§ 26C-141. Uses requiring a use permit.

(a)

Sensitive Area Uses:

(1)

Permitted uses listed in Section 26C-140 when located within a sensitive area, riparian corridor, critical habitat area, or unique feature designated in the general plan or coastal plan.

(2)

Any clearing of vegetation, grading, excavation, fill or construction when located within a sensitive area, riparian corridor, critical habitat area, or unique feature designated in the general plan or coastal plan.

(b)

Tourist Commercial Uses:

(1)

Tennis and racquet clubs.

(2)

Marinas, including yacht clubs, fueling docks and incidental boat storage sales.

(3)

Recreational vehicle parks, tent camps or campgrounds, including incidental retail sales of groceries, drugs, and supplies.

(4)

Noncommercial clubs and lodges, country clubs and golf courses, including miniature golf courses.

(5)

Commercial recreation facilities and uses such as indoor and outdoor sports facilities, athletic clubs, amusement parks and health resorts, subject to the limitations on lodging facilities contained in Section 26C-141(b)(6).

(6)

Hotels, motels, inns, resorts, and guest ranches of sixteen (16) or more units which are not located within village commercial areas in the coastal plan and subject, at a minimum, to a limit of two hundred (200) rooms in designated urban service areas, one hundred (100) rooms in rural areas which are serviced by public sewer, and a limit of fifty (50) rooms otherwise.

(7)

Retail shops which principally serve tourists, including sale of resort apparel, curios, souvenirs, film, and magazines with a combined size in excess of three thousand (3,000) square feet.

(8)

Restaurants, including drive-in and take-out and cocktail lounges accessory to restaurants or overnight accommodations in excess of two thousand (2,000) square feet in size.

(9)

Art galleries and antique studios in excess of three thousand (3,000) square feet in size.

(10)

Shooting and archery ranges.

(11)

Professional, administrative and general business offices.

(12)

Automobile service stations and gasoline sales.

(13)

Bars and cocktail lounges, including those which provide live entertainment and dancing.

(14)

Theaters.

(15)

Open air theaters, and similar establishments involving large assemblages of people.

(c)

Other Uses:

(1)

Bus terminals.

(2)

Taxi terminals.

(3)

Commercial parking facilities.

(4)

Heliports.

(5)

Art, craft, music, and dancing schools.

(6)

Business, professional or trade schools and colleges.

(7)

Churches.

(8)

Public playgrounds, private parks, community centers, libraries, museums and similar public uses and buildings.

(9)

Minor public utility buildings and public service or utility uses (transmission, distribution lines and telecommunications facilities excepted), including but not limited to reservoirs, storage tanks, pumping stations, telephone exchanges, small power stations, transformer stations, fire and police stations and training centers, service yards and parking lots which, at a minimum, meet the criteria of General Plan Policy PF-2s and which are not otherwise exempt by state law.

(10)

Intermediate and major free-standing commercial telecommunication facilities greater than eighty feet (80′) in height subject at a minimum to the applicable criteria set forth in Section 26C-325.7.

(11)

Noncommercial telecommunication facilities greater than eighty feet (80′) in height subject at a minimum to the applicable criteria set forth in Section 26C-325.7.

(12)

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.

(13)

Large residential community care facility.

(14)

Day care center.

(15)

Agricultural cultivation in the following areas, for which a management plan has not been approved by the director of the permit and resource management department pursuant to Section 26C-140(b)(3).

a.

Within one hundred feet (100′) of the top of the bank in the "Russian River Riparian Corridor."

b.

Within fifty feet (50′) of the top of the bank in designated "flatland riparian corridors."

c.

Within twenty-five feet (25′) of the top of the bank in designated "upland riparian corridors."

(16)

Gymnasiums, health clubs spas and similar uses.

(17)

Amplified live music.

(d)

Other nonresidential uses which, in the opinion of the director of the permit and resource management department, are of a similar and compatible nature to those uses described in Section 26C-141.

(Ord. No. 5318 § 1, 2001.)