Chapter 17.16
USE CLASSIFICATIONS
Sections:
17.16.010 Purpose and applicability.
17.16.020 Uses not classified.
17.16.030 Residential use classifications.
17.16.040 Public and semipublic use classifications.
17.16.050 Commercial use classifications.
17.16.060 Industrial use classifications.
17.16.070 Agricultural and extractive use classifications.
17.16.080 Accessory use classifications.
17.16.090 Temporary use classifications.
17.16.010 Purpose and applicability.
Use classifications describe one or more uses having similar characteristics, but do not list every use or activity that may appropriately be within the classification. The community development director shall determine whether a specific use shall be deemed to be within one or more use classifications or not within any classification in this title. The community development director may determine that a specific use shall not be deemed to be within a classification, whether or not named within the classification, if its characteristics are substantially incompatible with those typical of uses named within the classification. (Ord. 87-4 N.S., 1987).
17.16.020 Uses not classified.
Any new use, or any use that cannot be clearly determined to be in an existing use classification, may be incorporated into the zoning regulations by a zoning ordinance text amendment, as provided in Chapter 17.120 BMC. (Ord. 87-4 N.S., 1987).
17.16.030 Residential use classifications.
A. Employee Housing. Shall have the meaning set forth in Health and Safety Code Section 17008(a)(1) as it currently exists or is hereinafter amended. As of the adoption of this section, “employee housing” means accommodations consisting of any living quarters, dwelling, boardinghouse, tent, bunkhouse, maintenance-of-way car, mobile home, manufactured home, recreational vehicle, travel trailer, or other housing accommodations, maintained in one or more buildings or one or more sites, and the premises upon which they are situated or the area set aside and provided for parking of mobile homes or camping of five or more employees by the employer.
B. Family Day Care, Large. Licensed home that provides nonmedical care and supervision for nine to 14 children on a less than 24-hour basis.
C. Family Day Care, Small. Licensed home that provides nonmedical care and supervision for eight or fewer children on a less than 24-hour basis.
D. Group Residential. Shared living quarters without separate kitchen or bathroom facilities for each room or unit. This classification includes boardinghouses, dormitories, fraternities, sororities, private residential clubs, and single-room-occupancy units.
E. Work/Live Quarters. An area comprised of one or more rooms or floors in a building originally designed for industrial or commercial occupancy that includes cooking space and sanitary facilities and working space for artists, artisans and similarly situated individuals.
F. Multifamily Residential. Two or more dwelling units on a site. This classification includes mobile homes and factory-built housing.
G. Residential Care, Limited. Twenty-four hour nonmedical care for six or fewer persons in need of personal services, supervision, protection, or assistance essential for sustaining the activities of daily living.
H. Single-Family Residential. Buildings containing one dwelling unit located on a single lot. This classification includes mobile homes and factory-built housing.
I. Supportive Housing. Housing with no limit on length of stay that is occupied by the target population and is linked to an on-site or off-site service that assists the supportive housing resident in retaining the housing, improving his or her health status, and maximizing his or her ability to live and, when possible, work in the community. The dwelling type is of the same type as that found within the zoning district.
J. Transitional Housing. Buildings configured as rental housing developments 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. The dwelling type is of the same type as that found within the zoning district. (Ord. 24-01 § 1; Ord. 14-11 § 2; Ord. 13-15 § 1; Ord. 11-04 § 1; Ord. 99-1 N.S.; Ord. 87-4 N.S., 1987).
17.16.040 Public and semipublic use classifications.
“Adult day health care” means a licensed and certified home or facility that provides therapeutic, social, and skilled nursing health activities and services to elderly persons or adults with disabilities on a less than 24-hour basis.
“Cemetery” means a place for burying the dead.
“Clubs and lodges” means meeting, recreational or social facilities of a private or nonprofit organization primarily for use by members or guests. This classification includes union halls, social clubs, and youth centers.
“Convalescent facilities” means establishments providing care on a 24-hour basis for persons requiring regular medical attention, but excluding facilities providing surgical or emergency medical services.
“Cultural institutions” means nonprofit institutions displaying or preserving objects of interest in one or more of the arts or sciences. This classification includes libraries, museums, and art galleries.
“Day care center” means a licensed child day care facility other than a family day care home that provides nonmedical care to children under 18 years of age on a less than 24-hour basis, and includes infant centers, nursery schools, preschools, extended day care facilities, and school age child care centers.
“Detention facilities” means publicly owned and operated facilities providing housing, care, and supervision for persons confined by law.
“Emergency shelter” means housing with minimal supportive services for homeless persons that is limited to occupancy of six months or less by a homeless person. No individual or household may be denied emergency shelter because of an inability to pay. Such a facility may have individual rooms, but does not have individual dwelling units. Emergency shelters also include other interim interventions, including, but not limited to, navigation centers, bridge housing, and respite or recuperative care.
“Government offices” means administrative, clerical, or public contact offices of a government agency, including postal facilities, together with incidental storage and maintenance of vehicles.
“Heliports” means pads and facilities enabling takeoffs and landings by helicopters.
“Hospitals” means facilities providing medical, surgical, psychiatric, or emergency medical services to sick or injured persons, primarily on an inpatient basis. This classification includes incidental facilities for outpatient treatment, as well as training, research, and administrative services for patients and employees.
“Low barrier navigation center” shall have the meaning set forth in Government Code Section 65660(a) as it currently exists or is hereinafter amended. As of the adoption of this section “low barrier navigation center” means a Housing First, low barrier, service-enriched shelter focused on moving people into permanent housing that provides temporary living facilities while case managers connect individuals experiencing homelessness to income, public benefits, health services, shelter, and housing.
“Maintenance and service facilities” means facilities providing maintenance and repair services for vehicles and equipment, and materials storage areas. This classification includes corporation yards, equipment service centers, and similar facilities.
“Parks and recreation facilities” means noncommercial parks, playgrounds, recreation facilities, and open spaces.
“Public safety facilities” means facilities for public safety and emergency services, including police and fire protection.
“Religious assembly” means facilities for religious worship and incidental religious education, but not including private schools as defined in this section.
“Residential care, general” means 24-hour nonmedical care for seven or more persons, including wards of the juvenile court, in need of personal services, supervision, protection, or assistance essential for sustaining the activities of daily living.
“Schools, public and private” means educational institutions having a curriculum comparable to that required in the public schools of the state of California.
“Utilities, major” means generating plants greater than five megawatts in size, electrical substations, aboveground electrical transmission lines, refuse collection or disposal facilities, water reservoirs, water or wastewater treatment plants, and similar facilities of public agencies, public utilities or private utilities. A structure that may have a significant effect on surrounding uses shall be regulated under this classification.
1. Waste Facility. A facility that provides for on-site waste stabilization or neutralization. This classification excludes hazardous waste disposal facilities.
“Utilities, minor” means utility facilities that are necessary to support legally established uses and involve only minor structures such as electrical distribution lines and underground water and sewer lines.
“Utilities, solar” means photovoltaic electric panels and appurtenant structures and facilities, designed to provide energy for off-site use such as a power purchase agreement, or direct sale of energy to a local utility company. (Ord. 24-01 § 2; Ord. 20-05 § 1; Ord. 14-11 § 3; Ord. 11-04 § 2; Ord. 99-1 N.S.; Ord. 89-1 N.S. § 5, 1989; Ord. 87-4 N.S., 1987).
17.16.050 Commercial use classifications.
A. Adult Businesses. A business based primarily upon materials or performances that depict, describe, or relate to “specified sexual activities” or “specified anatomical areas,” as defined in Chapter 17.12 BMC. This includes businesses regulated under Chapter 5.44 BMC.
B. Ambulance Services. Provision of emergency medical care or transportation, including incidental storage and maintenance of vehicles.
C. Animal Sales and Services.
1. Animal Boarding. Provision of shelter and care for small animals on a commercial basis. This classification includes activities such as feeding, exercising, grooming, and incidental medical care.
2. Animal Grooming. Provision of bathing and trimming services for small animals on a commercial basis. This classification includes boarding of domestic animals for a maximum period of 48 hours.
3. Animal Hospitals. Establishments where small animals receive medical and surgical treatment. This classification includes only facilities that are entirely enclosed, soundproofed, and air-conditioned. Grooming and temporary (30 days) boarding of animals is included if incidental to the hospital use.
4. Animals – Retail Sales. Retail sales and boarding of small animals, provided such activities take place within an entirely enclosed building. This classification includes grooming, if incidental to the retail use, and boarding of animals not offered for sale for a maximum period of 48 hours.
D. Artists’ Studios. Work space for artists and artisans, including individuals practicing one of the fine arts or performing arts, or skilled in an applied art or craft.
E. Banks and Savings and Loans. Financial institutions that provide retail banking services to individuals and businesses. This classification includes only those institutions engaged in the on-site circulation of cash money.
1. With Drive-up Service. Institutions providing services accessible to persons who remain in automobiles.
F. Building Materials and Services. Retailing, wholesaling, or rental of building supplies or equipment. This classification includes lumber yards, tool and equipment sales or rental establishments, and building contractors’ yards, but excludes retail sales of paint and hardware, except as an accessory use to a lumber yard, and activities classified under “vehicle/equipment sales and services.”
G. Catering Services. Preparation and delivery of food and beverages for off-site consumption without provision for on-site pickup or consumption. (See also “eating and drinking establishments.”)
H. Commercial Filming. Commercial motion picture or video photography at the same location more than six days per quarter of a calendar year.
I. Commercial Recreation and Entertainment. Provision of participant or spectator recreation or entertainment. This classification includes theaters, sports stadiums and arenas, amusement parks, bowling alleys, billiard parlors, ice/roller skating rinks, golf courses, miniature golf courses, scale-model courses, shooting galleries, tennis/racquetball courts, health/fitness clubs, pinball arcades or electronic games centers having three or more coin-operated game machines, card rooms, subject to the regulation of Chapter 5.08 BMC, and facilities used exclusively for bingo games, as regulated by Chapter 5.12 BMC.
1. Card room, game center, billiard parlor.
2. Limited. Indoor movie theaters and performing arts theaters.
J. Communications Facilities. Broadcasting, recording, and other communication services accomplished through electronic or telephonic mechanisms, but excluding “Utilities (Major).” This classification includes radio, television, or recording studios; telephone switching centers; and telegraph offices.
K. Conference and Meeting Facilities. Facilities providing indoor and/or outdoor event space for conferences, meetings, weddings, banquets, luncheons or similar events on a commercial basis.
L. Eating and Drinking Establishments. Businesses serving prepared food or beverages for consumption on or off the premises, not including cannabis or cannabis products.
1. With Wine and Beer Service. Alcoholic beverages served are limited to wine and beer.
2. With full alcoholic beverage service.
3. With Live Entertainment. Establishments offering live entertainment, as defined in Chapter 17.12 BMC.
4. With Take-Out Service. Establishments at which 20 percent or more of the transactions are sales for off-site consumption, and which serve or deliver prepared food to persons in vehicles or have more than two work stations at which employees package or service prepared food and receive payment.
a. Drive-Up. Service from a building to persons in vehicles through an outdoor service window.
b. Limited. Establishments that do not serve persons in vehicles.
5. Truck Stop. A facility geared primarily to providing services for truckers, including on-site fueling, repair and servicing of freight trucks; restaurant facilities; restrooms; towing services; overnight accommodations and related services.
6. Mobile Food Vending. The sale of ready-to-consume prepared foods from vehicles located on private property or approved public property on a semi-permanent basis during hours of operation. Vehicular food vending generally has the following characteristics:
a. Food and beverages are ordered and served from a take-out counter that is integral to the vehicle;
b. Food and beverages are paid for prior to consumption;
c. Food and beverages are served in disposable wrappers, plates or containers; and
d. Food and beverages are prepared and sold for primarily off-site consumption with limited on-site consumption.
M. Food and Beverage Sales. Retail sales of food and beverages for off-site preparation and consumption, not including cannabis or cannabis products. Typical uses include groceries, liquor stores, or delicatessens. Establishments at which 20 percent or more of the transactions are sales of prepared food for on-site or take-out consumption shall be classified as “catering services” or “eating and drinking establishments.”
N. Funeral and Interment Services. Establishments primarily engaged in the provision of services involving the care, preparation or disposition of human dead other than in cemeteries. Typical uses include crematories, columbariums, mausoleums or mortuaries.
O. Horticulture, Limited. The raising of vegetables, flowers, ornamental trees and shrubs, not including cannabis, as a commercial enterprise; provided, that no nursery equipment or materials shall be stored and no structures erected. Commercial horticulture accessory to a dwelling unit shall be regulated as a home occupation.
P. Laboratories. Establishments providing medical or dental laboratory services, or establishments with less than 2,000 square feet providing photographic, analytical, or testing services. Other laboratories are classified as “limited industry” or “cannabis testing laboratory.”
Q. Maintenance and Repair Services. Establishments providing appliance repair, office machine repair, bicycle repair or building maintenance services. This classification excludes maintenance and repair of vehicles (see “vehicle/equipment repair”) or boats or ships (see “marine sales and services”).
R. Marinas. A boat basin with docks, mooring facilities, supplies and equipment for small boats.
S. Marine Sales and Services. Establishments providing supplies and equipment for shipping or related services, or pleasure boating. Typical uses include chandleries, yacht brokerage and sales, boat yards, boat docks, and sail-making lofts.
T. Nurseries. Establishments in which all merchandise other than plants is kept within an encased building or fully screened enclosure, and fertilizer of any type is stored and sold in package form only. This use classification does not include cannabis.
U. Offices, Business and Professional. Offices of firms or organizations providing professional, executive, management, or administrative services, such as architectural, engineering, real estate, insurance, investment, legal, and medical/dental offices. This classification includes medical/dental laboratories incidental to an office use, and pharmacies, eyeglass shops, and similar prescription-dispensing services as an accessory to a medical office complex, but excludes banks and savings and loan associations.
V. Outdoor Entertainment. Activities occurring outdoors that involve amplified or nonamplified noise for the enjoyment, recreation, or similar purpose of persons or patrons who are physically present at the location the noise originates. This definition includes, but is not limited to, live music and playing, broadcasting or mixing recorded music.
W. Pawn Shops. Establishments engaged in retail sales of new or secondhand merchandise and offering loans secured by personal property.
X. Personal Improvement Services. Provision of instructional services or facilities, including photography, fine arts, crafts, dance or music studios, driving schools, business and trade schools, and diet centers.
Y. Personal Services. Provision of recurrently needed services of a personal nature. This classification includes barber and beauty shops, seamstresses, tailors, shoe repair shops, dry cleaning agencies (excluding plants), and self-service laundries.
Z. Research and Development Services. Establishments primarily engaged in industrial or scientific research, including limited product testing. This classification includes electronic research firms or pharmaceutical research laboratories, but excludes manufacturing, medical testing and analysis, and activities related to cannabis or cannabis products.
AA. Retail Sales. The retail sale of merchandise not specifically listed under another use classification and not including cannabis or cannabis products. This classification includes department stores, clothing stores, and furniture stores and businesses retailing the following goods: toys, hobby materials, handcrafted items, jewelry, cameras, photographic supplies, electronic equipment, records, sporting goods, kitchen utensils, hardware, appliances, antiques, art supplies and services, paint and wallpaper, carpeting and floor covering, office supplies, bicycles, and new automotive parts and accessories (excluding service and installation).
BB. Secondhand Appliance and Clothing Sales. The retail sale of used appliances and clothing. This classification excludes antique shops primarily engaged in the sale of used furniture and accessories other than appliances.
CC. Swap Meets, Recurring. Retail sale or exchange of new, handcrafted, or secondhand merchandise for a maximum period of 48 hours, conducted by a sponsor on a more than twice yearly basis.
DD. Vehicle/Equipment Sales and Services.
1. Automobile Rentals. Rental of automobiles, taxicab services, and limousine services, including storage and incidental maintenance, but excluding maintenance requiring pneumatic lifts.
2. Automobile Washing. Washing, waxing, or cleaning of automobiles or similar light vehicles.
3. Service Stations. Establishments engaged in the retail sale of gas, diesel fuel, lubricants, parts and accessories. This classification includes incidental maintenance and repair of automobiles and light trucks, but excludes body and fender work or repair of heavy trucks or vehicles.
4. Vehicle/Equipment Repair. Repair of automobiles, trucks, motorcycles, mobile homes, recreational vehicles, or boats, including the sale, installation, and servicing of related equipment and parts. This classification includes auto repair shops, auto detailing shops, body and fender shops, wheel and brake shops, and tire sales and installation, but excludes vehicle dismantling or salvage and tire retreading or recapping.
5. Vehicle/Equipment Sales and Rentals. Sale or rental of automobiles, motorcycles, trucks, tractors, construction or agricultural equipment, mobile homes, and similar equipment, including storage and incidental maintenance.
6. Vehicle Storage. Storage of operative or inoperative vehicles. This classification includes storage of parking tow-aways, impound yards, and storage lots for automobiles, trucks, buses and recreational vehicles, but does not include vehicle dismantling.
EE. Visitor Accommodations.
1. Bed and Breakfast Inns. Establishments offering lodging on a less than weekly basis typically in a converted single-family or multifamily dwelling, with incidental eating and drinking service (not including cannabis or cannabis products) for lodgers only, provided from a single kitchen. This classification excludes short-term rentals, as defined in BMC 17.12.030 (Definitions), when accessory to a dwelling unit.
2. Hotels and Motels. Establishments offering lodging on a less than weekly basis, and having kitchens in no more than 60 percent of guest units. This classification includes eating, drinking, and banquet service, not including cannabis or cannabis products. This classification excludes short-term rentals, as defined in BMC 17.12.030 (Definitions), when accessory to a dwelling unit.
FF. Warehousing and Storage, Limited. Provision of storage space for household or commercial goods, not including cannabis or cannabis products, within an enclosed building. This classification includes mini-storage facilities but excludes “wholesaling, distribution and storage,” and “vehicle storage.” (Ord. 22-07 § 3; Ord. 18-16 § 2; Ord. 18-05 §§ 2 – 10; Ord. 14-06 § 2; Ord. 93-11 N.S. § 6, 1993; Ord. 92-15 N.S. § 5, 1992; Ord. 89-1 N.S. §§ 6 – 10, 1989; Ord. 87-4 N.S., 1987).
17.16.060 Industrial use classifications.
A. Industry, Custom. Establishments primarily engaged in off-site production of goods by hand manufacturing involving the use of hand tools and small-scale equipment.
1. Limited. Includes mechanical equipment not exceeding two horsepower or a single kiln not exceeding eight kilowatts and the incidental direct sale to consumers of those goods produced on-site. Typical uses include ceramic studios, candle-making shops, and custom jewelry manufacture.
2. Boat Building.
B. Industry, General. Manufacturing of products primarily from extracted or raw materials, or bulk storage and handling of such products and materials, not including cannabis or cannabis products. Uses in this classification typically involve a high incidence of truck or rail traffic, and/or outdoor storage of products, materials, equipment, or bulk fuel. This classification includes chemical manufacture or processing, food processing and packaging, laundry and dry cleaning plants, auto dismantling within an enclosed building, oil and gas refining, stonework and concrete products manufacture (excluding concrete ready-mix plants) within an enclosed building, and accessory power generation facilities of five megawatts or less in conjunction with a permitted use.
1. Water-Related. Industrial activities that use water for transportation of raw materials or finished products, including the following:
a. Waterfront Storage Facility. Ship cargo storage and handling facility, including storage of raw materials, which is contiguous and has a functional relationship to a berthing facility.
b. Waterfront Manufacturing or Processing Facility. Manufacturing or processing operations that require frontage on navigable waters to receive raw materials or to distribute manufactured or processed materials by ship.
c. Water-Using Facilities. Power plants and desalinization plants. Other uses that demonstrate a need for substantial amounts of water may qualify if the industry can demonstrate that it cannot make use of lower-quality water; it cannot reasonably assume the costs of conveying water to an inland site; and a waterfront site would result in substantial energy saving over an alternative site.
d. Associated Manufacturing or Processing Uses. Manufacturing or processing uses that must be in close proximity to an approved water-dependent manufacturing or processing use and meet one of the following conditions:
i. The transportation of either raw material inputs or finished product outputs to an inland site would constitute a substantial enough increase in product cost to make its production economically unfeasible; or
ii. The transport of materials from a berth to or from an inland site would produce major increases in hazardous conditions due to security problems, road or rail congestion, or spillage or explosion of hazardous materials.
e. Berthing Facility. Wharves, piers, berths, docks, and launching facilities in conjunction with any water-related use.
f. Support Facilities. Uses that are required to support the operation of a water-related use including maintenance or ancillary types of operations and offices for management and materials control.
C. Industry, Limited. Manufacturing of finished parts or products, primarily from previously prepared materials; and provision of industrial services; both within an enclosed building. This classification includes processing, fabrication, assembly, treatment, and packaging, but excludes basic industrial processing from raw materials, food processing, cannabis, cannabis products, and “vehicle/equipment sales and services.”
1. Small-Scale. Limited to a maximum gross floor area of 5,000 square feet.
D. Industry, Research and Development. Establishments engaged in the theoretical or applied study, testing, engineering, product design, analysis and development of devices, products, processes, or services related to current or new technologies, not including cannabis or cannabis products. Research and development may include limited manufacturing, fabricating, processing, assembling or storage of prototypes, devices, compounds, products or materials, or similar related activities, where such activities are incidental to research, development, or evaluation. Examples of uses include, but are not limited to, computer software and hardware firms, computer peripherals and related products, electronic research firms, biotechnical and biomedical firms, instrument analysis, genomics, robotics, pharmaceuticals, and related educational development. Research and development may include the storage or use of hazardous materials not in excess of the maximum allowable quantities listed in the California Fire Code without a permit issued by the fire chief.
E. Industry, Technology. Establishments engaged in the creation, fabrication, processing, assembling, storage, manufacturing and/or service provision of products and/or processes, related to current or new technologies, not including cannabis or cannabis products. Examples of uses include, but are not limited to, computer software and hardware firms, computer peripherals and related products, electronic research firms, biotechnical and biomedical firms, instrument analysis, genomics, robotics, pharmaceuticals, and related educational development.
F. Port Terminals. Facilities for loading, unloading, transferring and storing raw or finished materials, and incidental freight between modes of transportation, not including cannabis or cannabis products. This classification includes the terminals themselves and directly related ancillary activities such as warehousing and other temporary storage, ship repairing, support transportation uses including trucking and railroad yards, freight forwarders, and government offices related to port activity.
G. Wholesaling, Distribution and Storage.
1. Wholesaling and Distribution. Facilities primarily engaged in the selling of goods, merchandise, products or materials to retailers, contractors, professional business users, other wholesalers or to agents or brokers, not including cannabis or cannabis products. May include related storage, break-bulk activity, redistribution and delivery.
2. Warehousing and Transportation. Storage of products or goods, including household goods but not including cannabis or cannabis products, with related local or long-distance trucking and transfer of stored items.
3. Trucking Terminal/Freight Transfer Station. A facility where goods and products, not including cannabis or cannabis products, are transferred, often directly, from one vehicle to another without the storage of such goods and products on a long-term basis within a warehouse building or storage yard. Includes break-bulk facilities. May include related maintenance facilities and incidental storage of trucks on site when not in use.
4. Package Distribution. A warehousing and distribution facility used primarily to gather and distribute for delivery, packages and mail, not including cannabis or cannabis products. (Ord. 18-05 §§ 11 – 16; Ord. 13-15 §§ 2, 3; Ord. 93-11 N.S. § 5, 1993; Ord. 89-1 N.S. §§ 11, 12, 1989; Ord. 87-4 N.S., 1987).
17.16.070 Agricultural and extractive use classifications.
A. Animal Husbandry. Raising of animals or production of animal products, such as eggs or dairy products, on an agricultural or commercial basis. Typical uses including grazing, ranching, dairy farming, and poultry farming.
B. Crop Production. Raising and harvesting of tree crops, row crops, or field crops on an agricultural or commercial basis, including packing and processing. Cannabis cultivation is subject to the provisions of Chapter 17.84 BMC, Cannabis.
C. Mining and Processing. Places or plants primarily devoted to surface or subsurface mining of metallic and nonmetallic minerals, oil or gas, together with essential on-site processing and production of only nonmetallic mineral products. Typical places are borrow pits, quarries, oil and gas drilling rigs or concrete batch plants. (Ord. 18-05 § 17; Ord. 87-4 N.S., 1987).
17.16.080 Accessory use classifications.
A. Accessory Uses and Structures. Uses and structures that are incidental to the principal permitted or conditionally permitted use or structure on a site and are customarily found on the same site. This classification includes accessory dwelling units, home occupations, and construction trailers.
1. Accessory Dwelling Unit. An attached or a detached residential dwelling unit that provides complete independent living facilities for one or more persons and is located on a lot with a proposed or existing primary residence. It shall include permanent provisions for living, sleeping, eating, cooking, and sanitation on the same parcel as the single-family or multifamily dwelling is or will be situated. An accessory dwelling unit also includes an efficiency unit and a manufactured home, as defined in California Health and Safety Code Sections 17958.1 and 18007.
a. Attached Accessory Dwelling Unit. An accessory dwelling unit that shares at least one common wall with the primary dwelling and is not fully contained within the existing space of the primary dwelling or an accessory structure.
b. Detached Accessory Dwelling Unit. An accessory dwelling unit that does not share a common wall with the primary dwelling and is not fully contained within the existing space of an accessory structure.
c. Internal Accessory Dwelling Unit. An accessory dwelling unit that is fully contained within the existing space of the primary dwelling or an accessory structure.
d. Junior Accessory Dwelling Unit. A unit that is no more than 500 square feet in size and contained entirely within a single-family residence. A junior accessory dwelling unit may include separate sanitation facilities or may share sanitation facilities with the existing structure. (Ord. 24-01 § 3; Ord. 20-01 § 1; Ord. 19-04 § 1; Ord. 19-02 § 2).
17.16.090 Temporary use classifications.
A. Animal Shows. Exhibitions of domestic or large animals for a maximum of seven days.
B. Christmas Tree Sales. Retail sale of Christmas trees between Thanksgiving and December 26th.
C. Circuses and Carnivals. Provision of games, eating and drinking facilities, live entertainment, animal exhibitions, or similar activities in a tent or other temporary structure for a maximum of seven days. This classification excludes events conducted in a permanent entertainment facility.
D. Commercial Filming, Limited. Commercial motion picture or video photography at the same location six or fewer days per quarter of a calendar year.
E. Personal Property Sales. Sales of personal property.
F. Religious Assembly. Religious services conducted on a site that is not permanently occupied by a religious assembly use, for a period of not more than 30 days.
G. Retail Sales, Outdoor. Retail sales of new merchandise on the site of a legally established retail business.
H. Street Fairs. Provision of games, eating and drinking facilities, live entertainment, or similar activities not requiring the use of roofed structures.
I. Swap Meets, Nonrecurring. Retail sale or exchange of new, handcrafted, or secondhand merchandise for a maximum period of 48 hours, conducted by a sponsor no more than twice in any year.
J. Trade Fairs. Display and sale of goods or equipment related to a specific trade or industry for a maximum period of five days.
K. Other Uses. Other uses of a clearly temporary nature as determined to be appropriate by the community development director. (Ord. 89-1 N.S. § 13, 1989; Ord. 87-4 N.S., 1987).