Civic use types include the performance of utility, educational, recreational, cultural, medical, protective, governmental, and other uses that are strongly vested with social importance.
A. Administration: Governmental offices providing administrative, 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, and city offices.
B. Cemetery: Land used or intended to be used for the burial of the dead and dedicated for cemetery purposes, including columbariums, crematoria, mausoleums, and mortuaries when operated in conjunction with and within the boundary of such cemetery.
C. Clubs: Uses providing meeting, recreational, or social facilities for a private, nonprofit, or noncommercial association, primarily for use by members and guests.
1. Clubs (Recreational): Clubs that provide indoor and/or outdoor athletic facilities, with or without social or meeting facilities. Typical uses include country clubs, private or nonprofit community or recreation centers, and private golf courses and driving ranges.
2. Clubs (Social): Clubs that provide primarily social or meeting facilities. Typical uses include private social clubs and fraternal organizations.
D. College and University Facilities: An educational institution of higher learning that offers a course of study designed to culminate in the issuance of a degree certified by a generallyrecognized accrediting organization.
E. Convalescent Services: A use providing bed care and inpatient services for persons requiring regular medical attention, but excluding a facility providing surgical or emergency medical services, and excluding a facility providing care for alcoholism, drug addiction, mental disease, or communicable disease. Typical uses include nursing homes.
F. Cultural Services: A library, museum, or similar registered nonprofit organizational use displaying, preserving, and exhibiting objects of community and cultural interest in one or more of the arts and sciences.
G. Day Care Services (Limited): This use type includes all classifications of day care facilities regulated by the state of Iowa that operate providing care for five (5) or fewer persons. This term includes nursery schools, preschools, day care centers for children or adults, and similar uses, but excludes public and private primary and secondary educational facilities.
H. Day Care Services (General): This use type includes all classifications of day care facilities regulated by the state of Iowa that operate providing care for six (6) or more persons. This term includes nursery schools, preschools, day care centers for children or adults, and similar uses, but excludes public and private primary and secondary educational facilities.
I. Detention Facilities: A publicly-operated or contracted use providing housing and care for individuals legally confined, designed to isolate those individuals from the community.
J. Elder Group Home:
1. A single-family residence that is operated by a person who is providing room, board, and personal care and may provide health-related services to three through five (3 - 5) elders who are not related to the person providing the service within the third degree of consanguinity or affinity, and which is staffed by an on-site manager twenty four (24) hours per day, seven (7) days per week.
2. Cities are required by Iowa Code to treat elder group homes as permitted uses in all residential districts, including all single-family residential districts. (Iowa Code 231.B.1(4))
K. Emergency Residential Services: A facility or use of a building to provide a protective sanctuary for victims of crime or abuse, including emergency housing during crisis intervention for victims of rape, abuse, or physical beatings.
L. Family Home: A community-based residential home which is licensed as a residential care facility under Iowa Code Chapter l35C or as a child foster care facility under Chapter 237 to provide room and board, personal care, habilitation services, and supervision in a family environment exclusively for not more than eight (8) persons with a developmental disability or brain injury and any necessary support personnel. However, family home does not mean an individual foster family home licensed under Chapter 237. Cities are required by Iowa Code to treat family homes as permitted uses in all residential districts, including all single-family residential districts. (Iowa Code 414.22)
M. Homes For Persons With Physical Disabilities: As provided for in Iowa Code Chapter 504C.1, individuals with physical disabilities may form nonprofit corporations pursuant to Chapter 504 for the sole purpose of establishing homes for persons with disabilities which are intended to serve two to five (2 - 5) residents who are members of the nonprofit corporation. Cities are required by Iowa Code to treat homes for persons with physical disabilities no more restrictively than family homes, that is, as permitted uses in all residential districts, including all single-family residential districts.
N. Guidance Services: A use providing counseling, guidance, recuperative, or similar services to persons requiring rehabilitation assistance as a result of mental illness, alcoholism, detention, drug addiction, or similar condition on a daytime care basis.
O. Health Care: A facility providing medical, psychiatric, or surgical service for sick or injured persons exclusively on an outpatient basis including emergency treatment, diagnostic services, training, administration and services to outpatients, employees, or visitors.
P. Hospital: A facility providing medical, psychiatric, or surgical service for sick or injured persons primarily on an inpatient basis, including emergency treatment, diagnostic services, training, administration, and services to patients, employees, or visitors.
Q. Maintenance Facilities: A public facility supporting maintenance, repair, vehicular or equipment servicing, material storage, and similar activities, including street or sewer yards, equipment service centers, and similar uses having characteristics of commercial services or contracting or industrial activities.
R. Park And Recreation Services: Publicly-owned and operated parks, playgrounds, and recreation facilities, including publicly-owned community centers and open spaces.
S. Postal Facilities: Postal services, including post offices, bulk-mail processing, or sorting centers operated by the United States Postal Service.
T. Primary Educational Facilities: A public, private, or parochial school offering instruction at the elementary school level in the branches of learning study required to be taught in schools within the state of Iowa.
U. Public Assembly: Facilities owned and operated by a public agency, charitable nonprofit, or private organization accommodating major public assembly for recreation, sports, amusement, or entertainment purposes. Typical uses include civic or community auditoriums, sports stadiums and arenas, convention facilities, fairgrounds, incidental sales, and exhibition facilities.
V. Religious Assembly: A use located in a permanent building and providing regular organized religious worship and religious education incidental thereto (excluding private primary or private secondary educational facilities, community recreational facilities, day care facilities, and incidental parking facilities). A property tax exemption obtained pursuant to Property Tax Code of the state of Iowa shall constitute prima facie evidence of religious assembly use.
W. Safety Services: Facilities for conduct of public safety and emergency services including police and fire protection services and emergency medical and ambulance services.
X. Secondary Educational Facilities: A public, private, or parochial school offering instruction at the junior high or high school level in the branches of learning and study required to be taught in the schools of the state of Iowa.
Y. Utilities: Any above-ground structures or facilities, other than lines, poles, and other incidental facilities, used for the production, generation, transmission, delivery, collection, or storage of water, sewage, electricity, gas, oil, energy media, communications, electronic or electromagnetic signals, or other services which are precedent to development and/or use of land. (Ord. 35-17, 10-17-2017)