Section 17.58.020 Permitted uses.

Except as herein or in other codes and ordinances of the city is made and provided, no building or land shall be used, and no building shall be erected, structurally altered, or enlarged except for the following uses that are declared to be permitted in an OP-1 business district;

A.     Administrative and support service offices to include those which provide the following services or engage     in the following activities:

1. Collection agencies

2. Credit bureaus

3. Employment placement services

4. Investigation services

5. Telephone call centers

B.     Finance and insurance offices which provide the following services or engage in the following activities:
    
    1.    Credit intermediation and related activities (except, pawn shops and pay day loan companies):

    a. Credit card issuing

    b. Financial transactions processing, reserve, and clearinghouse activities

    c. International trade financing

    d. Loans servicing

    e. Money order issuance

    f. Mortgage and non-mortgage loan brokers services

    g. Real estate credit services

    h. Sales financing services

    i. Secondary market financing

    j. Travelers’ check issuance services

    2.     Securities, commodity contracts and other financial investments which provide the following             services or engage in the following activities:

    a. Commodity contracts brokerage services

    b. Commodity contracts dealing services

    c. Exchange clearinghouses, commodities or securities services

    d. Financial investment activities: bank trust offices, escrow agencies, fiduciary agencies, stock         quotation services, trust, fiduciary and custody activities

    e. Gas lease brokers’  services

    f. Investment advice: planning and advisory services

    g. Investment banking and securities dealing

    h. Miscellaneous intermediation: investment clubs, mineral royalties, tax liens, venture capital

    i. Portfolio management

    j. Securities brokerage service

    k. Securities and commodity exchange services

    l. Stock quotation services

    3.     Insurance offices to include those which provide the following services or engage in the following                 activities:

    a. Direct insurance carriers including those insuring:

    (1) Life, health and medical

    (2) Auto, bank deposit, mortgage guaranty, property and casualty (including homeowners),     title warranty insurance

    (3) Fidelity, liability, malpractice, surety insurance

    (4) Deposit or share, produce warranty insurance

    b. Insurance agencies and brokerages: selling annuities and insurance policies

    c. Insurance related activities: claims adjusting, insurance adjusting, insurance plan administrative         services, advisory services, rate making services

    d. Reinsurance carriers

    e. Third party administration of insurance and pension funds

    4.     Funds, trusts and other financial vehicles which provide the following services or engage in the             following activities:

    a. Sale of financial vehicles: closed-end investments funds, collateralized mortgage obligations         (CMOs), face-amount certificate funds, real estate mortgage investment conduits (REMICs),         special purpose vehicles, unit investment trust funds

    b. Management of health and welfare funds: legal entities– funds, plans and/or programs organized     to provide medical, surgical, hospital, vacation, training, and other health and welfare related         employee benefits exclusively for the sponsor’ s employees or members

    c. Management of insurance and employee benefit funds: pension funds and plans, retirement plans

    d. Sale and/or management of insurance funds: legal entities to provide insurance exclusively for the     sponsor, firm, or its employees or members. self-insurance funds and workers’  compensation         insurance funds included

    e. Sale and/or management of open-end investment funds: investment funds, open-ended, money         market mutual funds, open-ended

    f. Sale and/or management of real estate investment trusts: (REITs)
    
    g. Management of trusts, estates, and agency accounts: bankruptcy estates, personal investment         trusts, private estates (administering on behalf of beneficiaries), testamentary trusts

C.     Health care and social assistance offices which provide the following services or engage in the         following activities:

    1. Dentists

    2. Health practitioners including: chiropractors, optometrists, mental health practitioners,         physical, occupational and speech therapists, audiologists, acupuncturists, dental hygienists,     denturists, dieticians, homeopaths, hypnotherapists, inhalation or respiratory therapists, midwives, naturopaths, registered or licensed practical nurses, podiatrists

    3. Home health care services: home health care agencies, in-home hospice care services,         visiting nurse associations

    4. Medical physicians and surgeons

D.     Information services and data processing services:
    offices to include those which provide the following services or engage in the following activities         (no towers, no monopoles, no service vehicle fleets allowed):

    1. Internet access providers

    2. Internet service providers

E.     Offices for management of companies and enterprises which provide the following services or         engage in the following activities:

    1. Corporate, subsidiary and regional management

    2. Management of companies and enterprises: administer, oversee and manage             securities of the company or enterprise

    3. Holding companies

F.     Professional, scientific, and technical service offices which provide the following services or engage     in the following activities:

    1. Accounting, tax preparation, bookkeeping and payroll services

    2. Advertising agencies

    3. Appraisal

    4. Arbitration and conciliation

    5. Architectural, engineering and related services, including landscape architecture

    6. Building inspection services

    7. Commercial photography and photographic services (non-retail)

    8. Commodity inspector services

    9. Computer systems design and related services

             10. Computer facilities management services

             11. Consulting services including:            

    a. Administrative management and general management consulting services

    b. Human resources and executive search consulting services

    c. Management consulting services

    d. Telecommunications or utilities management services

    e. Process, physical distribution and logistics consulting services

    f. Scientific and technical consulting services including: agriculture, biological,         chemical, economic, energy, motion picture, physics, radio, safety and security         consulting services

              12. Consumer credit counseling services

             13. Custom computer programming services

             14. Display advertising and design and related services to advertising (no retail and no                                   distributive services related to advertising)

             15. Drafting services including: drawing plans and illustrations, etc.
    
             16. Engineering services including: civil, construction, environmental, mechanical

              17. Geophysical surveying and mapping services

             18. Graphic design services including: commercial art studios, corporate identifications                                   (logos), medical art or illustration services
             specialized design services: costume, fashion, float, fur, jewelry, shoe, textile (except                          independent theatrical costume designers)

             19. Handwriting analysis services

            20. Industrial design services

            21. Interior design services

    22. Offices of lawyers, notaries, paralegals, patent filing and searching services, process                                  serving services, real estate, real estate title, abstract companies and insurance services, title abstract and real estate sales settlement offices

    23. Marine surveyor services

    24. Marketing research and public opinion polling

    25. Media buying agencies and media representatives

    26. Patent brokers

    27. Pipeline or power line inspection (visual) services

    28. Public relations agencies

    29. Research and development in the social sciences and humanities

    30. Surveying and mapping: includes cadastral, cartographic, geodetic, mapping, topographic

    31. Translation and interpretation services

    32. Weather forecasting

    G.     Real estate and rental and leasing offices to include those which provide the following             services or engage in the following activities:

    1. Lessors of non-financial intangible assets including:
    copyright works, assigning rights to assets including –  patents, trademarks, brand names,         franchise agreements

    2. Lessors of non-residential buildings (except warehouses)

    3. Lessors of residential buildings and dwellings: single-family homes, apartment buildings,     town homes

    4. Property managers of real estate: residential and non-residential

    5. Real estate agents, appraisers, brokers, escrow agencies, fiduciaries and listing real         estate services


(17.58.020 (Ord. 1998), Added, 11/05/2001, Prior Text)