9.4.B Public, Institutional, and Civic Uses | Sedona Land Development Code

B. Public, Institutional, and Civic Uses

Uses including buildings, structures, or facilities to provide a service to the public. Accessory uses may include limited retail, concessions, parking, and maintenance facilities. Specific use types include, but are not limited to:

Land used or intended to be used for the burial of the dead and dedicated for such purposes and includes columbariums, crematoriums, mausoleums and mortuaries when operated in conjunction with and within the boundaries of such premises.

A meeting place for an incorporated or unincorporated association of persons organized for some common purpose, including social, educational, literary, political, or charitable purpose, operated by a private nonprofit or noncommercial organization. This use includes club houses and community centers.

Meeting rooms, business centers, assembly halls, auditoriums, and other related facilities used to facilitate and accommodate conferences, seminars, meetings and similar gatherings.

A facility that is licensed, certified, or registered by the state of Arizona that provides care, protection, and supervision for children or adults on a regular basis away from their primary residence for less than 24 hours per day.

An establishment for the care, preparation, or disposition of the deceased for burial and the display of the deceased and rituals connected with, and conducted before burial or cremation. This use includes mortuaries, which are facilities in which dead bodies are prepared for burial or cremation, crematoriums, columbariums, and funeral homes.

A facility for storing and loaning books, periodicals, reference materials, audio and video media, and other similar media. A library may also include meeting rooms, offices for library personnel, and similar support facilities.

An establishment operated as a repository for a collection of nature, scientific, literary curiosities, or objects of interest or works of art, not including the regular sale or distribution of the objects collected. A museum may also include meeting rooms, offices for museum personnel, and similar support facilities.

Areas for recreational uses that require constructed facilities for organized activities including playing fields, playgrounds, and ball courts. Accessory uses may include group picnic shelters, hard surfaced pathways, restrooms, parking lots, and similar facilities.

Areas for recreational uses related to the functions and values of a natural area that require limited and low-impact site improvements, including trails, signs, pedestrian bridges, seating, viewing blinds, and observation decks. Accessory uses may include drinking fountains, picnic tables, restrooms, parking lots, and similar facilities.

A structure used by a religious institution for regular organized religious activities. Accessory uses may include columbariums in association with an established religious institution.

Uses in this category include public, private, and parochial institutions at the primary, elementary, middle, high school, or post-secondary level, or vocational or trade schools. Accessory uses commonly include cafeterias, indoor and outdoor recreational and sport facilities, auditoriums, and day care facilities. Specific use types include:

A public or private institution that offers general academic instruction at preschool, kindergarten, elementary, secondary, and collegiate levels, including graduate schools, universities, nonprofit research and religious institutions.

A secondary school offering instruction in a professional, vocational, or technical field. This use includes public or private schools providing domestic, recreational and other types of instruction, such as dance, gymnastics, cooking, music, martial arts and handicrafts.

Uses characterized by activities focusing on medical services, particularly licensed public or private institutions that provide preventative health care, primary health services, and medical or surgical care to persons suffering from illness, disease, injury, or other physical or mental conditions. Accessory uses may include laboratories, outpatient, or training facilities, or other amenities primarily for the use of employees in the firm or building. Specific use types include:

An institution designed for the diagnosis, treatment, and care of human illness or infirmity and providing health services, primarily for inpatients, and including as related facilities, laboratories, outpatient departments, training facilities and staff offices, but not including clinics or health care centers.

An establishment where patients who are not lodged overnight are admitted for examination and treatment by a group of licensed health care practitioners, dentists, or licensed health care practitioners and dentists in practice together. This use includes health spas, alternative care, massage therapy, and holistic healing centers. Accessory uses may include incidental retail sales of products incidental to the services provided. [Ord. 2023-03 § 1 (Exh. A), 4-25-23; Res. 2019-19 Exh. A, 10-8-19].