Mendocino County Municipal Code Ch. 20.320 Coastal Civic Use Types

Civic use types include the performance of utility, educational, recreational, cultural, medical, protective, governmental, and other uses which are strongly vested with public or social importance. They also include certain uses accessory to the above, as specified in Chapter 20.456 (Accessory Use Regulations).

(Ord. No. 3785 (part), adopted 1991)

Consulting, recordkeeping, clerical or public contact services that deal directly with the citizen, together with incidental storage and maintenance of necessary vehicles. Typical uses include federal, state, county, city or special district offices.

(Ord. No. 3785 (part), adopted 1991)

This use type includes alternate energy facilities related to solar, wind, waves, biomass, and cogeneration sources for on-site use shall be permitted as a conditional use in all districts.

(Ord. No. 3785 (part), adopted 1991)

This use type includes alternate energy facilities related to solar, wind, waves, biomass, and cogeneration sources for off-site use shall be permitted as a conditional use in AG, RL, FL, TP and I Districts.

(Ord. No. 3785 (part), adopted 1991)

Transportation of ill or injured persons to and from treatment facilities together with incidental storage and maintenance of necessary vehicles.

(Ord. No. 3785 (part), adopted 1991)

Land used or intended to be used for the burial of the dead and dedicated for cemetery purposes, including columbariums, crematoriums and mortuaries when operated in conjunction with and within the boundary of such cemetery.

(Ord. No. 3785 (part), adopted 1991)

Providing nonprofit medical services to persons afflicted with bodily or mental disease or injury without provision for on-site residence or confinement.

(Ord. No. 3785 (part), adopted 1991)

Recreational, social or multipurpose uses owned or operated by a public entity. Typical uses include public parks, sports facilities, senior citizen centers, nature centers, teen centers, playhouses, auditoriums and recreational centers.

(Ord. No. 3785 (part), adopted 1991)

Nonprofit, museum-like preservation and exhibition of objects of permanent interest in one (1) or more of the arts and sciences, gallery exhibition of works of art or library collection of books, manuscripts, etc., for study and reading.

(Ord. No. 3785 (part), adopted 1991)

Care or education of seven (7) or more, but not to exceed twenty-five (25) persons regardless of age or handicap but excluding overnight care or uses classified as Group Care or Major Impact Services and Utilities. Typical uses include day nurseries for children, day care facilities for the elderly, and small schools.

(Ord. No. 3785 (part), adopted 1991)

Public and private schools providing education for more than twenty-five (25) persons.

(Ord. No. 3785 (part), adopted 1991)

Facilities for conduct of public safety services, including police and fire protection services.

(Ord. No. 3785 (part), adopted 1991)

Services provided in facilities authorized, certified or licensed by the state to provide board, room and personal care to seven (7) or more, but not to exceed twenty-five (25) elderly, or mentally impaired or otherwise handicapped persons or dependent and neglected children but excluding those uses classified under Major Impact Services and Utilities. Typical uses include intermediate care facilities and rest homes.

(Ord. No. 3785 (part), adopted 1991)

(Ord. No. 4365, § 3, 9-13-2016)

Meetings and activities conducted primarily for their members by nonprofit organizations which are tax exempt pursuant to Section 501(c) of the Internal Revenue Code. Excluded from this use type are uses classified as Group Care, or Visitor Accommodations and Services (all types). Typical uses include meeting places for civic clubs, grange halls, lodges, or fraternal or veterans organizations.

(Ord. No. 3785 (part), adopted 1991)

Services or facilities which may have a substantial impact. Typical uses include airports, hospitals, group care for more than twenty-five (25) persons, detention and correction institutions, and corporation yards.

(Ord. No. 3785 (part), adopted 1991)

Services or utilities which may have a substantial impact. Such uses may be conditionally permitted when the public interest supercedes the usual limitations placed on land use and transcends the usual restraints of zoning for reasons of necessary location and community wide interest. Typical places or uses are power generating facilities, sewage disposal facilities, sewage disposal facilities and sites, sanitary landfills (including recycling operations), water treatment plants and natural gas pipelines.

(Ord. No. 3785 (part), adopted 1991)

Public utilities which have a local impact on surrounding properties and are necessary to provide essential services. Typical uses are electrical and gas distribution substations, transmission distribution lines, microwave transmitting/receiving stations and relay stations.

(Ord. No. 3785 (part), adopted 1991)

Religious services involving public assembly such as customarily occurs in synagogues, temples, and churches.

(Ord. No. 3785 (part), adopted 1991)