shelters as may be provided for relief following a natural disaster or during a state of emergency.

(Ord. No. 519, 8-8-2012; Ord. No. 555, § 1(Exh. A), 10-11-2023)

Residential use types include the occupancy of living accommodations on a wholly or primarily non-transient basis and includes uses which are typically associated with and provide support to residential areas, but exclude institutional living arrangements providing twenty-four-hour skilled nursing or medical care and those providing forced residence, such as asylums and prisons. Specific residential use types referred to in this title are:

A. Accessory Dwelling Unit.

B. Caretaker/employee housing, includes permanent or temporary housing that is secondary or accessory to the primary use of the property. Such housing is used for caretakers employed on the site of a non-residential use where a caretaker is needed for security or to provide twenty-four-hour care or monitoring of facilities, equipment, or other conditions on the site.

C. Community care facility, small. A dwelling where non-medical care is provided to six or fewer persons on a twenty-four-hour basis. Small community care facilities shall be licensed by the state department of social services.

D. Community care facility, large. A dwelling where non-medical care is provided to no less than seven and no more than twelve (12) persons on a twenty-four-hour basis and which is operated and occupied by the owners. Large community care facilities shall be licensed by the state department of social services, shall permit no more than two persons per bedroom and shall be designed so as to be compatible with the residential character of the neighborhood.

E. Dwelling, includes a room or group of internally connected rooms that have sleeping, cooking, eating, and sanitation facilities, but not more than one kitchen, which constitutes an independent housekeeping unit, occupied by or intended for one household on a long-term basis. Types of dwellings include single-family dwellings, duplexes, multifamily dwellings, mobilehomes, condominiums, and townhouses, all of which are separately defined.

1. Multifamily, includes a building designed and intended for occupancy by three or more families living independently of each other, each in a separate dwelling unit, which may be owned individually or by a single landlord. Includes apartments, condominiums, townhomes, rowhouses, triplexes and fourplexes.

2. Single-family, includes a detached building designed exclusively for occupancy by one family.

3. Two-family, includes a duplex, or other buildings designed for occupancy by two families living independently of each other, where both dwellings are located on a single lot.

F. Efficiency units, includes a room or group of internally connected rooms that have independent sleeping, cooking, eating and sanitation facilities, which constitutes an independent housekeeping unit, occupied by or intended for one household on a long-term basis.

G. Family day care homes, small, includes a private single-family dwelling where care, protection and supervision of eight or fewer minor children is provided for periods of less than twenty-four (24) hours or as otherwise provided by state law.

H. Family day care homes, large, includes a private single-family dwelling where care, protection and supervision of nine and up to, and including, fourteen (14) children is provided for periods of less than twenty-four (24) hours or as otherwise provided by state law (see also Chapter 17.160).

I. Junior Accessory Dwelling Unit.

J. Live/work, includes units that are occupied by business operators who live in the same structure that contains commercial activity. The units function primarily as a workspace with incidental residential accommodations.

K. Mobilehome park, includes any site that is planned and improved to accommodate two or more mobilehomes used for residential purposes, or on which two or more mobilehome lots are rented, leased, or 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 mobilehomes used for residential purposes.

L. Rooming and boarding houses, include the renting of individual bedrooms within a dwelling by a property owner or other manager in residence to three or more people, whether or not meals are provided; or a single-family dwelling occupied by six or more unrelated people, living together as a single housekeeping unit; by prearrangement for definite periods, with compensation.

M. Single-room occupant. Lodging establishments providing a room(s) which does not include a kitchen or bathroom. These establishments include a communal bathroom and may have a communal kitchen and/or living area. This is not a temporary or transitional housing type and is typically found on the second story above a retail use.

N. Supportive housing. "Supportive housing" means housing with no limit on length of stay, that is occupied by the target population as defined in Health and Safety Code Section 53260(d), and that is linked to on- or off-site services that assist the supportive housing resident in retaining the housing, improving his or her health status, and maximizing his or her ability to live, and when possible, work in the community. (California Health and Safety Code Section 50675.14(b).)

1. Target Population. Adults with low-income having one or more disabilities, including mental illness, HIV or AIDS, substance abuse, or other chronic health conditions, or individuals eligible for services provided under the Lanterman Development Disabilities Services Act and may, among other populations, include families with children, elderly persons, young adults aging out of the foster care system, individuals existing from institutional settings, veterans or homeless people. (California Health and Safety Code Section 53260(d).)

O. Transitional housing. "Transitional housing" and "transitional housing development" means 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).)

(Ord. No. 519, 8-8-2012; Ord. No. 555, § 1(Exh. A), 10-11-2023)

Commercial use types include the distribution, sale and rental of goods, and the provision of services other than those classified as civic or industrial use types. Specific commercial use types referred to in this title are:

A. Adult-oriented businesses, include those uses specifically referred to in Chapter 17.128 of this code and include any adult arcade, adult book/novelty store, adult cabaret, adult hotel/motel, adult motion picture theater, adult theater or modeling studio defined therein. Any reference in this code to "adult business establishment" shall mean adult-oriented business, as provided herein.

B. Animal sales and services, include establishments primarily engaged in animal-related sales and services. These establishments are exempt from Municipal Code Chapter 6.20 (limitations on number of animals). The following are animal sales and services use types:

1. Grooming and pet stores, include grooming or selling of dogs, cats, and similar small animals with limited indoor boarding. Typical uses include dog bathing and clipping salons, pet grooming shops, and pet stores.

2. Kennels, include indoor and outdoor kennel services for dogs, cats, and similar small animals. Typical uses include boarding kennels, pet motels, and dog training centers. However, dog training which is limited to hourly sessions (no overnight stays) is not included in this definition. Kennels are also subject to the regulations set forth in Colfax Municipal Code Chapter 6.12 (kennels).

3. Veterinary clinic, includes a fully enclosed veterinary facility containing only enough cage arrangements as necessary to provide services for small animals requiring acute medical or surgical care, as well as boarding and grooming.

4. Veterinary hospital, includes a veterinary facility conducted in an enclosed building and in the open which provides long-term medical care, boarding and grooming.

C. Automotive and equipment, includes establishments primarily engaged in automotive-related or heavy equipment sales or services. The following are automotive and equipment use types:

1. Automotive rentals, include rental from the premises of automobiles, light trucks, and recreational vehicles. Typical uses include car rental agencies.

2. Automotive repairs, include repair of automobiles and the sale, installation, and servicing of automobile equipment and parts completely within an enclosed building, but excluding body repair and painting. Typical uses include muffler shops, automobile repair garages, automobile glass shops, and minor services, including oil change, tune-up/lube shops, tire installation, and stereo and car accessory installation.

3. Automotive sales, include the sale, retail or wholesale, of automobiles, light trucks, boats, recreational vehicles, motorcycles, motor homes, and trailers together with associated enclosed repair services and parts sales, but excluding body repair and painting. Typical uses include automobile dealers and recreational vehicle sales agencies.

4. Carwash and detailing, includes washing and polishing of automobiles. Typical uses include automobile detailing services and carwashes.

5. Commercial parking, includes parking of operable motor vehicles and bicycles on a temporary basis within a privately owned off-street parking area with or without a fee. Typical uses include commercial parking lots and garages.

6. Heavy equipment rental and sales, include rental and sales of heavy equipment such as aircraft, trucks, tractor-trailer, semi-trucks and heavy construction equipment.

7. Automotive body and equipment repair, includes automotive body repair and painting of equipment such as aircraft, boats, recreational vehicles, and trucks; and the installation and servicing of tractor-trailer, semi-trucks and heavy construction equipment.

8. Gasoline sales, include establishments primarily engaged in the retail sale, from the premises, of petroleum products with the incidental sale of tires, batteries, and replacement items, lubricating services, minor repair services and may include drive through carwashes, convenience eating places and neighborhood commercial. Typical uses include automobile service stations, filling stations and neighborhood commercial uses with gas sales.

D. Banks and financial services, include financial institutions including: banks and trust companies; lending and thrift institutions, credit agencies; brokers and dealers in securities and commodity contracts; security and commodity exchanges; holding, (but not predominantly operating) companies; and other investment companies; vehicle finance leasing agencies. Automated teller machines (ATMs) located away from banks are included under the definition of "personal services."

E. Bars and drinking places, include establishments within a building where alcoholic beverages are sold for on-site consumption, that are not part of a restaurant. Includes bars, taverns, pubs, brew pubs, wine bars and similar establishments where any food service is subordinate to the sale of alcoholic beverages. Amplified live or recorded music and/or dancing is permitted subject to Chapter 8.28 (noise standards).

F. Broadcasting and recording studios, include commercial and public communications uses including telegraph, telephone, radio and television broadcasting and receiving stations and studios, and television production and sound recording studios, with facilities entirely within buildings. Private transmission and receiving apparatus, such as towers, reflectors and antennas are included under the definition of "antennas, communications facilities."

G. Building material stores, include retail establishments selling lumber (which may include the cutting of precut lumber) and other large building materials, and also including paint, wallpaper, glass, fixtures, nursery stock, lawn and garden supplies (which may also be sold in hardware stores, included under the definition of "retail sales and services"). Includes all such stores selling to the general public, even if contractor sales account for a larger proportion of total sales.

H. Business support services, include establishments within buildings, providing other businesses with services including maintenance, repair and service, testing, rental, etc., also includes:

• Blueprinting;

• Business equipment repair services (except vehicle repair, see "automotive repair");

• Commercial art and design (production);

• Computer-related services (rental, repair, maintenance);

• Equipment rental businesses within buildings;

• Film processing laboratories;

• Mail advertising services (reproduction and shipping);

• Outdoor advertising services;

• Photocopying; and

• Photo finishing.

I. Commercial recreation, includes establishments primarily engaged in the provision of sports, entertainment, or recreation for participants or spectators. The following are commercial recreation use types:

1. Amusement center, includes public places of amusement or public places of business in which four or more coin-operated amusement devices are installed and includes any place open to the public, whether or not the primary use of the premises is devoted to the operation of such devices.

2. Indoor entertainment, includes predominantly spectator uses conducted within an enclosed building, excluding uses classified under adult-oriented business (see Chapter 17.128). Typical uses include motion picture theaters and live theatre.

3. Indoor sports and recreation, includes predominantly participant sports and health activities conducted within an enclosed building. Typical uses include bowling alleys, billiard parlors, ice and roller skating rinks, indoor racquetball courts, indoor soccer arenas, athletic clubs, and health clubs.

4. Outdoor entertainment, includes predominantly spectator uses conducted in open or partially enclosed or screened facilities. Typical uses include outdoor amphitheaters, concert halls and sports arenas, BMX tracks, racing facilities, drive-in theaters, and zoos.

5. Outdoor sports and recreation, includes predominantly participant sports conducted in open or partially enclosed or screened facilities. Typical uses include amusement parks, driving ranges, miniature golf courses, golf courses, swimming pools, and tennis courts.

6. Residential recreation facilities, include predominantly participant sports which are normally associated with a country club, or private residential community. Typical uses include country clubs, racquet clubs, golf courses, swimming pools, tennis courts, and other secondary uses including restaurants, and retail sales.

7. Large amusement complexes, include a theme park or similar complex open to the public which exceeds one hundred thousand (100,000) square feet and which: (1) includes outdoor amusement attractions such as mechanized or carnival-type rides or water slides; and (2) meets any two of the following three criteria: (A) The complex has a maximum daily capacity of more than five hundred (500) users per day; (B) The complex is required to provide off-street parking for more than two hundred (200) vehicles, including bicycles; or (C) The complex operates during any part of the year during the hours after six p.m. This does not apply to publicly-owned or operated parks or facilities.

J. Community care facility, includes any facility serving as a residence where non-medical care is provided on a twenty-four-hour basis with central or private kitchen, dining, recreational and other facilities. Typical uses include assisted living facilities and facilities licensed by the state department of social services. Does not include long term care facilities.

K. Day care centers, include commercial or non-profit facilities that provide care, protection and supervision of thirteen (13) or more minor children or adults in need of assistance for periods of less than twenty-four (24) hours per day, typically while parents or family are working, and/or before or after daily attendance at an elementary school, as defined by Chapter 3.6 of the Health and Safety Code, commencing with Section 1597.30 (includes preschools).

L. Eating and drinking establishments, include establishments primarily engaged in the sale of prepared food and beverages for on-premises consumption, but excludes those uses classified under the "bars and drinking places" and "nightclubs." amplified live or recorded music and/or dancing is permitted subject to Chapter 8.28 (noise standards).

1. Fast food with drive-through, includes establishments primarily engaged in the preparation and retail sale of food and beverages at a walk-up counter and at a drive-through window, and may include seating.

2. Convenience, includes establishments primarily engaged in the preparation and retail sale of food and beverages at a walk-up counter and which does not include a drive-through or provide for ordering at the tables, if any. Typical uses include pizza parlors, ice cream parlors, and sandwich shops.

3. Full service, includes establishments primarily engaged in the preparation and retail sale of food and beverages where food is ordered and served at a table, and which may include sales of alcoholic beverages as an accessory or secondary service. Fixed seating or tables and chairs are provided for the seating of each patron or customer at all times. Typical uses include full-service restaurants.

M. Food and beverage retail sales, include establishments primarily engaged in the retail sale of food and beverages for home consumption. Typical uses include groceries, liquor stores, and delicatessens.

N. Funeral and interment services, include establishments primarily engaged in the provision of services involving the care, preparation, or disposition of human remains other than in cemeteries.

O. Lodging services, include establishments primarily engaged in the provision of commercial lodging on a less than monthly basis to the general public. Lodging services include incidental food, drink, and other sales and services intended for the convenience of guests. Typical uses include hotels and motels, and bed and breakfasts.

P. Long term care facility, includes an institution or a portion of an institution that is licensed or approved to provide health care under medical supervision for twenty-four (24) or more consecutive hours. Typical uses include extended care facilities, intermediate care facilities, skilled nursing facilities, hospices and other facilities licensed by the state department of health services.

Q. Maintenance and repair, includes all uses that provide maintenance and repair services for furniture, appliances and equipment normally used within a building. Typical uses include sewing machine and appliance repair.

R. Medical services, general, includes establishments primarily engaged in the provision of personal health services on an outpatient basis ranging from prevention, diagnosis and treatment, or rehabilitation services provided by physicians, dentists, nurses, and other health personnel as well as the provision of medical testing and analysis services, but excludes uses classified under any civic use type. Typical uses include medical offices, dental laboratories, medical laboratories, health maintenance organizations, substance abuse treatment clinics, immediate care facilities and offices for physical therapists, chiropractors, and acupuncturists.

S. Neighborhood commercial, includes establishments primarily engaged in the provision of frequently or recurrently needed small personal items or services for residents within a reasonable walking distance. These uses are compatible with residential development due to low traffic and noise generation and include various retail sales and personal services of an appropriate size and scale to meet the above criteria. Typical uses include neighborhood grocery stores, drug stores, beauty salons, and offices, but do not include drive-through restaurants, bars and drinking places, or liquor stores.

T. Nightclubs, include establishments or places of entertainment within a building, open primarily at night, usually, but not necessarily, serving alcohol, and providing floor space for amplified live or recorded music, or having spaces for dancing or holding public dances. Meals or refreshments may be served and an admission fee may be, but not necessarily, charged. Excludes uses classified as "eating or drinking establishments," "commercial recreation," and Chapter 17.182 - adult-oriented businesses. Additional requirements are contained in Chapter 17.164.

U. Nursery, retail, includes establishments primarily engaged in the sale of nursery goods, landscaping materials, chips, rocks, sand, soil and merchandise. This use type is typically conducted primarily outdoors. The sale of nursery goods, landscaping materials, chips, rocks, sand, soil and merchandise indoors is permitted under retail sales and services.

V. Offices, professional, includes professional or government offices including:

• Accounting, auditing and bookkeeping services;

• Advertising agencies;

• Architectural, engineering, interior design, and surveying services;

• Attorneys;

• Call and telemarketing centers;

• Computer software designers;

• Court reporting services;

• Data processing and computer services;

• Detective agencies and similar services;

• Secretarial and word processing services;

• Government offices including agency and administrative office facilities;

• Insurance agencies;

• Management, public relations and consulting services;

• Real estate agencies; and

• Writers, photographers and artists offices outside the home.

W. Personal services, include establishments primarily engaged in the provision of personal improvement or appearance, and similar non-business related or non-professional services, but excludes services classified under other use types. Typical uses include barber shops, beauty salons, tailors, shoe repair shops, massage therapist, tattoo studios, and dry cleaning pick-up stations.

X. Retail sales and services, include establishments primarily engaged in the sale of goods and merchandise, but excludes those classified under animal sales and services, automotive and equipment, business support services, building materials stores, neighborhood commercial services, food and beverage retail sales, and gasoline sales. Typical uses include:

• Auto parts;

• Bakeries, retail;

• Bicycle sales;

• Department stores;

• Drug and discount stores;

• Furniture stores;

• Hardware;

• Orthopedic supplies;

• Photography studios;

• Self service laundries/dry cleaning stores; and

• Sporting goods and equipment.

Y. Specialized education and training, includes private establishments providing training or educational programs. Typical uses include:

1. Vocational schools, include businesses, secretarial schools and vocational schools offering specialized trade and commercial courses and establishments furnishing educational courses by mail or online. Facilities, institutions and conference centers are included that offer specialized programs in personal growth and development (including fitness, environmental awareness, arts, communications, and management, as examples).

2. Specialty schools, include specialized non-degree granting schools such as: music schools; dramatic schools; language schools; driver education schools; martial arts studios; ballet and other dance studios.

Z. Storage facility, self-service, includes a structure or group of structures containing generally small, individual, compartmentalized stalls or lockers rented as individual storage spaces. This use type does not include the outdoor storage of boats, cars, recreational vehicles, or equipment, and does not include the rental of trucks or other equipment (also see Chapter 17.176).

AA. Storage facility, recreational and large vehicle, includes a facility or staging area, whether indoor or outdoor, for the temporary or permanent storage of boats, cars and other recreational or large vehicles or equipment.

(Ord. No. 519, 8-8-2012)

Industrial use types include the on-site production and storage of goods, equipment and materials, including certain associated accessory uses. Specific industrial use types referred to in this title are:

A. Day care centers, secondary. Secondary day care centers are incidental and accessory to the primary industrial use of the property and are only for on-site employees. Does not include day care centers as defined for commercial use. Includes commercial or non-profit facilities that provide care, protection and supervision of thirteen (13) or more minor children or adults in need of assistance for periods of less than twenty-four (24) hours per day, while parents or family are working on site, and/or before or after daily attendance at an elementary school, as defined by Chapter 3.6 of the Health and Safety Code, commencing with Section 1597.30 (includes preschools)..

B. Equipment and materials storage yards, includes all uses related to outdoor storage of large construction equipment or machinery, company vehicles, or large quantities of other materials. It does not include any of the commercial use types identified under "automotive and equipment." Typical uses include contractor's storage yards, and corporation yards.

C. General industrial, includes any manufacturing, processing, assembling, or fabrication of materials and products from raw materials, and also includes any industrial use involving an incinerator, blast furnace or other similar industrial process, including any industrial production conducted either wholly or partially outdoors. Typical uses include drum manufacturing and remanufacturing, batch plants, truss manufacturing, breweries, canneries and co-generation plants.

D. Hazardous materials handling, includes all industrial uses engaged in the handling of substances subject to the maintenance of a "Risk Management Prevention Program" under California Health and Safety Code, Section 25534. Typical uses include semi-conductor manufacturing.

E. Impound yards, includes the storage of operable and inoperable vehicles for limited periods of time, within a secured enclosure. Does not include the dismantling of wrecked or inoperable vehicles which is "recycling, scrap and dismantling."

F. Laundries, commercial, includes establishments primarily engaged in high volume laundry and garment services, including family and commercial laundries, garment pressing and dry cleaning, linen supply, diaper service, industrial laundries, carpet and upholstery cleaners. Does not include coin-operated laundries.

G. Light manufacturing, includes the manufacture, assembly or packaging of products from previously prepared materials, such as cloth, plastic, paper, leather, precious or semi-precious metals or stones, but does not include such operations as saw and planing mills, or any manufacturing uses involving primary production of wood, metal or chemical products from raw materials. Typical uses include electronic equipment assembly, and computer component assembly.

H. Mineral extraction and processing includes mining, developing mines or exploring for metallic minerals (ores), coal and nonmetallic minerals (except fuels), or surface mines extracting crushed and broken stone, dimension stone or sand and gravel. See Chapter 17.163 for specific use requirements applicable to mineral extraction and processing.

I. Printing and publishing. Establishments primarily engaged in printing by letterpress, lithography, engraving, screen, offset or other common process, including electrostatic (xerographic) copying and other "quick printing" services; and establishments serving the printing trade such as bookbinding, typesetting, engraving, photoengraving, and electrotyping. This also includes establishments that publish newspapers, books and periodicals, whether or not they do their own printing; and establishments manufacturing business forms and binding devices.

J. Recycling, scrap and dismantling, includes uses engaged in the assembling, breaking up, sorting, temporary storage, and distribution of recyclable or reusable scrap and waste materials, including the dismantling or wrecking of automobiles or other motor vehicles, or the storage or keeping for sale of parts and equipment resulting from such dismantling or wrecking. The presence on any lot or parcel of land of five or more motor vehicles which for a period exceeding thirty (30) days have not been capable of operating under their own power, and from which parts have been or are to be removed for reuse or sale shall constitute prima facie evidence of an automobile wrecking yard. Does not include landfills or other terminal waste disposal sites.

1. Enclosed, includes recycling, scrap and dismantling within enclosed building.

2. Unenclosed, includes recycling, scrap and dismantling not within a building.

K. Research services, includes establishments primarily engaged in providing research, testing, or other scientific analysis. Typical uses include soils and materials testing laboratories, electronics research firms and pharmaceutical research laboratories.

L. Specialized industrial, includes establishments engaged in activities that generate noise, vibration, odor, dust, or smoke similar to other industrial uses but that do not clearly fit within another industrial use classification. This use type involves uses which are appropriately located with other industrial development and are not classified under either a commercial or civic use type. The director shall determine that a use is classified within this use type as prescribed in Section 17.64.050.

M. Wholesaling and distribution, includes establishments engaged in wholesaling, storage, warehousing and bulk sale distribution, including, but not limited to open-air handling of materials and equipment other than live animals. Does not include the outdoor storage of material which is classified under "equipment and materials storage yards." The following are wholesaling and distribution use types:

1. Light, includes wholesaling, storage, and warehousing within enclosed structures. Typical uses include wholesale distributors, storage warehouses and moving and storage firms.

2. Heavy, includes wholesaling, storage, distribution and handling of materials and equipment. Also includes uses engaged in the outdoor or indoor, long term or short term storage of large vehicles, and minor repair and maintenance of vehicles stored on the premises. Typical uses include truck terminal yards.

(Ord. No. 519, 8-8-2012)

Transportation and communication use types include the transfer of information and people by various means. Specific transportation and communication use types referred to in this title are:

A. Antennas and telecommunications facilities, includes commercial and private electromagnetic and photoelectric transmission, broadcast, repeater and receiving stations for radio, television, telegraph, telephone, cellular telephone, microwave communications and data network communications; including commercial earth stations for satellite-based communications. Includes antennas (dish and satellite), telecommunication towers, monopole, and equipment buildings (also see Chapter 17.132).

1. Developed lot, located on a building or on the same lot developed with a permitted use.

2. Undeveloped lot, located on a vacant lot or lot not developed with a permitted use.

* Does not include:

a. Home television and radio receiving antennas and HAM radio antennas, which are included under "residential accessory structures."

b. Telephone, telegraph and cable television transmission facilities utilizing hard-wired or direct cable connections, which are included under essential facilities use type.

c. Satellite dishes, which are included under accessory structures regulations and subject to the standards of Chapter 17.132.

d. Communications facilities for community services provided by a public agency.

B. Heliport, includes land improved and intended to be used for the landing and taking off of helicopters or vertical take-off and landing (VTOL) aircraft for municipal or government purposes only. Includes facilities for non-emergency landings and take offs, and permanent life safety facilities. It does not include landing of helicopters or VTOL for emergency purposes, pursuant to the Public Utilities Code, Section 21001, et seq.

C. Intermodal facilities, includes private, quasi-public or public establishments engaged in the provision of transportation of persons. Typical uses include bus stations and train depots.

(Ord. No. 519, 8-8-2012)