Civic activities include the performance of utility, educational, recreational, cultural, medical protective, governmental, and other activities which are strongly vested with public or social importance and are described as follows:
A. Administrative: Activities typically performed by public, quasi-public, and public utility administrative offices such as City, County, State or similar offices.
B. Community Organizations: Activities typically performed by nonprofit organizations whether social, charitable, civic, or professional. This includes organizations such as the Chamber of Commerce, the Red Cross, labor unions, political organizations, and similar groups.
C. Community Assembly And Cultural/Nonassembly: Activities typically performed by, or at the following institutions or installations:
1. Public meeting halls,
2. Nonprofit museums, art galleries, libraries, and observatories.
D. Community Education: Activities typically performed by the following public or private institutions:
1. Foster care establishments.
2. Childcare facility licensed by the State of Idaho, Department of Health and Welfare, providing twenty four (24) hour care and supervision for nine (9) or more children (plus 2 houseparents for each 6 children) who are under the age of eighteen (18), unrelated to the houseparents, and who have been placed voluntarily or by a State agency, court order or childcare agency, but who have not been placed under the jurisdiction of the Youth Rehabilitation Act.
3. Daycare facilities, nursery schools, and kindergartens.
4. Elementary, junior high, intermediate, and high schools, colleges, and universities.
E. Hospital/Healthcare: Activities typically performed by the following institutions:
1. Hospitals and health clinics.
2. Nursing homes, convalescent hospitals, rest homes, and homes for the aged, providing care for three (3) or more residents who require twenty four (24) hour skilled or intermediate care and medical supervision at a lower level than that provided by a hospital. The maximum number of residents shall be set by special use permit where required.
3. Rehabilitative facilities providing living accommodations, rehabilitation, and twenty four (24) hour supervision for three (3) or more residents who are in a recovery program for alcoholism, drug abuse, or mental illness. The maximum number of residents shall be set by special use permit, where required.
4. Handicapped or minimal care facility providing twenty four (24) hour care, group dining and supervision for nine (9) or more residents who are:
a. Physically or mentally handicapped or infirm and who are in need of residential rather than medical care; or
b. Capable of taking care of themselves in independent living units, but who prefer personal supervision. The maximum number of residents shall be set by special use permit where required.
F. Criminal Transitional Facility: Providing transitional living accommodations for three (3) or more residents who are on probation, on parole or participating in early release programming while in the custody and/or control of the Federal or State prison systems. The maximum number and type of offenders, based on the offenses committed, the extent of supervision required, and the length of allowable transition period may be set by special use permit.
G. Juvenile Offenders Facility: Providing twenty four (24) hour care and supervision for three (3) or more children (plus 2 houseparents) who are under the age of eighteen (18) and unrelated to the houseparents, and who have been placed voluntarily or by a State agency, court order or a childcare agency, as a result of a criminal offense. The maximum number of residents shall be set by special use permit, where required.
H. Religious Assembly: Activities typically performed at churches, temples, synagogues, and other centers established for the pursuit of religious beliefs; this includes accessory residential uses typical of such religious centers.
I. Neighborhood Recreation: Activities that include the use of small open spaces for nonstructured or passive recreation, typical of neighborhood or vest pocket parks; these parks, which could be publicly or privately owned and maintained, provide for the low intensity recreational needs of the immediate local vicinity.
J. Public Recreation: Activities typical of institutionally owned structures or public open space for passive or active recreation programs and life sports that include Municipal parks, school playgrounds, public beach.
K. Essential Services: Activities that include the maintenance and operation of public utilities typical of electric, gas, telephone, sewer and water lines. The following activities and facilities are also included in this group:
1. Cemetery support services that are ordinary and necessary for the operation of a cemetery and that do not adversely impact the surrounding neighborhood. A monument company would be typical of a cemetery support service.
2. Wireless communication facilities.
L. Extensive Impact: Activities that typically encompass large areas of land may detrimentally impact certain neighboring areas typical of prisons, airports, large electrical transforming installations, refuse dumps, and military installations. (Ord. 3472, 2013: Ord. 3332 §1, 2008: Ord. 3238 §4, 2005: Ord. 2833 §3, 1997: Ord. 2745 §1, 1996: Ord. 2093 §4, 1988: Ord. 2049 §16, 1987: Ord. 1691 §1(part), 1982)