For the sole purpose of calculating parking requirements, uses are defined as follows:
(a) Commercial.
(1) Car wash: includes facilities for washing, waxing and cleaning of vehicles and vehicle components but expressly prohibiting facilities or equipment for the repair, overhaul or storage of motor vehicles or vehicle components.
(2) Commercial lodging: includes hotels, motels, motor lodges and motor courts.
(3) Office: includes buildings for business, professional, administrative or medical office use. A general office is characterized by a low proportion of vehicle trips attributable to visitors or clients in relationship to employees.
(4) Retail: includes sale or service to the final consumer for direct consumption or an establishment providing retail sale of products or services to the public.
(5) Storage/warehouse: includes storage facilities and mini warehouse facilities with secured, individual storage units, which are leased for a fee to individual companies or persons.
(b) Industrial: includes manufacturing, distribution, processing, assembly and packaging facilities of all types.
(c) Institutional: includes buildings of all types and facilities used by public, quasi-public or nonprofit agencies that serve or assist the public or provide an accepted public purpose, including hospitals and health centers.
(d) Residential.
(1) Single-family structures: includes detached houses and duplexes, townhouses, and clustered dwelling units that may be attached but have separate entrances.
(2) Multi-family structures: includes condominium and apartment buildings with common entranceways and/or parking areas for two or more dwelling units.
(3) Senior housing: includes any multifamily dwelling occupied 90 percent or more by elderly persons, as defined by U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development.
(4) Sleeping rooms: includes boarding houses, lodging houses, rectories and convents, and rooms that are rented or used on an individual basis by non-family members.
(5) Group, convalescent or nursing homes and assisted living: includes residences where unrelated persons reside under supervision for special care, treatment, training or other purposes on a temporary or permanent basis.
(6) Day-care centers: includes facilities where unrelated persons are cared for during limited periods each day in a supervised facility.
(e) Public Assembly: includes all buildings or portions of buildings, used for gathering together 100 or more persons for such purposes as deliberation, worship, entertainment, eating, drinking or amusement. Examples of assembly include, but are not limited to, large meeting rooms and classrooms, auditoriums with fixed or loose chair seating, multi-purpose rooms, concert halls, and theaters. Restaurants, or other rooms used primarily for the service of food are not places of public assembly.
(f) Wireless Telecommunication Facilities: includes facilities defined pursuant to Section 1159.05(1).
(j) Drive-through facilities: includes fast-food restaurants, financial institutions, car washes and drug stores.
(Ord. 36-14. Passed 1-20-2015.)