Chapter 18.55 — M-R MOUNTAIN RESORT DISTRICT

The M-R district is intended to promote and enhance diversified uses compatible with four-season mountain resort oriented land uses, and to lands which possess unique resources and the potential for the development of such uses.

(Passed by the vote of the people 11-7-00)

The following regulations shall apply in the M-R district and shall be subject to the provisions of Chapters 18.102 through 18.108 of this title. (Passed by the vote of the people 11-7-00)

Land uses in this district are limited to the following:

• (1) Lodges, inns, cabins, hotels, clubs, townhouses, duplexes, housekeeping rooms, bed and breakfast, guest ranch, condominiums, assisted living, single-family and multifamily; dwellings including timeshares/fractional ownership;

• (2) Mixed use developments/buildings including the integration of commercial/retail, restaurants, offices and housing;

• (3) Retail stores and shops, including, but not limited to, grocery and convenience stores, book stores, beauty salons, sporting goods, and arts and crafts;

• (4) Bars, taverns, restaurants, bakery, delicatessens, brew pub, micro-brewery, winery;

• (5) Nursery and other outdoor retail uses;

• (6) Office, including but not limited to, real estate sales and management, banks, professional, medical, dental, television and radio stations;

• (7) Limited industrial such as laundries, storage, warehouse, delivery services, research and development facilities, woodworking shops, housekeeping/cleaning services, and artisan studios;

• (8) Convention and conference centers;

• (9) Service and fueling stations;

• (10) Garages and storage areas for repair of automotive and recreation facility maintenance equipment;

• (11) Marine-related equipment rental, service, and sales;

• (12) Recreational vehicle parks and campgrounds;

• (13) Residence in conjunction with a business, cottage industries and home offices;

• (14) Public stable, kennel (provided that a residential use is first established), veterinary hospitals and services;

• (15) Recreational facilities (e.g., ski areas and facilities, golf courses, skating rinks, tennis courts, private stables, spas, fishing, marinas, recreational trails, public and private parking, indoor sports facilities, playing fields and such support structures and areas accessory to the foregoing uses);

• (16) Entertainment facilities such as theaters, auditoriums and clubs;

• (17) Printing and lithography;

• (18) Day care facilities, day care center, day care family home;

• (19) Public and quasi-public uses and buildings (e.g., schools, libraries, youth education facilities, educational campus, museums, public safety, health care, hospital, sewer, water, community center, churches);

• (20) Growing, management and harvesting of timber, including Christmas trees, and all other uses that are compatible with and do not significantly detract from or inhibit the use of the property for the growing and harvesting of timber as provided in the California Timberland Productivity Act of 1982, Government Code Section 51100 et seq., and/or a timber production zone district established pursuant to the Lassen Zoning Code;

• (21) Management for watershed;

• (22) Management for fish and wildlife habitat, and hunting and fishing; (23) Construction staging area and facilities;

• (24) Utility and communication equipment, lines, towers and stations, including repeaters, cellular towers and satellite disks;

• (25) Heliport;

• (26) Transit centers (e.g., railway, freight and passenger depot, bus transit and aerial transit); (27) Grazing and pasturing of livestock;

• (28) Such other uses as may be determined by the community development director to be consistent and compatible with the foregoing permitted uses.

(Passed by the vote of the people 11-7-00; Ord. 467-AB § 2, 2003; Ord. 2023-08, 11/14/2023)

• (1) One single-family dwelling, farm buildings and farm labor housing, accessory buildings and uses;

• (2) General agriculture, crop and tree farming, logging, grazing, animal husbandry, nurseries and greenhouses, fish farms, frog farms;

• (3) Private airstrips accessory to an agricultural operation;

• (4) Hydroelectric power plants five megawatts or less;

(5) Kennels, provided that a residential use is first established. (Ord. 467-AB § 3, 2003; Ord. 2023-08, 11/14/2023)