McFarland Municipal Code Ch. 17.152 Conditional Use Permits

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Editor's note— Ord. No. 0004-2023, § 5, adopted May 11, 2023, amended Chapter 17.152 in its entirety to read as herein set out. Former Chapter 17.152, §§ 17.152.010—17.152.050, pertained to similar subject matter, and derived from Ord. No. 109, 1969; Ord. No. 211, 198; Ord. No. 212, 1988; Ord. No. 268, 1993; Ord. No. 274, 1995; Ord. No. 0003-2022, adopted February 10, 2022; Ord. No. 0004-2022, adopted April 28, 2022 and Ord. No. 0001-2023, adopted February 23, 2023.

A. The regulations in this chapter shall apply to the granting of conditional use permits.

B. Certain uses may be permitted by the planning commission and the city council in zones in which they are not permitted by this title where such uses are deemed essential or desirable to the public convenience or welfare, and are in harmony with the various elements or objectives of the comprehensive general plan. The procedure for filing of applications, filing fees, investigations, notices, public hearings, findings and appeal shall be the same as provided in this title to variances, except that the planning commission may waive public hearings on an application for conditional use permits for public utility or public service uses or public buildings, when found to be necessary for the public health, safety, convenience or welfare.

(Ord. No. 0004-2023, § 5, 5-11-23)

The following uses may be permitted in any zone upon the granting of a conditional use permit:

A. Airports or aircraft landing fields.

B. Cemeteries, columbariums, crematories, mausoleums, mortuaries and funeral parlors.

C. City, county, state and federal enterprises, including buildings, facilities and uses of departments or institutions thereof which are necessary or advantageous to the general welfare of the community.

D. Establishments or enterprises involving large assemblages of people or automobiles, including: Amusement parks, expositions, fairgrounds, open air theatres, race tracks, [and] recreational sport centers.

E. Institutions of a philanthropic or eleemosynary nature.

F. Natural resources development, together with the necessary apparatus or appurtenances incident thereto, except drilling for or removal of oil, gas or other hydrocarbon substances.

(Ord. No. 0004-2023, § 5, 5-11-23)

The following uses may be permitted in the zones indicated in this section upon the granting of a conditional use permit.

(Ord. No. 0004-2023, § 5, 5-11-23)

A. Residential Uses.

1. Community care facility.

B. Recreation, Entertainment, and Tourist Facilities.

1. Swimming pool, public, indoor only;

2. Tennis club, indoor only.

C. Commercial Uses.

1. Eating and Drinking Establishments.

a. Cafe, or coffee shop.

2. Services.

a. Ambulance;

b. Placing, storing or maintaining chemical toilets of the type normally transported by semitrailers.

D. Transportation Facilities.

1. Auto parking garage or lot;

2. Heliport.

E. Utility and Communications Facilities.

1. Radio, television, microwave, or commercial communications transmitter, receiver, or translator;

2. Utility substation.

F. Institutional Uses.

1. Cemetery, mausoleum, columbarium, or mortuary;

2. Charitable or public service organization;

3. Club or lodge;

4. Convalescent hospital;

5. Crematory, when in conjunction with a cemetery, mausoleum, columbarium, or mortuary;

6. Fire or police station;

7. Hospital;

8. Labor union hall;

9. Post office;

10. Public agency or utility buildings and facilities;

11. Rehabilitation facilities;

12. Sanitarium.

G. Waste Facilities.

1. Community septic disposal system;

2. Sewage treatment plant.

H. Miscellaneous Uses.

1. Day-care center, with extended overnight services;

2. Drainage sump;

3. Flood control facilities;

4. Water treatment plant;

5. Beverage container recycling facilities.

(Ord. No. 0004-2023, § 5, 5-11-23)

A. Residential Uses.

1. Community care facility;

2. Condominium;

3. Duplex;

4. Emergency shelter;

5. Fraternity or sorority house;

6. Residential hotel.

B. Recreation, Entertainment, and Tourist Facilities.

1. Golf course;

2. Movie theater, walk-in;

3. Park or playground;

4. Swimming pool, public, outdoor only;

5. Tennis club, outdoor only;

6. Theater, live.

C. Commercial Uses.

1. General Retail Sales.

a. Nursery, plant;

2. Services.

a. Ambulance;

b. Auto wash;

c. Auto wash, self-service;

d. Mini-warehouse, for storage of personal household goods, provided there is no outside storage; excludes cargo containers and other temporary storage structures;

e. Printing, lithography or blueprinting;

f. Tattoo parlor and body piercing;

g. Veterinary, including veterinary hospital;

h. Placing, storing or maintaining chemical toilets of the type normally transported by semitrailers.

D. Transportation Facilities.

1. Auto parking garage or lot;

2. Heliport.

E. Utility and Communications Facilities.

1. Radio, television, microwave, or commercial communications transmitter, receiver, or translator.

F. Institutional Uses.

1. Cemetery, mausoleum, columbarium, or mortuary;

2. Charitable or public service organization;

3. Club or lodge;

4. Convalescent hospital;

5. Crematory, in conjunction with a cemetery, mausoleum, columbarium, or mortuary;

6. Fire or police station;

7. Hospital;

8. Labor union hall;

9. Museum, with outdoor exhibits;

10. Rehabilitation facilities;

11. Sanitarium.

G. Waste Facilities.

1. Community septic disposal system;

2. Sewage treatment plant;

3. Transfer station, small volume.

H. Miscellaneous Uses.

1. Day-care center, with extended overnight services;

2. Drainage sump;

3. Flood control facilities;

4. Water treatment plant;

5. Beverage container recycling facilities.

(Ord. No. 0004-2023, § 5, 5-11-23)

A. Residential Uses.

1. Residential hotel.

B. Recreation, Entertainment, and Tourist Facilities.

1. Amusement park;

2. Card room;

3. Movie theater, drive-in;

4. Park or playground;

5. Racetrack or test track, automobile, motorcycle, or horse;

6. Shooting range or gun club;

7. Skateboard arenas, unenclosed;

8. Sports arena, indoor;

9. Sports arena, outdoor;

10. Swimming pool, public;

11. Trade fairs and exhibitions, temporary (fourteen-day maximum), excluding flea markets and swap meets.

C. Commercial Uses.

1. Services.

a. Mini-warehouse, for storage of personal household goods and vehicles, including outside storage;

b. Veterinary, including veterinary hospital;

c. Advertising sign boards or structures;

d. Placing, storing or maintaining chemical toilets of the type normally transported by semitrailers;

D. Recreational, Entertainment, and Tourist Facilities.

1. Bingo parlor.

E. Transportation Facilities.

1. Airport, private;

2. Airport, public use;

3. Auto parking garage or lot;

4. Bus depot;

5. Heliport;

6. Taxi depot, including service and storage.

F. Utility and Communications Facilities.

1. Radio, television, microwave, or commercial communications transmitter, receiver, or translator.

G. Waste Facilities.

1. Community septic disposal system;

2. Sewage treatment plant;

3. Transfer station, small volume;

4. Waste-to-energy facility.

H. Institutional Uses.

1. Cemetery, mausoleum, or columbarium;

2. Community or regional correctional and similar involuntary detention facilities;

3. Crematory, when in conjunction with a cemetery, mausoleum, columbarium, or mortuary;

4. Museum, with outdoor exhibits;

5. Zoo.

I. Educational Institutions and Schools.

1. College or university.

J. Miscellaneous Uses.

1. Day-care center, with extended overnight services;

2. Drainage sump;

3. Flea market or swap meet, wholly conducted within an enclosed building;

4. Flea market or swap meet, except within an enclosed building pursuant to subsection 19.32.020(H) of this title;

5. Flood control facilities;

6. Water treatment plant;

7. Automobile trailer courts or camps, house or coach trailers, and public camp grounds;

8. Beverage container recycling facilities.

(Ord. No. 0004-2023, § 5, 5-11-23)

A. Automobile trailer courts or camps, house or coach trailers, and public camp grounds.

B. Dairies and livestock feed yards.

C. Fruit, vegetable and meat packing plants.

D. Mobile homes (manufactured homes) on property owned and/or leased by a public agency/entity of the state.

E. Secondary residential units.

(Ord. No. 0004-2023, § 5, 5-11-23)

A. Agricultural industries and the processing of agricultural products.

B. Commercial stockyards and animal slaughter.

C. Dumps and refuse disposal areas.

D. Fruit, vegetable and meat packing plants.

E. Hog ranches.

F. Junk, salvage or auto wrecking yards.

G. Sewer farms or sewage disposal plants.

(Ord. No. 0004-2023, § 5, 5-11-23)

A. Automobile trailer courts or camps, house or coach trailers, and public camp grounds.

B. Dwellings.

C. Beverage container recycling facilities.

(Ord. No. 0004-2023, § 5, 5-11-23)

A. Dairies and livestock feed yards.

B. Dwellings.

C. Junk, salvage or auto wrecking yards.

D. Beverage container recycling facilities.

(Ord. No. 0004-2023, § 5, 5-11-23)

A. Commercial stockyards and animal slaughter.

B. Dairies and livestock feed yards.

C. Dumps and refuse disposal areas.

D. Dwellings.

E. Junk, salvage or auto wrecking yards.

F. Sewer farms or sewage disposal plants.

G. Beverage container recycling facilities.

(Ord. No. 0004-2023, § 5, 5-11-23)

A. Automobile trailer courts or camps, house or coach trailers, and public camp grounds.

(Ord. No. 0004-2023, § 5, 5-11-23)

A. Churches and other places used exclusively for religious worship in A-1, A-2, R-1, R-2, R-3, and R-4 zones.

B. Day nurseries and nursery schools in R zones.

C. Placing, storing or maintaining chemical toilets of the type normally transported by semitrailers.

D. Educational institutions including schools, preschool, elementary, junior high, senior high, college or university.

E. Hospitals, sanitariums and rest homes.

F. Large-scale neighborhood housing projects having a minimum gross area of twenty acres.

G. Libraries, museums and private clubs.

H. Parks, playgrounds and other community buildings.

I. Public utility or public service buildings, structures and uses.

J. Radio and television transmitters.

K. Real estate tract offices and signs.

L. Golf courses and country clubs.

(Ord. No. 0004-2023, § 5, 5-11-23)

A. Secondary residential units.

(Ord. No. 0004-2023, § 5, 5-11-23)

A. Secondary residential units.

(Ord. No. 0004-2023, § 5, 5-11-23)