§ 26-52-030. Permitted uses.

Permitted uses include the following:

(a)

Any facilities owned and operated by a city or the county;

(b)

Facilities for the production, generation, storage or transmission of water by a special district;

(c)

Facilities for the production or generation of electrical energy by a special district;

(d)

Special district electrical substation facilities receiving less than one hundred thousand (100,000) volts;

(e)

Special district facilities approved subject to Section 12808.5 of the Public Utilities Code (electrical transmissions and distribution lines);

(f)

Incidental on-site administrative offices, vehicle and equipment storage and repair related to the above uses;

(g)

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

(h)

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

(i)

Minor freestanding commercial telecommunication facilities subject to the applicable criteria and procedures for such facilities set forth in the base district which is predominant in the area outside of the boundary of the PF district and in closest proximity to the proposed location of the facility;

(j)

Noncommercial telecommunication facilities eighty (80) feet 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)

Emergency homeless shelters provided pursuant to 26-88-127, subject to Article 82 (Design Review), within designated urban service areas;

(m)

For projects, other than public projects of the county, on leased Sonoma County airport lands designated in the Airport Master Plan for Non-Aeronautical development uses, any of the Permitted Uses of the MP district.

(n)

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;

(o)

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.

(Ord. No. 6252 , § II(Exh. C), 12-4-2018; Ord. No. 5883, § IV, 3-30-2010; Ord. No. 5435, § 2(qq), 2003; Ord. No. 5342, § 3, 2002; Ord. No. 4973, § 11(a), 1996; Ord. No. 4643, 1993.)