18.05.060 Use.
A. Household Living.
1. Characteristics. Household living is characterized by the residential occupancy of a dwelling unit by a household. Tenancy is arranged on a month-to-month basis, or for a longer period. Uses where tenancy may be arranged for a shorter period are not considered residential. They are considered to be a form of transient lodging (see community service category). Apartment complexes that have accessory services such as food service, dining rooms, and housekeeping are included as household living.
2. Accessory Uses. Accessory uses commonly found are recreational activities, raising of pets, hobbies, and parking of the occupants’ vehicles. Home occupations, accessory dwelling units, accessory short-term rentals, and food membership distribution are accessory uses that are subject to additional regulations.
3. Allowable Uses. Uses include living in houses, duplexes, apartments, condominiums, retirement center apartments, and other structures with self-contained dwelling units.
4. Exceptions.
a. Lodging in a dwelling unit where less than two-thirds of the units are rented on a monthly basis is considered a hotel or motel use and is not permitted.
b. SROs that contain programs which include common dining are not permitted.
c. Guest houses that contain kitchen facilities are prohibited as accessory to household living uses.
d. In certain situations, lodging where tenancy may be arranged for periods less than one month may be classified as a community service use, such as short-term housing or mass shelter.
B. Office.
1. Characteristics. Office uses are characterized by activities conducted in an office setting that focus on the provision of goods and services, usually by professionals. There are two subgroups within the office category:
a. Traditional Office. Traditional office uses are characterized by activities that generally focus on business, government, professional, medical, or financial services. Traditional office uses require customers or clients to visit the site on a regular basis.
b. Industrial Office. Industrial office uses are characterized by activities that focus on science, technology, and design services associated with the production of physical or digital goods. They primarily provide products to other businesses. They do not require customers or clients to visit the site; any such visits are infrequent and incidental.
2. Accessory Uses. Accessory uses may include cafeterias, health facilities, parking, or other amenities primarily for the use of employees in the firm or building. Accessory uses may also include food membership distribution.
3. Allowable Uses. Allowable uses are from the two subgroups:
a. Traditional Office. Professional services such as lawyers, accountants, or management consultants; business services such as headquarters, temporary staffing agencies, sales offices, or call centers; financial services such as lenders, brokerage houses, banks, real estate agents and developers or property managers; television and radio studios; portrait photography studios; government offices and public utility offices; medical and dental clinics; and blood collection facilities.
b. Industrial Office. Architectural, engineering and related services including landscape architects; drafting services; consultant service providers in the building inspection, architectural, geophysical surveying and mapping, environmental, agricultural, motion picture, biology and life sciences, biotechnology, physics, chemistry, economics, energy, and engineering fields; medical, dental, and veterinary labs primarily engaged in providing testing services to practitioners; interior, industrial, and graphic design services; commercial photography studios; computer system, software, or internet content design services where all support occurs off site; and data processing and hosting services.
4. Exceptions.
a. Offices that are part of and are located with a firm in another category are considered accessory to the firm’s primary activity. Headquarters offices, when in conjunction with or adjacent to a primary use in another category, are considered part of the other category.
b. Contractors and others who perform services off-site are included in the office category if equipment and materials are not stored on the site and fabrication, services, or similar work is not carried on at the site.
C. Retail Sales and Service.
1. Characteristics. Retail sales and service firms in the mixed commercial/residential zone are involved in the sale, lease or rent of new or used products to the general public. They may also provide personal services or entertainment, or provide product repair or services for consumer and business goods.
2. Accessory Uses. Accessory uses may include offices, storage of goods, manufacture or repackaging of goods for on-site sale, food membership distribution, and parking.
3. Allowable Uses. Allowable uses are from the four subgroups listed below:
a. Sales-Oriented. Stores selling, leasing, or renting consumer, home, and business goods including art, art supplies, bicycles, clothing, dry goods, electronic equipment, fabric, furniture, garden supplies, gifts, groceries, hardware, home improvements, household products, jewelry, pets, pet food, plants, printed material, stationery, and videos; food sales; and farmers markets.
b. Personal-Service-Oriented. Branch banks; urgency medical care; laundromats; photographic studios; photocopy and blueprint services; hair, tanning, and personal care services; business, martial arts, and other trade schools; dance or music classes; taxidermists; veterinarians; kennels limited to boarding, with no breeding; animal grooming; and private lodges, clubs, and private or commercial athletic or health clubs.
c. Entertainment-Oriented. Restaurants, cafes, delicatessens, and commercial museums.
d. Repair-Oriented. Repair of TVs, bicycles, clocks, watches, shoes, guns, appliances and office equipment; photo or laundry drop-off; quick printing; tailor; locksmith; and upholsterer.
4. Exceptions.
a. Lumber yards and other building material sales that sell primarily to contractors and do not have a retail orientation.
b. Sales of landscape materials, including bark chips and compost.
c. Repair and service of consumer motor vehicles, motorcycles, and light and medium trucks. Repair and service of industrial vehicles and equipment, and heavy trucks as classified.
d. Sales, rental, or leasing of heavy trucks and equipment.
e. Hotels, restaurants, and other services which are part of a truck stop are considered accessory to the truck stop which is classified as industrial service.
f. When kennels are limited to boarding, with no breeding, the applicant may choose to classify the use as retail sales and service.
g. Trade schools where industrial vehicles and equipment, including heavy trucks, are operated.
D. Colleges.
1. Characteristics. This category includes colleges and other institutions of higher learning which offer courses of general or specialized study leading to a degree. They are certified by the State Board of Higher Education or by a recognized accrediting agency. Colleges tend to be in campus-like settings or on multiple blocks.
2. Accessory Uses. Accessory uses include offices, food membership distribution, meeting areas, parking, and maintenance facilities.
3. Allowable Uses. Allowable uses include universities, liberal arts colleges, community colleges, nursing and medical schools not accessory to a hospital, and seminaries.
4. Exceptions. Business and trade schools are classified as retail sales and service.
E. Community Services.
1. Characteristics. Community services are uses of a public, nonprofit, or charitable nature generally providing a local service to people of the community. Generally, they provide the service on the site or have employees at the site on a regular basis. The service is ongoing, not just for special events. Community centers or facilities that have membership provisions are open to the general public to join at any time (for instance, any senior citizen could join a senior center). The use may provide mass shelter or short-term housing where tenancy may be arranged for periods of less than one month when operated by a public or nonprofit agency. The use may also provide special counseling, education, or training of a public, nonprofit or charitable nature.
2. Accessory Uses. Accessory uses may include offices, meeting areas, food preparation areas, food membership distribution, parking, health and therapy areas, daycare uses, and athletic facilities.
3. Allowable Uses. Allowable uses include libraries, museums, senior centers, community centers, publicly owned swimming pools, youth club facilities, hospices, ambulance stations, social service facilities, mass shelters or short-term housing when operated by a public or nonprofit agency, vocational training for the physically or mentally disabled, and surplus food distribution centers.
4. Exceptions.
a. Private lodges, clubs, and private or commercial athletic or health clubs are classified as retail sales and services. Commercial museums are in retail sales and service.
b. Parks are in parks and open areas.
F. Daycare.
1. Characteristics. Daycare use includes day or evening care of two or more children outside of the children’s homes, for a fee. Daycare uses also include the daytime care of teenagers or adults who need assistance or supervision.
2. Accessory Uses. Accessory uses include offices, food membership distribution, play areas, and parking.
3. Allowable Uses. Allowable uses include preschools, nursery schools, latch key programs, and adult daycare programs.
4. Exceptions. Daycare use does not include care given by the parents, guardians, or relatives of the children, or by babysitters. Daycare use also does not include registered or certified family child care homes as specified in ORS Chapter 329A. Registered or certified family child care homes for up to 16 or fewer children, including the children of the provider, that also meet the state’s requirements are household living uses.
G. Religious Institutions.
1. Characteristics. Religious institutions are intended to primarily provide meeting areas for religious activities.
2. Accessory Uses. Accessory uses include Sunday school facilities, food membership distribution, parking, and caretaker’s housing.
3. Allowable Uses. Allowable uses include churches, temples, synagogues, and mosques.
These uses are allowed if they comply with the development standards and other regulations. Being listed as an allowed use does not mean that a proposed development will be granted an adjustment or other exception to these provisions. [Ord. 9G, 2019.]