Chapter 9.51 — 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. The Director may determine that a specific use shall not be deemed to be within a classification, whether or not named within the classification, if its characteristics are substantially incompatible with those typical of uses named within the classification.

(Added by Ord. No. 2486CCS §§ 1, 2, adopted June 23, 2015)

• A. Residential Dwelling Types.

  1. Accessory Dwelling Unit. An attached or detached residential dwelling unit that provides complete independent living facilities for one or more persons and that is located on a parcel with a proposed or existing primary single-unit or multiple-unit dwelling. See Division 3 , Section 9.31.025 , Accessory Dwelling Units and Junior Accessory Dwelling Units, for further details.

  2. Junior Accessory Dwelling Unit. A dwelling unit that is no more than 500 square feet in size and is contained entirely within an existing or proposed single-unit dwelling. See Division 3 , Section 9.31.025 , Accessory Dwelling Units and Junior Accessory Dwelling Units, for further details.

  3. Multiple-Unit Dwelling. Two or more dwelling units within a single building or within 2 or more buildings on a site or parcel. Types of multiple-unit dwellings include garden apartments, senior housing developments, and multi-story apartment and condominium buildings.

     • a. Duplex. A single building that contains 2 dwelling units or 2 single unit dwellings on a single parcel. This use is distinguished from accessory dwelling units and junior accessory dwelling units, which are accessory residential units as defined by State law and Division 3 , Section 9.31.025 , Accessory Dwelling Units and Junior Accessory Dwelling Units.

     • b. Senior Citizen Multiple-Unit Dwelling. A multiple-unit development in which occupancy of individual units is restricted to 1 or more persons 62 years of age or older, or a person at least 55 years of age who meets the qualifications found in Civil Code Section 51.3 .

  4. Single-Unit Dwelling. A dwelling unit that is designed for occupancy by one household, located on a single parcel that does not contain any other dwelling unit (except an accessory dwelling unit, where permitted), and not attached to another dwelling unit on an abutting parcel. This classification includes individual manufactured housing units installed on a foundation system pursuant to Section 18551 of the California Health and Safety Code. This classification shall also include group homes that operate as single-unit dwellings that do not provide licensable services even if more than 6 residents.

• B. Housing Types for Specific Needs.

  1. Congregate Housing. A residential facility with shared kitchen facilities, deed-restricted or restricted by an agreement approved by the City for occupancy by low-or moderate-income households, designed for occupancy for periods of 6 months or longer, providing services that may include, but not limited to, meals, housekeeping, and personal care assistance, as well as common areas for residents of the facility. See Division 3 , Section 9.31.110 , Congregate Housing, for further details.

  2. Corporate Housing. Rental housing which has all the following attributes:

• a. The housing is designed for use by individuals who will reside on the property for a minimum stay of at least 30 consecutive days, but who otherwise intend their occupancy to be temporary.

  - b. The housing is intended for use by persons who will maintain or obtain a permanent place of residence elsewhere. 
  
  - c. The housing includes 2 or more of the following amenities: 
  
  - i. Maid and linen service. 
  
  - ii. Health club, spa, pool, tennis courts, or memberships to area facilities. 
  
  - iii. Business service centers. 
  
  - iv. Meeting rooms. 
  
  - v. Fully furnished units including a combination of some but not necessarily all of the following: furniture, appliances, housewares, bed linens, towels, artwork, televisions, entertainment systems, and computer equipment. 
  
  - vi. Valet parking.
  

3. Elderly and Long-Term Care. 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 of California, including, but not limited to, rest homes, nursing homes, and convalescent hospitals, but not residential care, hospitals or clinics.

4. Emergency Shelter. Housing with minimal supportive services for individuals experiencing homelessness where occupancy is limited to 6 months or less, as defined in subdivision (e) of Section 50801 of the California Health and Safety Code. See Division 3 , Section 9.31.130 , Emergency Shelters, for further details.

5. Employee Housing. Housing which has qualified, or is intended to qualify, for a permit to operate pursuant to the Employee Housing Act, California Health and Safety Code 17000 et seq., that provides accommodations for 6 or fewer employees and meets the definition of Employee Housing as defined by California Health and Safety Code 17008. Pursuant to Section 17021.5 of the California Health and Safety Code, for purposes of this Chapter, employee housing shall be considered a singleunit dwelling.

6. Family Day Care. A day-care facility licensed by the State of California that is located in a dwelling unit where a resident of the dwelling provides care and supervision for children under the age of 18 for periods of less than 24 hours a day.

   • a. Large. A facility that provides care for up to 12 children, including children who reside at the home and are under the age of 10, or up to 14 children in accordance with Health and Safety Code Section 1597.465 , or any successor thereto. See Division 3 , Section 9.31.135 , Family Day Care, Large, for further details.

   • b. Small. A facility that provides care for up to 6 children including children who reside at the home and are under the age of 10, or up to 8 children in accordance with Health and Safety Code Section 1597.44 , or any successor thereto.

7. Group Residential. Shared living quarters without a separate kitchen or bathroom facilities wherein 2 or more rooms are offered for rent for permanent or semi-transient residents for periods generally of at least 30 days. This classification includes rooming and boarding houses, dormitories, fraternities, convents, monasteries, farmworker housing, and other types of organizational housing, and private residential clubs, but excludes extended stay hotels intended for long-term occupancy (30 days or more; see Hotel and Motel), and residential facilities. See Division 3 , Section 9.31.155 , Group Residential, for further details.

   • a. Senior Group Residential. A residential facility that provides residence for a group of residents 60 years of age or older with a central kitchen and dining facilities and a separate bedroom or private living quarters. See Division 3 , Section 9.31.155 , Group Residential, for further details.

8. Low Barrier Navigation Centers. A housing first, low-barrier, service-enriched shelter focused on moving people into permanent housing that provided temporary living facilities while case managers connect individuals experiencing homelessness to income, public benefits, health services shelter, and housing, as defined in Section 65660 of the California Government Code. See Division 3 , Section 9.31.175 , Low Barrier Navigation Centers, for further details.

9. Mobile Home Park. Any area or tract of land where 2 or more lots are rented, leased, or held out for rent or lease, or were formerly held out for rent or lease and later converted to a subdivision, cooperative, condominium, or other form of resident ownership, to accommodate manufactured home,

mobile homes, or recreational vehicles used for human habitation in accordance with Health and Safety Code Section 18214 , or any successor thereto.

10. Residential Facility. Facilities that 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-or-profit institutions, including group homes for minors, persons with disabilities, people in recovery from alcohol or drug addictions, and hospice facilities. See Division 3 , Section 9.31.270 , Residential Care Facilities, for further details.

• a. Residential Care, General. A residential facility licensed by the State of California and providing care for more than 6 persons.

• b. Residential Care, Limited. A residential facility licensed by the State of California providing care for 6 or fewer persons.

• c. Residential Care, Seniors. A housing arrangement chosen voluntarily by persons 60 years of age or over, or their authorized representative, where varying levels of care and supervision are provided, based upon their varying needs, as agreed to at the time of admission or determined necessary at subsequent times of reappraisal. This classification includes residential care facilities for the elderly, as defined by Health and Safety Code Section 1569.2 , and continuing care retirement communities and life care communities licensed for residential care by the State of California.

  • d. Hospice, General. A facility that provides residential living quarters for more than 6 terminally ill persons.

  • e. Hospice, Limited. A facility that provides residential living quarters for up to 6 terminally ill persons.

11. Single-Room Occupancy Housing. Multiple-unit residential buildings containing housing units that may have kitchen and/or bathroom facilities and are guest rooms or efficiency units as defined by the State Health and Safety Code . Each housing unit is occupied by no more than 2 persons and is offered on a monthly rental basis or longer. See Division 3 , Section 9.31.330 , Single Room Occupancy Structures, for further details.

• a. Single-Room Occupancy Housing, Market-Rate. Multiple-unit residential buildings containing housing units that may have kitchen and/or bathroom facilities and are guest rooms or efficiency units as defined by the State Health and Safety Code . Each housing unit is occupied by no more than 2 persons and is offered on a monthly rental basis or longer. Single-room occupancy housing, market-rate shall not include any of the following:

  • i. 100% affordable housing project, as set forth in Section 9.52.020.0050;

  • ii. Elderly and long-term care, as set forth in subsection (B)(3);

  • iii. Emergency shelter, as set forth in subsection (B)(4);

  • iv. Residential facility, as set forth in subsection (B)(10);

  • v. Supportive housing, as set forth in subsection (B)(12); or

  • vi. Transitional housing, as set forth in subsection (B)(13).

12. Supportive Housing. Housing which meets the definition of Health and Safety Code Section 50675.2(h) with no limit on length of stay that are occupied by the target population as defined in subdivision (b)(2) of Section 50675.14 of the California Health and Safety Code, and that are linked to on-site or off-site services that assist supportive housing residents in retaining the housing, improving their health status, and maximizing their ability to live, and where possible, work in the community. Supportive housing may be provided in a multiple-unit structure or group residential facility. Facilities may operate as licensed or unlicensed facilities subject to applicable State requirements.

te or off-site services that assist supportive housing residents in retaining the housing, improving their health status, and maximizing their ability to live, and where possible, work in the community. Supportive housing may be provided in a multiple-unit structure or group residential facility. Facilities may operate as licensed or unlicensed facilities subject to applicable State requirements.

13. Transitional Housing. Housing which meets the definition of subdivision (i) of Section 50675.2 of the California Health and Safety Code with a limited length of stay that are operated under a program requiring the termination of assistance and recirculation to another program recipient at some future point in time, which shall be no less than 6 months. Transitional housing may be designated for individuals experiencing homelessness or individuals recently experiencing homelessness individuals or

families transitioning to permanent housing. Facilities may be linked to on-site or off-site supportive services designed to help residents gain skills needed to live independently. Transitional housing may be provided in a variety of residential housing types (e.g., multiple-unit dwelling, single-room occupancy, group residential, single unit dwelling). This classification includes domestic violence shelters.

(Added by Ord. No. 2486CCS §§ 1, 2, adopted June 23, 2015; amended by Ord. No. 2536CCS § 22, adopted February 28, 2017; Ord. No. 2649CCS § 34, adopted September 8, 2020; Ord. No. 2610CCS § 2, adopted May 28, 2019; Ord. No. 2792CCS, 10/8/2024; Ord. No. 2814CCS, 5/27/2025)

• A. Public and Semi-Public Use Classifications.

  1. Adult Day Care. Establishments providing non-medical care for persons 18 years of age or older on a less than 24-hour basis licensed by the State of California.

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

  3. Child Care and Early Education Facility. Establishments providing non-medical care for persons less than 18 years of age on a less than 24-hour basis other than family day care (small and large). This classification includes commercial and nonprofit nursery schools, preschools, day care facilities for children, and any other day care facility licensed by the State of California. See Division 3 , Section 9.31.120 , Child Care and Early Education Facilities, for further details.

  4. College and Trade School. 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.

  5. Community Assembly. A facility for public or private meetings including community centers, banquet centers, religious assembly facilities, civic 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. See Division 3 , Section 9.31.100 , Community Assembly, for further details.

  6. Community Garden. An area of land managed and maintained by a public or nonprofit organization or a group of individuals to grow and harvest food crops and/or ornamental crops, such as flowers, for personal or group use, consumption, or donation. Community gardens may be divided into separate plots for cultivation by one or more individuals or may be farmed collectively by members of the group and may include common areas maintained and used by group members. Community gardens may be accessory to public or institutional uses such as parks, schools, community centers, or religious assembly uses. This classification does not include gardens that are on a property in residential use when access is limited to those who reside on the property. Community gardens do not include medical marijuana collectives.

common areas maintained and used by group members. Community gardens may be accessory to public or institutional uses such as parks, schools, community centers, or religious assembly uses. This classification does not include gardens that are on a property in residential use when access is limited to those who reside on the property. Community gardens do not include medical marijuana collectives.

7. Cultural Facility. Facilities 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 classification includes performing arts centers for theater, music, dance, 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. It does not include schools or institutions of higher education providing curricula of a general nature.

8. Hospitals and Clinics. State-licensed public, private, and nonprofit facilities providing medical, surgical, mental health, or emergency medical services. 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 veterinary services and animal hospitals (see Animal Care, Sales, and Services).

   • a. Hospital. A facility providing medical, surgical, mental health, or services primarily on an in-patient basis, and including ancillary facilities for outpatient and emergency treatment, diagnostic services, training, research, administration, and services to patients, employees, or visitors.

   • b. Clinic. A facility providing medical, mental health, or surgical services exclusively on an out-patient 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, plasma, dialysis centers, and emergency medical services offered exclusively on an out-patient basis. This classification does not include private medical and dental offices that typically require appointments and are usually smaller scale (see Offices, Medical and Dental).

   • c. Community Clinic. As defined in Section 1204 of the Health and Safety Code, a clinic operated by a tax-exempt nonprofit corporation that is supported and maintained in whole or in part by donations, bequests, gifts, grants, government funds or contributions, that may be in the form of money, goods, or services.

9. Park and Recreation Facility. Parks, playgrounds, recreation facilities, trails, wildlife preserves, and related open spaces, which are open to the general public. This classification also includes playing fields, courts, gymnasiums, swimming pools, picnic facilities, tennis courts, golf courses, and botanical gardens, as well as related food concessions or community centers within the facilities and restrooms within a primary structure or in an accessory structure on the same site.

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

   11. School. Facilities for primary or secondary education, including public schools, charter schools, and private and parochial schools.

   12. Social Service Center. 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 Adult Day Care and Child Care and Early Education Facility), clinics (see Clinic), and emergency shelters providing 24-hour or overnight care (see Emergency Shelter).

• B. Commercial Use Classifications.

  1. Adult-Oriented Business. See Sexually-Oriented Businesses.

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

     • a. Grooming and Pet Store. 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 onsite animal services (see General Retail Sales).

     • b. Kennel. A commercial, nonprofit, or governmental facility for keeping, boarding, training, breeding or maintaining four or more dogs, cats, or other household pets not owned by the kennel owner or operator on a 24-hour basis. This classification includes animal shelters and animal hospitals that provide boarding-only services for animals not receiving services on the site but excludes the provision by shops and hospitals of 24-hour accommodation of animals receiving medical services on site. This classification also includes kennels that, in addition to 24-hour accommodation, provide pet care for periods of less than 24 hours but it does not include facilities that provide pet day care exclusively or predominantly.

     • c. Pet Day Care Service. A commercial, nonprofit, or governmental facility for keeping 4 or more dogs, cats, or other household pets not owned by the kennel owner or operator primarily for periods of less than 24 hours.

• d. Veterinary Service. Veterinary services for domesticated animals. This classification allows 24-hour accommodation of animals receiving medical services but does not include kennels.

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

• a. Alternative Fuels and Recharging Facility. A facility offering motor vehicle fuels not customarily offered by commercial refueling stations (e.g., LPG) as well as equipment to recharge electricpowered vehicles. This classification does not include facilities within public garages or other stations that are accessory to a permitted use.

• b. Automobile Rental. Rental of automobiles. Typical uses include car rental agencies. See Division 3 , Section 9.31.050 , Automobile Rental, for further details.

• c. Automobile Storage Parcel. Any property used for short- or long-term parking of vehicles for sale or lease at an automobile dealership or rental agency on a separate parcel from such agency or dealership.

• d. Automobile/Vehicle Sales and Leasing. Sale or lease, retail or wholesale, of new or used automobiles, light trucks, motorcycles, motor homes, and trailers, together with associated repair services and parts sales for vehicles sold or leased by the manufacturer associated with the dealership. (For auto repair, see Automobile/Vehicle Service and Repair, Major and Minor.) This classification includes on-site facilities for maintaining an inventory of vehicles for sale or lease but excludes buildings and property on a separate site that are used for storing vehicles (see Automobile Storage Parcel). Typical uses include automobile dealers and recreational vehicle sales agencies. This classification also includes minor on-site preparation, washing, buffing, waxing, and detailing of vehicles for sale or vehicles repaired at the facility. Any outdoor preparation, washing, buffing, waxing, and detailing of vehicles shall comply with the standards of Section 9.31.080.C, D, M, N, P and Q. This classification does not include automobile brokerage and other establishments that solely provide services of arranging, negotiating, assisting, or effectuating the purchase of automobiles for others. See Division 3 , Section 9.31.070 , Automobile/Vehicle Sales, Leasing, and Storage, for further details.

• e. Automobile/Vehicle 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. This classification includes auto repair shops, body and fender shops, transmission shops, wheel and brake shops, auto glass services, vehicle painting, tire sales and installation, and installation of car alarms, sound, telecommunications, and navigation systems, but excludes vehicle dismantling or salvaging and tire retreading or recapping. See Division 3 , Section 9.31.060 , Automobile/Vehicle Repair, Major and Minor, for further details.

nd fender shops, transmission shops, wheel and brake shops, auto glass services, vehicle painting, tire sales and installation, and installation of car alarms, sound, telecommunications, and navigation systems, but excludes vehicle dismantling or salvaging and tire retreading or recapping. See Division 3 , Section 9.31.060 , Automobile/Vehicle Repair, Major and Minor, for further details.

• f. Automobile/Vehicle 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, as well as smog check 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. See Division 3 , Section 9.31.060 , Automobile/Vehicle Repair, Major and Minor, for further details.

• g. Automobile/Vehicle Washing. Washing, waxing, or cleaning of automobiles or similar light vehicles, that are the principal use of a building, structure, or site, including self-serve washing facilities. See Division 3 , Section 9.31.080 , Automobile/Vehicle Washing, for further details.

• h. Large Vehicle and Equipment Sales, Service, and Rental. Sales, servicing, rental, fueling, and washing of large trucks, trailers, tractors, and other equipment used for construction, moving, agricultural, or landscape gardening activities. Includes large vehicle operation training facilities.

• i. Service 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; and/or providing accessory food and retail services. See Division 3 , Section 9.31.320 , Service Stations, for further details.

• j. Towing and Impound. Establishments primarily engaged in towing light or heavy motor vehicles, both local and long distance. These establishments may provide incidental services, such as vehicle storage and emergency road repair services (for automobile dismantling, see Salvage and Wrecking). This classification includes parcels used for storage of impounded vehicles.

4. Banks and Financial Institutions.

• a. Bank and Credit Union. Financial institutions providing retail banking services. This classification includes only those institutions engaged in the on-site circulation of money, including credit unions, but excluding check-cashing businesses. For administration, headquarters, or other offices of banks and credit unions without retail banking services/on-site circulation of money (see Offices, Business and Professional).

  • b. Check Cashing Business. Establishments that, for compensation, engage in the business of cashing checks, warrants, drafts, money orders, or other commercial paper serving the same purpose. This classification also includes the business of 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 as provided in Civil Code 1789.33. Check cashing businesses do not include State or Federally chartered banks, savings associations, credit unions, or industrial loan companies. They also do not include retail sellers engaged primarily in the business of selling consumer goods, such as consumables to retail buyers that cash checks or issue money orders incidental to their main purpose or business.

5. Bar. See Eating and Drinking Establishments.

6. Business Service. Establishments providing goods and services to other businesses on a fee or contract basis, including printing and copying, blueprint services, mailbox services, equipment rental and leasing, office security, custodial services, film processing, model building, and delivery services with two or fewer fleet vehicles on-site. (For three or more fleet vehicles, see Light Fleet-Based Services.)

7. Commercial Entertainment and Recreation. Provision of participant or spectator entertainment. This classification may include restaurants, snack bars, and other incidental food and beverage services to patrons.

   • a. Cinema. Facilities for indoor display of films and motion pictures.

   • b. Theater. Facilities designed and used for entertainment, including plays, comedy, and music, which typically contain a stage upon which movable scenery and theatrical appliances or musical instruments and equipment are used.

   • c. Convention and Conference Centers. Facilities designed and used for conventions, conferences, seminars, trade shows, product displays, and other events in which groups gather to promote and share common interests. Convention centers typically have at least one auditorium and may also contain concert halls, lecture halls, meeting rooms, and conference rooms, as well as accessory uses such as facilities for food preparation and serving and administrative offices. For conference facilities accessory to hotels, see Hotel and Motel.

and other events in which groups gather to promote and share common interests. Convention centers typically have at least one auditorium and may also contain concert halls, lecture halls, meeting rooms, and conference rooms, as well as accessory uses such as facilities for food preparation and serving and administrative offices. For conference facilities accessory to hotels, see Hotel and Motel.

• d. Large-Scale Facility. This classification includes large outdoor facilities such as amusement and theme parks, sports stadiums and arenas, racetracks, amphitheaters, drive-in theaters, driving ranges, and golf courses. It also includes indoor facilities with 5,000 square feet or more in building area such as handball, racquetball, or large tennis club facilities; ice or roller skating rinks; swimming or wave pools; miniature golf courses; bowling alleys; archery or indoor shooting ranges; and riding stables.

• e. Small-Scale Facility. This classification includes small, generally indoor facilities that occupy less than 5,000 square feet of building area, such as billiard parlors, card rooms, game arcades, dance halls, small tennis club facilities, poolrooms, and amusement arcades.

• f. Fortunetelling. An establishment where a person or persons provide fortunetelling services and demand or receive, directly or indirectly, a fee or reward, or accept any donation for the exercise or exhibition of fortunetelling services, or give an exhibition of fortunetelling services at any place where a fee, donation or reward is charged or received, directly or indirectly as a condition of entry. Fortunetelling services shall include, but not be limited to, the telling of fortunes, forecasting of futures, or furnishing of any information not otherwise obtainable by the ordinary process of knowledge, by means of any occult or psychic power, faculty or force, psychic reading, occult reading, clairvoyance, clairaudience, cartomancy, psychometry, phrenology, spirits, mediumship, seership, prophecy, augury, astrology, palmistry, necromancy, mindreading, tarot card readings, tea leaves, telepathy or other craft, art, science, cards, talisman, charm, potion, magnetism, magnetized article or substance, crystal gazing, or magic of any kind or nature.

8. Drinking Establishments. Businesses primarily engaged in selling and serving alcoholic beverages for consumption on or off the premises.

   • a. Bar. Businesses that are licensed by the State to serve alcoholic beverages, including beer, wine and mixed drinks for consumption on the premises from a liquor service facility that is physically separate from the dining area and may be operated during hours when food is not served. See Division 3 , Section 9.31.040 , Alcoholic Beverage Sales, for further details.

   • b. Taproom. Establishments serving beer, wine, or other fermented or malt beverages, excluding the sale of spirits, for predominately on-site consumption. No alcohol manufacturing is permitted on the premises.

9. Eating Establishments. Businesses primarily engaged in selling and serving food and/or non-alcoholic beverages for consumption on or off the premises.

• a. Brewpub. Establishments providing food and beverages to be consumed on the premises, taken out, or delivered and is licensed by the State of California to manufacture and sell alcoholic beverages for on- or off-site consumption. Alcohol manufacturing must be on-site and accessory to eating establishment primary use.

  • b. Restaurant, Full-Service. Restaurants providing food and beverage services to patrons who order and are served while seated and pay after eating. Takeout service may also be provided. See Division 3 , Section 9.31.040 , Alcoholic Beverage Sales, where applicable, for further details.

  • c. Restaurant, Limited-Service and Take-Out. Establishments where food and beverages may be consumed on the premises, taken out, or delivered. This classification includes cafes, cafeterias, coffee shops, delicatessens, fast-food restaurants, sandwich shops, limited-service pizza parlors, self-service restaurants, ice cream and frozen yogurt shops, and snack bars with indoor or outdoor seating for customers. This classification includes bakeries that have tables for on-site consumption of products. It excludes catering services that do not sell food or beverages for on-site consumption (see Commercial Kitchen). See Division 3 , Sections 9.31.040 , Alcoholic Beverage Sales, and 9.31.280, Restaurants, Limited Service and Take Out Only, where applicable, for further details.

  • d. Food Hall. Establishments consisting of three or more individually licensed businesses within an enclosed building where food and beverages may be consumed on the premises, taken out, or delivered, and may also include small retail venues. Patrons may be served while seated and pay after eating, or orders may be made at a walk-up window, counter, machine, or remotely, and payment made prior to food consumption. Characteristics of food halls include, but are not limited to: shared entrance/lobby areas, compartmentalized spaces for individually licensed businesses, shared eating areas, shared restrooms, and shared "back of house" areas (e.g., storage, dishwashing, food preparation). Each compartmentalized space may have access to the exterior of the building, along with outdoor dining and seating areas, which may be shared with other businesses within the establishment.

  • e. With Drive-Through Facility. Establishments providing food and beverage services to patrons remaining in automobiles. Includes drive-up service.

  • f. With Outdoor Dining and Seating Area. Provision of outdoor dining facilities on the same property or in the adjacent public right-of-way. See Division 3 , Section 9.31.200 , Outdoor Dining and Seating, for further details.

10. Equipment Rental. Establishments whose primary activity is the rental of equipment, such as medical and party equipment, to individuals and business, and whose activities may include storage and delivery of items to customers.

11. 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.

• a. Convenience Market. Retail establishments that sell a limited line of groceries, prepackaged food items, tobacco, magazines, and other household goods, primarily for off-premises consumption. These establishments typically have long or late hours of operation and occupy a relatively small building. This classification includes small retail stores located on the same parcel as or operated in conjunction with a service station but does not include delicatessens or specialty food shops. It excludes establishments that offer a sizeable assortment of fresh fruits and vegetables or fresh-cut meat (see General Market). See Division 3 , Section 9.31.040 , Alcoholic Beverage Sales, for further details.

  • b. Farmers Market. A location where the primary activity is the sale of agricultural products by producers and certified producers. Sales of ancillary products may occur at the location. An open air farmers market may only be operated by a local government agency.

  • c. General Market. Retail food markets of food and grocery items primarily for off-site preparation and consumption. Typical uses include supermarkets and specialty food stores such as retail bakeries; candy, nuts and confectionary stores; meat or produce markets; vitamin and health food stores; cheese stores; and delicatessens. This classification may include small-scale specialty food production with retail sales such as pasta shops. See Division 3 , Sections 9.31.040 , Alcoholic Beverage Sales, and 9.31.140, General Markets in Residential Districts, where applicable, for further details.

  • d. Liquor Store. Establishments primarily engaged in selling packaged alcoholic beverages for off-site consumption. See Division 3 , Section 9.31.040 , Alcoholic Beverage Sales, for further details.

12. Funeral Parlor and Mortuary. An establishment primarily engaged in the provision of services involving the care, preparation, or disposition of human remains and conducting memorial services. Typical uses include a crematory, columbarium, mausoleum, or mortuary.

13. Home Occupation. A use that is incidental and secondary to the primary residential use of a dwelling and compatible with surrounding residential uses. These uses include business, professional, and creative offices, food production, limited personal services, and urban agriculture. See Division 3 , Section 9.31.160 , Home Occupation for further details.

14. Instructional Services. Establishments that offer specialized programs in personal growth and development, typically in a classroom setting. Typical uses include classes or instruction in music, health, athletics, art, or academics. Instructional services may include rehearsal studios as an accessory use. This use type excludes colleges and trade schools and facilities that offer instructional services (see General Personal Services). This use type also excludes gyms, exercise clubs, or studios offering performing arts, martial arts, physical exercise, or yoga training and similar types of instruction. See Personal Services—Physical Training.

ices may include rehearsal studios as an accessory use. This use type excludes colleges and trade schools and facilities that offer instructional services (see General Personal Services). This use type also excludes gyms, exercise clubs, or studios offering performing arts, martial arts, physical exercise, or yoga training and similar types of instruction. See Personal Services—Physical Training.

15. Live-Work. A unit that combines a work space and incidental residential space 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 Code. The working space is reserved for and regularly used by 1 or more occupants of the unit. See Division 3 , Section 9.31.170 , Live-Work Units, for further details.

16. Lodging. An establishment providing overnight accommodations to transient patrons who maintain a permanent place of residence elsewhere for payment for periods of 30 consecutive calendar days or less.

• a. Bed and Breakfast. A residential structure that is in residential use in which the property owner or manager lives on site and within which up to four bedrooms are rented for overnight lodging and where meals may be provided. See Division 3 , Section 9.31.090 , Bed and Breakfasts, for further details.

• b. Hotel and Motel. An establishment providing temporary 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, apartment hotels, hostels and tourist courts, but does not include rooming houses, boarding houses, or private residential clubs, single-room occupancy housing, or bed and breakfast establishments within a single-unit residence.

• c. Vacation Rental. A property with a dwelling unit or guest house intended for permanent occupancy that is available for rent or hire for any person other than the primary owner for transient use for 30 days or less or is otherwise occupied or utilized on a transient basis for 30 days or less. Vacation rental does not include a Bed and Breakfast as defined above.

17. Maintenance and Repair Service. 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 or boats (see Automotive/Vehicle Sales and Services) and personal apparel (see Personal Services).

18. Mobile Food Truck Off-Street Venue. A location where the commercial vending of food occurs from parked vehicles.

19. Night Club. Businesses that are licensed by the State to serve alcoholic beverages, including beer, wine and mixed drinks for consumption on the premises. Night clubs primarily provide dancing and/or entertainment and may typically provide liquor bottle service, entry security, queuing of patrons, and cover charge. See Division 3 , Section 9.31.040 , Alcoholic Beverage Sales, for further details.

20. Nursery 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. These establishments may sell a limited amount of a product they grow themselves. Fertilizer and soil products are stored and sold in packaged form only.

21. Offices. Offices of firms, organizations (for-profit and nonprofit), and public agencies providing professional, executive, management, administrative or design services, such as accounting, architectural, computer software design, engineering, graphic design, interior design, investment, insurance, and legal offices, excluding banks and savings and loan associations with retail banking services (see Banks and Financial Institutions). This classification also includes offices where medical and dental services are provided by physicians, dentists, chiropractors, acupuncturists, optometrists, and similar medical professionals, including medical/dental laboratories within medical office buildings but excluding clinics or independent research laboratory facilities (see Research and Development) and hospitals (see Hospital and Clinic).

• a. Business and Professional. Offices of firms, organizations, or agencies providing professional, executive, management, administrative, financial, accounting, or legal services, but excluding those that primarily provide direct services to patrons that visit the office (see Offices, Walk-In Clientele).

• b. Creative. Offices, production spaces, and work spaces of establishments that are in the business of the development, publishing, production, or distribution of creative property, including, but not limited to, advertising, architectural services, broadcasting, communications, computer software design, media content, entertainment, engineering, fashion design, film distribution, graphic design, interior design, internet content, landscape design, photography, and similar uses.

• c. Medical and Dental. Offices providing consultation, 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.

peutic, 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.

• d. Walk-In Clientele. Offices predominantly providing direct services to patrons or clients and do 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 or check-cashing facilities, which are separately classified and regulated (see Banks and Financial Institutions).

22. Parking, Public or Private. Structures and surface lots offering parking for a fee when such use is not incidental to another on-site activity.

23. Personal Service.

• a. General Personal Services. Provision of recurrently needed services of a personal nature. This classification includes barber shops and beauty salons, seamstresses, tailors, dry cleaning agents (excluding large-scale bulk cleaning plants), shoe repair shops, self-service laundries, video rental stores, photocopying and photo finishing services, and travel agencies mainly intended for the consumer. This classification also includes massage establishments that are in full compliance with the applicable provisions of Chapter 6.104 , Massage Regulations, of the Santa Monica Municipal Code, and in which all persons engaged in the practice of massage are certified pursuant to the California Business and Professions Code Section 4612 . This classification does not include gyms, exercise clubs, or studios offering performing arts, martial arts, physical exercise, or yoga training and similar types of instruction. See Division 3 , Section 9.31.230 , Personal Services, for further details.

• b. Personal Services, Physical Training. Gyms, exercise clubs, or studios offering martial arts, physical exercise, yoga training and similar types of instruction to classes and groups. This classification also includes exclusively youth-serving studios of less than 3,000 square feet offering performing arts, dance, martial arts, physical exercise, and similar types of instruction to classes and groups of more than five persons.

• c. Tattoo or Body Modification Parlor. An establishment whose principal business activity is one or more of the following: (i) 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 (ii) creation of an opening in the body of a person for the purpose of inserting jewelry or other decoration. See Division 3 , Section 9.31.230 , Personal Services, for further details.

24. Retail Sales.

• a. Building Materials and Services. Retail sales or rental of building supplies or equipment. 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 definition does not include construction and material yards, hardware stores less than 10,000 square feet or establishments engaged in the business of selling, leasing, or otherwise transferring any firearm or ammunitions.

  - b. _Cannabis Retailer._ A licensed premises which is a physical location from which retail cannabis or cannabis products are intended to be sold. The premises may be closed to the public; sales may be made exclusively by delivery. Subject to the provisions of SMMC Section **9.31.095** , cannabis retailers that are licensed and regulated by Business and Professions Code Section **26000** et seq., and as amended from time to time, shall be permitted to deliver or sell adult-use cannabis or adultuse cannabis products to persons 21 years of age and over or medicinal cannabis or cannabis products to persons 18 years of age and over with a physician's recommendation. 
  
  - c. _General Retail Sales, Small-Scale._ The retail sale or rental of merchandise not specifically listed under another use classification. This classification includes retail establishments with 25,000 square feet or less of sales area; including department stores, clothing stores, furniture stores, pet supply stores, small hardware and garden supply/nurseries stores (with 10,000 square feet or less of floor area), and businesses retailing goods including, but not limited to, the following: 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. See Division **3** , Sections **9.31.210** , Outdoor Newsstands, and 9.31.220, Outdoor Retail Display and Sales, where applicable, for further details. 
  
  - d. _General Retail Sales, Medium-Scale._ The retail sale or rental of merchandise not specifically listed under another use classification. This classification includes retail establishments with more than 25,000 square feet but not more than 80,000 square feet of sales area. 
  
  - e. _General Retail Sales, Large-Scale._ Retail establishments with over 80,000 square feet of sales area that sell merchandise and bulk goods for individual consumption, including membership warehouse clubs, where sales of grocery items do not occupy more than 25% of the floor area.
  

• f. Pawn Shop. Establishments engaged in the buying or selling of new or secondhand merchandise and offering loans in exchange for personal property.

  - g. _Swap Meet._ Any indoor or outdoor place, in an approved location, or for an approved activity where new or used goods or secondhand personal property is offered for sale or exchange to the general public by a multitude of individual licensed vendors, usually in compartmentalized spaces. The term swap meet is interchangeable with and applicable to: flea markets, auctions, open air markets, outdoor sales activities, or other similarly named or labeled activities; but does not include supermarket or department store retail operations. See Division **3** , Sections **9.31.360** , Swap Meets, and 9.31.220, Outdoor Retail Display and Sales, for further details. 
  

  25. Restaurants. See Eating and Drinking Establishments.

  26. Sexually-Oriented Business. See Chapter 9.59 , Sexually-Oriented Businesses, for details.

• C. Industrial Use Classifications.

  1. Alcoholic Beverage Manufacturing. Manufacturing of alcoholic beverages, including but not limited to beer, wine, and spirits, for off-site sale or distribution. May include an accessory bar/tasting room for the consumption of alcoholic beverages on site.

2. Artist's Studio. Work space for an artist or artisan, including individuals practicing one of the fine arts or performing arts, or an applied art or craft. This use may include incidental display and retail sales of items produced on the premises and instructional space for small groups of students. It does not include joint living and working units (see Live-Work).

   • a. Studio, Light. Small-scale art production that is generally of a low impact. Typical uses include painting, photography, jewelry, glass, textile, and pottery studios.

   • b. Studio, Heavy. Art production on a medium or large scale generally using heavy equipment. Typical uses include large-scale metal and woodworking studios.

3. Commercial Kitchen. Kitchens used for the preparation of food to be delivered and consumed off site. Typical uses include catering facilities. This classification does not include businesses involved in the processing or manufacturing of wholesale food products (see Industry, Limited).

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

5. 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 agriculture processing; biomass energy conversion; 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.

conversion; 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.

6. Industry, Limited. Establishments engaged in light industrial activities taking place primarily within enclosed buildings and producing minimal impacts on nearby properties. This classification includes the manufacturing of finished parts or products primarily from previously prepared materials; commercial laundries and dry cleaning plants; monument works; printing, engraving, and publishing; sign painting shops; machine and electrical shops; computer and electronic product manufacturing; furniture and related product manufacturing; and industrial services. It also includes the preparation, manufacturing, and/or packaging of food, medicinal cannabis, and medicinal cannabis products for off-site use or consumption using nonvolatile solvents, or no solvents. Typical food manufacturing uses include canners, roasters, wholesale bakeries, and frozen food manufacturers. This classification does not include the production of alcoholic beverages, see Alcoholic Beverage Manufacturing.

7. Media Production. Establishments engaged in the production of movies, video, music and similar forms of intellectual property. Typical facilities include movie and recording studios and production facilities, distribution facilities, editing facilities, catering facilities, printing facilities, post-production facilities, set construction facilities, sound studios, special effects facilities and other entertainment-related production operations. This classification does not include facilities for live audiences (see Commercial Entertainment and Recreation) or transmission and receiving equipment for radio or television broadcasting (see Communication Facility).

   • a. Support Facility. Administrative and technical production support facilities such as offices, editing and sound recording studios, film laboratories, and similar functions that occur entirely within a building.

   • b. Full-Service Facility. Indoor and outdoor production facilities, distribution facilities, post-production facilities, set construction facilities, sound stages, special effects facilities, and other media-related production operations.

8. Recycling Facility. A facility for receiving, temporarily storing, transferring and/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 (see Utilities, Major). See Division 3 , Section 9.31.260 , Recycling Facilities, for further details.

ng, temporarily storing, transferring and/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 (see Utilities, Major). See Division 3 , Section 9.31.260 , Recycling Facilities, for further details.

• a. Recycling 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.

• b. Recycling Processing Facility. A facility that receives, sorts, stores and/or processes recyclable materials.

9. Research and Development. A facility for scientific research and the design, development, and testing of 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.

10. Salvage and Wrecking. Storage and dismantling of vehicles and equipment for sale of parts, as well as their collection, storage, exchange or sale of goods, including, but not limited to, any used building materials, used containers or steel drums, used tires, and similar or related articles or property.

11. 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.

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

• b. 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. This classification also includes cold storage, draying or freight, moving and storage, and warehouses. It excludes the storage of hazardous chemical, mineral, and explosive materials.

• c. Outdoor Storage. Storage of vehicles or commercial goods or materials in open parcels.

• d. 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.

• e. 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. This classification does not include wholesale sale of building materials (see Building Materials and Services).

D. Transportation, Communication, and Utilities Use Classifications.

1. Airports and Heliports. Facilities for the takeoff and landing of airplanes and helicopters, including runways, helipads, aircraft storage buildings, public terminal buildings and parking, air freight terminals, baggage handling facilities, aircraft hangar and public transportation and related facilities, including bus operations, servicing and storage. This classification 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 United States Government and/or the State for the safety of aircraft operations.

2. Bus/Rail Passenger Station. Facilities for passenger transportation operations. This classification includes rail and bus stations and terminals but does not include terminals serving airports or heliports. Typical uses include ticket purchasing and waiting areas out of the public right-of-way, restrooms, and accessory uses such as cafes.

3. City Bikeshare Facility. Land and equipment used for the operation or maintenance of a network of publicly-owned and publicly-available bicycles in a bikeshare system in the City of Santa Monica. These facilities may include stations, hubs, parking facilities, payment/customer service kiosks, map stands, and helmet vending.

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

   • a. Antenna and Transmission Tower. Broadcasting and other communication services accomplished through electronic or telephonic mechanisms, as well as structures designed to support one or more reception or transmission systems. Typical uses include radio towers and television towers. Notwithstanding the foregoing, facilities described in Chapter 9.32 , including, without limitation,

personal wireless service facilities and over-the-air reception devices ("OTARDs") shall not be considered antenna and transmission towers for purposes of this use classification and shall only be subject to the applicable provisions and permit requirements in Chapter 9.32 , Personal Wireless Service Facilities.

• b. Equipment Within Buildings. Indoor facilities containing primarily communication equipment and storage devices such as computer servers.

5. Freight/Truck Terminal and Warehouse. Facilities for freight, courier, and postal services by truck or rail. This classification does not include local messenger and local delivery services (see Light FleetBased Service).

6. Light Fleet-Based Service. 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 10,000 pounds. This classification includes parking, dispatching, and offices for taxicab and limousine operations, ambulance services, nonemergency medical transport, local messenger and document delivery services, home cleaning services, and similar businesses. This classification does not include towing operations (see Automobile/Vehicle Sales and Service, Towing and Impound) or taxi or delivery services with two or fewer fleet vehicles on site (see Business Services).

7. Utilities, Major. Generating plants, electric substations, and 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.

8. Utilities, Minor. Facilities necessary to support established uses involving only minor structures, such as electrical distribution lines, and underground water and sewer lines.

9. Waste Transfer Facility. A facility that operates as a materials recovery, recycling and solid waste transfer operation providing solid waste recycling and transfer services for other local jurisdictions and public agencies that are not located within the City. The facility sorts and removes recyclable materials (including paper, metal, wood, inert materials such as soils and concrete, green waste, glass, aluminum and cardboard) through separation and sorting technologies to divert these materials from the waste stream otherwise destined for landfill.

(Added by Ord. No. 2486CCS §§ 1, 2, adopted June 23, 2015; amended by Ord. No. 2567CCS § 13, adopted December 12, 2017; Ord. No. 2606CCS § 17, adopted April 9, 2019; Ord. No. 2726CCS § 15, adopted October 25, 2022; Ord. No. 2749CCS § 4, adopted May 23, 2023; Ord. No. 2764CCS, adopted November 14, 2023; Ord. No. 2814CCS, May 27, 2025; Ord. No. 2829CCS, September 30, 2025; Ord. No. 2850CCS, March 10, 2026)