§ 26-48-010. Permitted uses.

Permitted uses include the following:

(a)

Manufacturing, compounding, assembling or treating of articles or merchandise from the following previously prepared materials: bone, cellophane, canvas, cloth, cork, feathers, felt, fiber, fur, glass, hair, leather, metal, paint, paper, plastics, rubber, precious or semiprecious stones, shell, tars, tobacco and wood;

(b)

Manufacturing of pottery and ceramic products, using only previously pulverized clay and kilns fired only by electricity or gas;

(c)

Manufacturing, processing, fabricating, refining, repairing, packaging or treating of goods, materials or products by electric power, oil or gas (except operations relative to the above involving fish, fats and oils, bone and meat products, or similar substances commonly recognized as creating offensive conditions in the handling thereof);

(d)

Manufacturing, compounding, processing, packing or treating of such products as candy, cosmetics, drugs, perfumes, pharmaceuticals, toiletries and food products (except the rendering or refining of fats and oils);

(e)

Manufacturing, assembling, testing or repairing of devices, equipment and systems of an electrical, electronic or electromechanical nature;

(f)

Manufacturing, assembling, fabrication, warehousing and wholesale distribution of goods, wares, merchandise, articles, substances or compounds, which are not flammable, explosive or likely to create fire, radiation or explosive hazards to surrounding property;

(g)

Foundries casting lightweight, nonferrous metal not causing noxious fumes or odor;

(h)

Cooperage and bottling works;

(i)

Manufacture of precision instruments and equipment such as watches, electronics equipment, photographic equipment, optical goods and similar products;

(j)

Other heavy commercial uses for which storage, large or heavy merchandise or commercial transportation facilities are necessary and usual to the operation;

(k)

Bakeries, creameries, soft drink bottling plants, laundries, cleaning and dyeing plants;

(l)

Cabinet shops, electrical, plumbing and heating shops; welding, sheet metal and machine shops, lumber yards;

(m)

Professional, administrative and general business offices;

(n)

Experimental or testing laboratories;

(o)

The outdoor growing and harvesting of shrubs, plants, flowers, trees, vines, fruits, vegetables, hay, grain and similar food and fiber crops;

(p)

Accessory uses and buildings incidental and appurtenant to a permitted use that do not alter the character of the site;

(q)

Small collection facilities as an accessory use to any permitted use subject to the provisions of Section 26-88-070;

(Ord. No. 3805.)

(r)

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 26-92-010;

(s)

Beekeeping;

(t)

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

(u)

Minor and intermediate freestanding commercial telecommunication facilities eighty feet (80′) or less in height, subject to the applicable criteria set forth in Section 26-88-130;

(v)

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

(w)

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;

(x)

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;

(y)

Commercial cannabis uses in compliance with Sections 26-88-250 through 26-88-256;

(z)

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

(Ord. No. 6245 , § II, 10-16-2018; Ord. No. 6191 , § V(Exh. D), 1-24-2017; Ord. No. 6189 , § II(B), 12-20-2016; Ord. No. 5435 § 2(ll), 2003; Ord. No. 5342 § 3, 2002; Ord. No. 4973 § 10(a), 1996; Ord. No. 4643, 1993.)