(1) The Public Facilities (PF) zone is established to provide areas for the location and establishment of facilities which, under public franchise, ownership, or private enterprises operating for the public convenience and necessity, provide public services such as electricity, gas, communication, transportation, water, sewage treatment, education, religious activities and other public assembly, cultural facilities, parks, recreation etc. and which utilize relatively large areas of land.

(2) This zone is intended to provide immediate recognition of such areas upon the official zoning map of the City, and to reduce the effect which the location of these facilities may have upon zoning statistics in residential, commercial, or industrial areas. Typical uses permitted in the PF zone are public schools, public parks, hospitals, airports, public utilities, public equipment storage areas, and public shop areas. Though some of these uses will be allowed in other zones to initially accommodate public facilities in appropriate areas without undue difficulty, it is intended that the PF zone would then be applied to all such facilities for ease of recognition and accurate statistical indexing.