Calexico Municipal Code § 17.01.900 Definitions (CA)

17.01.900 - Definitions.¶

A. For the purposes of this title, certain words, phrases, and terms used herein shall have the meaning assigned to them by this section.

When not inconsistent with the context, words used in the present tense include the future; words in the singular number include the plural; and those in the plural number include the singular. The word "shall" is mandatory; the word "may" is permissive.

"Abut" means two adjoining parcels of property with a common property line, including two or more lots adjoining only at a corner, except where such common property line is located in a public street right-of-way.
"Access" or "access way" means the place, means, or way by which pedestrians and vehicles shall have safe, adequate and usable ingress and egress to a property or use as required by this title.
"Accessory building" means a building, part of a building, or structure, which is incidental or subordinate to the main building or use on the same building site.
Reserved.
Reserved.
"Accessory use" means a use incidental, related, appropriate and clearly subordinate to the main use of the lot or building, which accessory use does not alter the principal use of such lot or building.
Adult Arcade. See "adult motion picture arcade."
"Adult bookstore" means an establishment that devotes more than fifteen percent of the total floor area utilized for the display of books and periodicals to the display and sale of the following:

a. Books, magazines, periodicals, or other printed matter, or photographs, films, motion pictures, video cassettes, slides, tapes, records, or other forms of visual or audio representations which are characterized by an emphasis upon the depiction or description of specified sexual activities or specified anatomical instruments, devices or paraphernalia which are designed for use in connection with specified sexual activities.

An adult bookstore does not include an establishment that sells books or periodicals as an incidental or accessory part of its principal stock-in-trade and does not devote more than fifteen percent of the total floor area of the establishment to the sale of books and periodicals.

"Adult cabaret" means a nightclub, bar, theater, restaurant or similar establishment which regularly features live performances which are distinguished or characterized by an emphasis on specified sexual activities or by exposure of specified anatomical areas and/or which regularly features films, motion pictures, video cassettes, slides or other photographic reproductions which are distinguished or characterized by an emphasis upon the depiction or description of specified sexual activities or specified anatomical areas for observation by patrons.
"Adult drive-in theater" means an open lot or part thereof, with appurtenant facilities, devoted primarily to the presentation of motion pictures, films, theatrical productions and other forms of visual productions, for any form of consideration, to persons in motor vehicles or on outdoor seats, and presenting material distinguished or characterized by an emphasis on matter depicting, describing or relating to specified sexual activities or specified anatomical areas for observation by patrons.
"Adult hotel or motel" means a hotel, motel or similar establishment offering public accommodations for any form of consideration which provides patrons with closed-circuit television transmissions, films, motion pictures, video cassettes, slides or other photographic reproductions which are distinguished or characterized by an emphasis upon the depiction or description of specified sexual activities or specified anatomical areas.
"Adult mini-motion picture theater" means an establishment, with a capacity of more than five but less than fifty persons, where, for any form of consideration, films, motion pictures, video cassettes, slides or similar photographic reproductions are shown, and in which a substantial portion of the total presentation time is devoted to the showing of material which is distinguished or characterized by an emphasis upon the depiction or description of specified sexual activities or specified anatomical areas for observation by patrons.
"Adult model studio" means any establishment open to the public where, for any form of consideration or gratuity, featuring models who display specified anatomical areas to be observed, sketched, drawn, painted, sculptured, photographed, or similarly depicted by persons, other than the proprietor, paying such consideration or gratuity. This provision shall not apply to any school of art which is operated by an individual, firm, association, partnership, corporation or institution which meets the requirements established in the Education Code of the state of California for the issuance or conferring of, and is in fact authorized thereunder to issue and confer, a diploma.
"Adult motion picture arcade" means any place to which the public is permitted or invited wherein coin or slug-operated or electronically, electrically or mechanically controlled still or motion picture machines, projectors, or other image-producing devices are maintained to show images to five or fewer persons per machine at any one time, and where the images so displayed are distinguished or characterized by an emphasis on depicting or describing specified sexual activities or specified anatomical areas.
"Adult motion picture theater" means an establishment, with the capacity of fifty or more persons, where, for any form of consideration, films, motion pictures, video cassettes, slides or similar photographic reproductions are shown, and in which a substantial portion of the total presentation time is devoted to the showing of material which is distinguished or characterized by an emphasis upon the depiction or description of specified sexual activities or specified anatomical areas for observation by patrons.
"Adult theater" means a theater, concert hall, auditorium or similar establishment, either indoor or outdoor in nature, which for any form of consideration, regularly features live performances which are distinguished or characterized by an emphasis on specified sexual activities or by exposure of specified anatomical areas for observation by patrons.
"Alley" means any dedicated or implied dedication of an access or way intended for vehicular use to the rear or side of a property served by a street.
"Ambient level" means that general noise level in the area at the given time.
"Amendment to ordinance" means a change in the wording, context or substance of this title when adopted by ordinance.
Anatomical Areas. See "specified anatomical areas."
"Animal hospital" means a place where animals are given medical or surgical treatment and are cared for during the time of such treatment. Use as a kennel shall be limited to short-time boarding and shall be only incidental to such hospital use.
"Apartment" means a building or portion thereof designed and used for occupancy by two or more individual persons or families living independently of each other.
"Apartment hotel" means a building or portion thereof designed for or containing both individual guestrooms or suites or rooms and dwelling units.
"Apartment house" means a multiple dwelling.
"Arcades" means a place of business where five or more electronic or electrical coin operated games are operated for compensation.
"Auditorium" means the part of a church, school, college, university or other public building assigned to the audience or a room assigned for public assembly, lectures, entertainment, dances or similar uses.
"Auto court" means a motel.
"Automobile service station" means a lot or portion of a lot used for the servicing of motor vehicles. Such servicing may include sale of motor fuel and oils, lubrication, incidental car washing, waxing and auto accessories. Such servicing shall not include tire recapping, sale of major auto accessories, wheel repair or parts, sale or rebuilding of engines, battery manufacturing or rebuilding, radiator repair or steam cleaning, body repair, painting or upholstery, or installation of auto glass.
"Automobile wrecking" means the dismantling or wrecking of used motor vehicles or trailers, or the storage, sale or dumping of dismantled or wrecked vehicles or their parts. The presence on any lot or parcel of land of one or more motor vehicles which for a period exceeding thirty days have not been capable of operating under their own power, and from which parts have been or are to be removed for reuse or sale shall constitute prima facie evidence of an automobile wrecking yard.
"Basement" means a story partly or wholly underground. A basement shall be counted as a story for purposes of height measurement where more than one-half of its height is above grade.
"Block" means all property fronting upon one side of a street between intersecting and intercepting streets, or between a street and a right-of-way, waterway, terminus of a dead-end street, or city boundary. An intercepting street shall determine only the boundary of the block on the side of the street which it intercepts.
"Boarding or rooming house" means a building containing a dwelling unit where lodging is provided with or without meals for compensation for five or more persons.
"Borrow pit" means any place or premises where dirt, soil, sand, gravel or other material is removed by excavation or otherwise for any purpose other than necessary and incidental to grading or to building construction or operation on the premises where such necessary and incidental removal is completed within six months.
"Building" means any structure having a roof and enclosed on all sides, constructed for the shelter, enclosure of persons, animals or property of any kind.
"Building height" means the vertical distance from the average grade to the highest point of the coping of a flat roof or to the deck line of a mansard roof or to the highest point of the highest gable of a pitch or hip roof, but exclusive of vents, air conditioners, chimneys, or other such incidental appurtenances.

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"Building site" means a legally created parcel or contiguous parcels of land in single or joint ownership, which provides the area and the open spaces required by this title, exclusive of all vehicular and pedestrian rights-of-way and all other easements that prohibit the surface use of the property, by the owner thereof.
"Building site" means the ground area of one lot or the ground area of two or more lots when used in combination for a building or permitted group of buildings, together with all open spaces as required by this title.
"Building site front" means, in the case of an interior lot, the portion adjacent to the street; in the case of a double-frontage or through lot, both street frontages; on corner lots, the front shall be on the street where the majority of the lots in the block front.
"Business" or "commerce" means the purchase, sale or other transaction involving the handling or disposition of any article, service, substance or commodity for livelihood or profit; or the management of office buildings, offices, recreational or amusement enterprises; or the maintenance and use of offices, structures, and premises by professions and trades rendering services.
"Canopy" means a small roof or awning attached to the wall of a structure which is supported by no means other than its attachment to the wall.
"Carport" means a permanent roofed structure with not more than two enclosed sides used or intended to be used for vehicle storage for the occupants of the premises.
"Change of zone" means a change in the zone map affecting the classification of any property shown thereon.
"City" means the city of Calexico.
"Clinic" means a place for medical services to patients human or animal not involving the overnight housing of patients.
"Club" means an association of persons (whether or not incorporated) for a common purpose, but not including groups organized solely or primarily to render a service as a business for profit.
"Coffee shop" means a completely enclosed restaurant facility wherein the customers are served at a counter and/or tables.
"College" means a college, junior college or university supported by public funds, or a private college, junior college or university which gives comparable general academic instruction and degrees.
"Commission" means the planning commission of the city of Calexico.
"Community apartment" means a development in which an undivided interest in the land is coupled with the right of exclusive occupancy of an apartment located thereon.
"Conditional use permit" means a permit granted by resolution of the city council in accordance with the terms of this title for specific cases to suspend the use requirements on a particular property.
"Condominium" means an estate in real property consisting of an undivided interest in common in a portion of a parcel of real property, together with a separate interest in space in a residential, industrial or commercial building on such real property, such as an apartment, office or store.
"Condominium conversion" means the conversion of rental units, residential or commercial, into a condominium project.
"Convalescent home" means a facility licensed by the state Department of Public Health, the state Department of Social Welfare, or the county of Imperial, which provides bed and ambulatory care for patients with post-operative convalescent, chronically ill or dietary problems, and persons aged or infirm unable to care for themselves; but not including alcoholics, drug addicts or persons with mental or contagious diseases or afflictions.
"Council" means the city council of the city of Calexico.
"County" means the county of Imperial.
"County recorder" means the county recorder of the county of Imperial.
"Day nursery" (including pre-school and nursery schools) means any building, buildings or portion thereof used for the daytime care of six or more children at any location other than their normal place of residence, excluding any children who normally reside on the premises.
"Density" means the total number of dwelling units permitted on a net acre of land exclusive of all existing public or private streets and right-of-way. Rounding shall be to the lowest whole number.
"Development" means any man-made change to improved or unimproved real estate, including but not limited to buildings or other structures, mining, dredging, filling, grading, paving, excavation or drilling operations.
"Director" means the planning director of the city of Calexico or the duly authorized representative.
"Dormitory" means a building intended or used principally for sleeping accommodations, where such building is related to an educational institution.
"Drive-in or drive-through restaurant" means a place of business which sells food products and/or beverages and which:

a. Delivers such food products and/or beverages to customers outside of the building in which they are prepared by means of service, a window, counter, or similar method or device; or

b. Delivers such food products and/or beverages to customers outside of the building which is designed in such a manner that a majority of the customers will remove such food products and/or beverages from the building for consumption either on the premises or in the immediate vicinity.

"Dump" means an area devoted to the disposal of refuse, including incineration, reduction, or dumping of ashes, garbage, combustible or noncombustible garbage or refuse, offal or dead animals.
"Dwelling" means a building or portion thereof designed exclusively for residential occupancy.
Reserved.
Dwelling, Multiple. "Multiple dwelling" means a building containing two or more dwelling units or a combination of two or more separate single-family dwelling units on one lot.
"One-family dwelling" means a detached building used exclusively for occupancy by one family, including necessary servants and employees of such family, and containing one dwelling unit.
Dwelling, Single-Family. "Single-family dwelling" means a detached building designed exclusively for residential occupancy.
"Two-family dwelling" means a building used exclusively for occupancy by two families, including necessary servants and employees of each such family, living independently of each other and containing two dwelling units.
"Dwelling unit" means one or more rooms and a single kitchen in a single-family dwelling, apartment house or hotel designed as a unit for occupancy by one family for living and sleeping purposes.
Dwelling Unit, Accessory. "Accessory dwelling unit" means an attached or a detached residential dwelling unit which provides complete independent living facilities for one or more persons. It shall include permanent provisions for living, sleeping, eating, cooking, and sanitation on the same parcel as the single-family dwelling is situated. An accessory dwelling unit also includes an efficiency unit, as defined in California Health and Safety Code section 17958.1, and a manufactured home, as defined in section 18007.
"Educational institutions" means public and other nonprofit institutions conducting regular academic instruction at kindergarten, elementary, secondary, or collegiate levels, and including graduate school, universities, nonprofit research institutions and religious institutions.

72a. "Emergency shelters" means housing with minimal supportive services for homeless persons that is limited to occupancy of six months or less by a homeless person. No individual or household may be denied emergency shelter because of an inability to pay. The housing is provided on a first-come first serve basis where the homeless persons must vacate the emergency shelter each morning & have no guarantee of a bed for the next night.

72b. "Employee housing" means on-site living accommodation provided by an employer in a single family structure in R-1, residential zones in connection with any work whether or not rent is involved for six or fewer persons. Per Section 17021.5(b) of the Health and Safety Code, employee housing shall not be deemed a use that implies that the employee housing is an activity that differs in any other way from an agriculture use. No conditional use permit, variance, or other zoning clearance shall be required of employee housing that would not be required of a single family dwelling of the same type in the same zone.

"Exception" means a variance to the yard and lot requirements set forth in Chapters 17.28 through 17.44 granted by the city in accordance with the terms of this title.
"Family" means one or more persons living together as a single housekeeping unit in a dwelling and that shares household responsibilities and activities such as expenses, chores, eating evening meals together and participating in recreational activities and having close social, economic and psychological commitments to each other. A family also includes the residents of residential care facilities and group homes for people with disabilities. A family does not include larger institutional group living situations such as dormitories, fraternities, sororities, monasteries or nunneries, nor does it include such commercial group living a arrangements as boardinghouses, lodging houses and farm labor camps.

74a. "Family care home" means a small or large family care home licensed by the state providing twenty-four-hour, non-medical care for persons, including mentally or physically handicapped persons.

a. "Large family care home" means a home that provides care for seven to fourteen persons including children under the age of eighteen years who reside at the home, as set forth in the California Health and Safety Code.

b. "Small family care home" means a home that provides family care for six or fewer persons including children under the age of eighteen years who reside at the home, as set forth in the California Health and Safety Code.

74b. "Family care institution" means a state-authorized, certified, or licensed family care home, foster home, or group home which does not quality as a family care home.

"Feed lot" or "feed yard" means a lot, or portion of a lot, used for enclosing and fattening of livestock for market, and not operated in connection with a bona fide farm.
"Garage" means a detached accessory building or a portion of a main building on the same lot for the parking and temporary storage of vehicles of the occupants of the premises.
Garage, Private. "Private garage" means an accessory building or an accessory portion of the main building designed and/or used for the shelter or storage of vehicles owned or operated by the occupants of the main building.
Garage, Public. "Public garage" means a building other than a private garage used only for the shelter or storage or operating of motor vehicles, and/or for the care, repair, equipping, hire or sale of such vehicles.
"General plan" means the general plan of the city of Calexico, and shall consist of the general plan maps and text adopted by the city council.
"Grade" means the average level of the finished ground surfaces surrounding a building.
"Gross area" means the total horizontal area within the lot lines of a lot or parcel of land before public streets, easements or other areas to be dedicated or reserved for public use are deducted from such lot or parcel.
"Guest room" means a room which is designed to be occupied by one or more guests for sleeping purposes, and having no kitchen facilities.
Reserved.
"Highway" means a street shown as a freeway, major, primary, or secondary highway on the general plan of the city.
"Home occupation" means an occupation customarily conducted entirely within a dwelling by the occupant of the dwelling as a secondary use in connection with which there is no display, no stock in trade or commodity sold upon the premises, and no person employed.
"Hospital" means an institution for the diagnosis, care, and treatment of human illness, including surgery and primary treatment.
"Hotel" means a structure or portion thereof or a group of attached guest rooms or suites occupied on a transient basis for compensation.
"Kennel" means any lot, building, structure, enclosure or premises whereupon or wherein are kept seven or more dogs, cats or similar small animals in any combination for more than ten days, whether such keeping is for pleasure, profit, breeding, or exhibiting, and including places where dogs or cats or similar animals in any combination are boarded, kept for sale, or kept for hire.
Kennel, Commercial. "Commercial kennel" means any kennel maintained for the purpose of boarding, breeding, raising or training dogs or cats over the age of four months for a fee or for sale.
Kennel, Noncommercial. "Noncommercial kennel" means any property where four or more dogs or cats, over the age of four months, are kept or maintained for the use of enjoyment of the occupancy for noncommercial purposes.
"Kitchen" means any room used or intended to be used or designed to be used for cooking or the preparation of food, including any room having a sink and either a gas opening or provision for an electric stove.
"Large animals" means and includes equine or cleft-hoofed animals and shall include other such animals described and assumed by their size, weight, and/or appearance to be large animals.
"Legal lot" means a) a parcel of real property shown as a delineated parcel of land with a number or letter designation, on a subdivision map, or parcel map recorded in the office of the county recorder and created in conformance with the state Subdivision Map Act; b) a parcel of real property shown on a recorded record of survey map, lot division plat, or other official map filed in the office of the county recorder or county engineer, when such map or plat was filed as the result of and was made a condition of a lot division approved by the county of Imperial under the authority of prior or existing county ordinances; c) any parcel of real property which existed as a separate parcel on or before March 4, 1972 as evidenced by a valid deed recorded on or before that date; d) a parcel of real property described in a recorded certificate of compliance, approved and filed by the city of Calexico in the county of Imperial in accordance with the state Subdivision Map Act and county or city code.
"Loading space" means an off-street space or berth used for the loading or unloading of commercial vehicles.
"Lot" means:

a. A parcel of real property with a separate and distinct number or other designation shown on a plat recorded in the office of the county recorder; or

b. A parcel of real property delineated on an approved record of survey, parcel map or subdivision map as filed in the office of the county recorder or in the office of the planning department, and abutting at least one public street or right-of-way or easement determined by the city engineer to be adequate for the purpose of access; or

c. A parcel of real property abutting at least one public street or right-of-way or easement determined by the city engineer to be adequate for the purpose of access and held under separate ownership from abutting property prior to February 1, 1972.

"Lot area" means the total area exclusive of streets or alleys within the boundary lines of a lot.
Lot, Corner. "Corner lot" means a lot located at the intersection or interception of two or more streets at an angle of not more than one hundred thirty-five degrees. If the angle is greater than one hundred thirty-five degrees, the lot shall be considered an "interior lot."
"Lot coverage" means the ratio between the ground floor area of the building or buildings and the net area of the lot, exclusive of the ultimate street right-of-way.
"Lot depth" means the average horizontal distance between the front and rear lot lines measured in the mean direction of the side lot lines.
Lot, Flag. "Flag lot" means a lot which utilizes a narrow strip as its means of providing frontage on a street and/or providing vehicular access to the lot.
Lot, Interior. "Interior lot" means a lot other than a corner lot.
"Lot line" means any line bounding a lot as herein defined.
Lot Line, Front. On an interior lot, the front lot line means the property line abutting the street. On a corner or reverse corner lot, the front lot line means the shorter property line abutting a street, except in those cases where the subdivision or parcel map specifies another line as the front lot line. On a through lot or a lot with three 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 line shall be designated as the edge of the easement.
Lot Line, Interior. "Interior lot line" means a lot line not abutting a street.
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 irregular-shaped lot, a line within the lot, parallel to and at a maximum distance from the front lot line, having a length of not less than ten feet. A lot which is bounded on all sides by streets may have no rear lot line.
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.

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Lot Line, Side. "Side lot line" means any lot line not a front lot line or rear lot line.
Lot, Through. "Through lot" means a lot having frontage on two dedicated parallel or approximately parallel streets.
"Lot width" means the average 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.
"Main building" means the principal building on a lot or building site designed or used to accommodate the primary use to which the premises are devoted. Where a permissible use involves more than one structure designed or used for the primary purpose, as in the case of group houses, each such permissible building on one lot as defined in this title shall be construed as constituting a main building.
"Mobilehome" means a movable or transportable vehicle, other than a motor vehicle, designed as a permanent structure intended for occupancy for one family and having no foundation other than jacks, piers, wheels, or skirtings.
"Mobilehome unit space" means a plot of ground within a mobile home park designed for the accommodation of one mobilehome unit.
"Motel" means the same as "hotel."
"Net acre" means all land within a given area or project including residential lots, and other open space which directly serves the residents of the net acre; but exclusive of all public or private streets and other easements.
"Nonconforming building" means a building or portion thereof which was lawful when established but which does not conform to the provisions of this title.
"Nonconforming lot" means a lot, the area, frontage, or dimensions of which do not conform to the provisions of this title.
"Nonconforming use" means a use lawful when established but which does not conform to the provisions of this chapter.
"Nonprofit institution" means a nonprofit establishment maintained and operated by a society, corporation, individual, foundation or public agency for the purpose of providing charitable, social, educational or similar services to the public, groups or individuals.
"Parcel" means a contiguous quantity of land in the possession of, or owned by, or recorded as the property of, the same person.
"Parking space" means a space or area, other than a street or alley, not less than nine feet wide and twenty feet long provided with adequate ingress and egress, and which is permanently reserved and maintained for the parking of motor vehicles. Where more than four parking spaces are grouped as a common facility, the area per parking space plus the area used for driveways shall total not less than three hundred square feet per parking space.
"Person" means any individual, firm, copartnership, joint venture, association, social club, fraternal organization, corporation, estate, trust, receiver, syndicate, this and any other city, county, district or other political subdivision, or any other group or combination acting as a unit.
"Regulation golf course" means a golf course having grassed fairway with a total length not less than five thousand four hundred yards.
"Rest home or home for the aged" means premises used for the housing of and caring for the ambulatory aged or infirm, which premises require a license from the state or county. There shall be only incidental convalescent care not involving a physician residing on the premises. There shall be no surgery or other similar activities such as customarily provided in sanitariums and hospitals. Also see the State and Safety Code.

123a. "Residential care facility" means various types of facilities operated by licensed staff that provide twenty-four-hour non-medical supportive and custodial care for children, adults, and the elderly who need general assistance for everyday living. The facilities are licensed by the state department of social services and are not considered to be health facilities. The facilities are referred to by a variety of terms, including: group homes, family care homes, foster family homes, small family homes, special needs housing, adult residential facilities, social rehabilitation facilities, residential board and care facilities, assisted living facilities, supportive housing, residential care facilities for the chronically ill, residential care facilities for the elderly. See California Health and Safety Code Section 1502(a).

123b. "Residential care facility, small" means a residential care facility, such as a small family care home of group home, that provides care for six or fewer persons, including children under the age of eighteen years, who reside at the home. A group home or small family care home, by definition, is small residential care facility since care is provided for six or fewer persons.

123c. "Residential care facility, large" means a residential care facility, such as a large family care home, that provides care for seven or more persons, including children under the age of eighteen years, who reside at the home.

"Sanitarium" means a health station or retreat or other place where resident patients are kept, and where medical or surgical treatment is given to persons suffering from a sickness, disease, disorder or ailment other than a mental sickness, disease, disorder or ailment, but which does not specialize in giving clinical, temporary or emergency service.
Reserved.
"Service station" means the same as "automobile service station."
Setback, Front Yard. "Front yard setback" means the area which defines the depth of the required front yard. Said setback shall be measured from the ultimate street right-of-way or the line established by the general plan, whichever is greater, and be removed therefrom by the perpendicular distance prescribed for the front yard setback of the zone in which the property is located.
Setback, Rear Yard or Side Yard. "Rear yard or side yard setback" means the area which defines the width or depth of the required rear or side yard setbacks. Said setbacks shall be measured from the property line, removed therefrom by the perpendicular distance prescribed for the yard setback in the zone. Where the side or rear yard abuts a street, the distance shall be measured as set forth in "setback, front yard."
"Sexual encounter establishment" means an establishment, other than a hotel, motel or similar establishment offering public accommodations, which, for any form of consideration, provides a place where two or more persons may congregate, associate, or consort in connection with specified sexual activities or the exposure of specified anatomical areas. This definition does not include an establishment where a medical practitioner, psychologist, psychiatrist or similar professional person licensed by the state engages in sexual therapy. For the purposes of these regulations, sexual encounter establishment shall include massage or rap parlor and other similar establishments.
"Site plan" means a plan, prepared to scale, showing accurately and with complete dimensioning, all of the buildings, structures and uses and the exact manner of development proposed for a specific parcel of land.

130a. "Single room occupancy buildings" means a building providing single-room units for one or more persons with or without shared kitchen and bath facilities, including efficiency units per Health and Safety Code Section 17958.1.

"Small animals" means pygmy goats, miniature horses, domestic, and those other such comparably-sized animals distinguished from those described as large animals, not including poultry or rabbits.
"Specific anatomical areas" means:

a. Less than completely and opaquely covered human genitals, pubic region, buttocks, anus, or female breasts below a point immediately above the top of the areola; or

b. Human male genitals in a discernibly turgid state, even if completely and opaquely covered.

"Specified sexual activities" means:

a. The fondling or other touching of human genitals, pubic region, buttocks, anus, or female breasts; or

b. Sex acts, normal or perverted, actual or simulated, including intercourse, oral copulation, or sodomy; or

c. Masturbation, actual or simulated; or

d. Excretory functions as part of or in connection with any of the activities set forth in subsections (99)(a) through (99)(c).

Stable, Commercial. "Commercial stable" means a stable for horses, mules or ponies which are rented, used or boarded on a commercial basis for compensation.
Stable, Private. "Private stable" means an accessory building for the keeping of horses, mules or ponies owned by the occupants of the premises and not rented, used or boarded on a commercial basis for compensation.
"State" means the state of California.
"Storage of nonoperating motor vehicles" shall not include automobile wrecking. The presence on any lot or parcel of land of five or more motor vehicles which for a period exceeding thirty days have not been capable of operating under their own power, and from which no parts have been or are to be removed for reuse or sale, constitutes prima facie evidence of the storage of nonoperating motor vehicles.
"Story" means that portion of a building included between the surface of any floor and the surface of the floor next above it, or if there be no floor above it, then the space between such floor and the ceiling next above it.
"Street" means a public thoroughfare or right-of-way or approved private thoroughfare or right-of-way determined by the city engineer to be adequate for the purpose of access, which affords the principal means of access for abutting property including avenue, place, way, drive, lane, boulevard, highway, road and any other thoroughfare, except as excluded in this chapter. The word "street" shall include all major and secondary highways, traffic collector streets, and local streets.
"Street line" means the boundary line between a street and the abutting property.
Street, Side. "Side street" means a street which is adjacent to a corner lot and which extends in the general direction of the line determining the depth of the lot.
"Structure" means a mobilehome or anything constructed or erected, building of any kind, or any piece of work artificially built up or composed of parts joined together in some definite manner, which requires location on or in the ground or is attached to something having a location on or in the ground, including swimming and wading pools and covered patios, excepting paved areas, walls, tennis courts, and similar outdoor areas, and further excepting fences or walls thirty-six inches or less in height.
"Structural alteration" means any change in or alteration to a structure involving a bearing wall column, beam or girder, floor or ceiling joists, roof rafters, roof diaphragms, foundations, piles, retaining walls, or similar components.

143a. "Supportive housing" means housing with no limit on length of stay, that is occupied by the target population, and that is linked to onsite or 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. "Target population" per this section means persons, including persons with disabilities, and families who are "homeless," as that term is defined by Section 11302 of Title 42 of the United States Code, or who are "homeless youth," as that term is defined by paragraph (2) of subdivision (e) of Section 11139.3 of the Government Code. Supportive housing that is provided in single-family, duplex, manufactured housing, multi-family, mixed use units, or group dwellings shall be permitted, conditionally permitted or prohibited in the same manner as the other single family. Duplex, manufactured housing, multi-family, mixed-used units, or group dwellings under this chapter. See California Health and Safety Code (50675.14(b)).

"Trailer coach" means any camp car, trailer or other vehicle, with or without motive power, designed and constructed to travel on the public thoroughfares at the maximum allowable speed limit and in accordance with the provisions of the Vehicle Code, and designed or used for human habitation.
"Trailer court" or "trailer park" means any premises on which there is located one or more occupied trailer coaches or where space for trailer coaches is rented, held for rent or on which free occupancy or camping is permitted to trailer coach users, but shall not include premises on which unoccupied trailer coaches are parked for inspection and sale or premises on which there is one occupied trailer coach occupied by the owner thereof and for which there is a valid unexpired and unrevoked permit issued by the city.

145a. "Transitional housing" means buildings configured as rental housing developments, but 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. Transitional housing that is provided in single-family, duplex, manufactured housing, multi-family, mixed-use units, or group dwellings shall be permitted, conditionally permitted or prohibited in the same manner as the other single-family, duplex. Manufactured housing, multi-family, mixed-use units, or group dwelling under this chapter. See California Health and Safety Code 50675.2(h) and 50801(i).

"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" includes the terms "arranged," "designed" or "intended" to be used.
"Variance" means a modification of the regulations of Chapters 17.28 through 17.44 granted by the city in accordance with the terms of this title.
"Wholesaling" means the selling of any type of goods for purpose of resale.
"Yard" means any open space on the same lot with a building or dwelling group, which open space is unoccupied and unobstructed except for the projections permitted by this chapter.
Yard, Front. "Front yard" means a space between the front yard setback and the front lot line or future street line, and extending the full width of the lot.
Yard, Rear. "Rear yard" means a space between the rear yard setback and the rear lot line, extending the full width of the lot.
Yard, Side. "Side yard" means a space extending from the front yard, or from the front yard lot line where no front yard is required by this chapter, to the rear yard, or rear lot line between a side lot line and the side yard setback line.
For "zone change," see "change of zone."
"Zoning code or ordinance" means the zoning regulations of the city of Calexico.

(Ord. 1006 § 1, 2003: Ord. 959 § 1, 1996; 1992 zoning ord. (part))

(Ord. No. 1148, § 2, 12-17-13; Ord. No. 1182, § 3, 6-20-2018; Ord. No. 1182, §§ 3, 4, 6-20-18)

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