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Timestamp: 2018-10-16 08:33:49
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“Accessory structures” are located upon the same site as the structure or use to which they are accessory. Accessory structures may consist of detached structures or additions to primary structures. The use of an accessory structure is incidental and subordinate to the use of the principal structure, or to the principal land use of the site. “Accessory structures” that include habitable space, as defined by the California Building Code, shall be no larger than four hundred fifty square feet. Accessory structures shall comply with the requirements of Section 17.21.030.
“Airport” means an area approved by the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) for the take-off and landing of aircraft, including appurtenant areas for airport buildings, aircraft operations, and related facilities, aprons and taxiways, control towers, hangars, safety lights, navigation and air traffic control facilities and structures. These may also include facilities for aircraft manufacturing, maintenance, repair, and reconditioning. Where approved, an airport may also include aircraft sales and dealerships, car rental establishments, gift shops, hotels and motels, personal services, restaurants and bars, tobacco and newsstands, and other similar commercial uses serving the air-traveling public and airport employees.
“Ambient entertainment” means acoustic or recorded music, or live readings of books or poetry, which is clearly incidental, that allows for normal conversation levels, and for which no cover fee or ticket is required.
“Ambulance, taxi, or limousine dispatch facility” means a base facility from which taxis and limousines are dispatched, and/or where ambulance vehicles and crews stand by for emergency calls. Does not include a dispatch office facility on a site separate from the location where the vehicles used by the business are parked or stored between calls, which is instead included under the definition of “office – production or administration.”
“Antenna/telecommunications facility” means public, commercial and private electromagnetic and photoelectrical transmission, broadcast, repeater and receiving stations for radio, television, telegraph, telephone, data network, and wireless communications, including commercial earth stations for satellite-based communications. Includes antennas, commercial satellite dish antennas, and equipment buildings. Does not include telephone, telegraph and cable television transmission facilities utilizing hard-wired or direct cable connections.
“Automated teller machine (ATM)” means a computerized, self-service machine used by banking customers for financial transactions, including deposits, withdrawals and fund transfers, without face-to-face contact with financial institution personnel. These machines may be located at or within banks, or in other locations. (Ord. 1606 § 3, 2014; Ord. 1591 §§ 3, 4, 2013; Ord. 1553 § 26, 2010; Ord. 1528 § 3 Ex. A (part), 2009: Ord. 1500 § 3 (part), 2007; Ord. 1438 § 2 (part), 2003)
“Banks” and “financial services” means financial institutions including:
A. Banks and trust companies;
“Bedroom” means any space in a dwelling unit which contains a minimum of seventy square feet of floor area unless it is one of the below listed rooms or common spaces. The “bedroom” definition does not include garages, attic space, or similar spaces which are not habitable such as foyers, storage closets, utility rooms, or unfinished attics and basements.
The following rooms/common spaces which are adjacent and open to common areas are not considered bedrooms:
Den (see definition, Section 17.100.040)
Loft (see definition for requirements, Section 17.100.120)
The director shall determine whether spaces which do not clearly meet the definition of a “bedroom” meet the intent of this regulation or need to be forwarded to the planning commission for use permit review.
Spaces (i.e., not bedrooms) established prior to August 14, 2014, using the previous bedroom definition (greater than or equal to fifty percent open wall area with an adjoining room) may remain and will not be considered bedrooms consistent with floor plans approved with a building permit.
“Business support service” means an establishment within a building that provides services to other businesses. Examples of these services include:
A. Blueprinting;
H. Security systems services. (Ord. 1606 § 4, 2014; Ord. 1553 § 27, 2010; Ord. 1528 § 3 Ex. A (part), 2009: Ord. 1500 § 3 (part), 2007; Ord. 1438 § 2 (part), 2003)
“Caretaker dwelling” means a permanent residence that is secondary or accessory to the primary use of the property, and used for housing a caretaker employed on the site of any nonresidential use where needed for security purposes or to provide twenty-four-hour care or monitoring of people, plants, animals, equipment, or other conditions on the site.
“Club,” “lodge,” or “private meeting hall” means permanent, headquarters-type and meeting facilities for organizations operating on a membership basis for the promotion of the interests of the members, including facilities for:
A. Business associations;
“Commercial recreation facility – indoor” means establishments providing indoor amusement and entertainment services for a fee or admission charge, including:
A. Bowling alleys;
This use does not include adult entertainment businesses, or night clubs, which are separately defined. Four or more electronic games or coin-operated amusements in any establishment, or a premises where fifty percent or more of the floor area is occupied by amusement devices, are considered an electronic game arcade as described above, three or less machines are not considered a land use separate from the primary use of the site.
“Development envelope” (see also “building envelope” and “coverage”) means that area on a lot that encompasses all development including but not limited to excavation, fill, grading, storage, demolition, structures, building heights, decks, roof overhangs, porches, patios, terraces, pools, and any areas of disturbance including access ways and parking. Approved plantings of landscape materials on natural grade and approved walkways and driveways may occur outside of a development envelope.
“Director” means the director of the community development department, or someone designated by him or her to act on his or her behalf.
“Dormitory” means a building used as group quarters for students, as an accessory use for a college, university, boarding school, or other similar institutional use.
“Drive-through facility” means one in which vehicles line up for service at definite spots and where customers are served without leaving their vehicles.
“Dwelling” means a building or mobile home on a permanent foundation with provisions for sleeping, cooking and sanitation, and with permanent connections to utilities, providing independent living space for owner occupancy, rental, or lease on a monthly or longer basis. (Ord. 1591 § 5, 2013; Ord. 1553 § 29, 2010; Ord. 1500 § 3 (part), 2007; Ord. 1438 § 2 (part), 2003)
“Fitness/health facility” means fitness centers, gymnasiums, health and athletic clubs including any of the following: indoor sauna, spa or hot tub facilities; indoor tennis, handball, racquetball, archery and shooting ranges and other indoor sports activities.
“Floor area ratio” means the gross floor area of a building or buildings on a lot divided by the lot area.
“Guest quarters” means a separate accessory space, attached or detached, which contains bathroom facilities including toilets, bathing facilities, showers, or sinks but does not contain a kitchen (see “kitchen” definition in Section 17.100.110). Guest quarters may only be used in conjunction with a primary residence that contains a kitchen, and may consist of detached structures or additions to primary structures. Guest quarters shall be no larger than four hundred fifty square feet. Guest quarters shall comply with the requirements of Section 17.21.020. (Ord. 1606 § 5, 2014; Ord. 1591 § 14, 2013; Ord. 1578 § 7, 2012; Ord. 1528 § 3 Ex. A (part), 2009: Ord. 1500 § 3 (part), 2007; Ord. 1438 § 2 (part), 2003)
“Hedge” means a barrier or boundary formed by a dense row of shrubs or low trees.
“Heliport” means a designated, marked area on the ground or the top of a structure where helicopters may land at any time.
“High occupancy residential use” means any dwelling other than a residential care facility as defined in Section 17.100.180 of this code, in the R-1 or R-2 zones when the occupancy of the dwelling consists of six or more adults.
“Laundries” and “dry cleaning plants” means service establishments engaged primarily in high volume laundry and garment services, including carpet and upholstery cleaners; diaper services; dry cleaning and garment pressing; commercial laundries; linen supply. These facilities may include accessory customer pick-up facilities. These facilities do not include coin-operated laundries or dry cleaning pick-up stores without dry cleaning equipment; see “personal services.”
D. “Lumber and wood product manufacturing” means manufacturing, processing, and sales involving the milling of forest products to produce rough and finished lumber and other wood materials for use in other manufacturing, craft, or construction processes. Includes the following processes and products:
1. Containers, pallets and skids;
G. “Motor vehicles and transportation equipment” means manufacturers of equipment for transporting passengers and cargo by land, air and water, including motor vehicles, aircraft, spacecraft, ships, boats, railroad and other vehicles such as motorcycles, bicycles and snowmobiles. Includes manufacture of motor vehicle parts and accessories; trailers and campers for attachment to other vehicles; self-contained motor homes; and van conversions. Does not include mobile home and modular home assembly (listed under “lumber and wood product manufacturing”).
B. “Electronics, equipment, and appliance manufacturing” means an establishment that manufactures equipment, apparatus, and/or supplies for the generation, storage, transmission, transformation and use of electrical energy, including:
1. Appliances such as stoves/ovens, refrigerators, freezers, laundry equipment, fans, vacuum cleaners, sewing machines;
10. Miscellaneous electrical machinery, equipment and supplies such as batteries, X-ray apparatus and tubes, electromedical and electrotherapeutic apparatus, electrical equipment for internal combustion engines;
14. Pre-recorded magnetic tape;
C. “Food and beverage product manufacturing” means manufacturing establishments producing or processing foods and beverages for human consumption, and certain related products. Examples of these uses include:
1. Bottling plants;
Counseling services by other than medical doctors or psychiatrists are included under “offices – professional.”
“Medical service – extended care” means residential facilities providing nursing and health-related care as a primary use with inpatient beds. Examples of these uses include board and care homes; convalescent and rest homes; extended care facilities; and skilled nursing facilities. Long-term personal care facilities that do not emphasize medical treatment are included under “residential care.”
A. “Accessory” means an office facility that is incidental and accessory to another business or sales activity that is the primary use.
B. “Business and service” means an establishment providing direct services to consumers. Examples of these uses include:
G. “Temporary” means a mobile home, recreational vehicle or modular unit used as a temporary office facility. Temporary offices may include construction supervision offices on a construction site or off-site construction yard; a temporary on-site real estate office for a development project; or a temporary business office in advance of permanent facility construction.
“One-bedroom dwelling” means a one-bedroom dwelling unit with not more than one thousand square feet of gross floor area. The floor area in a loft is included as part of the gross floor area calculation.
“Outdoor sales” means the sale of items regularly stored or displayed outside a building, where such items are visible from a public right-of-way or neighboring property.
“Overlay zone” means a zone applied in combination with other zone districts in order to impose additional restrictions or to allow greater variety than is possible with the underlying zone. (Ord. 1591 § 16, 2013; Ord. 1528 § 3 Ex. A (part), 2009; Ord. 1438 § 2 (part), 2003)
“Personal services” means establishments providing nonmedical services to individuals as a primary use. Examples of these uses include: barber and beauty shops; clothing rental; dry cleaning pick-up stores with limited equipment; home electronics and small appliance repair; laundromats (self-service laundries); massage (licensed, therapeutic, nonsexual); shoe repair shops; tailors; tanning salons; pet grooming (indoor use only, no overnight boarding). These uses may also include accessory retail sales of products related to the services provided.
C. Public and semi-public auditoriums;
“Public utility facilities” means fixed-base structures and facilities serving as junction points for transferring electric utility services from one transmission voltage to another or to local distribution and service voltages, and similar facilities for water supply and natural gas distribution. This use type may also include administrative and customer service offices (also included under “offices”), and includes any of the following that are not exempted from land use permit requirements by Government Code Section 53091:
A. Corporation and maintenance yards;
“Religious facility” means a facility operated by religious organizations for worship, or the promotion of religious activities, including churches, mosques, synagogues, temples, etc.; and accessory uses on the same site, including living quarters for ministers and staff, child day care facilities and religious schools where authorized by the same type of land use permit required for the religious facility itself. May also include fund-raising sales, bazaars, dinners, parties, or other outdoor events on the same site. Other establishments maintained by religious organizations, including full-time educational institutions, hospitals and other related operations, are classified according to their respective activities.
“Residential support services” means an establishment with a gross floor area no greater than three thousand square feet that provides services to residences and residential home offices. Examples of these services include:
A. Computer-related services (rental, repair);
J. Also includes specialized schools offering instruction in the following:
Also includes facilities, institutions and conference centers that offer specialized programs in personal growth and development, such as arts, environmental awareness, communications, and management. Does not include pre-schools and child day care centers (see “day care”). See also the definition of “studios – art, dance, music, photography, etc.” for smaller-scale facilities offering specialized instruction.
Service Station. “Service station” means any business where motor fuel is offered for retail sale, whether or not in conjunction with minor retail uses such as mini markets and similar ancillary uses.
“Service station” includes the sale and installation of tires, batteries and automotive accessories; lubrications; and the testing, adjustment and repair of motor parts, brakes, tires and accessories. It also includes accessory sales of fuel oil, butane, propane, and liquefied petroleum gas (LPG). Service station does not include steam cleaning, mechanical car washing, tire recapping, body or chassis repair or painting, which are instead included under “vehicle services”; or the sale, rental or storage of motor vehicles, trailers or other equipment, which are included under “auto and vehicle sales/rental.” “Service station” does not include separate retail or other nonrelated commercial uses on the same property that have independent points of sale separated from the motor fuel point of sale by a distance of at least two hundred fifty feet. A point of sale shall be defined as the actual location of the transaction including, but not limited to, a cash register or automated payment station.
“Setback line” means an officially adopted line determining the extent of a future street or other public right-of-way.
“Shopping center” means a development consisting of at least five separate establishments with a minimum area of fifty thousand square feet, a site with a minimum of three hundred feet of frontage and shared common drives and off-street parking.
“Single-family dwelling” means a building designed for and/or occupied exclusively by one family or one or more persons occupying premises and living as a single housekeeping unit, which is not attached to or located on a lot with commercial uses. Single-family dwellings contain one dwelling on one lot. Single-family dwellings may also include approved accessory dwelling units. Also includes factory-built, modular housing units, constructed in compliance with the Uniform Building Code (UBC), and mobile homes/manufactured housing units that comply with the National Manufactured Housing Construction and Safety Standards Act of 1974, placed on permanent foundations.
“Social service organization” means a public or quasi-public establishment providing social and/or rehabilitation services, examples of which include counseling centers, employment agencies, job counseling and training centers, vocational rehabilitation agencies, and welfare offices. These organizations serve the unemployed, persons with social or personal problems, persons requiring special services, the handicapped, or otherwise disadvantaged. Includes organizations soliciting funds to be used directly for these and related services, and establishments engaged in community improvement and neighborhood development. Does not include day care services, homeless shelters, or residential care, which are separately defined.
“Street” means a public right-of-way providing vehicular access to abutting property.
“Structure” means anything assembled or constructed on the ground, or attached to anything with a foundation on the ground.
“Studio apartment” means a one-room dwelling unit with not more than four hundred fifty square feet of gross floor area, designed for occupancy by not more than two people. The floor area in a loft is included as part of the gross floor area calculation.
“Studio – art, dance, martial arts, music, etc.” means small-scale facilities, typically accommodating one group of students at a time, in no more than one instructional space. Larger facilities are included under the definition of “schools – specialized education and training.” Examples of these facilities include individual and group instruction and training in the arts; production rehearsal; photography, and the processing of photographs produced only by users of the studio facilities; martial arts training studios; gymnastics instruction, and aerobics and gymnastics studios with no other fitness facilities or equipment. (Ord. 1634 § 3, 2017; Ord. 1592 § 5, 2013; Ord. 1553 § 32, 2010; Ord. 1528 § 3 Ex. A (part), 2009; Ord. 1446 § 4, 2004; Ord. 1438 § 2 (part), 2003)
“Transit station or terminal” means a facility or location with the primary purpose of transfer, loading, and unloading of passengers and baggage. May include facilities for the provision of passenger services such as ticketing, restrooms, lockers, waiting areas, passenger vehicle parking and bus bays, for layover parking, and interior bus cleaning and incidental repair.
“Transit stop” means a facility located within the public right-of-way at selected points along transit routes for passenger pickup, drop-off, or transfer, but excluding areas for vehicle repair or storage, passenger ticketing and parking, which are defined as a transit station or terminal.
“Vacation rental” means a dwelling or part of a dwelling where lodging is furnished for compensation for fewer than thirty consecutive days. Does not include fraternities, sororities, convents, monasteries, hostels, bed and breakfast inns, homestays, hotels, motels, or boarding/rooming houses, which are separately defined.
“Veterinary clinics,” “animal hospitals,” and “kennels” means office and indoor medical treatment facilities used by veterinarians, including large and small animal veterinary clinics, and animal hospitals. Kennels and boarding operations are commercial facilities for the keeping, boarding or maintaining of four or more dogs four months of age or older, or four or more cats, except for dogs or cats in pet shops. (Ord. 1611 § 5, 2015; Ord. 1500 § 3 (part), 2007; Ord. 1438 § 2 (part), 2003)
A. “Warehouses” means facilities for the storage of furniture, household goods, or other commercial goods of any nature, including moving company warehouses. Includes cold storage, and moving companies. Does not include warehouse, storage or mini-storage facilities offered for rent or lease to the general public (see “storage, personal storage facilities”); warehouse facilities in which the primary purpose of storage is for wholesaling and distribution (see “wholesaling and distribution”); or terminal facilities for handling freight (see “truck and freight terminals”).
B. “Wholesaling and distribution” means establishments engaged in selling merchandise to retailers; to contractors, industrial, commercial, institutional, farm, or professional business users; to other wholesalers; or acting as agents or brokers in buying merchandise for or selling merchandise to such persons or companies. Examples of these establishments include: