Chapter 17.33 — PUBLIC FACILITY OR PF DISTRICT

The Public Facility or PF District is intended to be applied to lands owned by public agencies. (Ord. 789 § 3, 1-19-2016)

The principal permitted uses on property within the PF District include:

• A. Public schools, parks, playgrounds and recreational facilities.

• B. Public fairgrounds and related uses.

• C. Public buildings, including City Hall, police stations, fire stations, libraries, courts, museums, auditoriums, hospitals, and similar uses.

• D. Emergency shelters, provided such facility complies with all of the following:

  1. Any emergency shelter newly proposed for construction or operation within the city shall not be located within three hundred feet of the street frontage from one emergency shelter to another emergency shelter.

  2. Adequate external lighting shall be provided for security purposes to ensure fully lit parking, gathering, and waiting areas. Lighting shall be placed so as to not create glare or impact adjoining parcels.

  3. The facility shall contain a maximum of ten beds and shall serve no more than ten persons per night.

  4. The facility shall have an interior, enclosed client waiting and intake area large enough to accommodate the number of persons equal to twenty-five percent the number of beds. The area shall be based on space required for seated persons. The facility shall also have an adjoining, exterior overflow waiting area of equal size to the interior waiting area. The exterior waiting area shall be fenced, screened, gated, and shall not obstruct sidewalks or driveways.

  5. The facility shall provide security during hours that the shelter is in operation, shall provide an on-site manager, and must have a minimum of one fully trained staff person with at least one year of homeless services experience on site at all times when a client is on the premises. Staff shall be mandated reporters for cases of abuse both physical and sexual.

  6. Emergency shelter shall be available to residents for no more than six days. Extensions up to a total stay of twenty days in any continuous twelve-month period may be provided if no alternative housing is available

  7. All conditions requiring permits or approval from a regulatory agency (e.g. building permit, sign off from County Environmental Health Dept., sign off from Fire Chief of the Crescent Fire Protection District etc.) shall be completed prior to use of the facility as an emergency shelter.

  8. The emergency shelter shall be maintained in a neat, quiet, and orderly condition and operated in a manner so as not to be detrimental to adjacent properties and occupants.

  9. The applicant shall submit a Security Plan for the review and approval of the Chief of Police prior operation of the emergency shelter.

  10. The emergency shelter sponsor (the person or organization that runs the shelter) shall retain a right of access to and control of the premises and offer all the services provided for in California Civil Code section 1940(b)(2) so that the transient occupants do not become "tenants" with the rights afforded tenants under the California Civil Code.

• (Ord. 789 § 3, 1-19-2016)

The following uses are permitted on property within the PF District with a use permit:

• A. Penal, correctional or detention institutions.

• B. Public corporation yards, shops, repair and storage yards and buildings.

• C. Communication towers.

• (Ord. 789 § 3, 1-19-2016)

In the PF district the height of buildings and the maximum dimensions of yards and lots shall be as follows:

• A. Height. Maximum building height shall be forty feet. Accessory structures such as communication antennas may be erected to a maximum height of sixty feet.

• B. Yard and Areas.

  1. Front Yard. None required except where adjacent properties abutting upon the PF use are in a zone of greater requirements, then the front yard shall be equal to one-half of the adjacent zone requirement;

  2. Side Yards. None required except where the side yard of the PF use abuts upon the side yard of a residential or an RP use, then the side yard shall be five feet;

  3. Rear Yard. Minimum ten feet;

  4. Lot Area. No minimum; and

  5. Lot Coverage. Site coverage for the total building square footage shall not exceed eighty-five percent of the size of the lot. Parking areas shall not be counted as building square footage.

• (Ord. 789 § 3, 1-19-2016)

General provisions for the PF District shall be as follows:

• A. Parking. See Chapter 17.42 for complete regulations and standards for required off-street parking.

• B. Fencing. See Chapter 17.40 for complete fencing regulations.

• C. All exterior lighting shall be shielded and directed downward on the property to prevent upward glare and glare at adjacent properties. (Ord. 789 § 3, 1-19-2016)