SEC. 890.46. HOTEL, TOURIST.
A retail use which provides tourist accommodations including guest rooms or suites, which are intended or designed to be used, rented, or hired out to guests (transient visitors) intending
to occupy the room for less than 32 consecutive days. This definition also applies to buildings containing six or more guest rooms designated and certified as tourist units, under Chapter 41
of the San Francisco Administrative Code. For purposes of this Code, a "tourist hotel" does not include a tourist motel, which contains guest rooms or suites which are independently
accessible from the outside, with garage or parking space located on the lot, and designed for, or occupied by, automobile-traveling transient visitors. Tourist hotels shall be designed to
include all lobbies, offices and internal circulation to guest rooms and suites within and integral to the same enclosed building or buildings as the guest rooms or suites.
(Added by Ord. 131-87, App. 4/24/87)
SEC. 890.47. HOTEL, RESIDENTIAL.
A hotel, as defined in Chapter 41 of the San Francisco Administrative Code, which contains one or more residential hotel units. A residential hotel unit is a guest room as defined in
Section 203.7 of Chapter XII, Part II of the San Francisco Municipal Code (Housing Code), which had been occupied by a permanent resident on September 23, 1979, or any guest room
designated as a residential unit pursuant to Sections 41.6 or 71.7 of Chapter 41 of the San Francisco Administrative Code. Residential hotels are further defined and regulated in the
Residential Hotel Unit Conversion and Demolition Ordinance, Chapter 41 of the San Francisco Administrative Code.
(Added by Ord. 131-87, App. 4/24/87)
SEC. 890.48. HOURS OF OPERATION.
The permitted hours during which any com- mercial establishment, not including automated teller machines, may be open for business.
(a) Other restrictions on the hours of operation of movie theaters, adult entertainment, and other entertainment uses, as defined in Sections 890.64 and 890.36 of this Code, respectively,
shall apply pursuant to provisions in Section 303(c)(5), when such uses are permitted as conditional uses.
(b) Exception for Pharmacies. A pharmacy may qualify for the exception to operate on a 24-hour basis provided in Section 202.2 of this Code.
(Added by Ord. 131-87, App. 4/24/87; amended by Ord. 184-97, App. 5/16/97; Ord. 70-23, File No. 220340, App. 5/3/2023, Eff. 6/3/2023)
AMENDMENT HISTORY
Divisions (a) and (b) amended; Ord. 70-23, Eff. 6/3/2023.
SEC. 890.49. [REPEALED.]
(Added by Ord. 298-08, File No. 081153, App. 12/19/2008; amended by Ord. 196-11 , File No. 110786, App. 10/4/2011, Eff. 11/3/2011; repealed by Ord. 71-14 , File No. 131205, App. 5/23/2014, Eff. 6/22/2014)
SEC. 890.50. INSTITUTIONS, OTHER.
(See Interpretations related to this Section.)
A public or private, nonprofit or profit-making use, excluding hospitals and medical centers, which provides services to the community, and meets the applicable provisions of Section
304.5 of this Code concerning institutional master plans, including but not limited to the following:
(a) Assembly and Social Service. A use which provides social, fraternal, counseling or recreational gathering services to the community. It includes a private noncommercial clubhouse,
lodge, meeting hall, family or district association, recreation building, or community facility not publicly owned. It also includes an unenclosed recreation area.
(b) [Definition Deleted]
(c) Educational Service. A use certified by the Western Association of Schools and Colleges which provides educational services such as a school, college or university. It may include,
on the same premises, employee or student dormitories and other housing operated by and affiliated with the institution.
(d) Religious Facility. A use which provides religious services to the community such as a church, temple or synagogue. It may include on the same lot, the housing of persons who
engage in supportive activity for the institution.
(e) Residential Care. A medical use which provides lodging, board, and care for one day or more to persons in need of specialized aid by personnel licensed by the State of California
and which provides no outpatient services; including but not limited to, a board and care home, rest home, or home for the treatment of the addictive, contagious, or other diseases or
physiological disorders.
(f) Job Training. A use which provides job training and may also provide vocational counseling and job referrals.
(Added by Ord. 131-87, App. 4/24/87; amended by Ord. 36-08, File No. 080157, App. 3/17/2008; Ord. 66-11, File No. 101537, App. 4/20/2011, Eff. 5/20/2011; Ord. 189-17, File No. 170693, App. 9/15/2017, Eff. 10/15/2017)
AMENDMENT HISTORY
Division (a) amended; Ord. 66-11 , Eff. 5/20/2011. Division (b) deleted; Ord. 189-17, Eff. 10/15/2017.
SEC. 890.51. JEWELRY STORE.
A retail use which primarily involves the sale of jewelry to the general public. It may involve sales of precious stones, gems, precious metals, gold and silver or clocks and watches.
Repair services or setting, custom design or manufacture of individual pieces of jewelry may also be provided.
(Added by Ord. 131-87, App. 4/24/87)
SEC. 890.52. LABORATORY.
Laboratory shall mean space within any structure intended or primarily suitable for scientific research. The space requirements of uses within this category include specialized facilities
and/or built accommodations that distinguish the space from office uses (as defined in Section 890.70), light manufacturing (as defined in Section 890.54(a)), or heavy manufacturing
(including uses listed in Sections 226(g) through 226(w)). Examples of laboratories include the following:
(a) Chemistry, biochemistry, or analytical laboratory;
(b) Engineering laboratory;
(c) Development laboratory;
(d) Biological laboratories including those classified by the Centers for Disease Control (CDC) and National Institutes of Health (NIH) as Biosafety level 1, Biosafety level 2, or
Biosafety level 3;
(e) Animal facility or vivarium, including laboratories classified by the CDC/NIH as Animal Biosafety level 1, Animal Biosafety level 2, or Animal Biosafety level 3;
(f) Support laboratory;
(g) Quality assurance/Quality control laboratory;
(h) Core laboratory; and
(i) Cannabis testing (License Type 8—Testing laboratory, as defined in California Business and Professions Code, Division 10).
(Added by Ord. 298-08, File No. 081153, App. 12/19/2008; amended by Ord. 229-17, File No. 171041, App. 12/6/2017, Eff. 1/5/2018)
AMENDMENT HISTORY
Undesignated introductory paragraph and division (h) amended; division (i) added; Ord. 229-17, Eff. 1/5/2018.