§ 17.04

"Rabbits, poultry and domestic fowl" means any member of the hare family, chinchillas, hamsters, nutria, guinea pigs and other rodents, pigeons, chickens, chicks, capons, ducks, geese, turkeys, doves, squab and all other domestic or domesticated fowls and birds. "Rabbits, poultry and domestic fowl" is included under the use "animal keeping (light)."

"Recreation services/facilities" means recreational, social or multipurpose uses of open areas, as well as within buildings. Typical uses include parks, community meeting centers and public swimming pools.

"Recreational/fitness facilities" means establishments or places primarily engaged in the provision of sports and recreation by and for participants. Any spectators would be incidental and on a nonrecurring basis. Typical uses include bowling alleys, billiard parlors, driving ranges, spas, physical conditioning centers and cardrooms (subject to Chapter 5.24).

"Recreational vehicle" means a camper, motor home, travel trailer or tent trailer, with or without motor power, designed for human habitation for recreational or emergency occupancy, with a living area less than three hundred twenty square feet.

"Recreation space" means any area, whether enclosed, covered or open, at ground level or in or on a structure, used exclusively for active or passive recreational purposes.

"Refuse processing/dumps" means processing and sale of plant or animal byproducts, including fish or any refuse or garbage or the disposal of such products in a landfill dump.

"Religious assembly" means religious services involving public assembly such as customarily occurs in churches, synagogues and temples. "Church" is further defined as a building, the principal purpose of which is religious worship and including uses in the principal structure or separate buildings, including Sunday school rooms, assembly rooms, kitchen, library, one-family dwelling unit and day nurseries operated by and located on the same lot or site as the church, but excluding facilities for residences of or training of religious orders.

"Repair services" means establishments primarily engaged in the repair of appliances, apparel and musical instruments for individuals and households.

"Research/testing services" means establishments primarily engaged in research of an agricultural or scientific nature provided as a service or conducted by and for a private firm, excluding medical testing and analysis and product testing. Typical uses include soils analysis, plant and animal pest monitoring and control programs.

"Residential care facility, small" means any type of state licensed residential facility providing non-medical services, which, by state law, is required to be treated as a residential use of property when serving six or fewer people.

"Residential care facility, large" means any type of state licensed residential facility providing non-medical services for seven or more people.

"Rest home" means a convalescent home, guest home or any other facility operating similar to a boardinghouse for the temporary housing of and caring for ambulatory, aged, infirm or invalid persons, and in which nursing, dietary and incidental convalescent and medical care is furnished to residents.

"Retail sales (indoor)" means places of business primarily engaged in the sale or rental to the ultimate consumer of commonly used goods and merchandise for personal or household use from an enclosed structure, but excluding bulk sales and storage. Typical uses include department stores, apparel stores, sporting goods stores and furniture stores.

"Retail sales (outdoor)" means the display, exchange, barter or sale to the ultimate consumer of new or commonly used household items, office equipment, furnishings or other personal goods as well as foods and beverages in an outdoor setting outside of a fully enclosed structure. Typical uses include swap meets, flea markets, farmers' markets, nurseries and crafts fairs.

"RV parks/campgrounds" means any parcel of land used or offered for use in whole or in part, with or without charge for parking of travel trailers, pickup campers, motor homes or similar devices used for temporary portable housing for a relatively short-term occupancy; includes camping spaces for tents or other short-term camping.

(Ord. No. 935, § 2, 4-8-25)

17.04.190 - "S" Definitions.

"Salvage operations" means places of business primarily engaged in the storage, sale, dismantling or other processing of used or waste materials not intended for reuse in their original form. Typical uses include automobile dismantling yards, junkyards and paper salvage yards.

"Service station." See definition of "Automobile service station."

"Sign" means any method of display or part thereof, for visual communication, that includes any announcement, declaration, demonstration, display, illustration or insignia, which is used to advertise or promote the interests of any person, business group or enterprise.

"Sign structure" means any structure which supports or is capable of supporting any sign as defined in this chapter. A sign structure may be a single pole or it may not be an integral part of the building.

"Single-family dwelling" means a building designed for occupancy by one family.

"Single-room occupancy (SRO)" means a multi-unit housing project for single persons typically consisting of single rooms and shared bathrooms, and may include a shared common kitchen and activity area. SROs may be restricted to seniors or be available to persons of all ages.

"Solar energy facility" means any solar collector or other solar energy device that collects, stores, and distributes solar energy for space heating, space cooling, electric generation, or water heating. "Solar energy facility" includes a photovoltaic system consisting of one or more solar panels, a solar thermal system that converts solar energy to electricity by heating a working fluid to power a generator, and a solar hot water system designed to heat water for either domestic or commercial uses.

distributes solar energy for space heating, space cooling, electric generation, or water heating. "Solar energy facility" includes a photovoltaic system consisting of one or more solar panels, a solar thermal system that converts solar energy to electricity by heating a working fluid to power a generator, and a solar hot water system designed to heat water for either domestic or commercial uses.

"Solar energy facility, accessory" means a solar energy facility that is designed to collect, store, and distribute no more solar energy than what is necessary to meet on-site energy demand.

"Solar energy facility, commercial" means a solar energy facility that is designed to collect, store, and distribute solar energy that will be used to meet off-site energy demand.

"Story" means a space in a building between the surface of any floor and the surface of the floor next above, or, if there is no floor above, then the space between such floor and the ceiling or roof above.

"Street" means a public thoroughfare or right-of-way dedicated, deeded or condemned for use as such, other than an alley, which affords the principal means of access to abutting property, including avenue, place, way, drive, lane, boulevard, highway, road and any other thoroughfare, except as excluded in this title.

"Street centerline" means the centerline of a street or right-of-way as established by official surveys.

"Street line" means the boundary line between the street and abutting property.

"Street, side" means that street bounding a corner lot and which extends in the same general direction as the line determining the depth of the lot.

"Structure" means anything constructed or built, an edifice or building or any kind, or any piece of work artificially built up or composed of parts jointed together in some definite manner, which requires location on the ground or is attached to something having a location on the ground.

"Structural alterations" means any change in the supporting members of a building, such as in a bearing wall, column, beam or girder, floor or ceiling joists, roof rafters, roof diaphragms, foundations, piles or retaining walls or similar components.

"Supportive housing" means housing with no limit on length of stay, that is occupied by the target population, and that is linked to onsite and offsite services that assist the supportive housing resident in retaining the housing, improving his or her health status, and maximizing his or her ability to live and, when possible, work in the community.

A "swimming pool" shall be considered as a structure, except that it shall not be considered as covered space in computing lot coverage.

(Ord. No. 935, § 2, 4-8-25; Ord. No. 943-U, § 2, 9-9-25; Ord. No. 944, § 2, 11-12-25)

17.04.200 - "T" Definitions.

"Target population" means adults with low-income having one or more disabilities, including mental illness, HIV or AIDS, substance abuse, or other chronic health conditions, or individuals eligible for services provided under the Lanterman Development Disabilities Services Act and may include, among other populations, families with children, elderly persons, young adults aging out of the foster care system, individuals existing from institutional settings, veterans, or homeless people. This definition shall not apply if a more specific or different definition applies in any other chapter of this code.

"Transient" means a person who requests accommodations for a price, with or without meals, for a period of not more than one hundred eighty days.

"Transitional housing" means rental housing operated under program requirements that call for the termination of assistance and recirculation of the assisted unit to another eligible program recipient at some predetermined future point in time, which shall be no less than six months from the beginning of the assistance.

(Ord. No. 935, § 2, 4-8-25)

17.04.210 - "U" Definitions.

"Use" means the purpose for which land or a building is arranged, designed or intended, or for which either land or building is or may be occupied or maintained.

"Used for" includes the words "arranged for, designed for, occupied or intended to be occupied for."

"Utility distribution facilities" means utilities which are necessary to support principal development and involve only minor structures such as lines and poles.

(Ord. No. 935, § 2, 4-8-25)

17.04.220 - "V" Definitions.

"Viewshed" means that area from which an existing or proposed sign may be viewed with nonenhanced eyesight.

"Visual obstruction" means any combination of fencing, hedges, trees, shrubs and walls which limits the visibility of persons at intersecting or intercepting streets and alleys between three feet and ten feet above the ground, measured in a vertical plane of the sidewalk area.

(Ord. No. 935, § 2, 4-8-25)

17.04.230 - "W" Definitions.

"Wall" means any structure or device forming a physical barrier which is so constructed that fifty percent or more of the vertical surface is closed and prevents the passage of light, air and vision through the surface in a horizontal plane. This includes concrete, concrete block, wood or other materials that are solids and are so assembled as to form a solid barrier. (See definition of "Fence.")

"Warehousing/wholesaling" means places of business primarily engaged in warehousing, wholesaling, storage, distribution and handling of materials and equipment other than live animals and plants. It includes the bulk storage of fuels, fertilizers, feed, seed and other agricultural supplies. Bulk storage of fertilizers derived from livestock/animal keeping (heavy) or feed lots is not included except in association with such use. This does not include the bulk storage of hazardous chemicals or materials.

(Ord. No. 935, § 2, 4-8-25)

17.04.240 - "X" Definitions. 17.04.250 - "Y" Definitions.

17.04.260 - "Z" Definitions. DIVISION II. - ZONES Chapter 17.06 - ZONES AND MAP