§ 26-28-010. Permitted uses.

Permitted uses include the following:

(a)

Professional, administrative and general business offices;

(b)

Medical and dental clinics and laboratories;

(c)

Financial offices, such as banks and savings and loan offices;

(d)

Accessory buildings and uses normally incidental and appurtenant to any permitted uses;

(e)

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 with ten (10) days from the date of 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;

(g)

Beekeeping;

(h)

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

(i)

Minor and intermediate freestanding commercial telecommunication facilities fifty feet (50′) or less in height subject to the applicable criteria set forth in Section 26-88-130;

(j)

Noncommercial telecommunication facilities eighty feet (80′) or less in height subject to the applicable criteria set forth in Section 26-88-130;

(k)

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;

(l)

Home occupations subject to the requirements of Section 26-88-121 and approval of a zoning permit;

(m)

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;

(n)

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

(o)

Transitional housing, subject to density or building intensity limitations, when located within an existing, legal residential unit;

(p)

Permanent supportive housing, subject to density or building intensity limitations, when located within an existing, legal residential unit.

(Ord. No. 6223 , § XII, 5-8-2018; Ord. No. 6191 , § V(Exh. D), 1-24-2017; Memo of 7-24-2015; Ord. No. 5569 § 7, 2005; Ord. No. 5435 § 2(r), 2003; Ord. No. 5342 § 3, 2002; Ord. No. 4973 § 8(a), 1996; Ord. No. 4643, 1993.)

Editor's note

The language contained in subsection (m) was added at the request of the county per a memo dated July 24, 2015.