27.38.030 SPECIAL USES.

The following uses may also be permitted if their site locations and proposed development plans are first approved as provided in Chapters 27.06 through 27.12, 27.62, 27.74, 27.78 and 27.80; however, the specific use limitations contained in Section 27.38.110, Required Retail Frontage, shall apply to properties located within the required retail frontage area, as shown in the Downtown Plan:

(1) Amusement enterprises, commercial;

(2) Clubs, lodges and fraternal organizations, including the serving of food and beverages to members and their guests, and including such other facilities customarily provided for the comfort and convenience of the membership;

(3) Municipal or privately owned (religious or eleemosynary) recreation building or community center, including YWCA and YMCA buildings;

(4) Nonresidential planned unit developments;

(5) Public utility service uses and electrical substations;

(6) Bus or train terminal or other public transportation facilities;

(7) Fire and police stations;

(8) Post office, and other government agencies;

(9) Public art galleries, museums, and libraries;

(10) Telephone exchange or communications building, antenna towers and other outdoor equipment essential to the operation of the exchange or communications building;

(11) Auditorium, stadium, arena, armory, gymnasium, and other similar places for public events;

(12) Automobile service stations only when fully enclosed within a parking structure or other building;

(13) Churches and other places of religious worship except on parcels located within the required retail frontage area;

(14) Convalescent homes, rest homes, and nursing homes;

(15) Schools, philanthropic institutions, and day care facilities;

(16) Parking facilities:

(i) Parking lots outside the limited parking zone of the Central Parking and Improvement District,

(ii) Parking garages, private parking garages within the parking expansion zone of the Central Parking and Improvement District, and public parking garages;

(17) Hospitals and sanitariums, but not including animal hospitals;

(18) Mortuaries;

(19) Parks and community centers;

(20) Residential planned developments, subject to CBD residential development standards and affordable housing requirements as adopted by City Council resolution;

(21) Fast food restaurants, without drive-through or drive-in facilities;

(22) Businesses selling or renting firearms as defined by Penal Code Section 12001(b);

(23) Drive-through facilities for financial institutions and for pharmacies dispensing only prescriptions or medicinal goods at the drive-through facility. Drive-through facilities for pharmacies shall be subject to the parking requirements for financial institution drive-through uses, as enumerated in Municipal Code Section 27.64.160(7)(a).