§ 26-14-010. Permitted uses.

Permitted uses include the following:

(a)

Management of lands and forests for the primary use of commercial production and harvest of trees, including controlled burns;

(b)

Removal of timber and fuel wood, including uses integrally related to growing, harvesting and on-site processing of forest products including, but not limited to, roads, log landings, log storage areas and incidental logging camps;

(c)

Recreational and educational uses, with or without fee, not requiring any permanent improvement of the land or interfering with the primary use (swimming, hunting, fishing, occasional camping, etc.);

(d)

Management of land for watershed, for fish and wildlife habitat, fish rearing ponds, hunting and fishing, grazing, where these uses are incidental to the primary use;

(e)

The erection, construction, alteration or maintenance of gas, electric or water generating and transmission facilities, including necessary structures;

(f)

Contractor equipment storage incidental to the on-site growing and harvesting of forest products, including parking, repairing and storage of equipment so used. Construction of permanent structures will be subject to Article 82;

(g)

The production and harvesting of miscellaneous compatible forest products (Christmas tree farms and greenery);

(h)

Timber management, including planting, raising, harvesting and incidental milling for noncommercial purposes of trees and logs for lumber or fuel woods, subject to requirements of California Department of Forestry and Fire Protection;

(i)

Temporary or seasonal sales and promotion, and incidental storage of fuel wood which is grown on site;

(j)

One (1) single-family dwelling unit with accessory buildings;

(k)

Occasional cultural events; provided, that a written notice stating "The Sonoma County Planning Department will issue a zoning permit for a cultural event (state nature and duration) on this property if a written appeal is not received within ten (10) days from the date if this notice" is posted on the property at least ten (10) days prior to issuance of a zoning permit, and no appeal pursuant to Section 26-92-040 has been received from any interested person, and provided that approval is secured from the following departments: sheriff, public health, fire services, building inspection and public works. In the event of an appeal, a hearing on the project shall be held pursuant to Section 26-92-040;

(l)

Small family day care;

(m)

Large family day care provided that the applicant shall meet all performance standards listed in Section 26-88-080;

(n)

Small residential community care facility;

(o)

Beekeeping;

(p)

Attached commercial telecommunication facilities subject to the applicable criteria set forth in Section 26-88-130;

(q)

Minor freestanding commercial telecommunication facilities, subject to the applicable criteria set forth in Section 26-88-130, and subject to approval of a zoning permit, including environmental review, for which notice, including a site plan and one (1) elevation with dimensions for such facility, is mailed to adjacent property owners and posted on the subject property at least ten (10) days prior to issuance of the permit and provided that no appeal pursuant to Section 26-92-040 has been received from any interested person. In the event of an appeal, a hearing on the project shall be held pursuant to the above section;

(r)

Noncommercial telecommunication facilities eighty feet (80′) or less in height subject to the applicable criteria set forth in Section 26-88-130. Facilities between forty feet (40′) and eighty feet (80′) in height are subject to approval of a ministerial zoning permit for which notice is mailed to adjacent property owners and posted on the subject property at least ten (10) days prior to issuance of the permit and provided that no appeal pursuant to Section 26-92-040 has been received from any interested person. In the event of an appeal, a hearing on the project shall be held pursuant to the above section;

(s)

Small wind energy systems not located within a county-designated urban service area or within two thousand five hundred feet (2,500′) of a county-designated urban service area, subject to zoning permit approval and the standards in Section 26-88-135;

(t)

Other nonresidential uses which in the opinion of the planning director are of a similar and compatible nature to those uses described in this section.

(u)

One (1) junior accessory dwelling unit per lot, pursuant to Section 26-88-061.

(Ord. No. 6191 , § V(Exh. D), 1-24-2017; Ord. No. 5435 § 2(l), 2003; Ord. No. 5361 § 2(f), 2002; Ord. No. 5342 § 4, 2002; Ord. No. 4973 § 4(a), (e), 1996; Ord. No. 4643, 1993.)