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A use, which provides banking services and products to the public, such as banks, savings and loans, and credit unions, when occupying more than 15 feet of linear frontage or 200 square feet of gross floor area. Any applicant for a financial service use shall provide the Planning Department with a true copy of the license issued to it by the State of California.
(Added by Ord. 131-87, App. 4/24/87 amended by Ord. 115-90, App. 4/6/90; Ord. 269-07, File No. 070671, App. 11/26/2007)
A use that provides the following kinds of services to businesses and/or to the general public and does not fall under the definition of “office” pursuant to Section 890.70: radio and television stations; newspaper bureaus; magazine and trade publication publishing; microfilm recording; slide duplicating; bulk mail services; parcel shipping services; parcel labeling and packaging services; messenger delivery/courier services; sign painting and lettering services; building maintenance services; and cannabis delivery services.
(Added by Ord. 115-90, App. 4/6/90; Ord. 298-08, File No. 081153, App. 12/19/2008; amended by Ord. 229-17, File No. 171041, App. 12/6/2017, Eff. 1/5/2018)
AMENDMENT HISTORY
Section amended; Ord. 229-17, Eff. 1/5/2018.
A retail use which provides banking services, when not occupying more than 15 feet of linear frontage or 200 square feet of gross floor area. Automated teller machines, if installed within such a facility or on an exterior wall as a walk-up facility, are included in this category; however, these machines are not subject to the hours of operation, as defined in Section 890.48 of this Code and set forth in zoning category number .27 of Sections 810 through 812 of this Code for each district. Any applicant for a limited financial service use shall provide the Planning Department with a true copy of the license issued to it by the State of California.
(Added by Ord. 131-87, App. 4/24/87; Ord. 269-07, File No. 070671, App. 11/26/2007)
A retail use that provides banking services and products to the public and is owned or operated by a "check casher" as defined in California Civil Code Section 1789.31, as amended from time to time, or by a "licensee" as defined in California Financial Code Section 23001(d), as amended from time to time. Any applicant for a fringe financial service use shall provide the Planning Department with a true copy of the license issued to it by the State of California.
(Ord. 269-07, File No. 070671, App. 11/26/2007)
(See Interpretations related to this Section.)
A use, generally an office use, which provides medical and allied health services to the individual by physicians, surgeons, dentists, podiatrists, psychologists, psychiatrists, acupuncturists, chiropractors, Sole Massage Practitioners, or any other health-care professionals when licensed by a State-sanctioned Board overseeing the provision of medically oriented services. It includes a clinic, primarily providing outpatient care in medical, psychiatric or other health services, and not part of a hospital or medical center, as defined in Section 890.44 of this Code.
(Added by Ord. 131-87, App. 4/24/87; amended by Ord. 115-90, App. 4/6/90; Ord. 139-09, File No. 090402, App. 7/2/2009; Ord. 73-15, File No. 141303, App. 5/28/2015, Eff. 6/27/2015; Ord. 233-21, File No. 210381, App. 12/22/2021, Eff. 1/22/2022; Ord. 37-22, File No. 211263, App. 3/14/2022, Eff. 4/14/2022)
AMENDMENT HISTORY
(See Interpretations related to this Section.)
A retail use which provides grooming services to the individual, including salons, cosmetic services, tattoo parlors, and health spas; and instructional services not certified by the State Educational Agency, such as art, dance, exercise, martial arts, and music classes.
AMENDMENT HISTORY
That portion of a building included between the upper surface of any floor and the upper surface of the floor next above, except that the topmost story shall be that portion of a building included between the upper surface of the topmost floor and the ceiling or roof above.
It shall include any mezzanine, or intermediate level, the area of which does not exceed 33 1/3% of the total area of the floor, provided that the mezzanine is an open and integral part of the story of which it is a portion and there is no more than one mezzanine level per story.
(a) Basement. Space located below the first story of a building when such space is of sufficient floor to ceiling height for legal occupancy.
(b) Story, First. The highest building story with a floor level which is not more than six feet above grade at the centerline of the frontage of the lot where grade is defined.
(1) Grade. For purposes of this definition, "grade" is the point of elevation of the finished surface of the ground, paving or sidewalk at the property line located along primary frontage, i.e., any street frontage between two consecutive streets or alleys where the total street frontage is entirely within a Chinatown Mixed Use District. If the lot has more than one property line or no property line located along primary frontage, the Zoning Administrator shall choose the property line facing a street or alley where the grade is defined. In such situations the Zoning Administrator shall favor streets which serve as major transportation routes, major or secondary thoroughfares, and streets along which other commercial districts are located. When the property line is five feet or more from the building frontage, grade shall be taken at the surface of the ground, paving or sidewalk along the building frontage.
(2) The provisions of Section 102.11 of this Code shall apply to define the point of measurement at grade where the building steps laterally in relation to the street used to define "grade."
(c) Story, Second. The story above the first story.
(d) Story, Third and Above. The story or stories of a building above the second story and below the ceiling of the topmost story of a building.
(Added by Ord. 131-87, App. 4/24/87)
(Added by Ord. 131-87, App. 4/24/87; repealed by Ord. 75-12
, File No. 120084, App. 4/23/2012, Eff. 5/23/2012)
A Tobacco Paraphernalia Establishment is retail use where more than 10% of the square footage of Occupied Floor Area, as defined in Section 102, or more than 10 linear feet of display area projected to the floor, whichever is less, is dedicated to the sale, distribution, delivery, furnishing, or marketing of Tobacco Paraphernalia from one person to another. “Tobacco Paraphernalia” means paraphernalia, devices, or instruments that are designed or manufactured for the smoking, ingesting, inhaling, or otherwise introducing into the body of tobacco, products prepared from tobacco, or controlled substances as defined in California Health and Safety Code Sections 11054 et seq. “Tobacco Paraphernalia” does not include lighters, matches, cigarette holders, any device used to store or preserve tobacco, tobacco, cigarettes, cigarette papers, cigars, or any other preparation of tobacco that is permitted by existing law. Medical Cannabis Dispensaries, as defined in Section 3301(f) of the San Francisco Health Code, are not Tobacco Paraphernalia Establishments.
AMENDMENT HISTORY
(See Interpretations related to this Section.)
A retail service use which provides custom-crafted goods and/or services for sale directly to the consumer, reserving some storefront space for display and retail service. The Trade Shop shall be conducted to minimize the impacts of noise, vibration, or emissions beyond the premises of the use. A trade shop includes, but is not limited to:
(a) Repair of personal apparel, accessories, household goods, appliances, furniture and similar items, but excluding repair of motor vehicles and structures;
(b) Upholstery services;
(c) Carpentry;
(d) Printing of a minor processing nature, including multicopy and blueprinting services and printing of pamphlets, brochures, resumes and small reports, but excluding printing of books, magazines or newspapers;
(e) Tailoring; and
(f) Other artisan craft uses, including fine arts uses.
(g) Within Eastern Neighborhoods Mixed Use Districts, this use shall include the offices of building, plumbing, electrical, painting, masonry, roofing, furnace or pest control contractors and storage of incidental equipment and supplies used by them, if located entirely within an enclosed building having no openings other than fixed windows or exits required by law within 50 feet of an R District. No processing of building materials, such as mixing of concrete or heating of asphalt shall be conducted on the premises. Parking, loading, and unloading of all vehicles used by the contractor shall be located entirely within the building containing the use.
(h) Within the Chinatown Mixed Use Districts, it does not include any shop which uses a single machine of more than five horsepower capacity, or a shop in which the mechanical equipment, together with related floor space used primarily by the operators of such equipment, occupies in the aggregate more than 1/3 of the total Gross Floor Area of the use. A trade shop is distinct from light manufacturing, as defined in Section 890.54(a) of this Code.
AMENDMENT HISTORY
Formerly undesignated material designated as divisions (g) and (i); former division (g) redesignated as (h) and amended; Ord. 56-13
, Eff. 4/27/2013. Former division (g) deleted; former divisions (h) and (i) redesignated as divisions (g) and (h) and amended; Ord. 296-18, Eff. 1/12/2019. Undesignated introductory paragraph and division (g) amended; Ord. 70-23, Eff. 6/3/2023.
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