Title 17 COMPREHENSIVE ZONING REGULATION*
Chapter 17.150 DEFINITIONS
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).
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