General Plan Policy Document (Adopted 7-11 ... - City of Wheatland

LAND USE AND COMMUNITY CHARACTER, Chapter 1CommercialCommercial (COM)This designation provides for neighborhood and locally-orientedretail and service uses, retail and service uses, restaurants, banks,entertainment uses, professional and administrative offices, publicand quasi-public uses, and similar and compatible uses. The FARshall not exceed 0.50.Mixed-Use (MU)This designation provides for retail and service uses, restaurants,banks, entertainment uses, professional and administrative offices,residential units above the ground floor, public and quasi-publicuses, and similar and compatible uses.The FAR for commercial uses shall not exceed 0.50. The FAR fornonresidential uses shall not exceed 0.4. Residential densities shallbe in the range of 8.0 to 16.0 units per gross acre. Residential usesshall be subject to discretionary review and approval.EmploymentEmployment (EMP)This designation provides for office parks, research anddevelopment, warehouses and light manufacturing related toresearch and development, general commercial uses that cater toindustrial uses in this designation, professional offices, public andquasi-public uses, and similar and compatible uses. The FAR shallnot exceed 0.50.Public, Park, and OpenSpacePublic (PUBLIC)This designation provides for public facilities such as schools,hospitals, sanitariums, penal institutions, libraries, museums,government offices and courts, churches, meeting halls, cemeteriesand mausoleums, public facilities, and similar and compatible uses.The FAR shall not exceed 0.50.Park and Open Space (PARK)This designation provides for outdoor recreational uses, equestrianuses, habitat protection, irrigation canals, reservoirs, watershedmanagement, public and quasi-public uses, and areas typicallylimited for human occupation due to public health and safetyhazards such as floodways, unstable soils, or areas containingwildlife habitat and other environmentally-sensitive features. Suchland areas are primarily publicly owned, but may include privateproperty. The FAR for nonresidential uses shall not exceed 0.10.Wheatland General Plan Policy Document, Part II 1-4July 11, 2006