(a) Examples of Accessory Uses and Facilities
Accessory uses and facilities include, but are not limited to, the following list of examples; provided that each accessory use or facility shall comply with all provisions of this title:
(1) Residential garages, carports, and parking facilities, together with access and circulation elements necessary thereto;
(2) Customer, visitor, and employee parking facilities, and off-street loading facilities, together with access and circulation elements necessary thereto;
(3) Facilities for storage incidental to a principal use;
(4) Recreational uses and facilities for the use and convenience of occupants or employees, or guests thereof, of a principal use or facility;
(5) Newsstands, gift shops, drugstores, and eating and drinking facilities, or similar services intended solely for the convenience of occupants or employees, or guests thereof, of a principal use, when conducted entirely within a principal facility;
(6) Building management offices when located within the principal facility and limited to the management thereof;
(7) Refreshment and service facilities in parks, in playgrounds, and in permitted public or private recreation facilities or schools;
(8) The operation of service facilities and equipment in connection with schools, hospitals, and similar institutions or uses, when located on the site of the principal use.
(b) If Associated with a Permitted Use or Facility
Accessory uses and facilities shall be permitted in any district when incidental to and associated with a permitted use or facility, or when incidental to and associated with an allowable and authorized conditional use therein, subject to the provisions of this section.
(c) Accessory Uses and Facilities are Conditional on Principal Use Facility Permit
No use or facility permitted as an accessory use or facility pursuant to this section shall be construed to be permitted as a principal use or facility unless specifically authorized as a permitted or conditional use in the district in which it shall be located. Operation, occupancy, and continuance of allowable accessory uses and facilities shall be conditioned upon the continued occupancy or use of the principal use or facility being served.
(d) Relation to Principal Structures and Location
(1) Accessory uses and facilities shall be subordinate to the primary activity of the principal use or the principal facility, respectively.
(2) Accessory uses and facilities shall contribute to the comfort, convenience, efficiency, or necessity of the occupants or the activities of a principal use, or the function of a principal structure.
(3) Accessory uses and facilities shall be located on the same site as the principal use or structure served, except as otherwise authorized by this title.
(4) Accessory buildings located within a required interior yard, as permitted by this section, shall not individually or cumulatively occupy an area exceeding fifty percent of the required rear yard.
(Ord. 4934 § 4 (part), 2007)