9120.12. - L.

A.

Landscaping. "Landscaping" means the planting of suitable plant materials or a combination of plant materials with minimum areas of paving, gravel, or otherwise dustfree materials including an adequate irrigation system.

B.

Launderette. "Launderette" means a business premises equipped with individual clothes washing and drying machines either coin operated or attendant operated for the use of retail customers, exclusive of laundry facilities provided as accessory use in an apartment house or apartment hotel.

C.

Laundry. "Laundry" means a building where clothing and fabrics are washed, other than a launderette and is defined in this article as a manufacturing use.

D.

Line of sight. "Line of sight" means a visual path emanating from an average eye level adjudged to be five (5) feet above the ground level.

E.

Loading space. "Loading space" means an off-street space or berth on the same lot with a main building, or contiguous to a group of buildings, for the temporary parking of a group of commercial vehicles, while loading or unloading, and which has access from a street, alley, or other permanent means of ingress or egress.

F.

Local street. "Local street" means a low-speed, low-volume highway primarily for access to residential, business, and other abutting property.

G.

Lot. "Lot" means any numbered or lettered parcel shown on a recorded tract map, a record of survey recorded pursuant to an approved division of land, or a parcel map.

H.

Lot, corner. "Corner lot" means a lot located at the intersection or interception of two (2) or more streets at an angle of not more than one hundred thirty-five (135) degrees, which lot shall be considered a corner lot.

If greater than one hundred thirty-five degrees, the lot shall be considered an exterior lot.

I.

Lot depth. "Lot depth" means the average horizontal distance between the front and rear lot lines measured in the mean direction of the side lot lines.

J.

Lot, flag. "Flag lot" means a lot so shaped and designed that the main building site area is set back from the street on which it fronts and includes an access strip not less than fifteen (15) feet in width at any point connecting the main building site area to the frontage street.

K.

Lot, interior. "Interior lot" means a lot other than a corner or reverse corner lot.

L.

Lot, key. "Key lot" means the first lot to the rear of a reverse corner lot.

M.

Lot reverse corner. "Reverse corner lot" means a corner lot, the side line of which is substantially a continuation of the front lot lines of the lot to its rear, whether across an alley or not.

N.

Lot, through. "Through lot" means a lot having frontage on two (2) dedicated parallel or approximately parallel streets.

O.

Lot line. "Lot line" means any line bounding a lot as defined in section 9120.12.G. "Property line" means the same as "lot line."

P.

Lot line, front. On an interior lot, the front lot line is the property line abutting the street. On a corner or reverse corner lot, the front lot line is the shorter property line abutting a street, except in those cases where the subdivision or parcel map specified another line as the front lot line. On a through lot or a lot with three (3) or more sides abutting a street or a corner or reverse corner lot with lot lines of equal length, the director shall determine which property line shall be the front lot line for the purposes of compliance with yard and setback provisions of this title. On a private street or easement, the front lot lines shall be designed as the edge of the easement.

Q.

Lot line, interior. "Interior lot line" means a lot line not abutting a street.

R.

Lot line, rear. "Rear lot line" means a lot line not abutting a street which is opposite and most distant from the front lot line. In the case of an irregularly shaped lot, a rear lot line shall be a line within the lot, having a length of not less than ten (10) feet. A lot which is bounded on all sides by streets may have no rear lot lines.

S.

Lot line, side. "Side lot line" means any lot line not a front lot line or rear lot line.

T.

Lot width. "Lot width" means the horizontal distance between the side lot lines, measured at right angles to the lot depth at a point midway between the front and rear lot lines.