Chapter 14.02.060
Use Classifications

Sections:

14.02.060.010    Residential Uses.

14.02.060.020    Public/Semi-Public Uses.

14.02.060.030    Commercial Uses.

14.02.060.040    Industrial Uses.

14.02.060.050    Transportation, Communication, and Utility Uses.

14.02.060.060    Agricultural Uses.

14.02.060.010 Residential Uses.

A. Residential Housing Types.

1. Single-Unit Dwelling, Detached. A dwelling unit that is designed for occupancy by one household with private yards on all sides and located on a separate lot from any other unit (except an accessory dwelling unit, where permitted). This subclassification includes individual manufactured housing units and mobile homes.

2. Single-Unit Dwelling, Attached. A dwelling unit that is designed for occupancy by one household located on a separate lot from any other unit (except an accessory dwelling unit, where permitted), and is attached through common walls to more than one dwelling on abutting lots.

3. Duplex. A residential building containing two dwelling units, where both units are located on one parcel or where each unit is located on a separate parcel. The dwelling units are attached and may be located on separate floors or side-by-side.

4. Multi-Unit Dwelling. Three or more attached or detached dwelling units on a single lot. Types of multi-unit dwellings can include duplexes, townhouses, multiple detached residential units, and apartment buildings.

5. Accessory Dwelling Unit. An attached or detached residential dwelling unit which provides complete independent living facilities for one or more persons, including permanent provisions for living, sleeping, eating, cooking, and sanitation. An accessory dwelling unit is located on the same site as a primary single-unit dwelling and is accessory to that dwelling.

6. Employee Housing, Small. Has the same meaning as “employee housing” described in California Health and Safety Code Section 17021.5, and as set forth in California Health and Safety Code Section 17008 for farmworkers.

7. Junior Accessory Dwelling Unit. A room or rooms contained entirely within a single-family dwelling that provide independent facilities for one or more persons for living, sleeping, and eating, that include an efficiency kitchen, and that include separate independent sanitation facilities or have access to shared sanitation facilities with the single-family dwelling. This term does not include an accessory dwelling unit or an apartment.

8. Single Room Occupancy. A facility providing six or more dwelling units where each unit has a minimum floor area of 150 square feet and a maximum floor area of 400 square feet. These dwelling units may have kitchen or bathroom facilities and shall be offered on a monthly basis or longer.

B. Family Day Care. A day care facility licensed by the state of California, located in a residential unit where the resident of the dwelling provides care and supervision for children under the age of 18 for periods of less than 24 hours a day.

1. Small. A facility that provides care for children, including children who reside at the home, in accordance with Section 1597.44 of the California Health and Safety Code.

2. Large. A facility that provides care for children, including children who reside at the home, in accordance with Section 1597.465 of the California Health and Safety Code.

C. Group Residential. Shared living quarters without separate kitchen or bathroom facilities for each room or unit, offered for rent for permanent or semi-transient residents on a weekly or longer basis. This classification includes rooming and boarding houses, dormitories, other types of organizational housing, private residential clubs, and extended stay hotels intended for long-term occupancy (30 calendar days or more) but excludes lodging, which is a commercial use, and residential care facilities.

D. Manufactured Home Park. A development occupied by manufactured housing units, including facilities and amenities used in common by residents who rent, lease, or own spaces for manufactured housing units through a subdivision, cooperative, condominium, or other form of resident ownership.

E. Residential Facility, Assisted Living. A facility that provides a combination of housing and supportive services for the elderly or functionally impaired, including personalized assistance, congregate dining, recreational, and social activities. These facilities may include medical services. Examples include residential care facilities licensed by the state of California to provide care for more than six persons, assisted living facilities, retirement homes, and retirement communities. These facilities typically consist of individual units or apartments, sometimes containing kitchen facilities and common amenities. The residents in these facilities require varying levels of assistance.

F. Small Residential Care Facilities. A facility licensed by the state of California to provide living accommodations, 24-hour care for six or fewer persons requiring personal services, supervision, protection, or assistance with daily tasks. Facilities may include shared living quarters, with or without a private bathroom or kitchen facilities. This classification includes both for- and not-for-profit institutions but excludes supportive housing and transitional housing.

G. Supportive Housing. Dwelling units with no limit on length of stay that are occupied by the target population as defined in Section 50675.14 of the California Health and Safety Code, and that are linked to on-site or off-site services that assist the supportive housing resident in retaining the housing, improving his or her health status, and maximizing his or her ability to live and, where possible, work in the community.

H. Transitional Housing. Housing that has a predetermined end point in time for resident occupancy and is operated under a program that requires the termination of assistance, in order to provide the service to another eligible program recipient. The program length is usually no less than six months.

I. Large Residential Care Facilities. A facility licensed by the state of California to provide living accommodations, 24-hour care for seven or more persons requiring personal services, supervision, protection, or assistance with daily tasks. Facilities may include shared living quarters, with or without a private bathroom or kitchen facilities. This classification includes both for- and not-for-profit institutions but excludes supportive housing and transitional housing.

(Ord. 1996, Amended, 07/23/2024; Ord. 1985, Amended, 07/25/2023; Ord. 1984, Amended, 07/25/2023; Ord. 1972, Repealed and Replaced, 02/22/2022)

14.02.060.020 Public/Semi-Public Uses.

A. Campgrounds and Recreational Vehicle Parks. An open-air facility, where recreational vehicle or camping spaces are rented, or held out for rent, for overnight stay in tents, trailers, or recreational vehicles for 30 consecutive calendar days or less.

B. Cemeteries and Columbarium. Establishments primarily engaged in operating sites or structures reserved for the interment of human or animal remains, including mausoleums, burial places, and memorial gardens.

C. Colleges and Trade Schools. Institutions of higher education primarily for adults providing curricula of a general, religious, or professional nature, granting degrees or professional certifications and including junior colleges, business and computer schools, management training, and technical and trade schools. This classification excludes instructional services such as music lessons.

D. Commercial Parking Lots and Structures. Surface lots and structures offering parking for a fee when such use is not incidental to another on-site activity.

E. Community Assembly. A facility for public or private meetings and gatherings, including community centers, union halls, meeting halls, and membership organizations. This classification includes the use of functionally related facilities for the use of members and attendees, such as kitchens, multi-purpose rooms, classrooms, and storage.

F. Cultural Institutions. A public or private institution and/or associated facility engaged in activities to promote aesthetic and educational interest among the community that are open to the public on a regular basis. This classification includes performing arts centers, event and conference spaces, spaces for display or preservation of objects of interest in the arts or sciences, libraries, museums, historical sites, aquariums, art galleries, zoos, and botanical gardens. This classification excludes schools or institutions of higher education providing curricula of a general nature (see “Colleges and Trade Schools”).

G. Day Care Centers. Establishments providing nonmedical care for persons on a less than 24-hour basis other than family day care. This classification includes nursery schools, preschools, and day care facilities for children or adults, and any other day care facility licensed by the state of California.

H. Emergency Shelter. Housing with minimal supportive services for homeless persons that is limited to occupancy of six months or less, as defined in Section 50801 of the California Health and Safety Code. Medical assistance, counseling, and meals may be provided.

I. Government Offices. Administrative, clerical, or public contact offices of a government agency, including postal facilities and courts, along with the storage and maintenance of vehicles. This classification excludes corporation yards, equipment service centers, and similar facilities that require maintenance and repair services and storage facilities for related vehicles and equipment.

J. Hospitals and Clinics. State-licensed facilities providing medical, surgical, psychiatric, or emergency medical services to sick or injured persons. This classification includes facilities for inpatient or outpatient treatment, including substance-abuse programs, as well as training, research, and administrative services for patients and employees. This classification excludes veterinaries and animal hospitals (see Section 14.02.060.030.B, Animal Care and Boarding).

1. Clinic. A facility providing medical, psychiatric, or surgical service for sick or injured persons exclusively on an out-patient basis including emergency treatment, diagnostic services, administration, and related services to patients who are not lodged overnight. Services may be available without a prior appointment. This classification includes licensed facilities offering substance abuse treatment, blood banks and plasma centers, and emergency medical services offered exclusively on an out-patient basis. This classification does not include private medical and dental offices that typically require appointments and are usually smaller scale.

2. Hospitals. A facility providing medical, psychiatric, or surgical services for sick or injured persons, primarily on an inpatient basis, and including supplementary facilities for outpatient and emergency treatment, diagnostic services, training, research, administration, and services to patients, employees, or visitors. The institutions are to be licensed by the state of California to provide surgical and medical services.

3. Skilled Nursing Facility. A state-licensed facility or a distinct part of a hospital that provides continuous skilled nursing and supportive care to patients whose primary need requires the availability of skilled nursing care on an extended basis. The facility provides 24-hour inpatient care and, at a minimum, includes physician, nursing, dietary, pharmaceutical services, and an activity program. Intermediate care programs that provide skilled nursing and supportive care for patients on a less-than-continuous basis are classified as skilled nursing facilities.

K. Incarceration Facilities. Facilities, whether publicly or privately owned and/or operated, that provide housing, care, and supervision for persons confined by law and/or serving a sentence from any federal, state, or county court.

L. Instructional Services. Establishments that offer specialized programs in personal growth and development such as music, martial arts, vocal, fitness, dancing, reading, and math instruction. Attendance is typically limited to hourly classes rather than full-day instruction. The establishments do not grant diplomas or degrees, though instruction could provide credits for diplomas or degrees granted by other institutions. This classification also includes tutoring facilities which offer academic instruction to individuals or groups.

M. Low-Barrier Navigation Center. 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. “Low barrier” means best practices to reduce barriers to entry, and may include, but is not limited to, the following:

1. The presence of partners if it is not a population-specific site, such as for survivors of domestic violence or sexual assault, women, or youth.

2. Pets.

3. The storage of possessions.

4. Privacy, such as partitions around beds in a dormitory setting or in larger rooms containing more than two beds, or in private rooms.

N. Park and Recreation Facilities. Parks, playgrounds, recreation facilities, trails, wildlife preserves, and related open spaces, all of which are noncommercial. This classification includes playing fields, courts, gymnasiums, swimming pools, picnic facilities, tennis courts, golf courses, and botanical gardens, as well as related food concessions or community centers within the facilities.

O. Public Safety Facilities. Facilities providing public safety and emergency services, including police and fire protection and emergency medical services, with incidental storage, training, and maintenance facilities.

P. Schools. Facilities for primary or secondary education, including public schools, charter schools, and private and parochial schools having curricula comparable to that required in the public schools of the state of California.

Q. Social Service Facilities. Facilities providing a variety of supportive services for disabled and homeless individuals and other targeted groups on a less than 24-hour basis. Examples of services provided are counseling, meal programs, personal storage lockers, showers, instructional programs, television rooms, and meeting spaces. This classification is distinguished from licensed day care centers (see subsection G of this section, Day Care Centers), clinics, and emergency shelters providing 24-hour care (see subsection H of this section, Emergency Shelters).

(Ord. 1984, Amended, 07/25/2023; Ord. 1972, Repealed and Replaced, 02/22/2022)

14.02.060.030 Commercial Uses.

A. Adult-Oriented Business. A business establishment or concern that as a regular and substantial course of conduct offers, sells, or distributes adult-oriented material or sexually oriented merchandise, or which offers to its patrons materials, products, merchandise, services, or entertainment characterized by an emphasis on matters depicting, describing or relating to specific sexual activities or specified anatomical areas but not including those uses or activities which are preempted by state law. This classification includes business establishments or concerns that operate as an adult retail store, adult motion picture theater, adult arcade, adult cabaret, adult motel or hotel, or adult modeling studio.

B. Animal Care and Boarding. Services related to the care and boarding of household pets.

1. Animal Shelter and Boarding. A commercial, nonprofit, or governmental facility for keeping, boarding, training, breeding, or maintaining, generally overnight or in excess of 24 hours, dogs, cats, or other household pets not owned by the owner or operator of the facility.

2. Pet Day Care. Facilities providing nonmedical care on a less than 24-hour basis for dogs, cats, or other household pets not owned by the facility operator.

3. Veterinary Services. Veterinary services for dogs, cats, or other household pets. This classification allows 24-hour accommodation of animals receiving medical services and treatment, including animal hospitals, and pet clinics.

C. Automobile/Vehicle Sales and Services. Retail or wholesale businesses that sell, rent, and/or repair automobiles, boats, recreational vehicles, trucks, vans, trailers, and/or motorcycles.

1. Automobile Brokerage. An establishment which provides or offers to provide the service of arranging, negotiating, assisting, or effectuating the purchase of an automobile for others. This use does not include a facility or area used for the retail sales of automobiles.

2. Automobile Rental. Establishment providing for the rental of automobiles. Typical uses include car rental agencies.

3. Automobile/Vehicle Sales and Leasing. Sale or lease, retail, or wholesale, of automobiles, light trucks, motorcycles, motor homes, and trailers, together with associated repair services and parts sales, but excluding body repair and painting. Typical uses include automobile dealers and recreational vehicle sales agencies.

4. Automobile/Vehicle Service and Repair, Minor. The service and repair of automobiles, light-duty trucks, and motorcycles, including the incidental sale, installation, and servicing of related equipment and parts. This classification includes the replacement of small automotive parts and liquids as an accessory use to a gasoline sales station or automotive accessories and supply store, and smog checks, tire sales and installation, auto radio/electronics installation, auto air conditioning/heater service, and quick-service oil, tune-up shops, and brake and muffler shops where repairs are made or service provided in enclosed bays and no vehicles are stored overnight.

5. Automobile/Vehicle Repair, Major. Repair of automobiles, trucks, motorcycles, motor homes, boats, and recreational vehicles, generally on an overnight basis that may include disassembly, removal or replacement of major components such as engines, drive trains, transmissions or axles, automotive body and fender work, vehicle painting, or other operations that generate excessive noise, objectionable odors or hazardous materials, and towing services. This classification excludes vehicle dismantling or salvaging and tire retreading or recapping.

6. Large Vehicle and Equipment Sales, Service, and Rental. Sales, servicing, rental, fueling, and washing of large trucks, trailers, tractors, and other equipment used for construction, moving, agricultural, or landscape gardening activities.

7. Service Stations. Establishments primarily engaged in retailing automotive fuels or retailing these fuels in combination with activities such as providing minor automobile/vehicle repair services; selling automotive oils, replacement parts, and accessories; and/or providing incidental food and retail services. These facilities may include “mini-marts” and/or convenience stores that sell products, merchandise, or services that are ancillary to the primary use related to the operation of motor vehicles.

8. Towing and Impound. Establishments primarily engaged in towing light or heavy motor vehicles, both local and long distance. These establishments may provide incidental services, such as vehicle storage and emergency road repair services (for automobile dismantling, see Section 14.02.060.040.I, Salvage and Wrecking).

9. Washing. Washing, waxing, or cleaning of automobiles or similar light vehicles.

D. Banks and Financial Services. Financial institutions providing retail banking services. This classification includes only those institutions serving walk-in customers or clients, including banks, savings and loan institutions, check-cashing services, and credit unions.

E. Business Services. Establishments providing goods and services to other businesses on a fee or contract basis, including printing and copying, blueprint services, advertising and mailing, office equipment rental and leasing, office security, custodial services, photofinishing, model building, and taxi services or delivery services with two or fewer fleet vehicles on site.

F. Cannabis.

1. Applicant. A person or entity that submits an application for a cannabis business permit under this code.

2. Cannabis Business Permit. A regulatory permit issued by the City pursuant to this code, to a commercial cannabis business and is required before any commercial cannabis activity may be conducted in the City. The initial permit and annual renewal of a commercial cannabis business is made expressly contingent upon the business’s ongoing compliance with all of the requirements of this code and any regulations adopted by the City governing the commercial cannabis activity at issue.

3. Cannabis Business Permittee or Permittee. A person or entity that has received a cannabis business permit from the City as authorized under this code.

4. Canopy. The same meaning as that appearing in Title 3, Section 8000(f) of the California Code of Regulations.

5. Caregiver or Primary Caregiver. See Health and Safety Code Section 11362.7.

6. Commercial Cannabis Business. A business or operation which engages in medicinal or adult-use commercial cannabis activity.

7. Dispensing. Any activity involving the retail sale of cannabis or cannabis products from a retailer.

8. Distributor. See Business and Professions Code Section 26070.

9. Enforcement Officer. Any department head or designee authorized by the City Manager to enforce a violation of Section 14.09.270.080.

10. Hearing Examiner. Authorized hearing officer designated by the City Clerk.

11. Limited-Access Area. Area in which cannabis is stored or held and is only accessible to licensee and authorized personnel.

12. Manufactured Cannabis. Raw cannabis that has undergone a process whereby the raw agricultural product has been transformed into a concentrate, extraction or other manufactured product intended for internal consumption through inhalation or oral ingestion or for topical application.

13. Manufacturing Site. A location that produces, prepares, propagates, or compounds cannabis or cannabis products, directly or indirectly, by extraction methods, independently by means of chemical synthesis, or by a combination of extraction and chemical synthesis, and is owned and operated by a person issued a valid cannabis business permit for manufacturing from the City and a valid state license as required for manufacturing of cannabis products.

14. Microbusiness. See Business and Professions Code Section 26070(a)(3).

15. Nonstorefront Retailer. Subset of “retailer” and is a licensed retail business that is closed to the public and provides product to customers solely by means of a delivery service which the retailer owns and controls.

16. Nonvolatile Solvent. A solvent used in the extraction process that is not a volatile solvent as defined by state law. For purposes of this chapter, a nonvolatile solvent includes carbon dioxide (CO2) used for extraction and ethanol used for extraction or post-extraction processing.

17. Owner.

a. A person with an aggregate ownership interest of 10 percent or more in the person applying for a license or a licensee, unless the interest is solely a security, lien, or encumbrance.

b. The manager of a nonprofit or other entity.

c. A member of the board of directors of a nonprofit.

d. An individual who will be participating in the direction, control, or management of the person applying for a license. Such an individual includes, but is not limited to, any of the following:

i. A general partner of a commercial cannabis business that is organized as a partnership.

ii. A nonmember manager or manager of a commercial cannabis business that is organized as a limited liability company.

iii. An officer or director of a commercial cannabis business that is organized as a corporation.

iv. An individual entitled to a share of at least 10 percent of the profits of the commercial cannabis business.

e. Any individual who assumes responsibility for the license.

f. When an entity is an owner in a commercial cannabis business, all entities, and individuals with a financial interest in the entity, shall be disclosed to the City and may be considered owners of the commercial cannabis business. For example, this includes all entities in a multi-layer business structure, as well as the chief executive officer, members of the board of directors, partners, trustees, and all persons who have control of a trust and managing members or nonmember managers of the entity. Each entity disclosed as having a financial interest must disclose the identities of persons holding financial interests until only individuals remain.

18. Patient or Qualified Patient. Shall have the same meaning as that contained in California Health and Safety Code Section 11362.7 et seq., as it may be amended, and which includes within its definition a person who is entitled to the protections of California Health and Safety Code Section 11362.22.

19. Person with Identification Card. See California Health and Safety Code Section 11362.7.

20. Processing. A cultivation site that conducts only trimming, drying, curing, grading, packaging, or labeling of cannabis and nonmanufactured cannabis products.

21. Retailer or Storefront Retailer. See Business and Professions Code Section 26070(a)(1).

22. State License. A permit or license issued by the state of California, or one of its departments or divisions, under the MAUCRSA and any subsequent related state of California legislation, to engage in cannabis activity. A state license alone will not authorize the holder to operate a cannabis business, as state law also requires a permit or other authorization issued by a local jurisdiction.

23. Topical Cannabis. A product intended for external application and/or absorption through the skin. A topical cannabis product is not considered a drug as defined by Health and Safety Code Section 109925.

24. Transport. The transfer of cannabis products from the permitted business location of one licensee to the permitted business location of another licensee, for the purposes of conducting cannabis activity authorized by the MAUCRSA which may be amended or repealed by any subsequent related state of California legislation. Transport can only be performed by licensed distributors and does not include deliveries of cannabis or cannabis products.

25. Volatile Solvent. A solvent as defined by Health and Safety Code Section 11362.3(b)(3) as of the effective date of this chapter and as subsequently amended.

26. Youth Center.

a. Public or private facility that is primarily used to host recreation, academic, or social activities for minors, including, but not limited to:

i. Private youth membership organizations or clubs;

ii. Social service teenage club facilities;

iii. Video arcades where 10 or more video games or game machines or devices are operated, and where minors are legally permitted to conduct business; or

iv. Similar amusement park facilities;

v. Must be used for youth activities at least 60 percent of the time in a calendar year.

b. It shall also include a park, playground, or recreational area specifically designed to be used by children which has play equipment installed, including public grounds designed for athletic activities such as baseball, softball, soccer, or basketball, or any similar facility located on a public or private school grounds, or on City, county, or state parks.

c. This definition shall not include any private martial arts, yoga, ballet, music, art studio or similar studio of this nature nor shall it include any private gym, athletic training facility, pizza parlor, dentist office, doctor’s office primarily serving children, a location which is primarily utilized as an administrative office, or a facility for youth programs or organizations.

G. Commercial Entertainment and Recreation. Provision of participant or spectator entertainment to the public. These classifications may include incidental restaurants, snack bars, and other related food and beverage services to patrons.

1. Cinema/Theater. Any facility for the indoor display of films and motion pictures on single or multiple screens. This subclassification may include incidental food and beverage service to patrons as well as auditoriums within buildings.

2. Indoor Sports and Recreation. Establishments providing predominantly participant sports, indoor amusement and entertainment services conducted within an enclosed building. Typical uses include arcades, bingo halls, bowling alleys, billiard parlors, card rooms, health clubs, ice- and roller-skating rinks, indoor racquetball courts, athletic clubs, indoor shooting ranges, and physical fitness centers.

3. Outdoor Entertainment. Predominantly spectator uses, conducted in open or partially enclosed or screened facilities. Typical uses include amusement and theme parks, sports stadiums and arenas, racetracks, amphitheaters, and drive-in theaters.

4. Outdoor Sports and Recreation. Predominantly participant sports conducted in open or partially enclosed or screened facilities. Typical uses include driving ranges, golf courses, miniature golf courses, tennis clubs, outdoor batting cages, swimming pools, archery ranges, and riding stables.

H. Eating and Drinking Establishments. Businesses primarily engaged in serving prepared food and/or beverages for consumption on or off the premises.

1. Bars/Night Clubs/Lounges. Businesses serving alcoholic beverages for consumption on the premises as a primary use, including on-sale service of alcohol including beer, wine, and mixed drinks. This subclassification includes tasting rooms and micro-breweries where alcoholic beverages are sold and consumed on site and any beverage production or distilling, and food service is subordinate to the sale of alcoholic beverages.

2. Restaurant. Establishments where food and beverages are served to patrons on site or off site, including full-service, limited service, and take-out/delivery businesses. This subclassification includes cafes, coffee shops, delicatessens, fast-food businesses, and bakeries that have tables for on-site consumption of products. It excludes catering services and commercial kitchens that do not sell food or beverages for on-site consumption.

3. Tasting Room. Establishments serving samples of food or beverages for on-site consumption, typically as an ancillary use associated with a production facility such as wine or beer making, or retail sales.

I. Farmer’s Markets. Temporary but recurring outdoor retail sales of food, plants, flowers, and products such as jellies, breads, and meats that are predominantly grown or produced by vendors who sell them.

J. Food Preparation. Establishments preparing and/or packaging food primarily for off-site consumption, including catering kitchens, retail bakeries, and small-scale specialty food production. This classification excludes establishments with an industrial character in terms of processes employed, waste produced, water used, and traffic generation.

K. Funeral Parlors and Interment Services. An establishment primarily engaged in the provision of services, involving the care, preparation, or disposition of human remains and conducting memorial services. This subclassification includes funeral parlors, crematories, and mortuaries, but excludes cemeteries and burial parks (see also Section 14.02.060.020.B, Cemeteries and Columbarium).

L. Hookah Lounge. Any business which primarily serves tobacco or nontobacco products (e.g., fruit, vegetables) whereby patrons, who are 18 years of age or older, share the tobacco or nontobacco products from a hookah, water pipe, or similar device.

M. Lodging. An establishment providing overnight lodging to transient patrons for payment periods of 30 consecutive calendar days or less. These establishments may provide additional services and amenities, such as conference and meeting rooms, restaurants, bars, or recreation facilities available to guests or to the public.

N. Offices. Offices of firms, organizations, or public agencies providing professional, executive, management, administrative or design services, such as accounting, architectural, computer software design, engineering, graphic design, interior design, investment, insurance, and legal offices, real estate and mortgage brokers, banks and savings and loan associations with retail banking services (see subsection B of this section, Banks and Financial Institutions). This classification also includes offices where medical and dental services are provided by physicians, dentists, chiropractors, acupuncturists, optometrists, and similar medical professionals, including medical/dental laboratories within medical office buildings, but excludes clinics, independent research laboratory facilities (see Section 14.02.060.040.H, Research and Development), and hospitals.

1. Business, Professional, and Technology. Offices of firms, organizations, or agencies providing professional, executive, management, or administrative services, such as accounting, architectural, computer software design, engineering, graphic design, interior design, legal, and tax preparation offices.

2. Medical and Dental. Offices providing consultation, diagnosis, therapeutic, preventive, or corrective personal treatment services by doctors and dentists; medical and dental laboratories that see patients; and similar practitioners of medical and healing arts for humans licensed for such practice by the state of California. Incidental medical and/or dental research within the office is considered part of the office use if it supports the on-site patient services.

O. Personal Services. An establishment providing nonmedical services to individuals as a primary use, of personal convenience, as opposed to products that are sold to individual consumers, or from/by companies. This classification includes animal grooming services, barber and beauty shops, clothes, shoes, and luggage repair, photographers, tattoo parlors, massage establishments, small-scale laundry services, cleaning services and pick-up stations, and similar services.

P. Repair and Maintenance Services. Establishments engaged in the maintenance or repair of consumer products, including office machines, household appliances, electronics, furniture, and similar items. This classification excludes repair and maintenance of motor vehicles (see subsection C of this section, Automobile/Vehicle Sales and Services) and personal apparel (see subsection O of this section, Personal Services).

Q. Retail Sales.

1. Building Materials and Supply Stores. Retail sales or rental of building supplies or equipment. This classification includes lumber yards, tool and equipment sales, or rental establishments, and includes establishments devoted principally to taxable retail sales to individuals for their own use. This subclassification does not include construction and material yards, hardware stores less than 10,000 square feet in floor area, or plant nurseries.

2. Food and Beverage Sales. Retail sales of food and beverages primarily for off-site preparation and consumption. This subclassification includes food markets, grocery stores, liquor stores, meat markets and butcher shops, and retail bakeries.

3. General Retail and Merchandise. The retail sale or rental of merchandise not specifically listed under another use classification. This subclassification includes retail establishments such as department stores, clothing stores, furniture stores, small hardware stores (with 10,000 square feet or less of floor area), and businesses retailing the following goods: household pets and pet supplies, toys, hobby materials, handcrafted items, jewelry, cameras, photographic supplies and services (including portraiture and retail photo processing), medical supplies and equipment, pharmacies, electronic equipment, sporting goods, kitchen utensils, hardware, appliances, antiques, art galleries, art supplies and services, paint and wallpaper, carpeting and floor covering, office supplies, bicycles, video rental, and new automotive parts and accessories (excluding vehicle service and installation). Retail sales may be combined with other services such as office machine, computer, electronics, and similar small-item repairs.

4. Nurseries. Any establishment(s) primarily engaged in retailing nursery and garden products, such as trees, shrubs, plants, seeds, bulbs, and sod that are predominantly grown elsewhere. These establishments may sell a limited amount of a product they grow themselves.

(Ord. 1972, Repealed and Replaced, 02/22/2022)

14.02.060.040 Industrial Uses.

A. Cannabis. See Section 14.02.060.030.F.

B. Construction and Material Yards. Storage of construction materials or equipment on a site other than a construction site.

C. Contractor Shops. Establishments for specialized business activities related to building construction. This classification includes establishments for trades such as painting, carpentry, plumbing, heating, air-conditioning, roofing, landscaping, cabinetmaking, and sign-making.

D. Custom and Artisan Manufacturing. Any establishment primarily engaged in on-site production or fabrication of goods by small-scale manufacturing or artistic endeavor, which involves the use of hand tools or small mechanical equipment, and which may include incidental instruction or direct sales for consumers. Typical uses include ceramic studios, fabric and needle-working, leather working, metalworking, glass-working, candle-making shops, woodworking, and custom jewelry manufacturers.

E. Food and Beverage Manufacturing. Establishments engaged in the production, processing, packaging, or manufacturing of food or beverage products and where any instruction, direct sales, or on-site consumption are incidental to the food or beverage production activity. This classification excludes the slaughtering of animals or fowl which is not allowed.

1. Small Scale. A small-scale food and beverage products manufacturing and distribution establishment located in facilities less than 10,000 square feet in size. Examples include coffee roasters, micro-breweries, micro-distilleries, cheese makers, wholesale bakeries, and produce-on-premises operations which provide ingredients and equipment for customers to manufacture their own product.

2. Large Scale. Large-scale production, packaging, processing, preparation, or manufacturing of a food, beverage, or ingredient used or intended for use for human digestion in a facility over 10,000 square feet.

F. General Industrial. Establishments engaged in manufacturing of nonedible products from extracted or raw materials or recycled or secondary materials, or bulk storage and handling of such products and materials. Production typically involves some transformation by way of heating, chilling, combining, or through a chemical or biochemical reaction or alteration. Toxic, hazardous, or explosive materials may be produced or used in large quantities as part of the manufacturing process. These industrial activities may produce impacts on nearby properties, such as noise, gas, odor, dust, or vibration. This classification includes manufacturing for biomass energy conversion, commercial cosmetics and perfumes, electrical appliances and explosives, film and photographic processing plants, apparel and textile mills, leather and allied products manufacturing, wood and paper, glass and glass products, chemical products, medical/pharmaceutical products, plastics and rubber, nonmetallic minerals, primary and fabricated metal products, and automotive and heavy equipment.

G. Light Industrial. Establishments engaged in manufacturing of nonedible products and finished parts primarily from previously prepared materials by means of physical assembly or reshaping. These industrial activities produce limited impacts on nearby properties, such as noise, gas, odor, or vibration. This classification includes uses where retail sales are clearly incidental to an industrial or manufacturing use, commercial laundries and dry-cleaning plants, monument works, printing and engraving, publishing, computer and electronic product manufacturing, furniture and related product manufacturing, and industrial services.

H. Research and Development. A facility for the scientific research and the design, development, and testing of electrical, electronic, magnetic, optical, pharmaceutical, chemical, and biotechnology components and products in advance of product manufacturing. This classification includes assembly of related products from parts produced off site, where the manufacturing activity is secondary to the research and development activities, in addition to involving the production of experimental products.

I. Salvage and Wrecking. Storage and dismantling of vehicles and equipment for sale of parts, as well as their collection, storage, exchange or sale of goods including, but not limited to, any used building materials, used containers or steel drums, used tires, and similar or related articles or property.

J. Storage, Warehousing, and Wholesaling. Storage, warehousing, and wholesaling facilities that store and/or engage in wholesale sales of merchandise to retail establishments; industrial, commercial, institutional, agricultural, or professional businesses; or facilities acting as agents or brokers in buying or selling merchandise/commodities to such businesses. Wholesalers are primarily engaged in business-to-business sales but may sell to individual consumers through mail or internet orders. These establishments have little or no display of merchandise and are not designed to solicit walk-in traffic except for public storage in small individual spaces exclusively and directly accessible to a specific tenant.

1. Indoor. Storage, warehousing, and wholesaling of goods and merchandise within an enclosed building.

2. Outdoor. Storage, warehousing, and wholesaling of goods in open lots.

3. Personal Storage. Facilities offering enclosed storage with individual access for personal effects and household goods including mini-warehouses and mini-storage, and records or inventory storage for businesses. This classification includes moving company businesses which offer storage and transporting services, but excludes workshops, hobby shops, manufacturing, or commercial activity.

(Ord. 1972, Repealed and Replaced, 02/22/2022)

14.02.060.050 Transportation, Communication, and Utility Uses.

A. Airports and Heliports. Facilities for the takeoff and landing of airplanes and helicopters, including runways, helipads, aircraft storage buildings, public terminal building and parking, air freight terminal, baggage handling facility, aircraft hangar, and public transportation and related facilities, including bus operations, servicing and storage. Also includes support activities such as fueling and maintenance, storage, airport operations and air traffic control, incidental retail sales, coffee shops, snack shops, and airport administrative facilities, including airport offices, terminals, operations buildings, communications equipment, buildings and structures, control towers, lights, and other equipment and structures required by the United States government and/or the state for the safety of aircraft operations.

B. Communication Facilities. Facilities for the provision of broadcasting and other information-relay services using electronic and telephonic mechanisms.

1. Facilities Within Buildings. Indoor facilities which include radio, television or recording studios, and telephone switching centers.

2. Telecommunication. Broadcasting and other communication services accomplished through electronic or telephonic mechanisms, as well as structures and equipment cabinets designed to support one or more reception/transmission systems. This subclassification includes wireless telecommunication towers and facilities, radio towers, television towers, telephone exchange/microwave relay towers, cellular telephone transmission/personal communications systems towers, and associated equipment cabinets and enclosures.

C. Freight/Trucking Facilities. Property and improvements used for freight, courier, and postal services; freight transfer truck terminals; transfer, loading, and unloading points for trucks and automobiles carrying goods and products; or for the operations of a “common carrier trucking company,” including the parking, or servicing, or repairing, or storage of trucks, truck tractors, and/or truck trailers.

D. Light Fleet-Based Services. Passenger transportation services, local delivery services, medical transport, and other businesses that rely on fleets of three or more vehicles with rated capacities less than 10,000 pounds. This classification includes parking, dispatching, and offices for taxicab and limousine operations, ambulance services, nonemergency medical transport, local messenger and document delivery services, home cleaning services, and similar businesses.

E. Public Works and Utilities. Generating plants, electric substations, recycling collection and processing facilities, solid waste collection, including transfer stations and materials recovery facilities, solid waste treatment and disposal, water or wastewater treatment plants, and similar facilities of public agencies or public utilities. This classification also includes facilities such as water reservoirs, wastewater collection or pumping facilities, water wells, storm water detention basins, and similar utility uses.

F. Recycling Facility. A facility for receiving, temporarily storing, transferring, and/or processing materials for recycling, reuse, or final disposal. This use classification does not include waste transfer facilities that operate as materials recovery, recycling, and solid waste transfer operations and are classified as utilities.

1. Reverse Vending Machine. An automated mechanical device that accepts, sorts and processes recyclable materials and issues a cash refund or a redeemable credit slip.

2. Recycling Collection Facility. An incidental use that serves as a neighborhood drop off point for the temporary storage of recyclable or reusable materials but where the processing and sorting of such items is not conducted on site.

a. Small Collection Facility. Small collection facilities occupy no more than 500 square feet and may include:

i. A “mobile recycling unit,” which means an automobile, truck, trailer, or van, licensed by the Department of Motor Vehicles, and used for the collection of recyclable materials. A mobile recycling unit also means the bins, boxes or containers transported by trucks, vans, or trailers, and used for the collection of recyclable materials;

ii. Bulk reverse vending machines or a grouping of reverse vending machines occupying more than 50 square feet;

iii. Booth-type units which may include permanent structures;

iv. Unattended textile donation containers; and

v. Unattended containers placed for the donation of recyclable materials.

b. Large Collection Facility. Large collection facilities may occupy an area of more than 500 square feet and may include permanent structures.

3. Recycling Processing Facility. A facility that receives, sorts, stores and/or processes recyclable materials.

a. Light Processing Facility. A light processing facility occupies an area of under 45,000 square feet of gross collection, processing and storage area and has up to an average of two outbound truck shipments per day. Light processing facilities are limited to baling, briquetting, crushing, compacting, grinding, shredding, and sorting of source separated recyclable materials and repairing of reusable materials sufficient to qualify as a certified processing facility. A light processing facility shall not shred, compact, or bale ferrous metals other than food and beverage containers.

b. Heavy Processing Facility. Any processing facility other than a light processing facility.

G. Transit Stations and Terminals. Facilities for passenger transportation operations, including rail stations, bus terminals, taxi, and scenic and sightseeing facilities. This classification excludes terminals serving airports or heliports (see subsection A of this section, Airports and Heliports).

(Ord. 1972, Repealed and Replaced, 02/22/2022)

14.02.060.060 Agricultural Uses.

A. Agriculture.

1. Animal Production. Commercial facilities engaged in the breeding, raising, feeding, and transshipping of livestock for producing animal products, animal increase, or value increase. This classification excludes feedlots, stockyards, slaughterhouses, hog farms, fertilizer works, or plants for the reduction of animal matter.

2. Crop and Horticulture Production. Commercial facilities for the cultivation of tree, vine, field, forage, and other plant crops intended to provide food or fibers or for growing flowers, trees, and ornamentals. This classification includes wholesale greenhouses and nurseries but excludes retail nurseries (Section 14.02.060.040.Q.(4), Nurseries). Cannabis is prohibited.

3. Employee Housing, Large. Has the same meaning as “employee housing” described in California Health and Safety Code Section 17021.6, and as set forth in California Health and Safety Code Section 17008 for farmworkers.

B. Urban Agriculture.

1. Community Garden. Use of land for and limited to the cultivation of herbs, fruits, flowers, or vegetables, including the cultivation and tillage of soil and the production, cultivation, growing, and harvesting of any agricultural, floricultural, or horticultural commodity, by several individuals or households.

2. Market Garden. The primary use of a site for cultivation of fruits, vegetables, flowers, fiber, nuts, seeds, or culinary herbs for sale or donation of its produce to the public.

(Ord. 1996, Amended, 07/23/2024; Ord. 1972, Repealed and Replaced, 02/22/2022)