An attached or a detached residential dwelling unit which provides complete independent living facilities for one or more persons. It shall include permanent provisions for living, sleeping, eating, cooking, and sanitation on the same parcel as the single-family dwelling is situated. An accessory dwelling unit also includes: (1) an efficiency unit, as defined in Health and Safety Code section 17958.1, and (2) a manufactured home, as defined in Health and Safety Code section 18007. (Reference: PHMC § 18.20.095.)

An establishment offering lodging (with or without incidental meal and/or beverage service) in a single-family residential building and in conjunction with a single-family residential use, for short-term stays of less than 30 consecutive days.

The renting of a room or rooms within an existing single-family dwelling where: (1) a bedroom or bedrooms are rented, with a separate rental agreement for each room, not for the entire dwelling; (2) for a minimum of 30 consecutive days; (3) with the common use of kitchen facilities; and (4) those occupying the bedroom or bedrooms do not function as a family as defined in PHMC § 18.140.010.

Any one of the following residential or nonresidential care facilities, which serves seven or more residents (or clients):

A residential facility, not licensed by the state, in which seven or more individuals with a disability reside who are not living together as a family (as defined) and in which every person residing in the facility is an individual with a disability (except the licensee, members of the licensee's family, or persons employed as facility staff).

A small care facility of a type listed under Care facility, large, licensed which is: (1) a residential facility which serves (2) six or fewer residents (not including the licensee or members of the licensee's family or staff), (3) licensed by the state. Any combination of two or more care facilities that are under the control and management of the same owner, operator, management company, licensee, or any affiliate of them, and are integrated components of one operation, are considered one facility.

A residential facility of six or fewer total residents managed under a single operator and designed for short-term stays by each resident as a transition from drug or alcohol rehabilitation or while on parole. Any combination of two or more care facilities that are under the control and management of the same owner, operator, management company, licensee, or any affiliate of them, and are integrated components of one operation, are considered one facility.

An enterprise that has not more than $50,000 in gross annual sales; operated by a "cottage food operator" (who operates in his or her private home and owns the operation); and having not more than one full-time equivalent employee, not including a family or household member; that involves preparation of "cottage food products" which are nonhazardous foods such as baked goods without cream or meat fillings; candy; chocolate-covered nonperishable foods; dried fruit; dried pasta; dry baking mixes; fruit pies; granola, cereals and trail mixes; herb blends and dried mole paste; honey; jams, jellies, preserves; nut mixes and nut butters; popcorn; vinegar and mustard; roasted coffee and dried tea; waffle cones and pizelles; other items added by the State Public Health Officer on an approved food products list (Health and Saf. Code § 113758).

A facility that regularly provides care, protection, and supervision for 14 or fewer children, in the provider's own home, for periods of less than 24 hours per day, while the parents or guardians are away and is either a large family day care home or a small family day care home, as defined in Health and Safety Code section 1596.78, including:

Shared living quarters, in multifamily zone districts, with or without separate kitchen or bathroom facilities for each room or unit. This classification includes boardinghouses, dormitories, and private residential clubs, but excludes care facilities.

A home occupation is an ongoing activity in a dwelling which provides goods or services where such activity is incidental to the primary use of the dwelling for residential purposes. (Reference: PHMC § 18.20.070.)

A unit that is no more than 500 square feet in size and contained entirely within an existing single-family structure. A junior accessory dwelling unit may include separate sanitation facilities, or may share sanitation facilities with the existing structure.

Any area of land or property that has at least two mobile homes, manufactured homes, recreational vehicles, and/or lots that are held out for rent or lease.

Two or more dwelling units on a site.

Housing that is available only to households in which the head of the household is 55 years of age or older, and which is not a care facility (small or large) as defined elsewhere in this section.

A single-room occupancy facility is a residential building that includes multiple single-room occupancy units. "Single-room occupancy unit" means housing consisting of single-room dwelling units that are the primary residence of their occupant or occupants. If the single-room occupancy housing consists of new construction, conversion of nonresidential space, or reconstruction, the unit must contain either food preparation or sanitary facilities, and may contain both. If the single-room occupancy housing consists of acquisition or rehabilitation of an existing residential structure or hotel, neither food preparation nor sanitary facilities are required to be in the unit, but if the units do not contain sanitary facilities, the building must contain sanitary facilities that are shared by tenants (see 24 CFR 92.2).

One dwelling unit located on a single lot.

Housing with no limit on length of stay, that is occupied by the target population, and that is linked to an on-site or off-site service that assists the supportive housing resident in retaining the housing, improving his or her health status, and maximizing his or her ability to live and, when possible, work in the community. "Target population" means persons with low incomes who have one or more disabilities, including mental illness, HIV or AIDS, substance abuse, or other chronic health condition, or individuals eligible for services provided pursuant to the Lanterman Developmental Disabilities Services Act (Division 4.5 (commencing with Section 4500) of the Welfare and Institutions Code) and may include, among other populations, adults, emancipated minors, families with children, elderly persons, young adults aging out of the foster care system, individuals exiting from institutional settings, veterans, and homeless people. Supportive housing is a residential use subject only to the same requirements as apply to other residential dwellings of the same type in the same zone.

Buildings configured as rental housing developments, but operated under program requirements that require the termination of assistance and recirculating of the assisted unit to another eligible program recipient at a predetermined future point in time that shall be no less than six months from the beginning of the assistance. Transitional housing is a residential use subject only to the same requirements as apply to other residential dwellings of the same type in the same zone.

Private, noncommercial citizen band, ham and short-wave radio facilities.

Any one of the following residential or nonresidential care facilities, which serves seven or more residents (or clients):

A residential facility, not licensed by the state, in which seven or more individuals with a disability reside who are not living together as a family (as defined) and in which every person residing in the facility is an individual with a disability (except the licensee, members of the licensee's family, or persons employed as facility staff).

Land used for the burial of the dead and dedicated for cemetery purposes, including columbariums, crematories, mausoleums, and mortuaries when operated in conjunction with and within the boundaries of the cemetery.

Meeting, recreational, or social facilities of a private or nonprofit organization primarily for use by members or guests. This classification includes union halls, social clubs and youth centers.

A publicly owned facility used for meeting, recreational or social events.

Public or nonprofit institutions displaying or preserving objects of interest in one or more of the arts or sciences. This classification includes libraries, museums, and art galleries.

Provision of nonmedical care for more than 14 persons on a less than 24-hour basis. This classification includes nursery schools, preschools, and day care centers for children.

Housing with minimal supportive services for homeless persons that is limited to occupancy of six months or less by a homeless person. No individual or household may be denied emergency shelter because of an inability to pay (Health and Saf. Code § 50801(e)).

Administrative, clerical, or public contact office of a government agency, including a postal facility, together with incidental storage and maintenance of vehicles.

Facility providing maintenance and repair services for vehicles and equipment and areas for storage of equipment and supplies. This classification includes corporation yards, equipment service centers, and similar facilities.

Noncommercial park, playground, recreation facility, open space, commercial tennis/swimming club, golf course, driving range or swim club.

A facility that provides public safety and emergency services, including, but not limited to, police and fire protection, whether provided by a public entity or by a private entity under contract to a public entity.

Establishments primarily engaged in providing post-conviction and/or post-incarceration follow-up services to individuals and/or groups, including, but not limited to: social services, counseling, monitoring, compliance verification, testing, referrals, and/or other similar follow-up services.

A facility for religious worship and incidental religious education, but not including a private school.

Facility for primary or secondary education, including elementary, junior high and high school and private institution having a curriculum comparable to that required in the public schools of the State of California.

Housing that is available only to households in which the head of the household is 55 years of age or older, and which is not a care facility (small or large) as defined elsewhere in this section.

Generating plant; electrical substation; above-ground electrical transmission line; switching building; refuse collection and transfer station; processing, recycling or disposal facility; water reservoir; flood control or drainage facility; water or wastewater treatment plant; transportation or communications facility (other than a communication facility as defined in this section); and similar facility of a public agency or public utility.

Utility facilities that are necessary to support established uses and involve only minor structures such as electrical distribution lines and underground water and sewer lines, and small recycling collection facilities.

A facility that may include but is not limited to a support structure and attached antennas that sends and/or receives radio frequency signals. This includes antennas and all types of equipment for the transmission or receipt of such signals; telecommunications towers or similar structures built to support such equipment, wall-mounted facilities, microwave transmitting and receiving equipment, equipment cabinets and all other related accessory equipment.

An establishment or concern which, as a regular and substantial course of conduct, offers, sells or distributes adult-oriented merchandise, or which offers to its patrons materials, products, merchandise, services, entertainment or performances that depict, describe, or relate to specified sexual activities: human genitals in a state of sexual stimulation or arousal; acts of human masturbation, sexual intercourse, oral copulation, or sodomy; fondling or other erotic touching of human genitals, pubic region, buttocks, or female breasts. (Reference: PHMC Chapter 18.70.)

Provision of emergency medical care or transportation, including incidental storage and maintenance of vehicles.

Work space for artists and artisans, including individuals practicing one of the fine arts or performing arts, or skilled in an applied art or craft.

An establishment engaged in the limited maintenance of automobiles, including, but not limited to, the replacement and refurbishment of motor vehicle fluids (excluding fuel), chassis lubrication, minor tune-ups, smog inspection, and window tint installation, or other similar maintenance of automobiles and light vehicles, excluding washing of the vehicle, waxing, and other cleaning or surface treatment of the vehicle, and those services described under the "automobile, vehicle and equipment repair" use classification.

An establishment engaged in the retail sale of gas or diesel fuel, lubricants, parts, and accessories. This classification includes incidental sales of retail products. This also includes maintenance and repair of automobiles when performed in conjunction with the sale of gas or diesel fuel and vehicle washing, but excludes body and fender work or repair of heavy trucks or vehicles.

An office use providing assistance to third parties seeking to buy or sell vehicles or equipment. This classification does not include on-site storage, display or maintenance of vehicles.

Repair of automobiles, trucks, motorcycles, motor homes or recreational vehicles, or boats, including the sale, installation, and servicing of related equipment and parts. This classification includes auto repair shop, body and fender shop, wheel and brake shop, and tire sales and installation, but excludes vehicle dismantling or salvage and tire retreading or recapping.

Sale or rental of automobiles, motorcycles, trucks, tractors, construction or agricultural equipment, mobile homes, boats and similar equipment, including storage, incidental repair and maintenance, and other activities accessory to the primary automobile vehicle/equipment sales and rentals, including but not limited to wholesale vehicle sales, unless such accessory uses are expressly limited or prohibited by the terms of the approval issued for the use.

Wholesaler of automobiles, motorcycles, trucks, tractors, construction or agricultural equipment, mobile homes, boats and similar equipment, including on-site storage and incidental maintenance.

Washing, waxing, or cleaning of automobiles or similar light vehicles and the installation of exterior body wraps, coating and protective film, excluding exterior paint.

A financial institution that provides retail banking services to individuals and businesses. This classification includes only those institutions engaged in the on-site circulation of money, including businesses offering check-cashing facilities.

Retailing, wholesaling, or rental of building supplies or equipment. This classification includes a lumber yard, tool and equipment sales or rental establishment, and building contractors' yard, but excludes an establishment devoted exclusively to retail sales of paint and hardware and activities classified under vehicle/equipment sales and services, including vehicle towing services.

means a facility or premises located in the city where cannabis or cannabis products, in any amount or form, either individually or in combination, are offered or provided for retail sale or other sales or transfer to consumers. A cannabis retailer includes an establishment that delivers cannabis as part of a retail sale. The term "cannabis retailer" includes the following subtypes:

A gaming club as defined in Business and Professions Code section 19802.

Preparation and delivery of food and beverages for off-site consumption without provision for on-site pickup or consumption. (See also Eating and drinking establishment.)

Commercial motion picture or video photography at the same location for more than six days per quarter of a calendar year.

Lot offering parking to the public for a fee.

Provision of participant or spectator recreation or entertainment. This classification includes a bingo parlor, bowling alley, billiard parlor, poolroom, ice/roller skating rink, scale-model course, tennis/racquetball court, croquet court, swim club, pinball arcade or electronic games center, and similar uses.

Broadcasting, recording, and other communication services accomplished through electronic or telephonic mechanisms, but excluding major utilities. This classification includes radio, television, or recording studios; telephone switching centers; and data centers.

Business serving prepared food or beverages for consumption on or off the premises. Typical uses include, but are not limited to, restaurants, fast food establishments, bars, coffee houses, ice cream/yogurt establishments and juice bars. (See also Live entertainment.)

An establishment providing repair services for personal items and small equipment, such as electronics, appliances and office machines repair. This classification excludes maintenance and repair of vehicles. (See Automobile, vehicle and equipment repair.)

The sale, transfer, lease, or offer for sale or lease of a firearm. For purposes of this chapter, firearm sales shall include sale of ammunition, and the terms "firearm" and "ammunition" shall have the same meanings as set forth in PHMC § 9.35.020. See also PHMC § 9.35.020 (Definitions).

An establishment providing exercise and physical conditioning services.

Retail sales of food and beverages for off-site preparation and consumption. Typical uses include a supermarket, grocery, convenience store, liquor store, or delicatessen. Establishments at which 20% or more of the transactions are sales of prepared food for on-site or take-out consumption shall be classified as catering services or eating and drinking establishments.

An establishment primarily engaged in the provision of services involving the care, preparation or disposition of human dead. Typical uses include a crematory, columbarium, mausoleum or mortuary.

The raising of vegetables, flowers, ornamental trees and shrubs as a commercial enterprise. "Horticulture" does not include the planting, growing, harvesting, drying, curing, grading, or trimming of marijuana, as defined in California Health and Safety Code section 11018.

An establishment offering transient lodging on a less than weekly basis where immediate access to rooms is from a fully enclosed area not directly accessible from parking areas on the lot and providing additional services, such as conference and meeting rooms, restaurant, bar, or recreation facilities.

An establishment providing medical or dental laboratory services (including specimen collection facilities) or an establishment with less than 2,000 square feet providing photographic, analytical, or testing services. (Other laboratories are classified as limited industry.)

Live performance for the purpose of amusing a guest or patron, on a scheduled basis, regardless of whether the performers are compensated.

An establishment providing repair services for personal items and small equipment, such as appliances and office machines repair, or building maintenance services. This classification excludes maintenance and repair of vehicles; see Automobile, vehicle and equipment repair.

An establishment providing maintenance and repair services for residential and commercial properties, including businesses such as tree maintenance, pool maintenance, pest extermination services and similar uses. This classification excludes maintenance and repair of vehicles. (See Automobile, vehicle and equipment repair.)

As used herein the term "medical marijuana dispensary" or "dispensary" means any facility or location where medical marijuana is made available to and/or distributed by or to two or more persons in the following categories: a primary caregiver, a qualified patient, or a person with an identification card, in strict accordance with California Health and Safety Code section 11362.5 et seq. A "medical marijuana dispensary" shall not include the following uses, as long as the location of such uses are otherwise regulated by this code or applicable law: a clinic licensed pursuant to Chapter 1 of Division 2 of the Health and Safety Code, a health care facility licensed pursuant to Chapter 2 of Division 2 of the Health and Safety Code, a residential care facility for persons with chronic life-threatening illness licensed pursuant to Chapter 3.01 of Division 2 of the Health and Safety Code, a residential care facility for the elderly licensed pursuant to Chapter 2 of Division 2 of the Health and Safety Code, a residential hospice, or a home health agency licensed pursuant to Chapter 8 of Division 2 of the Health and Safety Code, as long as any such use complies strictly with applicable law including, but not limited to, Health and Safety Code section 11362.5 et seq. and the Pleasant Hill Municipal Code, including but not limited to the city's zoning ordinance.

An establishment offering transient lodging on a less than weekly basis primarily for automobile travelers where a majority of the sleeping units have access directly from parking areas. This classification includes a motor lodge and tourist court.

An establishment primarily engaged in the retail sale of plants grown elsewhere. Merchandise other than plants is kept within an enclosed building or a fully screened enclosure, and compost, mulch, soil additives, and fertilizer of any type are stored and sold in package form only.

Offices of firms or organizations providing professional, executive, management, or administrative services, such as architectural, computer software consulting, data management, engineering, interior design, graphic design, real estate, insurance, investment, law office or bail bonds. This classification excludes banks and savings and loan associations.

Offices for a physician, dentist, medical practitioner, psychiatrist, psychologist, acupuncturist, optometrist, chiropractor, or other State of California Medical Board licensed physician or surgeon, including (1) medical/dental laboratories incidental to the medical office use and (2) nonmedical counseling uses.

An establishment engaged in the buying or selling of new or secondhand merchandise and offering loans in exchange for personal property.

Provision of instructional services or facilities, including photography, fine arts, crafts, dance or music studio, driving school, business and trade school, diet center, reducing salon, and similar uses.

Provision of recurring services of a personal nature. This classification includes a barber or beauty shop, massage, acupressure, tattoo, tanning, seamstress, tailor, shoe repair, dry cleaning agency (excluding dry cleaning plants), photocopying, Internet access facilities (without food or drink service), self-service laundry, and similar uses.

An establishment where prescription drugs and medicines are sold and dispensed.

An establishment primarily engaged in industrial or scientific research, including limited product testing. This classification includes an electronics research firm or pharmaceutical research laboratory, but excludes manufacturing, except of prototypes, or medical testing and analysis.

An establishment engaged in retail sales of goods, including, but not limited to, the retail sale of merchandise not specifically listed under another use classification. This classification includes, but is not limited to, a department store, clothing store, secondhand store, furniture store, and business retailing the following goods as examples: toys, hobby materials, groceries, hand-crafted items, jewelry, cameras, photographic supplies, electronic equipment, records, sporting goods, kitchen utensils, hardware, appliances, art, antiques, art supplies and services, baseball cards, coins and other collectibles (e.g., cards or comics), comics, paint and wallpaper, carpeting and floor covering, medical supplies, office supplies, bicycles, and new automotive parts and accessories (including installation, but excluding service activities).

An establishment providing facilities for motion pictures or dramatic or musical performances and concerts.

An establishment providing travel information and reservations to individuals and businesses. This classification excludes car rental agencies.

Establishment engaged in storage and bulk distribution of petroleum-based fuels, including gasoline and diesel fuel and natural gas. This classification excludes automobile service stations.

Establishment primarily engaged in on-site production of goods by hand manufacturing involving the use of hand tools and small-scale equipment.

Manufacturing of finished parts or products, primarily from previously prepared materials; and provision of industrial services; both within an enclosed building. This classification includes bakeries, breweries, dry cleaning plants, printing, and businesses engaged in processing, fabrication, assembly, treatment, and packaging, but excludes basic industrial processing from raw materials, food processing, and vehicle/equipment services.

Establishment primarily engaged in the research, development, and controlled production of high-technology electronic, industrial or scientific products or commodities for sale. This classification also includes uses such as a biotechnology firm, manufacturer of nontoxic computer components and uses involving personal fitness science and technology.

Facilities for transportation vehicles (taxi, limousine, bus) including storage yards with related office, dispatch and maintenance facilities. This includes storage of parking tow-aways, impound yard, and storage lot for automobiles, trucks, buses and recreational vehicles.

Provision of storage space for household or commercial goods within an enclosed building without direct public access to individual storage spaces. This classification excludes wholesale distribution and storage, and vehicle storage.

Establishment engaged in bulk sales of goods primarily to other vendors, with distribution and storage facilities without direct public access.

Uses incidental to the principal permitted or a conditionally permitted use on a site and customarily found on the same site. This classification includes accessory dwelling units and home occupations.

Seasonal sales of agricultural or horticultural products, including Christmas trees, pumpkins and firewood.

Exhibitions of domestic or large animals. This classification includes animal sales.

Display and sale of painting, sculpture, hand crafts and similar objects.

Special events open to the public.

Commercial motion picture or video photography at the same location.

Serving of prepared food or beverages for consumption on or off the premises on a site that is not permanently occupied by, or related to, an existing legally established on-site, eating and drinking establishment.

Recurring sales of agricultural, horticultural and other food products that are seasonal in nature.

Concert, carnival, circus, fair, or other similar event.

Sales of personal property by a resident. This classification includes garage sales.

An on-site office for the marketing, sales or rental of residential, commercial or industrial development. This classification includes "model homes."

Events featuring sports, exercise, physical play or competitions.

Religious services conducted on a site that is not permanently occupied by a religious assembly use.

Retail sales of merchandise in an open or covered outdoor area on the site of a legally established retail business.

Provision of games, eating and drinking facilities, live entertainment, or similar activities not requiring the use of roofed structures.

Retail sale or exchange of new, hand-crafted, or secondhand merchandise.

Display and sale of goods or equipment related to a specific trade or industry.