Land in a cemetery zone district shall be used only for the following specified purposes:

A.

Creation, operation and maintenance of a cemetery and for cemetery purposes, including columbaria, crematories, chapels, mausoleums, garden crypts, indoor and outdoor sarcophagi, and administrative buildings;

B.

In addition to and when used in conjunction with uses specified in subsection (A) of this section, such cemetery land may be used for dwellings for persons employed on the premises, storage and vault fabrication facilities, tool sheds, maintenance and garage buildings and other buildings and uses requisite to, necessary for, or incident to the establishment, maintenance, operation, improvement or conduct of the cemetery and the care, preservation and embellishment of cemetery property, including, but not limited to, any activity designed for the benefit, service, convenience, education or spiritual uplift of owners of property within the cemetery and/or other persons visiting the cemetery, provided a valid use permit has been applied for and granted pursuant to Chapter 17.44 of this code and for such time as the permit remains in full force and effect;

C.

Agricultural purposes including crops, groves, greenhouses, cut flowers or nursery stock and structures incident to such agricultural use provided such use shall terminate or cease upon land specifically under cemetery use or improvement for same. Further, such use as permitted in this chapter shall be maintained in such manner as to in no way interfere with, disturb or harm any adjacent or nearby cemetery use.

(Ord. 635 § 14B-1, 1965)

Property used for cemetery purposes shall be developed and maintained in accord with the following standards:

A.

Every cemetery shall be an endowment perpetual care, lodge, or church cemetery licensed and operated in full accord with the laws of California;

B.

Property shall be developed in accordance with the memorial-park type of cemetery with appropriate landscaping, including lawns, shrubs, trees and other embellishments appropriate to the memorial type of facility and may include forms of architecture, sculpture and art when used in conjunction with the memorial plan;

C.

No tombstones shall be permitted; memorialization shall be by memorial tablets flush with the ground or not to exceed twenty-four inches in height. Statuary and other memorials which are acceptable in artistic form and in accord with the memorial plan may also be permitted if submitted to the city planner and found to be in accord with the intent of this subsection;

D.

All interior driveways shall have a minimum twenty-five foot width, paved and developed with a curb or rolled protective edge;

E.

Drainage and sewage disposal systems shall be installed in accordance with the requirements of the city engineer and of the North San Mateo County Sanitation District, or any successor thereto;

F.

Each cemetery shall be fenced or enclosed with walls or other appropriate fences six feet in height. When property line of cemetery is adjacent to residentially developed property, such wall shall be a masonry or suitable alternate and sight-obscuring, except that where topography or other exceptionable circumstances warrant, as determined by the planning commission, this condition may be modified or altered. Cemetery boundaries not adjacent to a residentially zoned and residentially developed property may be fenced with appropriate landscaping and shrubbery to provide a sight-obscuring boundary. Entryways to every cemetery shall be clearly defined by architecturally treated entry gates and gate structures and an artistic or architecturally treated wall shall extend in either direction from such entry for a distance of not less than fifty feet; These fence requirements shall not apply to interior boundaries of cemeteries where the adjacent property not in use for cemetery is in common ownership with the cemetery and is free of an independent residential use or where adjacent property is in cemetery use and common agreement upon suitable boundary delineation has been reached;

G.

Signs shall be limited to identification and name signs only. There shall be no advertising or promotional type of signs.

(Ord. 709 § 6; Ord. 635 § 14B-2, 1965)