-Pleasant Hill BART

Specific Plan

Commercial/Office Use

Use Types. Commercial/office use types include the distribution and sale or rental of goods and the provision of services. Any drive-up service is specifically excluded.

Administrative and Professional Services. The Administrative Professional Services use type refers to offices of private firms or organizations or public or quasi-public organizations which are primarily used for the provision of professional, executive, management or administrative services. Typical uses include administrative offices, legal offices, or architectural firms.

Retail Sales. The Retail Sales use type refers to places of business primarily engaged in the sale or rental of commonly used goods and merchandise, but excludes those classified as Agricultural Supplies and Services, Animal Sales and Services, Automotive and Equipment, Large Business Equipment Sales and Services, Construction Sales and Services, Gasoline Sales, and any drive-up service. The following are Retail Sales use types:

1. Convenience Retail Sales. The Convenience Retail Sales use type refers to establishments or places of business primarily engaged in the provision of frequently or recurrently needed small personal items or services for residents within reasonable walking distance. These include various general retail sales and personal services of an appropriate size and scale to meet the above criteria. Typical uses include neighborhood grocery or drug stores.
   
   
2. Eating and Drinking Establishments. The Eating and Drinking Establishments use type refers to establishments or places of business primarily engaged in the sale of prepared foods and beverages for on-premise consumption. Typical uses include restaurants, short order eating places and bars as an accessory use. Stand-alone bars are not allowed in this land use category.
   
   
3. Food and Beverage Retail Sales. The Food and Beverage Retail Sales use type refers to establishments or places of business primarily engaged in the retail sale of food and beverages for home consumption. Typical uses include groceries, liquor stores or delicatessens.
   
   
4. General Retail Sales. The General Retail Sales use type refers to the sale or rental from the premises of goods and merchandise for personal or household use, but excluding those uses listed above.

Business and Personal Services. The Business and Personal Services use type refers to commercial activities that provide direct service to businesses, employees, BART patrons, or residents.

1. Business Support Services. The Business Support Services use type refers to establishments primarily engaged in the provisions of services of a clerical, employment, protective, or minor processing nature to firms rather than individuals and where the storage of goods other than samples is prohibited. Typical uses include secretarial services, telephone answering services, or blueprint services.
   
   
2. Communications Services. The Communications Services use type refers to establishments primarily engaged in the provision of broadcasting and other information relay services accomplished through the use of electronic and telephonic mechanisms but excludes studios, or telegraph service offices.
   
   
3. Cultural and Entertainment Uses. This use type refers to establishments or places primarily engaged in the provision of cultural, entertainment, and other events for participants and spectators as well as those involving social or fraternal gatherings. This use type is conducted within an enclosed building with a capacity of 500 or fewer people. Typical uses include small theaters or meeting halls.
   
   
4. Sports and Recreation. This use type refers to establishments or places primarily engaged in the provision of sports or recreation by and for participants. Any spectators would be incidental and on a non-recurring basis. Sports and recreation uses include those conducted within an enclosed building. Typical uses include athletic clubs.
   
   
5. Finance, Insurance and Real Estate Services. The Finance, Insurance and Real Estate Service use type refers to establishments primarily engaged in the provision of financial, insurance, real estate or securities brokerage services. Typical uses include banks, insurance agencies or real estate firms.
   
   
6. Medical Services. The Medical Services use type refers to establishments primarily engaged in the provision of personal health services including prevention, diagnosis and treatment or rehabilitation services provided by physicians, dentists, nurses and other health personnel as well as the provision of medical testing and analysis services, but excludes those classified as any community use type. Typical uses include medical offices, dental laboratories or health maintenance organizations.
   
   
7. Personal and Repair Services. The Personal and Repair Services use type refers to establishments primarily engaged in the provision of informational, instructional, personal improvement, provision of laundering, dry cleaning or dyeing services as personal services and similar services of a non-professional nature and to establishments primarily engaged in the provision of repair services to individuals and households rather than firms, but excludes services classified as Entertainment or Transient Habitation, industrial laundry services, laundry agencies, diaper services, or linen supply services. Typical uses include photography studios, driving schools or reducing salons, dry cleaner, self-service Laundromats, apparel repair firms or musical instrument repair firms.
   
   
8. Child Care Facility. The child care facility use type refers to a facility as defined in Health and Safety Code Section 1596.750. The three basic designations covered are (1) small family day care home, licensed for the care of eight or fewer children, (2) large family day care home, licensed for the care of nine to fourteen children, and (3) child care center, licensed for the care of more than fourteen children.

Lodging. Lodging refers to establishments primarily engaged in the provision of lodging services on a temporary basis with incidental food, drink and other sales and services intended for the convenience of guests. Lodging services involve the provision of room and/or board. Typical uses include hotels or extended-stay hotels.