Mendocino County Municipal Code Ch. 20.324 Coastal Commercial Use Types

Commercial use types include the distribution and sale or rental of goods; and the provision of services other than those classified as civic uses. They also include certain uses accessory to the above, as specified in Chapter 20.456 (Accessory Use Regulations).

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

Offices of private firms or organizations which are primarily used for the provision of professional, executive, management, or administrative services. Typical uses include administrative offices, and services including real estate insurance, property management, investment, travel, secretarial services, telephone answering, photocopy and reproduction, and other activities when the service rendered is that customarily associated with administrative office services. Excluded are banks.

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

Establishments or places of business engaged in sale from the premises of feed, grain, fertilizers, pesticides and similar goods or in the provision of agriculturally related services with incidental storage on lots other than where the service is rendered. Typical uses include nurseries, hay, feed and grain stores, crop dusting, or tree service firms.

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

Establishments or places of business primarily engaged in animal related sales and services. The following are animals sales and services use types:

(A) Animal Sales and Services: Auctioning. Auctioning of livestock on a wholesale or retail basis with incidental storage of animals produced off property not exceeding seventy-two (72) hour periods. Typical uses include animal auctions or livestock auction yards.

(B) Animal Sales and Services: Horse Stables. Boarding, breeding or raising of horses not owned by the occupants of the premises or riding of horses by other than the occupants of the premises or their paying or non-paying guests. Typical uses include boarding stables, riding academy or public stables.

(C) Animal Sales and Services: Household Pets. Retail sales and grooming of dogs, cats, birds, fish, and similar small animals customarily used as household pets. Typical uses include pet stores, dog bathing and clipping salons, or pet grooming shops.

(D) Animal Sales and Services: Kennels. Kennel services for dogs, cats and similar small animals. Typical uses include boarding kennels, pet motels or dog training centers.

(E) Animal Sales and Services: Veterinary (Large Animals). Veterinary services for large animals. Typical uses include animal hospitals (large animals) and veterinary hospitals (large animals). Typical uses include clinics for the treatment of sheep, cattle, horses, goats and similar large animals.

(F) Animal Sales and Services: Veterinary (Small Animals). Veterinary services for small animals provided that overnight care shall be within a fully enclosed building or structure. Typical uses include pet clinics, dog and cat hospitals or animal hospitals treating small animals.

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

"Automotive and Equipment" means establishments or places of business primarily engaged in automotive related or heavy equipment sales or services. The following are automotive and equipment use types:

(A) Automotive and Equipment: Cleaning. Washing and polishing of automobiles. Typical uses include auto laundries or car washes.

(B) Automotive and Equipment: Fleet Storage. Storage or parking of two (2) or more vehicles used regularly in business operations. Excluded from this use type are Automotive and Equipment: Sales/Rentals, and the incidental parking of vehicles as an accessory use to a permitted use on the same premises. Typical uses include taxi fleets, mobile catering truck storage or delivery truck fleets.

(C) Automotive and Equipment: Gasoline Sales. Establishments or places of business primarily engaged in the retail sale, from the premises, of petroleum products with incidental sale of tires, batteries, and replacement items, lubricating services and minor repair services. Typical uses include automobile service stations, filling stations or truck stops.

(D) Automotive and Equipment: Parking. Parking of motor vehicles on a temporary basis within a public or privately owned off-street parking area with or without a fee. Typical uses include commercial parking lots or commercial garages.

(E) Automotive and Equipment: Repairs, Light (Under 6,000 lbs.). Repairs of automobiles, pick-up trucks, recreational vehicles, farm equipment and boats (less than twenty-four (24) feet in length) and the sale, installation and servicing of automobile equipment and parts but excluding body repairs and painting. Typical uses include muffler shops, auto repair garages, auto glass shops or auto parts stores.

(F) Automotive and Equipment: Repairs, Heavy (6,000 lbs. and Over). Repair of motor vehicles such as aircraft, boats, (twenty-four (24) feet or longer) heavy construction equipment, trucks, or major truck terminals etc., as well as the sale, installation and servicing of automotive equipment and parts together with body repairs, painting and steam cleaning. Typical uses include truck transmission shops, body shops or motor freight maintenance groups.

(G) Automotive and Equipment: Sales/Rentals. Sale, retail or wholesale and/or rental from the premises of auto, trucks, motorcycles, mobile homes, motor homes, trailers, construction equipment, farm equipment and aircraft together with incidental maintenance. Typical uses include auto dealers, car rental agencies, aircraft dealers, boat dealers, construction equipment dealers, or mobile home dealers.

(H) Automotive and Equipment: Storage, Nonoperating Vehicles. Storage of nonoperating Motor vehicles. Typical uses include Storage of private parking towaways or impound yards.

(I) Automotive and Equipment: Storage, Recreational Vehicles and Boats. Storage of Recreational Vehicles and Boats. Typical uses include the collective storage of personal recreational vehicles or boats.

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

Establishments primarily engaged in the provision of maintenance and custodial services to firms rather than individuals. Typical uses include janitorial, landscape maintenance, or window cleaning services.

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

Establishments or places of business primarily engaged in the sale, rental or repair of equipment and supplies used by office, professional and service establishments but excludes automotive, construction and farm equipment. Typical uses include office equipment and supply firms, printing shops, small business machine repair shops or hotel equipment and supply firms.

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

Services related to commercial and sport fishing and recreational boating activities including boat storage, boat servicing (drydocks, repair, fueling, pump out), fishing support uses (laundry, shower, restroom, water, electricity, icehouses, boat sales, brokerage, marine survey vessel document services).

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

Establishments or places primarily engaged in the provision of sports, entertainment, or recreation for participants or spectators. The following are commercial recreation use types:

(A) Commercial Recreation: Indoor Sports and Recreation. Uses conducted within an enclosed building. Typical uses include bowling alleys, billiard parlors, ice and roller skating rinks, penny arcades and swimming pools.

(B) Commercial Recreation: Indoor Entertainment. Predominantly spectator uses conducted within an enclosed building. Typical uses include motion picture theaters, meeting halls, dance halls and auditoriums.

(C) Commercial Recreation: Outdoor Sports and Recreation. Uses conducted in open or partially enclosed or screened facilities. Typical uses include driving ranges, golf courses, swimming pools, water slides, tennis courts, racquetball courts. Shooting ranges and motorcycle parks shall require a use permit.

(D) Commercial Recreation: Water-Dependent Recreation. Uses which are water-oriented and require a location on or near the water in order to function at all. Typical uses include recreational fishing piers, recreational boating facilities and public access facilities.

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

Establishments primarily engaged in the provisions of broadcasting and other information relay services accomplished through the use of electronic mechanisms but excludes those classified as Major or Minor Impact Services and Utilities. Typical uses include television studios, radio stations, telecommunication service centers or telegraph service offices.

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

Establishments or places of business primarily engaged in construction activities and incidental storage on lots other than construction sites as well as the retail or wholesale sale, from the premises, of materials used in the construction of buildings or other structures other than retail sale of paint, fixtures and hardware; but excluding those classified as one of the Automotive and Heavy Equipment use types. Typical uses include building materials stores, tool and equipment rental or sales, retail lumber, contractors storage yard, furniture manufacturing or cabinet shops.

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

Use types conducted in compliance with Chapter 20.452.

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

Establishments or places of business primarily engaged in the sale of prepared food and beverage for on-premises consumption. Typical uses include restaurants, short order eating places or bars.

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

Establishments primarily engaged in the provision of financial services and banking. Typical uses include banks, savings and loan institutions, loan and lending activities, and similar services.

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

Establishments or places of business primarily engaged in the preparation of food and beverage and which no consumption of the products occur on the premises. Typical uses include catering service(s).

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

Establishments or places of business primarily engaged in the retail sale of food and beverage for home consumption. Typical uses include grocery stores, liquor stores, delicatessens or retail bakeries.

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

Establishments primarily engaged in the provision of services involving the care, preparation or disposition of human dead. Typical uses include funeral homes or mortuaries.

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

Establishments primarily engaged in the provision of laundering, dry cleaning or dyeing services other than those classified as Personal Services. Typical uses include laundry agencies, diaper services or linen supply services and self-service laundries.

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

Establishments primarily engaged in the storage, sale and delivery of goods and merchandise produced on or off the premises to retail or wholesale consumers by way of the mails, delivery services, or in any other manner in which visitation to the premises by the wholesale or retail consumers is strictly incidental.

(Ord. No. 4149 (part), adopted 2005)

Establishments primarily engaged in the provision of personal health services ranging from prevention, diagnosis and treatment or rehabilitation services provided by physicians, dentists, nurses and other health personnel as well as the provisions of medical testing and analysis services, but excludes those classified as any civic use type. Typical uses include medical offices, dental laboratories or health maintenance organizations.

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

Commercial retail services of a small scale, convenience retail stores and services commonly located in or adjacent to and providing direct services to residential zones including banks, foodmarkets, and drugstores.

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

Establishments or places of business primarily engaged in the provision of services of a personal nature. Typical uses include beauty and barber shops, seamstress, tailor, self-service laundry, photography studios, driving schools, health or physical fitness studios, reducing salons, dance studios, handicraft and hobby instruction.

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

Places of business or public facilities where materials such as metal (excluding white metal or appliances), aluminum, paper, cardboard, glass, plastic and other similar items are permitted for the purpose of collection, processing or recycling. Such use shall include the baling, bundling, crushing, smashing, separation, shredding or similar action necessary to facilitate the handling of recyclable materials, but, shall exclude automotive wrecking and junk yards. Drop-off enclosures, for collection purposes only, shall be limited to two hundred (200) square feet in area.

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

Establishments primarily engaged in the provision of repair services to individuals and households rather than firms, but excluding Automotive and Equipment use types. Typical uses include appliance repair shops, watch or jewelry repair, apparel repair firms or musical instrument repair firms.

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

Establishments primarily engaged in research of an industrial or scientific nature which is provided as a service or which is conducted by and for a private firm, but excludes medical testing and analysis and product testing. Typical uses include marine research laboratories, electronics research laboratories, space research and development firms or pharmaceutical research laboratories.

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

Sale or rental of commonly used goods, and merchandise for personal or household use, but excludes those classified more specifically in Sections 20.324.010 through 20.324.115 (all other commercial use types) inclusive. Typical uses include department stores, apparel stores, furniture stores, or establishments providing the following products or services: household cleaning and maintenance products; drugs, cards, and stationery, notions, books, tobacco products, cosmetics, and specialty items; flowers, plants, hobby materials, toys, and handcrafted items; apparel, jewelry, fabrics, and like items; cameras, photography services, household electronic equipment, records, sporting equipment, bait shop, kitchen utensils, home furnishings and appliances, art supplies and framing, arts and antiques, paint and wallpaper, carpeting and floor covering, interior decorating services, office supplies; bicycles; automotive parts and accessories (excluding service and installation) hardware stores (excluding lumber storage or sales).

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

"Wholesaling, Storage and Distribution" means establishment or places of business primarily engaged in wholesaling, storage, distribution and handling of materials and equipment other than live animals. The following are wholesaling, storage and distribution use types:

(A) Wholesaling, Storage and Distribution: Miniwarehouses. Storage or warehousing service within a building(s) primarily for individuals to store personal effects and by businesses to store material for operation of an industrial or commercial enterprise located elsewhere. Incidental uses in a miniwarehouse facility function as an independent retail, wholesale, business or service use. Individual storage spaces within a miniwarehouse shall have a maximum gross floor area of four hundred (400) square feet and shall not be used for workshops, hobby shops, manufacturing or similar uses and human occupancy of said spaces shall be limited to that required to transport, arrange, and maintain stored materials. Driveways between miniwarehouse buildings on the same site shall have a minimum width of twenty-four (24) feet to accommodate the temporary parking of vehicles during loading and unloading operations.

(B) Wholesaling, Storage and Distribution: Light. Wholesaling, storage and warehousing services within enclosed structures. Typical uses include wholesale distributor, storage warehouses or moving and storage firms.

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