A retail establishment that involves the repair or service of any sort of mechanical, plumbing, or electrical device should it become out of order, broken or performing routine actions which keep the device in working order.

A building or outdoor area in which movies, plays and other dramatic performances are given.

The dismantling or wrecking of used motor vehicles or trailers, or the storage, sale or dumping of dismantled or wrecked vehicles or their parts. The presence on any lot or parcel of land of five or more motor vehicles which for a period exceeding 30 days have not been capable of operating under their own power, and from which parts have been or may be removed for reuse or sale shall constitute prima facie evidence of an automobile wrecking yard.

A computerized, self-service machine used by banking customers for financial transactions, including deposits, withdrawals and fund transfers, without face-to-face contact with financial institution personnel. These machines may be located at or within banks, or in other locations.

Surface parking lot or building for short-term storage of motor vehicles that is a primary use of a site. A parking structure has two or more tiers or levels and at least two open sides with the top tier either roofed or not.

A retail establishment selling, leasing, and/or renting automobiles, trucks and vans, motorcycles, mobile homes, recreational vehicles, and watercrafts. May also include repair shops and the sales of parts and accessories, incidental to vehicle dealerships. Does not include the sale of auto parts/accessories separate from a vehicle dealership; tire recapping establishments; businesses dealing exclusively in used parts; or repair and service.

A use engaged in service or major repair of new or used automobiles, trucks, trailers, boats, motorcycles, mopeds, recreational vehicles, or other similar vehicles, including tire recapping, painting, body and fender repair, and engine, transmission, air conditioning, and glass repair and replacement, and similar services.

Any commercial bakery where bread and/or pastry goods are made and/or sold.

Financial institutions including:

A use providing preparation and retail sale of alcoholic beverages, on a licensed "on sale" basis, for consumption on the premises.

Retail establishments providing nonmedical services to individuals as a primary use. These uses may also include secondary or ancillary retail sales of products related to the services provided.

A house, or portion thereof, where short-term (less than 30 days within any 60-day period) lodging rooms and meals are provided. The operator or manager of the facility shall live on the premises or in adjacent premises.

A manufacturer of specialty beers that are typically made available locally or regionally. A microbrewery may also have a restaurant on the premises. The operation of such facility shall be consistent with the Alcohol and Beverage Code Section 23357.

A facility where radio or television broadcasts originate.

An office set up to handle a large volume of telephone calls, especially for taking orders, providing customer service, or sales.

A building containing equipment for washing motor vehicles.

An establishment that serves and supplies food to be consumed off premises.

Any person engaged in the business of cashing checks for a fee, service charge or other consideration.

A not-for-profit association of persons, whether incorporated or unincorporated, organized to pursue common goals, interest or activities, but not including a group organized solely or primarily to render a service customarily carried on as a business.

A retail establishment, with or without drive through service, which primarily sells prepared coffee, tea, and related beverages, but also provides an incidental sale of food, glassware, coffee beans, tea bags, and related merchandise.

A facility providing a continuous academic program primarily for students 17 years of age or older.

Commercial agricultural production field and orchard uses, including the production of the following or similar, primarily in the soil on the site and not in containers:

A lot or portion of a lot that is made available by the owner(s) for non-commercial production of vegetative food products by persons within the vicinity of such lot. It is the intent that the garden be used by persons for the production of food for their own use.

Easy access retail store of 5,000 square feet or less in gross floor area, which carries a range of merchandise oriented to convenience and travelers' shopping needs. These stores may be part of a service station or an independent facility.

A crematorium is a facility that houses a cremator having a cremation chamber or retort. In this chamber, the body of a deceased is incinerated and hence, reduced to skeletal remains and bone fragments. Use includes pet crematorium.

A child day care center for children not yet enrolled in elementary school and not located inside a residence with no more than 12 students.

A permanent facility providing temporary housing for one or more individuals who are otherwise homeless.

An indoor or outdoor area where producers of food offer their food goods for sale.

A business establishment offering services such as fortune tellings, psychic readings, astrology, tarot card reading, palm reading, or similar services for advice on love, money, success, etc.

A lot, lot area or parcel of land used, designed or maintained for the purpose of storing, parking, refueling, repairing, dispatching, servicing or the loading, unloading, and temporary storage of trucks and truck trailers or keeping motor trucks and associate equipment together with those facilities necessary to service, dispatch, store or maintain aforementioned vehicles, their cargos and crews.

A retail business offering the sale of gasoline or other motor vehicle fuels, oil, and minor automotive accessories, which may also provide services which are incidental to fuel services. Does not include minor repair services for the operation of motor vehicles, such as vehicle engine maintenance and repair, towing and trailer rental services, painting, body work, steam cleaning or major repairs, such as the storage or repair of wrecked or abandoned vehicles, vehicle painting, and body or fender work.

A retail business where the majority of the floor area open to the public is occupied by food products packaged for preparation and consumption away from the site of the store. These full-service businesses do not typically have limited hours of operation.

Fitness centers, gymnasiums, health and athletic clubs including any of the following: indoor sauna, spa or hot tub facilities; indoor tennis, handball, racquetball, and other indoor sports activities.

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

A building or portion thereof containing six or more guest rooms where lodging, and possibly meals, entertainment and other various personal services are provided to the public for some form of consideration, but not including those facilities defined as social care facilities (i.e., day care, medical care).

Any lot, lot area, or parcel of land used, designed, or maintained for the specific purpose of storing, impounding, or keeping motor vehicles, but not including dismantling or wrecking activities.

The storage of materials accessory and incidental to a primary use and is not considered a land use separate from the primary use.

The use of any unenclosed portion of a lot for the purpose of keeping or storing junk, including scrap metals or any other scrap materials, or for the purpose of wrecking or dismantling automobiles, vehicles or machinery. A junkyard does not include a recycling center.

An establishment where dogs and/or cats are bred, raised, trained, or boarded.

A facility for testing, analysis, and/or research. This type of facility is distinguished from industrial research and development in its orientation more toward testing and analysis than product development or prototyping. This land use type is oriented more toward specimen analysis and processing than direct blood drawing and specimen collection from patients but may also include incidental specimen collection.

Service establishments engaged primarily in high volume laundry and garment services, including: power laundries (family and commercial); garment pressing and dry cleaning; linen supply; diaper service; industrial laundries; carpet and upholstery cleaners. Includes coin-operated laundries or dry-cleaning pick-up stores without dry cleaning equipment.

A retail store that sells prepackaged alcoholic beverages, typically in bottles intended to be consumed off the store's premises.

An integrated housing unit and working space, occupied and utilized by a single household in a structure, either single-family or multifamily, that has been designed or structurally modified to accommodate joint residential occupancy and work activity, and which includes:

A facility accommodating manufacturing processes that involve and/or produce basic metals, building materials, chemicals, fabricated metals, paper products, machinery, textiles, and/or transportation equipment, where the intensity and/or scale of operations may cause impacts on surrounding land uses or the community. Examples of major manufacturing uses include the following:

A facility accommodating manufacturing processes involving and/or producing: apparel; food and beverage products; electronic, optical, and instrumentation products; ice; jewelry; and musical instruments. Minor manufacturing also includes other establishments engaged in the assembly, fabrication, and conversion of already processed raw materials into products, where the operational characteristics of the manufacturing processes and the materials used are unlikely to cause significant impacts on surrounding land uses or the community. Examples of minor manufacturing uses include the following:

A building or portion thereof or a place where massage is administered for compensation or from which a massage business or service for compensation is operated, provided, however, that a health spa or reducing salon is not a massage parlor. As used herein, "massage" means any method of pressure on or friction against or stroking, kneading, rubbing, tapping, pounding, vibrating, or stimulating of the external surfaces of the body with the hands, or with the aid of any mechanical, electrical apparatus or appliances with or without such supplementary aids as rubbing alcohol, liniments, antiseptics, oils, powder, creams, lotions, ointments, or other similar preparations commonly used in this practice. Therapeutic massage administered in a medical office, hospital complex, medical care facility, beauty salon, or health club/fitness center as an incidental service shall not be deemed to render such office, complex, or facility a massage parlor within the meaning of this code.

Facilities primarily engaged in furnishing outpatient medical, mental health, surgical and other personal health services, but which are separate from hospitals, including:

A structure containing one or more units capable of being used independently of each other and which are designed for the shelter of:

A person who prepares food items for service, sale, or distribution by means of a vehicle.

Funeral homes and parlors, where deceased are prepared for burial or cremation, and funeral services may be conducted.

A hotel in which the rooms are accessible from the business parking areas.

A retail service providing propagation and sale of plants, shrubs, trees, and similar products, related to materials and services associated with installation, maintenance, and improvements of yards, gardens, landscaped areas, outdoor living and recreation areas, and similar facilities.

Wholesale growers/distributers that generally sell in large volume "to the trade," not to the public.

Not including medical offices; or offices that are incidental and accessory to another business or sales activity that is the primary use. Incidental offices that are customarily accessory to another use are allowed as part of an approved primary use.

Temporary outdoor sales of Christmas trees during the Christmas season, pumpkins during the Halloween and Thanksgiving season and 4th of July fireworks sales are permitted for a 45-day period prior to the holiday and one week afterwards, subject to an approved zoning clearance, pursuant to Section 17.35.020. Due to the temporary nature of these uses, the development standards provided in this title are not otherwise applicable, except for any health and safety issues that may arise.

A retail establishment for photography, the processing of photographs produced, and similar services.

A use located in a permanent building and providing regular or organized religious worship and religious education incidental thereto. A property tax exemption obtained pursuant to the Constitution of the State of California and of the Revenue of Taxation Code of the State of California, shall constitute prima facie evidence that such use is a place of worship as defined herein.

A child day care center for children not yet enrolled in elementary school and not located inside a residence with more than 12 students.

Establishments engaged in printing by letterpress, lithography, gravure, screen, offset, or electrostatic (xerographic) copying; and other establishments serving the printing trade such as bookbinding, typesetting, engraving, photoengraving, electrotyping, and blue printing. This use also includes establishments that publish newspapers, books and periodicals; establishments manufacturing business forms and binding devices.

Any building or group of buildings the use of which meets State requirements of primary, secondary or higher education and which use does not secure the major part of its funding from any governmental agency. A private school may also be 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.

A facility offering the sale or refilling of propane tanks. Propane is a colorless, gaseous hydrocarbon found in petroleum and natural gas, which is widely used as a fuel source. Overall storage of propane shall not exceed 500 gallons total.

A facility where trains load or unload passengers or goods.

An establishment engaged in the sale of agricultural products and edible by-products packed or processed on the premises.

A use conducted within an enclosed building for the purposes of entertainment, recreation or sport, such as arcades, ranges, indoor batting cages, and bowling alleys.

A use conducted outside for the purposes of entertainment, sport or recreation, such as parks or playfields for baseball, football, soccer, and the like, or ball courts golf courses, driving ranges, and outdoor batting cages. Outdoor recreational activities could include the following:

An area, tract of land, or designated part of a mobilehome park with two or more spaces for the temporary use of recreational vehicles and may include permanent structures for an office, restrooms, laundry facilities, and similar ancillary facilities.

A facility that is not a junkyard and where the public may donate, redeem or sell recyclable materials.

A facility providing activities related to the enterprise of corporate or governmental innovation. The activities that are classified as Research and Development differ from company to company, but there are two primary models, with a Research and Development department being either staffed by engineers and tasked with directly developing new products, or staffed with industrial scientists and tasked with applied research in scientific or technological fields which may facilitate future product development.

A retail establishment that prepares and sells ready-to-eat food, including cafés, coffee shops, sandwich shops, ice cream parlors, and similar uses, and including licensed "on-sale" provision of wine and beer for consumption on the premises when accessory to such food service. For the purposes of this code, a mobile food vendor is not considered a restaurant.

A retail establishment that prepares and sells ready-to-eat food and is also known as a quick service restaurant, which is characterized both by its fast food cuisine and by minimal table service, and generally includes a "drive-through"; meaning, vehicles line up for service at definite spots and where customers are served without leaving their vehicles.

A retail establishment that prepares and sells ready-to-eat food and is also known as a quick service restaurant, which is characterized both by its fast food cuisine and by minimal table service and does not include a "drive-through"; meaning, vehicles line up for service at definite spots and where customers are served without leaving their vehicles.

A retail establishment that prepares and sells ready-to-eat food and is intended to be eaten off of the premises, with no on-site dining area available.

A retail business that primarily sells merchandise at a single low or very low price point (e.g., one dollar).

A retail business less than 100,000 square feet in size and off-street parking that usually offers a variety of customer services and a wide range of products.

A retail business with off-street parking that is 100,000 square feet in size or larger. These stores usually offer a variety of customer services, centralized cashing, and wide range of products. They may also contain a full-service grocery department under the same roof that shares entrances and exits with the retail store area. They usually maintain long store hours seven days a week. The stores are often the only ones on the site, but they can also be found in mutual operation with a related or unrelated garden center or service station. Superstores are also sometimes found as separate parcels within a retail complex with their own dedicated parking.

A device or instrument designed or used for the reception of television or other electronic communications signal broadcast or relayed from an earth satellite. It may be a solid, open mesh, or bar configured structure in the shape of a shallow dish or parabola.

A facility providing a continuous program of instruction for students kindergarten through 12th grade.

Any enclosed container constructed of metal, wood, or other material which container was designed or patterned after structures used in containerized shipping operations. No shipping container or similar structure shall be used as an accessory structure, permanent or temporary, in any zoning district unless granted a conditional use permit.

A private specialized facility designed for firearms practice. Each facility is typically over-seen by one or more supervisory personnel, called variously a range master or range safety officer (RSO). These supervisory personnel are responsible for ensuring that all weapon safety rules are followed at all times.

A group of commercial establishments, planned, developed, owned, or managed as a unit, with off-street parking provided on the site.

Facilities where municipal solid waste is unloaded from collection vehicles and briefly held while it is reloaded onto larger long-distance transport vehicles for shipment to landfills or other treatment or disposal facilities.

The storage of various materials as the primary use. The storage of various materials outside of a structure other than fencing, either as an accessory or principal use. Storage yards shall not include use for human habitation or manufacturing or any kind.

An outpatient facility that specializes in the diagnosis and/or treatment of substance abuse. Services provided may include, but need not be limited to, therapy, education, counseling, and aftercare recovery services.

A retail establishment providing clothing services to individuals as a primary use, including alterations, repair, and dressmaking.

A retail establishment where tattooing, body piercing, and other body modifications are performed.

Public and commercial electromagnetic and photoelectrical transmission, broadcast, repeater and receiving stations for radio, television, telegraph, telephone, data network, and wireless communications, including commercial earth stations for satellite-based communications. Includes antennas, commercial satellite dish antennas, and equipment buildings. Does not include telephone, telegraph and cable television transmission facilities utilizing hard-wired or direct cable connections (see "Utility Substation").

A retail store selling secondhand clothes and other household goods, typically to raise funds for a charitable institution.

A retail establishment selling tobacco products in various forms and the related paraphernalia, such as: pipes, lighters, matches, pipe cleaners, pipe tampers.

A professional, recreational or vocational school providing a continuous program of instruction primarily for adults, as a business.

As defined in Health and Safety Code Section 50675.2, shall mean rental housing operated under program requirements that call for the termination of assistance and recirculation of the assisted unit to another eligible program recipient at some predetermined future point in time, which shall be no more than two years. Transitional housing units are residential uses subject only to those requirements and restrictions that apply to other residential uses of the same type in the same zone.

Fixed-base structures and facilities serving as junction points for transferring utility services from one transmission voltage to another or to local distribution and service voltages, including the following:

Establishments engaged in selling merchandise to retailers; to industrial, commercial, institutional, farm, or professional business users; or to other wholesalers; or acting as agents or brokers in buying merchandise for or selling merchandise to such persons or companies. Includes such establishments as: agents, merchandise or commodity brokers, and commission merchants.

Wholesale store or warehouse where shoppers pay a membership fee in order to take advantage of discounted prices on a wide variety of items such as food, clothing, tires and appliances; many items are sold in large quantities or bulk.

An establishment where wine or liquor is manufactured. A winery or distillery may include a tasting room, at which guests may sample what is manufactured on site.

A retail establishment not located at a winery, providing samples and the sale of wine, and which may also sell ancillary food, clothing, glassware, and other similar items.