§ 26-52-040. Uses permitted with a use permit—Special districts.

Uses permitted with a use permit include the following:

(a)

Elementary schools, junior high schools, high schools and colleges;

(b)

Community centers, libraries, museums and similar cultural uses;

(c)

Government offices and public safety facilities (including law enforcement and fire protection);

(d)

Park and recreational facilities, including publicly owned golf courses;

(e)

Churches, cemeteries, mausoleums, columbariums and crematoriums;

(f)

Public utility buildings and public service or utility uses (telecommunication facilities excepted), including but not limited to electrical substations receiving more than one hundred thousand (100,000) volts, service yards, parking lots and sewage and waste water treatment storage and disposal facilities;

(g)

Administrative offices, vehicle and equipment storage and repair;

(h)

Caretaker unit;

(i)

Exploration and development of low temperature geothermal resources for other than power development purposes provided that at a minimum it is compatible with surrounding land uses;

(j)

Day care center;

(k)

Large residential community care facility;

(l)

Intermediate and major freestanding commercial telecommunication facilities subject at a minimum to the applicable criteria and procedures 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;

(m)

Noncommercial telecommunication facilities greater than eighty feet (80') in height subject at a minimum to the applicable criteria set forth in Section 26-88-130

(n)

Small wind energy systems 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 the standards in Section 26-88-135

(o)

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 Uses Permitted with a Use Permit of the MP District, excluding the following high intensity or noise sensitive uses:

1.

Gymnasiums, health clubs, spas, indoor recreation, and similar uses;

2.

Day care centers;

3.

Large residential community care facility;

4.

Churches located in existing industrial buildings which are clearly incidental to the permitted industrial use;

5.

Retail commercial and service uses such as hotels, motels, restaurants, financial institutions, and service stations;

6.

Small-scale homeless shelters serving up to ten (10) persons, subject to design review, within designated urban service areas;

7.

Emergency homeless shelters with up to fifty (50) beds, subject to design review, within designated urban service areas.

(p)

Other nonresidential uses of a similar and compatible nature to those uses described in this section.

(Ord. No. 5961, § 4, 1-24-2012; Ord. No. 5435 § 2(rr), 2003; Ord. No. 4973 § 11(b), (c), 1996; Ord. No. 4643, 1993.)