Chapter 20.012 - Use Classifications
Extracted standards
2 individual requirements pulled out of this section’s prose, each with the sentence it came from.
Other
- Classification of combination of principal uses
If principal uses conducted on a lot by an individual establishment, management, or institution resemble two (2) or more different use types all such principal uses shall be classified in the use types whose description most closely portrays the nature of such uses. However, when the principal uses have any of the characteristics of the following list of use types, all such principal uses shall be classified in one (1) or more of the use types on the list: Animal sales and services: auctioning; Animal sales and services: stockyards; Animal waste processing; Explosive storage; General industrial; Heavy industrial; Major impact services and utilities; Mining and processing; Scrap operations; Wholesaling, storage and distribution: heavy.
- Director authority to classify uses
The Director shall have the authority to classify common uses according to use types. The classification of a use is subject to the right of appeal pursuant to the administrative appeal procedure in Chapter 20.208.
From the ordinance
The purpose of these provisions is to classify uses into a limited number of use types on the basis of common functional, product, or compatibility characteristics, thereby providing a basis for regulation of uses in accordance with criteria which are directly relevant to the public interest.