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Unless the context clearly indicates contrary, the following conjunctions are interpreted as follows.
A. “And” indicates that all connected items or provisions apply.
B. “Or” indicates that the connected items or provisions may apply individually or in any combination.
C. “Either . . . or” indicates that the connected items or provisions apply individually but not in combination.
These provisions classify
into categories to identify different activities within the
. Any activity conducted on a property located within the
is considered to be a . The categories of that refer to a primary activity, such as Residential or Industrial, are called
Groups. Each
Group is further divided into more specific listings based on their similarity of functional characteristics, such as Food and Beverage Sales or Vehicle Rental and Sales. These specific uses are referred to as
Classes. In some cases, a
Class may be further divided into more specific
called
Types.
listed within a specific
Group, Class, or Type are not listed in any other
Group, Class, or Type.
A. Typical Headings and Uses
Typical uses cited in the description of each
Class are not intended to be exclusive or restrictive. Reference is made to the description of the
Class in determining whether or not a certain use is included within a particular
Class.
B. Determination of Appropriate
Class
Where a specific use does not conform to the wording of any
Class description or conforms to the wording of two or more
Class descriptions, the Zoning Administrator shall determine the most appropriate
Class for that use. Such a determination is an administrative decision.
The Agricultural Use Group includes
Classes that involve the commercial production of crops and
. The following
Classes comprise the Agricultural Use Group.
A. Animal Production
The keeping, grazing, feeding, or breeding of
by the property owner or occupant for commercial gain. Typical uses include horse ranches and dairy, poultry, and rabbit farms.
B. Community
An area of land operated not-for-profit to grow and harvest food crops primarily for the use of its members who typically cultivate individual
plots.
C. Crop Production
The growing and harvesting of agricultural products to provide food, fiber, or horticultural vegetation for ornamental purposes, or any combination of these uses. Typical uses include the growing of field crops, fruit and nut orchards, nurseries, and greenhouse operations.
D. General Farming
Any combination of
and Crop Production.
E. Stockyard Operation
The temporary confinement of livestock in conjunction with their transport, fattening, or auctioning on a wholesale or retail basis. Typical uses include feedlots and cattle pens.
F. Urban Farm
The growing and harvesting of agricultural products to provide food, fiber, or horticultural vegetation for ornamental purposes in a non-residential area. Typical uses include
farms and
crop production, nurseries, greenhouses, and commercial
.
(Am. Ord. 11328, 12/8/2015)
The Civic Use Group includes
Classes and
Types that primarily involve public services. The following
Classes and
Types comprise the Civic Use Group.
A. Cemetery
Land used or
for the interment of the dead.
B. Civic Assembly
An establishment used to hold meetings, conventions or trade fairs, exhibitions, or other community, social, and multipurpose uses. Typical uses include convention centers, neighborhood centers, and community centers.
C. Correctional Use
The monitoring and control of the offender population, including
on pretrial status, on prerelease status, or
incarcerated to serve a sentence. The Correctional Use
Class is divided into the following three
types:
1. Supervision Facility
A community-based Correctional Use that provides transitional housing, assistance with employment, counseling, and other services to offenders who are placed in a Supervision Facility under terms of probation, parole, or pretrial status. Offenders assigned to a Supervision Facility are generally allowed to leave the facility for off-
employment, job training, or other purposes as permitted by the operators of the facility.
2. Custodial Facility
A community-based Correctional Use that provides a custodial residential setting, assistance with employment, counseling, or other services for offenders sentenced to such a facility in lieu of prison or placed in such a facility as part of a prerelease program. Offenders placed in a Custodial Facility are generally allowed to leave the facility but are monitored in their activities by staff. A facility in this subclass is not designed to be a secure facility.
3. Jail or Prison
A Correctional Use that provides for the incarceration or detention of offenders serving a sentence as required under the
,
,
, or
criminal justice system. A Jail or Prison is a secure place or
designed for the incarceration of offenders who are sentenced to a period of time under confinement.
D. Cultural Use
The collection and display of objects having literary, artistic, historic, natural, historic or scientific value for public appreciation. Typical uses include museums, libraries, botanical
, zoos, nature reserves, and wildlife refuges.
E. Educational Use
Provides a student with instruction through a course or group of courses. Educational Uses are divided into the following
types:
1. Elementary and Secondary Schools
Provides primary and secondary education for grades kindergarten through 12, as required by the Arizona State Board of Education. Typical uses include elementary, middle, junior high, and high schools.
2. Postsecondary Institution
Provides academic, professional, business, technical, or industrial education beyond
12, leading to a degree or entry into a paid occupation. Typical uses include community colleges and universities and business, career, beauty, and trade schools.
3. Instructional School
Provides domestic, recreational, and other types of instruction for all age groups. Typical uses include dance, cooking, music, martial arts, and handicraft instruction.
F. Membership Organization
A philanthropic, social, business or fraternal organization. Typical uses include labor unions, boys’ and girls’ clubs, and veterans’ organizations.
G. Postal Service
Letter and parcel delivery service. Typical uses include postal stations.
H. Protective Service
Provides protection of the public health, safety, and welfare. Typical uses include police, fire, and ambulance services.
I. Religious Use
Assembly for religious worship. Typical uses include churches, synagogues, and temples.
(Am. Ord. 11257, 4/21/2015)
The Commercial Services Use Group includes
Classes that permit facilities for the buying or selling of commodities or services, such as consulting, technical, transportation, and repair services. The following
Classes,
Types, and examples comprise the Commercial Services Use Group.
A. Administrative and Professional Office
Provides administrative, consulting, management, and professional services to businesses and individuals. Typical uses include legal services, real estate firms, travel agencies, security and commodity brokers, and employment services.
B.
Service (Bar)
The retail sale of
, such as beer, wine, and liquor, for consumption on the premises. Typical uses include cocktail lounges, taverns, and bars. Refer to the definition of Food Service to differentiate between an
Service use (bar) that serves food and a Food Service use (restaurant) which serves
.
1. Bar, Large
A bar that encompasses 18,000 square feet or more of total area, including
and any outside areas providing service to the public, such as outdoor seating and recreation areas.
C.
Service
The boarding, training, or grooming of
, including short-term medical treatment. Typical uses include boarding kennels, dog training services, pet grooming shops, and veterinary clinics.
D.
Residence
A or portion of a used as both a residential dwelling for an artist and any artistic nonresidential use permitted in the
in which the unit is located. The residential use and the artistic nonresidential use must be conducted by the same artist. The
may not be separately leased.
E. Automotive - Service and Repair
Servicing and repairing automobiles, motorcycles, or utility vehicles, such as pickup trucks and vans generally used as personal vehicles.
1. Automotive - Minor Service and Repair
Minor maintenance that involves operations that do not create excessive noise, such as auto washing, lubrication, and oil changing.
2. Automotive - Major Service and Repair
Major maintenance or repair services. Typical uses include muffler, brake, tune-up, stereo, alarm, air conditioning, and tire installation shops; general repair shops; service departments of dealerships; and automotive engine and transmission rebuilders.
3. Automotive Washing - Full Service
An establishment where personnel are used to wash, dry, polish, or vacuum an automobile.
4. Automotive Washing - Self Service
An establishment where the washing, drying, polishing, or vacuuming of an automobile is done by the driver or the occupant.
F. Billboard
An off-
sign relating to a business, activity, use, or service conducted off the
or a product not sold on the
.
G.
and Grounds Maintenance
Provides maintenance or custodial services for
and properties. Typical uses include janitorial,
, carpet cleaning, and window cleaning services.
H. Commercial Recreation
A commercial establishment for use by the general public or a private club for members only used for participatory recreational activities. Spectator events at a Commercial Recreation use are
. Typical uses include athletic clubs, gymnasiums, tennis courts, and indoor shooting ranges.
I. Communications
The general transmission or reception of signals as specifically regulated by the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) for the transfer of verbal or visual information in an analog or digital mode. Typical uses include radio and television broadcasting stations and telecommunication service centers.
1. Communication, Wireless
A commercial system designed and operated for the transmission and reception of signals to and from multiple transmitter locations to multiple reception locations. Typical uses include cellular telephone, personal communication service (PCS), enhanced specialized mobile radio (ESMR), and paging services.
J. Construction Service
Provides construction activity to be performed at a construction
and may include related work being performed on shop premises. Typical uses include construction companies, carpentry services, and plumbing services.
K. Day Care
A use providing care, supervision, planned activities, or guidance on a regular basis for periods of less than 24 hours for
not related to the operator. This includes adult day care and child care.
1. Adult Day Care
A Day Care for elderly or disabled adults.
2. Child Care
A Day Care for children 14 years old or younger who are not related to the operator. Typical uses include child care centers, preschools, nursery schools, and before- and after-school programs.
L. Entertainment
A spectator use for the presentation of the performing arts, including indoor motion picture theaters, theaters for live performances, or indoor and outdoor concert halls.
1. Large Dance Hall
A use that is 18,000 square feet or more of total area, including and any outside areas providing service to the public, such as outdoor seating and recreation areas, that has a dance floor(s) that is over 25% of the area. Dance halls less than 18,000 square feet of total area are governed by the applicable to the Entertainment Use and not those applicable to Large Dance Halls.
A use that is 18,000 square feet or more of total area, including and any outside areas providing service to the public, such as outdoor seating and recreation areas, that has a dance floor(s) that is over 25% of the area. Dance halls less than 18,000 square feet of total area are governed by the applicable to the Entertainment Use and not those applicable to Large Dance Halls.
M. Financial Service
The management or exchange of money and assets, or other fiduciary services. Typical uses include banks, credit unions, and savings and loan associations, and
, such as check cashing and payday loan businesses.
N. Food Service
The preparation and sale of food primarily for consumption as a
on or off premises. Typical uses include restaurants, coffee shops, cafeterias, and fast food establishments. To differentiate between a Food Service use (restaurant) that serves
and an
Service use (bar) that serves food, refer to the definition of restaurant.
1. Food Court
A unified establishment which serves food and beverages for consumption on or off the premises from multiple eateries or vendors. Food Courts may be developed to include any combination of indoor or outdoor operations. A commercial
, exclusively for use by the vendors on location at the food court, is permitted provided it meets all applicable state and local health and safety standards, as well as all relevant requirements of the UDC.
2. Restaurant
A commercial establishment in which the
is the preparation and sale of food and beverages. A restaurant by any other name, such as, but not limited to, coffee shop, cafeteria, fast food restaurant, or diner, is regulated as a restaurant.
3. Soup Kitchen
A Food Service use that provides free
for consumption on or off
.
O. Funeral Service
The preparation of the dead for interment or cremation and the holding of funeral services. This category includes funeral homes, undertaking establishments, and crematories.
P. Medical Service - Extended Health Care
Provides lodging,
, treatment, or personal care on a long-term basis to individuals who, by reason of advanced age, chronic illness, or infirmity, are unable to care for themselves. Typical uses include nursing homes and hospices.
Q. Medical Service - Major
Provides inpatient medical care which may also include outpatient service as an ancillary activity. Typical uses include hospitals, psychiatric hospitals, and detoxification centers.
R. Medical Service - Outpatient
Provides outpatient physical or mental health services. Services may be of a preventive, diagnostic, treatment, therapeutic, rehabilitative, or counseling nature. Typical uses include medical and dental offices, health clinics, counseling services, and emergency care centers.
1. Blood Donor Center
A Medical Service that engages in the business or activity of receiving or taking plasma, blood, or any component thereof from human donors.
S. Parking
A
where the
is for the
of motor vehicles, whether for compensation, free, or as accommodation to clients or customers. Typical uses include parking
and
for residential or commercial purposes.
T. Personal Service
Provides personal care or appearance services to an individual or provides the cleaning or repair of personal effects. Typical uses include barber and beauty shops, tailors, nail salons, shoe repair shops, dry cleaning collection agencies, laundromats, massage establishments, nail salons, and reducing salons.
U. Research and Product
The conducting of research of a commercial, industrial, or scientific nature, including analytic, diagnostic, processing, and other types of laboratory services. Typical uses include assaying, commercial testing, and engineering laboratories.
V. Smoke Shop
Any establishment in which the area used for sales or display of tobacco products consists of fifteen (15) percent or more of the total sales area of the space.
1. Tobacco Product
a. Any product made or derived from tobacco or that contains nicotine and is intended for human consumption or is likely to be consumed, whether smoked, heated, chewed, absorbed, dissolved, inhaled, or ingested by any other means, including cigarettes, cigars, pipe tobacco, chewing tobacco, shisha, snuff, snus, and liquid nicotine solution; and
b. Any component, accessory, instrument, or paraphernalia that is used in the consumption of a tobacco product or that is solely designed for the smoking or ingesting of tobacco or shisha, including a hookah, water pipe, filter, rolling papers, pipe, or electronic smoking device; except that:
c. The term "tobacco product" does not include drugs, devices, or combination products, as those terms are defined in the Federal Food, Drug and Cosmetic Act, that are authorized for sale by the United States Food and Drug Administration.
W. Technical Service
Service of a technical nature provided to businesses and individuals. Typical uses include printing establishments, blueprint companies, photocopy companies, commercial art studios, recording studios, and computer access centers.
X. Trade Service and Repair, Major
The maintenance, repair, or reconstruction of heavy equipment, machinery, large trucks, buses, or other similar vehicles and their component parts. The fabrication of parts and products on an individual basis is permitted. Typical uses include farm machinery repair services, body work and painting of automobiles and similar vehicles, and welding shops.
Y. Trade Service and Repair, Minor
The service or repair of appliances and other similar utility items for business or personal use. Typical uses include appliance repair, jewelry repair, reupholstery, locksmith, burglar alarm repair, and stereo and television repair shops.
Z. Transportation Service, Air Carrier
Involves the landing or taking off of aircraft and may provide for passenger and freight transportation by air. The use may include associated terminal and service facilities. Aircraft include airplanes, helicopters, gliders, dirigibles, blimps, and ultralights. The facilities may be for commercial or recreational use. Typical uses include private and public
, heliports and helipads, gliderports, and ultralight fields.
1.
Authority
Provides for aeronautical and multiple associated uses conducted under the direction and control of a statutorily created
authority, such as pursuant to A.R.S. § 28-8423; 28-8424, at a facility not less than 2,000 acres in size located within an adopted
environs overlay or a designated planning area shown in a master plan adopted by the
authority's board of directors.
2. Ultralight Airpark
An
used by the general public or an ultralight flying club for ultralight aircraft operation.
AA. Transportation Service, Land Carrier
Provides local or regional passenger or freight transportation by bus, rail, vehicle, or truck with terminal and service facilities. Typical uses include bus stations, trucking companies, and taxicab services.
BB. Travelers’ Accommodation, Campsite
Provides overnight accommodation for recreational vehicles or tents on a temporary basis. Typical uses include
parks.
1.
(R.V.) Park
A
of land under single ownership, where one or more spaces are rented, leased, or held out for rent or lease to
for occupancy of recreational vehicles.
CC. Travelers’ Accommodation, Lodging
Provides rooms for the temporary lodging of travelers. Typical uses include bed and breakfast inns, hotels, motels, inns, resorts, and guest ranches.
(Am. Ord. 11171, 5/20/2014; Am. Ord. 11577, 8/8/2018; Am. Ord. 12057, 11/14/2023; Am. Ord. 12060, 11/28/2023)
The Industrial Use Group includes
Classes that involve the on-
production of goods by mechanical or chemical transformation of materials or substances and packaging. The following
Classes and examples comprise the Industrial Use Group.
A. Craftwork
Any business establishment that produces on the premises articles for sale of artistic quality or effect or handmade workmanship. Examples include candle making, glass blowing, weaving, pottery making, woodworking, sculpting, painting, and other associated activities.
B. Extraction
The surface or subsurface mining or withdrawal of metallic or nonmetallic minerals, oil, gas, or other forms of energy and resources.
C. General Manufacturing
The assembling, finishing, or compounding of preprocessed materials into a finished product or component. Typical uses include the assembly of furniture, cloth goods, and plastic goods and the compounding of chemicals not otherwise classified as hazardous materials.
D. Hazardous Material Manufacturing
The synthesis, compounding, or manufacture of explosive, highly combustible, corrosive, toxic, highly oxidizing, or radioactive substances, either as a finished product, as part of a process, or as part of the finished product. Typical uses include the compounding of acid, ammunition manufacturing, the compounding of pesticides, and the manufacture of explosives and fireworks.
E. Heavy Equipment Manufacturing
The assembling or finishing of heavy machinery or equipment, such as automobiles, utility vehicles, aircraft, farming equipment, and utility trailers. Typical uses include auto assembly plants and tractor works.
F. Motion Picture Industry
The production of motion pictures including soundstages, outdoor sets,
storage, and service facilities.
G. Perishable Goods Manufacturing
The processing and packaging of food products and other goods that are susceptible to spoilage or decay. Typical uses include meat packing operations, breweries and wineries, canneries, and bottling plants.
1. Microbrewery
A Perishable Goods Manufacturing use that produces beer, in the amount between 10,000 and 310,000 gallons annually.
H. Precision Manufacturing
The manufacturing, production, or assembly of electronic or precision instruments and products. Typical uses include the manufacturing of scientific, medical, measuring, and optical instruments; audio and video equipment; electronic devices and systems; and watches.
I. Primary Manufacturing
The forging, casting, forming, extruding, or conversion of basic materials used ultimately in the construction, assembly, or fabrication of final products. Typical uses include foundries, textile and paper mills, sawmills, batch plants, and brickyards.
J. Processing and Cleaning
Provides dry cleaning, dyeing, laundering, or rug cleaning services. Typical uses include dry cleaning plants, diaper services, and linen supply services.
K. Refining
The purifying of a crude substance into a basic material used in manufacturing processes. Typical uses include the smelting or converting of ores and petroleum refining.
L. Salvaging and Recycling
The reclamation and recovery of used materials and the processing of discarded scrap materials for commercial purposes. Typical uses include auto salvage yards, junkyards, paper salvage operations, and
goods donation centers.
1.
Goods Donation Center
A
consisting of a staffed facility at which donated consumer goods are accepted, handled, and temporarily stored before transport to a resale center. When used in conjunction with a retail store, both uses are considered
.
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