17.150.230 Institutional uses.

A. Outdoor Recreational. This category includes:
1. Public areas (open to community or development residents) for active recreational activities including, but not limited to: jogging, cycling, totlots, playing fields, playgrounds, outdoor swimming pools and tennis courts (SIC 7999 part); golf courses (full-sized nine holes, regulation length) regardless of ownership (SIC 7992); and membership golf, country and shooting clubs (SIC 7997);
2. Passive recreational uses including, but not limited to: arboretums, wildlife sanctuaries, forests, areas for hiking, nature areas, and other passive recreation-oriented parks;
3. Picnic areas, garden plots and beaches.
B. Indoor Recreational. This category includes:
1. Recreational uses that are public (open to community or development residents) including community recreation centers, gymnasiums, indoor swimming pools, or tennis, racquetball or handball courts (SIC 7999 part);
2. Specifically excluded are health and exercise clubs and uses listed as commercial amusement uses.
C. Institutional, Neighborhood. This category includes cemeteries, churches (with two hundred seats or less), day care centers (day or nursery schools), public or private elementary schools (SIC 8211 part), and all other public or private indoor institutional uses serving the neighborhood. Except for elementary schools, there is a maximum size and scale permitted to ensure the use is neighborhood scaled.
D. Institutional, Community. Aquariums, cemeteries, churches (with more than two hundred seats), conference centers (with no lodging), libraries or museums, public or private junior high and high schools without residential living facilities (SIC 8211 part), child care (SIC 8351), colleges, universities and professional schools (SIC 8221); other advanced education (SIC 8222) and all other public or private indoor institutional uses.
E. Institutional, Residential (SIC 805, 808, 836). This category includes:
1. Convents or monasteries and nursing homes;
2. Sheltered care facilities or group living facilities where the residents live in an institutional environment and are generally under the care or control of staff. All sheltered care, group care, group homes and residential substance abuse facilities where total occupancy is more than eight shall be considered institutional residential use. The residents would be members of an institution, or would have institutional care, or would be treated by staff in an institutional setting rather than living independently;
3. Institutional housing where there is commercial rental or condominium ownership combined with common food service, nursing and/or health care;
4. Dormitories, fraternities, sororities or co-ops;
5. Schools with live-in facilities on site, other than universities, colleges or preparatory schools (SIC 8211 part, 8222 part).
F. Protective Care (SIC 9223, 8744 part). This is housing where the residents are assigned to the facility and are under the protective care of the city, county, state or federal government. It includes jails, prisons, work release and similar facilities.
G. Public Service. This category includes emergency service, buildings or garages (e.g., ambulance, fire, police, rescue), conservation agencies, and postal service buildings except major distribution centers (SIC 431 (part), 9221, 9222, 9512) where vehicles are stored and dispatched (office uses are under Section 17.150.240).
H. Utilities (SIC 49 (part)). Utility substations or transmission and local distribution facilities, including telephone, and all government-owned utilities. Generation, storage of combustibles, and regional facilities and landfills or mining facilities are not included here; see Section 17.150.280. (Ord. 1495-96 § 3(part), 1996).