such uses as major department stores, major hardware, home improvement stores, appliance stores, furniture stores and any similar uses clearly related to the surrounding area as approved by the director. In addition, emergency shelters as defined
Read it in the chapter →How this ordinance defines it
The operative definition is the local one. Codes routinely subdivide a category into tiers — “day care 2, family”, “group home 2” — and attach different permissions to each, so only Rancho Palos Verdes’s own text settles what this covers.