The General Plan details the goals, objectives and policies for the City's public zones. It is the purpose of this chapter to implement the General Plan's vision for the public zones through development regulations that allow for a range of public buildings and services designed to be compatible in scale, mass, character and architecture with the zone or neighborhood in which they are located.

A.

Civic Center (CVC) Zone. The CVC land-use designation is intended to provide for limited governmental offices and related facilities on the City's existing civic center site. This designation is intended to be the less intense of the public zones, allowing fewer uses than those allowed in the Public Zone.

B.

Public (P) Zone. The P land-use designation is intended to provide for a broad range of public facilities on public lands. This zone is the more intense of the public zones established in the City's General Plan, allowing a greater range of public uses, including governmental administrative, public recreational, cultural (such as public libraries and museums), educational (public schools), and institutional facilities, public and private parking, and undeveloped parks.

C.

Institutional (INST) Zone. The Institutional Zone is intended to provide for a broad range of institutional uses, including cultural, religious and educational facilities.

(Ord. 1172 § 3 (part), 1996; Ord. No. 1652, § 4, 5-15-2018)

A.

Permitted and Conditionally Permitted Uses. .....The uses identified in Table 17.48.020, Public Zone Uses, shall be the primary uses allowed to occur on a property. All uses except for those provided for in Sections 17.28.210, Outdoor display and 17.28.300, Temporary Uses and Structures, of this title shall be conducted within enclosed structures. The primary uses identified in Table 17.48.020, Permitted and Conditional Uses Within Public Zones, shall be permitted or conditionally permitted as indicated:

B.

Prohibited Uses. .....The following uses are prohibited:

1.

Uses that are listed in Table 17.48.020, Public Zone Uses, but are not identified as either permitted—"P"—or conditionally permitted—"MC or C"; and

2.

Uses that have been excluded from Table 17.48.020, Public Zone Uses, unless they are found by the City to be similar to permitted or conditionally permitted uses.

3.

Uses where a blank cell appears within Table 17.48.020, Public Zone Uses.

Table 17.48.020

Permitted and Conditional Uses Within Public Zones

1 Refer to Section 17.28.180, Child Day Care Facilities, of this title, for special provisions for Child Day Care Centers.

2 Refer to Section 17.28.220, Parking Lots, of this title, for special provisions for single-use parking lots.

3 Please refer to Section 17.28.230, Public Park Facilities, for other review requirements for public park facilities. Passive and active facilities require different types of review.

4 Refer to Section 17.28.240, Public Utilities, of this title, for special provisions for public utilities.

5 Refer to Section 17.28.250, Recycling facilities, of this title, for special provisions for recycling facilities.

6 Refer to Section 17.28.130, Grading, of this title, for special provisions for grading requests that are not accompanying development requests.

7 Refer to Section 17-56.100, Emergency Shelter Overlay. Exception, Public zoned parcels with a school or school faculties shall not be permitted to establish an emergency shelter.

8 Small-family and large-family day care homes are permitted in a detached single-family dwelling, a townhouse, a dwelling unit within a dwelling, or a dwelling unit within a covered multi-family dwelling in which the underlying zoning allows for residential uses, or a legal non-conforming single-family dwelling unit in a nonresidential zone. Small-family and large-family day care homes only shall operate in buildings that were lawfully constructed.

(Ord. 1314 §§ 52—55, 2006; Ord. 1172 § 3 (part), 1996)

(Ord. No. 1575, § 3(Exh. A, § 11), 12-3-2013; Ord. No. 1585, § 2(Exh. A), 9-2-2014; Ord. No. 1707, § 3, 2-2-2021)

The following property development standards shall apply to all land and permitted or conditionally permitted buildings and uses located within their respective public zones.

A.

General Development Standards. Table 17.48.030, Public Zone Development Standards, lists development standards required for projects in public zones.

Table 17.48.030

Public Zone Development Standards

1 A minor adjustment to the required front yard setback is available through the approval of a Minor Exception Permit, in accordance with Section 17.16.090, Minor Exception Permits, of this title.

2 A minor adjustment to the required side yard setback is available through the approval of a Minor Exception Permit, in accordance with Section 17.16.090, Minor Exception Permits, of this title.

3 A minor adjustment to the required side yard setback is available through the approval of a Minor Exception Permit, in accordance with Section 17.16.090, Minor Exception Permits, of this title.

4 A minor adjustment to the required rear yard setback is available through the approval of a Minor Exception Permit, in accordance with Section 17.16.090, Minor Exception Permits, of this title.

B.

Development Guidelines. .....As the sites given the CVC and P designations are located adjacent to other zones, with their own unique standards, the following development guidelines are provided for these zones. Refer also to the City's Design Guidelines. In the CVC and P zones, development shall:

1.

Maintain public view corridors to the beach and ocean and other environmental resources;

2.

Avoid impacts to sensitive habitat areas and topographical features;

3.

Provide for safe, enhanced public access to City facilities;

4.

Be compatible in scale, mass, character and architecture with the zone, district or neighborhood in which it is located;

5.

Be particularly sensitive to physical and visual separation between structures on adjacent residentially owned property and publicly owned property;

6.

Avoid the appearance of uninterrupted vertical walls, incorporating setbacks, modulations, and other architectural elements in building elevations located along the slope.

(Ord. 1172 § 3 (part), 1996)

Chapter 17.24, General Development Standards, of this title, includes a number of special provisions affecting publicly zoned properties. Unless otherwise indicated in the referenced sections, or in other City documents regulating public development, the development standards listed in Chapter 17.24, General Development Standards, of this title, shall apply to all zones described in this chapter.

Table 17.48.040

Special Development Standards for All Public Zones

(Ord. 1172 § 3 (part), 1996)