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A. No dancehall, roadhouse, nightclub, commercial club, establishment or business where alcoholic beverages are served or sold for off-sale consumption, commercial place of amusement or recreation, including but not limited to an amusement center or arcade, or place where entertainers are provided whether as social companions or otherwise, shall be established in any zoning district in the city unless a use permit is first secured in each case.

B. A finding of public convenience or necessity is required for an establishment or business where alcoholic beverages are served or sold for on- and/or off-sale consumption within an area of undue concentration. Such finding shall require that selling of alcohol for on- and/or off-sale consumption at the subject establishment of business:

1. Will not constitute a public nuisance;

2. Will not occur within five hundred feet of a park or school or place of public assembly;

3. Will not contribute to law enforcement problems associated with an undue concentration of on- and/or off-sale licenses in the vicinity of the subject business or establishment.

C. The following activities shall be permitted in any zoning district:

1. The excavation or removal of materials or trees during the normal construction of buildings, structures or underground facilities;

2. Cutting or removal of trees for the purpose of land clearing for public roads and rights-of-way;

3. The cutting or removal of Christmas trees.

D. Public utility distribution and transmission line towers and poles and underground facilities for distribution of gas, water, telephone, and electricity and telephone booths shall be allowed in all districts, and without limitations as to height, without the necessity of first obtaining a use permit therefor; provided, however, that the routes of proposed gas, water, telephone and electric transmission lines, and the proposed locations of telephone booths, shall be submitted to the planning commission for recommendation at any time prior to but at least thirty days in advance of the acquisition of rights-of-way for any such routes, or, in the case of telephone booths, in advance of the erection thereof except in the Coastal Zone, where the construction of utility lines shall be subject to first obtaining a coastal permit.

E. No accessory building or structure shall be constructed or placed, nor shall any accessory use be conducted, on any property in any R district unless and until the main building is constructed or until a use permit, or in the Coastal Zone a coastal permit, is first obtained.

F. 

1. No trailer or mobile home shall be used in any zoning district for any purpose other than a single-family residence or for residential or agricultural storage purposes unless a use permit, and in the Coastal Zone a coastal permit, are first secured in each case.

2. Trailers or mobile homes used as temporary construction offices are allowed without the securing of a use permit. Such use shall be permitted only during the period of construction.

3. Trailers or mobile homes used by public utility companies for temporary emergency equipment or supplies shall be allowed in any district without the securing of a use permit; provided, however, that such use shall not exceed ninety days’ duration.

G. Licensed residential care homes for aged persons of not more than six people, including any permitted rooming and boarding, may be allowed in any zoning district which allows residential uses.

H. Licensed nursery schools may be permitted in any zoning district upon first securing a use permit, and in the Coastal Zone a coastal permit, in each case.

I. Mobile homes and trailers, used as living quarters, not located in mobile home parks or trailer camps shall be allowed only in conjunction with agricultural uses or for the purpose of twenty-four-hour watchman’s quarters upon first securing a use permit, and in the Coastal Zone a coastal permit, in each case which will be good for a maximum period of one year, after which time permanent living quarters shall be constructed. Existing mobile homes which have been granted use permits, and which do not comply with the provisions of this title, may be allowed to continue for as long as the planning commission may desire upon first securing a use permit, and in the Coastal Zone a coastal permit, in each case. The following regulations shall apply in all cases where a use permit or a coastal permit is granted:

1. Skirting of fireproof material shall be provided around the perimeter of the mobile home or trailer;

2. The face of all cut-and-fill slopes shall be planted with a groundcover approved by the director of planning to protect the slopes against erosion;

3. All cut-and-fill slope landscaped areas shall be continuously maintained by the applicant in a litter-free, weed-free condition, and all plant materials shall be continuously maintained in a healthy, growing condition;

4. The planning commission may require compliance with any other conditions or requirements which it may deem reasonable and necessary to make the mobile home compatible with the surrounding neighborhood.

J. No person, firm or corporation shall hereafter, within the city, use any land or erect, construct or use any building, structure or enclosure for the purpose of maintaining a zoo or zoological garden for the purpose of raising, maintaining, keeping or exhibiting of any wild animal unless and until a use permit has been first secured. A use permit may be applied for in any district except for R-1, R-2, R-3 and R-4 districts. In the Coastal Zone such uses must be found consistent with the local coastal land use plan and a coastal permit shall be required for these uses.

K. 

1. Water facilities, including wells and storage tanks, serving less than three domestic users are permitted in any zoning district.

2. Water facilities, including wells and storage tanks, serving three or four domestic users are permitted in any zoning district upon approval by the design review board as to the location, access, landscaping and color of storage tanks. In the Coastal Zone such uses shall be subject to a coastal permit.

3. Water facilities, including wells and storage tanks, serving five or more domestic users are permitted in any zoning district upon securing a use permit in each case, except in the Coastal Zone where such uses shall also be subject to first securing a coastal permit.

L. In the Coastal Zone the proposed use shall be consistent with the designation and policies of the general plan and local coastal land use plan.

M. No more than fifteen percent of the units in any motel or auto court may be provided with a kitchen or kitchenette. No unit in any motel or auto court containing a kitchen or kitchenette shall exceed three hundred fifty square feet of gross floor area. Each unit in a motel or auto court containing a kitchen or kitchenette shall be provided with one and one-half on-site parking spaces.

N. One on-site dwelling unit may be allowed subject to the following limitations:

1. The unit is to be occupied exclusively by a property owner, individual employed in the management of the property, or individual employed in the management of an on-site business, together with members of the family of said owner, property manager or business manager, and provisions are made to ensure such continued occupancy.

2. A use permit shall be obtained in each case.

3. The site is located in a commercial or business district.

4. Each building site is limited to one such unit with a maximum gross floor area not exceeding two thousand square feet and not exceeding two bedrooms.

5. Two parking spaces shall be required for the unit.

6. The total number of residential dwelling units including said owner’s/manager’s unit shall not exceed the number of residential dwelling units which would otherwise be allowed on the building site if some residential use is already or otherwise allowed on the site.

O. A qualified patient, with an identification card, as defined in California Health and Safety Code Section 11362.7, may cultivate cannabis for noncommercial, personal purposes as set forth in Health and Safety Code Section 11362.77 per each qualified patient with an identification card, upon property she or he rents or owns and inhabits, either inside the dwelling or on land included in such rented or owned property or as permitted by the Adult Use of Marijuana Act, which provides that not more than six living marijuana plants may be planted, cultivated, harvested, dried, or processed by a person over the age of twenty-one inside a private residence, or inside an accessory building to a private residence that is fully enclosed and secure and located upon the grounds of the private residence, as an incidental use to the primary private residential use. Nothing in this chapter is intended to, nor shall it be construed to, preclude any landlord from limiting or prohibiting marijuana cultivation by its tenants. The cultivation shall be at a location on the property that is secluded so that it cannot be observed by a member of the public who passes by the property. This chapter shall be administratively enforced. (Ord. 2020-08 § 5, 2020; Ord. 2020-07 § 2, 2020; Ord. 2018-09 § 2, 2018; Ord. 2017-07 Exh. A, 2017; Ord. 2016-01 §§ 3, 4, 2016; Ord. 2007-03 § 2 (Exh. B), 2007; Ord. 2007-02 § 1, 2007; Ord. 2003-01 § 1, 2003; Ord. 2002-03 § 1, 2002; Zoning Ordinance dated 7/94, 1994)