Chapter 17.72 — USE CLASSIFICATIONS

Accessory Dwelling Unit (ADU). See Section 17.41.030 .

Farmworker Housing. Has the same meaning as “employee housing” as set forth in California Health and Safety Code Section 17008(a) for farmworkers.

Farmworker Housing Complex. Farmworker housing that: (1) contains a maximum of 36 beds if the housing consists of any group living quarters, such as barracks or a bunkhouse, and is occupied exclusively by farmworkers; or (2) contains a maximum of 12 residential units occupied exclusively by farmworkers and their households, if the housing does not consist of any group living quarters.

Group Residential. Shared living quarters without separate kitchen or bathroom facilities for each room or living space, offered for rent for residents on a 30-day or longer basis. This classification includes halfway houses, rooming and boarding houses, dormitories and other types of organizational housing, and private residential clubs. Includes both licensed and unlicensed facilities. It does not include licensed residential care facilities, employee housing as set forth in California Health and Safety Code Sections 17021.5 and 17021.6 , and Hotels and Motels.

Low Barrier Navigation Center. A housing first, low-barrier, service-enriched shelter focused on moving people into permanent housing that provides temporary living facilities while case managers connect individuals experiencing homelessness to income, public benefits, health services, shelter, and housing. A Low Barrier Navigation Center may be non-congregate and relocatable.

Mobile Home Parks. A development designed and occupied by mobile or manufactured homes, including facilities and amenities used in common by occupants who rent, lease, or own spaces for mobile homes through a subdivision, cooperative, condominium or other form of resident ownership.

Residential Care Facilities. Facilities that are licensed by the State of California to provide living accommodations and 24-hour, primarily non-medical care and supervision for persons in need of personal services, supervision, protection, or assistance for sustaining the activities of daily living. Living accommodations are shared living quarters with or without separate kitchen or bathroom facilities for each room or unit. This classification includes facilities that are operated for profit as well as those operated by public or not-for-profit institutions, including hospices, nursing homes, convalescent facilities, and group homes for minors, persons with disabilities, and people in recovery from alcohol or drug addictions. This use classification excludes group residential, supportive housing, transitional housing, and social service facilities.

Large. A facility providing care for more than six persons.

Small. A facility providing care for six or fewer persons.

Residential Housing Types:

Multiple-Unit Development. A detached structure designed and used exclusively as a dwelling by three or more households occupying separate living quarters and are typically occupied as rental units.

Single-Unit Dwelling, Attached. A dwelling unit occupied or intended for occupancy by only one household that is structurally connected with one other such dwelling unit. An attached single-unit dwelling is sometimes called a “townhouse” or “duplex” and may be in a “condominium” form of ownership.

Single-Unit Dwelling, Detached. A dwelling unit occupied or intended for occupancy by only one household that is structurally independent from any other such dwelling unit or structure intended for residential or other use.

Single-Room Occupancy (SRO) Housing. A residential hotel, as defined in California Health and Safety Code Section 50519(b)(1) , provides six or more guestrooms or efficiency units that are intended or designed to be used, or which are used or rented to the public as sleeping rooms for occupancy for a period of more than 30 days as the primary residence of those occupants. Rooms may have partial kitchen or bathroom facilities. This classification does not include hotels and motels and other transient accommodations that are occupied primarily by guests who maintain a primary residence elsewhere and does not include residential care facilities licensed by the State of California.

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

Transitional Housing. Buildings configured as rental housing developments but operated under program requirements that require the termination of assistance and recirculating of the assisted unit to another eligible program recipient at a predetermined future point in time that is not less than six months from the beginning of the assistance.

(Ord. 20-03 § 6; Ord. 23-05 § 4; Ord. 25-10, 12/2/2025)

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

Colleges and Trade Schools. Institutions of higher education providing curricula of a general, religious or professional nature, typically granting recognized degrees, including conference centers and academic retreats associated with such institutions. This classification includes junior colleges, business and computer schools, management training, technical and trade schools, but excludes personal instructional services such as music lessons.

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

Community Garden. Use of land 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 by several individuals or households.

Cultural Institutions and Facilities. A facility engaged in activities to serve and promote aesthetic and educational interest in the community that are open to the public on a regular basis. This includes performing arts centers for performances and events; spaces for display or preservation of objects of interest in the arts or sciences; libraries; museums; historical sites; aquariums; art galleries; and zoos and botanical gardens. This does not include schools or institutions of higher education providing curricula of a general nature.

Day Care Facility. Establishments providing non-medical care for persons on a less than 24-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.

Emergency Shelter. Housing with minimal supportive services for homeless persons that is limited to occupancy of six months or less by a homeless person. This use includes other interim interventions, including, but not limited to, navigation centers, bridge housing, and respite or recuperative care. No individual or household may be denied emergency shelter because of an inability to pay in accordance with California Health and Safety Code Section 50801(e) .

Government Buildings. Administrative, clerical, or public contact offices of a government agency, including postal facilities and courts, together with incidental storage and maintenance of vehicles. This classification excludes corporation yards, equipment service centers, and similar facilities that primarily provide maintenance and repair services and storage facilities for vehicles and equipment (see “Major Utilities”).

strative, clerical, or public contact offices of a government agency, including postal facilities and courts, together with incidental storage and maintenance of vehicles. This classification excludes corporation yards, equipment service centers, and similar facilities that primarily provide maintenance and repair services and storage facilities for vehicles and equipment (see “Major Utilities”).

Hospitals. State-licensed facilities providing medical, surgical, psychiatric, or emergency medical services to sick or injured persons on an inpatient basis, and including ancillary facilities for outpatient and emergency treatment, diagnostic services, training, research, administration, and services to patients, employees, or visitors. This classification excludes veterinaries and animal hospitals (see “Animal Care, Sales, and Services”).

Park and Recreation Facilities. Parks, playgrounds, recreation facilities, trails, wildlife preserves, and related open spaces, all of which are noncommercial. This classification also includes other commercial facilities such as playing fields, sports courts, gymnasiums, swimming pools, picnic facilities, tennis courts, golf courses, and botanical gardens, as well as related food concessions or community centers.

Parking, Public or Private. Structures and surface lots for use of occupants, employees, or patrons on-site or offering parking to the general public for a fee when parking is not incidental to another onsite activity.

Passive Open Space. Areas primarily left in a natural state, with little to no improvements or development (e.g., trails, signage, parking area, etc.), and reserved for the enjoyment of nature and the general outdoors (e.g., bird-watching, walking, painting, etc.).

Public Safety Facilities. Facilities providing public safety and emergency services, including police and fire protection and emergency medical services, with incidental storage, training, and maintenance facilities.

Schools, Private. Facilities for primary or secondary education, including charter schools, and private and parochial schools having curricula comparable to that required in the public schools of the State of California.

Skilled Nursing Facility. A State-licensed facility or a distinct part of a Hospital that provides continuous skilled nursing care and supportive care to patients whose primary need is for the availability of skilled nursing care on an extended basis. It provides 24-hour inpatient care and, as 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 lessthan-continuous basis are classified as skilled nursing facilities.

nts whose primary need is for the availability of skilled nursing care on an extended basis. It provides 24-hour inpatient care and, as 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 lessthan-continuous basis are classified as skilled nursing facilities.

Social Service Facilities. Facilities providing a variety of supportive services for disabled and homeless individuals and other targeted groups on a less than 24-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 Facility”), clinics (see “Medical, Dental, and Health-Related Services”), and emergency shelters providing 24-hour care (see “Emergency Shelter”). (Ord. 20-03 § 6; Ord. 24-01, 4/16/2024)

Adult-Oriented Business. An establishment that, as a regular and substantial course of conduct, offers, sells or distributes adult-oriented merchandise, or that offers to its patrons materials, products, merchandise, services, entertainment or performances that have sexual arousal, sexual

gratification, and/or sexual stimulation as their dominant theme, or are characterized by an emphasis on specified sexual activities or specified anatomical areas and are not customarily open to the general public because they exclude minors by virtue of their age. This classification does not include any establishment offering professional services conducted, operated, or supervised by medical practitioners, physical therapists, nurses, chiropractors, psychologist, social workers, marriage and family counselors, osteopaths, and persons holding licenses or certificates under applicable State law or accreditation from recognized programs when performing functions pursuant to the respective license or certificate. In addition, this classification does not include: Persons depicting “specified anatomical areas” in a modeling class operated by a college, junior college, or university supported entirely or partly by public revenue; or by a private college or university that maintains and operates educational programs in which credits are transferable to a college, junior college, or university supported entirely or partly by public revenue; or in a structure operated either as a profit or nonprofit facility which has no sign visible from the exterior of the structure and no other advertising that indicates a nude person is available for viewing; and where, in order to participate in a class, a student must enroll at least three days in advance of the class. This classification also does not include the practice of massage in compliance with Section 5.05.050 of the Goleta Municipal Code.

Adult Bookstore, Adult Novelty Store, or Adult Video Store. An establishment with a majority of: its floor area devoted to; or stock-in-trade consisting of; or gross revenues derived from, and offering for sale for any form of consideration, any one or more of the following: books, magazines, periodicals or other printed matter, photographs, drawings, motion pictures, slides, films, tapes, video cassettes, records, or other visual or audio representations which are characterized by an emphasis upon the depiction or description of “Specified Sexual Activities” or “Specified Anatomical Areas”; instruments, devices or paraphernalia which are designed to be used in connection with “Specified Sexual Activities”; or goods which are replicas of, or which simulate “Specified Anatomical Areas,” or goods which are designed to be placed on or in “Specified Anatomical Areas,” or to be used in conjunction with “Specified Sexual Activities.”

fied Sexual Activities” or “Specified Anatomical Areas”; instruments, devices or paraphernalia which are designed to be used in connection with “Specified Sexual Activities”; or goods which are replicas of, or which simulate “Specified Anatomical Areas,” or goods which are designed to be placed on or in “Specified Anatomical Areas,” or to be used in conjunction with “Specified Sexual Activities.”

Adult Live Entertainment Theater. Any place, building, enclosure, or structure, partially or entirely used for live adult entertainment performances or presentations characterized by an emphasis on depicting, exposing, displaying, describing or relating to “Specified Sexual Activities” or “Specified Anatomical Areas” for observation by patrons therein.

Adult Motion Picture or Video Arcade. Any business wherein coin-, paper note-, or tokenoperated, or electronically, electrically, or mechanically controlled still or motion picture machines, projectors, or other image-producing devices are maintained to show images to four or fewer persons per machine, at any one time, and where the predominant character or theme of the images so displayed is distinguished or characterized by its emphasis on matter depicting, or relating to “Specified Sexual Activities” or “Specified Anatomical Areas.”

Adult Motion Picture Theater. Any business, other than a hotel or motel, with the capacity of five or more persons where, for any form of consideration, films, motion pictures, video cassettes, slides, or similar photographic reproductions, in which the predominant character and theme is distinguished or characterized by its emphasis on matter depicting or relating to “Specified Sexual Activities” or “Specified Anatomical Areas,” as defined in this Title. This includes, without limitation, showing any such slides, motion pictures or videos by means of any video tape system which has a display, viewer, screen, or a television set.

Animal Care, Sales and Services. Retail sales and services related to the boarding, grooming, and care of household pets including:

Animal Sales and Grooming. Retail sales of animals and/or services, including grooming, for animals on a commercial basis. Typical uses include dog bathing and clipping salons, pet grooming shops, and pet stores and shops. This classification excludes dog walking and similar pet-care services not carried out at a fixed location and excludes pet-supply stores that do not sell animals or provide on-site animal services.

Boarding Kennel. A commercial, non-profit, or governmental facility for keeping, boarding, training, breeding, maintaining, or sheltering of dogs, cats or other household pets, whether owned or not owned by the kennel owner or operator. Typical uses include pet clinics, pet day care/overnight stays, and animal shelters, but excludes pet shops and animal hospitals that provide 24-hour accommodation of animals who are boarded for the sole purpose of receiving medical or grooming services.

raining, breeding, maintaining, or sheltering of dogs, cats or other household pets, whether owned or not owned by the kennel owner or operator. Typical uses include pet clinics, pet day care/overnight stays, and animal shelters, but excludes pet shops and animal hospitals that provide 24-hour accommodation of animals who are boarded for the sole purpose of receiving medical or grooming services.

Veterinary Services. Veterinary services for small animals. This classification allows 24-hour accommodation of animals receiving medical services, but does not include kennels or other boarding facilities.

Automobile/Vehicle Sales and Services. Retail or wholesale businesses that sell, rent, and/or repair automobiles, recreational vehicles, light duty trucks, vans, trailers, and motorcycles, including the following:

Auction. A facility that sells new or used automobiles and other vehicles through a bidding process.

Automobile/Vehicle Sales, Rentals and Leasing. Sale, rent, 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, car rental agencies, and recreational vehicle sales agencies. This classification does not include automobile brokerage and other establishments which solely provide services of arranging, negotiating, assisting, or effectuating the purchase of an automobile for others.

Automobile/Vehicle Service and 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.

Automobile/Vehicle Service and Repair, Minor. The service and repair of automobiles, lightduty trucks, boats, and motorcycles, including the incidental sale, installation, and servicing of related equipment and parts. This classification includes the replacement of small automotive parts and liquids as an accessory use to a gasoline sales station or automotive accessories and supply store, and smog checks, tire sales and installation, auto radio/electronics installation, auto air conditioning/heater service, and quick-service oil, tune-up and brake and muffler shops where repairs are made or service provided in enclosed bays and no vehicles are stored overnight.

Automobile/Vehicle Washing. Washing, waxing, or cleaning of automobiles or similar light vehicles.

Service and Gas Stations. Establishments primarily engaged in retailing automotive fuels or retailing these fuels in combination with activities, such as providing minor automobile/vehicle repair services; selling automotive oils, replacement parts, and accessories; and/or providing incidental food and retail services. This classification includes “mini marts” and/or conveniences stores that sell products, merchandise, or services that are ancillary to the principal use related to the operation of motor vehicles where such sale is by means other than vending machines.

Building Materials, Sales, and Service. Establishments whose primary activity is the sales or rental of building supplies or equipment to individuals and business, and whose activities may include storage and delivery of items to customers. This classification includes lumberyards, tool and equipment sales or rental establishments, and includes establishments devoted principally to taxable retail sales to individuals for their own use. This use classification does not include hardware stores less than 10,000 square feet in floor area (see “General Retail Sales”), stores 80,000 square feet or

larger (see “Large Format Retail”), or retail nurseries (see “Nurseries and Garden Centers”). Nurseries and Garden Centers may be included as an accessory use.

Business Services. A subcategory of commercial land use that permits establishments primarily engaged in rendering services to other business establishments on a fee or contract basis, such as advertising and mailing, building maintenance, personnel and employment services, management and consulting services, protective services, equipment rental and leasing, photo finishing, copying and printing, travel, office supply, and similar services.

Cannabis Microbusiness. A business involving any combination of the cultivation of cannabis on an area less than 10,000 square feet, cannabis distribution, manufacturing with non-volatile solvents, and cannabis retail. In order to be considered a Cannabis Microbusiness, three of four of the activities described must be conducted on the same premises.

Cannabis Retailer. Establishment where cannabis, cannabis products, or devices for the use of cannabis or cannabis products are offered, either individually or in any combination, for retail sale and includes delivery.

Non-Storefront. Cannabis retailer with premises, meaning a “brick and mortar” facility, that does not have a storefront with direct physical access for, nor is open to the public.

Storefront. Cannabis retailer with premises, meaning a “brick and mortar” facility, with direct physical access for the public.

Catering Service. A business that prepares food for consumption at events on the premises of a client or at any other location separate from where the food was prepared.

Check-Cashing Business. An establishment that provides compensation for checks, warrants, drafts, money orders, or other commercial paper serving the same purpose. This classification also includes establishments offering deferred deposits, whereby the check casher refrains from depositing a personal check written by a customer until a specific date pursuant to a written agreement.

Commercial Entertainment and Recreation. These classifications may include restaurants, snack bars, and other incidental food and beverage services to patrons.

Banquet and Conference Center. A facility with one or more structures accommodating multiple assembly, meeting, and/or exhibit rooms, and related support facilities (e.g., kitchens, offices, etc.).

Cinemas. Facilities for the indoor display of films and motion pictures on single or multiple screens. This classification may include incidental food and beverage service to patrons.

Indoor Sports and Recreation. Predominantly participant sports conducted within an enclosed building. Typical uses include bowling alleys, billiard parlors, card rooms, health clubs, ice- and roller-skating rinks, indoor racquetball courts, martial arts and dance studios, indoor soccer, indoor soccer instruction, athletic clubs, and physical fitness centers.

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

Outdoor Recreation. Predominantly participant sports conducted in open or partially enclosed or screened facilities. Typical uses include driving ranges, golf courses, tennis club facilities, swimming or wave pools, miniature golf courses, club and professional soccer, club and minor league baseball fields, archery ranges, and riding stables.

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 beverages for consumption on the premises as a principal use and including on-sale service of alcohol including beer, wine, and mixed drinks.

Restaurant. Establishments where food and beverages are consumed on the premises, taken out, or delivered. This classification includes sit-down restaurants, cafés, cafeterias, coffee shops, delicatessens, fast-food restaurants, sandwich shops, limited-service pizza parlors, self-service restaurants, restaurants where food and beverages are prepared on a customerdemand basis and can be taken out or delivered but are not consumed on the premises, and snack bars with indoor or outdoor seating for customers. It excludes catering services that do not sell food or beverages for on-site consumption.

ens, fast-food restaurants, sandwich shops, limited-service pizza parlors, self-service restaurants, restaurants where food and beverages are prepared on a customerdemand basis and can be taken out or delivered but are not consumed on the premises, and snack bars with indoor or outdoor seating for customers. It excludes catering services that do not sell food or beverages for on-site consumption.

Finance, Insurance, and Real Estate Services. This use also includes financial institutions, including those that provide retail banking services, insurance agent offices, real estate offices, and similar service providers. Examples of retail banking services include institutions engaged in the onsite circulation of money, including credit unions. This classification does not include check-cashing businesses.

Food and Beverage Sales. Retail sales of food and beverages for off-site preparation and consumption. Typical uses include food markets, groceries, and liquor stores.

General Market. Retail food markets of food and grocery items for off-site preparation and consumption. Typical uses include supermarkets and neighborhood grocery stores.

Liquor Store. Establishments primarily engaged in selling packaged alcoholic beverages, such as ale, beer, wine, and liquor.

Specialty Food Sales and Facilities. Retail establishments that process and prepare food on site and are small- to medium-scale in size. Typical uses include bakeries; butchers, candy, nuts, and confectionary stores; cheese stores; and pasta shops.

Funeral Parlors and Interment Services. An establishment primarily engaged in the provision of services, involving the care, preparation, or disposition of the human remains and conducting memorial services. Typical uses include a crematory or mortuary. Cremation of pets may be an accessory use.

Hydrogen Fueling Station. The equipment used to store and dispense hydrogen fuel to vehicles according to industry codes and standards that is open to the public.

Information Technology Services. An establishment providing services designed to facilitate the use of technology by enterprises and end users. Examples include Internet Service Providers (ISPs), web hosts, and technical support companies.

Instructional Services. Establishments that offer specialized programs in personal growth and development. Typical uses include classes or instruction in music, art, or academics. Instructional Services also include rehearsal studios as an accessory use. This use does not include educational opportunities such as private universities or trade schools.

Live/Work Units. A unit that combines a work space and incidental residential occupancy occupied and used by a single household in a structure that has been constructed for such use or converted from commercial or industrial use and structurally modified to accommodate residential occupancy and work activity in compliance with the Building regulations. The working space is reserved for and regularly used by one or more occupants of the unit.

Lodging and Visitor-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, wine tasting, personal services, recreation facilities, weddings, or receptions that are available to guests or to the general public. This use classification includes hostels, bed and breakfast inns, motor lodges, and tourist courts, but does not include Group Residential or Time Share uses, which are separately defined and regulated. However, timeshare units may be included as part of this use.

Recreational Vehicle Parks. A facility that provides short-term rental spaces for overnight use and typically with support facilities, such as connections to electricity, water, and sewer

services. Also referred to as “Campgrounds” or “Campsites,” which may or may not provide tent camping.

Time Share Use. A multi-unit residential development in which a purchaser receives the right in perpetuity, for life, or for a term of years, to the recurrent, exclusive use or occupancy of a lot, parcel, unit, or segment of real property, annually or on some other periodic basis, for a specified period of time that has been or will be allotted from the use or occupancy periods into which the project has been divided.

Maintenance and Repair Services. Establishments engaged in the maintenance or repair of office machines, household appliances, furniture, and similar items. This classification excludes maintenance and repair of motor vehicles (see “Automotive Sales and Services”) and personal apparel (see “Personal Services”).

Media-Production Facility. A facility that provides indoor commercial and public communication uses, as well as outdoor sets, backlots, and other outdoor facilities for motion picture, television, video, sound, computer, and other communications media production. Indoor communication uses include without limitation radio and television broadcasting, receiving stations and studios with facilities entirely within buildings. This classification does not include transmission and receiving apparatus, antennas, and towers.

s, backlots, and other outdoor facilities for motion picture, television, video, sound, computer, and other communications media production. Indoor communication uses include without limitation radio and television broadcasting, receiving stations and studios with facilities entirely within buildings. This classification does not include transmission and receiving apparatus, antennas, and towers.

Medical, Dental, and Health-Related Services. Offices providing consultation, counseling, diagnosis, therapeutic, preventive, or corrective personal-treatment services by doctors and dentists; medical and dental laboratories that see patients; and similar practitioners of medical and healing arts for humans licensed for such practice by the State of California. Incidental medical and/or dental research within the office is considered part of the office use if it supports the on-site patient services. This use also includes clinics, which are State-licensed facilities providing medical, psychiatric, or surgical service for sick or injured persons exclusively on an outpatient 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 outpatient basis.

Community Clinic Providing Reproductive Health Services. A Community Clinic licensed pursuant to California Health and Safety Code Section 1204 that provides reproductive health services as defined in California Penal Code Section 423.1(f) .

Mobile Vendors. A self-contained truck or trailer that is readily movable without disassembling and is used to sell or prepare and serve: food, clothes, printed materials, or other consumer products or provide other services. This classification includes push carts used in conjunction with a commissary, commercial kitchen, or other permanent food facility upon which food is sold or distributed at retail. This classification does not include sidewalk vendors subject to Government Code Chapter 6.3, Section 51036 et seq.

Nurseries and Garden Center. Establishments primarily engaged in retailing nursery and garden products such as trees, shrubs, plants, seeds, bulbs, and sod that are predominantly grown elsewhere and yard and garden care and related products such as shovels, fertilizer, ornaments, and similar items. These establishments may sell a limited amount of a plant product they grow themselves. This classification includes wholesale and retail nurseries offering plants for sale.

Outdoor Sales. The sale or offering for sale to the general public of merchandise outside of a permanent structure on property owned or leased by the person, firm, or corporation. These sales are of a limited duration and conducted on an occasional basis and are secondary or incidental to the principal permitted use or structure existing on the property.

Personal Services.

General Personal Services. Services provided primarily to an individual rather than to large groups or the general public. These services also include those that are for personal convenience. Personal services include barber and beauty shops, shoe and luggage repair,

fortune tellers, photographers, laundry and cleaning services and pick-up stations, copying, repair and fitting of clothes, and similar services.

Restricted Personal Services. An establishment whose principal business activity is one or more of the following: (1) using ink or other substances that result in the permanent coloration of the skin through the use of needles or other instruments designed to contact or puncture the skin, or (2) creation of an opening in the body of a person for the purpose of inserting jewelry or other decoration, or (3) massage establishments operating in compliance with Goleta Municipal Code, Chapter 5.05 .

Professional Services. Offices of firms, organizations, or public agencies providing professional, executive, management, administrative, or design services, such as: accounting; architectural; computer software engineering, design, and development; graphic design; interior design; and legal offices.

Retail Sales.

General Retail. The retail sale or rental of merchandise not specifically listed under another use classification. This classification includes retail establishments with 80,000 square feet or less of sales area, including department stores, drug stores, clothing stores, furniture stores, pet-supply stores, hardware stores, and businesses retailing the following goods: toys, 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.

Large Format Retail (80,000 square feet and larger). Retail establishments (over 80,000 square feet of sales area) that sell merchandise and bulk goods for individual consumption, including membership warehouse clubs.

(Ord. 20-03 § 6; Ord. 21-07 § 4; Ord. 24-01, 4/16/2024; Ord. 25-10, 12/2/2025)

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

Cannabis Cultivation. Any activity involving the planting, growing, harvesting, drying, curing, grading, or trimming of cannabis.

Indoor Cultivation. The cultivation of cannabis within a permanently affixed, fully enclosed structure using exclusively artificial light or within any type of structure using artificial light at a rate above twenty-five watts per square foot.

Mixed-Light Cultivation. The cultivation of mature cannabis in a greenhouse, hoop-house, glasshouse, conservatory, hothouse, or other similar structure using light deprivation and/or artificial lighting.

Nursery. Operation that produces only cannabis clones, immature plants, seeds, and other agricultural products used in cannabis cultivation.

Outdoor Cultivation. The cultivation of cannabis without the use of light deprivation and/or artificial lighting in the canopy area. Supplemental low intensity lighting is permissible only to maintain immature plants as a source for propagation.

Processor. A cultivation site that conducts only trimming, drying, curing, grading, packaging, or labeling of cannabis and non-manufactured cannabis products. Cultivation of cannabis plants is prohibited.

Cannabis Distribution. Facility for the distribution of cannabis and cannabis products.

Cannabis Manufacturing. A building, or portion thereof, used for a business involving the manufacture for off-site sale of cannabis products.

Infusions. Production of edible products or topical products using infusion processes, or other types of cannabis products other than extracts or concentrates, and that do not conduct extractions.

Non-Volatile Solvent Manufacturing. Manufacture, including extractions, of cannabis products using nonvolatile solvents, or no solvents. May also conduct packaging and labeling of cannabis products.

Packaging and Labeling. Establishments engaged only in the packaging or repackaging of cannabis products or labeling or relabeling of cannabis product containers in preparation of retail sale.

Volatile Solvent Manufacturing. Manufacture, including extractions, of cannabis products using volatile solvents. May also conduct infusion operations and packaging and labeling of cannabis products.

Cannabis Testing. Establishments involving the materials testing, investigation, scientific research, or experimentation of medicinal or nonmedicinal cannabis or cannabis products.

Construction and Material Yards. Storage of construction materials or equipment on a site other than a construction site.

Custom Manufacturing. Establishments primarily engaged in on-site production of goods by hand manufacturing or artistic endeavor, which involves only the use of hand tools or small mechanical equipment. Typical uses include ceramic studios, candle-making shops, woodworking, and custom jewelry manufacturers.

Heavy Manufacturing. Manufacturing of products from extracted or raw materials or recycled or secondary materials, or bulk storage and handling of such products and materials. This classification includes operations, such as biomass energy conversion, food and beverage processing, including breweries producing 15,000 barrels or more of beer annually, production apparel manufacturing, photographic processing plants, leather and allied product manufacturing, wood product manufacturing, paper manufacturing, chemical manufacturing, plastics and rubber products manufacturing, nonmetallic mineral product manufacturing, primary metal manufacturing, fabricated metal product manufacturing, and automotive and heavy equipment manufacturing.

Limited Industrial. Establishments engaged in light industrial activities taking place primarily within enclosed buildings and producing minimal impacts on nearby properties. This classification includes manufacturing finished parts or products primarily from previously prepared materials; microbreweries that produce less than 15,000 barrels of beer annually, wineries, and distilleries; commercial laundries and dry-cleaning plants; monument works; printing, engraving and publishing; computer and electronic product manufacturing; furniture and related product manufacturing; and industrial services.

Oil and Gas Facilities. Oil and gas production from onshore and offshore oil and gas production facilities, including all equipment, structures, and appurtenances necessary for the exploration, development, production, piping, processing, treatment, decommissioning, and shipment of oil and gas resources.

R&D and Technology. A facility for scientific research and the design, development, and testing of tangible electrical, electronic, magnetic, optical, pharmaceutical, chemical, 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.

Vehicle/Equipment Facilities.

Heavy Vehicle and Large Equipment Sales/Rental, Service, and Repair. An establishment that sells/rents and may provide service and repairs to construction, farm or other heavy equipment. This classification does not include autos, trucks, and other passenger vehicles used for personal or business travel (see “Automobile/Vehicle Sales”).

Towing Services. A facility that dispatches tow trucks and provides temporary storage of operative or inoperative vehicles. This classification does not include automobile wrecking or dismantling. Also referred to as “Automobile Wrecking/Junk Yard.”

Wholesale Trade, Warehouse, Storage, and Distribution. Storage and distribution facilities without sales to the public on site or direct public access except for public storage in a small, individual space exclusively and directly accessible to a specific tenant. This classification includes mini-warehouses.

Chemical, Mineral, and Explosives Storage. Storage of hazardous materials, including but not limited to: bottled gas, chemicals, minerals and ores, petroleum or petroleum-based fuels, fireworks, and explosives.

Indoor Warehousing and Storage. Storage within an enclosed building of commercial goods prior to their distribution to wholesale and retail outlets and the storage of industrial equipment, products, and materials, including, but not limited to, automobiles, feed, and lumber. Also includes cold storage, draying or freight, moving and storage, and warehouses. This classification excludes the storage of hazardous chemical, mineral, and explosive materials.

Outdoor Storage Yard. Storage of vehicles, goods, or materials in open lots. Includes facilities for the storage and/or servicing of fleet vehicles.

Personal Storage. Facilities offering enclosed storage with individual access for personal effects and household goods including mini-warehouses and mini-storage. This use excludes workshops, hobby shops, manufacturing, or commercial activity.

Wholesaling and Distribution. Indoor storage and sale of goods to other firms for resale; storage of goods for transfer to retail outlets of the same firm; or storage and sale of materials and supplies used in production or operation, including janitorial and restaurant supplies. Wholesalers are primarily engaged in business-to-business sales, but may sell to individual consumers through mail or internet orders. They normally operate from a warehouse or office having little or no display of merchandise and are not designed to solicit walk-in traffic.

(Ord. 20-03 § 6)

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

Antenna and Transmission Towers. 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. Typical uses include 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.

Facilities within Buildings. Includes radio, television or recording studios, and telephone switching centers, but excludes Antennae and Transmission Towers.

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 15,000 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. This classification does not include towing operations, such as “Automobile/Vehicle Sales and Service” and “Towing Services,” or taxi or delivery services with two or fewer fleet vehicles on site. See also “Business Services.”

Major Utilities. Generating plants, electric substations, solid waste collection, including transfer stations and materials-recovery facilities, cogeneration facilities, commercial renewable energy and battery storage facilities, solid waste treatment and disposal, water or wastewater treatment plants, telephone switching facilities, and similar facilities of public agencies or public utilities that are exempt from local land use permit requirements by California Government Code Section 53091 .

Transportation Passenger Terminals. Facilities for passenger transportation operations. This classification includes rail stations, bus terminals, and scenic and sightseeing facilities, but does not include terminals serving airports or heliports. (Ord. 20-03 § 6)

Agricultural Processing. Establishments performing a variety of operations on crops after harvest, to prepare them for market on site or further processing and packaging at a distance from the agricultural area, including, but not limited to: alfalfa cubing; hay baling and cubing; corn shelling; drying of corn, rice, hay, fruits and vegetables; pre-cooling and packaging of fresh or farm-dried fruits and vegetables; grain cleaning and custom grinding; custom grist mills; custom milling of flour, feed and grain; sorting, grading and packing of fruits and vegetables; tree nut hulling and shelling; cotton ginning; wineries; alcohol fuel production; and receiving and processing of green material, other than that produced on site (e.g., commercial composting).

Agricultural-Support Services. Agriculturally related services, such as storage of agricultural products; sales, maintenance, and repair of farm machinery and equipment; farm animal veterinary clinics; custom farming services; agriculturally related building, feed, and farm-supply stores; agricultural waste handling and disposal services; and other similar related services.

Animal Raising. The raising, grazing, or feeding of animals for animal products, animal increase, or value increase.

Crop Cultivation. The cultivation of tree, vine, field, forage, and other plant crops intended to provide food or fibers. The classification includes floriculture but excludes wholesale or retail nurseries. See also “Nurseries and Garden Centers.”

Greenhouse. A structure with permanent or temporary structural elements used for cultivation and to shade or protect plants from climatic variations. This classification includes facilities associated with and accessory to greenhouses, such as shade structures and hoop structures, packing and shipping facilities, paved parking and driveways, and other accessory structures (e.g., boiler rooms and storage sheds).

(Ord. 20-03 § 6)

The following is a non-exhaustive list of common Accessory Uses.

Animal Keeping. The keeping of animals, such as small household pets, for personal use and enjoyment.

Cannabis Personal Use Cultivation. The cultivation, harvest, drying, or processing of plants with the intent to possess, smoke, or ingest cannabis or cannabis products for one’s own individual use pursuant to Health and Safety Code Section 11362.1(a) , as amended, and for medicinal use pursuant to Health and Safety Code Section 11362.77 , as amended.

Caretaker Unit. A dwelling unit for employees and their immediate families employed for the exclusive purpose of on-site management, maintenance, or upkeep.

Family Day Care. A State-licensed home which regularly provides care, protection, and supervision of children under 18 years of age in the provider’s own home, for periods of less than 24 hours per day, while the parents or guardians are away, as further defined and permitted pursuant to the California Health and Safety Code and other applicable State Regulations. The term “Family Day Care” includes the terms “Large Family Day Care” and “Small Family Day Care” as such terms are defined in California Health and Safety Code Sections 1597.465 and 1597.44 .

Small. As defined in California Health and Safety Code Section 1597.44 .

Large. As defined in California Health and Safety Code Section 1597.465 .

Farmers’ Stand. A stand located on an active farm that sells processed agricultural products, such as jams, preserves, pickles, juices, cured olives, and other “value-added” products made with ingredients produced on or near the farm, in addition to fresh produce, eggs, and other goods produced on the farm. These stands are accessory to on-site agricultural operations in order to promote the sale of locally grown fresh produce. Also referred to as a “Produce Stand.”

Home Occupation. A commercial use conducted on residential property by the inhabitants of the subject residence, which is incidental and secondary to the residential use of the dwelling. (Ord. 20-03 § 6)