(A) Agricultural. The cultivation and tillage of soil; the production, irrigation, cultivation (including horticultural), growing, harvesting and processing of any commercial agricultural commodity, including farming, dairying, pasturage, agriculture, husbandry and timber; the lawful application of chemicals including, but not limited to, the application of pesticides, the raising of livestock, fish or poultry, and any practices performed by a farmer and on a farm incidental to or in conjunction with such operations, including preparation for market, delivery to storage or to market, or to carriers for transportation to market, and all activities or facilities related thereto. Such operations may occur during any 24-hour period of the day.
(B) Amusement center. A facility providing indoor amusement and entertainment services for an admission fee. Uses may include theme parks, arcades, bingo, bowling alleys, bocce ball, dance halls, laser tag and similar games.
(C) Automobile repair. The repair, rebuilding or reconditioning of engines or transmissions, including the removal of the same; issuance of smog certificates; glass repair; and overall painting. Use can also include minor repair such as upholstering, detailing, replacement of parts, including batteries, mufflers, brakes, starters, generators, radiators, stereos and the like, adjusting of engines, transmission, electrical systems, air conditioning equipment, brakes and motor service.
(D) Bar, cocktail lounge. Establishments, including brewpubs, which are primarily designed, maintained, operated, used or intended to be used for the selling and on site consumption of beer, wine and/or distilled spirits. Food sales may be incidental to the bar use. Live entertainment may also be offered as an incidental use if conducted within a building.
(E) Body art establishment. BODY ART ESTABLISHMENT or ESTABLISHMENT means a location, place or business that has been granted a use permit by the city, whether public or private, where the practice of physical body adornment by permitted establishment and practitioners using, but not limited to, the following techniques: body piercing; tattooing; and cosmetic tattooing. This use does not include practices that are considered medical procedures such as implants under the skin scarification, branding, beading or braiding, which are prohibited.
(F) Business service. Establishments providing document delivery, mail receiving and boxes, blueprinting, copying, printing, photographic and related services. Use includes parcel delivery sales and service. Use also includes business/office support services, such as janitorial, window cleaning and indoor plant maintenance.
(G) Commercial cannabis activity. See § 5-7-2 of this title for all definitions related to commercial cannabis activity and uses.
(H) Commercial services. Uses include commercial laundry and dry cleaning works; bakery and carpet cleaning plants; production of dairy products; ice dealers; cabinet shops; food lockers; beverage bottling plants. Only very limited manufacturing activities are permitted under this use category.
(I) Daycare center. Commercial or nonprofit daycare facilities designed and approved to accommodate eight or more persons providing nonmedical care for periods of less than 24 hours. The use includes childcare operations.
(J) Emergency shelter. A building providing temporary shelter for persons in distressed circumstances, including temporary housing for homeless persons.
(K) Equipment sales, rental and repair. A business establishment engaged in the rental, sale, leasing and/or repair of vehicles, tools and large equipment. Uses include boat and truck sales and service. This classification also includes sale of appliances, tools, home improvement merchandise and similar equipment.
(L) Financial institution, bank. An establishment for the custody, loan, exchange or issue of money, extension of credit, and facilitating the transmission of funds, for use by the general public.
(M) Horticultural nursery. The retail handling of any article, substance or commodity related to the occupation of gardening, including the sale, both indoor and outdoor, of aboveground plants, shrubs, trees, packaged fertilizers, soils, chemicals, and other nursery goods and related products.
(N) Hospital. A building or any portion thereof used or designed for the housing of sick, mentally ill, injured, convalescent or infirm persons; provided, that this definition shall not include rooms in any one-, two- or three-family dwelling, boarding house, hotel or motel not ordinarily intended to be occupied by said persons.
(O) Hotel. A building designed for occupancy for individuals who are lodged, for compensation, with or without meals, in which there are four or more guestrooms, and in which no provision is made for cooking in any individual room or suite.
(P) Laboratory, research institute. Facilities for scientific research, investigation and materials testing or experimentation, but not facilities for the manufacture or sale of products.
(Q) Licensed community care facility. The rooming and boarding of up to six physically, mentally or developmentally disadvantaged persons for which a license is required by a county, state or federal agency, and which provides resident staff. Such a facility shall not be included in the definition of a boarding house, foster care home, rest home or other similar term which differs in any other way from a single-family dwelling.
(R) Mixed use. A project that combines multiple uses in the same structure or on the same project site, including residential, office and commercial uses.
(S) Motel. A building or group of attached or detached buildings containing individual guestrooms where a majority of such room opens individually and directly to the outside, and where a garage is attached or parking space is conveniently located to each unit, for the temporary use by automobile tourists or transients.
(T) Office, business, professional and medical. An office engaged in management, administrative, consulting or medical, dental or related services. This classification includes accounting, advertising, architectural, chiropractic, dental and doctors offices, medical laboratories, commercial technical schools, computer software development and data processing, construction, engineering, environmental analysis, insurance, law, real estate, secretarial, social work, and tree and landscaping services.
(U) Outdoor sales. Any retail business whose sales are conducted primarily outside of an enclosed building. The use may include general contractors yards and equipment sales.
(V) Recreation. Recreation and amusement uses and facilities compatible with surrounding uses, other than those classified under public parks, and which are conducted indoors or outdoors. Typical uses include bowling alleys, health clubs, ice and roller skating rinks, movie theaters, poolrooms, video arcades and dance halls, private golf courses and golf driving ranges, and swimming and tennis clubs.
(W) Recreational vehicle site/trailer court. Any facility on which two or more recreational vehicle sites are located, established or maintained for occupancy by recreational vehicles of the general public as temporary living quarters for vacationers, campers, recreationalists and travelers. Includes a trailer court which is designed to be used for the temporary accommodation or parking of auto trailers, trailer coaches or mobilehomes, for compensation or profit.
(X) Residence, manager/owner. Permanent or temporary housing on a nonresidential property that is secondary or accessory to the primary use of the property. Such housing is used for managers or owners living on the site where a caretaker is needed for security or to provide 24 hour care or monitoring of facilities, equipment or other conditions on the site.
(Y) Rest home. Services oriented toward the healing, recovery, care or support of seven or more sick, injured or terminally ill people. Use shall include assisted living residential projects involving seven or more units.
(Z) Restaurant. A use providing preparation and primarily on site consumption of food and beverages, including cafés, coffee shops, delicatessens, ice cream parlors and similar uses, and may include the incidental service of alcoholic beverages for consumption on the premises. Outdoor dining/seating is also included in this classification.
(AA) Restaurant, drive-in. A restaurant which serves food and drinks from a pass-through opening to customers in their vehicles or delivery of food to a diner remaining in their vehicle.
(BB) Retail sales. The retail sale or rental of merchandise. Typical of this classification is a business engaged in the sale of items. Uses include bookstores, rental libraries, stationery stores, newsstands, art and antique shops, variety and hardware stores, department and clothing stores, furniture dealers, pet shops, pawnshops and secondhand stores, groceries, supermarkets, dairies, bakeries and drugstores.
(CC) Service station/gas. Any building, structure, premises or other place used primarily for the retail sale and dispensation of motor fuels, lubricants and motor vehicle accessories, and the rendering of minor services and/or repairs to such vehicles, but not including painting or body and fender repair. May be combined with retail sales and similar operations.
(DD) Smoke shop and/or smoking lounge.
1. A location, place or business, store, stand or booth that has been granted a conditional use permit by the city and devotes 30% or more of its display area to tobacco products, or to the display and sale of tobacco, electronic smoking devices or drug paraphernalia to purchasers for consumption or use. For the purposes of this use, the definition of
TOBACCO PRODUCTS means any substance that contains tobacco or is derived from tobacco, and any and all electronic smoking devices. ELECTRONIC SMOKING DEVICE means an electronic and/or battery operated device that can be used to deliver an inhaled dose of vapors including nicotine and/or other substances.
2. For purposes of this use
SMOKING LOUNGE means a business establishment that is dedicated, in whole or in part, to the smoking of tobacco or other substances, including, but not limited to, establishments known variously as cigar lounges, hookah cafés, tobacco clubs, tobacco bars and the like (collectively referred to as SMOKING LOUNGE(S)).
(EE) Vehicle sales. The sales, storage and repair of automobiles, trucks, motorcycles, all-terrain vehicles, boats, recreational vehicles and similar motor vehicles. This use is intended to occur in an auto mall setting, which may include a series of individual dealerships. Use includes outside storage of vehicles, vehicle washing, and any interior vehicle repair operations. Auto body repairing and similar operations are not included in this use category.
(Ord. 533, passed 8-16-2005; Ord. 541, passed 4-18-2006; Ord. 589, passed 6-15-2010; Ord. 622, passed 1-20-2015; Ord. 626, passed 1-19-2016; Ord. 632, passed 12-19-2017)