19.05.080 Public and quasi-public classifications.

Public and quasi-public use types include utility, educational, cultural, medical, protective, governmental and other uses which are strongly vested with public or social importance.

Ambulance service: provision of emergency medical care or transportation, including incidental storage and maintenance of vehicles.

Ambulance service, public: ambulance service that is operated by or contracted to the city of American Canyon or the American Canyon fire district.

Animal shelter: provision of shelter and care for stray animals, including feeding, exercising, grooming and incidental medical care. This classification includes the disposition of animal remains.

Antenna: a noncommercial device used to transmit and/or receive radio or electromagnetic waves between terrestrially and/or orbitally-based structures.

(1) Commercial: an antenna used for commercial purposes. Commercial antenna also means macro wireless facility, which means any high-powered wireless telecommunication facility used to serve a major coverage area of several miles with multiple antennas.

(2) Small-cell antenna facility: Small-cell antenna facility consisting of antennas, antenna supports, equipment, cabinets, equipment housing and enclosure; and related accessory equipment. SAF also means a micro wireless facility. See Section 19.53.030.

Cemetery: land used for the burial of human remains and dedicated for cemetery purposes, including crematoriums, mausoleums and mortuaries operated in conjunction with the cemetery.

Charitable uses: use by nonprofit or benevolent organizations to provide a service beneficial to the general public or to a significant portion of the public for no fee or at a fee recognized as being less than that charged by profit-making organizations.

Club, lodge: meeting, recreational or social facilities of a private or nonprofit organization primarily for use by members or guests.

Community center: one or more buildings used for recreational, social, education, or cultural activities, open to the public or a designated part of the public.

Conference center: a facility used for conferences and seminars, with accommodations for sleeping, food preparation and eating, recreation, entertainment, resource facilities, and meeting rooms.

Cultural facility: nonprofit institution displaying or preserving objects of interest in one or more of the arts or sciences. This classification includes libraries, museums, and art galleries.

Day care center: a facility, other than family child care homes, providing care, supervision, and protection of children or senior citizens on a less than twenty-four-hour basis.

Emergency shelter: a facility, other than a residential care home, operated by a provider, which provides temporary accommodations to homeless persons and/or families and which meet the standards for shelters contained in Title 25, California Administrative Code, Part 1, Chapter P, Subchapter 12, Section 7972. The term "provider" means a government agency or private nonprofit organization which provides, or contracts with recognized community organizations to provide emergency or transitional shelter for the homeless, and which has been certified by the city as meeting all applicable provisions contained in the California Health and Safety, and Administrative Codes. "Temporary accommodations" means that a homeless person or family will be allowed to reside at the shelter for a time period not to exceed six months.

Government facility: a facility used by a government agency to provide a public service.

Hospital: a facility that provides medical, surgical, psychiatric, or emergency medical services to sick or injured persons, primarily on an inpatient basis. This classification includes incidental facilities for outpatient treatment, as well as training, research, and administrative services for patients and employees.

Maintenance and service facility: a facility providing maintenance and repair services for publicly-owned vehicles and equipment, and materials storage areas. This classification includes corporation yards, equipment service centers, and similar facilities.

Public information center: a facility providing information to visitors to the city and region regarding points of interest, activities, businesses and lodging.

Public parking: surface parking facilities that are publicly owned and operated.

(1) Structure: includes garages and other types of parking located in structures.

Public safety facility: a facility for public safety or emergency services, including police and fire protection.

Religious facility: a facility for religious worship and incidental religious education, but not including schools as defined in this section.

School: any building or part thereof which is designed, constructed, or used for education or instruction in any branch of knowledge.

Transportation terminal: facilities for loading, unloading, and transferring passengers, baggage, and incidental freight between modes of transportation. This classification includes bus terminals, railroad stations, and public transit stations.

Utilities, major: electrical substations, aboveground electrical transmission lines, refuse collection or disposal facilities, water reservoirs, water wells, detention basins, water or wastewater treatment plants, and similar facilities of public agencies or public utilities.

Utilities, minor: utility facilities that are necessary to support legally established uses and involve only minor structures, such as electrical distribution lines, gas distribution pipelines, utility poles, and pole transformers, but excluding antennas and antenna towers.