Civic use types include the performance of utility, educational, recreational, cultural, medical, productive, governmental and other uses which are strongly vested with public or social importance.

ADMINISTRATIVE SERVICES

Offices, administrative, clerical or public contact services that deal directly with the citizen, together with incidental storage and maintenance of necessary vehicles. Typical uses include federal, state county and city offices.

AVIATION FACILITIES

Landing fields, aircraft parking and service facilities, and related facilities for operation, service, fueling, repair, storage, charter, sales and rental of aircraft, including activities directly associated with the operation and maintenance of airport facilities and the provision of safety and security.

CEMETERY

Land used or intended to be used for the burial of the dead and dedicated for cemetery purposes, including columbiums, crematoriums, mausoleums and mortuaries when operated in conjunction with and within the boundary of such cemetery.

CLUB OR LODGE

A use providing meeting, recreational, or social facilities for a private or non-profit association, primarily for use by members and guests. Typical uses include private social clubs and fraternal organizations.

COLLEGE AND UNIVERSITY FACILITIES

Educational institutions of higher learning which offer a course of study designed to culminate in the issuance of a degree as defined by the Education Code of the State of Texas.

COMMUNITY RECREATION

A recreational facility for use by residents and guests of a particular residential development, planned unit development, church, private primary educational facility, private secondary educational facility, club or lodge or limited residential neighborhood, including both indoor and outdoor facilities.

CONVALESCENT SERVICES

A use providing bed care and in-patient services for persons requiring regular medical attention, such as nursing homes, but excluding facilities providing surgical or emergency medical services, facilities providing care for alcoholism, drug addiction, mental disease or communicable disease.

CULTURAL SERVICES

A library, museum or similar registered non-profit organizational use displaying, preserving and/or exhibiting objects of community and cultural interest.

DAY CARE SERVICES

A facility designed or adapted for the care of children or adults, that requires a license for group day care homes from the Texas Department of Protective and Regulatory Services. This term includes nursery schools, pre-schools, day care centers for children or adults and similar uses, but excluding public and private primary and secondary educational facilities.

DETENTION FACILITIES

A publicly operated use providing housing and care for individuals legally confined.

GUIDANCE SERVICES

A use providing counseling, guidance, recuperative, or similar services to persons requiring rehabilitation assistance as a result of mental illness, alcoholism, detention, drug addiction or similar condition, on a day time care basis.

HOSPITAL SERVICES

Hospital Services (General). A facility providing medical, psychiatric or surgical service for sick or injured persons, primarily on an in-patient basis, and including ancillary facilities for out-patient and emergency treatment, diagnostic services, training, research, administration and services to patients, employees, or visitors.

Hospital Services (Limited). A facility providing medical, psychiatric, or surgical services for sick or injured persons exclusively on an out-patient basis, including emergency treatment, diagnostic services, training, administration and services to out-patients, employees or visitors.

LOCAL UTILITY SERVICES

Services which are necessary to support principal development and involve only minor structures such as lines and poles which are necessary to support principal development.

MAINTENANCE AND SERVICE FACILITIES

A facility supporting maintenance, repair, vehicular or equipment servicing, material storage, and similar activities, including corporation yards, equipment service centers and similar uses having characteristics of commercial services or contracting or industrial activities.

MAJOR UTILITY FACILITIES

Generating plants, electrical switching facilities and primary substations, refuse collection or disposal facilities, water and wastewater treatment plants and similar facilities.

MILITARY INSTALLATIONS

Military facilities of the federal and state governments.

PARK AND RECREATION SERVICES

Publicly owned and operated parks, playgrounds, recreation facilities and open space.

POSTAL FACILITIES

Postal services, including post offices, bulk mail processing or sorting centers, operated by the United States Postal Service.

PRIVATE PRIMARY EDUCATIONAL FACILITIES

A private or parochial school offering instruction at the elementary school level in the branches of learning and study required to be taught in the public schools of the State of Texas.

PRIVATE SECONDARY EDUCATIONAL FACILITIES

A private or parochial school offering instruction beyond the elementary school level through the twelfth grade in the branches of learning and study required to be taught in the public schools of the State of Texas.

PUBLIC PRIMARY EDUCATIONAL FACILITIES

A public school offering instruction at the elementary school level in the branches of learning and study required to be taught in the public schools of the State of Texas.

PUBLIC SECONDARY EDUCATIONAL FACILITIES

A public school offering instruction beyond the elementary school level through the twelfth grade in the branches of learning and study required to be taught in the public schools of the State of Texas.

RAILROAD FACILITIES

Railroad yards, equipment servicing facilities and terminal facilities.

RELIGIOUS ASSEMBLY

A use located in a permanent or temporary building and providing regular organized religious worship and religious education incidental thereto, but excluding private primary or private secondary educational facilities, community recreational facilities, and parking facilities. A property tax exemption obtained pursuant to Property Tax Code of the State of Texas shall constitute prima facie evidence of religious assembly use.

SAFETY SERVICES

Facilities for conduct of public safety and emergency services, including police and fire protection services and emergency medical and ambulance services.

TRANSPORTATION TERMINAL

A facility for loading, unloading, and interchange of passengers, baggage, and incidental freight or package express between modes of transportation, including bus terminals, railroad stations, airport terminals and public transit facilities.