Chapter 21.15 — DEFINITIONS

21.15.010 - Purpose.¶

21.15.020 - Rules of Construction.¶

21.15.025 - Terms not defined.¶

21.15.030 - Abandoned.¶

21.15.040 - Abut.¶

21.15.045 - Accessory dwelling unit.¶

21.15.050 - Accessory building, accessory structure.¶

21.15.055 - Accessory tasting room.¶

21.15.060 - Accessory use.¶

21.15.063 - Accessory use, residential.¶

21.15.064 - Acutely Hazardous Material.¶

21.15.064.5 - Adaptive reuse.¶

21.15.065 - Addition.¶

21.15.070 - Adjacent.¶

21.15.080 - Adjoining.¶

21.15.090 - Adjusted earnings.¶

21.15.100 - Administrative service.¶

21.15.110 - Adult entertainment business.¶

21.15.113 - Adult-Use Cannabis Dispensary.¶

21.15.114 - Adult-Use Cannabis Delivery-Only Dispensary.¶

21.15.120 - Aggrieved person.¶

21.15.130 - Airport or aircraft landing field.¶

21.15.135 - Alcoholic beverage manufacturing.¶

21.15.140 - Alley.¶

21.15.150 - Alteration.¶

21.15.160 - Amortize, amortization.¶

21.15.165 - Amusement/entertainment facilities.¶

21.15.170 - Amusement machine.¶

21.15.180 - Amusement park.¶

21.15.190 - Amusement ride.¶

21.15.195 - Animal boarding.¶

21.15.196 - Animal daycare.¶

21.15.197 - Animal lounge.¶

21.15.200 - Antique shop.¶

21.15.205 - Apartment.¶

21.15.210 - Appealable area.¶

21.15.220 - Arcade.¶

21.15.230 - Architectural protrusion.¶

21.15.240 - Artist studio.¶

21.15.245 - Assembly use.¶

21.15.250 - Attached.¶

21.15.260 - Attic.¶

21.15.270 - Auto detailing.¶

21.15.280 - Auto repair, major.¶

21.15.290 - Auto repair, minor.¶

21.15.300 - Automobile service station.¶

21.15.310 - Automobile wrecking.¶

21.15.320 - Awning.¶

21.15.330 - Balcony.¶

21.15.335 - Bank.¶

21.15.340 - Basement.¶

21.15.350 - Bay window.¶

21.15.360 - Bed and Breakfast Inn.¶

21.15.365 - Bicycle parking space.¶

21.15.370 - Billboard.¶

21.15.372 - Billboard, abandoned.¶

21.15.374 - Billboard, electronic.¶

21.15.380 - Board and Care Home.¶

21.15.390 - Boardinghouse.¶

21.15.400 - Body or Hearing Body.¶

21.15.410 - Building.¶

21.15.420 - Building Code.¶

21.15.430 - Building Coverage.¶

21.15.440 - Business Support Service.¶

21.15.441.1 - Cannabis cultivation.¶

21.15.441.2 - Cannabis manufacturing/processing.¶

21.15.441.3 - Cannabis distribution.¶

21.15.441.4 - Cannabis testing.¶

21.15.441.5 - Cannabis distributor, self-distribution.¶

21.15.442 - Car title loans.¶

21.15.445 - Caretaker residence.¶

21.15.447 - Carport.¶

21.15.450 - Categorical Exclusion.¶

21.15.460 - Certificate of Occupancy.¶

21.15.470 - Chattel.¶

21.15.475 - Check cashing.¶

21.15.480 - Child care—Large family daycare home.¶

21.15.490 - Child care—Small family daycare home.¶

21.15.500 - Chimney.¶

21.15.510 - Reserved.¶

21.15.520 - Clinic, medical.¶

21.15.530 - Coastal zone.¶

21.15.540 - Coastally dependent.¶

21.15.550 - Code.¶

21.15.555 - Collectibles.¶

21.15.560 - Commercial.¶

21.15.562 - Commercial loans.¶

21.15.565 - Commercial recreation.¶

21.15.570 - Commercial storage/self-storage.¶

21.15.575 - Commissary.¶

21.15.580 - Commission.¶

21.15.590 - Communal housing.¶

21.15.595 - Community assembly.¶

21.15.600 - Community care facility.¶

21.15.602 - Community correctional reentry center.¶

21.15.605 - Community garden.¶

21.15.607 - Computer arcade.¶

21.15.610 - Computer program consulting service.¶

21.15.620 - Conditional use.¶

21.15.630 - Conditional use permit.¶

21.15.635 - Consumer loans.¶

21.15.640 - Convalescent hospital.¶

21.15.650 - Conversion.¶

21.15.660 - Corner cutoff.¶

21.15.670 - Corner lot.¶

21.15.680 - Corral.¶

21.15.690 - Corrosive.¶

21.15.700 - Courtesy parking.¶

21.15.705 - Courtyard.¶

21.15.707 - Cultural facility.¶

21.15.710 - Curb level.¶

21.15.720 - Daycare center.¶

21.15.730 - Day nursery, preschool or nursery school.¶

21.15.740 - Deck.¶

21.15.750 - Demolish.¶

21.15.760 - Density.¶

21.15.770 - Density transfer.¶

21.15.780 - Detached building.¶

21.15.790 - Development.¶

21.15.800 - Development agreement.¶

21.15.810 - Development rights.¶

21.15.820 - Disposal.¶

21.15.830 - Disposal site.¶

21.15.840 - District, zoning.¶

21.15.850 - Double-frontage lot.¶

21.15.860 - Double zero side yard.¶

21.15.870 - Drive-in restaurant.¶

21.15.875 - Drive-through facilities.¶

21.15.880 - Driveway.¶

21.15.890 - Duplex (two-family dwelling).¶

21.15.900 - Dwelling.¶

21.15.910 - Dwelling unit.¶

21.15.915 - Dwelling unit, accessory.¶

21.15.920 - Dwelling, multiple-family.¶

21.15.930 - Dwelling, one-family.¶

21.15.935 - Dwelling, primary.¶

21.15.940 - Easement.¶

21.15.950 - Educational institution.¶

21.15.960 - Electrical distribution substation.¶

21.15.962 - Electrical generating station.¶

21.15.964 - Electronic or video game.¶

21.15.966 - Emergency shelter.¶

21.15.970 - Entertainment service.¶

21.15.980 - Equipment.¶

21.15.990 - Equipment, garden.¶

21.15.993 - Event center.¶

21.15.995 - Exterior remodeling.¶

21.15.1000 - Facing.¶

21.15.1010 - Family.¶

21.15.1020 - Fast-food restaurant.¶

21.15.1030 - Feasible.¶

21.15.1040 - Fence height.¶

21.15.1050 - Financial service.¶

21.15.1054 - Fitness Facility.¶

21.15.1055 - Fixed bar.¶

21.15.1060 - Flammable.¶

21.15.1065 - Fleet service/company vehicle operations.¶

21.15.1070 - Floor area, gross (GFA).¶

21.15.1090 - Floor area ratio.¶

21.15.1100 - Fortunetelling.¶

21.15.1110 - Foster family home.¶

21.15.1120 - Fourplex (four-family dwelling).¶

21.15.1130 - Fraternity house or sorority house.¶

21.15.1140 - Frontage.¶

21.15.1150 - Front lot line.¶

21.15.1160 - Front yard, required.¶

21.15.1170 - Garage.¶

21.15.1180 - General Plan.¶

21.15.1190 - Grade.¶

21.15.1200 - Group home.¶

21.15.1205 - Guardrail.¶

21.15.1210 - Guest parking.¶

21.15.1220 - Guestroom.¶

21.15.1230 - Halfway house.¶

21.15.1240 - Handicapped housing.¶

21.15.1250 - Hazardous material.¶

21.15.1260 - Hazardous waste.¶

21.15.1270 - Hazardous waste area.¶

21.15.1280 - Hazardous waste facility.¶

21.15.1290 - Hazardous waste facility, off-site.¶

21.15.1300 - Hazardous waste facility, on-site.¶

21.15.1310 - Hazardous waste producer.¶

21.15.1320 - Hedge.¶

21.15.1330 - Height of building.¶

21.15.1335 - Height to midpoint of sloped roof.¶

21.15.1338 - High crime.¶

21.15.1340 - Highway.¶

21.15.1350 - Home occupation.¶

21.15.1360 - Horse.¶

21.15.1370 - Hospital.¶

21.15.1380 - Hotel.¶

21.15.1395 - Household pet.¶

21.15.1400 - Housing Authority.¶

21.15.1410 - Housing, low cost.¶

21.15.1420 - Housing, moderate cost.¶

21.15.1430 - Housing, very low cost.¶

21.15.1440 - Illumination, indirect.¶

21.15.1450 - Incentive zoning.¶

21.15.1460 - Industrial.¶

21.15.1465 - Inn.¶

21.15.1470 - Institutional use.¶

21.15.1475 - Interim housing.¶

21.15.1480 - Interior lot.¶

21.15.1490 - Irritant.¶

21.15.1500 - Junk.¶

21.15.1510 - Junk or salvage yard.¶

21.15.1520 - Kennel.¶

21.15.1530 - Key lot.¶

21.15.1540 - Kitchen.¶

21.15.1550 - Landscaping.¶

21.15.1555 - Landscaping plan.¶

21.15.1560 - Laundry.¶

21.15.1570 - Laundry, industrial.¶

21.15.1575 - Liquor store.¶

21.15.1576 - Live-Work unit.¶

21.15.1578 - Loading space.¶

21.15.1580 - Lodginghouse.¶

21.15.1590 - Lot.¶

21.15.1600 - Lot area.¶

21.15.1610 - Lot, corner.¶

21.15.1620 - Lot coverage.¶

21.15.1630 - Lot depth.¶

21.15.1640 - Lot, interior.¶

21.15.1650 - Lot, key.¶

21.15.1660 - Lot line, front.¶

21.15.1670 - Lot line, rear.¶

21.15.1680 - Lot line, side.¶

21.15.1690 - Lot, reversed corner.¶

21.15.1700 - Lot, through.¶

21.15.1710 - Lot width.¶

21.15.1720 - Manufactured housing.¶

21.15.1725 - Massage establishment.¶

21.15.1730 - Median income.¶

21.15.1740 - Medical office.¶

21.15.1750 - Merchandise mall.¶

21.15.1755 - Mezzanine.¶

21.15.1755.5 - Microenterprise Home Kitchen Operation (MEHKO).¶

21.15.1756 - Micro-Unit.¶

21.15.1760 - Mixed use.¶

21.15.1764 - Mobile food facility.¶

21.15.1765 - Mobile Food Truck.¶

21.15.1770 - Mobile home.¶

21.15.1780 - Mobile home park.¶

21.15.1790 - Modular housing.¶

21.15.1792 - Money orders.¶

21.15.1793 - Money transfers.¶

21.15.1795 - Mortgage brokers.¶

21.15.1797 - Mortuaries, Cremation and Interment Services.¶

21.15.1800 - Motel.¶

21.15.1810 - Motor vehicle.¶

21.15.1820 - Motorcycle.¶

21.15.1830 - Municipal Code.¶

21.15.1835 - Mural.¶

21.15.1840 - Natural grade.¶

21.15.1850 - New Construction.¶

21.15.1855 - Nightclub.¶

21.15.1859 - Noise ordinance.¶

21.15.1860 - Nonconformity.¶

21.15.1870 - Nuisance.¶

21.15.1880 - Nursing home.¶

21.15.1890 - Office.¶

21.15.1900 - Open corridor.¶

21.15.1910 - Open space, usable.¶

21.15.1920 - Outdoor advertising.¶

21.15.1930 - Overlay zone.¶

21.15.1940 - Owner of property.¶

21.15.1950 - Owner's authorized agent.¶

21.15.1960 - Parcel.¶

21.15.1970 - Parking.¶

21.15.1980 - Parking service.¶

21.15.1990 - Parking space.¶

21.15.2000 - Parking structure.¶

21.15.2005 - Parsonage.¶

21.15.2007 - Passive park.¶

21.15.2008 - Pawn shop.¶

21.15.2009 - Pay day loans.¶

21.15.2010 - Permitted use.¶

21.15.2020 - Personal service.¶

21.15.2030 - Pet, household.¶

21.15.2040 - Pet shop.¶

21.15.2050 - Planning Commission.¶

21.15.2060 - Planning Officer.¶

21.15.2070 - Plat.¶

21.15.2075 - Playground.¶

21.15.2080 - Plot.¶

21.15.2090 - Plot plan.¶

21.15.2100 - Plumbing facilities.¶

21.15.2110 - Police power.¶

21.15.2120 - Poolhall.¶

21.15.2130 - Porch.¶

21.15.2140 - Port-related.¶

21.15.2150 - Porte cochere.¶

21.15.2160 - Premises.¶

21.15.2165 - Primary dwelling.¶

21.15.2170 - Principal use.¶

21.15.2180 - Private club.¶

21.15.2190 - Professional service.¶

21.15.2195 - Public Library¶

21.15.2200 - Public utility service yard.¶

21.15.2210 - Public works project.¶

21.15.2215 - Publicly accessible exterior telephones.¶

21.15.2220 - Railroad yard.¶

21.15.2225 - Realtor.¶

21.15.2230 - Rear lot line.¶

21.15.2240 - Rear yard, required.¶

21.15.2250 - Rebuild.¶

21.15.2260 - Recreation, commercial.¶

21.15.2265 - Recreational park.¶

21.15.2270 - Recreational vehicle.¶

21.15.2273 - Religious assembly.¶

21.15.2275 - Remodel.¶

21.15.2280 - Residential.¶

21.15.2290 - Residential care facility.¶

21.15.2300 - Resource recovery.¶

21.15.2310 - Restaurant.¶

21.15.2320 - Restaurant, dinner.¶

21.15.2330 - Restaurant, fast-food.¶

21.15.2332 - Restaurant, ready-to-eat food.¶

21.15.2340 - Retail sales.¶

21.15.2350 - Reversed corner lot.¶

21.15.2360 - Room.¶

21.15.2370 - Room, primary.¶

21.15.2380 - Room, secondary.¶

21.15.2382 - Safe parking site.¶

21.15.2385 - Sandwiched lot.¶

21.15.2390 - School.¶

21.15.2395 - School, publicly run post-secondary.¶

21.15.2400 - Secondary housing unit.¶

21.15.2401 - Reserved.¶

21.15.2410 - Single-family dwelling.¶

21.15.2420 - Secondhand store.¶

21.15.2430 - Senior citizen housing.¶

21.15.2435 - Senior citizen housing, active.¶

21.15.2440 - Senior citizen housing, congregate care.¶

21.15.2450 - Service station.¶

21.15.2460 - Service yard.¶

21.15.2470 - Setback line.¶

21.15.2475 - Reserved.¶

21.15.2480 - Shopping center.¶

21.15.2482 - Shopping center, neighborhood.¶

21.15.2484 - Shopping center, retail cluster.¶

21.15.2486 - Shopping center, regional.¶

21.15.2487 - Short-term rental.¶

21.15.2488 - Side-by-side residential units.¶

21.15.2490 - Side lot line.¶

21.15.2500 - Side yard, required.¶

21.15.2510 - Sign.¶

21.15.2520 - Sign, abandoned.¶

21.15.2530 - Sign area.¶

21.15.2540 - Reserved.¶

21.15.2550 - Sign, awning.¶

21.15.2560 - Reserved.¶

21.15.2570 - Sign, banner.¶

21.15.2570.5 - Sign, building identification.¶

21.15.2571 - Sign, changeable copy.¶

21.15.2573 - Sign, residential neighborhood or commercial district identification.¶

21.15.2575 - Sign, cabinet.¶

21.15.2577 - Sign, electronic message center.¶

21.15.2580 - Sign, freestanding.¶

21.15.2590 - Sign, freeway-oriented.¶

21.15.2595 - Sign, interior.¶

21.15.2600 - Sign, marquee/canopy.¶

21.15.2610 - Sign, menu board.¶

21.15.2620 - Sign, monument.¶

21.15.2630 - Sign, neighborhood marker.¶

21.15.2640 - Reserved.¶

21.15.2650 - Sign, off-premises.¶

21.15.2660 - Sign, on-premises.¶

21.15.2665 - Sign, on-site directional.¶

21.15.2667 - Single Room Occupancy (SRO).¶

21.15.2670 - Reserved.¶

21.15.2680 - Reserved.¶

21.15.2690 - Reserved.¶

21.15.2700 - Sign, portable.¶

21.15.2710 - Sign, projecting.¶

21.15.2720 - Sign, promotional activity - commercial.¶

21.15.2721 - Sign, promotional activity - noncommercial.¶

21.15.2723 - Sign, push-through.¶

21.15.2725 - Reserved.¶

21.15.2730 - Sign, roof.¶

21.15.2740 - Sign, temporary.¶

21.15.2743 - Sign, through-the-face.¶

21.15.2745 - Sign, traffic directional.¶

21.15.2750 - Sign, wall.¶

21.15.2755 - Sign, wall painted.¶

21.15.2760 - Sign, window.¶

21.15.2770 - Signable area.¶

21.15.2780 - Site plan.¶

21.15.2790 - Soaking pool.¶

21.15.2793 - Social service facility.¶

21.15.2795 - Social service office.¶

21.15.2800 - Solid fence.¶

21.15.2810 - Special group residence.¶

21.15.2820 - Special setback line.¶

21.15.2830 - Stable, private.¶

21.15.2840 - Stable, commercial.¶

21.15.2850 - Stall, box.¶

21.15.2860 - Stall, tie.¶

21.15.2870 - Standards or development standards.¶

21.15.2880 - Standard State Zoning Enabling Act (SZEA).¶

21.15.2890 - Standards variance.¶

21.15.2900 - Street.¶

21.15.2910 - Street furniture.¶

21.15.2920 - Storage.¶

21.15.2930 - Storage, hazardous waste.¶

21.15.2940 - Story.¶

21.15.2950 - Strong oxidizer.¶

21.15.2960 - Strong sensitizer.¶

21.15.2970 - Structure.¶

21.15.2980 - Supergraphics.¶

21.15.2985 - Supportive housing.¶

21.15.2987 - Target population.¶

21.15.2990 - Tattoo parlor.¶

21.15.3000 - Tavern.¶

21.15.3005 - Temporary activating uses.¶

21.15.3010 - Therapy pool.¶

21.15.3015 - Thrift shop.¶

21.15.3020 - Through lot or double frontage lot.¶

21.15.3030 - Tire retreading establishment.¶

21.15.3040 - Tire store.¶

21.15.3050 - Title.¶

21.15.3060 - Townhouse.¶

21.15.3070 - Toxic.¶

21.15.3080 - Transfer of development rights (TDR).¶

21.15.3090 - Transfer station.¶

21.15.3095 - Transitional housing.¶

21.15.3100 - Travel trailer.¶

21.15.3110 - Travel trailer park.¶

21.15.3120 - Treatment.¶

21.15.3130 - Treatment facility.¶

21.15.3140 - Triplex, three-family dwelling.¶

21.15.3150 - Truck yard.¶

21.15.3151 - Tutoring center.¶

21.15.3153 - Unattended Donation Box.¶

21.15.3155 - Urban agriculture use.¶

21.15.3160 - Usable open space.¶

21.15.3170 - Usable open space, common.¶

21.15.3180 - Usable open space, private.¶

21.15.3190 - Use.¶

21.15.3200 - Variance.¶

21.15.3205 - Vehicle.¶

21.15.3210 - Vehicle, dismantled.¶

21.15.3215 - Vehicle, inoperative.¶

21.15.3220 - Vehicle, wrecked.¶

21.15.3225 - Vending cart.¶

21.15.3230 - Vested right.¶

21.15.3240 - Veterinary clinic.¶

21.15.3250 - Veterinary use.¶

21.15.3260 - Vocational school.¶

21.15.3270 - Wall return.¶

21.15.3280 - Wetbar.¶

21.15.3290 - Window.¶

21.15.3300 - Wholesale, industrial.¶

21.15.3310 - Wing wall.¶

21.15.3320 - Yard, required front.¶

21.15.3330 - Yard, required rear.¶

21.15.3340 - Yard, required side.¶

21.15.3350 - Zero bedroom unit.¶

21.15.3360 - Zero lot line.¶

21.15.3370 - Zone or zone district.¶

21.15.3380 - Zoning Administrator.¶

21.15.3390 - Zoning amendment.¶

21.15.3400 - Zoning map.¶

21.15.3410 - Zoning Regulations or Zoning Ordinance.¶