§ 22.113.050. Dalidio Ranch Allowable Use Definitions.  


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  • "Ag Processing" means establishments and buildings used to perform a variety of operations on crops after harvest, to prepare them for market on-site or further processing and packaging at a distance from the agricultural area including but not limited to: alfalfa cubing; hay baling and cuing; corn shelling; drying of corn, rice, hay fruits and vegetables; pre-cooling and packaging of fresh or farm-dried fruits and vegetables; grain cleaning and custom grinding; custom grist mills; custom milling of flour, feed and grain; sorting, grading and packing of fruits and vegetables, tree nut hulling and shelling; cotton ginning; wineries, alcohol fuel production; and receiving and processing of green material, other than that produced on-site (commercial composting). Green material is any wastes which are derived from plant material, including but not limited to leaves, grass clippings, weeds, tree trimmings or shrubbery cuttings. Note: any of the above activities performed in the field with mobile equipment not involving permanent buildings (with the exception of the receiving and processing of green material other than that produced on-site) are included under "Crop Production and Grazing."

    "Agricultural Accessory Structure" means an uninhabited structure or building designed and built to store implements, supplies or products (not including commercial greenhouses which are included under "Nursery Specialties," or buildings for agricultural processing activities) that contains no residential use and is not open to the public. Also includes greenhouses engaged in agricultural research as the primary use. Agricultural Accessory Structures can also include but not be limited to wind and solar powered devices used for direct climate control, and water pumping or other conversion of wind or solar energy to mechanical or thermal power used on-site. Wind energy conversion machines for electric power generation are separately defined. Includes barns, grain elevators, silos, and other similar buildings and structures.

    "Automobile Service Stations and Gas Stations" means retail trade establishments primarily engaged in the sale of gasoline, which may also provide lubrication, oil change and tune-up services and the sale of automotive products incidental to gasoline sales. May also include accessory towing, mechanical repair services and trailer rental, but does not include storage of wrecked or abandoned vehicles, paint spraying body and fender work. Does not include the retail sale of gasoline as a subordinate service to food and beverage retail sales when limited to not more than two pumps.

    "Building Materials and Hardware" means retail trade establishments primarily engaged in selling lumber and other building materials including paint, wallpaper, glass, hardware, nursery stock, lawn and garden supplies. Includes all such stores selling to the general public, even if contractor sales account for a larger proportion of total sales. Also includes incidental retail ready-mix concrete operations.

    "Business Support Services" means service establishments primarily within buildings, providing other businesses with services including maintenance, repair and service, testing, rental, etc., also including: outdoor advertising services; mail advertising services (reproduction and shipping); blueprinting, photocopying, photofinishing, commercial art and design (production); film processing laboratories; services to structures such as window cleaning, exterminators, janitorial services; heavy equipment and business equipment repair services including welding repair and armature rewinding and repair (except vehicle repair); computer related services (rental, repair, and maintenance); research and development laboratories, including testing facilities; soils and materials testing laboratories; protective services (other than office related); equipment rental businesses that are entirely within buildings (not equipment rental yards), including leasing tools, machinery and other business items except vehicles; trading stamp services, and other business services of a "heavy service" nature.

    "Caretaker Residence" means a permanent residence that is secondary or accessory to the primary use of the property. A caretaker dwelling is used for housing a caretaker employed on the site of any non-residential use where a caretaker is needed for security purposes or to provide twenty-four-hour care or monitoring of people, plants, animals, equipment, or other conditions on the site.

    "Crop Production" means encompasses the following overall crop types and activities as indicated:

    a.

    "Specialty Crops" means strawberries, herb crops, flower seed and cut flower crops (open field), kiwi vines, edible pod peas, bushberry crops, Christmas trees and other outdoor ornamentals, intensive horticulture, sod farms, clover seed, hops, and wholesale nurseries (see separate definition).

    b.

    "Row Crops" means all vegetable truck crops except edible pod peas. Includes lima and snap beans.

    c.

    "Orchards" means all fruit and nut tree crops, does not include kiwi, berry, or other vine crops.

    d.

    "Field Crops" means beans other than snap or lima beans, barley, oats, safflower, wheat, grain and hay including alfalfa, silage and grain corn, sugar beets, melons, cotton.

    e.

    "Rangeland" means grazing of livestock on grasses without irrigation.

    f.

    "Pasture (irrigated)" means grazing of livestock on irrigated grasses.

    g.

    "Vineyards" means grapevines.

    h.

    "Preparation for Cultivation" means land-contouring, clearing, irrigation construction and other preparation of soil for crops.

    i.

    "Field Processing" means mechanical processing of crops in the field at harvest, when such activities do not involve a permanent structure. Such activities include but are not limited to hay baling and field-crushing of grapes.

    "Farm Support Quarters" means includes residences, rooming and boarding houses and mess halls for farm workers employed 011 and near land owned by the owner of the building site on which the quarters are located.

    "Financial Services" means service establishments primarily engaged in the field of finance, including: banks and trust companies; lending and thrift institutions, credit agencies; brokers and dealers in securities and commodity contracts; security and commodity exchanges; holding (but not predominately operating) companies; and other investment companies; vehicle finance (equity leasing agencies).

    "Furniture, Home Furnishings and Equipment" means retail trade establishments primarily engaged in selling home furnishings such as furniture, floor coverings, draperies, glass and chinaware, domestic stoves, refrigerators, other household electrical and gas appliances including televisions and home sound systems and outdoor furniture such as lawn furniture, movable spas and hot tubs. Establishments selling electrical and gas appliances are included only if the major part of their sales consist of articles for home use. Also includes the retail sale of office furniture and large musical instruments.

    "General Retail" means retail trade establishments including department stores, variety stores, drug and discount stores, general stores, etc., engaged in retail sales of many lilies of new and used merchandise, including: dry goods; apparel and accessories; small wares; sporting goods and equipment; bicycles and mopeds, musical instruments, arts and accessories. Also includes sales of miscellaneous shopping goods such as: books; stationery; jewelry; hobby materials, toys and games; cameras and photographic supplies; gifts; novelties and souvenirs; luggage and leather goods; fabrics and sewing supplies; florists and houseplant stores; cigar and newsstands; artists supplies; orthopedic supplies; religious goods handcrafted items (stores for which may include space for crafting operations when such area is subordinate to retail sales); and other miscellaneous retail shopping goods.

    "Grocery Stores" means retail trade establishments primarily engaged in selling food for home preparation and consumption, as well as the retail sale of packaged alcoholic beverages for consumption off the premises, including wine tasting facilities which are not on the same site as the winery. Establishments (except for wine tasting facilities) may include no more than two gas pumps as an accessory use.

    "Health Care Services" means service establishments primarily engaged in furnishing medical, mental health, surgical and other personal health services including: medical, dental and psychiatric offices (mental health-related services including various types of counseling practiced by licensed individuals other than medical doctors or psychiatrists, or unlicensed individuals, are included under offices); medical and dental laboratories; out-patient care facilities; chiropractic offices and allied health services. Associations or groups primarily engaged in providing medical or other health services to members are included. Also includes hospitals and similar establishments primarily engaged in providing diagnostic services, extensive medical treatment including surgical and other hospital services; such establishments have an organized medical staff, inpatient beds, and equipment and facilities to provide complete health care. Nursing homes and similar long-term personal care facilities are not included in this classification.

    "Home Occupations" means the gainful employment of the occupant of a dwelling, with such employment activity being subordinate to the residential use of the property, and there is no display, no stock in trade, or no commodity sold on the premises, and no persons employed other than residents of the dwelling.

    "Indoor Amusements and Recreation" means establishments providing indoor amusement or entertainment for a fee or admission charge, such as: arcades containing coin operate amusements and/or electronic games (five or more such games or coin-operated amusements in any establishment constitutes an arcade in compliance with this definition, four or less are not considered a land use separate from the primary use of the site); card rooms, billiard and pool halls; bowling alleys; ice skating and roller skating; dance halls, clubs and ballrooms which are principal uses rather than being subordinate to an eating or drinking place; gymnasiums, reducing salons, health and athletic clubs including indoor sauna, spa or hot tub facilities; tennis, handball, racquetball, indoor archery and shooting ranges and other indoor sports activities.

    "Lodging - Bed and Breakfast Inns" means residential structures with one family in permanent residence where bedrooms without individual cooking facilities are rented for overnight lodging, where meals may be provided subject to applicable county health department regulations. Does not include "Homestays" and "Hotels and Motels," "Lodging - Hotels, Motels" means commercial transient lodging establishments including hotels, motor hotels, motels, tourist courts or cabins, primarily engaged in providing overnight or otherwise temporary lodging, with or without meals, for the general public. Includes the preceding lodging establishments where developed as planned developments, or condominiums. Also includes accessory guest facilities such as swimming pools, tennis courts, indoor athletic facilities, and accessory meeting and conference facilities, etc.

    "Mail Order and Vending" means establishments primarily engaged in retail sale of products by catalog and mail order. Also includes vending machine distributorship and suppliers. Does not include product manufacturing, which is included under the applicable manufacturing use.

    "Multi-Family Dwellings" means includes a building or a portion of a building used and/or designed as a residence for two or more families living independently of each other. Includes: duplexes, triplexes and apartments; attached ownership units such as condominiums, PUDs and townhouses; and rooming and boarding houses (a residential structure where rooms are rented for short or long-term lodging where at least one meal daily is shared in common dining facilities, with ten or fewer beds for rent).

    "Nursery" means facility for propagation and/or sale of horticultural or ornamental plant materials and related products including:

    a.

    "Retail Nursery" means a nursery offering products to the general public, including plant materials, planter boxes, fertilizer, garden tools, and related items.

    b.

    "Wholesale Nursery" means a nursery that sells plant materials raised on the same site to other businesses.

    c.

    "Accessory Nursery" means a nursery that is developed as a subordinate use to a principal or main building.

    d.

    "Greenhouse" means a nursery facility for indoor propagation of plants, constructed with transparent panels, including lath houses.

    "Nursery Specialties" means agricultural establishments primarily engaged in the production of ornamental plants and other nursery products, grown under cover or outdoors. Also includes establishments engaged in the sale of such products (e.g., wholesale and retail nurseries) and commercial scale greenhouses.

    "Offices" means professional or government offices including: engineering, architectural and surveying services; real estate agencies; non-commercial educational, scientific and research organizations; accounting, auditing and bookkeeping services; writers and artists; advertising agencies; photography and commercial art studios; employment, stenographic, secretarial and word processing services; quick printing, copying and blueprinting services; reporting services; data processing and computer services; management, public relations and consulting services; detective agencies and similar professional services; attorneys; and counseling services (other than licensed psychiatrists which are included under "Health Care Services"); and government offices including agency and administrative office facilities, and local post offices when located in facilities developed by private parties for occupancy by the postal service or other operator (does not include bulk mailing distribution centers, which are included under "Vehicle and Freight Terminals"). Does not include medical offices (which are allowed under "Health Care Services") or offices that are incidental and accessory to another business or sales activity which is the principal use. Incidental offices are allowed in any land use category as part of an approved principal use.

    "Offices, Temporary" means a mobilehome, recreational vehicle or modular unit used as: a temporary business or construction office during construction of permanent facilities on the same site or as an office on the site of a temporary offsite construction yard; a temporary on-site real estate office for a development project; or a temporary business office in advance of permanent facility construction.

    "Outdoor Retail Sales" means temporary retail trade establishments including: farmer's markets; sidewalk sales; seasonal sales involving Christmas trees, fireworks, pumpkins or other seasonal items; semiannual sales of art or handcrafted items in conjunction with community festivals or art shows; and retail sales or various products from individual motor vehicles in temporary locations outside the public right-of-way, not including bakery, ice cream and similar vending vehicles that conduct all sales within the right-of-way and do not stop in any location except on customer demand. Does not include flea markets or swapmeets.

    "Outdoor Sports and Recreation Facilities" means facilities for various outdoor sports and recreation, including: amusement, theme and kiddie parks; golf courses, golf driving ranges and miniature golf courses; skateboard parks and water slides; go-cart and miniature auto race tracks; recreation equipment rental (e.g. bicycles and roller skates equipment); health and athletic clubs with predominately outdoor facilities; tennis courts, swim and tennis clubs; play lots, playgrounds and athletic fields (non-professional); recreation and community centers.

    "Personal Services" establishments primarily engaged in providing nonmedically related services generally involving the care of persons including beauty and barber shops; shoe repair shops; saunas and hot tubs; laundromats (self-service laundries); dry cleaning pick-up stores and small-scale dry cleaners without pick-up and delivery services; clothing rental; dating and escort services; funeral parlors and related facilities. These uses may also include accessory retail sales of products related to the services provided.

    "Private Utility Facility" means onsite utilities including a wastewater facility and domestic water package plant to support the Dalidio Ranch water and wastewater demands.

    "Repair Services - Consumer Products" means service establishments where repair of consumer products is the principal business activity, including: electrical repair shops; television and radio and other appliance repair; watch, clock and jewelry repair; re-upholstery and furniture repair. Does not include shoe repair (included under "Personal Services"). Does not include repair or services incidental and accessory to retail sales. Does not include businesses serving the repair needs of heavy equipment.

    "Residential Accessory Uses" means includes any use that is customarily part of a residence and is clearly incidental and secondary to a residence and does not change the character of the residential use. Residential accessory uses include the storage of vehicles and other personal property, and accessory structures including swimming pools, workshops, studios, greenhouses, garages, and guesthouses (without cooking or kitchen facilities). Includes non-commercial TV and radio broadcasting and receiving antennas, including equipment for satellite broadcast reception.

    "Restaurants" means establishments selling prepared foods and drinks for on-premise or off-premise consumption. Also includes drive-in and drive-through restaurants, lunch counters and refreshment stands selling prepared goods and drinks for immediate consumption. Restaurants, delis and lunch counters operated as subordinate service facilities within other establishments are not included here unless they are operated as leased departments by outside operators.

    "Roadside Stands" means open structures for the retail sale of agricultural products (except hay, grain and feed sales-included under Farm Equipment and Supplies), located on the site or in the area of the property where the products being sold were grown. Does not include field sales or agricultural products, which is included under "Crop Production and Grazing."

    "Secondary Dwelling" means a second permanent dwelling that is accessory to a primary dwelling on a site.

    "Single-family Dwelling" means a building designed for an/or occupied exclusively by one family. Also includes attached ownership units using common wall development or airspace condominium ownership, where a proposed site qualifies for planned development through designation by planning area standard or through compliance with any planned development or cluster division standards of this Title. Also includes factory-built housing.

    "Storage, Accessory" means the indoor or outdoor storage of various materials on the same site as a principal building or land use which is other than storage, which supports the activities or conduct of the principal use.

    "Temporary Construction Trailer Park" means a temporary recreational vehicle park provided by the developer of a major construction project to provide short-term construction employees the opportunity to use recreational vehicles for housing during project construction.

    "Temporary Construction Yards" means a storage yard for construction supplies, materials or equipment, located on a site other than the construction site itself or immediately adjacent to it, for use only during the actual construction of a project.

    "Temporary Events" means any use of a structure or land for an event for a limited period of time where the site is not to be permanently altered by grading or construction of accessory facilities. Events include but are not limited to art shows, rodeos, religious revivals, tent camps, outdoor festivals and concerts.

[Added by the 2006 Dalidio Ranch Initiative Measure; Amended 2014 Ord. 3256]