Mammoth Lakes Municipal Code Ch. 17.144 Zoning Terms and Definitions—use Classifications

Use classifications describe one or more uses of land having similar characteristics but do not list every use or activity that may appropriately be within the classification. The Director shall determine whether a specific use shall be deemed to be within one or more use classifications or not within any classification in this chapter.

(Code 1990, § 17.144.010; Ord. No. 14-02, § 4, 3-19-2014)

(a) Single-family dwelling.

(1) Detached. A dwelling unit designed for occupancy by one household and located on a separate lot from any other unit (except accessory dwelling units, where permitted). This classification includes individual manufactured housing units installed on a foundation system pursuant to Health and Safety Code § 18551.

(2) Attached. A dwelling unit designed for occupancy by one household, located on a single lot, and attached through common vertical walls to one or more dwellings on abutting lots.

(b) Accessory dwelling unit (ADU). A dwelling unit providing complete independent living facilities for one or more persons that is located on a lot with another primary dwelling unit. An ADU may be within the same structure as the primary unit, in an attached structure, or in a detached accessory structure on the same lot as the primary dwelling unit.

(c) Multifamily residential. Two or more dwelling units on a site or lot. Types of multiple-unit dwellings include duplexes, triplexes, four-plexes, garden apartments, senior housing developments, and multi-story apartment buildings.

(d) Assisted living facility. A housing arrangement chosen voluntarily by the residents, or the residents' guardians, conservators, or other responsible persons where 75 percent of the residents are at least 62 years of age, or if younger, have needs compatible with other residents; and where varying levels of care and supervision are provided, as agreed to at the time of admission or as determined necessary at subsequent times of reappraisal. Assisted living facilities may include kitchenettes (small refrigerator, sink or microwave oven) within individual rooms. Assisted living facilities are required to be licensed by the State Department of Social Services and may include skilled nursing services if adequately licensed by the State Department of Social Services, the State Department of Health Services, and the State Department of Insurance.

(e) Caretaker housing. A permanent residence that is secondary or accessory to the primary use of the property and used for housing a caretaker on the site of a nonresidential use where needed for security purposes or to provide 24-hour oversight of operations, equipment, or other resources on the site, including, but not limited to, the care or monitoring of people, plants, animals, equipment, or other conditions on the site.

(f) Convalescent home. Establishments that provide 24-hour medical, convalescent or chronic care to individuals who, by reason of advanced age, chronic illness or infirmity, are unable to care for themselves, and is licensed as a skilled nursing facility by the State, including, but not limited to, rest homes and convalescent hospitals, but not residential care, hospitals, or clinics.

(g) Emergency housing/shelter. A temporary, short-term residence providing housing with minimal supportive services for homeless families or individual persons where occupancy is limited to six months or less, as defined in Health and Safety Code § 50801. Medical assistance, counseling, and meals may be provided.

(h) Family day care home. As defined by Health and Safety Code § 1596.78, a home that regularly provides care, protection, and supervision for 14 or fewer children, in the provider's own home, for periods of less than 24 hours per day, while the parents or guardians are away, and is either a large family day care home or a small family day care home.

(1) Large. As defined by Health and Safety Code § 1596.78, a day care facility in a single dwelling where an occupant of the residence provides family day care for seven to 14 children, including children under the age of ten years who reside in the home.

(2) Small. As defined by Health and Safety Code § 1596.78, a day care facility in a single residence where an occupant of the residence provides family day care for eight or fewer children, including children under the age of ten years who reside in the home.

(i) Group living quarters. Shared living quarters without separate kitchen or bathroom facilities for each room or unit, offered for rent for permanent or semi-transient residents on a weekly or longer basis. This classification includes clean and sober facilities, roominghouses and boardinghouses, dormitories and other types of organizational housing, private residential clubs, and extended stay hotels intended for long-term occupancy (30 days or more) but excludes hotels and motels, and residential care facilities.

(j) Institutional public employee housing. Residential units that house employees of uses allowed in the general plan institutional public land use designation.

(k) Junior accessory dwelling unit (JADU). A dwelling unit that is no more than 500 square feet in size and contained entirely within a single-family dwelling.

(l) Live/work unit. An integrated housing unit and working space, occupied and utilized by a single household in a structure, either single-family or multifamily, that has been designed or structurally modified to accommodate joint residential occupancy and work activity, and where the residential use is secondary and accessory to the primary use as a place of work.

(m) Mobilehome parks. A development designed and occupied by mobilehomes, including development with facilities and amenities used in common by occupants who rent, lease, or own spaces for mobilehomes through a subdivision, cooperative, condominium or other form of resident ownership.

(n) Residential care facility. Facilities that are licensed by the State to provide permanent 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.

(1) Generally. A facility providing care for more than six persons.

(2) Limited. A facility providing care for six or fewer persons.

(o) Second dwelling unit. See accessory dwelling unit (ADU).

(p) Single room occupancy. A residential facility containing housing units that may have kitchen or bathroom facilities and are guest rooms or efficiency units as defined by the Health and Safety Code. Each housing unit is occupied by no more than two persons and is offered on a monthly rental basis or longer.

(q) Student and faculty housing. Residential units or facility that houses students or faculty of Cerro Coso Community College.

(r) Supportive housing. Housing with no limit on length of stay, that is occupied by the target population (see definition in Chapter 17.148) and is linked to an onsite or offsite service that assists the supportive housing resident in retaining the housing, improving said resident's health status, and maximizing the same's ability to live and, when possible, work in the community.

(s) 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 shall be no less than six months from the beginning of the assistance.

(t) Two-unit project. A housing development consisting of no more than two primary dwelling units on a lot, including a development which entails adding one new primary unit to an existing primary unit, in a single-family residential zone.

(Code 1990, § 17.144.020; Ord. No. 14-02, § 4, 3-19-2014; Ord. No. 15-01, § 4(exh. A, § 22), 1-21-2015; Ord. No. 17-10, § 4(exh. A), 11-1-2017; Ord. No. 2021-03, § 4(exh. B, § j.), 3-3-2021; Ord. No. 2022-01, § 3(exh. B, § d.), 1-19-2022)

(a) Commercial recreation facility. Establishments providing indoor or outdoor amusement or entertainment services for a fee or admission charge, such as ice skating and roller skating, golf driving ranges where separate from golf course, miniature golf courses, swim and tennis clubs, batting cages, arcades, pool and billiard rooms as primary uses and bowling alleys. Does not include parks and playgrounds or adult oriented businesses, which are separately defined.

(b) Community assembly. A facility for public or private meetings, including community centers, banquet 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, and storage. It does not include gymnasiums or other sports facilities, convention centers, or facilities, such as day care centers and schools that are separately classified and regulated.

(c) Conference/convention facility. One or more structures accommodating multiple assembly, meeting, or exhibit rooms, and related support facilities (e.g., kitchens, offices, etc.).

(d) Fitness/health facility. Fitness centers, gymnasium, health and athletic clubs, which may include any of the following: indoor sauna, spa or hot tub facilities; indoor tennis, handball, racquetball, archery and shooting ranges and other indoor sports activities; does not include adult entertainment businesses.

(e) Instructional services. Establishments that offer specialized programs in personal growth. Examples of these facilities include individual and group instruction and training in the arts; production rehearsal; photography, and the processing of photographs produced only by users of the studio facilities; martial arts training studios; gymnastics instruction, and aerobics and gymnastics studios with no other fitness facilities or equipment. Such establishments also includes production studios for individual musicians, painters, sculptors, photographers, and other artists.

(f) Parks and playgrounds, public. Public parks, play lots, playgrounds, and athletic fields for noncommercial neighborhood or community use, including open space areas for passive recreation and picnicking, swimming pools, tennis courts, and other sport and active recreation facilities. This classification also includes related food concessions or community centers within the facilities. If privately owned, the same facilities are included under the definition of the term "private recreation facility."

(g) Private residential recreational facility. A privately owned, noncommercial recreation facility provided for a residential project or neighborhood residents, including swimming pools, swim and tennis clubs, and sport court facilities; does not include golf courses, country clubs, or private sport courts accessory to single-family dwellings.

(h) Public recreational and cultural facility. Public or nonprofit institutions engaged primarily in the display or preservation of objects of interest in the arts or sciences that are open to the public on a regular basis. This classification includes performing arts centers for theater, music, dance, and events; libraries, museums; outdoor theatres (e.g., amphitheater); stadiums; art galleries; historical sites; and similar types of facilities.

(i) Schools, public or private. An institution of learning for minors, whether public or private, offering instruction in those courses of study required by the State Education Code and maintained in compliance with standards set by the State Board of Education. This classification includes kindergarten, elementary school, middle or junior high school, senior high school, or any special institution of education or an institution of higher education, including a community or junior college, college, or university. Such institution also includes specialized education or training for adults, including art school, language school, vocational training, professional school and other similar educational facilities. Does not include pre-schools and child day care facilities (see "day care").

(j) Ski facilities. Uses and facilities pertaining to ski areas, including, but not limited to, runs, trails, lift-lines cables, chairs, cars, warming huts, parking, day lodges, shops for sale and rental of ski equipment, ski pro shop, first aid stations, ski school facilities and assembly areas, day nurseries, maintenance facilities, lounges, eating and drinking establishments, and other ski oriented shops. This classification includes uses and facilities serving non-skiing activities or operating year-round such as tennis courts, swimming pools, hot tubs, restaurants, bars, and retail sales constructed on lands which serve or are utilized in the operation of a ski area.

(k) Theater, cinema or performing arts. An indoor facility for public assembly and group entertainment, other than sporting events, including civic theaters and facilities for live theater and concerts, and motion picture theaters. Does not include outdoor theaters, concert and similar entertainment facilities, and indoor and outdoor facilities for sporting events.

(Code 1990, § 17.144.030; Ord. No. 14-02, § 4, 3-19-2014)

(a) Artisan shop. A retail store selling art glass, ceramics, jewelry, paintings, sculpture, and other handcrafted items, where the store includes an area for the crafting of the items being sold, but where the crafting activity is incidental to retail sales.

(b) Auto and vehicle sales and rental. A retail or wholesale establishment selling or renting automobiles, trucks and vans, trailers, motorcycles, recreational vehicles, snowmobiles, and other like vehicles. Vehicles for sale may be displayed outdoors or indoors, as authorized by the required permit. May also include repair shops and the sales of parts and accessories, incidental to vehicle dealerships.

(c) Bars/taverns/nightclubs. Businesses serving beverages for consumption on the premises as a primary use and, including on-sale service of alcohol, including beer, wine, and mixed drinks where food service is subordinate to the sale of alcoholic beverages. This use includes micro-breweries where alcoholic beverages are sold and consumed on-site. May include entertainment (e.g., live music or dancing); does not include adult oriented businesses.

(d) Building materials and services. Retail sales or rental of building supplies or equipment. This classification includes lumber yards, tool and equipment sales or rental establishments, and includes establishments devoted principally to taxable retail sales to individuals for their own use. This classification does not include hardware stores less than 10,000 square feet in floor area or plant nurseries.

(e) Commercial cannabis activity.

(1) Cannabis retailer. A facility 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. Unless otherwise specified, the term "cannabis retailer" includes both a retailer selling medicinal cannabis and cannabis products to patients with valid physician's recommendations, and a retailer selling adult-use cannabis and cannabis products for adults 21 years of age and over.

(2) Adult-use cannabis retailer. A cannabis retailer that sells cannabis and cannabis products to individuals 21 years of age or older.

(3) Medicinal cannabis retailer. A cannabis retailer that sells medicinal cannabis and medicinal cannabis exclusively to individuals with a valid physician's recommendation and are 21 years of age or older.

(f) General retail. The retail sale or rental of merchandise not specifically listed under another use classification. This classification includes retail establishments;, including supermarkets, food markets, groceries, convenience stores, liquor stores, department stores, clothing stores, furniture stores, pet supply stores, small hardware stores (with 10,000 square feet or less of floor area), 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, firearms, 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 machines, computers, electronics, and similar small-item repairs.

(g) Nurseries and garden centers. Establishments primarily engaged in retailing nursery and garden products, such as trees, shrubs, plants, seeds, bulbs, and sod, that are predominantly grown elsewhere. These establishments may sell a limited amount of a product they grow themselves onsite. Fertilizer and soil products are stored and sold in package form only. This classification includes wholesale and retail nurseries offering plants for sale.

(h) Restaurant, cafe, coffee shop. A retail business selling ready-to-eat food or beverages for on- or off-premises consumption. These include eating establishments where customers are served from a walk-up ordering counter for either on- or off-premises consumption (counter service); and establishments where customers are served food at their tables for on-premises consumption (table service), that may also provide food for take-out. This use includes micro-breweries where the sale and consumption of alcoholic beverages are subordinate to on-site food service and catering businesses or bakeries that have a storefront retail component.

(i) Tasting room. A retail sales facility where customers may taste and purchase beverages and food that may have been grown or processed on-site. Products offered for tasting and sale may include wine, olive oil, cheese, or other food and beverage products.

(Code 1990, § 17.144.040; Ord. No. 14-02, § 4, 3-19-2014; Ord. No. 18-02, § 5(exh. A, f.), 3-13-2018)

(a) 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, 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.

(b) Animal care and boarding. Care and services related to the boarding and care of household pets, including:

(1) Animal raising and keeping. The raising and keeping of animals, except for household pets (e.g., cats, dogs, and other animals ordinarily kept as household pets).

(2) Kennel. Facilities for keeping, boarding, training, breeding or maintaining four or more dogs, cats, or other household pets not owned by the kennel owner or operator. It excludes pet shops and animal hospitals that provide 24-hour accommodation of animals receiving medical or grooming services.

(3) Pet day care. Facilities for providing non-medical care for four or more dogs, cats, or other household pets not owned by the pet day care owner or operator on a less than 24-hour basis.

(4) Pet grooming. Grooming or selling of dogs, cats, and similar small animals. 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.

(5) Veterinary services. Veterinary services for small animals. This classification allows 24-hour accommodation of animals receiving medical services but does not include kennels.

(c) Banks and financial services. Financial institutions providing retail banking services. This classification includes only those institutions serving walk-in customers or clients, including banks, savings and loan institutions, and credit unions.

(d) Cemeteries and interment services. Establishments 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 cemetery, crematory, columbarium, mausoleum, burial place, or mortuary.

(e) Day care centers. 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.

(f) Food preparation. Businesses preparing or packaging food for off-site consumption, excluding those of an industrial character in terms of processes employed, waste produced, water used, and traffic generation. Typical uses include catering kitchens, bakeries, small-scale specialty food production, and micro-breweries. Food preparation operations may include tasting rooms open to the public retail sales where tasting rooms and retail sales are also allowed uses.

(g) Government offices. 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.

(h) Lodging. An establishment providing overnight accommodations to transient patrons, for payment, for periods of less than 30 consecutive calendar days.

(1) Bed and breakfast. A residential structure that is in residential use with one or more bedrooms rented for overnight lodging and where meals may be provided.

(2) Hotels and motels. Establishments providing overnight lodging to transient patrons. These establishments may provide additional services, such as conference and meeting rooms, restaurants, bars, or recreation facilities available to guests or to the general public. This use classification includes motor lodges, motels, and tourist courts, but does not include roominghouses, boardinghouses, private residential clubs, transient rentals of single-family homes or condominiums, or bed and breakfast establishments within a single-unit residence, which are separately defined and regulated.

(3) Transient rental. A residential structure, which is occupied, or intended or designed for occupancy, by persons for purposes of sleeping, lodging, or similar reasons for a period of 30 consecutive days or less in exchange for a fee or other consideration.

(i) 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 vehicles or boats and personal apparel.

(j) Medical services. State-licensed facilities or facilities which employ providers or operate programs that offer medical services licensed by the State. Medical services provided in the facility may include medical, surgical, psychiatric, or emergency medical services to sick or injured persons. This classification includes facilities for inpatient or outpatient treatment, including substance-abuse programs as well as training, research, and administrative services for patients and employees. This classification excludes veterinaries and animal hospitals.

(1) Hospital. Hospitals and similar facilities engaged primarily in providing diagnostic services, and extensive medical treatment, including surgical and other hospital services. These establishments have an organized medical staff, inpatient beds, and equipment and facilities to provide complete health care. May include on-site accessory clinics and laboratories, accessory retail uses, and on-site ambulance dispatch facilities.

(2) Clinics and laboratories. Facilities primarily engaged in furnishing outpatient medical, mental health, surgical, dental and other personal health services, and medical and dental laboratories. Counseling services by people other than medical doctors or psychiatrists are included under the term "office."

(3) Physical wellness and rehabilitation facilities. Facilities providing medical services to individuals primarily suffering from physical injuries and illnesses which require physical therapy on- and off-site, for a period of not more than a cumulative six months within a 12-month period. Supportive services such as mental health counseling and life skills training may also be offered. Overnight accommodations with common cooking, dining, and recreational areas may be provided to individuals (including caretakers and family members) receiving medical services, so long as the accommodations do not meet the definition of a dwelling unit.

(k) Offices.

(1) Offices of firms or organizations providing professional, executive, management, or administrative services, such as accounting, advertising, architectural, computer software design, counseling, data processing, research, engineering, graphic design, interior design, legal offices and tax preparations offices.

(2) Walk-in clientele. An office business providing direct services to patrons or clients that may or may not require appointments. This use classification includes employment agencies, insurance agent offices, real estate offices, travel agencies, utility company offices and offices for elected officials. It does not include banks that are separately classified and regulated.

(l) Personal services. Provision of recurrently needed services of a personal nature. This classification includes barber shops and beauty salons, seamstresses, tailors, day spas, dry cleaning agents (excluding large-scale bulk cleaning plants), shoe repair shops, self-service laundries, video rental stores, photocopying and photo finishing services, tattoo parlors, and travel agencies mainly intended for the consumer. This classification also includes massage establishments in which all persons engaged in the practice of massage (owners, employees, sole providers, or independent contractors) are certified by the State Massage Therapy Council as a certified massage therapist, certified massage practitioner, or conditionally certified massage practitioner pursuant to the Business and Professions Code § 4604.

(m) 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.

(n) Research and development. A facility for scientific research, and the design, development and testing of electrical, electronic, magnetic, optical and computer and telecommunications components in advance of product manufacturing, and the assembly of related products from parts produced off-site, where the manufacturing activity is secondary to the research and development activities or where there is no manufacturing on the same site; includes pharmaceutical, chemical and biotechnology research and development.

(o) Vehicle services. The repair, servicing, alteration, restoration, painting, cleaning, or finishing of automobiles, trucks, recreational vehicles, boats and other vehicles as a primary use, including the incidental wholesale and retail sale of vehicle parts as an accessory use, including:

(1) Fueling station. 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; or providing incidental food and retail services.

(2) Large vehicle and equipment sales, service and rental. Sales, servicing, rental, fueling, and washing of large trucks, trailers, tractors, and other heavy equipment used for construction, moving, agricultural, or landscape gardening activities. Examples include cranes, earth moving equipment, tractors, combines, heavy trucks, etc.; includes large vehicle operation training facilities. Sales of new or used automobiles or trucks are excluded from this classification.

(3) Repair, major. Repair of automobiles, trucks, motorcycles, motor homes, boats and recreational vehicles, including the incidental sale, installation, and servicing of related equipment and parts, generally on an overnight basis. This classification includes auto repair shops, body and fender shops, transmission shops, wheel and brake shops, auto glass services, vehicle painting and tire sales and installation, but excludes vehicle dismantling or salvaging and tire retreading or recapping.

(4) Service and repair, minor. The service and repair of automobiles, light-duty 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 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. This classification excludes 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. It also excludes repair of heavy trucks, limousines or construction vehicles.

(5) Vehicle storage. A facility for the storage of operative cars and other fleet vehicles, trucks, buses, recreational vehicles, and other motor vehicles, and includes facilities for the storage or servicing of fleet vehicles. Such facility also includes the parking of a vehicle on private property for more than 72 hours without operation, such as a towing or impound yard.

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

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

(1) Construction and material yards. Storage of construction materials or equipment on a site other than a construction site.

(2) 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. Such storage also includes cold storage, draying or freight, moving and storage, and warehouses. This classification excludes the storage of hazardous chemical, mineral, and explosive materials.

(3) Outdoor storage. Storage of vehicles or commercial goods or materials in open lots.

(4) 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.

(5) 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.

(Code 1990, § 17.144.050; Ord. No. 14-02, § 4, 3-19-2014; Ord. No. 15-02, § 4(exh. A), 3-4-2015; Ord. No. 18-02, § 5(exh. A, g.), 3-13-2018; Ord. No. 19-02, § 4(exh. A, c.), 3-6-2019; Ord. No. 19-04, § 4(exh. A, f.), 11-6-2019)

The following is a list of classifications for various businesses related to the industry, manufacturing and processing use of cannabis:

(1) Commercial cannabis cultivation facility.

a. A facility engaged in the planting, growing, harvesting, drying, curing, grading, or trimming of cannabis. This also includes:

1. Facilities that operate only as a nursery and produce only clones, immature plants, seeds, or other agricultural products used specifically for the planting, propagation, and cultivation of cannabis; and

2. Facilities that only package and label non-manufactured cannabis products.

b. This use does not include outdoor cultivation of cannabis, as that use is prohibited within the Town limits.

(2) Commercial cannabis nonvolatile manufacturing facility.

a. A facility engaged in the compounding, blending, extracting, infusing, or otherwise making or preparing a cannabis product by means of chemical synthesis or by a combination of extraction or infusion and chemical synthesis, using nonvolatile solvents. This also includes:

1. Facilities that process, prepare, hold, or store components and ingredients used in the manufacturing of cannabis products; and

2. Facilities engaged in the holding, storing, packaging, or labeling of cannabis products.

b. This use does not include manufacturing of cannabis products using volatile solvents, as that use is prohibited within the Town limits.

(3) Commercial cannabis distribution facility. A facility engaged in the procurement, sales, and transport of cannabis or cannabis products between State-licensed cannabis businesses. This also includes facilities that offer storage-only services for a licensed cultivator, manufacturer, or another distributor.

(4) Commercial cannabis testing facility. A facility, laboratory, or entity that offers or performs tests of cannabis or cannabis products and that is accredited by an accrediting body that is independent from all other persons involved in the cannabis industry in the State.

(5) Handicraft/custom manufacturing. Establishments manufacturing or assembling small products primarily by hand, including jewelry, pottery and other ceramics, as well as small glass and metal art and craft products, and taxidermists. Such establishments also includes manufacturing establishments producing small products not classified in another major manufacturing group, including brooms and brushes; buttons, costume novelties; jewelry; musical instruments; pens, pencils, and other office and artists' materials; sporting and athletic goods; toys; etc.

(6) Industry, general. 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 bottling plants; laundries and dry cleaning plants; food and beverage processing; production apparel manufacturing; photographic processing plants; sign manufacturing; ski and snowboard manufacturing; nonmetallic mineral product manufacturing; primary metal manufacturing; lumber and wood product manufacturing; automotive and heavy equipment manufacturing; monument works; printing, engraving and publishing; computer and electronic product manufacturing; furniture and related product manufacturing; and industrial services.

(7) Industry, heavy. Industrial uses that regularly use hazardous chemicals or procedures or produce hazardous byproducts, including the following: manufacturing of acetylene, cement, lime, gypsum or plaster-of-Paris, chlorine, corrosive acid or fertilizer, insecticides, disinfectants, poisons, explosives, paint, lacquer, varnish, petroleum products, coal products, plastic and synthetic resins, and radioactive materials. This classification also includes asphalt and concrete plants and rock, sand or gravel yards or processing. Heavy industrial uses have high potential for external impacts on the surrounding area in terms of noise, vibration, odor, hours of operation, and traffic.

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

(9) Reverse vending machine. An automated mechanical device that accepts, sorts and processes recyclable materials and issues a cash refund or a redeemable credit slip.

(10) Small collection facility. An incidental use that serves as a neighborhood drop off point for the temporary storage of recyclable materials but where the processing and sorting of such items is not conducted on-site.

(11) Large collection facility. A facility that receives, sorts, stores or processes recyclable materials.

(Code 1990, § 17.144.060; Ord. No. 14-02, § 4, 3-19-2014; Ord. No. 16-04, § 2d, 5-18-2016; Ord. No. 18-02, § 5(exh. A, h.), 3-13-2018)

(a) Airports and heliports. Facilities for the takeoff and landing of airplanes and helicopters, including runways, helipads, aircraft storage buildings, public terminal building and parking, air freight terminal, baggage handling facility, aircraft hangar and public transportation and related facilities, including bus operations, servicing and storage. Such facilities also includes support activities such as fueling and maintenance, storage, airport operations and air traffic control, incidental retail sales, coffee shops and snack shops and airport administrative facilities, including airport offices, terminals, operations buildings, communications equipment, buildings and structures, control towers, lights, and other equipment and structures required by the Federal Government or the State for the safety of aircraft operations.

(b) Parking, public or private. Surface lots and structures for use of occupants, employees, or patrons on the subject site or offering parking to the public, potentially for a fee, when such use is not incidental to another on-site activity.

(c) Telecommunication facilities. Facilities for the provision of broadcasting and other information relay services through the use of electronic and telephonic mechanisms.

(d) Transportation passenger facilities. Facilities for passenger transportation operations, and the same includes rail stations and bus terminals but does not include terminals serving airports or heliports. Such facilities also include private transportation facilities, including ski lifts or similar aerial conveyances.

(e) Utilities, major. Generating plants, electric substations, service yards, solid waste collection, including transfer stations and materials recovery facilities, solid waste treatment and disposal, water or wastewater treatment plants, and similar facilities of public agencies or public utilities.

(Code 1990, § 17.144.070; Ord. No. 14-02, § 4, 3-19-2014)

(a) Animal raising and crop cultivation. The raising, grazing, or feeding of animals for animal products, animal increase, or value increase, and dairying as an accessory use on farms with dairy cattle and the cultivation of tree, vine, field, forage, and other plant crops intended to provide food or fibers. This classification includes agriculturally related services, such as storage of agricultural products; agricultural waste handling and disposal services; and other similar related services.

(b) Environmental research facilities. Research establishments primarily engaged in implementing scientific research relating to the environment. The use includes laboratories, monitoring stations, scientific interpretive centers, research and training classrooms, and related support facilities.

(c) Flood control facilities. Facilities designed to provide flood control by controlling rates of runoff, holding extra water, or diverting floodwater.

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

(e) Geothermal exploration/production. Activities related to the discovery, test, production, disposal, or use or geothermal resources and deriving energy primarily from geothermal resources.

(f) Riding academies and commercial stables. Any place where horses, donkeys, or mules are kept, housed, boarded, lodged, fed, hired, trained, sold or bred as a commercial activity, examples of which include horse ranches, boarding stables, riding schools and academies, horse exhibition facilities (for shows or other competitive events), and barns, stables, corrals and paddocks accessory and incidental to these uses; does not include the simple pasturing of horses, donkeys, or mules.

(Code 1990, § 17.144.080; Ord. No. 14-02, § 4, 3-19-2014)