§ 26-50-010. Permitted uses.

Permitted uses include the following:

(a)

Truck, trailer and farm implement sales, including major repair facilities;

(b)

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

(c)

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

(d)

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

(e)

Administrative and business offices incidental to any other permitted use in this section;

(f)

Experimental or testing laboratories;

(g)

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

(h)

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

(i)

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

(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)

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;

(l)

Beekeeping;

(m)

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

(n)

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;

(o)

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

(p)

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;

(q)

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;

(r)

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

(s)

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(nn), 2003; Ord. No. 5342 § 3, 2002; Ord. No. 4973 § 10(a), 1996; Ord. No. 4643, 1993.)