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.

1.   Administrative Services. Offices, administrative, clerical, or public contact services that deal directly with the citizens, together with incidental storage and maintenance of necessary vehicles. Typical uses include federal, State, County, or municipal offices.

2.   Air Ambulances. A facility for landing and takeoff of emergency aircraft relating to medical or hospital service delivery systems, located in close proximity to such medical use, but not within 100 feet of any principal dwelling.

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

4.   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.

5.   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.

6.   College and University Facilities. An educational institution of higher learning which offers course study designed to culminate in the issuance of a degree.

7.   Community Recreation. A recreational facility for use by residents and guests of a particular residential development, planned unit development, or limited residential neighborhood, including both indoor and outdoor facilities.

8.   Convalescent Services. A use providing bed care and in-patient services for persons requiring regular medical attention, but excluding a facility providing surgical or emergency medical services, and excluding a facility providing care of alcoholism, drug addiction, mental disease, or communicable disease.

9.   Cultural Services. A library, museum, art gallery, or similar non-profit use affording display, preservation, and exhibition of objects of permanent interest in one or more of the arts and sciences.

10.   Day Care Services (General). A facility, or use of a dwelling unit or portion thereof, for the care of seven or more individuals. This term includes nursery schools, pre-schools, day care centers for children or adults, and similar uses.

11.   Day Care Services (Limited). A facility, or use of a building or portion thereof, for the care of six or fewer individuals. This term includes nursery schools, pre- schools, day care centers for children or adults, and similar uses.

12.   Detention Facilities. A publicly operated use providing housing and care for individuals confined by law.

13.   Game Refuge. A use of land providing natural habitat for animals and plant species. Typical uses include prairies, marshes, woodlands, and wetlands.

14.   Guidance Services. A use providing counseling, guidance, recuperative, vocational, or similar services to persons requiring rehabilitation assistance as a result of mental illness, alcoholism, detention, drug addiction, or similar condition, either on a residential or daytime care basis.

15.   Hospital Services. A facility providing medical, psychiatric, or surgical services 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.

16.   Local Utility Services. Services which are necessary to support principal development and involve only minor structures such as lines, poles, transformers, control devices, and junction boxes which are necessary to support principal development.

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

18.   Major Utility Facilities. Generating plants, electrical switching facilities, primary substations, refuse collection or disposal facilities, water and wastewater treatment plants, and similar facilities of public agencies or public utility firms having potentially significant impact upon surrounding uses.

19.   Military Installations. Military facilities of the federal or State governments.

20.   Park and Recreation Services. Publicly owned and operated parks, playgrounds, recreation areas, or open spaces.

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

22.   Primary Educational Facilities. A public, 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 in the State of Iowa.

23.   Public Assembly. Publicly owned and operated facilities for major public assembly, recreation, sports, amusement, or entertainment, including civic or community auditoriums, sports stadiums, convention facilities, fairgrounds, and exhibition facilities.

24.   Railroad Facilities. Railroad yards, equipment servicing facilities, and terminal facilities.

25.   Religious Assembly. A use located in a permanent building and providing regular organized religious worship and religious education incidental thereto, but excluding primary or secondary educational facilities.

26.   Residential Care Services. A use, other than a hospital or convalescent facility, providing care for ambulatory persons in a residential environment, including over-night occupancy or care for extended periods of time.

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

28.   Sanitary Landfill. A disposal project where garbage, refuse, rubbish, and other similar discarded solid or semisolid materials are buried between layers of earth.

29.   Secondary Educational Facilities. A public, private, or parochial school offering instruction at the junior and senior high school levels in the branches of learning and study required to be taught in the public schools of the State of Iowa.

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