Civic use types include the performance of utility, educational, recreational, cultural, medical, protective, governmental, and other uses which are strongly vested with public or social importance. They also include certain uses accessory to the above, as specified in Chapter 20.164, Accessory Use Regulations.

(Ord. No. 4538, § 5(Exh. A), 9-10-2024)

"Administrative services government" means consulting, recordkeeping, 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, city or special district offices.

(Ord. No. 4538, § 5(Exh. A), 9-10-2024)

"Ambulance services" means transportation of ill or injured persons to and from treatment facilities together with incidental storage and maintenance of necessary vehicles.

(Ord. No. 4538, § 5(Exh. A), 9-10-2024)

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

(Ord. No. 4538, § 5(Exh. A), 9-10-2024)

"Clinic services" means providing nonprofit medical services to persons afflicted with bodily or mental disease or injury without provision for on-site residence or confinement.

(Ord. No. 4538, § 5(Exh. A), 9-10-2024)

"Community recreation" means recreational, social or multipurpose uses owned or operated by a public entity. Typical uses include public parks, sports facilities, senior citizen centers, nature centers, teen centers, playhouses, auditoriums and recreational centers.

(Ord. No. 4538, § 5(Exh. A), 9-10-2024)

"Cultural exhibits and library services" means nonprofit, museum-like preservation and exhibition of objects of permanent interest in one (1) or more of the arts and sciences, gallery exhibition of works of art or library collection of books, manuscripts, etc., for study and reading.

(Ord. No. 4538, § 5(Exh. A), 9-10-2024)

"Day Care Facility/small schools" means care or education of seven (7) or more, but not to exceed twenty-five (25) persons regardless of age or handicap but excluding overnight care or uses classified as group care or other facilities exempted by the California Health and Safety Code, e.g. Day Care Homes—Small and Large, or major impact services and utilities. A Day Care Home—Large is subject to an Administrative Permit in all zoning districts that permit the Family Residential use types. Typical uses include day nurseries for children, child day care facilities, or day care for elderly, and small schools.

(Ord. No. 4538, § 5(Exh. A), 9-10-2024)

"Educational facilities" means public and private schools providing education for more than twenty-five (25) persons.

(Ord. No. 4538, § 5(Exh. A), 9-10-2024)

"Essential services" means 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.

(Ord. No. 4538, § 5(Exh. A), 9-10-2024)

"Fire and police protection services" means facilities for conduct of public safety services, including police and fire protection services.

(Ord. No. 4538, § 5(Exh. A), 9-10-2024)

"Group care" means services provided in facilities authorized, certified or licensed by the State to provide board, room and personal care to seven (7) or more, but not to exceed twenty-five (25) elderly, or mentally impaired or otherwise handicapped persons or dependent and neglected children but excluding those uses classified under major impact services and utilities. Typical uses include emergency shelters, intermediate care facilities and rest homes.

(Ord. No. 4538, § 5(Exh. A), 9-10-2024)

"Lodge, fraternal and civic assembly" means meetings and activities conducted primarily for their members by nonprofit organizations which are tax exempt pursuant to Section 501(c) of the Internal Revenue Code. Excluded from this use type are uses classified as group care, or transient habitation (all types). Typical uses include meeting places for civic clubs, grange halls, lodges, or fraternal or veterans organizations.

(Ord. No. 4538, § 5(Exh. A), 9-10-2024)

"Major impact facilities" means services or facilities which may have a substantial impact. Typical uses include airports, hospitals, group care for more than twenty-five (25) persons, detention and correction institutions, and corporation yards.

(Ord. No. 4538, § 5(Exh. A), 9-10-2024)

"Major impact services and utilities" means services or utilities which may have a substantial impact.

Such uses may be conditionally permitted when the public interest supersedes the usual limitations placed on land use and transcends the usual restraints of zoning for reasons of necessary location and community wide interest. Typical places or uses are power generating facilities, Battery Energy Storage Systems, sewage disposal facilities, septage disposal facilities and sites, sanitary landfills and water treatment plants, and radio, telephone and other commercial communication transmission towers and antennas.

(Ord. No. 4538, § 5(Exh. A), 9-10-2024)

"Minor impact utilities" means public utilities which have a local impact on surrounding properties and are necessary to provide essential services. Typical uses are electrical and gas distribution substations and transmission distribution lines. Radio, telephone and other commercial communication transmission towers and antennas are not included.

(Ord. No. 4538, § 5(Exh. A), 9-10-2024)

"Religious assembly" means religious services involving public assembly such as customarily occurs in synagogues, temples, and churches.

(Ord. No. 4538, § 5(Exh. A), 9-10-2024)