(A) Schools.
(1) Characteristics. The schools use category includes public and private schools at the primary, elementary, middle, junior high, or high school level that provide state-mandated basic education. Accessory uses at schools include play areas, cafeterias, recreational and sport facilities, auditoriums, and before- or after-school day care.
(2) Examples. Examples include public and private schools.
(B) Institutions.
(1) Characteristics. The institutions use category is characterized by use types that include buildings providing meeting areas for neighborhoods, civic gatherings places, fraternal organizations, care and treatment of the sick, government facilities, post offices, emergency response facilities (police, fire, or paramedic), and religious and civic institutions. Accessory uses can include food preparation, meeting rooms, parking, storage facilities, and staff residences.
(2) Examples. Examples include community centers, cultural facilities, government offices, medical and dental clinics, outpatient facilities, assisted living facilities, religious institutions, and civic clubs.
(3) Exceptions. Group home facilities or residential programs where individual units meet the definition of a "dwelling unit" in Chapter 161: Definitions are classified as household living.
(C) Public park or open space.
(1) Characteristics. Parks and open areas are uses of land focusing on natural areas consisting mostly of vegetative landscaping or outdoor recreation, community gardens, or public squares. Lands tend to have few structures. Accessory uses may include club houses, restrooms, maintenance facilities, concessions, and parking.
(2) Examples. Examples include parks, public squares, plazas, recreational trails, greenways, botanical gardens, and nature preserves.
(3) Exceptions. Privately owned golf courses are classified as commercial outdoor recreation uses.
(D) Marine-related.
(1) Characteristics. This category includes facilities that provide access to the ocean and intercoastal waters for fishing, boating, and other marine-related activities. Accessory uses may include retails sales, restaurants, personal services, laundries, fuel sales, dry storage, or other goods or services associated with watercraft operation.
(2) Examples. Examples include public or private docks, piers, or marinas.
(3) Exceptions. Marine-related retail shops such as bait and tackle are classified as Type I or II retail.
(E) Utilities.
(1) Characteristics. This category includes both major utilities, which are infrastructure services providing regional or community-wide service, and minor utilities, which are infrastructure services that need to be located in or near the neighborhood where the service is provided. Telecommunication facilities also are a type of utility. Utility uses generally do not regularly have employees at the site. Services may be publicly or privately provided. Accessory uses may include parking and control, monitoring, or data transmission equipment.
(2) Examples.
(a) Examples of major utilities include water towers, waste treatment plants, public transit park and ride facilities, and electrical substations.
(b) Examples of minor utilities include water and sewage pump stations, stormwater retention and detention facilities, telephone exchanges, and surface transportation stops.
(c) Examples of telecommunication facilities include facilities for transmitting wireless phones and pager services, and television and radio broadcasting equipment that are configured as freestanding towers, or as collocated equipment upon another tower, building, or other vertical projection.
(3) Exceptions. Utility offices are classified as offices.
(Ord. 05-10, passed 3-23-10)