Sonoma County |
Code of Ordinances |
Chapter 26. SONOMA COUNTY ZONING REGULATIONS |
Article 34. C3 General Commercial District. |
§ 26-34-010. Permitted uses.
Permitted uses include the following:
(a)
Retail sales and service uses necessary to serve the C3 district, but not including those uses listed in Section 26-34-020;
(b)
New and used passenger vehicle, boat and recreational vehicle sales, rental and repair;
(c)
Truck, trailer and farm implement sales, including major repair facilities;
(d)
Tire sales, including recapping and retreading;
(e)
Machinery sales and rental;
(f)
Bakeries, creameries, soft drink bottling plants, laundries, cleaning and dying plants;
(g)
Cabinet shops; electrical, plumbing and heating shops; welding, sheetmetal and machine shops;
(h)
Wholesale warehouse uses;
(i)
Storage yards accessory to the uses listed in this section, not to exceed one hundred percent (100%) of the gross area of the main building;
(j)
Small collection facilities as an accessory use to any permitted use subject to the provisions of Section 26-88-070;
(Ord. No. 3805.)
(k)
Feed stores;
(l)
Surplus goods stores;
(m)
Furniture, carpet, drapery and upholstery warehousing including incidental retail sales and service;
(n)
Paint and wallcovering stores;
(o)
Garden supply stores;
(p)
New and used manufactured home sales;
(q)
Business equipment and supplies sales;
(r)
Automobile accessories, parts and equipment sales including installation;
(s)
Business support services including copying and printing, janitorial services and security services;
(t)
Household goods rental store;
(u)
Business equipment and furniture rentals;
(v)
Warehouses including mini-warehouses, moving and storage companies;
(w)
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 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;
(x)
Beekeeping;
(y)
Attached commercial telecommunication facilities subject to the applicable criteria set forth in Section 26-88-130;
(z)
Minor and intermediate freestanding commercial telecommunication facilities eighty feet (80′) or less, subject to the applicable criteria set forth in Section 26-88-130;
(aa)
Noncommercial telecommunication facilities eighty feet (80′) or less in height subject to the applicable criteria set forth in Section 26-88-130;
(bb)
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;
(cc)
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;
(dd)
Small-scale homeless shelters serving no more than ten (10) persons pursuant to 26-88-127, subject to Article 82 (Design Review), within designated urban service areas;
(ee)
Hosted rentals, subject to issuance of a zoning permit and compliance with Section 26-88-118 (Hosted Rentals and Bed and Breakfast Inns);
(ff)
One (1) junior accessory dwelling unit per lot, pursuant to Section 26-88-061;
(gg)
Transitional housing, subject to density or building intensity limitations, when located within an existing, legal residential unit;
(hh)
Permanent supportive housing, subject to density or building intensity limitations, when located within an existing, legal residential unit.
(Ord. No. 6223 , § XV, 5-8-2018; Ord. No. 6191 , § V(Exh. D), 1-24-2017; Ord. No. 6145, § IV , 3-15-2016; Ord. No. 5883, § IV, 3-30-2010; Ord. No. 5435 § 29(x), 2003; Ord. No. 5342 § 3, 2002; Ord. No. 4973 § 9(a), 1996; Ord. No. 4643, 1993.)