Article 3 — DEFINITIONS
Ferndale Zoning Code · 2026-06 edition · ingested 2026-07-06 · Ferndale
Unless the context otherwise requires, the definitions set forth in this Article shall be used in the interpretation and construction of this Ordinance. Words used in the present tense shall include the future, and in the future tense shall include the present tense; the singular number shall include the plural, and the plural the singular. The word “building” shall include the word “structure,” the word “used” shall include “arranged, designed, constructed, altered, converted, rented, leased, or intended to be used” and the word “shall” is mandatory.
“City” shall mean the City of Ferndale, “City Council” shall mean the City Council of Ferndale and “Planning Commission” shall mean the Planning Commission of the City of Ferndale or the City Council in the absence of a legally constituted Planning Commission.
§3.01 Abutting: Land having a common property line or separated only by an alley, easement or private road.
§3.02 Access Drive: A private drive connecting a street or alley with a parking or loading area or space and of sufficient width to safely permit the passage of all vehicles, equipment, machinery, trailers, mobile homes, and pedestrians which may normally or reasonably be expected to seek access to the parking or loading area or space. Whenever the size, location or use of the parking or loading area is such as to reasonably necessitate the use of such drive by emergency vehicles, the drive shall be of adequate width and design to permit the passage of such emergency vehicles in order to be considered as an access drive within the meaning of these regulations.
be expected to seek access to the parking or loading area or space. Whenever the size, location or use of the parking or loading area is such as to reasonably necessitate the use of such drive by emergency vehicles, the drive shall be of adequate width and design to permit the passage of such emergency vehicles in order to be considered as an access drive within the meaning of these regulations.
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Acreage:Land that is customarily measured in terms of acres rather than front feet or square feet. Administrative Officials: The Planning Commission of the City of Ferndale and/or such other Planning Commission employee as may be designated by the Planning Commission. Agriculture, General:Farming, dairying, pasturage, timber production, tree farming, horticulture, floriculture, viniculture, apiaries and animal and poultry husbandry, but not including stock yards, slaughter houses, hog farms, pig farms, turkey farms, frog farms, fertilizer works or plants for the reduction of animal matter. Agricultural Service-Related Business:A business whose principal activity includes the service and selling of goods directly related to farming, dairying, pasturage, horticulture and animal and poultry husbandry. Such uses include “feed and farm supply stores,” “hay, feed, seed, tools and hardware stores” or “farm and ranch supplies,” but does not include a stock yard, slaughter house, meat market, animal and poultry husbandry, animal-keeping or veterinary service, fertilizer works or a plant for the reduction of animal matter. Furthermore, the selling or repairing of vehicles, farm implements like tractors or accessories, or the dispensing of fuels for such is not allowed as a principle activity. Alley or Lane:A public or private way not more than thirty (30) feet wide affording only secondary means of access to abutting property and not intended for general traffic circulation, except when such terms are modified by the word “bowling.” Animal hospital:A building where animals are given medical or surgical treatment for compensation and where the boarding of animals is incidental to such treatment. The designation “small animal hospital” shall indicate that such treatment shall be limited to dogs, cats, rabbits, birds and similar small animals. Animal Products Processing Plants: Buildings and premises for the preparation for wholesale distribution of animals or animal products, including, but not limited to, slaughter houses, fat |
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rendering, tallow works, fertilizer plants, tanneries, seafood packing and canning and distillation of bones.
§3.10 Automobile Repair:
- 3.10.1 Automobile Repair, Major: General repair, rebuilding or reconditioning of engines, including removal of same; motor vehicle, truck or trailer collision service, including body, frame or fender straightening or repair and over-all painting or paint shop.
3.10.2 Automobile Repair, Minor: Upholstering, replacement of parts and motor service, not including removal of the motor, to passenger cars and trucks not exceeding one and one-half (1 ½) tons capacity, but not including any operation under “Automobile Repair, Major” Section 3.11.1
§3.11 Automobile Service, Gas or Filling Station: A place which provides for the servicing, washing and fueling or operating motor vehicles, including minor repairs, and the sales of merchandise and supplies incidental thereto.
§3.12 Bed and Breakfast Inn (Amended by Ordinance 2017-01 on 10/19/2017):A home occupation for a residential dwelling occupied by a resident person or family, containing one bedroom with separate bathroom occupied on a transient basis for compensation, and in which a breakfast may be provided to guests. The breakfast provided shall not constitute a restaurant operation and may not be provided to persons other than guests of the bed and breakfast. See also §7.06 for Bed and Breakfast Inns.
§3.13 Board of Supervisors: Humboldt County Board of Supervisors.
§3.14 Board of Zoning Adjustment: The Planning Commission.
§3.15 Boarding House: A dwelling or part thereof where meals or meals and lodging are provided for compensation for three (3) or more persons, not transient, but does not include employee housing.
§3.16 Building: Any structure having a roof used or intended to be used for the shelter or enclosure of persons, animals or property. When such a structure is divided into separate parts by one or more unpierced walls extending from the ground or foundation up, each part is deemed a separate building, except as regards minimum side yard requirements.
3.16.1 Building, Accessory: A detached subordinate building located on the same building site as the main building and designated and intended for a use that is subordinate to the use of the main building.
3.16.2 Building, Main: A building in which is conducted the principal use of the building site on which it is situated.
3.16.3 Building Site: See Lot.
§3.17 (These sections amended by Ord. 07-01 on 2/12/07) Building Inspector – shall be appointed by the City Manager.
§3.18 Building Official shall be appointed by the City Manager. (End of sections amended by Ordinance 07-01 on 2/12/07)
§3.19 Camp, Public: Any area or tract of land used or designated to accommodate temporarily two (2) or more camping parties, traveling by automobile or otherwise.
§3.20 Cemetery: Land used or intended to be used for the burial of the dead and dedicated for cemetery purposes and including, but not limited to, columbarium, crematories, mausoleums, mortuaries and chapels, when operated in conjunction with and within the boundary of such cemetery.
§3.21 City: The City of Ferndale.
§3.22 City Council: The City Council of Ferndale. §3.23 Court: An open, unoccupied space, other than a yard, on the same lot with a building or group of buildings, which is bounded on two or more sides by such building or buildings.
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Commission, Planning Commission:The Planning Commission of the City of Ferndale, State of California. Communication Equipment Building:A building which houses electrical and mechanical equipment necessary for the conduct of a public utility communications business with or without personnel. Density Bonus(Added by Ordinance 2014-02 on 5/1/2014): As defined by Government Code Section 65915 et seq., an increase over the maximum density otherwise allowed by the applicable zoning district, that is granted to the owner/developer of a housing project who agrees to construct a senior housing project or a prescribed percentage of dwelling units that are affordable to households of very low; low; and/or moderate income. When determining the number of dwelling units that shall be affordable, the units authorized by the density bonus shall not be included in the calculation. Distance Between Structures: The shortest horizontal distance measured between the vertical walls of two structures. Dwelling: Any building or portion thereof containing one or more dwelling units designed or used exclusively as a residence or sleeping place for one or more families, but not including a tent, cabin, boat, trailer, mobile home, hotel or motel. 3.28.1 Dwelling, Single Family: A building containing exclusively one dwelling unit. 3.28.2 Dwelling, Two-Family or Duplex: A detached building under one roof, designed for or occupied exclusively by two families living independently of each other. 3.28.3 Dwelling, Multiple:A building or portion thereof containing three (3) or more dwelling units located on a single lot. Includes apartments and flats, units side-by- side, units stacked, dwelling groups, and one or more units occupying the same site as a non-residential uses (mixed use development) Excludes boarding houses, motels, mobile home parks, hotels, fraternity or sorority houses, private residence clubs, vacation rentals, and detached single family homes with accessory dwelling units in compliance with Sections 66310-66342 of the California Government Code. 3.28.4 Dwelling Unit: One room, or a suite of two (2) or more rooms, designed for, intended for, or used by one family, where the family lives, sleeps and cooks and which unit has one kitchen or kitchenette. 3.28.5 Dwelling Group: Three or more detached single-family dwellings occupying a parcel of land, in one (1) ownership and having a yard court in common, but not including manufactured home parks, hotels, motels, vacation rentals, and transient occupancy uses. Emergency Repairs: Repairs made to any structure, whether used for residential, commercial or other uses, in the immediate period following damage by earthquake, fire, wind, hail, or collision, provided that such repairs will bring the structure to its original design. Such repairs include: re-roofing, repairing fire damage, painting, re-painting, paint scraping, and replacing windows, drainpipes, railings, and small structural ornamentation. Emergency Shelter(§3.31 added by Ordinance 2014-02 on 5/1/2014): 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. Emergency Vehicle: Self-propelled vehicle or trailer used in the discharge of the duties of public districts, agencies, or departments or privately owned public utilities responsible for fire prevention and control, police enforcement, sanitation, sewage, drainage, flood control and public utility maintenance and service. |
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§3.32 Employee Housing: 3.32.1 Small Employee Housing: Means housing for employees, including farmworkers, providing accommodations for six or fewer persons in a single family dwelling and consistent with California Health and Safety Code Section 17021.5. Small employee housing shall be deemed a single-family dwelling and is allowed in residential zones. Employee housing for six or fewer employees is subject to all municipal codes, regulations, and other standards generally applicable to other residential dwellings of the same type in the same zone.
3.32.2 Large Employee Housing: Means housing for employees, including farmworkers, consisting of no more than thirty-six (36) beds in group quarters or twelve (12) units or spaces designed for use by a single family or household and consistent with the California Health and Safety Code Section 17021.6. Moreover, large employee housing is an agricultural land use, and shall not be deemed a use that implies that employee housing is an activity that differs in any other way from an agricultural use pursuant to Section 17021.6 of the California Health and Safety Code. -
§3.33 (This section amended by Ordinance 2025 04 on 8/20/2025) Family: One or more persons sharing a dwelling unit whether or not related by blood, marriage, or adoption.
§3.34 Farm Dwelling: A dwelling on farm premises for permanent residents of the farm, such as the owner, lessee, foreman, or others whose principal employment is the operation of the farm.
§3.35 Frontage: All the property on one (1) side of a street between intersecting or intercepting streets or between a street and right-of-way, waterway, end of a dead-end street or city boundary measured along the street line. An intercepting street shall determine only the boundary of the frontage on the side of the street that it intercepts.
§3.36 Fur Farm: A place at which fur-bearing animals are bred and raised for commercial purposes, such as breeding stock or for the reclamation of pelts.
§3.37 Garage: 3.37.1 Garage, Private: An accessory building or a portion of a building designed for the storage of self-propelled passenger vehicles, trailers or boats belonging to the owners or occupants of the site and their guests, including covered parking space or carport.
3.37.2 Garage, Public: Any building or portion thereof or premises, except those herein defined as a private garage, used for the storage or care of self-propelled vehicles, trailers and boats or where any such are equipped for operation or repair or kept for remuneration and hire.
3.37.3 Garage, Storage: Any structure or portion thereof or premises, except those herein defined as private garages, used exclusively for the storage for remuneration or hire of self-propelled vehicles, trailers and boats.
§3.38 Ground Coverage: The percentage of the total area that is covered by structures as herein defined.
§3.39 Guest Houses: Guest houses are herein defined as a detached living quarter of permanent construction, without a kitchen, which is clearly subordinate and incidental to the use of the main building, on the same lot. Guest houses shall not be let, leased or rented, in whole or in part, independently of the main building.
§3.40 Hog Farm: Any premises used for the raising or keeping of three (3) or more hogs when raised, fed or fattened for purposes of sale and consumption by other than the owner of the site. In an agricultural zone, the term “hog farm” is not intended to otherwise preclude the raising of hogs as part of a general farming operation.
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| §3.41 | (This section amended by Ordinance 08-03) Home Occupation:Any use which, as determined |
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| by this ordinance, is customarily carried on within a dwelling or unattached structure by the | |
| inhabitants thereof and which is clearly incidental and secondary to the residential use of the | |
| dwelling. (End of section amended by Ordinance 08-03) | |
| §3.42 | Hotel: Any building or portion thereof containing living quarters or dwelling units and |
| designed for or intended to be used by six (6) or more transient guests, whether the | |
| compensation or hire be paid directly or indirectly, and shall include resort hotel, lodging | |
| house, rooming house, dormitory, residence club, fraternity, sorority and other similar uses. | |
| Excludes employee housing. | |
| §3.43 | Incidental and/or Appurtenant Uses:Small and/or related activities other than the uses |
| specified under “Agricultural Service-Related Business,” which are available or are conducted | |
| on the site during the same hours of the principal activity and all of which occupy less than 25 | |
| percent of the total retail floor area. Such activities shall be related to or not conflict with the | |
| principle activity. Such activities can include: home supplies, small-scale plant nurseries and | |
| landscape supplies, home improvement supplies and books, canning and kitchen supplies, | |
| work clothes, pruning or composting workshops, deli (not exceeding 200 square feet), gift | |
| items or handcrafted items. | |
| §3.44 | Instruction, Commercial:Schools or classes operated within a building to give instruction in |
| any art, profession, trade or business, for compensation, and including, but not limited to | |
| instruction in cosmetology, hairdressing, barbering, bartending, music, dancing, typing, | |
| shorthand or other business skills, electronics or engineering. | |
| §3.45 | Junk Yard:Any aggregate area of more than two hundred (200) square feet within any parcel, |
| lot or contiguous lots which is used as a place where imported waste, inoperable household | |
| appliances, inoperable machinery, inoperable motor vehicles, portions of inoperable motor | |
| vehicles or discarded or salvaged materials are disassembled, handled, placed, processed, | |
| baled, packaged or stored. This includes but is not limited to auto and trailer wrecking yards, | |
| scrap metal yards, wrecking yards, used lumber yards and places or yards for storage of | |
| salvaged house wrecking and structural steel material and equipment. This does not include | |
| the above activities when conducted entirely within completely enclosed buildings nor the | |
| sale or storage of used cars, farm machinery, trailers or boats in operable condition, nor the | |
| salvage of materials incidental to manufacturing or farm operations, provided such salvage | |
| takes place where the manufacturing or farming is done. | |
| §3.46 | Kennel:Any premises, except those accessory to an agricultural use, where five (5) or more |
| small domestic animals, not sick or injured, are boarded, cared for or trained for | |
| compensation, or are kept for sale or breeding purposes. | |
| §3.47 | Kitchen or Kitchenette: Any space used or designated to be used for cooking and preparing |
| food, whether the cooking unit be permanent or temporary and portable. | |
| §3.48 | Licensed Premises:Premises licensed by the Alcoholic Beverage Control Board of the State of |
| California for the sale and consumption of alcoholic beverages on the premises. | |
| §3.49 | Living: |
| 3.49.1 Living Area: The interior habitable area of a dwelling unit including basements and |
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| attics but does not include a garage or any accessory structure. | |
| 3.49.2 Living Quarters: One or more rooms in a building designed, intended for or used by |
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| one or more individuals for living or sleeping purposes, but which does not have | |
| cooking facilities. |
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| §3.50 Lot: 3.50.1 3.50.2 3.50.3 3.50.4 3.50.5 3.50.6 3.50.7 3.50.8 |
Lot, Building Site: A parcel of land, exclusive of public streets or alleys, occupied or intended to be occupied by a building or group of buildings, together with such open space, yards, minimum width and area as are required by these regulations, and having full frontage on an improved and accepted public street which meets the standard of widths and improvements specified by the_City of Ferndale_for the street in question, or having either partial frontage on such street or access thereto by record right-of-way or record easement, which partial frontage right-of-way or easement is determined by the Commission to be adequate. In subdivided areas, a building site is any portion of a filed and recorded lot or any combination of contiguous lands, including more than a lot which meets the minimum area and width requirements of the zone in which it is located and which is so shaped that a building having the minimum area as set forth in the building code for the purpose intended for said building could be constructed in compliance of all yard requirements of that zone. As used herein, “lot” is not restricted to a parcel of land identified and filed and recorded as a subdivision by lot number. Lot, Corner:A lot abutting upon two or more streets at their intersection, or upon two parts of the same street forming an interior angle of less than one hundred thirty-five (135) degrees. a. The front yard of a corner lot is the yard adjacent to the shortest street frontage. b. The rear yard of a corner lot extends to the side yard adjacent to the street c. A side yard on the street side of a corner lot shall extend from the front yard to the rear lot line. Lot, Flag:A lot with access to a public street by a corridor of land of considerable length and not less than 20 feet in width. The front lot line of a flag lot shall be defined as that interior lot line which is more parallel and closest to the public street, except where due to the irregularity of the shape of the lot the Planning Department may determine otherwise. In computing the area of the flag lot, the area of the corridor shall be excluded. Lot, Interior: A lot other than a corner or key lot. Lot, Key: The first lot to the rear of a corner lot, the front line of which is a continuation of the side line of the corner lot (exclusive of any alley) and fronting on the street which intersects or intercepts the street upon which the corner lot fronts. Lot Area:The total horizontal area included within lot lines, but excluding any portion of such area that has been dedicated for public right-of-way purposes. Lot Depth:The average horizontal distance between the front and rear lot lines measured in the mean direction of the side lot lines Lot Lines.The property lines bounding the lot. The definitions herein are applicable to lots that are basically square or rectangular in shape. When these definitions are not applicable due to irregularity in the shape of the lot, lot lines shall be determined by the Administrative Official, subject to review by the Planning Commission. |
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a. Lot Line, Front: The line separating the lot from the street right-of-way. In the case of a corner lot, the shorter street frontage shall be the front lot line.
b. Lot Line, Rear: In the case of an interior Lot, the line opposite and most distant from the front lot line. In the case of a triangular or wedge-shape lot, for
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measurement purposes, a line ten (10) feet in length within the lot, parallel to and at the maximum distance from the front lot line. c. Lot Line, Side: Any lot lines not a front or rear lot line. 3.50.9 Lot Width: The horizontal distance between the side lot lines measured at right angles to the depth of the lot at the front yard set back line. Whenever this definition cannot be applied due to irregularity in the shape of the lots, the lot width shall be as determined by the Administrative Official subject to review by the Planning Commission. Manufactured Home(Added by Ordinance 2014-02 on 5/1/2014): A residential structure constructed entirely in the factory, and which since June 15, 1976, has been regulated by the Federal Manufactured Housing Construction and Safety Standards Act of 1974 under the administration of the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD). Minor Repair & Routine Maintenance: Such repair and maintenance which may include re- roofing; painting; re-painting, re-surfacing; paint scraping; replacement of windows; drainpipes, railings, and small structural ornamentation; and replacement of individual boards in a wooden porch with fresh identical lumber, if the status quo or original design is maintained. Mobile Home(Amended by Ordinance 2014-02 on 5/1/2014): A trailer, transportable in one or more sections, that is certified under the National Manufactured Housing Construction and Safety Standards Act of 1974, which is over eight feet in width and 40 feet in length, is tied down (a) to a permanent foundation on a lot either owned or leased by the homeowner or (b) is set on piers, with wheels removed and skirted, in a mobile home park and not including recreational vehicle, commercial coach or factory-built housing. Motel: A building or group of buildings comprising individual living quarters or dwelling units for the accommodation of transient guests which is so designed that parking is on the same building site and is conveniently accessible from the living units without having to pass through any lobby or interior court. This definition includes auto court, tourist court, motor hotel, but does not include accommodation for mobile homes or trailers. Excludes employee housing. Non-Conforming Buildings: A building, structure or portion thereof which lawfully existed at the time of the adoption of these regulations but which does not conform to all the heights and area regulations of the zone in which it is located, or which is so designed, erected or altered that it could not reasonably be occupied by a use permitted in the zone in which it is located. Nurseries and Greenhouses: Buildings and premises for the propagation, display, and retail sale of plants, vines, shrubs and trees, and the sale of horticultural materials when incidental thereto. Office: 3.57.1 Office, Business: An office which has as its main function the arrangement of business transactions, the holding of sales meetings and administrative conferences, the receiving of clients or payments or the keeping of records and accounts pertaining to the particular business. 3.57.2 Office, Professional:An office from which and at which a doctor or other practitioner of healing arts, a dentist, lawyer, engineer, architect, accountant or similar professional person may offer services, and which includes medical or dental laboratories. |
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Owner:The person or persons, firm, corporation, or partnership holding legal or equitable title or recorded contract of purchase of property, or any person authorized by written instrument to act for the owner. Person:Any individual, public or private corporation, political subdivision, partnership, firm, trust or estate or any other legal entity whatsoever which is recognized in law as the subject of rights or duties. Planning Commission:The Planning Commission of the City of Ferndale, as created by City Ordinance, hereafter referred to as the Commission. Public Use: A use operated exclusively by a governmental agency or public agency, which has the purpose of serving the public health, safety, convenience or general welfare, and which includes but is not limited to such uses as schools, parks, playgrounds, educational, recreational and social facilities, libraries, museums, firehouses, courthouses, hospitals and administrative service facilities. Quasi-Public Use: 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 or private hospitals. Recreational: 3.63.1 Recreational, Commercial:Recreation facilities open to the general public for a fee, or restricted to members when operated for profit as a business. 3.63.2 Recreational, Private, Noncommercial:Clubs or recreation facilities operated by a nonprofit organization and open only to bona fide members of such nonprofit organization and their guests. Residential Care Institution:The rooming or boarding of any aged or convalescent person whether ambulatory or non-ambulatory, for which a license is required by a county, state or federal agency. Residential Care Institution shall include: sanitarium, rest home and convalescent home. Roadside Stand: A temporary structure designed or used for the display or sale of agricultural products primarily produced on the premises upon which such a stand is located or produced upon other sites under the same ownership as that of such nonprofit organization and their guests. Routine Maintenance:See Section 3.48 Minor Repair. Secondary Dwelling Unit: A separate residential unit constructed prior to January 1, 2017, containing sleeping, kitchen and bathroom facilities, created on a lot zoned R-1 or R-S that already contains one legally created residential unit. (This section amended by Ordinance 2025-06 on 11/19/2025) Single Room Occupancy or SRO: Multiple-unit residential building(s) containing housing units that may have kitchen and/or bathroom facilities and are single room dwelling units or efficiency units as defined by the State Health and Safety Code. Each housing unit is occupied by no more than 2 persons, for no less than 30 days, and the unit is the occupants’ primary residence. A housing facility that is configured as SRO units that meets the State definitions for transitional housing or supportive housing shall be regulated as transitional housing or supportive housing as applicable. Setback Line:A line established by these regulations or by other ordinance or regulation to govern the placement of buildings or structures with respect to lot lines, streets or alleys. Sign: (This entire section was repealed by Ordinance 2013-02 on December 7, 2013). Stable: 3.71.1 Stable Private: A detached accessory building for the shelter of horses or similar hoofed animals for the use of the residents and their guests. |
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3.71.2 Stable Public: A stable other than a private stable; generally, where horses are available for hire, or are sheltered and fed for compensation. Street: A public or private right-of-way that provides a primary means of access to abutting property. Street Line: The boundary between a street right-of-way and abutting property. Structure:Anything constructed, the use of which requires permanent location on the ground, or attachment to something having a permanent location on the ground, including, but not limited to: signs, fences, walls used as a fence, mailboxes, flag poles, solar panels, ham radio antenna, telecommunications facilities, wind turbine towers, and swimming pools, but excluding driveways, patios, or parking spaces where the area is unobstructed from the ground up. (This section amended by Ordinance 05-02 on 5/7/05.) Structural Alteration:Any change in the structural members of a building, such as bearing walls, columns, beams or girders. (This section amended by Ord. 2014-02 on 5/1/2014 and Ord. 2025-06 on 11/19/2025) Supportive Housing:As defined at Section 65582(n) of the Government Code means housing has no limit on the length of stay, is linked to onsite or offsite services, and is occupied by a target population. Supportive housing is a residential use that is permitted in the same manner as other residential dwellings of the same type in the same zone, and subject only to the same regulations and procedures that apply to other residential uses of the same type in the same zone pursuant to Government Code Section 65583(c)(3). (This section amended by Ordinance 2025-06 on 11/19/2025) Supportive Services:As defined in Government Code Section 65582(o), supportive services include, but are not limited to, a combination of subsidized, permanent housing, intensive case management, medical and mental health care, substance abuse treatment, employment services, and benefits advocacy. Timber Production:The systematic harvesting and reseeding of timber stands in accordance with practices designed to maintain the productive capacity of the land, preserve the watershed and conserve the soil. Timber Products Processing Plants: Buildings and premises for the commercial processing of wood and wood products, including but not limited to, sawmills, lumber mills and plywood mills, but not including pulp mills. Pulp mills shall be classified as heavy industrial use and shall be permitted in the zones designed to accommodate such uses. Trailer(Amended by Ordinance 2014-02 on 5/1/2014): Any vehicle without motive power or designed to be drawn by a motor vehicle and to be used in such a manner as to permit temporary occupancy thereof as sleeping quarters or occupation or use as a selling or advertising device, or use for storage or conveyance of tools, equipment, or machinery, and so designed that it is mounted on wheels and may be used as a conveyance on highways and streets. The term “trailer” includes the term “camp trailer,” “trailer coach,” “automobile trailer,” “recreational vehicle (RV),” “motor home” and “house trailer,” except when the any of these fall within the definition of “mobile home.” Trailers are considered structures for the purpose of these regulations when they are parked in mobile home parks or trailer camps and are used on such sites for human habitation, offices, wash houses, storage or similar auxiliary services necessary for the human habitation of the court or camps. Trailer Camp: Any lot or parcel thereof or parcel of land which is used or offered as a location for one or more trailers of camping, weekend or temporary occupancy. As distinguished from a Mobile Home Park, a trailer camp is usually located in or adjacent to a recreation or resort facility and is primarily designed to serve as a seasonal facility or as a place of temporary residence for persons who have a permanent residence established elsewhere. |
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§3.82 Trailer Court or Trailer Park: See Mobile Home. §3.83 Transient: When used in conjunction with boarding or lodging, services that are charged for in units of less than one (1) month and where the majority of people utilizing such services remain for periods of less than three (3) months, except for bed and breakfast inns. This period shall be limited to a maximum of fourteen (14) consecutive days.
§3.84 Transitional Housing (§3.81 added by Ordinance 2014-02 on 5/1/2014): Defined in Section 50675.2 of the Health & Safety Code as 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.
§3.85 Use: The purpose for which either land or a structure thereon is designed, arranged, or intended, or for which it is or may be occupied or maintained.
3.85.1 Use, Accessory: A use legally permitted in the zone which is incidental to and subordinate to the principal use of the site or a main building on the site, and serves a purpose which does not change the character of the principal use.
3.85.2 (This section amended by Ord. 07-01 on 2/12/07) Use, Conditional: A principal or accessory use of land or of structures thereon which may be essential or desirable to the public convenience or welfare in one or more zones, but which may also impair the integrity and character of the zone or adjoining zone, or be detrimental to the public health, morals or welfare unless additional restrictions on the location and extent of use are imposed and enforced. Such use shall become a “principal permitted use” or “accessory permitted use” when all specific additional restrictions are completed and permanently satisfied in conformance with an approved use permit. Should such restrictions be of a continuing nature, the use will remain “conditional” so long as the restrictions are complied with, but shall become an “illegal use” whenever and so long as the restrictions are not complied with. Conditional Use Permits run with the land. (End of section amended by Ordinance 07-01 on 2/12/07)
3.85.3 Use, Nonconforming: A use which lawfully occupied a building or land at the time of the adoption of these regulations and which does not conform to the use regulations of the zone in which it is located.
3.85.4 Use, Principal Permitted: The primary use of land or of a main building which is compatible with the purpose of the zone and which is permitted in the zone. If a use is listed in a specific zone as a principal permitted use, it means that the owner, lessee or other person who has legal right to use the land has a vested right to conduct such principal permitted use without securing special permission, subject only to such general limitations as off-street parking and site plan approval which are generally applied to all uses in that zone.
§3.86 Wrecking Yard: See Junk Yard, Section 3.42.
§3.87 Yard: An open space other than a court on the same site with a building, which open space is unoccupied and unobstructed from the ground upward, except for landscaping or as specified elsewhere in this ordinance, but not including any portion of any street, alley or road right-ofway, except as specified elsewhere in these regulations.
- 3.87.1 Yard, Front: A yard of uniform depth extending across the full width of the lot between the front lot line and the nearest vertical support or wall of the main building or enclosed or covered porch attached thereto. The front yard of a corner lot is the yard adjacent to the shortest street frontage.
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3.87.2 Yard, Rear: A yard of uniform depth extending across the full width of the lot between the rear lot line and the nearest vertical support or wall of the main building or enclosed or covered porch attached thereto, except that the rear yard of a corner lot extends to the side yard adjacent to the street.
3.87.3 Yard, Side: A yard on each side of the main building extending from the front yard to the rear yard, the width of each yard being measured between the side line on the lot and the nearest vertical support or main wall of each building or enclosed or covered porch attached thereto. A side yard on the street side of a corner lot shall extend from the front yard to the rear lot line.
§3.88 Yard Sale: An activity involving the sale of used and second-hand goods which are the personal property of the owner or resident of the parcel on which the sale is being conducted, or for a joint yard sale carried out by two or more households, where at least one participant is the owner or resident of the parcel on which the yard sale is being conducted, but which activity is not part of a commercial operation subject to regulation by the State Board of Equalization or the business license ordinance of the City, the use remaining clearly incidental and subordinate to the residential use of the parcel.
§3.89 Zone: A portion of the territory of the City of Ferndale within which certain uniform regulations and requirements or combinations thereof apply under the provisions of these regulations. The word “zone” shall include the word “district.”
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