Civic use types include the performance of utility, educational, recreational, cultural, medical, protective, governmental and other uses.
(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 columbarium, 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, non-profit or non-commercial association, primarily for use by members and guests.
(D) College and university facilities. An educational institution of higher learning which offers a course of study designed to culminate in the issuance of a degree certified by a generally recognized accrediting organization.
(E) Convalescent services. A use providing bed care and in-patient 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.
(F) Cultural services. A library, museum or similar registered non-profit 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). A facility, or use of a building or portion thereof, for day care of 12 or less individuals and licensed by the state as a family child care home may be established and operated in any residential zone within the exercised zoning jurisdiction. 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). A facility licensed by the state, or use of a building or portion thereof, for day care of more than 12 individuals. 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 and non-commercial day shelters.
(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; or supervision while under program alternative to imprisonment, including, but not limited to, pre-release, work-release and probationary programs.
(J) Emergency residential. 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.
(K) Group care facility.
(1) A facility licensed or approved by the state or other appropriate agency, which provides for the care and short- or long-term, continuous multi-day/night occupancy of more than four unrelated persons who require and receive therapy or counseling on site as part of an organized and therapeutic ongoing program for any of the purposes listed below.
(2) Such facilities shall exclude those uses defined as group homes.
(3) Group care facilities include facilities which provide for the following:
(a) Adaptation to living with, or rehabilitation from, the handicaps of physical disability;
(b) Adaptation to living with, or rehabilitation from, the handicaps of emotional or mental disorder, or of intellectual disability if such facility has an overnight occupancy of more than eight persons; and/or
(c) Rehabilitation from the effects of drug or alcohol abuse.
(L) Group home. A facility licensed by the state in which at least four, but no more than eight, persons, not including resident managers or house parents, who are unrelated by blood, marriage or adoption reside while receiving therapy, training or counseling for the purpose of adaptation to living with or rehabilitation from cerebral palsy, autism or a disability.
(M) 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.
(N) Health care. A facility providing medical, psychiatric or surgical service for sick or injured persons exclusively on an out-patient basis including emergency treatment, diagnostic services, training, administration and services to outpatients, employees or visitors.
(O) Hospital. A facility providing medical, psychiatric or surgical service for sick or injured persons including on an in-patient basis, including, but not limited to, emergency treatment, air medical services, diagnostic services, training, administration and services to patients, employees or visitors.
(P) Maintenance facilities. A public facility supporting maintenance, repair, vehicular or equipment servicing, material storage and similar activities including street or utility yards, equipment service centers and similar uses having characteristics of commercial services or contracting or industrial activities.
(Q) Non-commercial shelters. Facilities which are operated by non-profit organizations and which provide emergency or temporary services and accommodations for people who lack access to permanent housing. Non-commercial shelters may provide accommodations on a daytime and/or overnight basis. Typical uses include urban missions and shelters for homeless people.
(R) Park and recreation services. Publicly owned and operated parks, playgrounds, recreation facilities and open spaces.
(S) Postal facilities. Postal services, including post offices, bulk mail processing or sorting centers. Postal facilities do not include distribution or shipping.
(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.
(U) Public assembly. Facilities owned and operated by a public agency or a charitable non-profit organization accommodating major public assembly for recreation, sports, amusement or entertainment purposes. Typical uses include civic or community auditoriums, sports stadiums, 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, but 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 Nebraska 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.
(Y) Stormwater treatment facilities. Drainage and detention facilities required at the time of development, such as ditches, wetlands, ponds or similar facilities utilized or constructed to meet requirements established by the city’s Stormwater Management Plan.
(Z) Utilities. Any above ground structures or 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. 23-09, passed 8-21-2023)