ADMINISTRATIVE/PROFESSIONAL SERVICES. Offices of private firms or organizations primarily used for the provision of professional, executive, management or administrative offices, legal offices, architectural firms, physician's offices, insurance agencies, real estate firms and other similar activities.
ADULT BUSINESS. Any business which is conducted exclusively for the patronage of adults, and as to which minors are specifically excluded from patronage thereat, either by law or by the operators of such business. Adult business shall include but shall not be limited to adult bookstores, adult theaters, adult hotels and motels, adult entertainment establishments, model studios as defined in § 17.44.010, but shall not include those uses or activities, the regulation of which is preempted by state law.
ADULT DAY CARE. A facility providing non-medical care for adults on a less than 24-hour basis.
AFFORDABLE HOUSING. Housing in which at least 20% of the dwelling units are “covenant restricted” for a minimum of 30 years for occupancy by low or moderate income households. The housing type may be single-family dwellings or multiple-family and shall be ownership housing.
ALCOHOLIC BEVERAGE SALES. Any establishment or activity where alcoholic beverages, as controlled by state law, are sold and where the parcel upon which sale occurs is within 500 feet of any residential zone, school, hospital, or church. Typical uses may include liquor stores and restaurants with alcoholic beverage service. Bars are not included in this classification.
ANIMAL BOARDING. Boarding services for dogs, cats and similar small animals as well as horses. Typical uses shall include catteries, kennels, dog training centers and stables.
ANIMAL KEEPING. A premises where animals are fed for or kept for personal use, for a 4-H or other agricultural organization projects by the owner or occupant on the premises, as limited by Chapter 6.28 of this code.
ANTIQUE STORE. Any business use that is primarily engaged in the sale or trading of articles of which 80% or more are over 50 years old or have collectible value, but does not include taking in pawn, accepting for sale on consignment, accepting for auctioning secondhand, tangible personal property.
ARCADE. As defined in § 17.04.080.
ATHLETIC CLUB/HEALTH SPA. An establishment containing indoor or outdoor facilities such as gymnasiums, racquetball courts, and swimming pools and/or primarily engaged in physical fitness.
AUTOMOBILE ACCESSORY SERVICE. Establishments primarily engaged in the service, installation or repair of equipment devices or treatments typically made to automobiles or other vehicles. Typical uses include automotive alarms, radios, or window tinting shops.
AUTOMOBILE PARKING. The parking of motor vehicles on a temporary basis within an off-street parking area with or without a fee.
AUTOMOBILE PARKING, TRANSITIONAL. A lot located in the RM, RM/RH, or RH Zone, which abuts a commercial, manufacturing, public/quasi-public or planned development zone, and is suitable for development for parking lot purposes for an adjacent commercial or industrial use.
AUTOMOBILE PARKING STRUCTURE. A public or private building or portion of a building designed for the parking of operable motor vehicles on a temporary basis.
AUTOMOBILE RENTALS ON-SITE. An office and on-site parking of rental vehicles. This excludes any type of on-site repair facility.
AUTOMOBILE REPAIR (HEAVY). Repair of motor vehicles as well as the sale, installation and servicing of automobile equipment and parts together with body repairs, painting, steam cleaning and welding.
AUTOMOBILE REPAIR (LIGHT). Automotive repair shops with on-site parts and equipment available and where all work is customarily done in one day. Typical uses shall include tire, muffler, or service/tune-up shops.
AUTOMOBILE SALES. The sale or lease, retail or wholesale of automobiles, trucks, motorcycles, or recreational vehicles.
AUTOMOBILE SERVICE STATION. An area which provides for the servicing of motor vehicles, including tube and tire repairs, minor tune-ups, battery charging, storage of merchandise and supplies related to
the servicing of motor vehicles, sale of gasoline and lubricants, and grease racks. Self-serve or semi-self-serve car wash facilities that are incidental to the use shall be permitted with a conditional use permit approval. Uses that are excluded are body and fender work, engine overhauling or other similar activities.
BAR. Places of business primarily engaged in the sale of alcoholic beverages for on-premises consumption.
BED AND BREAKFAST HOME. A place where lodging is provided and breakfast served, subject to the regulations in § 17.44.030.
BUSINESS SUPPORT SERVICES. Establishments primarily engaged in the provision of services of a clerical, employment, protective, maintenance, janitorial or minor processing nature to firms rather than individuals.
CAR WASH. Places of business primarily engaged in the automated or semi-automated washing of automobiles and where attendants are present.
CEMETERIES. Areas reserved for interment or cremation of human dead.
CHECK CASHING BUSINESS. Establishment, other than a bank or savings and loan or similar financial institution that cashes checks for a fee as its principal business activity and may or may not also make loans as part of that business activity.
CHILD CARE SERVICES. Establishments providing for the part-time care of children.
CLUB AND LODGE FACILITIES. Establishments or locations designed or used to house the activities of a social, union, fraternal, or sororal organization, the primary activities being the meetings of such organization. Activities involving food service or entertainment shall be incidental. Typical uses shall include labor union halls, service club halls and fraternal lodges.
COMMUNICATION SERVICES. Establishments primarily engaged in the provision of broadcasting and other information relay services accomplished through the use of electronic and telephonic mechanisms, but excluding television studios, telecommunication service centers or telegraph service offices.
CONSTRUCTION SERVICES. Places of business primarily engaged in construction activities and incidental storage on lots other than construction sites.
CONVALESCENT AND RECOVERY FACILITIES. Establishments providing on-premises boarding of persons in need of non-emergency, non-critical treatment for which direct surgical or medical intervention is not necessary. Typical uses shall include alcohol and drug abuse recovery centers, physical therapy rehabilitation, and Alzheimers hospices. It does not include hospitals or premises for the mentally ill or convalescent homes for senior citizens per § 17.44.170.
CULTURAL EXHIBITS. A use providing for display, performance, or enjoyment of heritage, history, or the arts. This use includes but is not limited to museums, cultural centers, or interpretive sites, but does not include live performance or motion picture theaters.
EDUCATIONAL INSTITUTIONS. Private institutions offering instruction at the primary, intermediate, high school, college or university level with incidental administration, recreational and storage facilities.
EMERGENCY SHELTER. A facility that provides immediate and short-term housing with minimal support services for homeless persons that is limited to occupancy of six months or less by a homeless person.
ENTERTAINMENT FACILITIES. See specific definitions as set forth in § 17.44.055.
FAMILY DAY CARE HOME. A home or dwelling unit, which regularly provides care, protection and supervision of children for periods of less than 24 hours per day per Cal. Health and Safety Code and consists of the following two types:
(1) SMALL FAMILY DAY CARE. Homes which provide family day care to 8 or fewer children, including the owner’s children.
(2) LARGE FAMILY DAY CARE. Homes which provide family day care to 9 to 14 children, including the owner’s children.
FINANCIAL INSTITUTIONS. Establishments primarily engaged in the provision of financial services including banks and savings and loan institutions.
FIREARMS/AMMUNITION.
AMMUNITION. Projectiles with their fuses, propelling charges, and primers fired from guns. Typical uses include retail gun shops, sporting goods stores with incidental guns sales, and wholesale gun dealers.
FIREARM. Any device, designed to be used as a weapon, from which is expelled through a barrel a projectile by the force of any explosion or other form of combustion.
FOOD AND BEVERAGE SALES. Places of business primarily engaged in the retail sale of food and beverages for home consumption. Typical uses shall include grocery stores, convenient marts, liquor stores, and supermarkets.
FORTUNE TELLING. The telling of fortunes, forecasting the future, or furnishing any information by means of astrology, phrenology, cartomancy, crystal gazing, divination, prophecy, augury, occult or psychic powers, telepathy, clairvoyance, numerology, psychometry, spirits mediumship, seership, palmistry, necromancy, biochart, or any similar business, craft, art, or science through the use of cards, talismans, charms, potions, magnetized articles or substances, mysteries, or magic of any kind or nature.
FUNERAL SERVICES. Establishments primarily engaged in the provision of services involving the care, preparation or disposition of human dead other than cemeteries.
GAME COURT. A permanent structure having a playing surface, paved or unpaved, with or without enclosing fencing, designed to be used for playing or practicing tennis, volleyball, racquetball, squash or similar games.
GOVERNMENTAL SERVICES. Administrative, clerical, public contact offices or other community facilities of a government agency including public safety facilities together with incidental storage.
GROUP DWELLING. A residential facility designed for occupancy of persons who are not related by blood, marriage or adoption, on a weekly or longer basis. Typical uses shall include dormitories, sorority or fraternity houses, retirement homes, boarding and rooming houses and other such facilities.
GROUP DWELLING (STATE MANDATED). A residential facility which serves six or fewer persons who are not related by blood, marriage or adoption on a weekly or longer in as such much as it is mandated by state law to not distinguish such residents from persons who reside in other family dwellings of the same type in the same zone (Cal. Health and Safety Code §§ 1500 et seq.). Group dwellings under this classification may be used for such uses as residential care facility, homes for handicapped persons or dependent and neglected children.
GUEST HOUSE. Living quarters within a detached accessory building located on the same premises with the main building, for use by guests or the occupant of the premises, such quarters having no kitchen facilities and not rented or otherwise used as a separate dwelling unit. No permit for the construction of a guest house shall be issued unless the owner of property shall have executed and recorded a covenant, in the form approved by the City Attorney, agreeing that such guest house shall be used only in the purpose and manner specified in this title.
HAZARDOUS WASTE and HAZARDOUS WASTE FACILITY. As defined in the Cal. Health and Safety Code as now written or as the same may be hereafter amended.
HEAVY MANUFACTURING. Industrial operations involving the compounding of radioactive materials, petroleum refining, manufacturing of explosives, or any other operation of a dangerous nature or creating high levels of air, water or noise pollution.
HOSPITALS. Establishments providing for on-site residence or confinement and medical treatment of persons afflicted with bodily or mental disease. Typical uses shall include hospitals, sanitariums, and institutions for mental patients.
HOTEL/MOTEL. A facility offering transient lodging accommodations for compensation to the general public; additional services provided may include amenities such as restaurants, meeting rooms and recreational facilities.
INSTRUCTIONAL SERVICES. Establishments primarily engaged in the provision of information, instructional, personal improvement and similar services of a nonprofessional nature. Typical uses include driving schools, dance studios, martial arts studios, gymnastics instruction and language schools.
LAUNDROMAT. A facility that provides washing machines and dryers to be operated by the patron on the premises.
LIGHT MANUFACTURING. Industrial plants primarily engaged in manufacturing, compounding, processing, assembling, packaging, treatment or fabrication of materials and products.
LIVE/WORK STUDIO. Spaces or units within buildings that are designed to be used jointly for residential and work/studio purposes. LIVE/WORK STUDIOS are not subject to the regulations on home occupations.
MASSAGE ESTABLISHMENT. An establishment having a fixed place of business where any person engages in, conducts, carries on, or permits to be engaged in, conducted, or carried on, whether as a primary or secondary use, any activity set forth in the definition of MASSAGE in Chapter 5.24 of this code. Any establishment engaged in, conducting, carrying on, or permitting any combination of massage and bath facilities, including but not limited to, showers, baths, wet and dry heat rooms, pools and hot tubs, shall be deemed a MASSAGE ESTABLISHMENT. A MASSAGE ESTABLISHMENT does not include nail salons, beauty shops and barber shops unless such establishments offer massage services as an accessory use.
MEDICAL LABORATORY SERVICES. Places of business engaged in testing, analysis, storage or similar activity of specimens, bodily fluids or other items of a medical nature outside of hospitals or physician's primary offices. Typical uses shall include blood labs and dental labs and shall not permit patient visitation.
MEDICAL OUT-PATIENT SERVICES. Establishments primarily engaged in providing specialized medical testing or treatment of persons on an outpatient basis. Typical uses shall include kidney dialysis clinics, blood testing centers and cardiac testing.
MOBILE HOME PARK. As defined in § 17.04.080.
MULTIPLE FAMILY DWELLING. A dwelling unit on a lot containing more than one dwelling unit, each unit designed as a complete, independent living facility with provisions for living, sleeping, cooking, and dining. A dwelling unit with a planned unit development shall be considered a MULTIPLE FAMILY DWELLING.
OTHER USES. Uses not specifically mentioned or easily identified by the Development Review Committee as belonging to one or more of the above use types, and shall be permitted in any zone if granted a conditional use permit by the Commission. When granting a conditional use permit in such a circumstance, the Commission must find that the use is compatible with other uses permitted in the zone.
PERMANENT MAKEUP. The act of placing an indelible mark or figure upon the human face by insertion of pigment under the skin for the purpose of permanently changing the color or other appearance of the face and includes the application of permanent eyeliner, eyebrows, eye shadow, lip liner, or lip color. The term PERMANENT MAKEUP does not include the term TATTOO, as defined in § 17.44.195 of this code. The application of permanent makeup is permitted as an accessory use in beauty salons and nail salons.
PERSONAL SERVICES. Establishments primarily engaged in the provision of services of a personal nature, including massage establishments, tattoo parlors, and check cashing businesses. A MASSAGE ESTABLISHMENT means any establishment having a fixed place of business where any person engages in, conducts, carries on, or permits to be engaged in, conducted, or carried on, whether as a primary or secondary or ancillary activity, any activity set forth in the definition of “massage” in Chapter 5.24 of this code. Any establishment engaged in, conducting, carrying on, or permitting any combination of massage and bath facilities, including but not limited to, showers, baths, wet and dry heat rooms, pools and hot tubs, shall be deemed a MASSAGE ESTABLISHMENT. A MASSAGE ESTABLISHMENT does not include nail salons, beauty shops and barber shops unless such establishments offer any massage as a secondary or ancillary activity. A TATTOO PARLOR means an establishment engaged in the act of placing an indelible mark or figure upon the human body by insertion of pigment under the skin or by production of scars. A CHECK CASHING BUSINESS means an establishment, other than a bank or savings and loan or similar financial institution that cashes checks for a fee as its principal business activity and may or may not also make loans as part of that business activity.
PLANT CULTIVATION. Premises primarily devoted to the growing of plants as a business.
POSTAL SERVICES. Mailing services, excluding major processing, owned or operated by organizations other than governmental agencies as traditionally provided by the United States Postal Service.
PUBLIC MAINTENANCE SERVICES. Yards or other space, whether enclosed or unenclosed, devoted to the storage of equipment needed by public agencies to maintain public facilities such as any incidental structures housing administrative operations of such programs.
PUBLIC TRANSPORTATION FACILITIES. Facilities such as bus terminals, airports, and rail facilities devoted to one or more of the various means of public transit.
RELIGIOUS ASSEMBLY. Religious services involving public assembly such as customarily occurs in synagogues, temples and churches.
RECREATIONAL FACILITIES. An establishment primarily engaged in the provision of sports and recreation by and for participants. Any spectators would be incidental and on a nonrecurring basis. Typical uses shall include bowling alleys, billiard parlors, batting cages, driving ranges and miniature golf courses, and skating rinks.
RECYCLING COLLECTION FACILITY (LARGE). A collection facility that is 500 square feet or greater, or is on a separate property not appurtenant to a host use, and which may have a permanent building.
RECYCLING COLLECTION FACILITY (SMALL). A collection facility that occupies an area of not more than 500 feet and is operated in conjunction with a supermarket.
RECYCLING PROCESSING FACILITY. A processing facility in which a building or enclosed space is used for the collection and processing of recyclable materials. PROCESSING means the preparation of materials for efficient shipment, or to an end user's specifications, by means such as bailing, briquetting, compacting, flattening, grinding, crushing, mechanical sorting, shredding, cleaning and remanufacturing.
RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT. Establishments primarily engaged in the research of an industrial or scientific nature, excluding medical testing and analysis. Typical uses shall include electronics research laboratories, space research and development firms and pharmaceutical research laboratories.
RESTAURANT. Places of business primarily engaged in the sale of food and beverages prepared on-site for immediate on-site or off-site consumption by the public. Typical uses shall include full service restaurants, fast-food eating places, doughnut shops, ice cream parlors and coffeehouses.
RETAIL (INDOOR). Places of business primarily engaged in the sale or rental to the ultimate consumer of goods and merchandise from an enclosed structure, but excluding wholesaling operations. Typical uses include department stores, apparel stores, sporting goods stores, furniture stores and art galleries. Specialty food stores shall be classified as RETAIL establishments. A SPECIALTY FOOD STORE as used in this chapter shall mean establishments specializing in the sale of specific types of food and/or beverage products such as retail bakeries, health food stores, delicatessens, wine shops and butcher shops.
RETAIL (OUTDOOR). Places of business primarily engaged in the sale to the ultimate consumer of goods and merchandise outside of a fully enclosed structure. Typical uses include swap meets, farmers' markets and craft fairs.
SALVAGE OPERATIONS. Places of business primarily engaged in the storage, sale, dismantling or other processing of used or waste materials not intended for reuse in their form. Typical uses shall include automobile dismantling yards, junkyards, and paper salvage yards.
SECONDHAND DEALERS/PAWNSHOPS. Any person, copartnership, firm or corporation whose principal business is primarily that of engaging in buying, selling, trading, taking in pawn, accepting for sale on consignment, accepting for auctioning, or auctioning secondhand, tangible personal property. A secondhand dealer also includes any person who engages in the business of buying, or selling secondhand tangible personal property in excess of 20% of the gross sales and purchases of goods or merchandise sold or purchased in the regular course of business. A SECONDHAND DEALER, as used in this chapter, shall not include any person who performs the services of auctioneer for a fee or salary.
SENIOR CITIZEN HOUSING. Residential developments restricted to occupancy by persons 55 years or older per § 17.44.170. Typical uses include convalescent homes, congregate care and individual living.
SERVICE COMMERCIAL. Businesses performing services for customers primarily on the business premises. Such services may include but are not limited to beauty salons, nail salons, barbershops, dry cleaners (excluding dry cleaning machinery) and repair shops (watch, shoe, small household appliances and electronics).
SINGLE FAMILY DWELLING. A building containing one dwelling unit located on a lot containing only one dwelling unit. A dwelling unit within a planned unit development shall be considered a multiple family dwelling.
SUPPORTIVE HOUSING. A dwelling unit or units with no limit on length of stay, that is intended for occupancy by the target population (as defined in California Government Code Section 65582), as amended or replaced from time to time), and that is linked to onsite or offsite services that assist the supportive housing residents in retaining the housing, improving their health status, and maximizing their ability to live and, when possible, work in the community.
SWAP MEET (INDOOR). A place of business where separate retail uses share the same facility and display, exchange, barter or sale to the ultimate consumer of commonly new and used goods and merchandise for personal or household use from an enclosed structure.
THEME SHOPPING USE. Places of business where retail uses sharing the same facility sell merchandise of the same type and characteristic, and are related in kind, included but not limited to antique malls, jewelry malls, and other uses identified by the Development Review Committee and Planning Commission.
TRANSITIONAL HOUSING. A dwelling unit or units intended for use as rental housing, but operated under program requirements that require the termination of assistance and recirculation of the assisted unit to another eligible program recipient at a predetermined future point in time that shall be no less than six months from the beginning of the assistance.
TRUCK AND EQUIPMENT YARDS. Establishments or locations where trucks, equipment or other machinery is stored for extended periods of time or offered for rental. Typical uses shall include equipment rental yards, recreational vehicle storage, fleet depots.
UTILITY DISTRIBUTION FACILITIES. Utilities which are necessary to support principal development and involve only minor structures such as lines and poles.
UTILITY OPERATIONS FACILITIES. Facilities involved in the operation of the various public and quasi- public utilities such as telephone switchboard centers, electrical generating plants and terminals, sewage plants and water pumping stations or reservoirs.
VETERINARY SERVICES. Establishments engaged in animal health care by veterinarians with incidental animal boarding (in-patient care). Typical uses shall include pet clinics and animal hospitals.
WAREHOUSING/WHOLESALING. Places of business primarily engaged in warehousing, wholesaling, storage, distribution and handling of materials and equipment other than live animals and plants.
(`83 Code, § 17.08.040) (Ord. 94-03 § 6, 1994; Ord. 95-02 § 2, 1995; Ord. 95-05 § 4, 1995; Ord. 96-09 § 1, 1996; Ord. 96-11 § 2, 1996; Ord. 97-08 § 5, 1997; Ord. 2000-08 § 1, 2000; Ord. 2000-11 § 7, 2000; Ord. 2001-06 § 6, 2001; Ord. 2001-10 § 6, 2001; Ord. 2003-09 § 7, 2003; Ord. 2005-08 § 5, 2005; Ord. 2007-05 §§ 7, 8, 2007; Ord. 2007-14 §§ 8-13, 2007; Ord. 2008-02 §§ 7 - 9, 2008; Ord. 2009-01 §§ 6, 12, 2009; Ord. 2011-04 § 7, 2011; Ord. 2011-05 §§ 11 - 13, 2011; Ord. 2014-01 § 10, 2014; Ord. 2017-04 §§ 11, 12, 2017; Ord. 2018-03 § 5, 2018; Ord. 2020-10 § 9, 2020)