Contra Costa County Municipal Code Art. 84-38.4 Uses

The following uses are allowed in an A-2 district:

(1) All types of agriculture, including general farming, wholesale horticulture and floriculture, wholesale nurseries and greenhouses, mushroom rooms, dairying, livestock production, fur farms, poultry raising, animal breeding, aviaries, apiaries, forestry, and similar agricultural uses.

(2) Other agricultural uses, including the erection and maintenance of buildings for the storage of agricultural products and equipment; sheds; warehouses; granaries; dehydration plants; hullers; fruit and vegetable packing plants; and agricultural cold storage plants on parcels at least ten acres in size.

(3) A grower stand or farm stand.

(4) A detached single-family dwelling on each parcel and the accessory structures and uses normally auxiliary to it.

(5) A foster family home or a small family home, as those terms are defined in Health and Safety Code section 1502(a), that has obtained all required state and local agency approvals and licenses.

(6) A small family child care home or a large family child care home, as those terms are defined in California Code of Regulations, title 22, section 102352(f)(1), that has obtained all required state and local agency approvals and licenses.

(7) Accessory dwelling units and junior accessory dwelling units in compliance with the provisions of Chapter 82-24.

(8) A farmworker dwelling.

(9) Farmworker housing complex.

(Ord. No. 2020-01, § X, 1-21-20; Ord. No. 2017-14, § IX, 9-19-17; Ords. 2007-23 § 3, 2006-19 § 4, 94-28 § 2, 86-43 § 13, 68-25 § 2, 1968, 1569, 1555, 1535: prior code § 8156(a): Ord. 1406).

The following uses may be allowed in an A-2 district on the issuance of a land use permit:

(1) Publicly owned parks and playground.

(2) Dude ranches, riding academies and stables, and dog kennels.

(3) Publicly owned buildings and structures, except as provided in Division 82.

(4) Commercial radio and television receiving and transmitting facilities but not including broadcasting studios or business offices.

(5) Wind energy conversion systems. This use is allowed without a land use permit if used only as an accessory to an allowable residential or agricultural use.

(6) A child care center, as the term is defined in California Code of Regulations, title 22, section 101152(c)(7), that has obtained all required state and local agency approvals and licenses.

(7) Hospitals, animal hospitals, eleemosynary and philanthropic institutions, and convalescent homes.

(8) Churches, religious institutions, and parochial and private schools.

(9) Community buildings, clubs, and activities of a quasi-public, social, fraternal, or recreational character, such as golf, tennis or swimming clubs, or veterans' or fraternal organizations. These uses are prohibited if organized for monetary profit.

(10) One additional single family dwelling.

(11) Medical and dental offices and medical clinics.

(12) Merchandising of agricultural supplies and services incidental to an agricultural use.

(13) Commercial kitchens or other facilities for creating value-added farm products.

(14) Canneries.

(15) Slaughterhouses and stockyards.

(16) Rendering plants and fertilizer plants or yards.

(17) Livestock auction or sales yards.

(18) Commercial recreational facilities when the principal use is not in a building.

(19) Boat storage facilities within one mile by public road of a boat launching facility open to the public. Vessels and vessel trailers may be stored in a boat storage facility. Recreational vehicles may be stored in a boat storage facility as long as the number of recreational vehicles stored does not exceed fifteen percent of the total number of storage spaces in the storage facility.

(20) Retail firewood sales.

(21) Recycling operations intended to sort or process material for reuse. Junkyards, defined in Section 88-4.206, are prohibited.

(22) Museums in which objects of historical, artistic, scientific or cultural importance are preserved and displayed.

(23) A farm market.

(24) Agricultural cold storage plants on parcels less than ten acres in size.

(25) Farmworker housing center.

(26) Commercial cannabis activities that meet the requirements of Chapter 88-28.

(Ord. No. 2024-06, § 4, 3-5-24; Ord. No. 2022-37, § VIII, 12-6-22; Ord. No. 2018-18, § 5, 6-26-18; Ord. No. 2017-14, § X, 9-19-17; Ord. No. 2013-12, § VI, 4-16-13; Ord. No. 2009-12, § III, 5-19-09; Ords. 2007-23 § 4, 2003-11 § 3, 94-28 § 2, 89-46 § 2, 76-36 § 3, 7437 § 2, 60-82, 1988, 1569 § 2: prior code § 8156(b): Ords. 1406 § 3, 497 § 4, 382 § 4E).

Refuse disposal sites are permitted in the A-2 district upon the issuance of a permit under the provisions of Chapter 418-4.

(Ord. 72-89 § 2, 1972).