Del Norte County Municipal Code § 21.04.620 Outdoor Advertising Sign

For the purpose of the ordinance codified in Chapters 21.02 through 21.60, certain terms used are defined as follows:

All words used in the present tense include the future all words in the plural number include the singular, unless the natural construction of the wording indicates otherwise. "Lot" includes "plot" "building" includes "structure" and "shall" is mandatory and not directory. "California Coastal Commission" means the commission and staff designated by the state of California to administer the California Coastal Act. "County" means the county of Del Norte, state of California "board of supervisors" means the board of supervisors of the county of Del Norte, state of California "planning commission" means the planning commission of the county of Del Norte, state of California and "county boundary" means the boundary of the county of Del Norte, municipality within Del Norte County.

(Ord. 83-03 (part))

"Prime agricultural land" consists of twenty acres or more in contiguous ownership which are actively used for the production of nursery crops, pasture crops, dairy products and/or livestock or which are Class I soils and/or quality for a rating of eighty and above on the storie index.

(Ord. 83-03 (part))

"Agriculture" means the tilling of the soil, the raising of crops, horticulture and viticulture, including all uses customarily incidental thereto for commercial purposes, but not including slaughterhouses, fertilizer yards, bone yards or plants for the reduction of animal matter or any other industrial use which is similarly objectionable because of noise, odor, smoke, dust or fumes.

(Ord. 83-03 (part))

"Airport" means the operation of any area of land or water designed and set aside for the landing and taking off of aircraft, but not including private agricultural operations.

(Ord. 83-03 (part))

"Alley" means public thoroughfare, not exceeding twenty feet in width, for the use of pedestrians and/or of vehicles which affords only a secondary means of access to abutting property.

(Ord. 83-03 (part))

"Animal husbandry" means the keeping of any or all livestock except hogs.

(Ord. 83-03 (part))

"Apartment" means a room or suite or two or more rooms which is designed for, intended for and/or occupied by one family doing its cooking therein.

(Ord. 83-03 (part))

For "apartment court," see "dwelling group," Section 21.04.220.

(Ord. 83-03 (part))

For "apartment house," see "dwelling, multiple," Section 21.04.230.

(Ord. 83-03 (part))

"Building site area" means the total of the ground area of a building or buildings together with all yard spaces required by Chapters 21.08 through 21.48.

(Ord. 83-03 (part))

For "automobile wrecking," see "wrecking yard," Section 21.04.860.

(Ord. 83-03 (part))

"Basement" means a story wholly or partly underground and having at least one-half of its height below grade. A basement shall be counted as a story if the vertical distance from grade to the ceiling is over five feet.

(Ord. 83-03 (part))

"Block" means a story wholly or partly underground and having at least one side of a street and lying between the two nearest intersecting or intercepting streets, or railroad right-of-way, or unsubdivided acreage, or a combination thereof.

(Ord. 83-03 (part))

"Building" means any structure having a roof supported by columns and/or by walls and intended for the shelter, housing and/or enclosure of any person, animal or chattel. When any portion thereof is completely separated from every other portion thereof by a masonry division or fire wall without any window, door or other opening therein, which wall extends from the ground to the upper surface of a roof at every point, then each such portion shall be deemed to be a separate building.

(Ord. 83-03 (part))

"Accessory building" means a subordinate building the use of which is incidental to that of the main building on the same parcel. In residential, residential-architectural and rural-residential districts, the residence is the main building and the accessory building must be built after construction of the residence. Where the minimum lot size in these districts is less than three acres, the accessory building must meet the following criteria:

1. 1. No single accessory building shall exceed twelve hundred square feet in area coverage.

   2. The height of the accessory building shall not exceed sixteen feet as measured from the average ground level to the peak of the roof.

   3. No person outside of the members of the family shall be employed within the accessory building.

   4. Exceeding the above maximum dimensions shall only be allowed after the securement of a use permit.

(Ord. 95-17 § 8(1), 1995: Ord. 83-03 (part))

"Main building" means a building in which is conducted the principal use of the lot upon which it is situated. In any R or RR district, any dwelling shall be deemed to be a main building upon the lot upon which the same is situated.

(Ord. 83-03 (part))

"Business or commerce" means the purchase, sale or other transaction involving the handling or disposition (other than is included in the term "industry" as defined in this chapter) of any article, substance or commodity for profit or livelihood, including, in addition, office buildings, offices, shops for the sale of personal services, garages, outdoor advertising structures, automobile camps, automobile courts, hotels and recreational or other enterprises conducted for profit.

(Ord. 83-03 (part))

A "residential care facility" shall be as defined by California Health and Safety Code, including habilitative, congregate, foster or group home in a health care, community care, or recovery care facility for six or fewer persons, or in a small day care facility and shall, under state law, be considered a single-family residence for the purpose of this zoning code. Large day care facilities, as defined by California Health and Safety Code, shall also be considered a single-family residence however, a use permit will be required in all R zone districts to address potential local health and safety issues.

(Ord. 99-002 (part), 1999)

"Caretaker" means any person who is on the premises only in the absence of the property owner, and all other persons, from the property to be cared for. He must provide manual labor and maintenance services for the owner to substantial physical improvements (buildings, equipment, crops on five acres or more, etc.).

(Ord. 83-03 (part))

"California Coastal Zone" means that area of the county under the jurisdiction of the California Coastal Act as set forth by Public Resources Code Section 30103 and as delineated by the Local Coastal Program prepared pursuant to the Act.

(Ord. 83-03 (part))

"Court" means an open, unoccupied space on the same lot with a building or buildings and which is bound on two or more sides by such building or buildings, including the open space in a house court or court apartment providing access to the units thereof.

(Ord. 83-03 (part))

"Lot or building coverage" means that portion of the lot area covered by buildings.

(Ord. 83-03 (part))

"Development" means on land, in or under water, the placement or erection of any solid material or structure discharge or disposal of any dredged material or of any gaseous, liquid, solid or thermal waste grading, removing, dredging, mining or extraction of any materials change in the density or intensity of use of land, including, but not limited to subdivisions pursuant to the Subdivision Map Act, and any other division of land including lot splits change in the intensity of use of water or of access thereto construction, reconstruction, demolition, or alteration of the size of any structure including any facility of any private, public, or municipal utility and the removal or harvesting of major vegetation other than for agricultural purposes, kelp harvesting and timber operations which are in accordance with a timber harvesting plan submitted pursuant to the provisions of the Z'berg-Nejedly Forest Practice Act of 1973.

(Ord. 83-03 (part))

"District" means a portion of the unincorporated territory of the county within which certain uses of land, premises and buildings are permitted and certain other uses of land, premises and buildings are not permitted and within which certain yards and other open spaces are required and certain building site areas are established for buildings, all as set forth and specified in Chapters 21.02 through 21.60.

(Ord. 83-03 (part))

"Duplex" means a two-family residence designed for or used exclusively for residence purposes by two families in separate housekeeping units.

(Ord. 83-03 (part))

"Dwelling group" means a group of two or more detached or semidetached one-family or two-family residences or multiple dwellings occupying a parcel of land in one ownership and having any yard or court in common, including house courts and apartment courts, but not including automobile courts.

(Ord. 83-03 (part))

"Multiple dwelling" means a building or portion thereof used and/or designed as a residence for three or more families living independently of each other, and doing their own cooking in the building, including apartment houses, apartment hotels and flats, but not including automobile courts.

(Ord. 83-03 (part))

"Full-time employee" means a person working for a monetary wage or salary at least thirty-two hours per week.

(Ord. 83-03 (part))

"Estuary" means a coastal water body usually semi-enclosed by land, but which has open, partially obstructed, or intermittent exchange with the ocean and in which ocean water is at least occasionally diluted by fresh water runoff from the land.

(Ord. 83-03 (part))

"Factory-built home" means a dwelling, wholly or in substantial part, fabricated in an off-site manufacturing facility to be wholly or partially assembled on-site in accordance with building standards published in the State Building Code and other regulations adopted locally. Factory-built housing includes such types as modular, panelized and pre-cut homes but does not include a mobilehome, manufactured home, commercial coach, nor a recreational vehicle.

(Ord. 95-06 § 2 (part), 1995)

"Family" means one or more persons occupying a premises and living as a single, nonprofit housekeeping unit, as distinguished from a group occupying a hotel, club, fraternity or sorority house. A "family" includes necessary servants.

(Ord. 83-03 (part))

"Immediate family" means parents, children, brothers or sisters of either the property owner or spouse of the property owner.

(Ord. 83-03 (part))

"Farmed wetlands" means wetland areas which are grazed, planted or cut for forage during parts of the year.

(Ord. 83-03 (part))

"Front wall" means the wall of the building or other structures nearest the street upon which the building faces but excluding certain architectural features as specified in Section 21.46.90.

(Ord. 83-03 (part))

"Private garage" means an accessory building of portion of the main building designed and/or used for the shelter or storage of vehicles which are associated with residential use by the occupants of the main building.

(Ord. 83-03 (part))

"Public garage" means any premises, except those herein defined as private or storage garage, used for the storage and/or care of the self-propelled vehicles, or where any such vehicles are equipped for operation or repair, or kept for remuneration, hire or sale.

(Ord. 83-03 (part))

"Storage garage" means any premises, except those herein defined as a private garage, used exclusively for the storage of self-propelled vehicles.

(Ord. 83-03 (part))

"Guest room" means a room which is intended, arranged or designed to be occupied or which is occupied by one or more guests, but in which no provision is made for cooking and not including dormitories for sleeping purposes. Residential noncommercial guest rooms shall be within or attached to the principal residence and shall be a part of the residential utility (sewer, electric, etc.) service lines.

(Ord. 83-03 (part))

"Height of building" means the vertical distance from the average level of the highest and lowest point of the portion of the lot covered by the building, to the highest point of the building.

(Ord. 83-03 (part))

"Home enterprise" means a service, office, studio or production use conducted in conjunction with a dwelling unit, managed by the inhabitants thereof, which use includes business activities more intense than those of a home occupation. Home enterprises may be considered in specified zoning districts subject to the issuance of a use permit which shall find that the use is clearly incidental and secondary to the use of the property for dwelling purposes, does not substantially change the character of the dwelling or neighborhood thereof, and which use:

1. 1. Is confined within an on-site dwelling or accessory structure thereto, occupies not more than thirty-three percent of the total on-site building square footage, and/or is confined to a garden or orchard where food or flora is grown on-site.

2. Involves no sales of new or used merchandise other than that produced on the premises, or merchandise directly related to, and incidental to, the services offered.

3. Is managed by the family occupying the dwelling with no more than three nonresident employees at the site where the residence is located within any general plan designated urban or rural area, or nor more than five non-resident employees at the site where the residence is located within any general plan designated resource area.

4. Does not entail the establishment of a permanent salesroom or group meeting room, except that provision for occasional temporary sales areas or group meetings may be established by the use permit where no impact upon the surrounding neighborhood is found.

5. Is in compliance with applicable health, safety and welfare standards such as the Uniform Building Code, Uniform Fire Code, Americans With Disabilities Act, OSHA, etc.

6. Produces no evidence of its existence beyond the property line (except one unlighted sign of not more than ten square feet which shall be considered a residential sign) such as noise, smoke, odors, vibration, lighting, exterior storage, excessive or intrusive electronic and/or communication devices, etc.

7. Does not establish or create a health or safety hazard.

8. Does not generate pedestrian or vehicular traffic, including delivery vehicles, beyond that normal in the neighborhood in which located and provides off-street parking adequate for clients and employees in addition to that required for the residence.

9. Includes no outside storage of materials, products, equipment or business vehicles, other than the personal transport vehicle(s) of the resident business owner(s).

10. Clinics (exceeding more than one doctor/practitioner), medical laboratories, hospitals, residential care facilities, animal hospitals, outdoor contractors yards, storage rental (i.e., mini storage), food or liquor service establishments such as bakeries, restaurants or bars, and auto repair and/or painting, shall not be deemed to be home enterprises. Animal kennels, raising or sales of animals and/or animal products, and food processing shall not be deemed to be home enterprises where the residence is located within a general plan designated urban area.

(Ord. 99-002 (part), 1999)

"Home occupation" means an individually provided service, or an individual office or studio use conducted within a dwelling by the inhabitants thereof which use is clearly incidental and secondary to the use of the property for dwelling purposes and does not change the character thereof and which use:

1. Is confined within the dwelling and occupies not more than twenty-five percent of the floor space thereof, or is confined to a garden or orchard where unprocessed food or flora is grown on-site.

2. Involves no on-site sales of merchandise other than that produced on the premises, or merchandise directly related to, and incidental to, the services offered.

3. Is carried on by the members of the family occupying the dwelling with no other person employed.

4. Does not entail the conversion of a room into a salesroom or group meeting room.

5. Produces no evidence of its existence beyond the dwellings (except one unlighted sign of not more than one square foot) such as noise, smoke, odors, vibration, lighting, exterior storage yards, excessive or intrusive electronics or communications devices, etc.

6. Does not generate pedestrian or vehicular traffic (including delivery vehicles) beyond that normal in the neighborhood in which located and provides off-street parking adequate for clients in addition to that required for the residence.

7. Includes no outside storage of materials, products, equipment or business vehicles, other than the personal transport vehicle(s) of the resident business owner(s).

8. Clinics, medical laboratories, hospitals, residential care facilities, antique shops, guest lodging, food or liquor service establishments such as bakeries, restaurants or bars, food processing, beauty or similar personal service shops (exceeding more than one operator), animal hospitals or kennels, raising or sales of animals and/or animal products, contractors yards, retail merchandise warehousing or sales, ongoing yard or crafts sales, and commercial woodworking or repair shops, shall not be deemed to be home occupations.

(Ord. 99-002 (part), 1999: Ord. 83-03 (part))

"Hotel" means any building or portion thereof containing four or more guest rooms used, designed or intended to be used, let or hired out to be occupied, whether the compensation be paid directly or indirectly.

(Ord. 99-002 (part), 1999: Ord. 83-03 (part))

For "house court," see "dwelling group," Section 21.04.220.

(Ord. 83-03 (part))

"Household pets" shall be limited to dogs (canis familiaris), cats (fetis catus) and animals whose normal place of abode is within the dwelling unit, such as caged birds, caged rodents, and fish, reptiles, and amphibia confined to aquaria and terraria.

(Ord. 83-03 (part))

"Industry" means the manufacture, fabrication, reduction or destruction of any article, substance or commodity, or any other treatment thereof in such a manner as to change the form or character thereof, including, in addition, the following: bottling works, building materials or contractors' yards, cleaning and dyeing establishments, creameries, junkyards, wrecking yards, laundries, lumber yards, milk bottling or distributing stations, stockyards, storage elevators, truck storage, service or repair, warehouses and wholesale storage.

(Ord. 83-03 (part))

"Junk" means any worn out, cast off, or discarded article or material which is ready for destruction or has been collected or stored for salvage or conversion to some use. Any article or material which, unaltered or unchanged and without further reconditioning, can be used for its original purpose as readily as when new shall not be considered as "junk."

(Ord. 83-03 (part))

"Junkyard" means the use of more than two hundred square feet of the area of any lot for the storage or keeping of junk, including scrap metals or other scrap materials or inoperable vehicles.

(Ord. 83-03 (part))

"Coastal zone lateral access" means access for public use along and parallel to the shoreline generally located between the mean high tide line and the first line of vegetation or the crest of the paralleling bluff.

(Ord. 83-03 (part))

"Livestock farming" means dairying, ranching or the keeping of large livestock, except fowl.

(Ord. 83-03 (part))

"Lodging house" or "guest lodging" are synonymous and mean any dwelling or portion thereof containing not more than three guest rooms which are used by not more than six guests where compensation is paid in money, goods, labor or otherwise and where the use is accessory to a residential occupancy. Incidental food service, for guests only, may be included subject to county health regulations, provided that no second separate cooking facility shall be established. One on-site parking space shall be provided for each guest room in addition to those spaces required for the residence and signage shall not exceed that permitted for the residence itself.

(Ord. 99-002 (part), 1999: Ord. 83-03 (part))

"Loading space" means an off-street space or berth on the same lot with a building, or contiguous to a group of buildings, for the temporary parking of a commercial vehicle while loading or unloading merchandise or materials, and which abuts upon a street, alley or other appropriate means of access.

(Ord. 83-03 (part))

"Lot" means land occupied or unoccupied, which may be occupied by a building and its accessory buildings, or by a dwelling group and its accessory buildings, together with such open spaces as are required under the provisions of Chapters 21.02 through 21.60 having not less than the minimum area required by Chapters 21.02 through 21.60 for a building site in the district in which such lot is situated, and having access to a public road. Also refer to Section 21.46.80 regarding existing lots.

(Ord. 83-03 (part))

"Lot area" means the total horizontal area included within lot lines.

(Ord. 83-03 (part))

"Corner lot" means a lot situated at the intersection of two or more streets, or bounded on two or more adjacent sides of street lines.

(Ord. 83-03 (part))

"Lot depth" means the average distance from the street line of the lot to its rear line measured in the general direction of the side lines of the lot.

(Ord. 83-03 (part))

"Lot frontage" means the dimension of a lot or portion of a lot abutting on a street, except the side of a corner lot.

(Ord. 83-03 (part))

"Interior lot" means a lot other than a corner lot.

(Ord. 83-03 (part))

"Key lot" means the first lot to the rear or side of a corner lot, the front line of which is a continuation of the side line of the corner lot, exclusive of the width of any alley, and fronting on the street which intersects or intercepts the street on which the corner lot fronts.

(Ord. 83-03 (part))

"Lot lines" means the lines bounding a lot as defined in this chapter.

(Ord. 83-03 (part))

"Front lot line" means, in the case of an interior lot, a line separating the lot from the street. In the case of a corner lot, the front lot line shall be the line separating the narrowest street frontage of the lot line from the street.

(Ord. 83-03 (part))

"Rear lot line" means, ordinarily, that line of a lot which is generally opposite the lot line along the frontage of the lot. In cases in which this definition is not applicable, the planning commission shall designate the rear lot line.

(Ord. 83-03 (part))

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

(Ord. 83-03 (part))

"Manufactured home" means a dwelling unit fabricated in an off-site manufacturing facility for installation or assembly at the building site, bearing a label certifying it is constructed in compliance with the Federal Manufactured Home Construction and Safety Standards (see 24 CFR 3280 for legal definition).

(Ord. 95-06 §2 (part), 1995)

"Mining and mineral extraction" means those activities regulated by Chapter 7.36, "Surface Mining and Quarries." Within the California Coastal Zone mineral extraction is the mining of clay, sand, gravel and rock.

(Ord. 83-03 (part))

"Mobilehome" means a transportable, factory-constructed home, designed to be used as a year-round residential dwelling and built prior to June 15, 1976, the effective date of the federal Manufactured Housing Construction and Safety Standards Act of 1974. Mobilehome does not include a recreation vehicle, commercial coach or factory-built home.

(Ord. 95-06 §1 (part), 1995: Ord. 83-03 (part))

"Mobilehome park" means an area or tract of land where two or more mobilehome or manufactured home lots (spaces) are rented or leased, held out for rent or lease, or were formerly held out for rent or lease and later converted to a subdivision, cooperative, condominium or other form of resident ownership, to accommodate manufactured homes or mobilehomes. The rental paid for a manufactured home or mobilehome shall be deemed to include rental for the lot (space) it occupies. Mobilehome park does not include an area or tract of land zoned for agricultural purposes (AE) where two or more mobilehome or manufactured home lots (spaces) are rented or leased, held out for rent or lease, or provided as a term or condition of employment, to accommodate manufactured homes or mobilehomes used for the purpose of housing less than five agricultural employees.

(Ord. 95-06 §1 (part), 1995: Ord. 83-03 (part))

"Motel" means a building or group of buildings containing four guest rooms and/or apartments or more, which group is designed, intended and/or used primarily for the accommodation of automobile travelers for compensation whether paid directly or indirectly, including, but not limited to, buildings designated as automobile courts, auto cabins and motor lodges.

(Ord. 99-002 (part), 1999: Ord. 83-03 (part))

"Mutual water company" means any corporation, including a nonprofit corporation, organized for or engaged in the business of developing, distributing, supplying or delivering water for irrigation, commercial or domestic use or both, and not operated as a public utility.

(Ord. 83-03 (part))

"Native wooded habitat" means a place or wooded area where vegetation, particularly trees, are indigenous to the site without cultivation.

(Ord. 83-03 (part))

"Nonconforming use" means a building or land occupied by a use that does not conform to the regulations for the district in which it is situated.

(Ord. 83-03 (part))

"Nuisance" means anything that by its use or by its permitted existence works annoyance, harm, inconvenience or damage to another.

(Ord. 83-03 (part))

"One ownership" means ownership of property by a person or persons, firm, corporation or partner ship, individually, jointly, in common or in any other manner whereby such property is under single or unified control. "Owner" means the person, firm, corporation, or partnership exercising "one ownership" as defined in this section.

(Ord. 83-03 (part))

"Outdoor advertising sign" means any card, cloth, paper, metal, painted, glass, wooden, plaster, stone, or other sign of any kind or character whatsoever placed for outdoor advertising purposes on the ground or on any tree, wall, bush, rock, post, fence, building, structure or thing whatsoever. "Placed," as used in the

definition of "outdoor advertising sign," includes erecting, constructing, posting, painting, printing, tacking, nailing, gluing, sticking, carving or otherwise fastening, affixing or making visible in any manner whatsoever.

(Ord. 83-03 (part))

"Outdoor advertising structure" means any structure of any kind of character erected or maintained for outdoor advertising purposes upon which any outdoor advertising sign may be placed, including also outdoor advertising statuary.

(Ord. 83-03 (part))

"Park trailer" means a trailer designed for human habitation that meets all of the following requirements:

1. It contains 400 square feet or less of gross floor area, excluding loft area space that do not meet the requirements of Section 18033 of the Health and Safety Code. It may not exceed 14 feet in width at the maximum horizontal projection.

2. It is built upon a single chassis.

3. It may only be transported upon the public highways with a permit issued pursuant to Section 35780 of the Vehicle Code.

"Coastal access passive recreational use" means the public right to conduct activities normally associated with beach use (e.g. walking, swimming, jogging, sunbathing, fishing, surfing) but not including organized sports, campfires, or vehicular access other than for emergency, maintenance, wood-gathering or commercial fishing.

(Ord. 83-03 (part))

"Professional office" means an establishment for professional, executive and administrative offices, including those of accountants, lawyers, physicians, dentists, architects, engineers, drafting offices, insurance agents, real estate agents, and other occupations which are of similar character to those enumerated, but not including barbers, beauty parlors, cosmetologists, or other service establishments and building trade contractors.

(Ord. 83-03 (part))

"Public sewage disposal system" means a sewage disposal system for domestic or commercial use owned and operated by a political jurisdiction.

(Ord. 83-03 (part))

"Public use" means a use operated by a governmental agency, public agency or public utility, which has the purpose of serving the public health, safety, convenience or general welfare, and including, but not limited to such uses as schools, parks, playgrounds, educational, recreational and social facilities, libraries, museums, firehouses, courthouses, hospitals and administrative service facilities and power generation or distribution plants.

(Ord. 83-03 (part))

"Public water supply" means a supply of water for domestic or commercial use furnished or to be furnished from waterworks owned and operated by a political jurisdiction.

(Ord. 83-03 (part))

"Quasi-public use" means a use operated by a private nonprofit educational, religious, recreational, charitable, fraternal, or medical institution, association, or organization, and including, but not limited to such uses as churches, private schools, universities, community recreational, educational and social facilities, meeting halls, private hospitals and the like.

(Ord. 83-03 (part))

"Recreational vehicle" means a motorhome, travel trailer, truck camper, or camping trailer, with or without motive power, designed for human habitation for recreation or emergency occupancy, which is eight feet or less in overall width and forty feet or less in overall length, or a bus conversion for human habitation. The planning department, by letter, may allow a recreational vehicle to be placed on a construction site while a home is under construction for a period of six months. Extensions of time may be granted by the planning commission.

(Ord. 83-03 (part))

"Recreational vehicle park" means any area or tract of land where one or more lots are rented or leased or held out for rent or lease to owners or users of recreational vehicles which are occupied for temporary purposes or seasonal use. A recreational vehicle park may allow the use of tents or other temporary camping facilities either in place of a recreational vehicle or in a separate designated area within its confines.

(Ord. 83-03 (part))

"One-family residence" means a building designed for and/or occupied exclusively by one family.

(Ord. 83-03 (part))

"Two-family residence" means a building designed for and/or occupied exclusively by two families living independently of each other.

(Ord. 83-03 (part))

"Resource conservation area" means an area which is a wetland, farmed wetland, riparian vegetation, estuary and/or coastal sand dune area as designated by the General Plan Coastal Element.

(Ord. 83-03 (part))

"Riparian vegetation" means the plant cover normally found along freshwater resources including rivers, streams, creeks and sloughs. Riparian vegetation requires or tolerates a higher level of soil moisture than upland vegetation and is usually characterized by dense growths of trees and shrubs.

(Ord. 83-03 (part))

"Coastal sand dunes" means ridges of sand created by wind deposited materials carried from ocean beaches. An active dune is one in the process of gaining or losing sand such a mobile dune is commonly unvegetated or covered with sparse grasses and low-growing succulents. Stabilized dunes are usually covered by woody vegetation such as the beach pine.

(Ord. 83-03 (part))

"Saw mill" means any structure and land used for the manufacture or remanufacture of lumber from saw logs by the use of power equipment.

(Ord. 83-03 (part))

"Setback" means a line parallel to the road centerline and a specified distance therefrom normal to the centerline.

(Ord. 83-03 (part))

"Small livestock farming" means the raising and/or keeping of more than twelve chicken hens, or similar fowl and/or twelve rabbits or similar animals or the keeping of any roosters, quacking ducks, geese, guinea fowl, pea fowl, goats, sheep, or similar livestock provided that "small livestock farming," as used in Chapters 21.01 through 21.60 shall not include hog farming, dairying or the raising and/or keeping of horses, mules, or similar livestock as determined by the planning commission (see Section 21.46.110).

(Ord. 83-03 (part))

"Private stable" means an accessory building where not more than one horse per twenty thousand square feet of property is kept for the use of owner and guests.

(Ord. 83-03 (part))

"Public stable" means a stable other than a private stable for the commercial rental and boarding of horses.

(Ord. 83-03 (part))

"Story" means that portion of a building included between the surface of any floor and the surface of the next floor above it, or if there is no floor above it, then the space between the floor and the ceiling next above it.

(Ord. 83-03 (part))

"Half story" means a story with at least one exterior side meeting a sloping roof not more than two feet above the floor of such story.

(Ord. 83-03 (part))

"Street" means a public or private thoroughfare which affords the principal means of access to abutting property, including avenue, place, way, drive, lane, boulevard, highway, road and any other thoroughfare except an alley as defined in Section 21.04.40.

(Ord. 83-03 (part))

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

(Ord. 83-03 (part))

"Structure" means anything constructed or erected, the use of which requires location on the ground or attachment to something having location on the ground, including, but not limited to, any building road pipe flume, conduit, siphon, aqueduct, telephone line and electrical power transmission and distribution line.

(Ord. 83-03 (part))

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

(Ord. 83-03 (part))

"Subdivision" means the division of any unit or units of improved or unimproved land as regulated by the State Subdivision Map Act.

(Ord. 83-03 (part))

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

(Ord. 83-03 (part))

"Accessory use" means a use customarily incidental and accessory to the principal use of a lot or a building located on the same lot as the accessory use.

(Ord. 83-03 (part))

"Coastal zone vertical access" means access for public use to and from the shoreline (or Coastal Zone lateral access) to the first public road inland.

(Ord. 83-03 (part))

"Wetland" means lands which may be covered periodically or permanently with shallow water and includes saltwater marshes, freshwater marshes, open or closed brackish water marshes, swamps, mudflats, bogs and fens.

(Ord. 83-03 (part))

"Wrecking yard" means the use of more than two hundred square feet of the area of any lot for the dismantling or wrecking of automobiles or other vehicles or machinery.

(Ord. 83-03 (part))

"Yard" means an open space other than a court on the same lot with a building, which open space is unoccupied and unobstructed from the ground upward, except as otherwise provided in Section 21.46.90. In measuring a yard, as hereinafter provided, the line of a building means a line parallel to the nearest lot line drawn through the point of a dwelling group or building nearest to such lot line, exclusive of the respective architectural features enumerated in Section 21.46.90 which are not to be considered in measuring the yard dimensions, and which the respective architectural features are defined as being permitted to extend into any

front, side or rear yard, respectively and the measurement shall be taken from the line of the building to the nearest lot line provided, however, that if any official plan line has been established for the street on which the lot faces or if any future width line is specified therefor by the provisions of Chapters 21.02 through 21.60, then such measurements shall be taken from such official plan line or such future width line to the nearest line of the building.

(Ord. 83-03 (part))

"Front yard" means a yard extending across the front of the lot between the side property lines, and lying between the front line of the lot and the nearest line of the building.

(Ord. 83-03 (part))

"Rear yard" means a yard extending across the full width of the lot and lying between the rear line of the lot and nearest line of the building.

(Ord. 83-03 (part))

"Side yard" means a yard between the side line of the lot and the nearest line of the building and extending from the front line of the building to the rear yard.

(Ord. 83-03 (part))