Civic use types include the performance of utility, educational, recreational, cultural, medical, protective, governmental, and other uses that are strongly vested with social importance.
1. 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.
2. 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.
3. Clubs. Uses providing meeting, recreational, or social facilities for a private, nonprofit or noncommercial association, primarily for use by members and guests.
A. 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.
B. Clubs (Social): Clubs that provide primarily social or meeting facilities. Typical uses include private social clubs and fraternal organizations.
4. 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 generally recognized accrediting organization.
5. 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.
6. 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.
7. 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 not more than six (6) 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.
8. 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 more than six (6) 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.
9. Detention Facilities. A publicly operated or contracted use providing housing and care for individuals legally confined, designed to isolate those individuals from the community.
10. 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.
11. Group Care Facility. A facility licensed or approved by the State of Iowa or other appropriate agency, which provides for the care and short or long-term, continuous multi-day 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. Such facilities shall exclude those uses defined as group homes. Group Care Facilities include facilities which provide for the:
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 mental retardation if such facility has an overnight occupancy of more than eight persons.
C. Rehabilitation from the effects of drug or alcohol abuse.
D. Supervision while under a program alternative to imprisonment, including but not limited to pre-release, work-release, and probationary programs.
12. Group Home. A facility licensed by the State of Iowa in which 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 mental retardation.
13. 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.
14. 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.
15. 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.
16. 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.
17. Park and Recreation Services. Publicly owned and operated parks, playgrounds, recreation facilities including publicly-owned community centers, and open spaces.
18. Postal Facilities. Postal services, including post offices, bulk mail processing or sorting centers operated by the United States Postal Service.
19. 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.
20. 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.
21. 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.
22. Safety Services. Facilities for conduct of public safety and emergency services including police and fire protection services and emergency medical and ambulance services.
23. 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.
24. 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.