LAND-USE DEFINITIONS
1000 SPACED RURAL RESIDENTIAL - Single family
homes located in rural areas with lot sizes of approximately 1 to 10
acres. Homes in areas of lower densities are coded as agricultural
or vacant, not residential. Rural residential estates may have small
orchards, fields or small storage buildings associated with the
residential dwelling unit.
1100 SINGLE FAMILY RESIDENTIAL - Single
family detached housing units, on lots smaller than 1 acre.
Newer developments may include clubhouses, recreation areas, pools,
tennis, etc. located within and associated with the residential
development, if a separate parcel/lot designation does not exist.
1200 MULTI-FAMILY RESIDENTIAL -
Attached housing units, two or more units
per structure - includes duplexes, townhouses, condominiums
apartments, and SRO's in Centre City. Newer developments may include
clubhouses, recreation areas, pools, tennis, etc. located within and
associated with the residential development, if a separate
parcel/lot designation does not exist.
1300 MOBILE HOME PARKS - Includes mobile home
parks with 10 or more spaces that are primarily for residential use.
(RV parks are included within the commercial recreation category).
1400 GROUP QUARTERS RESIDENTIAL -
1401 JAILS/PRISONS/BORDER PATROL HOLDING
STATION
1402 DORMITORIES
1403 MILITARY BARRACKS
1404 MONASTERY
1409 OTHER - Convalescent or retirement
homes not associated with or within a health care facility,
rooming houses, half-way houses, California Conservation
Corps, Honor Camps and other correctional facilities.
1500 HOTEL/MOTEL/RESORTS
1501 - Hotels, motels, and other
transient accommodations with three or less floors. Commonly
found along freeways and prime commercial areas.
1502 - Hotels and motels that have four
or more floors. Primarily found in downtown areas and near
tourist attractions.
1503 - Resorts with hotel accommodations
that usually contain recreation areas. Examples of resorts
would be La Costa Health Spa, Lawrence Welk and the Olympic
Resort in Carlsbad near the airport.
2000 HEAVY INDUSTRY
2001 HEAVY INDUSTRY - Shipbuilding,
airframe, and aircraft manufacturing. Usually located close
to transportation facilities and commercial areas. Parcels
are typically large, 20-50 acres.
2100 LIGHT INDUSTRY
2101 INDUSTRIAL PARKS - Office/industrial
uses clustered into a center. The primary uses are
industrial but may include high percentages of other uses in
service or retail activities.
2103 LIGHT INDUSTRY-GENERAL - All other
industrial uses and manufacturing not included in the
categories above. These are not located inside of parks, but
are usually along major streets or clustered in certain
areas. Includes manufacturing uses such as lumber,
furniture, paper, rubber, stone, clay, and glass; as well as
light industrial uses as auto repair services and recycling
centers. Mixed commercial and office uses (if not large
enough to be identified separately) are also included.
General industrial areas are comprised of 75 percent or more
of industrial uses (manufacturing, warehousing, and
wholesale trade).
2104 WAREHOUSING/PUBLIC STORAGE - Usually
large buildings located near freeways, industrial or strip
commercial areas. Public self-storage buildings are
typically long, rectangular and closely spaced.
2200 EXTRACTIVE INDUSTRY -
2300 JUNKYARD/DUMPS/LANDFILLS -
4100 AIRPORTS
4101 COMMERCIAL AIRPORTS - Lindbergh
Field only.
4102 MILITARY AIRPORTS - Airports owned
and operated by the military. Found on Military bases.
4103 GENERAL AVIATION AIRPORTS - All
general aviation airports.
4104 AIRSTRIPS -
4110 OTHER TRANSPORTATION
4111 RAIL STATIONS/TRANSIT
CENTERS/SEAPORTS - Major transit centers (e.g. Oceanside
Transit Center, El Cajon Transit Center), rail stations
(e.g. Santa Fe Depot, Solana Beach Station), Coaster
stations (Oceanside, Carlsbad Village, Carlsbad Poinsettia,
Encinitas, Solana Beach, Sorrento Valley, Old Town, San
Diego), major trolley stations, and seaport terminals (Port
of SD). Parking areas associated with these uses are
included. Transit centers within shopping centers are
included within the shopping center category.
4112 FREEWAY - Divided roadways with 4 or
more lanes, restricted access, grade separations, and rights
of way greater than 200 ft. wide. Includes all right of way
and interchange areas, but not frontage roads.
4113 COMMUNICATIONS AND UTILITIES - TV
and radio broadcasting stations, relay towers, electrical
power generating plants, water and sewage treatment
facilities.
4114 PARKING - SURFACE - All surface
parking lots not associated with another land use.
4115 PARKING - STRUCTURES - All large
parking structures not associated with another land use.
4116 PARK AND RIDE LOTS - Stand-alone
parking areas that are not associated with any land use.
These are usually located near freeways.
4117 RAILROAD RIGHT-OF-WAYS - All
railroad ROWs.
4118 SURFACE STREET RIGHT-OF-WAYS - All
street ROWs.
4119 OTHER TRANSPORTATION - Maintenance
yards and their associated activities, transit yards and
walking bridges.
4120 MARINE TERMINALS - National City and
10th Street (Centre City) marine terminals.
5000 COMMERCIAL
5001 WHOLESALE TRADE - Usually located
near transportation facilities. Structures are usually large
and cover the majority of the parcel. Examples are clothing
and supply. Also includes swap meet areas.
5002 REGIONAL SHOPPING CENTERS - Contain
1 to 5 major department stores, and usually have more than
50 tenants. Typically are larger than 40 acres in size.
5003 COMMUNITY COMMERCIAL - Smaller in
size than the regional shopping centers. Contain a junior
department store or variety store (i.e. a Target Center with
other commercial stores) as a major tenant and have 15 to 50
other tenants. Smaller in size, 8 to 20 acres. May also have
a variety store(i.e. Target, Home Depot or Price/Costco) by
itself.
5004 NEIGHBORHOOD SHOPPING CENTERS -
Usually less than 10 acres in size with on-site parking.
Includes supermarket and drug store centers not identified
as community commercial. May include office uses that are
not large enough to code separately. Neighborhood centers
with over 100,000 sq. ft. are inventoried by the Chamber of
Commerce, and The Union Tribune (Copley) also collects data
on neighborhood centers.
5005 SPECIALTY COMMERCIAL CENTERS -
Tourist or specialty commercial shopping areas such as
Seaport Village, Marina Village, Ferry Landing at Coronado,
Bazaar del Mundo, Flower Hill, Glasshouse Square, The
Lumberyard, Park Plaza at the Village, Promenade, Belmont
Park, Del Mar Plaza.
5006 AUTO DEALERSHIPS -Includes National
City Mile of Cars and Carlsbad’s Car Country, among others.
5007 STORE-FRONT COMMERCIAL - Includes
commercial activities found along major streets (not in
planned centers), with limited on-site parking. May include
mixed office uses that are not large enough to be identified
as a separate area. Also may include mixed residential uses,
i.e. residential on top of commercial, or residential units
adjacent to commercial establishments.
5009 OTHER RETAIL - Other retail land
uses not classified above.
6000 OFFICE -
6001 OFFICE - HIGH RISE buildings with
more than 4 stories containing banking, offices for
business and professional services (finance, insurance, real
estate), some retail activities and restaurants.
6002 OFFICE - LOW RISE buildings with
less than 5 stories containing banking, offices for
business and professional services (finance, insurance, real
estate), some retail activities and restaurants.
6003 GOVERNMENT/CIVIC CENTERS - Large
government office buildings or centers (outside of military
reservations) and civic centers, or city halls of local
governments. Also includes the Chamber of Commerce buildings
and DMV Offices.
6100 PUBLIC SERVICES
6101 CEMETERY
6102 CHURCHES
6103 LIBRARIES
6104 POST OFFICES
6105 FIRE/POLICE/RANGER STATIONS
6108 MISSIONS
6109 OTHER PUBLIC SERVICES - cultural
facilities, museums, art galleries, social service agencies,
humane societies, historic sites and observatories.
6500 HOSPITALS
6501 UCSD, VA HOSPITALS, BALBOA NAVAL
HOSPITAL -
6502 HOSPITALS-GENERAL - Hospitals not
included above.
6509 OTHER HEALTH CARE - Medical centers
and buildings or offices, health care services and other
health care facilities. Smaller medical offices and
facilities may be included within office, strip commercial
or other surrounding uses.
6700 MILITARY USE
6701 MILITARY USE - Defense installations; operational
facilities; maintenance facilities (non-weapons); research &
development; supply & storage (non-weapons); community
support facilities and any other military use that does not
fall in other categories.
6702 MILITARY TRAINING - Academic, operational & combat
training facilities; training ranges; and special purpose
training ranges.
6703 MILITARY WEAPONS - Weapons assembly, maintenance and
storage facilities.
6800 SCHOOLS
6801 SDSU, SMSU, UCSD
6802 OTHER UNIVERSITIES AND COLLEGES -
6803 JUNIOR COLLEGES - Includes trade or
vocational schools.
6804 SENIOR HIGH SCHOOLS
6805 JUNIOR HIGH SCHOOLS AND MIDDLE
SCHOOLS
6806 ELEMENTARY SCHOOLS
6807 SCHOOL DISTRICT OFFICES
6809 OTHER SCHOOLS - Includes adult
schools, non-residential day care and nursery schools.
7200 COMMERCIAL RECREATION
7201 TOURIST ATTRACTION - Sea World, Zoo,
and Wild Animal Park, Indian Casinos.
7202 STADIUMS/SPORTS ARENAS - Sports
Arena and San Diego Stadium.
7203 RACETRACKS - Del Mar, El Cajon
Speedway, Carlsbad raceway, San Luis Rey Downs.
7204 GOLF COURSES -Public and private
golf courses in the region.
7205 GOLF COURSE CLUBHOUSES - Clubhouses,
swimming and tennis facilities and parking lots associated
with the golf course.
7206 CONVENTION CENTERS - Centre City,
Embarcadero.
7207 MARINAS - Includes marinas such as
Oceanside Harbor, Quivira Basin, Shelter Island, Harbor
Island, Embarcadero and Chula Vista marina.
7208 OLYMPIC TRAINING CENTER - Olympic
Training Center in Chula Vista
7209 CASINOS - Gambling establishments,
typically located on Indian Reservations.
7210 OTHER RECREATION - RV parks,
drive-in theaters, campgrounds, boys/girls clubs, YMCA's,
rifle ranges, swim clubs, and stand-alone movie theaters.
Also includes tennis clubs without golf, rodeo grounds and
senior recreation centers.
7600 PARKS
7601 PARKS-ACTIVE - Recreation areas and
centers containing one or more of the following activities:
tennis or basketball courts, baseball diamonds, soccer
fields, or swings. Examples are Robb Field, Morley Field,
Diamond Street Recreation Center, Presidio Park. Smaller
neighborhood parks with a high level of use are also
included as active parks.
7603 OPEN SPACE PARKS & PRESERVES -
Wildlife and nature preserves, lands set aside for open
space, and parks with limited development and access.
Examples are Torrey Pines State Reserve, Penasquitos Canyon
Reserve, San Elijo Ecological Preserve, Nature Conservancy
properties.
7604 BEACHES - Active. Accessible sandy
areas along the coast or major water bodies (San Diego and
Mission Bay) allowing swimming, picnicking, and other beach
related recreational activities. Usually has parking
associated with it.
7605 OTHER BEACHES - Passive. Other sandy
areas along the coastline with limited parking and access
(beaches along cliffs, or near preserves).
7606 LANDSCAPE OPEN SPACE - Actively
landscaped areas within residential neighborhoods such as
greenbelt areas, hillsides with planted vegetation
(trees/shrubs), among others.
7607 RESIDENTIAL RECREATION - Active
neighborhood parks that are for the use of residents only
such as fenced in areas that may contain pools, tennis &
basketball courts, barbecues & a community meeting room.
7609 UNDEVELOPABLE NATURAL AREAS *
(Planned land-use only) - Undevelopable natural areas that
are not part of an established open space park or preserve.
Examples are Cleveland National Forest and open space
easements around developments. The existing land use should
be "9101 Vacant".
8000 AGRICULTURE
8001 ORCHARDS AND VINEYARDS
8002 INTENSIVE AGRICULTURE - Nurseries,
greenhouses, flower fields, dairies, livestock, poultry,
equine ranches, row crops and grains..
8003 EXTENSIVE AGRICULTURE -pasture,
fallow.
9100 VACANT AND UNDEVELOPED LAND * (Historical
and Existing only)
9200 WATER
9300 INDIAN RESERVATIONS * (Planned land-use
only)
9400 PUBLIC/SEMI-PUBLIC * (Planned land-use only)
9500 UNDER CONSTRUCTION * (Historical and
Existing only)
9501 RESIDENTIAL UNDER CONSTRUCTION -
Usually located near existing residential developments.
9502 COMMERCIAL UNDER CONSTRUCTION -
Usually located near existing commercial or residential
areas.
9503 INDUSTRIAL UNDER CONSTRUCTION -
Usually located near existing industrial or commercial
developments.
9504 OFFICE UNDER CONSTRUCTION - Usually
located near existing industrial or commercial developments.
9505 SCHOOL UNDER CONSTRUCTION
9506 -ROAD UNDER CONSTRUCTION
9507 - FREEWAY UNDER CONSTRUCTION
9600 SPECIFIC PLAN AREA * (Planned land-use only)
9700 MIXED USE * (Planned land-use only) |