Commercial use types include the sale, rental, service, and distribution of goods, and the provisions of services other than those classified as industrial or Civic Uses.

ADMINISTRATIVE AND BUSINESS OFFICES

Offices or private firms or organizations which are primarily used for the provision of executive, management or administrative services. Typical uses include administrative offices, and services including real estate, insurance, property management, investment, personnel, travel, secretarial services, telephone answering, photocopy and reproduction and business offices of public utilities, organizations and associations, or other use classifications when the service rendered is that customarily associated with administrative office services.

AGRICULTURAL SALES AND SERVICES

Establishments or places of business engaged in sale from the premises of feed, grain, fertilizers, pesticides and similar goods of in the provision or agriculturally related services with incidental storage on lots other than where the service is rendered. Typical uses include hay, feed and grain stores and tree service firms.

ARTS AND CRAFTS

Goods which are custom produced in small quantities, often one of a kind. The use may include the sale or production of same or may be a place where a small number of persons are engaged in arts and crafts activities in a class or studio; provided that the area encompassing arts and crafts use shall not exceed 2500 square feet. Examples include galleries, arts and crafts studios, custom tailoring and dressmaking shops, retail art supplies and hobby materials, florist shops, photographic studios, picture framing shops and arts and crafts schools.

AUTOMOTIVE AND EQUIPMENT SERVICES

Establishments or places or businesses primarily engaged in automotive related or heavy equipment sales and services. The following are automotive and equipment use types:

Automotive Washing. Washing and cleaning of automobiles and related light equipment. Typical uses include auto laundries or car washes.

Service Station. Provision of fuel, lubricants, parts and accessories, and incidental services to motor vehicles.

Commercial Off-Street Parking. Parking of motor vehicles on a temporary basis within a private owned off-street parking facility, other than accessory to a principal use. Typical uses include commercial parking lots or commercial parking garages.

Automotive Rentals. Rental of automobiles, non-commercial trucks, trailers and recreational vehicles, including incidental parking and servicing of vehicles available for rent or lease. Typical uses include auto rental agencies, trailer rental agencies and taxicab parking and dispatching.

Automotive Sales. Sale or rental of automobiles, non-commercial trucks, motorcycles, motor homes, recreational vehicles or boats, including incidental storage, maintenance and servicing. Typical uses include new and used car dealerships, motorcycle dealerships, boat, trailer and recreational vehicle dealerships.

Equipment Sales. Sale or rental of trucks, tractors, construction equipment, agriculture implements, manufactured homes, and similar heavy equipment, including incidental storage, maintenance and servicing. Typical uses include truck dealerships, construction equipment dealerships, manufactured home dealerships and sales (but specifically excluding dismantling or salvaging of vehicles).

Automotive Repair Services. Repair of automobiles non-commercial trucks, motorcycles, motor homes, recreational vehicles or boats, including the sale, installation, and servicing of equipment and parts. Typical uses include muffler shops, auto repair garages, tire sales and installation, wheel and brake shops, body and fender shops, and similar repair and service activities (but specifically excluding dismantling or salvaging of vehicles).

Equipment Repair Services. Repair of trucks, tractors, construction equipment, agriculture implements and similar heavy equipment. Typical uses include truck repair garages, trucking yard terminals, tractor and farm implement repair services and machine shops (but specifically excluding dismantling or salvaging of vehicles).

Vehicle Storage. Long term storage of operating or non-operating vehicles. Typical uses include storage of private parking towaways or impound yards, (but specifically excluding dismantling or salvaging of vehicles).

BUILDING MAINTENANCE SERVICES

Establishments primarily engaged in the provision of maintenance and custodial services to firms rather than individuals. Typical uses include janitorial, landscape maintenance or window cleaning services.

BUSINESS SUPPORT SERVICE

Establishments or places of business primary engaged in the sale, rental or repair of equipment and supplies used by office, professional and service establishments to the firms themselves rather than to individuals, but excludes automotive, construction and farm equipment. Typical uses include office equipment and supply firms, small business repair shops, hotel equipment and supply firms.

BUSINESS OR TRADE SCHOOL

A use providing education or training in business, commerce, language or other similar activity or occupational pursuit, and not otherwise defined as a home occupation, college or university or public or private educational facility.

CAMPGROUND

Campground facilities providing camping and/or parking areas and incidental services for travelers in recreational vehicles or tents. Typical uses include recreational vehicle parks.

COCKTAIL LOUNGE

Establishments or places of business engaged in the preparation and retail sale of alcoholic beverages for consumption on the premises, including taverns, bars, cocktail lounges and similar uses other than a restaurant as that term is defined herein.

COMMERCIAL RECREATION

Establishments or places of business primarily engaged in providing sports, entertainment, or recreation for participants or spectators. The following are commercial recreational use types:

Indoor Sports and Recreation. Uses conducted within an enclosed building. Typical uses include bowling alleys, billiard parlors, ice and roller skating rinks, penny arcades, electronic video games and indoor racquetball courts.

Outdoor Sports and Recreation. Uses conducted in open or partially enclosed or screened facilities. Typical uses include driving ranges, miniature golf courses, golf courses, swimming pools, tennis courts and outdoor racquetball courts.

Indoor Entertainment. Predominately spectator uses conducted within an enclosed building. Typical uses include motion picture theaters, meeting halls and dance halls.

Outdoor Entertainment. Predominately spectator uses conducted in open or partially enclosed or screened facilities. Typical uses include sports arenas, racing facilities and amusement parks.

COMMUNICATION SERVICES

Establishments primarily engaged in the provision of broadcasting and other information relay services accomplished through the use of electronic and telephonic mechanisms but excluding those classified as Major Utility Facilities. Typical uses include television studios, telecommunication service centers, telegraph service offices, film recording, sound recording and cable television operations.

CONSTRUCTION SALES AND SERVICES

Establishments or places of business primarily engaged in construction activities and incidental storage on lots other than construction sites as well as the retail or wholesale sale, from the premises, of materials used in the construction of buildings or other structures, but excluding retail sale of paint, fixture and hardware, and those classified as one of the Automotive and Equipment Service use types. Typical uses include building materials stores, tool and equipment rental or sales, building, plumbing, electrical or mechanical contractors.

CONSUMER CONVENIENCE SERVICES

Establishments which provide services, primarily to individuals, of a convenient and limited nature, often in access-controlled facilities which make twenty-four (24) hour operations possible. Typical uses include the renting of private postal and safety deposit boxes to individuals and automated banking machines.

CONSUMER REPAIR SERVICES

Establishments primarily engaged in the provision of repair services to individuals and households rather than firms, but excluding Automotive and Equipment Service use types. Typical uses include appliance repair shops, watch or jewelry repair shops or musical instrument repair shops.

CONVENIENCE STORAGE

Storage services primarily for personal effects and household goods within enclosed storage areas having individual access, but excluding uses such as workshops, hobby shops, manufacturing or commercial activity. Typical uses include mini-warehousing and mini-storage units.

CONVENIENCE STORE/SELF SERVICE GASOLINE

An establishment engaged in the sale of food, beer, wine, household products and self-serve gasoline retail sales limited to three (3) multiple service dispensers or pumps units within one (1) service island, with one (1) canopy cover.

DRIVE THROUGH FACILITIES

Facilities provided by an establishment or place of business for the purpose of allowing a customer, or patron, to transact business, whether it be pick-up, drop-off, ordering or service, from a motor vehicle.

EXTERMINATING SERVICES

Services related to the eradication and control of rodents, insects and other pests, with incidental storage on lots other than where the service is rendered.

FINANCIAL SERVICES

Establishments primarily engaged in the provision of financial and banking services. Typical uses include banks, savings and loan institutions, loan and lending activities and similar services.

FOOD SALES

Establishments or places of business primarily engaged in the retail sale of food (with incidental sale of beer and wine) for home consumption or household products. Typical uses include groceries, delicatessens, meat markets, retail bakeries, candy shops and ice cream parlors. Restaurants are specifically excluded from this definition.

FUNERAL SERVICES

Establishments engaged in undertaking services such as preparing the human dead for burial and arranging and managing funerals. Typical uses include funeral homes or mortuaries.

GENERAL RETAIL SALES

Sale or rental of commonly used goods, and merchandise for personal or household use, but excluding those classified more specifically in Section 4.500. Typical uses include department stores, apparel stores, furniture stores and establishments providing the following products or services: household cleaning and maintenance products, drugs, cards, stationary, notions, books, tobacco products, cosmetic and specialty items; flowers, plants, hobby materials, toys and hand-crafted items; apparel, jewelry, fabrics and like items; cameras, photography services, household electronic equipment, sporting equipment, kitchen utensils, home furnishings and appliances, art supplies and framing, arts, antiques, paint and wallpaper, carpeting and floor covering, interior decorating services, office supplies, bicycles and auto parts (inside a building with no repair services).

HOTEL-MOTEL

Lodging services involving the provision of room and/or board. Typical uses include hotels, motels and inns.

KENNELS

Boarding and care services for dogs, cats and similar small animals. Typical uses include boarding kennels, pet motels and dog training centers.

LAUNDRY SERVICES

Establishments primarily engaged in the provision of laundering, dry cleaning or dying services other than those classified as Personal Services. Typical uses include bulk laundry and cleaning plants, diaper services or linen supply services.

LIQUOR SALES

Establishments or places of business engaged in retail sale for consumption off the premises of alcoholic beverages. Typical uses include liquor stores, bottle shops, or any licensed sale of liquor, beer or wine for off-site consumption.

MEDICAL OFFICES

A use providing consultation, diagnosis, therapeutic, preventive or corrective personal treatment services by doctors, dentists, medical and dental laboratories and similar practitioners of medical and healing arts for humans licensed for such practice by the State of Texas.

PAWN SHOP SERVICES

A use engaged in the loaning of money on the security of property pledged in the keeping of the pawnbroker, and the incidental sale of such property.

PERSONAL IMPROVEMENT SERVICES

Establishment or places of business primarily engaged in providing informational, instructional, personal improvement and similar services of a non-professional nature. Typical uses include driving schools, health or physical fitness studios, reducing salons, dance studios, handcraft and hobby instructions.

PERSONAL SERVICES

Establishments or places of business primarily engaged in providing frequently or recurrently needed services of a personal nature. Typical uses include beauty salons, barber shops, seamstresses, tailors, shoe repair shops, dry cleaning pick-up station services and coin operated laundries.

PET SERVICES

Retail sales, veterinarian services, grooming and boarding when totally within a building, of dogs, cats, birds, fish and similar small animals customarily used as household pets. Typical uses include pet stores, small clinics, dog bathing and clipping salons and pet grooming shops but excluding uses for livestock and large animals.

PROFESSIONAL OFFICE

A use providing professional or consulting services in the fields of law, architecture, design engineering, accounting and similar professions.

RESEARCH SERVICES

Establishments primarily engaged in research of an industrial or scientific nature but excluding product testing. Typical uses include electronics research laboratories, space research and development firms and pharmaceutical research.

RESTAURANT - DRIVE-IN/FAST FOOD

A chain and/or franchise restaurant which may include but not limited to two or more of the following characteristics:

The product is primarily intended for immediate consumption and is available upon short waiting time.

The product is prepared, packaged, or presented in such a manner that it can be readily eaten outside the premises where it is sold.

The facilities for on-premises consumption of food and insufficient for the volume of food sold.

The building floor area devoted to food preparation and serving is greater than the building floor area devoted to dining.

The restaurant is affiliated by agreement with two (2) or more similar restaurants by common ownership, common name, common product, common process and common building architecture.

RESTAURANT

A use engaged in the preparation and retail sale of food and beverages, including sale of alcoholic beverages when conducted as an accessory or secondary feature and producing less than fifty (50) percent of the gross income. A restaurant may include live entertainment with amplified sound. Typical uses include restaurants, coffee shops, dinner houses and similar establishments with incidental alcoholic beverage service.

SCRAP AND SALVAGE SERVICES

Places of business primarily engaged in the storage, sale, dismantling or other processing of used or waste materials which are not intended for reuse in their original forms. Typical uses include automotive wrecking yards, junkyards or salvage yards.

SHOPPING CENTER OR MALL

An integrated grouping of commercial activity, primarily of a retail and personal service nature, in a building complex having the individual establishments joined by a common covered pedestrian mall or walkway.

STABLES

Boarding, breeding or raising of horses not owned by the occupants of the premises or riding of horses by other than the occupants of the premises or their non-paying guests. Typical uses include boarding stables or public stables.

VETERINARY SERVICES

Veterinary services and hospitals for animals. Typical uses include pet clinics, dog and cat hospitals and veterinary hospitals for livestock and large animals.