Contra Costa County |
Ordinance Code |
Title 8. ZONING |
Division 84. LAND USE DISTRICTS |
Chapter 84-38. A-2 GENERAL AGRICULTURAL DISTRICT |
Article 84-38.4. Uses |
§ 84-38.404. Uses—Requiring land use permit.
The following uses may be allowed in an A-2 district on the issuance of a land use permit:
(1)
Publicly owned parks and playground.
(2)
Dude ranches, riding academies and stables, and dog kennels.
(3)
Publicly owned buildings and structures, except as provided in Division 82.
(4)
Commercial radio and television receiving and transmitting facilities but not including broadcasting studios or business offices.
(5)
Wind energy conversion systems. This use is allowed without a land use permit if used only as an accessory to an allowable residential or agricultural use.
(6)
A small family child care home or a large family child care home, as those terms are defined in California Code of Regulations, title 22, section 102352(f)(1), that has obtained all required state and local agency approvals and licenses.
(7)
Hospitals, animal hospitals, eleemosynary and philanthropic institutions, and convalescent homes.
(8)
Churches, religious institutions, and parochial and private schools, including nursery schools.
(9)
Community buildings, clubs, and activities of a quasi-public, social, fraternal, or recreational character, such as golf, tennis or swimming clubs, or veterans' or fraternal organizations. These uses are prohibited if organized for monetary profit.
(10)
One additional single family dwelling.
(11)
Medical and dental offices and medical clinics.
(12)
Merchandising of agricultural supplies and services incidental to an agricultural use.
(13)
Wineries, commercial kitchens, or other facilities for creating value-added farm products.
(14)
Canneries.
(15)
Slaughterhouses and stockyards.
(16)
Rendering plants and fertilizer plants or yards.
(17)
Livestock auction or sales yards.
(18)
Commercial recreational facilities when the principal use is not in a building.
(19)
Boat storage facilities within one mile by public road of a boat launching facility open to the public. Vessels and vessel trailers may be stored in a boat storage facility. Recreational vehicles may be stored in a boat storage facility as long as the number of recreational vehicles stored does not exceed fifteen percent of the total number of storage spaces in the storage facility.
(20)
Retail firewood sales.
(21)
Recycling operations intended to sort or process material for reuse. Junkyards, defined in Section 88-4.206, are prohibited.
(22)
Museums in which objects of historical, artistic, scientific or cultural importance are preserved and displayed.
(23)
A farm market.
(24)
Agricultural cold storage plants on parcels less than ten acres in size.
(25)
Farmworker housing center.
(26)
Commercial cannabis activities that meet the requirements of Chapter 88-28.
(Ord. No. 2018-18, § 5, 6-26-18; Ord. No. 2017-14, § X, 9-19-17; Ord. No. 2013-12, § VI, 4-16-13; Ord. No. 2009-12, § III, 5-19-09; Ords. 2007-23 § 4, 2003-11 § 3, 94-28 § 2, 89-46 § 2, 76-36 § 3, 7437 § 2, 60-82, 1988, 1569 § 2: prior code § 8156(b): Ords. 1406 § 3, 497 § 4, 382 § 4E).